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News on Alberto El Patron (Del Rio) Signing with Impact Wrestling; WWE Star Paige Backstage?

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The first taping of Impact Wrestling run by the new team led by Jeff Jarrett takes place tonight in Orlando. While we don’t plan on posting spoilers here on the site, there are some interesting names there, namely the former WWE Champion Alberto Del Rio, who uses the name Alberto El Patron now. A picture tells a thousands words of course and if you look at the top of this post you can see El Patron/Del Rio laughing with Jarrett about something.

It was reported by PWInsider on Thursday that Alberto El Patron has signed a full time deal to work for Impact Wrestling and is in line for a “monster push” as they called it.

The belief is that Impact Wrestling reached out to El Patron and were able to afford him because of the recent losses of big name talent like Matt & Jeff Hardy plus Drew Galloway in the last week.

In another note on El Patron, his girlfriend WWE superstar Paige, is also at the event and is backstage supporting her man. While it’s understandable that she would be there to support him, that may not be something that WWE likes. She is currently injured and still under WWE contract.

What was surprising about the whole thing is that Ed Nordholm of Anthem Entertainment, which is the company that owns Impact Wrestling, tweeted this photo on Thursday afternoon. The PWInsider report noted that El Patron was brought backstage “secretly” yet Nordholm tweeted that picture.

On another note, there is word that they are phasing the letters “TNA” out now, so that’s why I didn’t use that above. May take some time getting used to.

Tonight’s taping airs next week on Pop TV in the US. The episode that airs tonight was taped back in January.