TNA News & Notes: Unbreakable matches, Aries, Spike rumors, big plans

Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Friday, September 2, 2005 at 3:58 PM EST

A new "Bank Shot" column by Bill Banks has been added on TNA's website this week. Here are some news and notes:

- Sabu vs. Abyss has been added to the card for Unbreakable on September 11th.

- Austin Aries will also be returning to TNA at the Unbreakable PPV following his match with Christopher Daneils at Sacrifice last month.

- Several more matches will be announced for Unbreakable in the coming weeks.

- Banks shot down the rumors that made the rounds this week regarding Spike TV giving TNA a timetable to prove themselves. Banks added quote, "I saw a report this week saying TNA had “15 weeks to prove ourselves” come October. Seriously, I don’t know where they come up with stuff. Completely untrue. Period." We reported on this story on Sunday and from what we've been told, there is truth to it according to Spike officials.

- Dish Network will be running a special one-hour TNA Wrestling "Freeview" program going into the "Bound for Glory" PPV event in October.

- TNA stars Sonjay Dutt, Shark Boy and Simon Diamond will all travel to India on September 20 to begin a promotional tour for TNA in the country. TNA cameras will be on-hand to film all of the happenings when TNA stars visit.

- Some lengthy meetings are taking place with TNA management in regards to TNA's Impact debut on Spike TV this October 1st. Both Michael Vettor and Keith Mitchell have been doing some major planning for the debut, while David Sahadi and Kevin Sullivan are creative video packages, a new video open with new music, graphics and a lot more to make the TV debut more strong. Brand new lighting, lasers, pyrotechnics and other entertainment aspects are being installed in Soundstage 21 for the debut as well.