Kris and David are back as we discuss the week that was January 6-12, 2010. Topics of discussion include:

• The immediate aftermath of TNA going head-to-head with WWE on January 4th and the politics behind the scenes regarding pushing Spike TV to give TNA a live weekly Monday night time slot.
• Jeff Jarrett's role in TNA being up in the air again.
• TNA airing a replay of the January 4th show in it's normal slot, which featured a bunch of both expected and unexpected edits changing the presentation from the live broadcast.
• Brian Kendrick explaining why he was fired from WWE.
• Vince Russo being Vince Russo in an interview.
• Kenta Kobashi getting surgery as his days as an active wrestler are numbered.
• NOAH getting rid of some of their more tenured talent as the business is changing in Japan.
• News on the premiere of Wrestlicious and how this promotion came to be.
• Randy Orton "assaults" a fan at a restaurant…or does he?
• Ted “The Trailer” McNaylor gets his head shaved on Smackdown at the behest of CM Punk.
• Mike Tyson guest hosts Raw and actually technically is in the main event, teaming with Chris Jericho against DX, and you can guess what happened there.

2010 being 16 years ago is damn crazy, and we had a lot of fun looking backm so we hope you have as much fun listening!

Timestamps:

0:00:00 TNA

1:03:53 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, NOAH, BJPW, DDT, Dragongate, JWP, Oz Academy, AAA, CMLL, IWRG, & IWAPR

1:49:57 Classic Commercial Break

1:53:39 Halftime

2:29:58 Other USA: JAPW, ROH, ICP/JCW, Dragongate USA, & Wrestlelicious

2:53:12 WWE

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