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A fun little segment hosted by Robbie E where the guest of the week answers questions in order to make it on Robbie's "VIP list".

The first Destination America tapings have been officially announced for January 7th through 9th in New York.

Here's how things stand in terms of what percentage of U.S. TV households can watch what: USA Network (RAW) - 86.38% Spike TV (TNA until now) - 85.50% Syfy (SmackDown) - 85.33% E! (Total Divas) - 84.48% Fox Sports 1 (UFC) - 75.13% UniMas (Lucha Underground) - 57.8% Destination America (TNA in 2015) - 52.20% ROH - 38.1% El Rey (Lucha Underground) - 35%? All the numbers except the final two are for August 2013. The ROH number is from October 2014, but includes future expansion that has not yet come into effect. The El Rey number was their target number that they announced earlier this year, but I don't know if they've reached it. So yeah, quite the drop-off indeed. Though it should be pointed out that Destination America is technically available to more than 52%, but since it's a high-tier channel you'd have to pay extra to watch it.

According to PWInsider: Both promotions must really want him in a bad way if they're allowing him to work for the other one. So, where does he fit in TNA? Babyface or heel? Ricardo or no Ricardo?

In a brand new interview Alberto Del Rio says he's about to sign a deal with two US companies with a TV deal and start working for them in January. And that's in addition to him continuing to work for AAA in Mexico, and indy dates here and there. One company is definitely Lucha Underground, and I'm guessing the other one is TNA. So yeah, looks like we're about to see a whole lot of Del Rio in 2015.

Fun little video of various TNA stars introducing the 16 Boot Camp semi-finalists:

No. It's only on TNA's YouTube channel.

Yes. In fact, he was the top Indian babyface on the show and the last Ring Ka King champion.

Well, it's only a 44-minute show so it's going to be hard to fit six full matches in there as well as the judges' evaluations. That said, I do hope they cram as much action as possible into it because the line-up for the next episode does indeed look very good. Hell, I'd pay good money to see that same line-up if it were an indy event. Grado vs. Sha Samuels Dave Mastiff vs. Rampage Brown Nikki Storm vs. Kay Lee Ray vs. The Owens Twins Kris Travis vs. Mark Andrews Joel Redman & Martin Stone vs. RJ Singh & Richard Parliament Noam Dar vs. El Ligero Anyway, last night's episode might've been my favorite one so far. A really good mix of talent, I thought. The biggest revelation for me this week being Richard Parliament, who I hadn't even heard of before this show but got a big kick out of his act. Very amusing... yeeeaah! Speaking of amusing, The Fabulous Bakewell Boys had some great lines. Mastiff and Stone were the overall standouts for me however. Both came across really well. Based on what's been broadcast on the show those two along with Rampage Brown and Nikki Storm are my favorites so far.

Where is everyone getting this "big announcement" talk from? I've seen zero teases by Dixie/TNA about a "big announcement", and normally there'd be a lot of them. Am I missing something here?

Man, how fantastic did Rampage Brown look in those clips they showed from Progress Wrestling? Those were great. Shame his promo was so crap. Andrews surprised me as well. Always figured him to be quite bland outside of the ring. Nice to know he's got some personality to him. Sidenote, did anyone else notice what appeared to be Chris Masters, of all people, randomly walking into the building while Spud was talking to the final two guys who were eliminated? Way to make your TNA TV debut, Chris!

The first episode has popped up online. You can see it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x289ran_tna-british-boot-camp-2-episode-1_sport There's also an official post-show that features some unaired footage of Sebastian Radclaw being one the wackiest wrestling characters on the planet: ---------------------------------------- I thought Nikki Storm was by far the best promo out of all of them. No surprise there, really. Really glad to see her go through. Noam Dar and Kay Lee Ray are both great in-ring talent so it was good to see them go through as well, even though I thought they could've shown more personality. As expected, Grado was very likeable as well. I'm looking forward to his comeback storyline playing out. I don't know that he can win the whole thing, but I can definitely see Grado being one of the 3 runners-up who get awarded spots on the UK tour. I liked Viper too. Was a bit disappointed she didn't go through as I would've liked to see her in action, but can definitely see why she didn't make it. Overall, I thought it was a fun first episode. Could've been better, but it was fun. Really enjoyed seeing the UK talent being given some spotlight.

CMLL's Los Ingobernables (Rush, La Sombra & La Mascara) rocking an awesome look for their entrance the other day:

A short preview video of Grado's audition: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/tna-british-boot-camp-2-4449388 The show debuts this Sunday. The Glasgow auditions episode is up first.

The show debuts on October 19th. Eight episodes altogether. The first four episodes (the three auditions and the UK finale) have been extended to one hour episodes. British Boot Camp 2 TV commercial:

Apparently, Josh Mathews is joining TNA.

No. He hasn't wrestled in Mexico since 2012. He's been back in Canada since then.

What an emotional main event. Damn good wrestling, crowd going crazy throughout the match, humongous pop for the finish, women in the crowd crying afterwards and fans throwing tons of money in the ring. You just don't see that kind of emotion for wrestling matches these days. Loved it! Overall, much like last year's anniversary show, which I also saw live on Terra, I thought this was a really fun show. Cavernario/Cometa was probably the best match on the show (if you like that sort of match, which I do), but Atlantis/Guerrero was the most memorable one. The other matches ranged from solid to good, I thought. Also, as a sidenote, the stream was perfect! Didn't freeze on me or disconnect even for a second (unlike last year when there were a few short hiccups). Kudos to Terra for that!

Speaking of new TNA signings. Rumor has it in a few days when Angle and Joe head over to India for a promotional tour they'll be announcing that Mahabali Veera (the final Ring Ka King champion) has signed with TNA. All this does is making me miss Barood. I miss watching that chubby little dude.

Yesterday in Fayetteville TNA taped several matches for Boot Camp: So, there's your final six. One of them is winning the TNA contract. They also taped an 8-person tag with the contestants (plus Angelina Love & Al Snow) the day before in Roanoke Rapids.

The following names are being advertised for Inoki's North Korea shows next week: Bob Sapp Jerome Le Banner Jon Andersen (Strongman) Montanha Silva Erik Hammer Heddi Karaoui Kazuyuki Fujita Ultimo Dragon Daichi Hashimoto Shinichi Suzukawa Atsushi Sawada Crusher Kawaguchi Shogun Okamoto Taka Kunou Hajime Ohara Keisuke Okuda Wang Bin Meiko Satomura Kyoko Kimura Ray Dash Chisako

TNA taped the British Boot Camp 2 mid-season finale earlier today in London with the wrestlers who've made it through the auditions round. There were supposed to be only 12 people competing on today's show for a chance to move onto the final round but it ended up being 16 people. The following matches were taped today: So these are the people who're going for the contract. Several of them will be going to the States soon where the winner of the show will be determined.

So, Impact is moving to Wednesday nights starting next week...

18,000 is the official number.