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  • TJP On How He Got Chosen To Play Suicide In Impact Wrestling

    The Suicide character in Impact Wrestling has been portrayed by more than half a dozen wrestlers over the years. One of them is the former WWE star TJP. The former cruiserweight champion recently had an interview with Cageside Seats. Among other things, he explained how he got chosen to play the character.

    TJP first recalled the time the character made its debut in December 2007 portrayed by Frankie Kazarian. The high flying star remembered how Kazarian was reluctant about it and Christopher Daniels had joked that he should play the character instead:

    \”He [Frankie Kazarian] didn’t want to do it, he wasn’t having it. We all sat around the locker room and Christopher Daniels joked, ‘TJ should just be Suicide, he’s already in a mask,’ because I was Puma at the time.”

    How TJP Got To Be Suicide

    Perkins finally got the chance to play the character in May 2013. Explaining how he got the role, TJP revealed the officials originally wanted to bring it back for one night only. Since his Puma character was not being used at the time, the former 205 live star volunteered for the role:

    \”They were bringing it back for one night only as maybe nostalgia. I don’t think they knew who they wanted to portray it. I said, ‘If you don’t have any idea for this, I’d be happy to do it.’ At the time, I was tired of sitting at home. They said, ‘Good idea.’ One night turned into two, turned into three.\”

    The former Impact star continued to portray the character for a while before Suicide was revealed to be Perkins during an episode of Impact in June 30, 2013. His ring name was changed to Manik. TJP continued portraying the Manik character till he took his mask off in September 2015. Suicide has since made a few appearances on Impact and he even teamed with Manik in March 2020.

  • TJP Pulled From Slammiversary, Final Card For Tonight

    Impact Wrestling has announced a change to tonight\’s Slammiversary PPV. It\’s a change that opens up another potential mystery spot on the show. Impact has announced that TJP is off tonight\’s show but the match he was involved in will still go ahead as scheduled, just without him in it.

    \”TJP is unable to participate in tomorrow’s IMPACT Wrestling Pay-Per-View event, Slammiversary,\” Impact\’s update reads. \” The match-up will still go ahead as a four-way attraction.\”

    TJP was scheduled to team with Fallah Bah in the 4-way match for the Impact tag titles. The other teams were the champions Violent By Design, The Good Brothers Karl Anderson & Doc Gallows, and the team of Rich Swann & Willie Mack. Impact has not revealed if Fallah Bah will be getting a new partner. It\’s possible a mystery person could be slotted into the position.

    Updated Card For Slammiversary

    1. Impact World Championship
      No Disqualification
      Kenny Omega (c) vs Sami Callihan
    2. Knockouts Championship
      Deonna Purrazzo (c) vs A Mystery Opponent
    3. Impact Tag Team Championships
      Violent By Design (c) vs The Good Brothers vs Willie Mack & Rich Swann vs TJP & Fallah Bah
    4. Matt Cardona & ??? vs Brian Myers & Tenille Dashwood
    5. X-Division Championship
      Ultimate-X
      Josh Alexander (c) vs Rohit Raju vs Chris Bey vs Trey Miguel vs Ace Austin vs Petey Williams
    6. Moose vs Chris Sabin
    7. Eddie Edwards vs W. Morrissey
    8. Knockouts Tag Team Championships
      Fire N Flava (c) vs Rosemary & Havok (Kickoff show)

  • TJP Confirms Undergoing Surgery For Recent Injury

    Former WWE and current Impact Wrestling star TJP revealed on Instagram that he suffered a nose injury recently and underwent surgery to repair the damage.

    The high-flying star noted in a post that he had been performing with a fractured nose for a few weeks. According to him, he broke his nose about a month ago and had been wrestling with it being \’broken and kinda loose\’

    TJP had held off the surgery because of his packed schedule in the past month and finally went under the knife after completing the latest set of Impact tapings:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CPblbNnlWxz/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading

    The upcoming episode of Impact wrestling will see the former WWE cruiserweight champion competing in a historic 60-minute ironman match for the X Division title.

    TJP will challenge the current Impact X Division champion Josh Alexander in the bout that will start on Before The Impact and culminate on the broadcast of the show on Thursday.

