domingo, 30 de março de 2008
quinta-feira, 27 de março de 2008
TNA iMPACT! Live pela 1ª vez!
Esta quinta feira, a TNA vai marcar mais um passo importante na vida da empresa, fazendo o primeiro espetaculo iMPACT! ao vivo, com a transmissão televisiva a ficar a cargo da SpikeTV.
Já anunciado para este espetáculo é o regresso do icon Sting!
Outro combate que já foi anunciado opõe o TNA World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle contra a TNA World Tag Team Champion AJ Styles & Tomko.
Outro combate que ficará à escolha dos fans através de uma votação interactiva no site da TNAwrestling.com, é o combate pelo título feminino. Os fas escolhem o adversário de Awesome Kong. De referir que a votação iniciará às mesmas horas que inicia o espetáculo, isto é 9PM em Orlando.
Iremos ainda ter durante o espetáculo mais um Lockdown Xscape Match Qualifier entre Alex Shelley e Johnny Devine.
Pudemos contar ainda com uma entrevista a Karen Angle e outra a Samoa Joe, que tem treinado para o Lockdown longe de tudo e de todos, mais concretamente California.
Existem mais possiveis combates que puderão ser anunciados durante as proximas horas.
Vamos estar atentos e anunciar tudo aqui no TNAPortugal.
Já anunciado para este espetáculo é o regresso do icon Sting!
Outro combate que já foi anunciado opõe o TNA World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle contra a TNA World Tag Team Champion AJ Styles & Tomko.
Outro combate que ficará à escolha dos fans através de uma votação interactiva no site da TNAwrestling.com, é o combate pelo título feminino. Os fas escolhem o adversário de Awesome Kong. De referir que a votação iniciará às mesmas horas que inicia o espetáculo, isto é 9PM em Orlando.
Iremos ainda ter durante o espetáculo mais um Lockdown Xscape Match Qualifier entre Alex Shelley e Johnny Devine.
Pudemos contar ainda com uma entrevista a Karen Angle e outra a Samoa Joe, que tem treinado para o Lockdown longe de tudo e de todos, mais concretamente California.
Existem mais possiveis combates que puderão ser anunciados durante as proximas horas.
Vamos estar atentos e anunciar tudo aqui no TNAPortugal.
quinta-feira, 20 de março de 2008
"Consequences" Creed regressa à TNA!
A TNA acaba de notificar a todos os subscritores do serviço TNA Mobile Alerts que o wrestler Austin "Consequences" Creed irá regressar à empresa já no proximo dia 10 de Abril durante o Impact!
Creed que recentemente deu uma entrevista ao site oficial da TNA, assinou o contracto já faz quase um ano aquando da ultima participação no pay per view Bound for Glory 2007.
Creed que recentemente deu uma entrevista ao site oficial da TNA, assinou o contracto já faz quase um ano aquando da ultima participação no pay per view Bound for Glory 2007.
Etiquetas:
bound for glory,
Consequences Creed,
Mobile alerts,
TNA
Bobby Lashley na TNA?
Dave Meltzer da Wrestling Observer comentou que Bobby Lashley puderá estar a trabalhar com a TNA dentro de 2 meses. Os nomes mais sonantes no roster da TNA estão a fazer grande pressão quer internamente, quer com Lashley para este vir para a companhia. Entre as pessoas a fazer pressão nesse sentido temos Kurt Angle e Booker T.
Apezar de Lashley ter afirmado que pretende seguir uma carreira nas mixed martial arts, parece que as maiores hipoteses serão mesmo continuar no wrestling e na TNA.
As clausulas de rescisão com a WWE permitem que Lashley trabalhe aonde desejar apartir de Maio de 2008.
O que levou Lashley a abandonar a WWE deve ter sido algo mesmo muito forte para inclusivamente abedicar do salário de 7 algarismos que recebia anualmente.
Apezar de Lashley ter afirmado que pretende seguir uma carreira nas mixed martial arts, parece que as maiores hipoteses serão mesmo continuar no wrestling e na TNA.
As clausulas de rescisão com a WWE permitem que Lashley trabalhe aonde desejar apartir de Maio de 2008.
O que levou Lashley a abandonar a WWE deve ter sido algo mesmo muito forte para inclusivamente abedicar do salário de 7 algarismos que recebia anualmente.
