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WTF?…

Scott D’amore came across as a pretty liberal bloke to me, I’m not sure what to think.

In a weird way part of me hopes he actually was fired for the right reasons rather than TNA management being TNA. On the surface there was no-one better to run the company

23 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

Dolph Ziggler is headlining for your mob, you can pipe down Gazza.

Stop deadnaming him please.

Move aside lads, the proper stars are back.

11 minutes ago, David said:

Let's keep it on point lads, eh? 

Given the whole point of it is to slag off Tony Khan its probably the most on-topic thread on the whole site.

Trying to book Yuji Nagata in a North American ring without Sonny Oono or even a bloody disposable camera.

What a fucking rotter.

1 hour ago, Dr. Alan Grant said:

Boooo!

 

Yaaay!

I initially thought she’d be a good fit in AEW if she left TNA, but after last night I’ve changed my mind. Get her on Raw to throw Nia Jax into space where she can’t hurt anyone.

You could watch her on TNA like…

Over the past few days its incredible how many wrestling fans have proven themselves to be utterly incapable of taking anything serious when it involves wrestling.

The number of people joking about the subject or using it as a platform to gain leverage and amplify their deeply ingrained tribal viewpoints is quite depressing.

The wrestling bubble is a fucking appalling place sometimes.

30 minutes ago, Browser Brady said:

PR nightmare surely if there was collusion between WWE corporate staff to keep it under wraps ?

No one’s hands are clean in this though. Even if the company gives VKM the Chris Benoit treatment going forward, you can’t separate WWE and Vince Jr, the two are just so intrinsically linked.

He is one of the main reasons the company went down the cutthroat route in the early 80s and ended up in such a dominant position. A dominance that remains so great, solidly so, in the wrestling/entertainment sphere that the company is now able to coast along from year to year, delivering varying levels of quality, but consistently holding a licence to print money in terms of TV rights and other income streams.

They will try to throw the VKM grenade into a room and contain the problem but surely they can’t claim not to have been subject to 40 years of contamination? 

6 minutes ago, Loki said:

But yeah... not at all surprising, and as with Donald Trump this is all priced in with Vince McMahon.  This is America, he's too rich and too well-connected to actually face justice.  He'll pay some money, and it will all be buried.  Again.

"Yeah, shocking isn't it, really scummy company....hey, is The Rock coming back for Wrestlemania or what?!"

This will have to make it to the mainstream media to have any traction at all. The 'wrestling media' has proved itself to be woefully lacking in tacking any such issues.

Everything is way too tribal and woven into the on screen product and the quality of wrestling/wrestlers/product on show.

From now on booking a doctor’s appointment will be easy, easy, easy…

1 minute ago, Gus Mears said:

Some truth in that. The old phrase "the Church of England is the Conservative Party at prayer" is pithy but not wholly innacurate. More overall nonconformism than just Methodism when it comes to matching with class though, think from recollection Methodism was associated a lot of the time with striving lower middle classes (at least in Wales).

Yup. Also the fact that the mainly monoglot Welsh speaking congratation didn’t have a clue with the Church of England appointed clergy were banging on about, so Welsh language centred nonconformism became the majority religion. There are many more chapels than churches in Wales.

If Don West was at the pulpit they’d still be full…

56 minutes ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

I agree Chest, but spare a thought for poor old Gary can't even get half a shandy after his Welsh Baptist send offs.

Methodist usually!

Would be livened up by the Impact Zone cage dancers wouldn’t they?

On 1/18/2024 at 6:38 PM, Keith Houchen said:

Thursday 18th January, 2024;

We regret to announce that Nuneaton Borough FC will be withdrawing from this season's Southern Central Premier League. 

Despite the dedicated efforts of our sponsors and officials, the club faces insurmountable challenges in maintaining operations.

I’m of the age that Alan Shearer’s £15m move to Newcastle still sounds like an astronomical sum, so I’ve never got used to the idea that a bog standard player who may or may not be good enough for the Premier League is now subject to similar sized transfers.

But when you hear the relatively low amounts that semi-pro clubs are going to the wall over, its really infuriating.

I don’t really have any anecdotes to add as all the funerals I’ve attended have been your standard rural Welsh chapel affairs which don’t even include a pub bash after.

I’ve just wasted half an hour cackling away like a madman here.

Come to think of it, it seems amazingly behind the curve for TNA to revamp its own streaming service when the media rights industry is generally in a pattern of amalgamation.

It may explain why AEW hasn’t bothered yet and may well be holding out for an Amazon Prime deal?

Its much easier to justify paying for a streaming service that also contains films, TV shows etc than one (often costing just as much) catering for the back catalogue of one pro wrestling company (essentially a niche within a niche).

8 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

I thought Raw going to Amazon was a big deal, but Netflix is a better get for them.
 

