Hold on...Hulk Hogan? Former WWE superstar to sign with TNA By Garth McLennan, Sports Editor professional wrestling breaks through into the mainstream. That is exactly what has happened a few days ago though, and even stranger, the news didn’t involved Vince McMahon’s WWE. One of the biggest wrestling stars of all time, and recent fodder for a host of gossip channels and magazines, Hulk Hogan has made the unexpected move to come out of retirement and sign with Total Non-stop Action (TNA) Wrestling. Since WCW was bought out be WWE back in 2001, TNA has been the only mainstream wrestling promotion in the world that can be considered even a blip on the radar in comparison to WWE. That isn’t saying much though when you consider that WWE has a virtual monopoly over the market. Since their beginnings in 2002, TNA has tried to carve out a niche for themselves by acquiring former WWE stars. They’ ve made little headway into denting the WWE machine, but by bringing in Hulk Hogan, arguably the most famous wrestler ever, along with almost equally well-known ‘70s and ‘80s NWA and WCW star Ric Flair and |: isn’t often that news from the world of former WCW head Eric Bischoff, TNA has at the very least made a strong statement that they want to be taken seriously. While signing Hogan will undoubtedly attract new attention and publicity, the question remains as to where he’ II fit in. After all, Hogan is 56 years old while Flair is 60. It hasn’t been revealed by TNA as of yet whether or not either one will take on an active wrestling role with the company or if they’ll simply be on-screen characters, but it’s safe to say that this is an unusual move for TNA, who over the past few months has parted ways with several other over-the- hill stars and has shifted the focus of their promotion to long-time TNA stalwart AJ. Styles. Even more perplexing is that while the very name Hulk Hogan is almost guaranteed to sell more tickets, Hogan hasn’t exactly been rolling in good publicity as of late. Over the last two years he’s seen his son sentenced to a nine-month jail sentence for a horrible car accident that left another young man in a coma, done a disastrous interview where he suggested that the accident was the other man’s fault, gone through a very messy and very public divorce from his wife Linda and had several back surgeries that prevented him from appearing at WWE’s Wrestlemania 25, the event where Hogan made his namesake. Whether or not Hogan turns out to be a boom or a bust for TNA is up in the air. However, for fans who have long since stopped watching wrestling but remember the days of “Hulkamania,” checking out TNA on Spike TV on Thursday nights might not be such a bad thing. List of Winners. A Midsummer’s Night Dream Shows: November 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20,21 @ 7:30pm, November 16 @ 12pm, November 21 @ 2pm Synopsis: ‘| A Midsummer Night’s Dream is considered the Bard’s most magical and romantic comedy. This rhyming romp balances the discontents of civilization with the enlightening and transformative power of imagination where two pair of Athenian lovers cross into the woodland fairy world. It’s a delightful fantasy revelling in, and revealing that, “the course of true love never did run smooth.” David Love Blood Relations Kim Brow A Midsummer Night’s Dream Blood Relations Shows: November 6,7, 10, 12, 13 14 @ 7:30pm, November 9 @ 12pm, November 14 @ 2pm Synopsis: The play is based on the trial of the infamous Lizzie Borden, accused of the murder of her father and stepmother in 1892. Her story has become folklore, a skipping song for children (with an exaggerated number of “whacks”). It has been retold and reinterpreted in dozens of versions, including a made for TV movie, an opera, a ballet, an A&E biography, a comic book account, and in a variety of websites embel- lished with family portraits and floor plans of the Borden house -- now a Bed and Breakfast, with a museum and a gift shop which offers a CD of the trial transcript, long and short-sleeved T-shirts, and axe key chains.