A brief video covering James Storm hanging out with farm animals and reflecting on his loss at Lockdown aired.

A clip of James Storm’s “I ran out of luck” promo aired…

Another video of James Storm on the farm with some haunting music aired. Storm talked about how he disappointed his family and he needed to clear his head. More footage aired of Storm working on the farm while he talked about what wrestling has done for him and he questioned whether or not continuing to wrestle was worth it.

Impact Wrestling has released the following news piece of “Longnecks & Rednecks” Video on CMT.COM

TNA IMPACT WRESTLING SUPERSTAR “COWBOY” JAMES STORM WANTS YOU TO SHOW THE LOVE ON CMT.COM FOR HIS DEBUT VIDEO “LONGNECKS AND REDNECKS”

TNA IMPACT WRESTLING superstar “Cowboy” James Storm launched his debut video and single for his theme song “Longnecks and Rednecks,” featuring platinum-selling duo Montgomery Gentry on CMT.com: http://www.cmt.com/videos/misc/765645/longnecks-rednecks.jhtml. The video will also begin airing Monday, May 7th on CMT’s 24/7 digital music channel, CMT Pure. It is up to the fans to get James on @followCMT. Each week, the most watched videos from CMT.com will make it on the CMT’s High 5 Countdown. IMPACT airs on SPIKE TV Thursday evenings from 9-11 ET.

Fans need to show their support for Storm’s video by clicking the link to the video to view, the Top 5 videos viewed for the week will be showcased on the High 5 Countdown on Monday’s on CMT. Fans can find the video on Montgomery Gentry’s artist page on CMT.com. The clip can also be found beginning May 4th on a mobile device at m.cmt.com or the free CMT Insider app available on iPhone, iPad and Android.

In addition to CMT platforms, “Longnecks and Rednecks” is currently being played at TCN (The Country Network), SpikeTV.com, AOL Music, Clear Channel, Y’all Wire.com; Wrestling Inc. and numerous other sites promoting music and professional wrestling.

“Cowboy” James Storm has recently been featured in Country Weekly, Billboard magazine, and numerous other outlets.

The song is performed by TNA’s Knockout Music Vice President Serg Salinas and is written by Salinas and Dale Oliver for Knockout Music Publishing. The music is one of the most popular entrance themes on the Spike TV top-rated show. The single is already receiving significant spins at country radio. The video is directed by TNA’s Bryan Edwards and featured multi-platinum superstars Montgomery Gentry, Cowboy Troy and Sean Patrick McGraw and co-writer/singer Serg Salinas. The single is available for purchase on shopTNA.com and on iTunes.

James Storm said he was sorry to everyone that he felt he let down at Lockdown for not living up to his promise of winning the TNA Title. Storm said he was trying to hurt Bobby Roode and he let his pride and ego get in his way. Storm said he thought he was satisfied with making paramedics attend to Roode.

He said once he got to the back he had a long think about whether or not this was something he wanted to do. Storm said he took a log drive home and when he tucked his daughter into bed he had to tell her why he didn’t have the world title in his hands.

Storm said Roode may have won the match, but Roode did not beat him. Storm looked in the camera, seething, saying he beat himself. Storm talked about wrestling injured and how hearing people chant his name was like his own piece of heaven. Storm said he could go on and on, but he wanted to apologize to his father who was looking down and he knew that despite it all, he was still proud of him.

Storm said something Roode said to him stuck with him. Maybe his luck had run out. The crowd was completely silent but booed when he said his luck was gone. Storm dropped the mic and walked away with his head hanging as the crowd chanted “Cowboy” repeatedly.

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James Storm made his entrance and received a good reaction for the hometown entrance. Bobby Roode had decent heat during his entrance. Roode took a slow walk around the ring and glared at fans at ringside. Storm left the cage and attacked Roode from behind. Storm roughed up Roode at ringside before the opening bell. Roode came back briefly, but Storm whipped Roode into the guardrail. Referee Earl Hebner followed both men around the ringside area. They brawled into the entrance area. Hebner pleaded with Storm to take the match inside the cage where referee Brian Hebner was waiting.

Storm tried to use a chair, but Roode avoided it and slammed Storm into the cage. Roode grabbed one of Storm’s beer bottles and took a swig. Storm bled at ringside after being run into the cage. Roode continued to attack Storm on the floor and then slammed him into the side of the cage. The cameras showed Montgomery Gentry and Storm’s wife at ringside. Roode threw a bloody Storm inside the cage. Roode entered the cage and the bell rang to start the match.

