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Originally Posted by PWI Former TNA champion Bully Ray has been backstage at the Impact Wrestling tapings this week in Florida and is expected to make an official return to the company tonight. While Ray returned for a cameo as a special referee awhile back, I am told this is a full fledged return.

Originally Posted by TNA The twists and turns continue as it relates to Slammiversary and the return of The King of The Mountain Match. Last night we announced who will be competing and you heard from Bobby Roode, Matt Hardy, Eric Young, Drew Galloway and even Jeff Jarrett. Now we can announce that those competing Sunday will be competing for The BRAND New King of The Mountain Championship!

Originally Posted by F4W Sunday will be Magnus' last match with TNA. Nothing has been said publicly because of the PPV on Sunday and because he will be on Impact on Wednesday. But it will be announced at some point very soon that Nick Aldis will be with GFW

According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter, John Morrison will be working more dates with AAA. They plan to have him work a program with Rey Mysterio Jr.

As noted, Randy Orton was absent from Monday's episode of RAW and this past weekend WWE Live Events because he asked for some time off. Orton is not expected back until the July 6th episode of RAW, but when he does return he is expected to resume his feud with Sheamus. Dave Meltzer noted in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that the two would most likely face each other at the July 19th WWE Battleground event at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

The Wrestling Observer Newsletter is reporting Global Force Wrestling’s live event ‘debut’ in Jackson, Tennessee drew 375 fans, and the second show in Knoxville, Tennessee drew 500 fans. The second show did well in merchandise sales but is slightly disappointing considering the local publicity, headed by former University of Tennessee basketball coach Donnie Tyndall, who acted as a heel manager for the night. Another somewhat minor reason being offered is that former manager and promoter Bert Prentice had run a “Jerry Lawler 40th Anniversary” show in Jackson, and that may have taken some fans away from GFW. The Lawler show drew 1,100 fans the previous weekend, and had bigger names on their card like Lawler, The Rock ‘N’ Roll Express, Bill Dundee, Tommy Dreamer, TNA star James Storm and Sabu. It’s being said that although Jarrett was successful in setting the tour, it doesn’t look good for the future. The combination of the shows not drawing well, talent coming in to work for lower money and general unhappiness were some of the reasons cited. The report stated talent were disappointed in paying for their travel costs, and then had to fill out W-9 forms to receive checks at a later date. Talents were told they would get paid for wrestling and could keep their merch sales money.

On today's MLW Radio premium episode, the RUMOR that Court Bauer has heard going around is that Jeff Jarrett is buying a controlling interest in TNA, with Panda Energy possibly becoming minority shareholders (a role reversal). The story is that Jarrett met with Destination America last week and they told him that if he took over TNA and rebranded it as Global Force Wrestling, they'll keep it on the air and not cancel it in September. They don't like doing business with Dixie Carter. There is also speculation that Toby Keith is involved since Jarrett name dropped him in his promo.

Originally Posted by Observer There will be a two-hour edited version of Raw airing from 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday night on the USA Network as a lead-in for Tough Enough. Clearly the rating for the first episode, barely one-third of what the first episode of the 2011 Steve Austin season did, caused this move. It is not confirmed if this is a one week thing or if it will become a regular thing for the remainder of the Tough Enough season, but historically USA has never wanted to air repeats of Raw in good time slots for fear of diluting the initial show rating.

Matt Osborne — better known as pro-wrestling star Doink the Clown in the mid-1990s — died June 28, 2013, at the age of 57 in his Plano home. The Collin County Medical Examiner ruled that an overdose of painkillers was to blame. In a lawsuit filed in Dallas federal court Friday, his family points to another culprit: pro wrestling. Specifically, Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., the sole defendant named in the lawsuit filed by Michelle James on behalf of Doink the Clown‘s children, Matthew and Teagan Osborne. The suit, echoing those filed in recent years by pro football players suffering from brain injuries caused by years’ worth of concussions, alleges that wrestling led to “traumatic brain injuries” that resulted in “depression and drug abuse, which ultimately resulted in his untimely death.” The lawsuit says Osborne wasn’t the only wrestler victimized by wrestling’s scripted violence, where phony beatings led to real injuries. It lists more than a dozen others, among them members of the Von Erich family ... The suit, filed by “doctor-lawyer” Shezad Malik, who reps personal injury suits out of his Greenville Avenue and Southlake offices, doesn’t specify how much the family wants. Messages have been left for Malik. Other out-of-town attorneys are also listed in the lawsuit below.

WWE responded by implying these lawsuits against them are nothing more than a witch hunt by lawsuit happy lawyers looking for easy NFL-like payouts. http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2...overdose.html/

About 30 minutes into his podcast with Jericho, they're talking about tagging together when the flip-flopping comes up: Big Show: "I've done so much flip floppin' shit I'm still dizzy. I wake up and go 'What am I a good guy or bad guy today?'

From the recent Talk is Jericho podcast episode with Big Show as its guest.

Will Ospreay (UK) [PWG Debut] Marty Scrull (UK) [PWG Debut] Timothy Thatcher (EVOLVE, Beyond Wrestling) Mike Bailey (CZW) Chris Hero (ROH/CZW/EVOLVE) Biff Busick (CZW/EVOLVE/Beyond Wrestling) Mark Andrews (TNA) [PWG Debut] Brian Cage (TNA/Lucha Underground) Ricochet (NJPW/Lucha Underground/EVOLVE/DragonGate) Tommy End (EVOLVE/UK) Trevor Lee (CZW/EVOLVE) Pentagon Jr. (AAA/Lucha Underground)[PWG Debut] Drew Gulak (Chikara/CZW/EVOLVE/Beyond Wrestling) Angelico (AAA/Lucha Underground) Lucha Underground Trios Champion Trent? (formerly Trent Barreta of WWE/ROH/NJPW/TNA/GFW/EVOLVE) Andrew Everett (CZW/EVOLVE) Fenix (AAA/Lucha Underground) [PWG Debut] Rich Swann (EVOLVE/CZW) Jack Evans (AAA/Lucha Underground) Drago (AAA/Lucha Underground) [PWG Debut] Matt Sydal (formerly Evan Bourne of WWE/ROH/EVOLVE) Aero Star (AAA/Lucha Underground) [PWG Debut] Zack Sabre Jr. (Pro Wrestling NOAH/EVOLVE/UK) Drew Galloway (formerly Drew McIntyre of WWE/TNA/EVOLVE) [PWG Debut] EVOLVE World Champion

List of wrestlers appearing for PWG's 2015 Battle of Los Angeles tournament.

ROH: 8pm: 185,000 11pm: 145,000 TNA: 9pm: 369,000 12am: 82,000

Viewership for this week's episodes with a very small bump for TNA and around a 60k bump for ROH. Highest bump for ROH since being on Destination America.