Psygnosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rnYZd6GvKI

So don't pirate PCW's DVDs, folks!

@NXTOliverGrey

@MojoRawleyWWE @SlateRandalWWE to add to this mojo is a great guy but his talents are not even close to Randal's...such a shame

 

@NXTOliverGrey

The reason the business is failing..@MojoRawleyWWE is still employed whilst @SlateRandalWWE is released...

 

Ouch.

Nice to see I'm not the only one who quietly thinks Viacom/Spike are trying to get rid of the Carters and buy TNA at a bargain price, there is some international appeal there and decent ratings recently.

http://pwinsider.com/article/87204/its-not-just-tna-denying-tmzs-story-updated-156-pm.html?p=1

Viacom also confirm they are still talking and in negotiation with TNA.

Add Rampage Brown to the list of auditionees.

Or you could have AJ win the belt at Battleground but have Paige beat her up after the match, then steal the belt and go NWO on everybody and spray paint the word 'ANTI' on the belt and carry it around everywhere she goes, debuting that NXT 'Anti-Diva' persona if you will and then have another match at Summerslam where AJ regains possession of the belt.

What is the anti-diva gimmick exactly?

 

SHES NOT YOUR TYPICAL DIVA! Which incidentally, AJ isn't either. So that's unique

This, plus I'd imagine its why she has a gothic look too.

Very happy that Paige is now presumably going to turn heel, I also question why put the belt on AJ straight away (unless its to keep the numbers up), could of made a decent feud out of it i.e Paige gets DQ'd at Battleground by beating the crap out of AJ fully cementing her heel turn leading to another match at Summerslam where AJ regains the belt. Or you could have AJ win the belt at Battleground but have Paige beat her up after the match, then steal the belt and go NWO on everybody and spray paint the word 'ANTI' on the belt and carry it around everywhere she goes, debuting that NXT 'Anti-Diva' persona if you will and then have another match at Summerslam where AJ regains possession of the belt. The whole slow/patient build up thing annoys me at times.

Just an idea or two, but I hope we get to see the full vicious and nasty streak to Paige which is there never see AJ sell for anyone so good either in the ring! could be a brilliant feud this.

So the official paid attendance here was 74, yup 74, two digits, seven-four.

Its a BNB joke I think.

TNA crowd from Aberdeen MD at the top, PWS crowd from the same weekend at the bottom

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpvFHdACYAAMGKz.jpg

By the way, If ever a pic could become an internet meme, this is it.

Having heard the Jericho podcast, I've gone right off AJ to the point I hope he doesn't get booked again (unless its a worked angle with Lionheart) and whilst I'm hardly TNA's biggest fan I feel there is more to the story to his departure if he is that much of a dick about it where he wasn't even blamed for the accident, and to a lesser extent I hope somebody pulls Jericho up on it at his Q&A show in London which is coming soon. Still I look at some of the success British wrestlers have i.e Britani Knight/Paige, BNB and Pac/Adrian Neville and others experienced and feel UK wrestling is in good hands.

On-topic will be attending a PCW show soon, I'm only 1hr 20mins away, can't wait (can't attend the Tribute to the Troops though sadly)

Much more pics of that event at the baseball ground on page 298 of this thread, I just feel for the talent really.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpqESY_CMAAKRlM.jpg - This one too.

This just paints a very sad picture, from a show at a minor league baseball stadium yesterday.

http://111.imagebam.com/download/qU6KZG5fZ.../TNAMDCrowd.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpgBvctIIAAfstf.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BpflfQ8IUAEET2d.jpg:large

I feel very sorry for the talent, this must be very demoralising.

Even Alvarez has given up...

"Fare thee well for the time being, Impact

by Bryan Alvarez

I was thinking about this, and I don't believe that in the 19 years I've been writing this newsletter I have ever boycotted a television program because it sucked so goddamned bad. That changed this week.

 

After all these years, TNA Impact finally broke me. The show on Thursday night was up there with the worst pro-wrestling programs I've ever seen in my life. It might have been the worst. Maybe, top-to-bottom, objectively there has a worse show historically. But no show ever caused me to command a one-month (at the moment) boycott before, so I think the evidence is in that this was the worst pro-wrestling show I've ever seen.

 

I don't care if this is "my job," or if people want me to watch it and suffer through it so that they don't have to. I don't care. At the end of the day, while it is my job, it's also my company, so I can make my own decisions, and my decision is that I am not watching Impact for at least one full month.

 

I had considered watching the PPV next Sunday since a PPV is more important than television, but come on now. No one is buying this PPV, and the idea that I'm going to have to pay $34.95 for it is reason enough to skip it. I'll be 39 years old when that show airs. I don't need this in my life. There is plenty of actual pro-wrestling to watch.

