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WWE HATES ANGLE?, DIXIE AND NEW JACK REALITY SERIES, FRANCINE HEAT IN ECW? AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2014-07-05 10:00:05

Whatever happened to TNA's Gutcheck Challenge? Is that just another failure?

TNA stopped it months ago. The original idea was for it's segments to almost be a pilot for a Gutcheck reality series, but Spike and TNA's TV partners never bit. Once TNA began cost cutting, the concept was put on hold. I don't know if I would call it a failure as it was something different that only they were doing. They just suspended the idea.

I saw online something about WWE staff mocking Kurt Angle as they saw him sleeping on a plane or something? How does something so stupid even end up as news? Is Angle still persona non grata with WWE?<>

Your question was the first I've heard of such a story, but when you have outlets that have very little credibility, of course stupid stories that stretch imagination and logic and good taste are thrown out there to get clicks. As far as show WWE feels about Angle, they showcased him on WWE.com yesterday as part of their American heroes for Independence Day and they could easily ignore him if they wanted, so I think that says a lot. Whether they want him to come back when his current TNA deal is done, we will see.

Whatever happened with the Dixie Carter reality series?

Nothing. A sizzle reel was shot but the series concept, to date, has not been sold. It was something she was really interested in doing but so far, it's gone nowhere.

Wasn't there going to be a New Jack reality series as well?

Yes, there was and at one point it was set up to go to series on A&E. The concept had New Jack returning to bounty hunting and would have also featured his lawyer regularly. I saw the sizzle reel years ago and it was phenomenal.

I watched a Kayfabe Commentaries shoot with Justin Credible where he was asked about Francine having a big head and having heat in the ECW locker room. He said that there was merit to it. What's the deal there?<>

Having been in that locker room all the time as I was part of the ECWWrestling.com staff, I can tell you that story is very overblown. Francine was one of the guys and got along with everyone. For whatever reason, she and Dawn Marie weren't friendly and a lot of those stories began popping up after Dawn came into the company, specifically in the last year and the belief at the time was that someone was leaking them as a way to make Dawn look good and make Francine look bad - but the reality was that it was pretty much garbage at the time and if Credible was claiming otherwise, he would be greatly misremembering.

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