Ricky Ortiz To TNA Wrestling Update, Hulk Hogan/TNA/UFC, More

— It’s been noted in recent weeks that TNA officials are searching high and low for new talent. While the company’s main focus remains in acquiring ‘big names’ from year’s gone by, they’re still very much interested in landing talent that have fallen under the radar as it were. One such name is former WWE performer Ricky Ortiz as we noted last week here on the website. According to Anthony DeBlasi — who has numerous sources within TNA — company officials are contemplating signing the former college athlete, who was released this past August by World Wrestling Entertainment. Should Ortiz return to national television, it will likely be under an all-new identity as he appeared on a World Wrestling Council show just one week past his release from WWE with a drastic change in appearance. Working as a heel against former TNA performer Shane Sewell, Ortiz had noticeably cut off his trademark ‘fro’ and switched his in-ring attire from baggy exercise pants to standard wrestling trunks. While Ortiz has not appeared on too many independent cards since his departure from WWE, he has not hung up the boots as he is accepting bookings through talent agent Bill Behrens.

— MMA Fanhouse is running a teaser for an interview they will run on January 4th with Hulk Hogan. Here is the teaser…“MMA is spanking the WWE as far as the pay-per-view stuff,” Hogan told FanHouse on Tuesday. “Dana White and the UFC has done an amazing job, and it’s all about timing. The UFC was ready to close its doors, they were losing a ton of money, they were going under, they were getting ready to go out of business, and then they did a reality show called, The Ultimate Fighter. They developed the characters; they made people care about the fighters; the people found out who the fighters were; they breathed life into the fighters. That’s what I want to do with TNA. They’ve got the best talent in the world down there, but no one is breathing life into the characters. I have learned a ton of stuff from MMA, watching them,” he said. “They remind me of TNA. Ton of talent, but no one has put that Frankenstein, shock the monster, breath some life into the characters. I learned a ton from MMA, and I get along great with Dana White — he’s awesome.”

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