TNA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Hardy can approach the main event of this year's Lockdown pay-per-view in one of two ways.

On one hand, it's familiar territory for Hardy. The champ will defend his title against Bully Ray, a man he's seen across the ring from him for more than a decade in a multitude of high-risk matches.

"It's really cool thinking about the TLC matches many years ago with the Dudley Boyz and the Hardy Boyz," Hardy told a media line-up on Thursday.

"We both have reinvented ourselves over the years, and it's just so exciting to be headlining such a huge pay-per-view, Lockdown ... and still be able to do what we do. Even watching all those TLC matches and now on our solo paths and doing so well. It's really something to be proud of, and I can't wait to see what happens."

On the other hand, Hardy is not the same man he was 10 years ago. The Charismatic Enigma enters TNA's steel cage today as the World Heavyweight Champion, but also as the father of a two-year-old girl.

NZPWI had the opportunity to speak to Bobby Roode this past Friday in the lead up to TNA Genesis, the company's first pay-per-view event of 2013.

Roode spent most of 2012 as the TNA World Heavyweight Champion, before losing the title to Austin Aries at Destination X.

The former champ will challenge both Aries and current TNA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Hardy in a three-way dance in the main event of Genesis.

TNA Genesis airs live on pay-per-view this Monday, January 14, from 2pm on SKY ARENA.

NZPWI's David Dunn spoke to Bobby Roode moments after the It Factor had finished taping Impact Wrestling on Friday afternoon.

Roode discussed holding the World Heavyweight Championship, not being named Impact Wrestler of the Year for 2012, custom championship belts, TNA's recent decision to hold only four live pay-per-view events per year, and more in this excusive interview.

Many members of the TNA roster dream of the day they can have their defining Bound For Glory moment. Christopher Daniels will remember 2012's event staring up at the lights following a Border Toss from Hernandez while Chavo Guerrero came crashing down on top of him with a frog splash to end the three-and-a-half month tag team title reign of he and Frankie Kazarian.

Without the titles to hold them together, it would be tempting for the former "world tag team champions of the world" to go their separate ways - as so many other teams do - but the Fallen Angel aspires to hold gold once more and return TNA's tag division to the all-time heights it knew when Beer Money or the Motor City Machine Guns were competing.

"When Frankie and I got together and decided to try and be a tag team I had no idea that we were going to get so successful so quickly," Daniels told a media line-up on Thursday, "but because we've been friends for the better half of 15 years I knew that we had a chemistry that would translate well in the ring.

"No matter what was going to happen we knew we were going to have fun, and now ... I think that we're not just the best tag team in TNA right now, we're the best tag team in the business ... right now and we're gonna prove it on Sunday [New Zealand's Monday] when we wrestle Chavo and Shawn [Hernandez] and get our belts back."