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Actually it was Dave Sherer who reported this. Dave Sherer is the most reliable wrestling news guy on net besides Dave Meltzer. He doesn't like TNA or even watch it I don't think, so there is no reason for him to put up bs rumors. If it was Bob Ryder there would be reason to doubt it, but since it is Sherer you can almost guarantee that it is legit.

"Hogan confirmed that he will return to New Japan for "WRESTLING WORLD 2004" at the Tokyo Dome on 1/4 (show poster above, slightly blurred until I can find a better one), but doesn't know who he will fight yet. Hogan's next plan is to enter NWATNA's major PPV convention on 11/30 and face Jeff Jarrett. New Japan will be dispatching Tiger Mask to work the PPV in America, to show that they have built a good relationship with Hogan and the companies he works with. Like the original Tiger Mask so many years ago, the talented fourth generation has chance to prove his worth to American fans."

Well say he does 1 indy appearance a week as well as 1 TNA appearance a week. That is 4,000 a week for working just 2 dates instead of the 4 he has to work for WWE. That is 16,000 a month. That is 192,000 dollars a year, not including any Japanese tours he would go on bumping it up even more. He would still get to be on tv with MLW and TNA also.

RVD would make alot on indys and doing Japanese tours also. He would be a top name on the indy's and make $2000 an appearance like Raven or maybe even more. That doesn't even include the money he would make from TNA.

It is probably people like Rico, Kanyon, and Stevie Richards asking.

He already tried. That is why they had to sign everyone to long term deals. He was going to start buying up everyone not under a contract. Plus, he already blocked them from putting ads on Spike during Raw.

I'm not watching the show live, so post your comments in here.

Here is the recap from Dave Meltzer: by Dave Meltzer [email protected] We're looking for your thoughts on tonight's show, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected] NWA TNA PPV report for 10/15 This was mostly a setup show for next week, as well as the introduction of the Hulk Hogan angle. Wrestling was a very distant second. Show opened with Raven having a dog collar around Jim Mitchell and choking him. Mitchell was foaming at the mouth. Eventually Slash and Vampiro saved Mitchell as Sinn was gone this week selling an injury form last week. Slash did an elbow drop off the balcony with the chain wrapped around his elbow, through a table. C.M. Punk & Julio Dinero made the save. Raven was injured so he couldn't wrestle against Slash later in the show. Vince Russo simply said he wasn't wrestling in the six-man. It was his last night anyway, so he might as well get beaten up by Jarrett as opposed to Dusty. 1. Dusty Rhodes & Chris Harris & James Storm beat Sonny Siaki & Ekmo & Joe Legend in 8:41 when Storm pinned Legend after the death sentence. Storm did an overhead belly-to-belly on Siaki. Nobody mentioned that would be worthy of a fine in the WWE. Better than the brawl last week indicated it would be. Shane Douglas is looking to establish a new group. He was staring at two headless women. It appeared the one on the right was probably used to nobody looking at her face. 2. Michael Shane pinned Christopher Daniels to retain the X title in 9:56. Even though last week Daniels said he was dumping his minions, they were still there. Crowd wasn't into it other than chanting "Fallen Angel" at Daniels, but the work was fine. Douglas was scouting these guys with a note pad. One of Daniels guys held up the belt, but Daniels ended up collided with the guy and the belt, and was pinned after a superkick. Chris Sabin ran in after the match