    The former champion also has a scheduled match at the upcoming NJPW Strong show on Friday night where he will be facing Kevin Knight in a singles match.

    The exact time for his recovery is not known. However, considering that TJP waited for his schedule to free up, it doesn\’t seem likely that he will be off Impact programming for a significant amount of time, if at all.

  • TJP On What He Told Vince McMahon Before Leaving WWE

    TJP has been wrestling since he was 13 and his career of over two decades the high flying star has wrestled for many big promotions including Impact Wrestling, NJPW, ROH and more.

    Though the run that got him the most recognization is his time with WWE which started with winning the Cruiserweight Classic tournament in 2016 and lasted until February 2019.

    During his recent interview with ALL Real Wrestling Podcast, the former cruiserweight champion talked about his time in WWE and revealed what he told Vince McMahon before leaving the promotion:

    \”I was wanting to leave WWE. I had told them a year before that that it was my primary note. Well my primary note was that I felt like I was unhappy, but like, I wasn\’t contributing anymore.

    I didn\’t want to waste resources to Vince and to the company, and I told him, I said, \’Look, I\’m wasting your money. I don\’t want to waste your time, and I\’m not happy.\’ I\’m not the type of person that is complacent that way,\”

    During the interview, the cruiserweight star also revealed that he originally didn\’t plan to stay with WWE after the CWC tournament and he wanted to tour the world instead.

    Since leaving the promotion, TJP has made his return to Impact Wrestling and started wrestling for New Japan Pro Wrestling again as well.

  • NJPW Announces Super J-Cup 2020 Lineup

    New Japan Pro-Wrestling recently announced that they would be holding their Super J-Cup, a sporadically held junior heavyweight tournament, in the United States. This tournament will include both NJPW wrestlers who are unable to travel to Japan due to COVID-19 restrictions, and non-NJPW-affiliated wrestlers.

    This eight-man tournament will take place over a single day on December 12, 2020, and will be streamed live, with English commentary, on NJPW World. The first round matches are as follows. See the bracket structure in the featured image.

    • Clark Connors vs. Chris Bey [IMPACT Wrestling]
    • ACH vs. TJP
    • Rey Horus vs. Blake Christian [Game Changer Wrestling]
    • El Phantasmo vs. Lio Rush

  • TJP Reflects On Competing In NJPW\’s Super J-Cup Tournament

    TJP has opened up about how important New Japan Pro-Wrestling’s Super J-Cup tournament is to him, calling it his own “WrestleMania moment.” He also reflected on his time in NJPW\’s training dojo, and praised their resident “Ace”, Hiroshi Tanahashi, who he believes is the Babe Ruth of the promotion.

    “The Junior division is why I started wrestling in the first place. The J-Cup, that was my WrestleMania moment,” he confessed during an interview with WrestleZone. “I joke with people, but I’m being serious, I never had a Mania moment. Like when I went to WWE, I never cared when I would see ‘Oh, I’m not on the card this year.’ That was fine, I never cared about a Mania moment but I always thought, ‘Man! I’ll never get the J-Cup. There’s only been like five of them in history,’ so when that came up this year and they were like, ‘We’d like you to be part of it,’ it’s like, ‘Man, this does not come up every year.’”

    TJP explained how being in contention for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship has always been a goal of his. He juxtaposed it to WWE’s Intercontinental Championship, explaining how it’s the “[…] most important title for like ‘wrestlers’ wrestlers.’”

    TJP On Hiroshi Tanahashi

    TJP then spoke about Tanahashi, a man he clearly has a lot of respect for. He noted how, when he was training with the promotion as a young boy, Tanahashi was just ahead of him as a Young Lion. To him, Tanahashi is akin to John Cena and Babe Ruth.

    “He was the class right ahead of me when I was a young boy so he was a Young Lion graduating when I came in the dojo. It’s really cool now at this stage to be back a part of the organization,” TJP said, “and he’s been like their John Cena for so long. He’s been the Babe Ruth over there and arguably the greatest babyface of all time.”

    TJP competed during last year\’s Super J-Cup. He advanced through to the second round. He was eliminated by El Phantasmo.

    H/T to WrestleZone for the transcription.