EN090 Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I bet Marcus Lemonis could turn TNA around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 You magnificent bastard, piranesi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victor Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Meltzer says Smackdown may be moving to Thursday, if this doesn't put the final nail into the Impact coffin, nothing does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood Cibernetico Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Is NXT moving as well? NXT, Impact, and Smackdown! all on the same night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 To save money House shows can be simulated online using the old WCW Pay per listen technology. You would pay $5.99 for a parking space at a local Sonic and put one of those drive in speakers on your car window while you eat and listen to Mike Tenay make some shit up while Russo live tweets about it via the drive through menu screen. "WE KNOW WHOSE TATER TOTS THOSE ARE, TAZ!" 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted August 7, 2014 Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 Observer mentioned that there was loads of panic at the TNA tapings because they'd been told for ages that "good news was coming" and most still believed Dixie's claims that they were still talking with Spike and some sort of deal was imminent. Obviously nothing of the sort happened. The SmackDown news only added to the problems. I feel bad for them, but come on: Who would trust anything management had to tell them after everythng that's happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Damn you guys, stop being so awesome and hilarious with all these posts! Don't have enough likes for them. RE: Meltzer's notes And here I thought UTA signing up as TNA's agent was going to be good for them in getting a new TV deal. But I guess they can't work miracles. I think TNA really could've used the agency a lot better in 05 or 06 though when it had so much potential after the Spike move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 "Spalding" is still a shoe company, right?? I'm so confused.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 "Spalding" is still a shoe company, right?? I'm so confused.... They're more known for balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Weak Machine Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Spaulding, get your foot off the boat! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRV Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 time to move to dubai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 "Spalding" is still a shoe company, right?? I'm so confused....They're more known for balls.Oh, ok. Still Russo, it would use less of your precious characters on Twitter to just say "balls". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Spaulding, get your foot off the boat! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I can see the end of TNA playing out exactly like Caddyshack Abyss walks out in front of the crowd at their last show "Hey, Everybody! We're all going to get laid!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Ahhhh, so that's why they keep Velvet around. I denounce myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I can see the end of TNA playing out exactly like Caddyshack Abyss walks out in front of the crowd at their last show "Hey, Everybody! We're all going to get laid!" Abyss doing the Oprah to a whole stadium of Impact Zone mutants is grandly hilarious to me! "YOU GET A KNOCKOUT! YOU GET A KNOCKOUT! YOU THERE ... YOU GET A KNOCKOUT!"You know what tempers this though? Russo dressed as Captain Spalding from "House of 1000 Corpses." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Hooray for Captain Spalding! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spontaneous Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Well they can't all be zingers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerjeRUN Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Observer mentioned that there was loads of panic at the TNA tapings because they'd been told for ages that "good news was coming" and most still believed Dixie's claims that they were still talking with Spike and some sort of deal was imminent. Obviously nothing of the sort happened. The SmackDown news only added to the problems. I feel bad for them, but come on: Who would trust anything management had to tell them after everythng that's happened? #ItHappens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Well they can't all be zingers Which is also an awesome "greatest hits" package by Primus. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn411 Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Meltzer and Mike Johnson reporting two different things, as usual. I guess after TNA dies, Mike Johnson will finally admit he was an employee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EN090 Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 What's Johnson saying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn411 Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 He said the morale was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 To be fair, even Meltzer contradicts himself constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted August 7, 2014 Author Share Posted August 7, 2014 Per Meltzer, TNA were really going to absurd lengths to keep people from finding out Russo was still on the booking team. Like, they'd fly him in for meeting with Matt Conway and Dave Lagana, but have to work hard to make sure no one ever saw him and word got out. I hope they gave him a disguise or something. Also, even once news of Johnson email got out, TNA still intended to lie and say all he was doing was giving the announcers advice (nothing in the email indicated he was involved in creative so they could claim to spike they hadn't lied to them about that.) But then Russo came out and said he was in a creative position. So that was that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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