TNA News: iMPACT!, Japan/Mexico Stars, Sting, More News
The first iMPACT! taping of the new year will take place on January 3rd, 2006.
As noted here before, there are plans to bring in international talent from Japan and Mexico. PWI also reports that there are plans for TNA to take the independent bookings of their talents in house in 2006.
TNA will continue to air video packages of their stars on episodes of iMPACT!. There are already videos in the works for Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Monty Brown and Ron Killings. This is obviously a great move by TNA as they can get their stars over more with their fans.
TNA is hoping Sting’s name/star power will draw media attention.
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Will Mexicos landscape change since stars have left
From the moment Pachuca hoisted the Clausura 2006 trophy last spring to the start of the Apertura 06 on Saturday, the Mexican league has gone through some unprecedented changes.
The top clubs are still around, but several of the best Mexican players migrated to Europe in ways never seen before. The top two defenders in the Mexican league are gone. The most popular forward in the country will now ply his trade abroad. A respected veteran midfielder will test his skills in the Old World.
Top-level players are leaving the familiar surroundings of Mexican soccer
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Earlier Wednesday, Endesa announced the deal in a regulatory filing, saying that it had received EUR414 million, or $505 million, for the sale of the unit.
America Movil spokesman Gonzalo Garcia said he didn't know why there was a discrepancy in the figures, but that the $472 million represented the enterprise value of the Chilean company, and that the transaction involved 100% of the
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The plight of more than 400 women murdered in a Mexican city in the last 12 years is to get the Hollywood treatment in a new movie starring Jennifer Lopez.
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In Bordertown, Lopez plays a Chicago-based reporter whose crusading investigations in Juarez, just across the border from Texas, awaken her sense of identity as a Latin woman. Banderas plays a
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A slow-moving and unpredictable Hurricane Wilma began pounding Mexico this morning with winds of 145 miles an hour (233 kilometers an hour).
"As it stands now, there will be a significant impact from this system over the northeastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula," said Dave Roberts, a U.S. Navy forecaster at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Keith Blackwell, hurricane researcher at the University of South Alabama's Coastal Weather Research Center, said the storm will stall over the peninsula for a day or more.
That stalling will cause massive damage and allow the storm to
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Undercover Fayette County drug agents played a role in a months-long investigation of a Mexican drug trafficking operation that netted 28 arrests Wednesday, authorities said.
The multi-state investigation also netted about 592 kilograms of cocaine, more than 40 pounds of methamphetamine and $8 million in cash, officials said. Multiple weapons and more than $1 million in cash was recovered in the metro Atlanta area alone.
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Mexico 2, United States 1
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"For me,
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