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Ed Nordholm On What Makes GFW Different From WWE

During a recent interview, Anthem’s Ed Nordholm talked about what made GFW and Impact Wrestling different from WWE.

“Our tagline is ‘Less Talk More Action.’ It’s a style of wrestling that focuses more on the action in the ring than in the storylines. Not to take anything away from WWE, that is their product and they obviously do a spectacular job. But we have a very good show with talented wrestlers, athletic wrestlers.”

He also talked about choosing Ottawa to host Bound For Glory over Anthem’s home of Toronto.

“It’s the nation’s capital, it’s a good place to make a statement in our inaugural effort to bring our premier event outside of its traditional home in Orlando. No slight to Toronto … we’ll get there, too, I’m sure, sometime along the way.”

Cody Rhodes Finally Signs With Ring Of Honor

After saying he wasn’t looking to sign any contract with any promotion, it looks like Cody Rhodes will finally be inking a deal with Ring Of Honor. This makes sense, especially since Cody is the current ROH World Champion.

The press release about his signing says (in part):

THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE FINDS A HOME

Cody to sign a contract with Ring of Honor Wrestling

September 23, 2017 – LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – After an incredible run like no other this past year that saw Cody compete all around the world in promotions such as New Japan Pro Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, The Crash, APW, PWA Canada, and Northeast Wrestling just to name a few, The American Nightmare has decided to ink a domestically exclusive contract with Ring of Honor Wrestling, where Cody is currently the World Heavyweight Champion. The official signing of this contract will take place tonight at the ROH Television Tapings at Sam’s Town in Las Vegas and it will air in October.

Just one month ago on Dinner with The King (Jerry Lawler’s Podcast), Cody stated “Ring of Honor hates the fact that I genuinely remained a free agent; I did not sign a contract with them. I signed on for various dates, and I have many dates left with them. I really like Ring of Honor. But I’m not going to be exclusive anywhere. I did exclusive.” After much deliberation, the hottest free agent in professional wrestling has had a change of heart.

When asked about this, Cody said “I grew up in this business, I’ve seen its peaks and valleys…I know we are entering an unprecedented time in pro wrestling/sports entertainment and it’s time to put my flag in the sand. Joe Koff and his team put together such a generous offer…with some non-wrestling projects on the horizon that I hope to announce soon, and the potential of starting a family down the road…it was a perfect fit. Myself, Marty Scurll, Hangman Page, Matt and Nick Jackson…it’s the dream team…like the 1992 dream team. I have several goals in mind for myself and for ROH and I can’t wait to get started.”

The exact terms and length of the deal cannot be disclosed, but it is the most generous offer in Ring of Honor history and Cody will be in an ROH ring for the next several years. Cody will still be able to compete internationally around the world while calling ROH his home base. He will also continue to work with New Japan Pro Wrestling who has a partnership with ROH.

Ring of Honor General Manager Greg Gilleland said, “When Cody first started competing in ROH, we knew we wanted him to be exclusive, but respected his wishes to try out the rest of the industry. Finalizing this deal is another big step in his career and a great step in the continued development of the Ring of Honor brand, delivering the best, real professional wrestling to a rapidly growing and the most passionate fanbase around the world.”

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We reported  a while back that Rey Mysterio  was in talks with possibly joining Global Force Wrestling (now Impact Wrestling) and event at one point had a contract. The negotiations eventually went south between both parties and the deal was dead.

Konnan was asked about his involvement between GFW and Mysterio on a media call today and said that his goal is to try to mend the relationship so both sides can start to negotiate again.

“I was definitely very heavily involved in it because I represent him. We were talking, talks broke down, and we’re trying to repair those talks,” Konnan said. “Hopefully in the future Rey may come to GFW, but that was something that was definitely in the works.”

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Anthem Sports is once again referring to their wrestling company as Impact Wrestling and not Global Force Wrestling. PWInsider reports that they have reached out for comment regarding the change but have not received any response back.

It was noted last week that when Jeff Jarrett and Impact Wrestling merged to become Global Force wrestling, the two sides did not completely work out all the final details. It’s looking like Anthem will move away from using the GFW name now that Jarrett is on a leave of absence.

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Bound For Glory In Ottawa

As we reported over the weekend, Impact Wrestling let the cat out of that bag that the promotion’s biggest show of the year will be headed north of the border to Canada. Today, Impact Wrestling took to Twitter to let everyone know that this year’s big show would be held in Ottawa.

BREAKING: #BFG2017 will be held in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on Sunday, November 5th!

