Welcome back to another Impact Wrestling Blog Zone. I am filling in for Kendra Bunyon again as she is unable to write this week. She will be back next week. As far as this week goes… I want to discuss two quick things. First off is TNA’s Impact Wrestling rating. The viewership for this week’s [...]

Senator Kane The Hill is reporting that Kane is weighing a primary challenge against Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican out of Tennessee. Click here to read their report, citing the libertarian magazine Reason. WWE Can’t Escape Copyright Lawsuit A Texas judge ruled on Wednesday that music composer Papa Berg’s lawsuit against WWE over copyrighted music [...]

Digital Spy has a new piece featuring quotes from Dixie Carter. Not only did Carter put over the importance of having WWE as a competitor but she said she would be open to co-promoting a show together. Below are the highlights: “I don’t think [the WWE] shares my belief in this, but I believe that [...]

The JBL & Cole Show Episode 25 of The JBL & Cole Show is online at this link. You can also watch it embedded in the video below: WWE’s Return to the UAE As mentioned in the latest conference call with investors, WWE is returning to the UAE later this year. The company will run [...]

WWE Smackdown Results – (5/17/13) Results by: Adam Wacker of WrestlingNewsWorld.com Welcome to this week’s Smackdown! The show begins of a teaser of what is to come tonight. After Dolph Ziggler’s concussion, Alberto Del Rio and Jack Swagger will battle in an I Quit Match to determine the #1 Contender at Extreme Rules. Also, Randy [...]

WWE notified seven workers in their NXT developmental system on Friday of their releases. The list is as follows: Anya (story link) Audrey Marie (story link) Brandon Traven (story link) Briley Pierce (story link) Derrick Bateman (story link) Percy Watson (story link) Sakamoto (story link) The only worker that I heard there was considerable shock [...]

This week’s episode of Impact Wrestling did an average viewing audience of 1,050,000 viewers on Spike TV. This is a new yearly low for TNA. TNA Ratings Archive

Zema Ion underwent emergency surgery on Wednesday after being diagnosed with appendicitis. During the procedure, it was discovered that he has a tumor on his colon that will eventually need to be surgically removed. The hope is it is not cancerous. Ion posted the following update on Facebook and made it available on Twitter: An [...]

The Great Khali’s Manager Arrested Amit Swami, who manages The Great Khali’s events in India, was arrested on Friday for allegedly attacking a shopkeeper. The story is available at this link. Another WWE Departure WrestleZone.com confirmed on Friday that this was John Gaburick’s final week with WWE. Gaburick worked as Vice President of TV production [...]

In addition to the names we’ve already reported, we can now confirm the releases of WWE developmental Divas Audrey Marie and Anya. Marie wrote the following on Twitter: #Headsup this is not the end, but merely the beginning. — Audrey Marie (@RealAudreyMarie) May 17, 2013 Anya, whose real name is Anna Bogomazova, is a former [...]