Kaz Returning With A Mask?, LAX Splitting Up?, Backstage TNA News

Partial Source: The Wrestling Observer Newsletter

? Within the offices of TNA, there has been talk of breaking up LAX. Homicide and Hernandez are both against the move, and have been fighting it. TNA President Dixie Carter is a big fan of LAX, thus explaining why they're champs at the moment, as well as their renewed push. No word yet on why they want to split them up.

? Regarding Taylor Wilde's first TNA Knockouts title defense at the Victory Road pay-per-view last month, there was some surprise backstage at the total lack of crowd reaction to her. The feeling was that the crowd in attendance were more occasional and not regular TV viewers of iMPACT!, since her title win that aired three nights earlier got over pretty big in Orlando. TNA made the decision to put Wilde over Kong clean a second time with the idea that they had just created a new star.

? Here is the latest regarding the departure of Frankie "Kaz" Kazarian. As previously noted, his release from TNA is a work. His storyline departure is tied to the upcoming iMPACT! video game from Midway. I have also learned through a source in TNA that Kaz will leave the company and return as a masked character created for the game similar to the way Christopher Daniels "left" the company only to return as the masked Curry Man. No word yet as to what the name of the character will be but it has been speculated that this new character is likely to join the band of masked men in TNA which at present include Super Eric, Shark Boy and Curry Man.