In the main event, former TNA World Champion The War Machine Rhino collides with Madman Fulton. WWE commentator John Layfield charted James's transition from "a cornerstone of the Attitude Era one of its greatest stars and one of its architects", to "one of the prime creative forces behind WWE". James is a second generation wrestler his father Bob wrestled, as did his brothers Scott, Brad, and Steve. IMPACT Wrestling presents the return of Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling for the first time in years with an all-new one-hour special. James also twice competed for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship on pay-per-view. I could not believe how a promotion that is going to be toe-to-toe with the WWE had such a lackluster to show to close the books on Thursday nights and step into the Monday night squared circle. Additionally, James found success in singles competition, becoming a one-time Intercontinental Champion and a one-time Hardcore Champion.įollowing his 2001 departure from the WWF, James became the inaugural WWA World Heavyweight Champion before once again finding success as a tag team wrestler in TNA, where he was a two-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Tag Team Champion with Konnan and Ron Killings under the Freebird Rule as 3Live Kru. I watched TNA Impact this past Thursday night to prepare myself for The Still Real to us Show as we will preview the Monday Night Wars II to kick start this Monday night. Bobby Roode in a Triple Threat Elimination match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez for the TNA World Tag Team Championship. In the WWF/E, he achieved mainstream notoriety as half of The New Age Outlaws (who became part of D-Generation X): he and partner Billy Gunn won the WWF World Tag Team Championship five times, and later held the WWE Tag Team Championship once. On Sunday January 13th, 2013, TNA Wrestling will hold it's eighth Genesis pay-per-view event at the Impact Wrestling Zone in Orlando, Florida. James has held numerous championships in a career spanning more than three decades. James from 2002 to 2009, and has also made appearances for several other promotions such as Smoky Mountain Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, the United States Wrestling Association, the Catch Wrestling Association, and World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA). He is also known for his appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) as B.G. Impact Wrestling, the promotion owned by Leonard Asper’s Anthem Sports and Entertainment, has had a long, strange history across three sets of owners in 18 years.
James is best known for his initial tenure with World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) as The Roadie from 1994 to 1995 and as "Road Dogg" Jesse James from 1996 to 2001. Brian Girard James (born May 20, 1969) is a retired American professional wrestler and producer, currently signed to WWE.