Hulk Hogan Says Sting Refuses To Go To WWE

Hulk Hogan recently did an interview with FSM Magazine. When asked about Sting, he said he tried to get Vince McMahon to sign him after WrestleMania III. Here are some highlights:

“I have unbelievable respect for Sting – he doesn’t realize how good he really is. Sting should have already had his New York (WWE) run. I’ll tell you something; when I got red-hot after WrestleMania III, I was begging Vince to get Sting in the WWF so I could turn heel at some point. He had the blonde hair, he was 10 times more athletic than me, and I believed this guy could have the same run as Hulkamania, but take it 10 times bigger. I was telling Vince (McMahon), ‘Let me get this guy over’, because after beating Andre, if they’d brought Sting in and had him beat me, it would have made him this tall (gestures with his hand above his head). But Sting wouldn’t come; we tried and tried, but he just would not jump. Vince even talked to him last year, but still Sting wouldn’t go.

Austin Aries interview and TNA matches

-- Here are tonight's confirmed TNA iMPACT! matches:

* Matt Morgan vs. Joseph Park
* TNA Tag Team Title Match: Austin Aries and Bobby Roode © vs. Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez
* X-Division Title Match: Kenny King © vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Zema Ion
* #1 Contender's Match: Jeff Hardy vs. Magnus vs. Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle

-- Brandon Baxter recently interviewed Austin Aries prior to Impact Wrestling coming to Jonesboro, Arkansas on March 28th. Here are highlights and the video…

On Growing Up a Wrestling Fan: "I grew up a lifelong wrestling fan. I never really thought about doing it. Honestly, as a young kid I never would have thought about how to do that…I was in college and kind of deciding that wasn't the direction I wanted to be going when a very good childhood friend of mine called me up and told me he was training to be a wrestler…I drove there and checked it out and moved onto his couch two weeks later and never looked back."

On Influences: "I have a collection of things I like. I grew up watching a lot of Crocket and NWA so I think the Horsemen were people who were pretty influential on me as a kid. And I think someone like Bobby Heenan was such a big personality, so smart with his humor and witty in his timing and that's something I was drawn too."

The WrestleMania 29 Store, WWE/MSG/HOF Banner Photo, Y2J

-- WWE heads to Full Sail University in Florida tonight for the next set of NXT TV tapings. Chris Jericho is this month's main-roster star that will appear. Also advertised are "main roster divas".

-- Paul Jordan sent this one in: I was watching this week's WWE NXT and during a commercial for WrestleMania 29, they announced that not only will the event be available on Tablets through the WWE App but on Samsung Internet enabled TVs and Xbox Live as well.

-- We've obtained a photo of a banner that was placed outside Madison Square Garden this week, promoting the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony.