sources: Wrestling Observer Newsletter, www.f4wonline.com
Samoa Joe was offered a three-year contract extension from TNA but didn’t sign it.
Manuel González of the Puerto Rican based wrestling website PRWNEWS is reporting that former TNA star Apollo (real name Germán Figueroa), was arrested on 6/22 with domestic charges after having a altercation with his wife Veronica Pollera Tranchetti, who is known in wrestling as Habana. Figueroa twisted one of her arms and squeezed her neck while traveling in a car at a rural route in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. She went to a nearby police station, and Apollo was arrested. The prosecutor in the case said that Veronica had bruises in her neck. He was let go after paying $8,000 bail. He will go before a judge on 7/11.
Figueroa has been in news quite a bit as of late. Figueroa was also arrested on 5/22 for missing a child support payment, but was released eight days later 5/30 after part of the alimony money was lent by World Wrestling Council. During a match on 6/3, a kick to the throat from Figueroa severely injured Scott Steiner’s trachea. Steiner confronted respiratory problems and he was hospitalized with serious, nearly life-threatening injuries. He underwent surgery on his trachea and was in the hospital for about as long as Paris Hilton was in jail in California, which was about three weeks. After his hospital release, he was forced to take a boat back to the mainland since they wouldn’t allow him to fly. At last word, he won’t be able to return for probably close to a year.
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