The Natural Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 On 16 June 2017 at 9:50 PM, Hail Sabin said: Sadly Josh might demand a headset so he can wrestle and call his match at the same time. ...Shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 19, 2017 Author Share Posted June 19, 2017 Since we recently brought up TNA's partners inability to air things correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Al Snow appears to be done with the company as he and the company tweeted messages of thanks to each other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Actually - WON says Snow, Pat Kenny and Shane Helms were all let go as producers in a cost cutting move Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 2 hours ago, RIPPA said: Actually - WON says Snow, Pat Kenny and Shane Helms were all let go as producers in a cost cutting move It's amazing Simon Diamond had a job in wrestling this long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 24 minutes ago, Matt D said: It's amazing Simon Diamond had a job in wrestling this long. Keeping a job was one problem Simon didn't have. Mitch and the Muskateer were great as part of Simon's entourage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Dude had an amazing theme song, Dawn Marie, and a big, vascular, Dick. He was living the dream! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 On 19/06/2017 at 2:46 PM, RIPPA said: Since we recently brought up TNA's partners inability to air things correctly By 'failing to show correctly' what they mean is, they replayed the previous month's show instead of showing the new one. It was still bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 6 hours ago, Dewar said: Dude had an amazing theme song, Dawn Marie, and a big, vascular, Dick. He was living the dream! The band that did Simon's theme, Drain STH were awesome. It also didn't hurt they were four hot as hell Swedish chicks. I saw them open for Filter in 1999. I wonder what Mitch and the Muskateer are up to now. I want to hire them to follow me around all day to keep me entertained with their wacky antics. Yes, I still regularly do the Simon Diamond pose, in case anyone was wondering. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfrey Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Whoa, Drain STH and Filter in '99? Young Me would've been so stoked, yelling "He's T-1000's brother!" in the mosh pit over and over. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 8 hours ago, Godfrey said: Whoa, Drain STH and Filter in '99? Young Me would've been so stoked, yelling "He's T-1000's brother!" in the mosh pit over and over. At the Hammerstein no less, so it all ties together in a nice ECW bundle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 Follow up on the agent stuff from the newest WON Quote The company released agents Al Snow, Pat Kenney and Shane Helms this past week which is clearly budget-cutting. Kenney, 49, has been with the company since 2003. Snow, 53, started at the end of 2008. Helms, 42, started in 2015. They are going with Sonjay Dutt and Abyss as the agents since they can double as wrestlers. Dutt is tight with Jeff Jarrett and is in charge of finding the top unsigned talent and rebuilding the X division among other things. The fact they’ve had to start letting people go when they already have a skeleton crew to begin with, is not a good sign for right now and for Anthem’s ability to grow the company. As far as the choices went, Jarrett is going to want his people in, and Helms is also closely aligned with the Hardys, who aren’t there anymore. There is a ton of frustration with the reality that as long as they are on Pop TV, their numbers are pretty limited in what they can draw, but with the numbers they are getting and it being pro wrestling with its lack of appeal to advertisers, these numbers make it hard to get a bigger outlet. Citing what you used to do with Spike got them Pop, but in the TV world, Spike is so many years back now that it’s ancient history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEN! Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 I remember seeing a Tweet after the March tapings from Jarrett, I think, thanking all the crew members that worked them and there was a photo of the creative/agent guys and there were like 10 people in it. That seemed like too many guys for a company that's barely anything more than a weekly 2-hour television broadcast. I don't agree with letting Helms go just because he wasn't as ingrained in the old TNA regimes like Kenney/Snow were but Jarrett's gonna go with his boys. More disappointed that there's no chance for Helms/Lee vs. Everett/Tiger One now. Unless, maybe The Crash books it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Maybe once all the Broken stuff is straightened out, we'll get the Broken Hurrricane in WWE, along with Broken Bayley, which is an absolute must at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 Well Reby is tweeting again... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Iron Yuppie Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 On 6/14/2017 at 4:41 PM, Mike Zeidler said: On this date 12 years ago Samoa Joe signed his first contract with [the then] TNA His debut, not OTD This makes me so sad. That summer between the end of the Friday afternoons Fox Sports run, TNA started to get some momentum going. Joe came in and was awesome, Rhino came in and was really good, Raven's title reign was fun, then Christian and Sting show up just a few weeks apart. From Slammiversary 2005 until Bound For Glory II, TNA was infinitely better than WWE at the same time. I really thought it was on its way to becoming a substantial No. 2 promotion. Then Russo came back, it immediately went down the toilet. I didn't watch from spring 2007 until the build-up to Bound For Glory 2009, which had some decent stuff. There was even a stretch there that autumn that felt like the 2005-2006 run, with Joe-Daniels-AJ having awesome matches, Angle feuding with Nigel, and guys like Hernandez and Pope seemingly being built up as possible stars. Then came Hogan. Ugh, this company is so trash. Just one self-inflicted error after another. EDITED TO ADD: A lawyer might want to tell Reby she's badly damaging her family's case by getting Twitter. But then, I guess if we live in a world where the president tacitly admits to crimes during Twitter tantrums...shrug? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thibs Posted June 24, 2017 Share Posted June 24, 2017 On 6/22/2017 at 4:36 PM, RIPPA said: Well Reby is tweeting again... Not sure she wants to go down the road of bringing up arrest records. Wouldn't wanna remind people how they stuck with her husband after he got like 4 DUI's in 3 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 25, 2017 Author Share Posted June 25, 2017 Per WON Quote Impact Wrestling's Thomas Latimer, also known as Bram, was injured last night in a match in Rome, Italy. Nick "Magnus" Aldis, who was working on the show with Latimer, wrote that Latimer was badly injured, and was undergoing surgery. He said that he wouldn't go into specifics because he would let Latimer do so, but he said that the surgery went fine. "He was in good spirits, but shaken up as it was a nasty injury," Aldis said. Latimer was not in a major program with Impact and at least as of the last lineup we received, was not scheduled for the Slammiversary pay-per-view on July 2nd at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. Aldis said he was told that the surgery went fine, but that they were not very forthcoming with more information. Aldis noted that obviously Latimer would not be able to wrestle on a show in Plymouth, England today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 26, 2017 Author Share Posted June 26, 2017 Quote In an interesting political move, Impact Wrestling will have members of warring Mexican promotions in the same tag team title match. The company today announced for Sunday's Slammiversary pay-per-view from Orlando, that LAX would defend the Impact tag titles in a four-way match. One team announced today is Drago & El Hijo del Fantasma, who both work for AAA, the very heated rival promotion of The Crash, which Konnan, who heads the LAX group, is the booker of. Drago's name had been bandied about since Konnan brought it up on his podcast. At first, when Impact opened up a working relationship with AAA after already doing so with The Crash, a very unique political situation, the idea was that the talent from the two companies would never interact, but obviously that has changed. In Mexico, neither promotion allows its talent to appear on a show with anyone from the other promotion. In the U.K., there was a situation where AAA pulled a power play to force Pentagon Jr. off a show because that show was using rival talent. Another note is that Drago and Fantasma (who is King Cuerno in LU) are both under contract to Lucha Underground exclusively for U.S. television, meaning Lucha Underground for the first time is allowing its talent to appear for another wrestling promotion on television. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Wow, that's awfully interesting. So by allowing them I wonder what that would mean going forward. El Hijo wouldn't be too much an issue since he's King Cuerno in LU, but Drago being used is especially surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 $5 says no one bothered to check with AAA/LU to see if this was okay. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thibs Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Idk about LU but the press release has comments from Dorian Rolden, endorsing the move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 28, 2017 Author Share Posted June 28, 2017 In the least shocking news of news Impact/Anthem have officially bought Global Force Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 So Jeff sells his shares of TNA when it was worth something, uses that money to start a skeletal promotion with no real intentions of expanding , then sells it back to TNA and get a comfy executive job? Ain't he great. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 28, 2017 Author Share Posted June 28, 2017 this is updated logo (no I am not making this up) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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