Bobby Roode vs. James Storm in a cage match for the TNA Title. Roode controlled the first couple of minutes. A small “Let’s go Cowboy” chant started, and Storm delivered his first offense of the match, but Roode quickly cut him off. Taz did a good job of putting over Storm’s cut and how it looked bleak for him as a result of the cut. Roode continued to dominate the match. He told Storm that he hated him, never needed him, and added that Storm is nothing without him. Storm fired back with a series of punches. Taz said the “wild and crazy redneck” was all over the champion. Storm ran Roode’s head into the cage and then Roode bled.

Storm hit a Codebreaker on Roode and went for a cover. He nodded his head along with the ref’s count, but Roode kicked out at the last moment. Roode backdropped Storm into the cage at 10:30. Roode tried to leave the cage, but Storm stopped him, only to be locked in a crossface moments later. Storm rolled toward the ropes. The ref counted for Roode to break the hold, which doesn’t make sense given that they stated earlier that the only way to win is by pinfall, submission, or escaping the cage. Both men ended up fighting while standing on the top rope. Roode got the better of the exchange and tried to exit, but Storm reached up to stop him. Roode kicked Storm off. Taz said that was it, but Storm recovered and grabbed Roode by the hair to stop him from leaving the cage. They went back to fighting on the top rope.

Storm and Roode to turns slamming heads into the cage. The crowd did the “Yay and boo” cheers for Storm and Roode respectively. Storm got the better of the exchange and knocked Roode down. Storm looked like he was about to leave the cage, but he stopped. There were some groans from the crowd. Tenay said Roode flipped off Storm from the mat, which is what caused Storm to remain in the ring. Storm jumped off the top and hit a Codebreaker on Roode on the way down. Storm set up for the Last Call, but Roode pulled the referee in front of him to take the kick instead.

A short time later, Roode could have escaped the cage, but he stopped and asked Earl Hebner to hand him one of the beer bottles. Roode smashed the bottle over Storm’s head. Roode went for the cover and Earl Hebner counted the pin, but Storm kicked out at the last second for a nice pop. Moments later, Storm hit the Last Call superkick out of nowhere. Storm struggled to get back to his feet. Roode stood up next to the cage door. Storm hit the Last Call superkick on Roode, which ended up knocking him into the door and out of the cage for the cheap win. The live crowd booed and groaned.

After the match, Storm looked dejected and a shot of his wife showed her displaying the same expression. Storm went over and took the title from Roode. Storm spat on Roode and tossed the title aside. Storm went into the crowd and hugged an older woman (presumably his mother) who was standing next to his wife.

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James Storm joined Busted Open recently, and you can check out some of the highlights from it below. Definitely some interesting topics were discussed.

On Lockdown Match vs. Bobby Roode: “It’s one of those—I don’t wanna say ‘make-or-break’ matches—but it’s definitely the biggest match of my career so far.

There’s a lot of pressure. To me, I think a wrestler’s dream is to headline a huge pay-per-view, be in the World Championship match in his hometown, and ultimately win it. And that’s what I have the opportunity to do in front of my friends and family and all the fans that came to see me when I used to wrestle in Tennessee and Georgia and Kentucky.

“I know a lot of them are going to come out for me. There’s a lot of pressure on me, but I’m going to handle it just like I do anything else. It’s time for me to step up or shut up, so come Lockdown this Sunday, I’m definitely going to be stepping up. Bobby does his job well. He’s arrogant, he’s playing the heel role to a T. And my job as the babyface is to get the crowd behind me, to get them to want me to kick his ass. And both of us do our jobs.”

On Relationship with Roode: There’s going to be some eyes swollen shut, that’s for sure in this match. The whole deal with him saying all that stuff about my two step-brothers and my dad on the TV…that actually kind of caught me off-guard. I didn’t know that he was going to say that stuff. He can call my family red-necks all he wants, he knows that really doesn’t bother me; I’m proud of who I am. But you go talking about my dad and my two step-brothers that were killed by a drunk driver, that are not here to defend themselves, that’s a different story and I’m going beat somebody’s ass for it. And I told him, I said ‘I don’t appreciate it, and when we get inside that cage, I’m going to show you.’”

On Storm and Roode’s TNA Legacy: “Me and Bobby, we’ve had the opportunity to go somewhere else, but we didn’t. We stayed with TNA because we believed in it. I’ve built a pretty good career here and a good legacy. This Sunday when I win the World Championship, I’m just going to add to it and make it that much better.”

