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Does anyone else keep reading "Floslam" as "Flotsam?"

@Lawful Metal and @NickMDI'm not sure why people don't like Rick being broken and made humble. That's the whole point of his story arc from last season and even before that. He got way too cocky. You can see his hubris growing and this is what you get. There's a through-line here that goes all the way back to Terminus ("they're messing with the wrong people"). Rick's gang used to only kill other humans if they came looking for a fight. Contrast that with last season where Rick tells the leader of Hilltop "sure, we'll go kill Negan and his people for you, no problem." They literally went out to one of Negan's HQs and proactively slaughtered a bunch of people just on Gregory's word. Rick didn't evaluate the situation or even assess Negan's forces and ability; he just assumed The Ricktatorship could defeat all enemies. Rick being thoroughly broken here is the payoff to two seasons of growing arrogance.

Every time I hear Kyle O'Reilly's name, I think of how much money he's leaving on the table by not working a Star Wars gimmick as Kylo Reilly.

Do people know that there's a lot of old Georgia Championship Wrestling and Southeast Championship Wrestling from 1981 that only 2% of the people even on this board have watched just sitting there on youtube for free? (Dennis Condrey is awesome, by the way. In case anyone hadn't been paying attention).

if Billy Corgan is the one to finally kill TNA, then he is in fact the great savior. hell, it may be the highlight of his professional life.

Dixie, I don't love yooouuu.

My favorite part are all the INSIDERS~! humble bragging about how they already know what it is

The frogurt contains potassium benzoate anyways, which is not actually bad for you from what I can tell.

Johnny, let me introduce you to the internet. Internet, this is Johnny. Internet: THAT INTRODUCTION WAS BULLSHIT!!! THIS IS LITERALLY THE DEATH OF INTRODUCING THINGS TO PEOPLE!!!!!! EVERYTHING FROM MY CHILDHOOD IS RUINED NOW!!!!!

Exactly. Like any bureaucracy, the IRS would rather just settle things quickly than take it to court. Maybe TNA paid a fine, but that would be about it. I'm sure this kind of thing happens every day in many, many shady companies. Speaking of "how shady companies do things as regular business practices," Prichard went into, in his expression, how TNA treats its wrestlers like contractors. What he meant was twofold. One, wrestlers were treated as easily replaceable (you can always hire a new plumber). Two, wrestlers were treated the way some really shitty companies will with regard to accounts payable, holding off on paying a third party for work forever. I like to call it The Trump Method. The way TNA came across in the podcast, it sounded like all this awful shit is just common policies and procedures at Panda and Janice was running TNA like any other business the Carters owned. Did you all hear the one about the time nobody was paid at all? Wrestlers were pestering Prichard constantly and when he called accounting multiple times, they actually gave him check numbers and FedEx information. They swore checks had been sent and it must be a post office issue. Yes, a post office issue at every wrestler's post office. This went on, back and forth, for some time. Eventually, somehow, it was all settled and accounting did "re-send" the checks, according to them. The wrestlers all received FedEx envelopes. Inside each was another FedEx envelope with the original postmark and old check. So what TNA accounting had done was cut the checks in the first place, paid for the postage, then sat on them. What a bunch of horrible fucks. This company deserves to burn and the Carters deserve debtor's prison.

Woof - Keller is so deeply in the tank for FloSports it isn't funny

Is there any chance that this is about the Godfather turning back into Papa Shango? Because that would change my life.

Who knew Billy Corgan was that old?

Oh man - Vince is so going to take this out on Gabe

Probably safer kissing a moving train than playing chicken with the Mouse's lawyers.

When I go to their site and I can't even get info on what promotions will be featured or what matches or events are going to be available, and I see it costs twice what WWE Network costs, it's already a big fat no. I barely have time to watch Raw and SmackDown these days; I'm not going to go out of my way to pay even more to a newcomer that can't give me basics.

Well I am assuming (since we are only hearing the story now) that when the IRS came a calling, TNA immediately paid them and the IRS went on its merry way. They aren't going to prosecute them if they got their money.

Heres Ellsworth (going by Jimmy Dream) vs Rukus from a few months ago

Well, again, this is totally a Wade Keller agenda thing. To be all BIG NEWS~! and that it is all THIS COMPANY IS GONNA TRY TO RUN AGAINST THE WWE SORTA BUT HASN'T SIGNED ANY DEALS BUT IT IS THE GREATEST THING FOR THE WORKERS EVER!!! GIVE THEM YOUR $20 A MONTH!!!! is such a bullshit thing to do.

Yeah, so having read all of that text, Ellsworth signing feels like the big news of the day.

