» Mick Foley recently discussed his role with TNA in an interview, saying the idea was to wrestle 2-3 times a year. Also, the current angle is building to a match with Angle, which he is said to be dreading, due to the fact that when you work with Angle, you're expected to have a great match. (Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

» As noted earlier, TNA Knockouts Champion Awesome Kong is suffering from a bad back and also likely needs knee surgery. TNA is hoping that Kong will be able to wrestle at the next set of iMPACT tapings.

» In Henry Waxman's report regarding the steroid problem in professional wrestling released three weeks ago, it was revealed that fifteen of the sixty TNA wrestlers who were tested for drugs in January 2008 tested positive for steroids. Additionally, eleven other TNA wrestlers tested positive for various other drugs, so it can be concluded that 43% of the roster were on drugs last January. A few days after the report, TNA wrestler Sheik Abdul Bashir (Shawn Daivari), posted a blog on his official website, www.ShawnDaivari.com, criticizing Waxman's findings. "I don't mind someone being able to approach congress to see if an issue is able to be investigated. That's the purpose of this country. What bothers me is for the average person who isn't in the know of this industry, it paints a bad picture of pro-wrestling whilst leaving every other form of entertainment to be," Daivari wrote.

"Wrestling is part of the entertainment industry. Like music, movies, TV, sports, books etc. etc. etc. When ever someone like a Henry Waxman says there's a problem with drug use in wrestling (he thinks) a more fair statement would be there is drug use in the entertainment industry. Whenever the media racks up these "huge" lists of people that have died in the wrestling industry over the last years, they never compare it to the number of deaths in music. The number of deaths in Hollywood. In that vein we are usually the smaller percentile, or at least in the same ball park."

Daivari then jumps into the debate of "use vs. abuse" regarding steroids. Daivari compares steroids to cocaine and LSD, saying steroids have medical properties that are beneficial to the person, so a doctor can prescribe them, whereas a doctor can't prescribe cocaine or LSD because they have no proven medical value. Regarding steroids, Daivari wrote: "There was an anti-inflamitory prescription medication on the market called Vioxx about 5 years ago. It was a very effective drug that in some cases had a side effect of causing heart failure. With tons of studies done, and the comparison of number of heart failures with use compared to the number of successfull trials, and the number of heart failure with abuse compared to the number of successfull trials, the FDA found it more often then not with use and abuse to cause to much damage to the human body to make it prescribeable and the drug was eliminated. I think people are uneducated as to what anabolic steroids are. Anabolic steroids are synthetic hormones. Birth control is a steroid. Some antidepressant drugs are steroids. More often then not, again in cases of USE and not ABUSE they have medical properties that are beneficial to the person prescribed the drug. That is why a doctor can not per scribe cocaine, or LSD. Because they have no proven medical value."