How does it feel to be in the main event, yet the big names like Hogan still get pushed? “It definitely makes us proud—me, him AJ [Styles], even Kazarian, Christopher Daniels. I don’t want to say we look at them and say ‘we told you so.’ They bring in these other guys and they put them ahead of us just because they think they’ve got the name recognition and all this, but now I guess they’re learning that the fans don’t want to see them. They want to see guys like us who go out there and give it 110 percent who are not there just to collect a paycheck.

“It’s politics. That’s basically what it all comes down to. It’s good to have guys who still love the sport of wrestling, who are not there just to collect a paycheck, who want to go out and wrestle their next match like it’s their last match. And I think that’s what TNA needs to get to is the guys that are passionate about this, and they’ll start seeing ratings go up.

“To me, wrestling fans are not stupid. The company and the higher-ups can say what they want to say, but at the end of the day, wrestling fans know that they want to see wrestling. They don’t care about all these older guys going out and talking all this. It’s a wrestling show—let the guys go out and do what you hired them to do and that’s perform.”

On Kurt Angle: “Every time he’s on Lockdown, he pulls out a hell of a performance. That hamstring, you hurt it, it’s OK. But you try to push and it tears, you’re done for a long time. He knows his body, he knows when he’s able to go and what he’s able to do. Hopefully he’s cautious when he gets inside that ring, and doesn’t do something too stupid.”

Is it a necessity to have blood in a cage match? “No. I know me and Bobby’s match is bound to have blood cause there’s such intense feud and we’re not going to hold nothing back. I mean, if we get busted open the hard way, so be it. But I don’t think there’s a necessity to have blood in every cage match. You just got to go in there and you have to work smart.”

On how his relationship with Montgomery Gentry started: “Alcohol. We were hanging out at a bar, and someone was telling me, ‘Hey, that’s Montgomery Gentry over there.’ I listen to some of their music, so I went over there and they were more shocked than I was, like ‘Man, you’re Cowboy James Storm!’ We just stood there and drank beer and had a good time, down at Tootsies in Nashville.”

On Garett Bischoff: “I don’t think it’s really Garett’s fault. I travel with him on the road sometimes. I’ll get in the ring with him before a house show and we’ll wrestle around and me and him work on some different things he need to work on. I mean, he’s doing his best to get better because he knows that he was just kind of thrown in to the wolves.”

On AJ Styles: “Somebody brought something up to me that I thought would’ve been pretty interesting that said if I win the World Title this Sunday that it would be cool to have a match, me against AJ Styles, at Slammiversary because we’re the only two guys that have been here since Day One that are left on the roster. You give us twenty minutes out there to tell a story and wrestle, we’ll definitely tear it down. Especially AJ.

“He’s one of the best of the best; there’s no doubt about it. For the last ten, fifteen years, he delivers every time. There’s nobody in my mind that tells a story better in the ring than A. J. Styles. So for people trying to nit-pick him saying he can’t cut great promos, to me, he cut pretty good promos and that’s good enough. His wrestling abilities make up for the rest of it.

It seems our cowboy has been doing a LOT of publicity and media work for Lockdown. Unfortunately, I can’t post every single one of them. So here’s a few different ones that he’s done as of late, also including one that Montgomery Gentry talking about doing Storm’s recent music video.

Miami Herald: Storming home for TNA Lockdown in Nashville

Slam Sports: Is Lockdown title match make-or-break for Storm? Challenger says no

Billboard Magazine: Montgomery Gentry Gets in the Ring with TNA Wrestling

The V2 Journal: James Storm and Bobby Roode interviews

He answers the question “How does it feel having the hometown advantage and your thoughts on the steel cage tomorrow against Bobby Roode?”

We look back at last week when James Storm (joined by Montgomery Gentry) says he’s sick of Bobby Roode’s bulls**t, and then Montgomery Gentry say that after Storm kicks his ass at Lockdown, he hopes they leave the cage open so they can get some too.

We go to a video package of James Storm, voiced over by Bobby Roode talking about how Storm winning the title before him was a joke because he carried Storm to all those tag titles and made him who he is. He’s accomplished a lot since Roode kicked him to the curb six months ago, and there’s nothing Roode won’t do to keep the title, and he won’t hold back because he’s going to prove that he’s the World Champion for a reason. We then go to James Storm, who says it took ten years to build a company, four years to build a friendship, and one bottle to ruin it all. But in three days, the bulls**t stops. Seriously, this may be the best build to any match in TNA history.