Cartaz para o TNA Lockdown 2008 !
TNA World Title Match
Kurt Angle (c) vs Samoa Joe
Lethal Lockdown
Team Tomko Vs Team Cage (Tomko, AJ Styles & Team 3D vs Christian Cage, Rhino, Kevin Nash & Sting)
X-Scape match for the X Division Title
Jay Lethal (c) vs Curry Man vs Shark Boy vs Johnny Devine vs Sonjay Dutt
Womens Tag Team Match
Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs. Gail Kim & ODB
Black Reign's Cage of Doom Match
Kaz & Super Eric vs Black Reign & Rellik
LAX's Tag Title Shot on the Line
Rock & Rave Infection vs LAX vs The Motorcity Machine Guns
Mixed Tag Team Match
Booker T & Sharmell vs. Robert Roode & Payton Banks
Former Partners Collide
BG James vs. Kip James
Este é o cartaz esperado até este momento.Espera-se novidades para breve.
Etiquetas:
2008,
Boston,
Christian Cage,
Kurt Angle,
Lockdown,
Samoa Joe,
shark boy; tna;,
X-scape
Entrevista com Kevin Nash
Big Sexy Kevin Nash foi recentemente entrevistado pelo Daytona Beach News-Journal sobre toda a carreira,desde do basquetebol universitário ao wrestling.
Nash foi operado já 13 vezes ao joelho e afirma estar constantemente com dores principalmente no pescoço.
"I actually have a couple of bulged discs now,"afirmou Nash. "It's actually trying to fuse itself. It's 24-7. The pain is almost unbearable."
Nash, que tem contracto com a TNA até Setembro de 2009, falou também sobre as investigações do congresso norte americano relativamente ao uso de esteroides no wrestling profissional. "Congress is coming down on us right now hard with the steroid stuff," disse Kevin Nash. "There's still going to be collateral damage from my era of guys. We'll all lose years off our lives."
Durante a entrevista Nash fala ainda sobre o futuro após o wrestling, afirmando que gostaria de se afastar um pouco deste mundo para dar algum descanso ao corpo para puder futuramente usufruir do tempo com os filhos.
"I'm trying to figure what the next avenue I'm going to go into -- I don't think I want to do creative as much as I want to do production," afirmou... "Try to branch out the brand of TNA, start to learn the TV end of it so I can go out and sell it to different countries. More the business aspect of it."
Ainda é referido durante a entrevista que Alex Shelley revelou que Nash tem sido um apoio extraordinário ao longo dos anos inclusivamente com conselhos financeiros.
Nash foi operado já 13 vezes ao joelho e afirma estar constantemente com dores principalmente no pescoço.
"I actually have a couple of bulged discs now,"afirmou Nash. "It's actually trying to fuse itself. It's 24-7. The pain is almost unbearable."
Nash, que tem contracto com a TNA até Setembro de 2009, falou também sobre as investigações do congresso norte americano relativamente ao uso de esteroides no wrestling profissional. "Congress is coming down on us right now hard with the steroid stuff," disse Kevin Nash. "There's still going to be collateral damage from my era of guys. We'll all lose years off our lives."
Durante a entrevista Nash fala ainda sobre o futuro após o wrestling, afirmando que gostaria de se afastar um pouco deste mundo para dar algum descanso ao corpo para puder futuramente usufruir do tempo com os filhos.
"I'm trying to figure what the next avenue I'm going to go into -- I don't think I want to do creative as much as I want to do production," afirmou... "Try to branch out the brand of TNA, start to learn the TV end of it so I can go out and sell it to different countries. More the business aspect of it."
Ainda é referido durante a entrevista que Alex Shelley revelou que Nash tem sido um apoio extraordinário ao longo dos anos inclusivamente com conselhos financeiros.
Kurt Angle fala sobre o jogo da TNA
Campeão da TNA e único wrestler profissional detentor da medalha de ouro olimpica Kurt Angle, teceu alguns comentários sobre o video game muito esperado da TNA.
Aqui ficam as declarações de Angle em Inglaterra aquando da promoção do futuro jogo da TNA produzido pela Midway:
"The Most Authentic Wrestling Game Ever"
Confrontado com os jogos da WWE, Kurt afirmou que a WWE simplesmente não se interessa pelos produtos [video games].
