Buzz Lightyear

I need to see a long Xavier v Low Ki feud. Xavier reminded me a little of AJ.

Storm can produce much better than what he did during World Title match. Nothing clicked at all and Storm especially looked very clumsy. Would like to see him more agressive too. 

4 minutes ago, Gcf1997 said:

What's the actual point in Magnus going around with the GFW titles when they are completely worthless

I think they'll unify them at Slammiversary. I don't mind them on the show but after a while they'll need bin them (probably when new titles are done).

As for the viewership, slight increase from last week 320k. It's Pop so they'll never draw anything anywhere near the levels of 5+ years ago. 

Why is Magnus wearing a jumper? 

Cut a dreadful promo too. 

21 minutes ago, RIDDUM_N_STYLE said:

According to the tapings that went on during the 'live' show Crimson's return next week is in a tag team under a new ring name playing up on his military background 

 

Yeah he's the Soldies of War team they've been hyping the last few weeks.

Going by his Twitter feed, Crazy Steve is done with the company (which is a surprising move). 

Reminder that iMPACT starts showing on Spike in the UK tonight, 9pm.

Freeview 31, Sky 160, Virgin 154, Freesat 141. 

Show last night (to air tonight) is getting some solid reviews too. 

Another lawsuit settled, this time with Audience of One in which TNA (under Dixie Carter's ownership at the time) paid the first bill when they brought this company on board and then stopped paying, the company has now admitted they breached the terms of the contract. Anthem are to pay $336,502. 

They even played the stick with us we're sorting our TV deal out card which Carter always played when questions were asked about her. 

Worryingly on the press release Dixie Carter is still listed on the board. 

3 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

I've only been watching through YouTube highlights but give them credit for the fact that Impact visually looks a million times better. The lighting and setup look like a wrestling show in 2017 should and it's very nice in HD.

Unfortunately, most of the male workers have absolutely nothing about them. They could be Olympic divers.

Hoping that they'll be further improvement  to the arena at the next set of tapings, it still looks far too dark for me. 

Anyone a fan of Braxton Stutters work? Seen nothing so far as to why he got a job in the first place. 

Solid episode of iMPACT. 

Finally a decent Knockouts match too. 

6 hours ago, Psygnosis said:

Challenge was actually a pretty decent get, they are now under the Channel 5 umbrella with Spike UK and have catch up stuff on the My5 app. It was fucking awful in 2013, Sabin winning the title for god sake. Del Rio's win was overturned so Lashley is still champion. Yeah the Hardys winning the titles was in the works for months sure.

Quite a few actually, they did good crowds at a number of arenas whilst on Challenge. I don't see ROH packing 9,000 at Wembley Arena any time soon.

The good lead-ins certainly helped the ratings for the show on Challenge, be interesting to see what numbers they do on Spike (the best show gets around 200k) but it's a great deal for the company right now. 

As with the US, it's important they try and win some of the older fans back over. 

6 hours ago, Psygnosis said:

I've no time for ROH these days. Its basically TNA circa 2013 only more shittier. Taeler Hendrix and Lio Rush are the latest to go, Rush to Evolve, Taeler because she probably got tired of losing to Delirious' girlfriend. Plus they're losing talent more so than Impact as Adam Cole is off to NXT.

Impact is far more watchable and much better presented. They have the India tapings in May which should be a breath of fresh air. Only thing is they need a hot crowd and they're away again but I understand if the IZ is a crutch and they've got it good there because the last time they left was the beginning of the mess to come.

IZ won't change until they sort out the tapings schedule. Taping 4/5 shows over a weekend slows the product development down and kills the crowd.

Is there any point in changing whilst your PopTV though?

5 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

I hope he's still around when WWE latch on to this 4K malarky.

They've already started it. 

Going back to iMPACT, the next set of tapings are next week (they really need to push to reduce the gap between them) so be interesting to hear of any new arrivals/departures/returns in the coming week or two. 