Had us a grand old time at the Army game this past Saturday. Not the result we were looking for (Army got whipped by North Texas) and the weather was sub-optimal (rainy and cold for most of the proceedings), but the pageantry is truly second to none up there. We'll definitely be back next year, hopefully under a clear sky and warmer temps. That's the USMA superintendent leading the Black Knights out on the loudest honking Harley we've ever heard. What a view! The Cadets were a non-stop force for football good, making noise the whole game.Two of them actually stole the UNT cheerleaders' flag for one of the biggest pops of the game.

They only have Xfinity in Hell, but at least it's something.

Chris Benoit has internet access whereever he is?

Funny, fucking unnecessary is what I call 70% of spots in PWG normally.

It was mentioned here in passing on the last page, but the last Prichard show is pretty good with regard to shady TNA stories. To elaborate a little better on the paycheck thing that was said here: Prichard was working for TNA and was having his paycheck garnished (in the simplest terms, it's the kind of thing that happens when you owe back taxes, aren't paying child support, things like that -- the government has the employer take money from your check and give it to them directly). This kind of thing shows up on the withholding on your paystub. It's right there. So after a long period of time where garnishments were being taken out of his check, the government comes knocking. Seems they weren't receiving the payments and he owed them like $10,000. He showed them the paystubs and the government went to TNA to get the money. Because they had not, in fact, sent it to them. The scumbags they are, they were garnishing his check and keeping the money. Holy fuck.

Dario Cueto got crooked cop Joey Ryan dig up some dirt on Vince and is going to show up as the new Raw GM to offer some Unique Opportunities.

That's good.

Wow.

I thought Rippa said no fetish stuff?

I don't know why, but this really got me.

Phil refused to post this anywhere, but our big theory (which is his fault too since he concurs with me) is that WWE put money into this thing as a potential feeler so that they won't be reliant on the MLB Network for the streaming of their network anymore and they're totally okay with this as having some content on the service will allow for it to grow and build up the infrastructure. This is all part of their plan and we won't have any awesome Vince hissy fits. It all feels too insane otherwise.

Vader must really know his way around a W-2.

If Billy is the one that gets Dixie the fuck away from the company then I just might buy one of his albums. If I'm feeling generous, maybe two.

Bad News Bayley calling people beer-belly sharecroppers, accusing Sasha and Charlotte of providing sexual favors for Mick Foley, and ghetto-blastin' fools would be amazing.

Let's, hypothetically, say that FloSlam announces later today/this week that they'll have stuff from companies like PWG, ROH, CMLL, New Japan, UK indies, etc. available OnDemand and you can stream their weekly/monthly shows live, and all you have to pay is $20 a month. That... sounds like a hell of a deal.

Completely unrelated to this FloSlam stuff, but James Ellsworth is likely getting a WWE contract apparently. Because his t-shirt has been selling like a motherfucker. If you sort their shirts on the Shop website by Best Sellers, he's currently #3 - behind Rollins and Owens, but ahead of people like Cena, Styles, Goldberg and Reigns.

One day I hope to be able to expand my existing verticals

Secrets & Lies has just enough murder mystery to justify me watching it while my girlfriend ogles Michael Ealy. Fuck that pretty, blue eyed mother fucker. This Is Us is so great and it crushes my soul with every episode. Why do I do this to myself?

Funny that as I was looking at your response, the ad at the top of the thread was from Progressive Why couldn't they have called this site LillySlam

Hulk shrunk after having multiple back surgeries.

I think we know how that ends:

I'd rather watch a test pattern. If it's Christmas, I'd watch the yule log first.

TNA General Thread: Come for the laughs, stay for a lesson. It's like "Fat Albert" without the rapist.

To quote Gorillla Monsoon "Give me a break." He came into the WWF, had his men knock Andre the Giant unconscious and cut his hair, stole back the $15,000 he rightfully lost at WrestleMania (and apparently never paid anyone else that slammed John Studd either), proceeded to hire King Kong Bundy to break Andre's sternum, set up a plot with Don Muraco to crush Hogan's ribs, stole and supposedly mistreated a dog and then tried to do it again with a bird, tried to sell one of his talents to slavery, hired a jobber to sneak attack Gorilla Monsoon, embarrassed one of the few champions he ever had by firing them on national television, and while insulting a wrestler's mother just sat idly by while his guy took the fall and got thrown out of the WWF. Yeah, he was just misunderstood. His feuds with Hogan were just him taking advantage of an opportunity. Not really sure where the sympathy was. Heenan finds a guy that hates Hogan as much as he does so he latches on. Like a parasite.

Rusev Roman Reigns is a dickface