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13 hours ago, Nick James said:

That's like someone taking over Jimmy Havoc's gimmick, what's the point? 

Mexico. That's reason enough.

15 minutes ago, Infinity Land said:

It's a Saturday. Collision will already be on 8-10pm EST. Does it really make any sort of difference?

BOTB events may not generate the traction AEW would like but its an attempt at a ‘special’ show regardless.

All well and good placing yourself as WWE’s competition and crying on Twitter about WWE stacking an NXT show running head to head, but consistently counter programming a smaller company’s PPV’s? For it to happen almost every time is not a coincidence.

The last BOTB was head to head with Bound for Glory. The one before that went head to head with Slammiversary.

So in the latest ‘the sky is blue’ development as TNA Hard to Kill is on Jan 13…

On 11/27/2023 at 1:04 PM, Hannibal Scorch said:

I actually think he could. And I didn't before, but I think with D Bryan on his last full time year, Ospreay joining in Feb and being "at home", better TV with ITV (who have been doing better recently with the extra PPV's and repeats on ITV1 and a decent build, I think there is a chance they will do as well, if not more. The prices may have to change a bit though.

Isn’t the set much bigger this time, meaning they can’t get more in?

For those of you playing at home, you can tick off the “its great to come back home to WWE” box.

They always have to get that one in somewhere.

TK isn’t topping last year’s attendance figure so he’s got to claim increased box office revenue in 2024.

3 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

We'll probably beat City next week.

Also, I'm a better player than Lo Celso and Gil. 

I wish I could be as happy as Big Ange seemed to be. I'd actually prefer to be dominated by a better team and lose fair and square than to somehow let that game slip in the manner that only Spurs seem to manage. 

I'm not entirely sure that the best way of capitalising on that TNA announcement was to essentially shut down for 2.5 months and lose any buzz you may have generated.

"We tried to sign Ospreay and Punk" doesn't really cut it when the world and their auntie knows you're up against a faceless billion dollar conglomerate and the spoiled son of a billionaire who's running his own real life e-fed.

Christ alive, Impact/TNA is flat as a pancake since BFG. They'll probably sign a cunt like Matt Riddle now and piss me off even more.

This is food for thought I think.

1 minute ago, SuperBacon said:

Maybe TNA will get Leandro Damiao 😆

Still holding out for Enzo Scifo tbh.

Impact feeding the usual “we nearly got them” that they did for Ospreay to pwinsider again….

Christ, its no wonder I’m a Spurs fan. Can’t wait to see the crowd go mild for a total nobody at Hard to Kill.

“The WWE conversations, as PWInsider.com reported late last night, began less than a week ago.  Until that point, Impact Wrestling had made a major money offer to Punk which we are told he was mulling over.  In speaking to Impact sources after Punk's WWE return, we are told that Punk was "amazing" in his dealings with top Impact execs, including Scott D'Amore and Lou D'Angeli, during discussions.  Impact sources felt they were very close to scoring Punk and at one point, hoped he would even be at Bound for Glory as part of the unveiling of the return of TNA, which did not happen.  The conversations between the two sides continued after that PPV.  In speaking to Impact sources, while the company had hoped Punk would come in there full-time, they realized the reality of the situation involving WWE and how much money could be made and were happy for Punk.  We also heard from several Impact talents overnight who said they were appreciative of the time and advice Punk had spent with them at several tapings in Chicago when he visited.”

Jeff Jarrett’s podcast would be much better if they didn’t spend half of every episode talking bollocks about shit American sports.

4 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

A truly mortifying sight it was, too. Toe-curlingly embarrassing.

Agreed. There’s hardly any crossover between your average Darts fan and Wrestling. He just looked like a plonker.

And if there is you can bet their references go no further than 1992. “Are the Bushwhackers still wrestling? I loved them.”

The comedy of Billy Corgan fucking up his big deal but WWE, which definitely doesn’t need it, raking in even more dosh. 
 

6 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

 

This is just utterly hilarious. I'd rather watch a whole season of this than Conte. We would have still lost but we'd have camped in our own box for 60 minutes.

Absolutely this.