to attack Shane. They showed the Tokyo Dome footage from Monday of Hogan beating Masahiro Chono and Jeff Jarrett's guitar shot backstage. It was exactly what you would picture. Jarrett did an interview, coming out to little reaction again, although there were chants of "Hogan" at him. He said he's learned that to be an icon in wrestling you have to be a self-serving SOB and the most self-serving of all is Hogan. Sometimes there is truth in interviews. Mike Tenay brought up Daytona Beach (Bash at the Beach 2000 angle) and Jarrett said he never wanted it brought up. Vince Russo came out and speared Jarrett out of the ring. Then he speared him over the guard rail. This was so funny in its stupidity. But Jarrett recovered and destroyed Russo with a million weak chair shots to the back. I've never seen someone so protected as they were selling a vicious beating. Jarrett tied Russo to a fence and kept hitting his back with chair shots. End result was Russo going out in an ambulance. 3. Kevin Northcutt pinned Erik Watts in 4:28 after hitting him with handcuffs. Watts had Rick Santel & Chris Vaughn in his corner. Not much of a match, more due to Watts than Northcutt. Northcutt handcuffed Watts after the match while Ryan Wilson took care of all the impotent black shirted security guys. Finally, Don Harris came out with a black shirt and cleaned house. You really can't visualize how big Wilson is until you see him tower over Don Harris. Goldylocks, with a new hairstyle and new chest showed up, leaving with Watts. 4. Sonjay Dutt & Eric Young beat El Fuego & Jerrel Clark in 7:02. This was a collection of really good acrobatic moves. Crowd wasn't into the match, but they really wouldn't have known any of the four, but popped for a lot of the moves. Dutt is really impressive. Only comedy was Jeremy Borash announcing Fuego as being from Mexico City and then Mike Tenay coming back with him training at the famed Sully's gym with those famed luchadores Edge & Christian. Young put Fuego and Clark both on his shoulders at the same time and did a death valley driver, which really woke the crowd up. They did the repeated dive spots capped off by Dutt's corkscrew plancha. Clark showed his 630, which is a 450 with another rotation into a senton. Finish was Dutt pinning Fuego with the Hindu press, which is like a sky twister. 5. Danny Doring & Roadkill beat Simon Diamond & Johnny Swinger in a non-title match in 6:12. Doring worked most of the way and didn't look good. Roadkill's spots got over as a fat high flying guy. Crowd was into this more because AMW were watching and cheer leading for Doring & Roadkill. AMW stopped Glenn Gilberti from interfering and Doring pinned Swinger with a front rolling cradle. 6. Abyss pinned Kid Kash in 5:37 with a side slam, called the black hole slam. Kash is a really good heel, but he got far too much offense in. After the match, Kash threw powder at Abyss and went back to work on him, including a low blow until Abyss put Kash up in the torture rack and dropped down. Gilberti did an interview saying Doring & Roadkill put ECW out of business and they'd better stop them before they put this place out. 7. Vampiro & Slash beat C.M. Punk & Julio Dinero in 4:18 when Vampiro blew something in Dinero's eyes and gave him a Michinoku driver. Punk was bloodied up from the beginning. This was all a set up for Raven to come out and clean house. Jimmy Hart did a phone-in interview promising Hogan would be coming. Jarrett came out saying he'd be ready. Show ended about 8 minutes early with Jarrett and Styles doing a pull-apart. Next week: Styles vs. Jarrett for NWA title Diamond & Swinger vs. Doring & Roadkill for tag titles AMW vs. Gilberti's mystery team Shane vs. Sabin vs. Daniels for the X title Raven vs. Slash

