Joe/Booker T Storyline Spoiler, Victory Road Attendance, More

Samoa Joe vs. Booker T at the Hard Justice PPV on 8/10 will be a Weapons Match inside a Steel Cage.

TNA's Victory Road PPV this past Sunday in Houston, Texas at the Reliant Arena drew an estimated 3,000 fans. This is considered a pretty big disappointment with the show being built around the return of Booker T to his hometown and especially since a recent Smackdown taping in the same city was sold out.

TNA did not draw well either in Atlanta for last year's Bound For Glory PPV in October despite booking Sting, Kurt Angle, The Steiner Brothers and others. The company drew considerably better in the Boston and New York markets recently. The feeling is that next month's Hard Justice PPV will draw well in Trenton since it is close to the New York market. The first Canadian PPV in Oshawa in September is expected to draw well after they did so well in the market last December.

During a recent interview with The Sun, former WWF/WWE and current TNA referee Earl Hebner did what some consider a 180 in commenting on one of the most famous moments in the wrestling industry. In regards to the 1997 Survivor Series "screwjob" Hebner recently provided an interesting quote looking at the situation 11 years later. "I love Bret Hart to death. It (1997 Survivor Series) was something I was asked to do. Told to do, in fact," said Hebner. "If it was today, I would never do it. WWE has treated me, my brother and my son awful wrong for the things that we did. Especially my brother (Dave Hebner) who took care of the office on the road for a long time and made them lots of money. If I had known then how I was going to be treated later in my career with WWE, I never would have done it. But at the time, I didn't know. It's all hindsight."