I’d totally lost interest and couldn’t even watch Conte’s dross last season. If football is meant to be first and foremost entertainment, then he was failing miserably.

There’s an old bloke at my sweatbox of a gym that always complaints its ‘chilly’ and insists on switching all the fans off upon waltzing in.

If I ever go awol from here I’ll be in Walton Prison.

I tend to pick and choose what episodes of the Lapsed Fan I listen to, but generally I find most of them hilarious.

As novel an idea as it was, listening through hour upon hour of the Vince steroid trial series was something I couldn’t bare.

That said, I’ve started re-listening to their Summerslam 92 episode and excerpts from Bruce Hart and Diana’s books have been cracking me up, as well as British Bulldog’s “I’m fooked” references.

I can’t remember what episode it was but ‘Lapsed Vince’ trying to force a crippled Andre back to the ring in 1991 had me roaring with laughter in the car.

Oh… 

James Mitchell seeking that sweet AEW payday.

Should hold a sweepstake on how soon the NWA gets cancelled by CW.

59 minutes ago, Sphinx said:

Villa seem pretty content with him.

😂

Leon Slater rather!

1 minute ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

It makes sense. I know Joe Hendry did nearly all the work behind the scenes getting the tour done, based on what Bryan Myers said on his podcast. It looks fine, I just think you expect because it’s Impact to look better quality, but it’s asking a lot if your using a local crew. And back in those early 10’s tours Impact would bring over all their production crew which obviously eats into costs.

The ticket pages were showing ICW/North Wrestling/Wrestle Carnival as the promoters so I’m pretty certain they were bought shows with Impact bringing over a skeleton crew of 16 wrestlers D’amore and Gail Kim (16 or thereabouts) plus Ospreay for Newcastle.

I accept that without proper TV in this country and no tour for 8 years this was always going to be a feeling out process for both parties, but I’d have hoped that for 2024 they’d be looking at slightly bigger venues and a bit more welly behind them for next time.

Will Ospreay needs to stop giving me false hope btw..he’s not signing with Impact, will someone tell him that?

I’ve not seen much of Leon Bailey, is he as good as some are making out? I thought Alex Windsor looked good in her match at Turning Point tbh. Isn’t she Ospreay’s mrs?

8 minutes ago, Hannibal Scorch said:

Looks very similar to how ICW tape their shows. Wonder if they were involved 

ICW were the promoters I think.

The hard cam looked fine, I think the local director went way OTT with the use of ringside cams (I’m not a fan of them).

Impact are treading water now until January so I’m not entirely surprised they haven’t gone all out.

Turning Point from Newcastle looked better I thought.

I’ve always thought with wrestling crowds that 2,000 fans in an arena doesn’t look and sound incredibly different to having 20,000 fans, as long as you film and present it right.

That said, while 3,000 odd fans for a midweek show is fine on its own, its not the best look when they’re rattling in a 22,000 seater.

I don’t know if its a pride thing or whether they’re getting great deals on these big arenas, but pictures of empty seats circulating after every show isn’t the best look. As we saw with LolTNA (which was sometimes justified, sometimes not) mud sticks after a while and its incredibly difficult to shake it off.

Its unwise to allow this narrative to develop that “no one watches AEW”.

If AEW were booking 3,500 seaters and filling them then no one would say a thing.

If his opponent is Jimmy Corkhill then we might as well close this forum. It'll never be topped.

13 minutes ago, westlondonmist said:

The cards all looked pretty good, even with Shelly injured. I hope the tour was successful enough for them to come back, or feel like they could maybe do bigger venues. 

Its hard without proper TV and I wouldn’t really describe DAZN as a TV deal at all really.

Assuming they made a few bob out it there’s no reason not to hold a TV taping or two in the Uk every year or even every six months as long as they don’t get big ideas of filling arenas anytime soon.

There are decent 2-3,000 seaters they could realistically look at filling up well enough to look decent on TV though.

Leon Slater has signed with Impact now and Harley Hudson signed a developmental. Grado was on this tour and Subculture and Joe Hendry are Impact regulars, so clearly they’re trying to rebuild something.