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Headline: Bound For Glory Heading To Canada
TNA - no wait - Impact Wrestling - no wait - GFW - maybe?
- these guys are heading towards their biggest show of the year Bound For Glory in November,
and it has been officially announced that the show won't take place inside the Impact
Zone.
Instead the group will be heading to the Great White North to host Bound For Glory in Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada, which will take place on November 5th, and will be followed by several
episodes of TV taping in the same building from the 6th to the 10th.
Headline: GFW No More?
You may have noticed I was playing the pronoun game a lot in that last news story, as one
of the big questions surrounding the announcement was the company’s name.
They were originally called NWA:TNA from 2002 to 2004, where they rebranded to simply TNA
until earlier this year.
When Anthem took over the company they started trading under Impact Wrestling, and then in
April merged with Jeff Jarrett’s Global Force Wrestling to be known as GFW.
However that most recent name is missing from Bound For Glory’s latest poster.
This ties into the story of Jeff Jarrett going on “indefinite hiatus” earlier this month.
Jarrett had been instrumental in the merger of Impact Wrestling and GFW, but PWInsider
revealed that deal was never fully completed before he was sent home, meaning Anthem didn't
own the name Global Force Wrestling.
In fact none of the press releases for Bound For Glory 2017 mention the letters GFW or
Global Force Wrestling - referring only to Impact Wrestling - which would suggest they
have dropped Jarrett’s name for yet another rebranding.
“It would appear with today's announcements that the GFW name will fade away and remain,
potentially, a separate entity should Jeff Jarrett opt to run GFW events on his own.”
Fun fact: Vince Russo was the one who came up with the name TNA.
He suggested it to Jeff Jarrett as it could be misconstrued as T&A - as in..umm..breasts
and butts.
While some thought he was joking, Jarrett did not and the name stuck.
Facts are fun kids.
Headline: Cornette Done With GFW?
Another question hanging over Bound For Glory being in Canada was the involvement of new
on-screen authority figure Jim Cornette, because of an incident in 2010.
Despite working in the country for many years, Cornette was stopped at the Canadian border
when they ran his records and discovered a number of assault charges - which mostly came
from bar fights involving drunken fans during his time as a manager in the 1980s.
Since then Cornette hasn't been back to Canada, and he informed GFW - do I still call them
GFW until the next - that he wouldn’t be able to make tapings in the country.
In fact, going forward, he won’t be making any future tapings at all.
Both Cornette and Anthem Sports have now confirmed that Jim is done with the company, and he
will be heading to Nashville to film vignettes for his exit.
The Wrestling Observer notes that Cornette was unsure of his position in the company
following Jarrett leaving, and the creative team of Scott D’Amore and Sonjay Dutt are
moving away from authority figures to focus more on in-ring wrestling.
Headline: Paige Cleared For WWE Return!
It has been over a year since Paige last wrestled in a WWE ring, originally going on hiatus
due to her neck injury in July 2016.
In the meantime, she has been suspended by WWE for failing their Wellness Policy.
Twice.
And has been surrounded by controversy ever since - with her relationship with Alberto
Del Rio, who publicly buries WWE at every available opportunity, and the sex tape hack
from earlier this year.
But her lengthy period out is hopefully now coming to an end.
Following successful neck surgery in October last year, Paige announced in August that
she should be returning to WWE in the next couple of months if she could get cleared
by WWE doctors.
And it would appear that she has been cleared, tweeting a picture of her visiting the WWE
Performance Centre in Florida simply saying: “Good day today” PRAYER EMOJI BLUSHING
SMILING EMOJI WINKING EMOJI.
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