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TNA's Bob Ryder says the company had meetings this week about running live events again. Ryder noted that live events could resume in June. He tweeted: "Had meetings yesterday about plans to add several non-televised live events starting as soon as June. Stay tuned for details. #TNAonTour"

Originally Posted by PWI There has been a lot of talk among the TNA talents about how concerned they are due to the lack of work coming up. PWInsider reports that the feeling is that TNA officials presented the wrestlers with a "best case scenario" when they left Spike TV and signed with Destination America but that isn't how things are turning out. There's also a feeling within TNA that the crew was presented with the idea that things were better and would be getting better after the move to Destination, but things aren't getting better. We're now a few months into the latest major reboot for TNA and the only events the company is running are TV tapings. There is no sign of live events being scheduled any time soon. TNA canceling the April tapings and replacing them with tapings in May really had the wrestlers worried recently as this means the promotion will essentially be "dark" for a few months with no pay being earned for the talents. Talents who have been with TNA for a while are seeing top stars leave with no real growth being made by the company. There's a feeling among some of the wrestlers that they were presented with the "best case scenario" but since that isn't how things have turned out, it might be time for TNA officials to sit down and update them on what's going on and what the future holds.

Originally Posted by Observer Going from Spike TV to Destination America, TNA's Impact Wrestling averaged just 400,000 viewers for the month of January 2015. This is down from an average of 1.37 million viewers in January 2014.

Dixie Carter tweeted the following warning for this week's episode of Impact Wrestling: "Viewer discretion: Tomorrow's @IMPACTWRESTLING contains some very graphic images. Production elements were used to help w/ these moments."

Originally Posted by Observer Goldust isn’t being added to the Intercontinental Title Match at WrestleMania 31. It appears his feud with Stardust was nixed with the belief that it wasn’t working. Goldust may end up in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.

Originally Posted by F4W It's expected that former WWE NXT head trainer Bill DeMott received a significant severance package on his way out of the company. WWE is reportedly expecting lawsuits to arise out of the DeMott controversies. They were careful to clearly admit no wrong-doing in their statements. There was a feeling that some WWE employees were aware of the complaints but didn't expect so many people to come forward because usually everyone aims to return to WWE one day as it's their dream. It was also said that while they were under contract to WWE, some of the talents that have been speaking out now were asked about the allegations and at the time, they said the stories were not true.

Rey Mysterio will be adding the "Jr." back to his name in AAA. The "Junior" was dropped back in 2002 when Rey began working for WWE.

Originally Posted by Observer Jeff Jarrett has reportedly been unable to secure a paid TV deal for his Global Force Wrestling promotion to air a weekly show. Sources in the TV industry report that Jarrett has proposed a concept to at least one network, said to be a channel without full national clearance, and probably other networks. However, Jarrett has been unable to secure a deal for this concept also. Jarrett's idea is to do a test-run live special that would feature talents from the indies, AAA and New Japan Pro Wrestling under the GFW banner. We've noted that Jarrett is expected to make some kind of announcement later this month. PWInsider reported earlier this month that GFW was expected to announce TV tapings for Las Vegas soon. Jarrett has been negotiating with an arena in Las Vegas that would be the home for GFW.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE officials are looking at offering contracts to several ROH talents. The company is waiting for the contracts of those talents to expire so that they can begin talks. The site notes that the idea behind NXT has changed from training new talents from the bottom to the man roster, to bringing in top names for the NXT brand itself. The plan would be to replace some of the top indie stars who can already work good matches with more indie stars.

On the recent Cheap Heat podcast, they had Chris Hero talk about his NXT experiences, Demott, current WWE, etc. In the discussion, he briefly mentioned there was a plan to turn Cena heel in 2011 after Mania. He mentioned it as an after thought, but Rosenberg and Masked Man freaked when they heard this and demanded the whole story. How far along the plan or idea was, it wasn't discussed. But it was far enough or even relevant enough for Cena to put a $5,000 deposit down with a woman who makes wrestling gear. As in, no more jean shorts and sneakers. The deposit was for actual wrestling boots, trunks, etc to change everything about his in-ring style for the heel turn. At some point, WWE came to him and said "Sorry, plan changed/idea nixed, you're never turning heel" The point of his "Cena is a good dude story" was that since he couldn't get the $5,000 deposit back, he let developmental use the money to reward guys who they felt were working hard with a $500 week bonus/scholarship or whatever you want to call it for new ring gear. Sorry if this has been discussed before, but this was the first time I've ever heard this, and by Rosenberg and Shoemaker's reaction, it was their first time too. Of course it didn't happen and it probably wasn't close to, but it had to have been discussed enough for Cena to put $5,000 down of his own money for traditional boots and in ring gear. The story blew my mind. EDIT - I think Hero messed up the date, should be after Mania 2012 because Hero started in early 2012. 44 mins into the podcast the story begins. Says Cena came down to developmental face to face, so he just got the year wrong.

Source is from Reddit. May or may not have also included a Ric Flair-like robe for entrances.