Fair play to them, great deal. Though those of us who decided not to give any money to WWE will find it much harder now to avoid. Interesting times ahead.

Agreed, I know I’ll never watch the new stuff regardless of what platform its on.

That said, as a Netflix subscriber anyway, I don’t exactly hate the idea of being able to watch 1985 episodes of TNT or Wrestlemania 8 at a click of the remote…

5 minutes ago, TheScarlettChad said:

Good news for WWE. Who watches Live TV these days? As in Sky etc. Nobody. And if they have PPV, Its game over for wrestling on regular TV.

Anyone who likes football for starters. I hear that’s pretty popular…

I imagine substantially more people have Netflix than TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland, so good for WWE’s visibility I suppose.

Something a bit yucky about even more money being thrown at them though.

5 hours ago, Rule One said:

Whilst the promotion is on an uptick and wish it all the best, I think the new TNA titles are an absolute abomination, over styled and trying to be too busy which sounds like TNA at various points.

They've got to have spent at least £150,000 over the span of their operations on belts, much to a huge waste. They'll probably change them within 2/3 years at the rate they go.

I think they’re great tbh! Much better than the cheap looking ones they had before.

1 hour ago, LaGoosh said:

Would Okada bring new viewers to WWE? 

I realise what you're asking really is would he move the needle, and of course the answer is no.

But do I think more American based fans of Japanese wrestling watch AEW than WWE? I'd say probably yes. I'd hazard more would start watching WWE because of Okada, but clearly not in the required numbers to boost viewership to any tangible measure though as Japanese wrestling is already a niche of a niche.

I’d have loved them to have Randy Orton make his big return only to start referring him as a totally different name like nothing had happened.

On 1/18/2024 at 6:40 PM, waters44 said:

Might actually watch this now

 

Tony Sniff’s latest ploy to go head to head with TNA is Minder repeats. Impact is fucked.

I imagine he’s AEW bound, he strikes me as a new toy that TK wants. I have no doubt he’d be pushed there too, although I doubt he’d bring in a single new viewer that’s not already regularly watching AEW anyway.

It would be interesting to see if WWE would view him as a hotter commodity in the post-VKM model though. The previous regime would have placed a glass ceiling above his head right away.

I actually enjoyed this episode more than HTK, partially as they’re able to iron out some of the famous Impact live production snafus in post production. 

While I’d prefer a 6 sided ring I understand why they don’t use it, but the new colour scheme looks tremendous imo. Really good choice of an x-division style opener and not too much nonsense on the show either (mindful of a potential bigger audience to impress I’d imagine).

Decent shout to turn Kazarian heel given there’s an imbalance of babyfaces and heels atm and I can’t imagine a Kaz/Eric Young feud being shit by any means.

Nic Nemeth segments are gaining serious traction for TNA on Youtube so don’t expect him to go away anytime soon. He does come across as ‘big time’ in TNA world to be fair.

Will Ospreay v Alexander was tremendous, but it was always going to be wasn’t it?

Scott D’amore can be a bit cringe but fuck it, I got a kick out of his closing promo.

Just a reminder of why I keep sticking with this promotion. Its not the biggest, richest nor always one for the purists, but its usually fun.

It all depends what Nic Nemeth’s mindset is really. I was fully expecting him to sign with AEW and cruise along for another few years and collect paycheques Lanny Poffo style.

Ziggler always struck me as one of the ‘gratitude era’ posterboys, so taking the less straightforward TNA/New Japan route has the potential to be interesting.

He came across as a big star on both shows so who knows? If he’s hungry and has a chip on his shoulder he could do something here in a company which isn’t blessed with big name main event starpower.

He clearly has talent and a degree of notoriety (he has 2.7m Twitter followers while TNA has 700,000 for starters), so it could be good.

If he’s just looking for something to do for a few months before the WWE come calling again, then meh! 

2 hours ago, RedRooster said:

 I was pleasantly surprised by how good AJ Francis was here. Hopefully he ends up being another Steve Maclin, if he sticks around. 

I was expecting the worst beforehand but playing him off as a bit of a buffoon who has a high opinion of himself could work in TNA land which does like a bit of silliness.

Joe Hendry is great. He hosts his own interview series on TNA+ and their youtube channel which is always a good watch and seems like a decent bloke too. There are aspects of his act that scream WWE to me and could explode like Eli Drake in that kind of scenario/exposure.

On a different note, is there beef between AEW and TNA or what? I happened to watch Collision on ITV4 last night, which was the first AEW show I’ve seen since Wembley. The commentators were happy to mention Deonna Purrazzo’s background as AAA and ROH champions but not where she worked for 3 years. Her debut also followed a similar pattern. Seemed weird and awkward to me.
 

The new match graphics are tremendous.