5:09:08 News and Views

-TNA has posted that a Deuces Wild tag tourney match between Team 3D and Sting-James Storm will open the Sacrifice PPV on Sunday.

Sting and Storm were paired together last night on Impact in the first of two "Egotistical Eight" drawings.

Matt Morgan and Kip James were the other pair. Booker T, Robert Roode, Awesome Kong, and BG James will be paired on Sunday--although James has requested Kong as his partner.

Also on Impact, Gail Kim won immunity for the Knockout Makeover bout and cannot have her head shaved even if she loses the match. Jay Lethal, Curry Man, Kaz, Alex Shelley, Jimmy Rave, Chris Sabin, Johnny Devine, Shark Boy, Sonjay Dutt, and Consequences Creed will compete in the Terror Dome to become the #1 X-Division Contender.

-WWE posted that Miz and Morrison will be defending the WWE Tag Titles at Judgment Day against Kane and CM Punk.

It was also announced that Torrie Wilson received her release, effective yesterday. Wilson has recently posted that doctors advised against her in-ring return due to back issues.

-Gregory Helms posted a new blog on MySpace, sharing his frustration with the assault he endured in a bar a couple of nights ago. Helms rightfully pointed out that he had much more to lose, so chose to refrain from fighting back--and recalled a story about someone trying to fight Meng a few years back.

5:08:08 News and Views

-Tonight on Impact, Kurt Angle and Scott Steiner team against Samoa Joe and Kevin Nash in the main event. Thenon-title X-Division bout where Petey Williams has his jaw broken also takes place, with Consequences Creed, Shark Boy, Curry Man, and Johnny Devine facing the champ.

Jim Cornette will begin pairing the "Egotistical Eight" tag teams and has called for a mandatory meeting of the TNA Knockouts.

5:07:08 News and Views

-Thanks again to Scott Steiner for joining us on
The Stranglehold last night. If you missed what several have already called the leading candidate for "Favorite Interview"
of '08 on the show, or just want to listen again, it is now loaded on the TRANSCRIPTS page.

Besides stating it didn't matter if the match was in the TerrorDome or regular six-sided ring this Sunday at Sacrifice, Steiner plans on winning the TNA Title and may work with Kurt Angle against Samoa Joe.

He also shared getting into the business and training under Dick the Bruiser, and having multiple tag partners before teaming up with brother Rick.

Big Poppa Pump also shoots from the hip on Ric Flair's recent Hall of Fame induction, the story behind the nWo parody on the Four Horsemen, and much, much more.

Steiner also shared that Petey Williams suffered a fracture on his jaw-line in the match which will air this week on Impact. Despite the injury, Steiner said Lil' Petey Pump is expected to be at Sacrifice on Sunday.

-Gregory Helms was assaulted at a sports bar late Monday night. According to WTSB radio, an altercation occurred at 1:10am in the N&N Sports Bar in Smithfield, NC between Helms and Dustin Narron--who is accused of slapping Helms. Helms obtained a warrant for assault and police arrested Narron about an hour later, he was subsquently released on $500 bond.

-WWE and THQ have announced they will partner to launch a new video game, WWE Legends of WrestleMania in March of 2009 to coincide with WrestleMania 25. This is a seperate project aside from the Smackdown vs. Raw series the two produce.

5:06:08 News and Views

-Scott Steiner will be joining us live on The Stranglehold tonight to preview Impact and his upcoming TNA Title match at Sacrifice this Sunday. And since it's "80s Week" on KFNS, we might have a couple of surprises as well.

-Tonight will be the 100th episode of ECW on SciFi and among the events will be Colin Delaney going against Armando Estrada to win a contract.

-WWE.com posted this morning that Chris Jericho and Shawn Michaels will face off at Judgment Day. Last night on Raw, JBL versus John Cena was announced.

-Ashley Massaro has refuted charges in Rolling Stone magazine that she worked for an agency recently busted for providing high-end escorts. On her MySpace page, Massaro writes "Just got buzzed on some BS that is going around. Dont believe it for a second. Getting in touch with my lawyer as we speak. No post song because I'm beyond upset."