MORE HERE: https://t.co/AuM0qxgtpJ pic.twitter.com/7LFsBftXsb

— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) September 18, 2017

Interestingly enough, in the official announcement for Bound For Glory’s location, there was no mention of Global Force Wrestling whatsoever.

Jim Cornette Leaves GFW & Impact Wrestling

Well, after being there for short amount of time and after saying that he was there as long as he was wanted, it’s being reported that Jim Cornette has parted ways with Global Force Wrestling. This appears to have something to do with Bound For Glory being held in Canada.

Cornette hasn’t been to Canada since 2010, when he was turned away at the border when they ran his record, which included a number of assaults, mostly stemming from incidents involving fights with fans who attacked him while he was a manager at matches in the 1980s. He has traveled regularly to Canada during his WWE tenure, but he never attended Ring Of Honor shows when the promotion traveled to Toronto.

Cornette has said that there is no heat on either side with his departure; it is just a matter of circumstance.

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GFW Bound For Glory Headed Up North

While we will wait to tell you the city until Monday…. #BFGCanada 11.5 pic.twitter.com/KMzzRJRUTG

— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) September 16, 2017

No word on what city Bound For Glory will take place in, but if one had to make an educated guess, it’s probably Toronto. That’s where Anthem’s headquarters are located.

Taya Valkyrie Talks GFW Debut

On a recent edition of Ring Rust Radio, Taya Valkyrie talked making her debut in GFW on Impact Wrestling.

“I’m constantly trying to expand where I am wrestling and who I am wrestling and looking for the best female wrestlers everywhere, you know what I mean? Karen and Jeff had known me for about five years and they would come down to Mexico and work with AAA all the time. Karen and I would laugh about me coming to work with her and do her projects with her and stuff, but I just couldn’t. It was really an exciting thing to be asked to be a part of it. I am really happy and excited to see what happens. It’s a different opportunity, it’s a different demographic than the lucha libre crowd and I get to wrestle some girls that I’ve never worked with before. It’s a new challenge for me so I’m very excited.”

She also had a few words for Sexy Star, who as we reported, had a now-infamous incident with GFW star Rosemary during AAA’s TripleMania, and with whom Taya has a bit of history with.

“I don’t want to go too much into it because honestly, I don’t want to give more attention to something or someone that doesn’t need it. Rosemary is the nicest, most professional woman, and a fellow Canadian. Obviously, I had the privilege and continued privilege to work with her. I was so embarrassed and disappointed watching that match on a whole, not just the finish but the whole thing. I consider myself as an international woman and a face of what women’s wrestling is in AAA, and I just feel so embarrassed and I think basically that’s all I can say about it. It was so ridiculous to me, uncalled for and unprofessional. I was so disappointed and I continue to be disappointed by it. I just feel like it happened but it’ll never happen again. I hope to God it never happens again.

“I experienced similar situations in my five years being in AAA with different female wrestlers there in the Indies throughout Mexico because I am Canadian, I look different, it’s crazy to me, but it still exists. There are still people that are just out for themselves. It is what it is, but I’m so happy that Rosemary is doing better because I can’t wait to kick her ass.”

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As seen on Thursday’s episode of Impact Wrestling, GFW continued the angle with Lashley teasing choosing MMA over wrestling. Lashley ended up picking MMA over professional wrestling.

The company issued the following storyline statement regarding Lashley’s status with the company:

“IMPACTWrestling.Com received the following message from Jim Cornette, “due to the heinous actions of Lashley and American Top Team on IMPACT Thursday night, we have made the decision not to give Bobby his unconditional release from his valid contract. Lashley will be at our disposal when required. That is all.” What that means is Lashley remains under contract. Stay tuned for more.”

Bobby Lashley and American Top Team both responded to the statement with the following remarks:

https://t.co/qT4HVe7e17

— Bobby Lashley (@fightbobby) September 15, 2017

— American Top Team (@AmericanTopTeam) September 15, 2017

Did you guys read the article? https://t.co/w6Se8z20G0

— IMPACT (@IMPACTWRESTLING) September 15, 2017

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Impact Wrestling Preview 9/14/17

Here’s a non-spoiler preview for what GFW and Impact Wrestling have in store for us tonight on POP TV.

Global Championship #1 Contender’s Match
Johnny Mundo vs Low Ki.

Bobby Lashley decides his future.

GFW Grand Champion EC3 vs El Hijo de Fantasma.

GFW Tag Team Champions LAX vs OVE.

X-Division Championship (Falls Count Anywhere)
Trevor Lee vs Sonjay Dutt.

