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TNA is giving up and moving back to Thursdays with a 3 hour block of programming.

TNA Returns To Thursdays May 13

New York, NY – Spike TV will launch the re-branded “TNA Thursdays,” featuring the “TNA iMPACT!” on Thursday, May 13 (9:00-11:00pm ET/PT).

“The fans have spoken and with their input we have determined the best timeslot to maximize the TNA audience is on Thursday nights where we are confident it will be among the most-watched shows with young men,” said Brian J. Diamond, senior vice president, sports and specials.

Regarding the move to the Thursday time slot, TNA President Dixie Carter added: “Our fans made it clear that they preferred the Thursday night time period. By moving to Thursdays,” this is a win/win opportunity for both TNA and the fans. We are looking forward to delivering what the fans are asking for!”

On Thursday, June 24, Spike TV will expand “TNA Thursdays” to three hours with the addition of “ReACTION.”

“ReACTION” is a one-hour docu-series that will focus on the stories and characters of TNA Wrestling and preview the upcoming action-packed episode of “TNA iMPACT!” in a new format. The new show will kick off “TNA Thursdays” at 8:00 pm ET/PT (beginning June 24), and serve as the lead-in to “iMPACT!”.

Thus puts an end to the new Monday Night War, er, Skirmish, er, minor taunting.

After this latest episode of WWE NXT, I’ve decided it is now my favorite wrestling show. It’s got a unique concept, I’m enjoying the matches, I actually care about the rookies, the WWE pros are being shown in an all new light, and this is the best Michale Cole has ever been.

I tried watching TNA Impact’s new Monday show. I’ll just say it’s a good thing I had it DVR’d. No, not because it was must see, but so I could fast forward through the crap and get to the good wrestling. Last Monday’s show last a whole 15 minutes for me.

If I’d have to rank the other shows on right now I’d put Ring of Honor on HDnet 2nd (You should be watching this!), Raw/Smackdown 3rd (tied, like them both), and Superstars 4th (only because I don’t see it that often).

Just letting everyone know I’m still here. Got caught up in some other things, and to be honest was feeling a little burned out. Oops probably shouldn’t say burned after the last post… anyway.

I’ve also been unhappy with the twitterverse lately. Many of the twitter posts I’ve been reading as off late have started to devolve into your run of the mill smarky chat room. It’s been all “the WWE can’t do anything right” and “TNA is the greatest thing since sliced spam”. In other words the smarks have taken over. BORING!

I’ve actually been enjoying watching wrestling again by staying off line.

Oh and for the record, Ring of Honor on HDnet is the best wrestling show on TV right now.

Big hello to all the Twitter followers who have joined me over the last few years. Back when I started @wrestlingfan there was very little wrestling news and information on Twitter. Now the Twitterverse is full of it.

This brings me to the point of the state of @wrestlingfan. I’m tired. I don’t know how many of you have noticed, but I haven’t posted here at Tumblr or posted directly to the Twitter feed in a while now. This doesn’t mean I don’t care about it anymore. In fact I would love to start a discussion about the appearance of Evan Borne, Jack Swagger, and Mark Henry on Raw last night. BUT I just don’t see the interaction from the Twitter feed like I use to.

If you are a long time follower you’ll remember me talking about dropping autofollow because of all the bots and spammers following. Even though I dropped autofollow, the bulk of the followers are still bots and spammers. It’s almost not worth it.

I said almost. There are a few of you following who get what Twitter is about, conversation. I really want to thank each and every one of you. You make operating @wrestlingfan worth while.

Now what am I leading to?

I’m dropping all of the news feeds. You can easily get TNA, ROH, UFC, and WWE directly from the source now on Twitter. You don’t need me to feed these headlines anymore.

Also, I’m sick of those people abusing Retweet. I can’t follow any @ conversations because of all the RT noise. Retweeting is a great thing on Twitter. It’s how news spreads. There is a limit though. You don’t RT everything from somebody. Basically you are stealing their Twitter post and call it your own. Not cool.

And that brings me to my final point.

When I started @wrestlingfan I wanted to share news with people, and then discuss it with them. Unfortunately, my fault mostly, @wrestlingfan devolved into a news bot just feeding headlines from multiple sources. In the end @wrestlingfan just became something like Google Reader. I hate that, and I’ve had enough of it.

So the auto posting of feeds have to go.

If the feeds I provided were the only reason you were following @wrestlingfan, just look around you’ll find a replacement. Feel free to unfollow @wrestlingfan. I won’t take it personally. In fact at the end of this post, I’ll post some other Twitters for you to follow for news.

For those of you who want to have a conversation about what we all love, wrestling. I look forward to chatting with you.

From now on everything posted to @wrestlingfan is from me, a fan. As it should be.

Okay even though it’s Tuesday, here’s an early #followfriday for you:

World Wrestling Entertainment

@WWE
@WWEUniverse
@HowardFinkel
@WWEJoeyStyles
@WWEShop

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

@TNAonline
@JeremyBorash

Ring of Honor

@ROHonHDNet

UFC, MMA

@HDNetFights
@UFC

Just a handful of wrestling fans, podcasts, and “news” sites

@dasharpshooters
@kickoutblog
@pulsewrestling
@sescoops
@WrestlingInc
@impactwrestling