» TNA hired Bill Goertel as the new Director of Graphics this past week. Goertel formerly worked for World Wrestling Entertainment, where he ran the company's graphics department for more than a decade. Goertel left WWE a few months back. According to one person who worked with him in WWE, "TNA grabbed a great talent that will help them with a key weakness they've had forever: graphic design." The AAA promotion out of Mexico was also interested in his services after finding out about his departure from WWE.

» WrestlingInc.com is reporting that on Wednesday afternoon, TNA wrestler Booker T staged a public protest outside of Vito's Deckhouse in Webster, Texas, just outside of Houston. As reported a few weeks ago, Booker T was at the sports bar with Marty Wright (a.k.a. WWE star "The Boogeyman"), and Wright, who was wearing the cross, was asked to take it off by the bartender, or leave. According to the bartender, it was a violation of the bar's dress code. Booker asked to see the bar's dress code policy, which management could not find. Booker refused to leave and told Wright not to leave. Police were called and they told Booker and Wright to leave the premises. Booker said he saw two other patrons at the bar wearing crosses and they were not approached by management and told to leave. Although, the two patrons left the sports bar when they saw Booker and Wright being kicked out over Wright wearing the cross. As a result of the incident, Booker believed their rights had been violated. The TNA star had plans to stage a protest outside of the sports bar, which he did on Wednesday. Booker hopes it gets as much publicity as possible to inform people about the sports bar suppressing people's freedom to express their belief in God.