Raven posted the following on his blog at theraveneffect.com:

I would like to point out a few of my current wrestling pet peeves. It could be written more clearly and concisely but I dont have much time before I have to go out of town but I wanted to get them off my chest.

A) Chairshots to the head should only be banned if you dont know how to throw one properly. A suplex can be deadly in the wrong hands. If you throw a chair shot correctly, or know how to bump so the chair shot only grazes you hard enough to make a noise, they are fine. It is idiots who swing for the fences or morons who dont bump with them that should be banned.

B) I guarantee you that more concussions are had by wrestlers from endless nonsensical high spots that the sheets promote as making a better match than chair shots to the head.

C) I guarantee you that more concussions are had by wrestlers from working strong style that the sheets promote as making a better match than chair shots to the head.

D) Dreamer’s kids have been actresses since about 2 years old. They know what acting is. They were introduced to Tommy’s friend Scotty (thats me) before the match and told that is was all acting. After the show, all bloody, I went up and talked to the girls to see if they were ok. They were laughing and said they had a great time. They thought the whole thing was a blast. Huh? But how could that be? Dont they have to be traumatized? Ever think that each case is a little different and should be treated as such. How bout giving Tommy credit for being a wonderful father who would never harm his little girls for the world and made sure they knew exactly what would happen ahead of time, and if he for an instant thought it would be problematic, he would have left that spot out completely.

E) Get some f@#king facts before you disparage shit.

For example 1): One of the guys they put over for looking good and cleaning up was the only person f@#ked up out of his gourd which was obvious to anyone watching a Tv except them.

For example 2): For years the sheets would always say, how come so and so always happens to have the right pair of keys to open the handcuffs when they would be handcuffed allowing them to escape at the most fortuitous moments? What they didnt know, nor decided to look into was that all f@#king handcuff keys are the same. Yet they spent years dogging any and all matches when someone would happen to have keys to escape. The sheets arent always right. They thought Sean Waltman early in his career was one of the greatest wrestlers in the world. Same with Sabu. A couple years later, when both actually became the incredible workers the sheets thought they had been (which both Sean and Sabu will tell you, they werent nearly as good as they became and the sheets were wrong), the sheets are shitting on both for not being as good as they used to be because they didnt have the kind of matches the sheets wanted, non stop action without a story. In Hollywood, movies with non stop action and no stories are called crap. The sheets are quite often wrong, and there is a word for people who follow them without thinking for themselves, it is sheep.

F) The sheets crapped on the former ECW guys who werent in shape, but decry when wrestlers used steroids. Make up your mind. Benoit who until he became a double murderer was the biggest steroid user in the business and without steroids he never would have had a career, yet he was never buried for it. Other guys were. Dont you love people who pick and choose their favorites when condemning society.

G) Finally to all the sheet writers, if you were really as strongly convicted about stopping all the deaths in wrestling, you’d stop watching wrestling and supporting such a horrible business, you’d stop making money off it, you would try and get your readers to stop watching, and you would fight for what you claim to believe in, like getting us health care or what not. But no, you prefer to sit in your ivory tower decrying every death, then writing all about it waiting for the next death and continue to line your pocketbooks like the carpetbaggers you are. Which makes you pompous, holier than thou assholes.

This Sunday, TNA Wrestling presents its annual No Surrender pay-per-view event, live from Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

The announced card is as follows:

SEMI-FINALS OF THE TNA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT
Winners advance to the Finals at Bound For Glory on Sunday, October 10 to crown a new TNA World Heavyweight Champion

SEMI-FINAL MATCH
Kurt Angle vs. Jeff Hardy

SEMI-FINAL MATCH
Mr. Anderson vs. The Pope

TNA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Motor City Machineguns (c) vs. Desmond Wolfe and Magnus

I-QUIT MATCH
AJ Styles vs. Tommy Dreamer

X DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
Sabu vs. (c) Douglas Williams

TAG TEAM MATCH
Sting and Kevin Nash vs. Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe

FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE MATCH
Abyss vs. “The War Machine” Rhino

GRUDGE MATCH
Velvet Sky vs. Madison Rayne

-Steve Wilton, webmaster of HonkyTonkMan.net, sent in the following statement about an upcoming television appearance by the Honky Tonk Man…

The Greatest WWE Intercontinental Champion of all time “The Honky Tonk Man” is set to appear as a guest on Emmy nominated show “Judge Jeanine Pirro”.

The episode featuring Honky will be taped on September 19th by Telepicture Productions at the Judge Pirro studios in Chicago.

Following the taping, the episode will be set for syndication to be aired across the FOX network this fall. The new season begins September 6th 2010.

“Judge Jeanine Pirro” is a fast-paced one-hour daily court show featuring Jeanine Pirro, former District Attorney and County Court Judge of Westchester County, New York, highly respected legal commentator, author and renowned champion of the underdog.

-The stars of TNA will be taping an upcoming episode of Family Feud which is now hosted by comedian Steve Harvey. The taping will take place 9/4 at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL and if you are in the area on that day you can be a part of the taping. No word on which talents will be involved but the show will feature the male wrestlers vs the Knockouts. Family Feud airs in the US nationwide via syndication so check you�re local listings to find out when it is on in your area.

-Tommy Dreamer tweeted:

I just heard no TNA Impact Next week. So tonight is the last time I will b coming into your homes. I am really happy with the match. Enjoy

-Kurt Angle has posted an photo of himself in his new movie “Beyond The Mat”, click here to see photo on twitter.

-In an interview with Kevin Eck of the Baltimore Sun, World Heavyweight Champion Kane says that he has no plans to retire soon.

“I’m still having fun,” Kane said. “I’m really at the height of my career, and I don’t have any plans of packing it in, at least not in the near future.”

SCHEDULED THIS WEEK ON TNA iMPACT:

- It’s the final countdown to Sunday’s “No Surrender” Pay-Per-View event! Tune in for the latest news and more matches for the three-hour epic event!

- A huge tag team match event with Mr. Anderson & The Pope vs. Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy, just days before the World Heavyweight Title Tournament semi-finals at the No Surrender Pay-Per-View

- Plus, a huge 8-Man War with Ric Flair’s “Fourtune” alliance taking on the members of EV2!

CHECK OUT TONIGHT’S COMPLETE IMPACT SPOILER RESULTS CLICK HERE

-On Saturday, October 2nd, TNA will hold a special pay-per-view event that will focus on the TNA Knockouts. The event will be titled “TNA Wrestling Knockouts: Mad Sexy Volume 1″. Here is the description for the event…

“‘TNA Wrestling Knockouts: Mad Sexy Volume 1′, hosted by Playboy centerfold and TNA Knockout Christy Hemme, will feature top matches from the past between TNA Knockouts like Angelina Love, Velvet Sky and Gail Kim.”

-The Pro Wrestling Torch is reporting that management no longer has faith in Mick Foley as an in ring wrestler. Foley is expected to have a match at Bound for Glory but don’t expect to see him in the ring much past that.

-From TNAWrestling.com:

INTERNATIONAL AIRDATES FOR TNA WRESTLING’S “NO SURRENDER” PPV

United Kingdom
Extreme Channel – Friday 10th September at 22:00
BT Vision – available from Monday 6th September at 15:00

Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Sky Deutschland – Monday 6th September at 01:00 (Live)

Portugal
Sport TV3– Monday 6th September at 22:30

Denmark
Canal9– Friday 10th September at 21:50

India
ESPN Star Sports– Wednesday 8th September at 18:00

Australia
Main Event – Monday 6th September at 10:00 (AEDT)

Africa
Setanta – Monday 6th September at 00:00 (Live)

Panama
TV Max – Check Your Listings

-When Mick Foley learned that Luna Vachon’s home had burned down, he suggested that TNA bring her in to manage Tommy Dreamer vs. Raven at the HardCORE Justice PPV (In ECW, Vachon was used as Dreamer’s second to counteract Stevie Richards in 1995), however, Vachon turned down the offer citing that she had retired. (Source:The Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

- Below is the official line-up of Rookies and Pros for season 3 of WWE NXT on SyFy. Season 3 will premiere next Tuesday night and will be all Divas, with the exception of Goldust and Primo.

* Kelly Kelly and Naomi Night, current FCW Divas Champion. Formerly known as Trinity McCray, she used to dance for the NBA’s Orlando Magic.

* Alicia Fox and Maxine, formerly known as Liviana.

* Goldust and Aksana, a professional bodybuilder, model and actress from Lithuania.

* The Bella Twins and Jamie Keyes. Jamie has been acting as the WWE NXT announcer and is a model from the Florida area.

* Primo Colon and AJ Lee, current Queen of FCW. WWE officials have been high on AJ for some time now. She has been working on the indies since 2007.

* Vickie Guerrero and Aloisia. Aloisia is 6 foot 9 inches and is formerly known as Isis The Amazon.

-Dixie Carter Tweeted:

TNA iMPACT! is going LIVE on 10/7. Remember my tweet about how TNA is going to change forever? Stay tuned.

-Actor Justin Long, who hosted WWE RAW on August 16th with “Going The Distance” co-stars Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, tells MetroNews.ca that the experience was a disaster.

“In no way am I being self-deprecating when I say that was a disaster,” Long said. “It was just not the audience to be promoting a movie like that to. We were so out of place. It was just awkward. They’re all fired up to see guys pummeling each other, not to see three nerdy comedy guys do some bits. They played the trailer for this crowd and it just silenced them — and not in a good way.”

Long continued, saying the crowd in Los Angeles looked like they were ready to attack him and his fellow co-hosts.

“We were in Los Angeles at the Staples Center, and the only time we really had the audience on our side was when we were praising the Lakers. And before that I think the majority of them were contemplating throwing things at us. There were a few homophobic remarks. I don’t want to generalize it, I know some wrestling fans. But it’s just not the audience.”

-Today is the 33rd birthday of TNA star Jeff Hardy.

-Also to be greatly noted, it is former WWE diva Mick James birthday, Mickie is 31 today.

-Shawn and Rebecca filmed a total of three episodes with the show. The first episode was aired last August 3, 5 and 8. The second next episode will be air tomorrow night August 31 8:00 PM EST, till on September 2 12:00 AM EST and September 5 4:00 PM EST only at Sportsman Channel.The show also airs at Pursuit Channel. Tune in to the show tomorrow as they will announce the air dates for the third and final episode featuring Shawn and Rebecca or I will just send it to you the details Please pass. Thanks. Please visit westonandjodi.com for further details.

Airdates for the Sports Channel for the 2nd show featuring Shawn and his wife:
August 31 8:00 PM EST
September 2 12:00 AM EST
September 5 4:00 PM EST

Don’t miss tonight’s episode and the 3rd episode!

Exclusive first-look at the HardCORE Justice DVD cover, coming to major retailers and ShopTNA.com in November – includes the complete PPV event plus a ton of exclusive content and backstage footage!