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You don't need to pay anything to watch the recent Impact episodes on the app. They're all free to watch. There is, however, a 10 day delay if you're in the States. For most other countries they make the episodes available right after the show airs on Pop TV. https://globalwrestlingnetwork.com

IMPACT announced a few matches with local guys for the upcoming TV tapings. Actually, to be precise they had SMASH and Destiny Wrestling announce them, which I thought was kind of neat. I'm guessing these are Xplosion matches, but still it's always cool to see local talent being thrown into the mix.

Pro wrestling returns to terrestrial TV in the UK. 10 one hour episodes, starting July 28th at 5 PM. I'm really interested in checking this out. They've put together a solid roster. If this thing takes off it could be really big given that ITV is the second most watched network in the UK. The roster: Trailer:

IMPACT uploaded this new Kingston promo on their YouTube channel. Good stuff. Fits nicely with his promo from the show.

The shows will be in the same venue where FSW and ROH have been running shows - Sam's Town.

That mystery attacker reveal was excellent. Great way to debut Kross. He came off as a dangerous psycho and I'm very intrigued to see where they go next with him. Plus, I love a good cliffhanger. Wrestling TV these days doesn't have enough of those. And man, what turnaround for IMPACT. The show has become a joy to watch every week. Especially when it comes to stories and character development. Lots of cool stuff going on at the moment.

Taya and Johnny are getting married on June 1 so they won't be at the tapings.

No, they did not.

Pretty much. The other big difference is that on GWN you also get stuff from other promotions whereas it seems the Twitch channel will be TNA stuff only.

Morrison, Taya & Drago are working the house show loop. OI4K are actually debuting on TV. They were in Nashville this week shooting vignettes. According to Konnan on his podcast, Mascarita Dorada (El Torito) is also coming in soon. They've also just signed a couple of new knockouts. No word on who exactly though.

The new LAX:

The wedding was fantastic. Just great fun. Loved it. Can't remember the last time the Impact Zone was so much into an angle. Enjoyed Barnett's debut match. Wish it went a bit longer, however. Barnett's style is different than everyone else on the roster and I like that. I hope he sticks around. That powerbomb did indeed look nasty though.

Is it just me or was Erik Watts, of all people, one of the security guards during the Fact of Life brawl?

This is great. And also, have you ever wanted to see Jeff Hardy wrestling with a kangaroo? Well, here's your chance: http://www.prowrestlingsheet.com/jeff-hardy-kangaroo-broken-matt-zoo-video/#.V827ozWsRho

The Grand Championship as designed by Wildcat Belts: Looks like the original plan for the belt may have been for it to be the new World Championship, but then TNA decided to use it as a Grand Championship instead.

I thought this was cool. The Wembley crowd singing along to EC3's theme song: https://twitter.com/DirteeJesus/status/693530895685410816/video/1 Anyway, Spud vs. EC3, with the roles reversed this time, should be a lot of fun. Spud is tremendous as a heel and by the sound of it looks like EC3 as a babyface has been working out quite well so far. Should make for some fun TV.

Slight correction. That 0.13 is their rating in the P18-49 demo, not their whole household rating. About half of the show's audience is outside of the 18 to 49 demographic.

TNA are doing a poll about who the fans want to see work the UK tour: Will Ospreay, Jimmy Havoc or Big Damo. http://impactwrestling.com/uk-tour-poll/

It's new for Anderson, but Shaun Ricker (Eli Drake) used to do that same "Huh?" deal on the indies. I'm guessing that's where they got the idea from.

I believe those were taped for Xplosion, except for the Wolves match which was taped for a future One Night Only PPV, apparently.

A new TNA video. I'm guessing for a new wrestler. Or something.

1951, France. Rene Ben Chemoul vs. Guy Laroche:

So, about those rumored India TV tapings... Turns out they won't be TV tapings after all. TNA have just announced that they'll do a One Night Only PPV (which will be broadcast live on TV in India and later that day in the States) and two house shows. Also, they'll be doing a talent search to find the next Indian superstar and The Great Khali will be "part of the selection process and help mentor the aspiring wrestlers".

Color me excited! Mistico is one of the guys that really got me into lucha back in the day so him potentially being back in CMLL feels just right to me. Can't wait for the eventual Mistico/Rush encounters. Mistico takes a good beating and Rush is great at giving one. Should be glorious. And hey, this might actually force AAA to push their younger rudos more so while this is a blow to AAA in the short term it might actually end up being good for them in the long run.

Remember Vladimir Kozlov? Apparently, this is him now: