Natalya Responds To RAW 'Fat' Jokes + TNA-UK TV Deal
– As noted earlier here on the website, TNA Wrestling President Dixie Carter announced Tuesday that all TNA programming in the U.K. will air on Sky TV channel Challenge beginning next month. Challenge TV will broadcast iMPACT! each week, as well as Xplosion and monthly pay-per-view events. TNA's television situation in the U.K. had been limbo since January 1 when its former home, Bravo, was shut down. Challenge TV generally airs game show programs, but is available to Sky, Virgin, and Freeview systems. By getting on Freeview, TNA programming will eventually be available to every television in the United Kingdom (once the UK Digital Switchover is completed in 2012). At yesterday's live event in Dublin, Ireland, Carter informed the live audience that TNA signed a new television distribution agreement in the U.K.
– For the first time in the company's history, the East Coast Wrestling Association Super 8 tournament will not be held in Delaware. The promotion is moving the event to Voorhees, New Jersey in order to "so the show can be more accessible to OTHER East Coast fans in New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania." This will also be the first tournament held since former owner Jim Kettner retired last year. Also announced was that Tommaso Ciampa is the first man official for the tournament.
– WWE Divas Champion Natalya tweeted the following on Michael Cole's RAW commentary: "He can call me "hefty" all he wants- but this diva is built in the front, stacked in the back and proud of every inch!!!"