Kurt Angle’s contract specifies working four dates a month – two TV tapings, one PPV and one house show. He will do additional house shows if asked and of course the contract will be increased should TNA get more TV time. In some more choice cuts from Angle’s recent interviews, he spoke about his first WWF title win over The Rock in 2000. At the creative meeting where the switch was agreed on, Triple H spoke up and claimed Angle was too small to be the champion (this was before he was Vince’s son-in-law, though he was dating Stephanie). Gerald Brisco retorted with “How about you trying him on for real to see if he’s too small to be champion.” Angle also called Dixie Carter his “business partner” and said he expects to be running TNA at some point in the future. He also claimed Spike TV has a regular role for him on a TV show that will require one day per week of acting. His deal is that if he feels he is hurting badly then he will be immediately pulled from in-ring competition and just appear on TV doing promos. However, he also said that if he had a minor injury he would lie about it and continue wrestling until it became serious. Angle appeared on Casino Cinema on Spike TV and said he had broken his neck four times. When the hostess asked him why his mother would let him back into wrestling after that he said “I’m 32 years old, I don’t need to ask my mother!” Angle was born on December 9th 1968.
The 11/10 house show at the old ECW Arena in Philadelphia drew just 500 fans even with Angle working the main event and plugs on Impact. ROH drew a larger crowd six days before them. Tickets are said to have been overpriced, ranging from $35 to $125. Angle beat Abyss after an Olympic Slam onto thumbtacks in about 10 minutes. The best match of the night was said to have been LAX defeating Styles & Daniels. The other main match saw Samoa Joe defeat Rhino.
Impact is rumoured to be getting on air in Australia on Main Event, the country’s main PPV network. At the moment the TNA PPVs, with no TV and a two month delay, do around 2,000 buys.
Robert Roode said his new character is a combination of three of his favourite wrestlers – Randy Savage (the manager search angle was a riff on how Elizabeth debuted), Curt Hennig (his absolute favourite, who he has been studying a great deal lately) and JBL (the stock market whiz gimmick). Roode was a co-worker at a bar with Sean Morley, who trained him before joining the WWF and becoming Val Venis.
Konnan now needs a cane to walk around backstage.
Kevin Nash is having shoulder surgery soon. He injured it when lifting his son’s toy chest, which contained some weights he had forgotten were inside. This was what kept him out of the Chris Sabin match a few months ago.
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