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SPOILER! TNA adds former WWE Superstar - more on way?

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

As rumored — and reported here earlier in the month — Total Non-Stop Action has added the “Bad Guy” Scott Hall to its active roster, with the former WWE Intercontinental Champion debuting at the TNA iMPACT! tapings earlier this week. Further, along with reteaming with Kevin Nash to reform The Outsiders (the duo that ran rough-shot over WCW back in the late 90s in one of the most-memorable angles in pro wrestling history) Hall clarified that he is NOT Sting’s mystery partner for the upcoming TNA Genesis PPV. That spot is expected to be filled by none other than Booker T, fresh from his WWE release. Booker was backstage at the same taping and apparently will be yet another building block TNA will look to in their efforts to expand beyond a die-hard pro wrestling fanbase and into the more mainstream or casual (not to mention lucrative) market segment.

The Hall signing, as usual, is being viewed as controversial. Already having a history of substance abuse problems that haunt him at every stop (Hall is reportedly clean and sober and in the best shape he has been in years) he and Nash were looked upon as two of the biggest reasons for the low lockerroom morale in the fading days of the old WCW. It remains to be seen what amount of stroke the duo will carry this time out, but as TNA moves forward into the two-hour world, now is not the time to create further strife, especially amid the reports of the political wrangling already occuring between Kurt Angle-Jeff Jarrett factions.

- Mr. Mal