• Wrestling News & Wrestling Rumors – WWE & TNA

- TNA Impact dropped back down to its usual fluctuations, drawing a 1.1 cable rating this past Thursday on Spike TV. The highest rated segment on the show was once again a Knockout’s match, more specifically the ending of the Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed vs. Taylor Wilde and Rhaka Khan bout. The Knockouts are consistently high drawers, yet are paid the lowest in the company. Hmm.

- Josh Stewart of the Long Island Press recently interviewed Kurt Angle at (http://www.longislandpress.com/articles/features/540/) and as has become customary with Kurt Angle interviews, “he seemed quite comfortable in his hybrid world of myth and fact, even as the interviewer struggled a bit to decipher where one ceased and the other began.”

Kurt mentioned “They [the NWO in WCW] rarely ever did matches on TV. They basically walked out, kind of [did promos saying] that they were really cool, people liked them, but they didn’t really work that hard. The MEM, the Main Event Mafia, all of our guys are willing to go out there every night and work our asses off,” although that’s not exactly true on Sting and Kevin Nash’s part.

In regards to the Jeff Jarrett wife comment Angle said “We do have a lot of creative liberty, and we’re really responsible, because we network out to the young demographic,” Angle said. “We’re trying to get the 18-to-40-year-old range, but let’s not kid ourselves or anybody else. We are marketing to children, too. And they watch us, and [if we’re not] marketing to children, why do we have video games, why do we have actions figures, T-shirts, merchandise for kids? So we are marketing to kids and I think it’s our responsibility that we don’t go too far into the gutter. So there are things you can say, like when I said that about Jeff’s wife, God rest her soul, at least the young kids didn’t get it.”

You can of course read the full interview at the link above.