"Midway made us all care about [the game], because it made us all realise how important the video game industry is for our sport,"
"WWE doesn't care, they just want to put something together, hurry it up and get it out there just to make money. We spent a lot of money to make this the most authentic wrestling game ever, and we did it."
Aqui ficam as declarações de Angle em Inglaterra aquando da promoção do futuro jogo da TNA produzido pela Midway:
"The Most Authentic Wrestling Game Ever"
Confrontado com os jogos da WWE, Kurt afirmou que a WWE simplesmente não se interessa pelos produtos [video games].
"Midway made us all care about [the game], because it made us all realise how important the video game industry is for our sport,"
"WWE doesn't care, they just want to put something together, hurry it up and get it out there just to make money. We spent a lot of money to make this the most authentic wrestling game ever, and we did it."
quarta-feira, 19 de março de 2008
Motor City Machine Guns na MTV
A tag team The Motor City Machine Guns participaram num episodio de Made na MTV no dia 8 do presente mês.
"The episode will feature Chris Hendricks, an openly gay student who performs in the choir, who wants to be made into a pro wrestler so that he can be seen as tough."
O artigo refere ainda que Alex Shelley e Chris Sabin foram os treinadores de Hendrick, que recebeu longos treinos durante 6 semanas para ser um wrestler profissional.
é esperado que outras superstars da TNA apareçam ao longo do programa.
"The episode will feature Chris Hendricks, an openly gay student who performs in the choir, who wants to be made into a pro wrestler so that he can be seen as tough."
O artigo refere ainda que Alex Shelley e Chris Sabin foram os treinadores de Hendrick, que recebeu longos treinos durante 6 semanas para ser um wrestler profissional.
é esperado que outras superstars da TNA apareçam ao longo do programa.
Entrevista com o Phenomenal AJ Styles
Em vista a promoção do proximo ppv da TNA, O Lockdown 2008, assistimos a uma entrevista com o único e Phenomenal AJ Styles.
Aqui fica toda a entrevista.
Enter cage left: High-flying AJ Styles is key figure in ‘Lockdown’
If there’s a steel cage involved, pro wrestling fans know Allen Jones will be hanging off the sides or maybe even taking that scary plummet from the top. Jones - better known in the ring as AJ Styles - is one of the stars of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling expected to appear April 13 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell for the newly announced pay-per-view event “Lockdown 2008.
” In “Lockdown,” a steel cage is dropped over TNA’s six-sided ring and wrestlers must battle their way out. Jones is a crowd favorite for his signature acrobatic leaps, springboard moves off his opponents and gravity-defying flips from the top ropes. “Anyone who gets on that top rope and says they aren’t scared is lying,” Jones said. Of his high-flying maneuvers, he acknowledged, “It isn’t for everybody.” Jones, 30, was a football player and wrestler in his Georgia high school, but little in his background would seem to have prepared him for the acrobatics he displays in the ring. “I never wanted to be like anyone else,” he said. “I wanted to do my own thing and develop a style of my own.”
In the last few months, Jones has seen his on-camera persona become involved in a comedic story line that climaxed last week on the weekly Spike TV show “TNA Impact” with him accidentally wed to another star’s wife. The unexpected newlyweds have to deal with the small matter of the honeymoon Thursday night at 9 on Spike TV. Jones say he enjoys playing a lighter side. “It adds character to AJ Styles and I’m having a good time with it,” he said.
Some wrestlers - notably Hulk Hogan, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Stacy Keibler - have crossed over into mainstream films and TV, and Jones would seem a natural given his athleticism and charisma. He questions whether Hollywood would view his Southern accent as a hindrance.
Family life and his Christian faith are paramount to Jones. He and his wife, a schoolteacher, have two sons, ages 2 and 1.. The oldest likes playing with one of the many action figures of his father. “One of the goals I set for myself was that I wanted to have a dang action figure, and now I can’t believe there are so many of them. It’s fun to see old friends who say, ‘We saw your doll,’ and I correct them - it’s an action figure.”
An avid video gamer, Jones anticipates the release of a TNA game from Midway in June. “It’ll be more than mashing buttons,” he said. He and colleagues Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe, among others, performed their signature moves wearing body suits with motion-capture sensors for the game designers.
