- Current TNA Knockout’s Tag Team Champion Eric Young was interviewed by “The Rack” this past week to promote his new television show “Off The Hook: Extreme Catches” on the Animal Planet channel. He’s what he had to say:

How Eric got into fishing and how the show came into being:
“I liked fishing since I was a little kid; my dad got me into it and I grew up in Canada in a little village of 100 people, my house was right on a river. But I’m an amateur at best, maybe even lower than that; I don’t know the word to describe my fishing abilities but it would be lower than amateur. But I got into pro wrestling and that led me away from that (fishing) and pretty much consumed all of my time up until this year, basically; I had fished on and off, here and there but not very much and then this opportunity came along and I jumped at it. ‘Off the Hook: Extreme Catches’ is an awesome television show where I travel all around the country, meeting all these really cool, amazing people and doing genius and inventive way to catch all kinds of different fish and get myself into some pretty wild situations. It’s a funny show, there’s a lot of comedy in it… it’s been an unbelievable experience for me.”

On a segment where he had an impromptu wrestling match while filming on paddleboards:
“Yeah, I get bored easy. I don’t know if I have ADD or not, but I’m probably pretty close to it. I like to stay busy and as you guys know, in fishing, sometimes there is a lot of waiting around. So, we were shallow enough where I felt confident enough to jump in, even though there was blood in the water and it ended up Jory Pearson was a super cool guy; we still friend to this day and talk a couple times a week. I was really cool to go out there with him and catch a shark from a paddleboard.”

If other TNA Stars will appear in this and any future seasons:
“It’s just me this season. I know that there’s been some talk of having some guys go out with me and as you guys can probably well guess, there are several characters that are lined up and have been bugging me ever since I started filming the show to come on, and none of them are fisherman. So, it would probably make from some interesting TV and that’s what the show is about, so that could defiantly happen. Hopefully, season 2 will come and that’s something that we could try.”

Who he’d like, from TNA, to go out on the water with:
“I think Robbie E. would be interesting. He’s a Jersey Shore guy, and very good looking for a man, has crazy hair and loves to spray tan and do all that other kind of stuff. I think it would be pretty interesting to get him in maybe a swamp, maybe catching snake heads or something like that. Alligator gar perhaps …Yeah, I don’t imagine any fish makes the list. I dunno. Maybe he likes fish.”

On who he is more afraid of: ODB or a shark:
“I love ODB; she’s my wife. I have a healthy respect for shark, I think. I think I’m more interested and fascinated with them than I am scared of them. Actually, this past week, we did scuba spear fishing on an oil rig and I was actually in the water, near a shark for the first time, like physically under the water and I saw probably about a 7-foot sand shark swimming around the oil rig; kind of cruising around, checking things out. So, how it was explained to me is: we’re too big, well I’m to big anyways, and they’re not interested in us. That’s what they say; I don’t know how I believe that but they say they’re not interested.”

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- Tully Blanchard, a member of the stable The Four Horsemen was on MLW Radio this week. During the interview he discussed how much the industry has changed since he was last an active competitor:

“People that don’t know what it used to be, the younger generation, they’ve got nothing to judge it against, so they don’t know,” said Blanchard. “They don’t know what ‘old school’ is. They don’t know what WCW used to be. But I can’t just bad mouth [WWE]. The wrestling business is all about selling tickets and back in our day, it took performance to sell tickets because you were in [the same] places every week, every month. You were on television every week and it wasn’t about doing a pay-per-view every month. It wasn’t about TV shows the way they do them now. The formula and the mindset behind everything is so much different. The ‘wrestling show’ is the product now whereas the TV show used to just be an infomercial to get people to come to the arenas.”

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- Ring of Honor’s upcoming “Boiling Point” iPPV, taking place from Providence, Rhode Island on August 11th, features ROH World Champion Kevin Steen defending his title against Chikara Grand Champion Eddie Kingston, who has never lost a match previously to “Wrestling’s Worst Nightmare.”

Also added to the card earlier this week is a mixed tag team bout, as former WWE Diva Maria Kanellis teams with boyfriend Mike Bennett to face Eddie Edwards and future WWE Diva “Queen of Wrestling” Sara Del Rey.

Plus, Roderick Strong faces Mike Mondo, Jay Lethal takes on Tommaso Ciampa in a 2 out of 3 falls match, and Charlie Hass meets Michael Elgin in a rematch from “Death Before Dishonor IX.”