It’s time for the final face to face confrontation between James Storm and Bobby Roode before Lockdown this Sunday. Storm says that for the last few weeks, they’ve done a lot of talking. He asks if he remembers the time they were on a fifteen hour plane ride to Japan and laughed because they never thought they’d be the World Champion. They’re four time TNA World Tag Team Champions, the longest reigning tag champions in the history of TNA, traveled all over the world, entertained millions of people, kicked a lot of butt, and drank a lot of beer. Crowd starts a “beer” chant, and Roode says he’s not going to pretend that Beer Money never existed. Beer Money was one of the greatest teams in the history of the business, and being part of it was one of the proudest moments in his career in life, but there’s another proud moment that they probably both remember, which was last year when they put their tag team aspirations aside and entered the Bound For Glory Series for a shot at the World Title. They both wound up in the final four and made it to the semifinals, but only Roode made it to the finals, and he went on to win the whole thing. That sent him to Bound For Glory where he challenged for the World Title while Storm sat in the back twiddling his thumbs and drinking his beer.

Storm says he remembers doing something: he was sitting their drinking beer and watching the monitor when Roode got beat. Storm asks if he remembers the next week when he beat the guy who beat Roode, in record time no less. Roode says he vaguely remembers it because Storm’s reign was so short that two weeks later, Roode not only beat him for the title, but became the It Factor of professional wrestling and the leader of the selfish generation. Storm says he’s glad he brought that up because it was the night Roode hit him in the head with a beer bottle and destroyed the legacy of Beer Money and their friendship.

Roode tells Storm to cut the bulls**t because they were never friends. They hated each other when they met, and the only reason they were so successful was because of their individual passions for the business. All the stuff about hanging out drinking beer is crap because they hated each other, and from day one, Storm has been jealous of him. Storm asks what he has to be jealous of, because where he comes from, family and friends mean something and you don’t sell them out for money like Roode did. Storm does this for the love of the sport, and he does it for all the fans, and his superkick leg is getting tired from the trip down memory lane, so no more history class because in three days, they step into the cage to kick the crap out of each other in Storm’s hometown of Nashville, in front of his friends and family. Roode says he doesn’t give a crap about Nashville, his hillbilly wife, or his redneck kids. Storm takes his jacket off and so does Roode, and Storm says Roode won’t need luck, he’ll need a damn miracle to walk out of that cage, and Roode says he’s heard Storm’s line a million times and he’s sick of it. He tells Storm to look at him, dammit, and in three days, Storm will be lucky to walk out of that cage, and says that Storm has no luck with his two dead brothers and his dead father. Storm and Roode go nose to nose, and we go off the air.

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Storm recently stopped into 102.5 The Game to talk about his upcoming match at Lockdown against Bobby Roode, he talks about being a local Tennessee boy, he talks about his past playing basketball, he talks about his beard, his inspiration to become a wrestler and so much more.

You can listen to the interview here.

James Storm recently sat down to share his 5 top favorite country songs with American Songwriter. Below are the 5 songs along with his reasoninings behind them.

Beer drinking, butt-kicking TNA IMPACT wrestling superstar “Cowboy” James Storm will head to Nashville this weekend for Lockdown, where he has his heart set on winning the heavyweight championship. Storm, who likes his music twangy and true, shared with us his top five favorite country songs.

1. “The Ride” by David Allan Coe

This is my favorite song of all time. It’s about paying your dues and working hard to get what you want. It’s the extra work you have to put in to make it. Plus all true country fans must have a Coe song on their fav list.

2. “How Bad Do You Want It” by Tim McGraw

Life on the road can be tough and to be a star you gotta put work into it. That’s what I do every day, give that little extra.

3. “My Town” by Montgomery Gentry

This is on my favorites list and always on the iPod. Out on the road it reminds me of home. Being born and raised here; Nashville is “My Town” and I love it. Every time I hear it I have to crack a cold one.

4. “Dixieland Delight” by Alabama

I always karaoke to this song with my buddies anytime I’m home … on a Tennessee Saturday night! This is a classic feel-good honky tonk song and every bar plays it for me.

5. “Kiss My Country Ass” by Blake Shelton

I’m as country as they come and if you don’t like it you can Kiss My Country Ass! It’s a perfect beer drinkin’ song.

You can view the entire blog, including videos to the songs so you can listen to them here.