LAW Jan. 16 Update - Dixie Carter Chats TNA in 2013
John Pollock / January 16, 2013 - 5:04pm
**Today’s edition of Review-A-Wai is up on the website with Wai Ting and myself reviewing the WWF Royal Rumble from 1991 featuring the Rumble, Ultimate Warrior Vs Sgt. Slaughter for the WWF Title and an undercard match between The Rockers Vs The Orient Express among the highlights of the show. You can download the show at http://fightnetwork.com/news/35802:review-a-wai-wwf-royal-rumble-1991/ and subscribe to Live Audio Wrestling on iTunes.
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**Here is part two of Dixie Carter’s chat with Jeremy Borash that ran on Challenge TV in the U.K. discussing what 2013 holds for the TNA organization and specifically chatting the TNA Knockout’s division and keeping it wholesome, criticisms and praise she receives online and more:
**El Generico is back on the Hart Legacy Wrestling event this Friday night in Calgary, Alberta at the Victoria Pavilion, which has a ton of names attached to it. The show has also added the recently released Trent Barreta to the card.
**Raw finished with a 3.2 rating on Monday and averaged 4,550,000 viewers on Monday night for the 20th anniversary show in Houston.
**The group Living Color is playing a concert the night before WrestleMania 29 in the New York area and one could reasonably assume they may be playing Punk to the ring the next night at MetLife Stadium.
**Ring of Honor has a pair of shows this weekend with a show in Dearborn, Michigan Friday night featuring The Briscoe Brothers Vs Davey Richards & Eddie Edwards for the Tag Titles and Kevin Steen Vs Tadarius Thomas for the ROH Title. The crew then heads to Milwaukee for a show on Saturday night featuring a four-way for the ROH Title with Kevin Steen Vs Michael Elgin Vs Roderick Strong Vs Eddie Edwards.
**The Smackdown crew has a two-show mini tour in Alaska starting tomorrow night in Anchorage and then another show in the state on Friday night. The Raw crew begins their weekend tour at the Staples Center on Friday night in Los Angeles with Rey Mysterio advertised to return on that show.
**The WWE has announced that Ric Flair will be signing at the Fax Axxess event on Thursday April 4th and will likely be involved a lot of that weekend with a variety of appearances. They have also announced Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels for individual signing sessions as well.
**The WWE and the UFC went head to head on this date in 2006 with the UFC presenting their third Ultimate Fight Night card on Spike TV from Las Vegas. Their card was headlined by a heavyweight bout where Tim Sylvia defeated Assuerio Silva by unanimous in a fight most well remembered for a story where Sylvia stated he soiled himself during the fight. The WWE countered that night on Raw with a TLC Match between Edge and Ric Flair for the WWE Title in one of Flair’s last great matches of his career.
**The Hollywood Reporter has a story on the USA Network developing a late night talk show but is in the earliest pre-production stages with no target date but have indicated it would be a nightly show at 12:01am EST.
**Ric Flair teaches Ricardo Rodriguez the art of the “woo”.
**On last night’s episode of UFC Tonight on FUEL TV, Ariel Helwani reported the list of Strikeforce fighters being moved over to the UFC and that list features:
*Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza
**Among those absent from the list include: Josh Barnett (who will be an interesting one to watch), Keith Jardine, Adlan Amagov, Billy Evangelista, Ovince St-Preux, Jorge Masvidal, Justin Wilcox and Rafael Cavalcante (who is currently serving a suspension).
**The Bellator weigh-ins take place later tonight in Irvine, California with the following main card fights scheduled for the Spike TV broadcast at 10pm EST tomorrow night:
*Pat Curran Vs Patricio “Pitbull” Freire for the Featherweight Title (this fight will open the broadcast)
*Michael Chandler Vs Rick Hawn for the Lightweight Title
*Renato “Babalu” Sobral Vs Mikhail Zayats in the Light Heavyweight tournament
*Seth Petruzelli Vs Jacob Noe in the Light Heavyweight tournament
**They also announced on UFC Tonight that beginning January 29th Chael Sonnen would become a permanent member of the desk panel on the show.
**ESPN was the first to report that a welterweight bout between Dan Hardy and Matt Brown has been added to the UFC on FOX 7 card April 20th in San Jose, California. On Tuesday the UFC officially announced the top two fights for the card with Benson Henderson defending the Lightweight Title against Gilbert Melendez and a heavyweight bout between Daniel Cormier and Frank Mir.
**ESPN out of the U.K. has announced they will be carrying the upcoming season of TUF featuring coaches Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen. The series premieres next Tuesday night at 8pm EST on FX and FX Canada.
**Fight Network in Canada announced a five-year television deal with One FC today and will air their February 2nd card live from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia headlined by Honorio Banario Vs Eric Kelly for the One FC Featherweight Title.
**Robin Black and I look ahead to Bellator’s debut on Spike tomorrow night:
**Here are the current fights scheduled for the main card of the MFC 36 on February 15th in Edmonton, Alberta and airing at 10pm EST on AXS TV:
*Mukai Moromo Vs Graham Spencer for the Lightweight Title
*Elvis Mutapcic Vs Sam Alvey for the Middleweight Title
*Smealinho Rama Vs Mike Hackert
*Luke Harris Vs Jason Zentgraf
*Leo Bercier Vs Jay Silva
*Kurt Southern Vs Dave Castillo
REVIEW-A-WAI – WWF Royal Rumble 1991
(John Pollock and Wai Ting review the ’91 Rumble featuring the battle royal and Ultimate Warrior Vs Sgt. Slaughter for the WWF Title)
REVIEW-A-RAW – January 15th 2013
(John Pollock and Wai Ting review #RAW20, take your feedback and details on the Royal Rumble Pool)
THE LAW – January 14th 2013
(Dan Lovranski and Jason Agnew chat with Dave Meltzer, review TNA Genesis and discuss The Rock Vs CM Punk, Del Rio winning title and more)
REVIEW-AN-IMPACT – January 11th 2013
(John Pollock and Wai Ting review Impact with Nate Milton and are joined by TNA’s Christopher Daniels)
THE MMA REPORT – January 10th 2013
(John Pollock chats with Daniel Cormier and The History of Strikeforce)
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