Jeff Jarrett Talks Hulk Hogan Not Appearing For TNA After Shooting An Angle, Randy Savage
The current Impact Wrestling is centered around younger stars that have been more-or-less grown from within, but the company had infamously relied on older stars for the better part of their time as TNA.
Speaking with Inside the Ropes, TNA co-founder Jeff Jarrett detailed the early mentality of bringing in the stars of yester-year.
“The first layer of the answer is get eyeballs on our product,” Jarrett said. “Hulk [Hogan] obviously, at this stage of his career, was post-nWo, which was his second major, major run. [Randy] Savage, same thing. It’s not like they were going to come in and work weekly for us anyway. Even Sting in the early signings was a, ‘Let’s get him on board, be a part of the product, a part of the sizzle reel, a part of the clip reel. Get eyes on it, then continue to build the core group of AJ Styles, of Bobby Roode, of Team Canada, of Eric Young, of Samoa Joe. Al
On the latest episode of the 83 Weeks Podcast, former WCW President Eric Bischoff spoke about WCW and what if the company never went out of business in 2001. Bischoff said if WCW was still around today, he truly believes that companies like AEW, ROH, IMPACT, NWA and NJPW would also be around and able to thrive even better.
“I think so,” Bischoff said. “If you look at the Monday Night Wars, if you look at the success that was created by the Monday Night Wars and how all boats rise with a higher tide that those Monday Night Wars created. I think it’s only safe to assume and project new companies would’ve come along to benefit from that higher tide. There were more people watching wrestling from 1995 to 2000 than there ever has been in the history of television and or wrestling.
History of the IWGP Heavyweight Title Belt By Jim Rohan on Apr 2, 2021, 6:15pm EDT 6
New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s IWGP Heavyweight Championship belt was universally beloved and very quickly missed, when the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship belt was recently revealed. The reaction to the new title belt, uncovered on the final show before Sakura Genesis, was mixed at best. Change can be tough – perhaps a look back at the changes over the years will allow for some comforting perspective, or maybe it will just remind you of the lineage being set aside. Either way, it is a storied history worth exploring.
Christian Cage arrives in AEW to outwork everyone
TSN.ca caught up with Jay Reso - better known to wrestling fans as Christian Cage - about his comeback to the business after a seven-year absence, his arrival in All Elite Wrestling and the chance to eventually end his career on his own terms.
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Jay Reso has been full of surprises lately.
The Orangeville, Ont., native, who wrestles under the name of Christian [Cage], made his return to active competition for the first time since 2014 when he made an appearance in World Wrestling Entertainment’s Royal Rumble in January. Even more shocking was his arrival in All Elite Wrestling at the
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