Sting is still in talks about staying in TNA for another year. Dixie Carter is a big fan of him and prepared to renew his $500,000 salary without adding extra house show dates, so it’s basically up to Sting to decide if he really does want to retire or not.
Junior Fatu is asking for more money from TNA.
TNA are sending their top talent to New Japan for a big Tokyo Dome show on the 4th January 2008. Kurt Angle is still slated to defend the Inoki Genome Federation title on their 20th December show, so it remains to be seen if there is any conflict over Angle being Inoki’s IWGP champion despite New Japan holding the rights to such a title.
Word is that Angle and Jeff Jarrett have made peace. The two had been forming factions backstage to vie for more control from Dixie Carter, with Sting being the only big name who refused to pick a side. Despite the differing opinions about TNA’s booking it seems the status quo is going to be the way forward for now.
Jim Cornette is getting married to long-time girlfriend Stacey Goff on Halloween. They issued invitations designed like old-school wrestling flyers, advertising the ‘World Marital Championships’ with them in the main event for a match to go ‘one fall with a lifelong time limit’. TNA would like Cornette to become a member of the booking team but he is reluctant to add any such stress to his life. At the moment he just tries to make sure segments he is involved with make sense and does what he can to protect the wrestlers he likes best, which at the moment means Matt Morgan.
Bret Hart divorced his second wife, Cinzia, a few weeks ago. They had been living together in Italy but Hart didn’t want to stay there for the rest of his life and she didn’t want to leave.
Credit: Wrestling Observer Newsletter, 23 October 2007 (subscribe here)
