By John McMullen
The Phanatic Magazine
Nashville's WTVF is reporting that suspended Tennessee Titans star Adam "Pacman" Jones has agreed to sign with the Total Nonstop Action pro wrestling group.
Jones was suspended for the entire 2007 season on April 10 by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for numerous run-ins with the law in just two NFL seasons, including some type of alleged involvement in a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club during the NBA's All-Star weekend in February. That incident left an employee of the club, ironically a former pro wrestler, paralyzed from the waist down.
Since entering the NFL, Jones has been questioned by police 10 times and has been arrested five times.
The TNA wrestling promotion is based in Nashville and is owned by Panda Energy but is a distant second in an industry ruled by World Wrestling Entertainment. The company is run by Dixie Carter and longtime pro wrestler Jeff Jarrett.
The Phanatic Magazine
Nashville's WTVF is reporting that suspended Tennessee Titans star Adam "Pacman" Jones has agreed to sign with the Total Nonstop Action pro wrestling group.
Jones was suspended for the entire 2007 season on April 10 by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for numerous run-ins with the law in just two NFL seasons, including some type of alleged involvement in a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club during the NBA's All-Star weekend in February. That incident left an employee of the club, ironically a former pro wrestler, paralyzed from the waist down.
Since entering the NFL, Jones has been questioned by police 10 times and has been arrested five times.
The TNA wrestling promotion is based in Nashville and is owned by Panda Energy but is a distant second in an industry ruled by World Wrestling Entertainment. The company is run by Dixie Carter and longtime pro wrestler Jeff Jarrett.
The signing of Jones is an effort to garner publicity for a fringe company in an industry already stained by implications of steroid and other drug use coming off the highly-publicized Chris Benoit murder-suicide case.
The deal will be officially announced on Tuesday.
"Pacman is talking with TNA at this time and we expect an announcement to be made in the next several days,'' Jones' attorney Worrick Robinson told The Tennessean. "It is not anticipated that he'll be wrestling, but discussions are taking place for him to have some role in their profession. But details have not be finalized.
"Pacman remains dedicated to returning to the Titans and any other interests are just that, interests.''
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