Rolling Stone maintains that the FBI is investigating Bella Models and that Massaro was one of the models that could have a meeting arranged for a fee.

5:03:08 News and Views

-While Matt Hardy and Miz-Morrison were successful with their title defenses last night on Smackdown, the news wasn't as good for the Undertaker.

The World Champion was stripped of his title by GM Vickie Guerrero, who also banned his chokehold submission. Taker responded by locking the submission in on Great Khali, but Ryder and Hawkins used that time to secure the belt back to Guerrero.

-Bret Hart spent time this week with the developmental talent in Florida Championship Wrestling. Jim Ross plans to visit the group in the near future.

5:02:08 News and Views

-Tonight on Smackdown, Undertaker defends the World Title against Great Khali while MVP gets his rematch for the US Title against Matt Hardy.

Miz and Morrison defend the WWE Tags against Shannon Moore and Jimmy Wang Yang. Colin Delaney is also set to take on Vladmir Kozlov.

Mick Foley will also be making his Friday night debut as the new Smackdown announcer. The hardcore legend made his first appearance on Sunday at Backlash alongside Michael Cole.

-Last night on Impact, Jim Cornette announced the eight singles wrestlers for the "Deuces Wild" tag tourney: Booker T, Sting, Matt Morgan, James Storm, Robert Roode, BG James, Kip James, and Awesome Kong.

LAX, who invited Hector Guerrero to be the cornerman, and the team of AJ Styles-Super Eric qualified for the tourney.

Cornette also announced The TerrorDome--a 30ft steel structure, will make its debut at the Sacrifice ppv on May 11th.

Good to see Daizee Haze in action against Cheerleader Melissa!!

-Congratulations to Ron Simmons, who was named as part of the new class to be inducted into The National College Football Hall of Fame.

-Some of the phone messages left on the Chris Benoit answering machine around the time of his death have been made public. WSB-TV in Atlanta aired messages including a call home from Chris to check on the family, his son Daniel leaving him a message, the WWE office calling, and the distraught father of Nancy Benoit.

-Irv Muchnick, who is continuing to research the Benoit tragedy for an upcoming book, reports that a message from Eddie Guerrero prior to the day he died, was among the messages not aired by WSB-TV. Muchnick is still trying to uncover some of Benoit's missing cell phone messages. More details are on his Wrestling Babylon blog.

5:01:08 News and Views

-Tonight on Impact, the Deuces Wild tag tourney continues with The Latin American Xchange vs. Kaz-Eric Young and AJ Styles-Tomko vs. The Rock N' Rave Infection.

Jim Cornette will also announce the Elite 8 singles wrestlers for the tourney and have details on the new structure to debut on TNA ppv.

-Santino Morella, real name Anthony Carelli, was arrested this morning at 2:57am on charges of Driving Under The Influence in Hillsborough County, FL. According the official police report, Morella was released morning at 11:35am on a $500 surety bond.

Interesting to note that Morella's blood alcohol level (BAC) was .061, .062.--which is below the legal limit in Florida of .08%.

4:30:08 News and Views

-Thanks again to Roxxi Leveaux for joining us on The Stranglehold last night. TNA's "Voodoo Queen" shared that the dreads she initially had were causing her hair to fall out and Angelina Love is her target for the head-shaving in the Knockout Makeover bout at Sacrifice.

Roxxi also shared about working on the indies as Nikki Roxx, training under Killer Kowalski, and watching matches as a child at Boston Gardens. The full audio is now posted in TRANSCRIPTS.

-Three title matches for Smackdown were announced on ECW last night. Matt Hardy will defend the US Title, Morrison and Miz put the WWE Tag Titles on the line, and Undertake will also be defending the World Title.

-Next week on ECW, which is the 100th broadcast of the program in the current branding, will feature Tommy Dreamer against Mike Knox in an "Extreme Rules" match and Colin Delaney facing Armando Estrada, with Delaney's contract being on the line. Last night's handicap match with Kane losing to Chavo Guerrero and Bam Neely was not a title bout.

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