DTTW

What happened?

Mick Foley's new assistant.

It's not so much I want TNA to die, I do, but it's more like, I want Dixie Carter away from wrestling FOREVER. I want Vince Russo to become a forgotten boogeyman of wrestling's past. I don't hate the wrestlers, and yeah the name is dumb, but it's the people who want to shovel this shit at me and tell me it's good, great, best thing in wrestling today, shilling at the top of their lungs that this isn't garbage....yeah that shit needs to fucking die.

Ya know, I think my favorite aspect of the Broken Mat thing is that I've learned he has completely gotten past Lita fucking him over. He's moved on and found a happy life. Good for him.

XPW is Texas Chainsaw Massacre, IWAMS is Deliverance.

If it dies and then comes back three days later should we start to panic?

Yeah! XPW was awesome...in a sleazy horror show in the wrong side of town kind of way.

Not even close. He got held accountable when shit got bad and got fired. Dixie has never been held accountable for her hurting of TNA.

I think that was a real turning point for them. As soon as it went back to 4 sides, they turned right back into nothing special or different territory and it just killed them.

This is from WCW Slam Masters. Can anyone ID the jobber Simmons is beating?

You know what I mean - anything they wanted they already grabbed. Anyone left is getting table scrap offers at best and no offer at all is more likely.(Abyss vs Kane WM mainevent!) Not like WWE couldn't afford to straight up violate any contract TNA had then lawyer them into bankruptcy over it if they wanted to. Considering some of the alleged garbage participants in the CWC (didn't watch it myself) and how it didn't exactly light the wrestling world on fire (and by god it should have) I'm doubtful the WWE cares and I'm sure it would be another table scrap offer to start if they are even interested. WWE has more talents then it knows what to do with. Wasn't the WCW roster 205 deep at it's peak? WWE is over 100 right?

In regards to WWE pickups....look I know the brand split screwed things up a bit, but why would they take anyone left at this point? The WWE has an insane talent roster, useage not with standing. They've already cherry picked the guys they wanted, and it's not like they'd offer anything close on pay scale for them (smart business really). If the fed hasn't called by now, it's probably not happening. Look at Jesse Neal. He went after the WWE gig when he was free and the WWE laughed at him til he was out the door. Not like Hardys got younger. Sure Matt's act is cool, but WWE isn't formatted for what he's doing. Way better fit in ROH.

This would be the perfect ending. It's after 4pm, can I sing "ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead" yet? Finally and forever?

Probably because millions and millions of people have heard it. More people probably know that song than his hit with the Gentrys. It's kinda like how I'm proud that half a million people a week used to look at my work, now it's probably 10,000 a day, so I'm not as underground cool anymore.

Holy fucking shit. At $4,000 a show, that's 500 shows he could have run....dear god. And he'd have at least recouped some money that way.

Blowing a lot of money is pretty much the opposite of success.

A-fucking-men. Notice how TNA actually started becoming interesting when Dixie was super busy trying to put out all the fires she started. Funny how that happened. Corgan is still a massive moron for giving them even a dime. Like Cornette said, you can buy all that shit TNA has for far less than TNA is trying to sell it for. Do we know how much Billy sunk in yet? I'd like to do the math and point out how many indy shows he could have run that could possibly make money and compare to the, what, 12 shows, he paid for. Christ, how can Billy be so dumb about this?

Will she go down as the dumbest person in wrestling? I can't think of anyone off hand who screwed up as much, as epicly, and as badly, all while never really gaining anything. It's truly remarkable.

I'm so confused about this whole hipster thing.

To be sorta fair, GLOOW is getting a revival...which will likely be nothing like what he proposed, but he was right about such products possibly finding a better audience in modern day. Multiple people in the tv industry have talked about failed and terrible ideas they had. Russo has done far worse things that actually happened so this ain't much really.

The short term gains did not out weigh the long term damage.

Wow so Vince Russo managed to fuck up three major wrestling promotions. Is that a record?

What's the definition of a money mark again? Did Corgan really just piss away all that money? It's so funny he left ROH to go to TNA and then this happens. WWE didn't want him because of some domestic issues and told him to try again in a year or so. I'm sure someone will want him if his schedule opens up.

So when do we get numbers for the bloodbath and do y'all think it will stick? I'm reminded of something Bobby said about how after looking at the real world wrestling looks dumb and I wonder if that will resonate with whatever audience would normally watch.

That's a great point Wyld Samurai. If they had a specific storyline reason to bring out a guy like Brock he probably would be a lot more valuable for them.