The more I think about it, the less guilty I feel about not watching this product. Even if one were to argue that this is "my job," technically my job is to watch all the major pro-wrestling shows on US television, and you know what? At this point it is tough for me to classify Impact as a pro-wrestling television show. I don't know what the hell it even is. It's a variety show that features people fighting, only part of which actually takes place in a pro-wrestling ring, and none of which anyone could possibly care about because the majority of the characters are so completely unlikeable, and the **** they do makes no sense.

 

I read an article on why it's tough for the people writing Impact. It was written by Vince Russo. Yeah. So, as one would expect, it was filled with 9 million bull**** excuses. I liked the one about how the building at Universal Studios is not a good building for wrestling because so many tourists show up. I was unaware that pro-wrestling fans were restricted from attending. That's like saying the crowd at Full Sail University for NXT sucks because only college kids go. Except it appears plenty of wrestling fans manage to attend at Full Sail, plus the NXT crowds almost never suck. It is ironic, because Russo claimed that the crowd sucked because sometimes Impact had to tape one and a half shows per taping. Last time I checked NXT taped four shows per taping. They seem to be doing all right. Come to think of it, they're doing great.

Russo claimed it was tough because you had to balance everything out to make sure people weren't involved in too many segments on a particular show. I nearly pissed my pants reading that. I saw EIGHT STRAIGHT SEGMENTS involving talking on Thursday night. EIGHT. You can read Vinny's review, but I think I saw MVP in at least five different segments on one show. Maybe ten. I lost track.

 

Russo had his usual litany of excuses. At the end of the day, it all boils down to this: the show sucks. Everything about it sucks, with the exception of some talented people who actually try to have good matches. There is zero understanding of what pro-wrestling is or why people—live or on television—would want to watch the show. They have no idea how to build interest in any of the matches or feuds, they have no idea how to pace a show, they have no idea how to make characters likeable or dislikeable. Russo ranted about fact vs. opinion. This is not opinion. This is fact. The quarter-hour ratings plunging throughout the show is an embarrassment. The buyrates are an embarrassment even compared to THEIR OWN BUYRATES several years ago, and they are ONE-TENTH what they were getting during their peak (60,000 for two Joe vs. Angle matches). Their house show attendance is an embarrassment. This is not fact vs. opinion. What they're presenting is not what people want to see. And don't even get me into the MVP vs. Dixie Carter storyline. I'm pretty sure this is the only storyline I've ever seen in my entire life where there is no way more than one single solitary person (Dixie Carter) could possible care about it. To think this worst Impact ever went off the air with the tease that the Dixie vs. MVP war was going to escalate. Who gives a ****? As a viewer, I hate them both. Two heel factions, two completely unlikeable groups of people, WHO LARGELY DO NOTHING BUT TALK TO EACH OTHER INCESSANTLY ABOUT **** NOBODY CARES ABOUT, are going to war, and I'm supposed to care. LOL.

 

I have better things to do. You should too. It's summertime. Enjoy the cool Thursday night air. Read a good book. Chat with your loved ones, enjoy a light meal. But don't watch this show. "

Brilliant promo from Luna and Goldust in his TAFKA days from late 1997, scum sucking~!

Ah I was right initially...without even knowing it. Christ thats bad.

Spoilers here, May 1st and May 8th.

http://wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2014/0429/...tapings-for-58/

SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read

SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVneEZfPwA

A spectacular and tremendously craptastic episode of Baywatch, starring Hogan, Savage, Vader, Flair and Kevin Sullivan from 1995.

Brilliant.

-edit- see Shoot Interview thread, my bad.

The Ultimate Warrior died from a massive heart attack, according to the medical examiner who conducted his autopsy last week.

Officials told TMZ that the cause of death was determined to be "Atherosclerotic/Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease" or heart disease.

 

The medical examiner classified Warrior's death as natural, meaning neither drugs nor alcohol were directly involved.

 

--TMZ

Unrelated but my band (a hobby really, more part time jam band) played Warrior's theme song today, its just brilliant and really fun to play for any guitarists/bassists out there, huge credit to Jim Johnston.

Meh its gone back to LOLTNA again after the UK shows, ah well I tried.

Were all gonna be ok guys. Nancy Grace is gonna get to the bottom of this!

 

 

The ammount of inaccuracies could make for a fun drinking game. Fuck me, the state of this.

You should of seen her coverage when the Benoit tragedy happened, it pales in comparison to that, she had Alvarez and everything as her 'wrestling expert'.

Unbelievable, no words to add really, RIP Warrior.

The Wolves are the new tag champs indeed - I presume it was done because of the Wrestle-1/TNA show in Japan coming up and they would just look better as champions over there, or there was an injury in the match.