It's a big set of tapings for the company (now Anthem know what it's all about), they need to raise the quality in the ring. 

4 hours ago, Jon-Carr_92 said:

Was gutted she got dropped by TNA. They didn't know what to do with any of their Gut Check people aside from send them to OVW as opposed to back to Team 3D's Academy where most of them came from. She'd been working hard to get on Impact. But I do hope they get her in for that.

Yeah she'd be a great pickup for a division which either needs big investment or doing away with all together. I've not had chance to watch this weeks show yet, but heard the Knockouts once again was a complete disaster. 

Speaking of the Team 3D Academy, I noticed Velvet Sky (who has done nothing before or after TNA) moaning about the company the other night ("Fuck that Owl" blah blah). Amazingly she's a teacher at the Team 3D academy, and they are charging $ to be "tought" by her! Incredible. 

1 hour ago, WyattSheepMask said:

It is a great listen, even if there is only little bits of info here and there that I hadn't heard before. That's not a knock on the podcast, but it's a subject that's been covered in such detail so many times, I think anyone would struggle to provide truly fresh light on it. But it's well put together and flies by, I was doing a night shift while listening to it.

Wrestling With Shadows is the final part of the trilogy of shows for that part, then they're onto finishing the regular timeline. Hopefully they carry on in some form as its the most consistent of the fan Podcast's out there

Agreed. 

Although I said that with the Attitude Era podcast and for me the level of quality has dropped since they finished the main timeline. (But that could be down to the guys getting together less)

I thought they did a great job, considering how much the subject has already been covered. 

On 4/5/2017 at 0:12 PM, WyattSheepMask said:

New Generation Podcast's Survivor Series 1997-Part 2 is up now, covering the whole Bret Hart v Shawn Michaels feud and everything else to do with The Montreal Screwjob. It's a biggie at 3hrs50minutes, buts what the entire podcast has been leading to

It's a fantastic listen, I personally thought they did a great job with part 3 still to come. 

Speaking of the podcast, i'm a new listener to them but decided to go back and started from episode 1 and watch the PPV before. Great work from all three. 

On 4/5/2017 at 11:41 PM, PunkStep said:

I give up trying to work this company out. I thought they'd completely changed to Impact Wrestling at long last.

Yeah for some reason the video library is still carrying with the TNA name. 

Sure that's a FIGHT NETWORK driven project too. 

Sounds like Sandow has gone from the company. 

Viewership down to 305k from last weeks 344k. Still above previous week though. Hopefully a bounce back next week.

Agree on Garza Jr, he's ace.

The way TNA book Lashley is nothing short of brilliant, the sit down interview this week was quality, he really is an athletic freak.

 

That little bald one in Reno Scum is awful.

 

Karen Jarrett you absolute minx

The Lashley interview was excellent.

Not sure on Reno Scum myself but dig the theme and think the oi stuff could really get over.

The ODB/Rebel match was truly dreadful, from the entrances to the slow, sloppy, crap in the ring. The Division isn't worth the TV time

JR is still going ahead with his one man shows and other signing events this coming week in Orlando.

Dude needs to take some time off. Wouldn't surprise me to see that he has a new podcast air this week too.

A lot of stress for a man with Bells Palsy

Seriously what's your game with JR?

Last nights show gathering decent feedback, a lot of new faces on the show. 

The negatives have been the Knockouts division yet again though, other than the one decent month when they had Kong/Kim/Tara etc has there ever been anything worth while with that division? ODB for example is just dreadul to watch, brings nothing. 

They really should just stick with the three original titles, X-Division, Tag and World. The rest isn't needed or has proven to be a waste of time. 

AAA deal has been announced. 

Talent exchange is mentioned. 

Update from JR on his wife. Doesn't sound good, hope she pulls through. 

https://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/status/844566399133667328

Interesting that the official iMPACT twitter account has just started following the ITV WOS twitter account, announcement of deal soon? 

They've also just started following Lucha Underground too. Interesting timing with the AAA agreement the other day.