Braxton Sutter vs Garza Jr.

Jim Cornette Talks His GFW Status

On today’s episode of Jim Cornette’s podcast, he reiterated once again that he was still with Global Force Wrestling and will continue to appear on Impact Wrestling. He added that he will be at the television tapings in November and will be at Bound For Glory. Apparently he and GFW are negotiating on how many days he will be in Florida for the tapings; he says he cannot stay down there for the entire week.

Cornette says that his role in GFW and on Impact was never meant to be a full-time, long-term deal. However, he remains open to staying involved in the company as long as they want him. Supposedly, all he was brought in to do is replace Bruce Prichard for one week since Prichard had outside conflicts for that week and couldn’t be an on-screen authority figure for the duration of the tapings.

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Bischoff is joined on today’s show by his co-host Nick Hausman.

Bischoff comments on the promo segment between Roman Reigns and John Cena from this week’s RAW, where Cena brought up Reigns’ past failed drug test. Bischoff says that he’s been thinking about this all day, and he’s still not really sure what he makes of it.

He says part of him loves the fact that WWE is pushing the boundaries and moving away from the ‘cookie cutter’ style of promos, but the other part of him thinks WWE crossed a line by bringing this up. He thinks there were other ways to elicit a similar response from fans, and digging that deep into the dirt just wasn’t necessary.

Hausman asks Bischoff for his opinion on GFW releasing Jeff Jarrett from his position in the company. Bischoff says he likes hanging out and having a couple of beers with Jeff Jarrett but in all honesty, Jarrett was a mid-level talent during his in-ring career.

In addition, Jarrett hasn’t proven to be a successful businessman either. Bischoff says that Jarrett understands how to tell a good story in a wrestling match better than most peers, but he hasn’t proven himself able to successfully build and brand a wrestling promotion.

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GFW Messes Up Royally With Global Wrestling Network “Launch”

Yesterday, we reported that GFW had launched their Global Wrestling Network and gave all the pertinent details on the streaming service. Well, in normal Global Force/Anthem fashion, the company screwed the pooch with the “launch”.

Turns out, it wasn’t really a launch at all. GFW mistakenly made the site live as they were working on the infrastructure of the service. When the news started to spread that the service had launched and that people could watch everything contained on the site for free, they shut the whole thing down.

What happened yesterday was never meant to be a public launch of the site, but GFW failed to put it behind a wall where it couldn’t be accessed by the public. They are preparing to launch the service, though, and we will keep everyone updated on when the real, purposeful launch of GWN happens.

WWE RAW Social Media Scores

Ratings, viewership, and social media scores for both RAW and SmackDown Live were delayed this week due to Nielsen shutting down their operations center due to Hurricane Irma, but today, we are finally getting the numbers for Monday’s episode of WWE’s flagship show.

This week’s episode of RAW ranked #1 among series and specials for the night in Nielsen’s social media TV ratings. RAW had 185,000 interactions with 34,000 unique authors on Twitter, down from 239,000 interactions with 47,000 unique authors last week. RAW also had 155,000 Facebook interactions with 107,000 unique authors. This is down from last week where RAW had 190,000 interactions with 133,000 unique authors on Facebook.

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GFW’s Global Wrestling Network Goes Live

GFW has launched its new streaming service, Global Wrestling Network. The streaming service is live now, and a video featuring Josh Mathews lists the streaming service at $5.99 per month, and that includes archived GFW, Impact, and TNA content, discounts on PPVs, merchandise discounts, and “coming soon”, material from international partner promotions.

Currently, the service lists the following content:

• Old Impact Wrestling episodes
• Old TNA PPVs from 2004-2017
• Old One Night Only PPVs
• Both seasons of British Botcamp
• Unfinished Business PPV series
• TNA Legends series
• TNA Greatest Matches series

Currently, the network is only available via Apple App Store and Google Play stores. According to the video, the service will come soon to Roku, X-Box, and FireTV.

What’s kind of odd is that the FAQ page of the site only lists the service as available in the UK and Ireland. Hmmm…

Rosemary Cleared For In-Ring Action

After being injured at the hands of Sexy Star last month at AAA’s TripleMania, it’s being reported that Rosemary is now cleared to get back in the ring. She will be wrestling indie dates this weekend.

Via Twitter, Rosemary had the following to say about coming back from her injury:

Today is a good day, Hivelings.. the doctor is pleased with the range of motion and strength/resistance for our bicep/tricep. We have been cleared to return to the ring.. meaning neither injury nor hurricane could keep us from raising Hell @RISEdtwa this weekend.

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