Stevie Ray Von Erich Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 TNA is a promotion built for comps. Some great scattered matches, moments, and stars made all the more impressive when you remove them from their disappointing context. They just lack the business sense to really capitalize on this. It's weird when a wrestling PROMOTION has no idea how to promote itself (outside of Britain and India). i don't think TNA will ever die. It's moribund visage will live forever making unfathomable mistakes until everything we know is swallowed by our bloating sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 I dunno, I think the vultures are circling at a very fast pace now. Too many fingers in not enough pie. Too many part-owners, not including the state of Tennessee, who are clawing for some sort of return on investment and are willing to take every sellable resource to get it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Dixie Carter might be the one person on earth whom the GOP could've made their nominee and be as awful, incompetent and tainted as the person who they did nominate. That's quite an acomplishment if you stop and think about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 There are times it seems TNA was some sort of spoof of a wrestling promotion that would show up as a gag on 30 Rock or something... At this point maybe Dixie can sell her own story to Lifetime for an original movie or be on Pawn stars or something. I mean she so desperately wants to be "Basic Cable Famous" James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 24 minutes ago, J.H. said: There times it seems TNA was some sort of spoof wrestling promotion that would show up as a gag on 30 Rock or something... At this point maybe Dixie can sell her own story to Lifetime for an original movie or be on Pawn stars or something. I mean she so desperately wants to be "Basic Cable Famous" James She may end up on Pawn Stars hocking everything she owns to pay off all the lawsuits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTTW Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 6 hours ago, Casey said: Their headquarters in Nashville? Thought it was rented. 2 hours ago, sabremike said: She may end up on Pawn Stars hocking everything she owns to pay off all the lawsuits. "Lady, I got a stack of title belts in the back. I'll give you fifty bucks." She'd make more money staring on xxxpawn.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerome Miller Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 When the state of Tennessee finally seizes TNA's assets, I wish I could sit in the warehouse as they're going through everything and trying to assess the value: Tennessee Tax Examiner #1: Who the fuck is So Cal Val? Tennessee Tax Examiner #2: I dunno, but so far I count at least 10,000 autographed photos of her in these crates. And there has to be at least 30,000 autographed photos of this 'Rockstar Spud' guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 I wonder how much the crates of Orbitz gum will fetch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Part of me thinks that somewhere in the warehouse is money that Dixie was supposed to use to pay wrestlers, staff, and everyone else basically put inside unbought Aces & Eights merchandise. Like how some people savings account is putting cash in a mattress. But it being Dixie she forgot she did it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muhammedboehm Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Could Tennese take the tape library then turn around and hold an auction or sale to make back the tax money that claim? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Have you ever tried to selling TNA DVD's on ebay? I would doubt that a state auction would be more successful 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimo Necro Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 The most TNA thing that could happen now is for them to promise "a game changing Monday night court battle" for it to fizzle out to an out of court settlement that no one watches. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 The last episode of Impact has to end with Scott Steiner driving a bulldozer into TNA headquarters. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 22 hours ago, DTTW said: So if TNA was rented production, besides merch, the master tapes, and the physical ring, what else do they own that the state could grab? I'm blanking. Production trucks? I doubt the state wants rights to something called TNA. They do own the rights to a few ring names. Like The Austin Starr, and Max and Jeremy Buck, Generation Me. So that's something at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 16 minutes ago, AxB said: They do own the rights to a few ring names. Like The Austin Starr, and Max and Jeremy Buck, Generation Me. So that's something at least God - I feel so dumb for forgetting that and now it makes the Matt Hardy tag team invite even more amusing to me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRR Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 2 hours ago, muhammedboehm said: Could Tennese take the tape library then turn around and hold an auction or sale to make back the tax money that claim? They've already sold "some" of the tape library to The Fight Network to get the money for the last tapings so they've already devalued it some even though it's TNA and the value isn't exactly there to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJ Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 If the state really wanted to they could step in front of any sale of the company. They could grab bank accounts. They could also send out notices to any company that might owe tna money (such as ppv revenue from a cable company) to direct funds to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 It seems like the inevitable end of this sordid tale is bankruptcy, isn't it? Then the court can sell off everything sellable to high bidder and split the money between the seemingly thousands of groups, people and governments with their hands out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 2 hours ago, Zartan said: They've already sold "some" of the tape library to The Fight Network to get the money for the last tapings so they've already devalued it some even though it's TNA and the value isn't exactly there to begin with. Depends on what she sold him. For all we know, she sold Fight Network matches from Jeff Hardy's first run, or some Phi Slamma Jamma matches. That would increase the value of what's left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Maybe she sold them Team Canada matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Or "The Best of Rellik." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zev Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 21 minutes ago, mattdangerously said: Or "The Best of Rellik." Spelled backwards it's fotsebeht. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 I feel like this ends the way ECW did. With Vince essentially buying them out of bankruptcy court for just the party of the debt. Debtors get some money, Vince gets the tapes, Dixie doesn't lose every cent she has, the talent gets screwed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 That's not how ECW ended though. Paul E intentionally delayed declaring bankruptcy to prevent the boys getting screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 On 10/14/2016 at 3:12 PM, TheVileOne said: Were they really getting paid five years ago? From all the horror stories I've heard, TNA has been pulling this late payment garbage for quite some time. I mean I clearly remember a story from Chris Daniels and Kazarian talking about how they were upset when they expressed their disappointment that TNA brass was sending $2,000 checks to charity but they still couldn't pay their own workers on time. 5 years ago they had house shows, TV being paid for by Spike, and the Carters hadn't cut Dixie off yet. Plus, they had been profitable not long before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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