Jones has appeared many times before New England fans on the independent circuit and has high hopes for the April event. “I expect the rowdiest fans to show up,” he said. As for “Lockdown,” Jones said. “You never know what’s going to happen next. Somebody’s going to crawl on top of the cage and somebody is probably going to come off the top, and usually it’s me,” he said with a laugh.
Aqui fica toda a entrevista.
Enter cage left: High-flying AJ Styles is key figure in ‘Lockdown’
If there’s a steel cage involved, pro wrestling fans know Allen Jones will be hanging off the sides or maybe even taking that scary plummet from the top. Jones - better known in the ring as AJ Styles - is one of the stars of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling expected to appear April 13 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell for the newly announced pay-per-view event “Lockdown 2008.
” In “Lockdown,” a steel cage is dropped over TNA’s six-sided ring and wrestlers must battle their way out. Jones is a crowd favorite for his signature acrobatic leaps, springboard moves off his opponents and gravity-defying flips from the top ropes. “Anyone who gets on that top rope and says they aren’t scared is lying,” Jones said. Of his high-flying maneuvers, he acknowledged, “It isn’t for everybody.” Jones, 30, was a football player and wrestler in his Georgia high school, but little in his background would seem to have prepared him for the acrobatics he displays in the ring. “I never wanted to be like anyone else,” he said. “I wanted to do my own thing and develop a style of my own.”
In the last few months, Jones has seen his on-camera persona become involved in a comedic story line that climaxed last week on the weekly Spike TV show “TNA Impact” with him accidentally wed to another star’s wife. The unexpected newlyweds have to deal with the small matter of the honeymoon Thursday night at 9 on Spike TV. Jones say he enjoys playing a lighter side. “It adds character to AJ Styles and I’m having a good time with it,” he said.
Some wrestlers - notably Hulk Hogan, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Stacy Keibler - have crossed over into mainstream films and TV, and Jones would seem a natural given his athleticism and charisma. He questions whether Hollywood would view his Southern accent as a hindrance.
Family life and his Christian faith are paramount to Jones. He and his wife, a schoolteacher, have two sons, ages 2 and 1.. The oldest likes playing with one of the many action figures of his father. “One of the goals I set for myself was that I wanted to have a dang action figure, and now I can’t believe there are so many of them. It’s fun to see old friends who say, ‘We saw your doll,’ and I correct them - it’s an action figure.”
An avid video gamer, Jones anticipates the release of a TNA game from Midway in June. “It’ll be more than mashing buttons,” he said. He and colleagues Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe, among others, performed their signature moves wearing body suits with motion-capture sensors for the game designers.
Jones has appeared many times before New England fans on the independent circuit and has high hopes for the April event. “I expect the rowdiest fans to show up,” he said. As for “Lockdown,” Jones said. “You never know what’s going to happen next. Somebody’s going to crawl on top of the cage and somebody is probably going to come off the top, and usually it’s me,” he said with a laugh.
Entrevista com Booker T
Numa entrevista recente ao "The Winnipeg Sun" do Canadá, Booker T fala de tudo ,desde do uso de esteroides à saída chocante da WWE.
Aqui ficam algumas das passagens dessa entrevista:
-Sobre o facto de ter passado por problemas com a justiça no inicio por assalto à mão armada:
"I've made a lot of mistakes, but I'm living the American dream. I'm proof that you can turn your life around [...] I was never really a bad person. I just got caught up in something. When I got in trouble, I'd never even had a traffic ticket before and I was facing five to 99 years (in prison). I didn't hurt anybody. I should have been put in a deferred program or boot camp. But I had myself to blame."
- Sobre o uso de esteroides:
"I've done steroids. They're something I had to do. I've had three knee surgeries and the doctor put me on steroids. I had to take certain things. But as far as ordering things from the black market, I didn't do that. I look the same now as I did when I was 25. I've never been a freaky athlete. I'm an entertainer, not a bodybuilder."
- Sobre o facto de ter sido suspenso pela WWE por violação do Wellness Policy:
"I never tested positive. It was a joke, I felt like I was hung out to dry. I wasn't protected. There was a whole lot of miscommunication."
