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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

- The segment where Sting kept beating Rob Van Dam down with a baseball bat on the March 8th iMPACT was not planned to go as long as it did.

It’s being said that Hulk Hogan was slow in doing the run-in so Sting had to improvise but apparently that’s not entirely correct. TNA had scripted a certain moment where Hogan would run-in in the early part of the second hour, based on a minute-by-minute breakdown of the January 4th iMPACT and when viewership peaked. The problem came when segments in the first hour ran short so they had to stretch things out going into the second hour.

Sting wasn’t supposed to take out the referees on the ramp or go back to the ring but he had to kill time because he was sent to the ring too early for the match, based on the breakdown they had scripted from.

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Partial source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

- Tickets for WWE’s Over the Limit pay-per-view on May 23rd in Detroit, Michigan go on-sale this morning via Ticketmaster pre-sale. The code is WWEPPV.

- This week’s episode of WWE NXT on SyFy scored an 0.9 cable rating with 1,162,000 viewers.

- We noted before that Gorgeous George would be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year by his 96 year-old wife, Betty Wagner. George will actually be inducted by Dick “The Destroyer” Beyer, who feuded with George towards the end of his career. Betty Wagner will be giving the acceptance speech for George.

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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

- Reid Flair, son of The Nature Boy, is expected to be at some of the upcoming TNA iMPACT shows and tapings. It’s unknown if he will be brought in as a wrestler or if he’s just coming in for training.

- The top talents in TNA right now are not getting their interviews scripted by creative. Guys like Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan and Ken Anderson are all given bullet points to get across but are told to do what they want, just make sure to get those points in.

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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

- TNA and Spike TV have decided to air the iMPACT replay on Thursday nights at 9PM after all.

- Ric Flair is telling people he is having more fun working in TNA than he has had in years because he loves being a top heel. Flair still thinks he can have one more world-class match, with Kurt Angle.

- Hulk Hogan was in tremendous pain after last week’s TNA iMPACT and the tapings. He was icing his back for a long time. Hogan has been protecting his back in the ring and only did a few bumps but still is hurting. Right now Hogan’s not expected to wrestle anytime soon but that could always change.

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Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

- WWE will be in Los Angeles for SummerSlam this year as noted before. The current plan is to also run RAW the next night from LA.

- Right now the WWE talents from both RAW and SmackDown are being told to be prepared to work both RAW and SmackDown after WrestleMania in Phoenix and Las Vegas.

- The WWE talents have been told to keep busy with WWE affairs during WrestleMania weekend and not to attend any Ring of Honor or Dragon Gate shows. They have also been told to expect TMZ cameras and not to do anything that would get them in trouble or on TMZ.

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