I've visited a few different forums after the show and the response to it seems overwhelmingly positive.

*Sonjay Dutt & Jerrelle Clark vs. Eric Young & El Fuego

They announced next week Diamond/Swinger vs Roadkill/Doring for the tag titles.

Doring/Roadkill didn't win the tag titles. It was non-title.

It does if they are going to start feuding with each other.

Doring/Roadkill just beat Swinger/Diamond.

Doring and Roadkill are the mystery opponents for Diamond and Swinger.

TNA is turning to shit. Give Russo booking power again please.

Ugh Don Harris is back. Goldylocks is as well..

Once Russo lost all of the booking power people stopped posting in TNA threads. Coincidence?

Daniels already has his match and lost due to the followers.

Blame the totalnonstop.com message board. They visit that board and everyone there for the most part has the shittiest ideas. They actually want Legend, Road Kill, and other horrible wrestlers on.

I doubt it. TNA's merchandise is shit. They actually sold the music cds on cdrs.

Russo announced he wasn't wrestling. Legend is taking his place. I've heard tonight is Russo's last show until after the 11/30 ppv at the earliest.

•Most sources believe that Vince Russo will probably take a public hiatus from the company only to make his return known once Hulk Hogan is no longer involved. The story making the rounds prior to press time is that Russo will not even be allowed to appear on camera with Hulk Hogan or even be in the same building as Hogan. Some are under the impression that this is something Hogan has demanded, but others believe AOL Time Warner attorneys have insisted that Russo not take part in a show with Hogan in any capacity. The early betting line is that Russo will not take part in the angle, but will still work as a ghost writer behind the scenes. •Most TNA wrestlers are under the impression that they will not be paid extra money to appear on the Nov. 30 pay-per-view. These wrestlers believe the contracts they sign with TNA gives the company the right to book them for pay-per-view appearances as they see fit, regardless of whether the shows are held on Sunday or Wednesday. Some wrestlers have said they are simply happy to be booked that week, since they were expecting to be given the week off since the Wednesday prior to the pay-per-view is the day before Thanksgiving… •TNA Notebook: The latest word on the pay-per-view site is the Nashville Auditorium. Although TNA officials are still hoping to run an event in Las Vegas, there likely isn't enough time to obtain a promoter's license and promote the area properly… The rumor coming out of Japan is that New Japan officials allowed TNA to film the angle between Jeff Jarrett and Hulk Hogan for a fee. Some sources have estimated the fee TNA was charged to be as high as $10,000… The Tokyo Dome show Hogan worked in Japan in the semi-main event spot drew an estimated 35,000 paid, which was well below expectations. Promoters were not only banking on Hogan's name but also Bob Sapp's to draw a strong crowd, although a power outage legitimately shut down public transportation that day which killed the walk up, which is usually tens of thousands of people on show day. Sources say Hogan did speak out against the idea of appearing in the semi-main event rather than the headline spot… D-Lo Brown worked an All Japan Pro Wrestling event on Oct. 10 in Osaka. He teamed with Gigantes & Buchanan against Keiji Muto & Arashi & Tomoaki Honma. D-Lo's team won at 14:11 when D-Lo pinned Muto… Critics from within the wrestling industry continue to speak out against the idea of TNA running a major pay-per-view on such short notice. "They need to have an entire (ad) campaign in place," said one industry insider. "They need at least seven or eight weeks to do this right. This is going to be a disaster. They've just abandoned their business plan completely. This will probably be the nail in the coffin for TNA"… AAA promoter Antonio Pena was backstage at the TNA show again last week. One observer claims to have witnessed Konnan handing back the AAA title belt he has refused to give back for more than five years. Apparently, the tension between the two has settled… Two weeks ago it was pointed out that wrestlers were saying Raven isn't well liked in the TNA locker room. More specifically, that dislike comes most often from the midcard and undercard wrestlers more than the top wrestlers. Other than America's Most Wanted, Raven isn't disliked by the top wrestlers. Many of the midcard and undercard wrestlers aren't thrilled with Raven's approach behind the scenes, though, which can come across as patronizing and condescending. Main eventers see him as simply telling younger wrestlers what they need to hear but often don't want to hear…

Vince screwed over Inoki when Inoki lent him money for the first Wrestlemania. Vince quickly paid him back then cut off all ties with him. Inoki wants to support Vince's competition and take him out. This is all in the other article I posted, which is a good read so go read it.

-If Russo is around for the Hogan angle, he's likely only going to be talent. While Russo did write the first draft of the 10/1 show, Dutch Mantel was far more hands on that week. Internally the word going around is that Dutch Mantel will be the main writer of the show, basically doing what had been Russo's job of preparing scripts for the Jarretts and Russo will be largely out of the process within a few weeks. -AJ Styles was telling people that he and others at the 9/27 Finland show, after seeing what happened to Alan Funk, had decided to quit wrestling because the risks weren't worth it. The shock wore off eventually. -Jerry Lynn looks to be turning heel doing a frustrated bitter older wrestler gimmick. -After being presented to the crowd Antonio Pena did commentary with Armando Quintero and Konnan. Jerry Jarrett was concerned about the two working together because of their past heat. It was the first time the two had spoken to each other in 7 years. Pena and Konnan together is like Vince McMahon doing commentary with Bret Hart, because the two are legendy enemies in Mexico after a long association, when Konnan quit and took most of the top talent with him, after the two were the key players in building AAA together. Konnan looked the best he had in the ring, because Pena was watching and he was hoping to get work in Mexico again after being blacklisted. -When Paco Alonso was given word that Pena came and was seriously negotiating a talent exchange, he gave word to TNA that he wants to come in a few weeks(tentalively scheduled for October 15th) and work something out. Meltzer believes TNA would rather do business with Paco, since he's got a more stable promotion and better talent. -Hogan's side is banking on the idea that TNA will do major advertising, and on their side they will attempt to call in some favors and use celebrity friends of Hogan's to appear live, with George Forman's name being bandied about, and attempt to get placed on mainstream talkshows the week of the event.