Booker T fala ainda sobre o quanto ainda tem a dar ao wrestling, ao facto de querer participar num PGA Tour e tornar-se um politico quando abandonar o mundo do wrestling.
Aqui ficam algumas das passagens dessa entrevista:
-Sobre o facto de ter passado por problemas com a justiça no inicio por assalto à mão armada:
"I've made a lot of mistakes, but I'm living the American dream. I'm proof that you can turn your life around [...] I was never really a bad person. I just got caught up in something. When I got in trouble, I'd never even had a traffic ticket before and I was facing five to 99 years (in prison). I didn't hurt anybody. I should have been put in a deferred program or boot camp. But I had myself to blame."
- Sobre o uso de esteroides:
"I've done steroids. They're something I had to do. I've had three knee surgeries and the doctor put me on steroids. I had to take certain things. But as far as ordering things from the black market, I didn't do that. I look the same now as I did when I was 25. I've never been a freaky athlete. I'm an entertainer, not a bodybuilder."
- Sobre o facto de ter sido suspenso pela WWE por violação do Wellness Policy:
"I never tested positive. It was a joke, I felt like I was hung out to dry. I wasn't protected. There was a whole lot of miscommunication."
Booker T fala ainda sobre o quanto ainda tem a dar ao wrestling, ao facto de querer participar num PGA Tour e tornar-se um politico quando abandonar o mundo do wrestling.
terça-feira, 18 de março de 2008
Spike TV e TNA discutem possibilidade de um TNA Knockout Show
A Spike TV e os respectivos administradores têm notado que os picos de maior audiencia dos programas Impact! da TNA registram-se durante os combates femininos, sendo inclusivé os momentos de maior audiencia no total de cada programa!
Assim sendo ambas as partes ponderam muito seriamente tirar proveito de tal facto e estudam a possibilidade de ser criado um espetaculo semanal de 1 hora apenas das knockout da TNA.
Se realmente for avante esta ideia deveremos assistir a um reforço ainda maior do roster feminino que conta já com Angelina Love, Awesome Kong, Christy Hemme, Gail Kim, Jacqueline, ODB, Payton Banks, Roxxi Laveaux, Traci Brooks, Velvet Sky e Rakakan.
Assim sendo ambas as partes ponderam muito seriamente tirar proveito de tal facto e estudam a possibilidade de ser criado um espetaculo semanal de 1 hora apenas das knockout da TNA.
Se realmente for avante esta ideia deveremos assistir a um reforço ainda maior do roster feminino que conta já com Angelina Love, Awesome Kong, Christy Hemme, Gail Kim, Jacqueline, ODB, Payton Banks, Roxxi Laveaux, Traci Brooks, Velvet Sky e Rakakan.
TNA ultrapassa a ECW nos Estados Unidos!
A TNA ultrapassou recentemente em termos de audiencias televisivas a brand ECW pertencente à WWE. Quem esteve presente no momento em que os valores foram tornados publicos assistiu a uma comemoração enorme por parte da Administração da TNA e dos wrestlers.
Apezar da TNA liderada pela Presidente Dixie Carter ter um grupo bastante mais forte que a ECW quer em termos de combates, quer em termos de wrestlers (Kurt Angle,Christian Cage,AJ Styles, Samoa Joe entre muitos outros), a verdade é que ultrapassar uma brand da WWE é um feito enorme tendo ainda mais em conta que foi dentro do proprio territorio nacional.
Em declarações à imprensa, o porta-voz da TNA referiu:
“TNA wrestling would like to thank all of our loyal fans for helping to make this happen.
“It's just one of many milestones we hope to accomplish in 2008!"
Apezar da TNA liderada pela Presidente Dixie Carter ter um grupo bastante mais forte que a ECW quer em termos de combates, quer em termos de wrestlers (Kurt Angle,Christian Cage,AJ Styles, Samoa Joe entre muitos outros), a verdade é que ultrapassar uma brand da WWE é um feito enorme tendo ainda mais em conta que foi dentro do proprio territorio nacional.
Em declarações à imprensa, o porta-voz da TNA referiu:
“TNA wrestling would like to thank all of our loyal fans for helping to make this happen.
“It's just one of many milestones we hope to accomplish in 2008!"
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