King Pitcos Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Half the attitude era divas seemed about 40-odd at the time. Sable, Debra, Ivory, Jacqueline, Major Gunns, Terri, BB, Kim Page, Tori. Maybe the makeup and bikini trends of the mid-to-late nineties made them seem older than they were though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moofasa Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 DGUSA Champion Johnny Gargano's contract with the company expires this week and officials have been sitting down with him trying to work out a new deal. WWE is very interested in signing Gargano and he has been rumored to be heading to WWE for a few weeks now. If Gargano drops his title this weekend to Akira Tozawa, then he likely did not re-sign with DGUSA and could be headed to WWE developmental  Credit: PW Insider Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted July 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 28, 2012 (edited) Half the attitude era divas seemed about 40-odd at the time. Sable, Debra, Ivory, Jacqueline, Major Gunns, Terri, BB, Kim Page, Tori. Maybe the makeup and bikini trends of the mid-to-late nineties made them seem older than they were though. We were desperate for pussy in the late 90s. After years of Bertha Faye and Luna, anyone would have done. In some ways the divas were better then, because they came across as so desperate, there was a genuine possibility we could see minge. Â Sable and Kimberly were great, though. Up there with the best you will see. Debra seemed to always have old hands. Even in the mid 90s. Edited July 28, 2012 by The_BarbarIAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobystag Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 The great irony is that Gargano did work a Smackdown back in 2010 so there was rumours back then if he would end up in the E. Gabe sent those rumours into overdrive when he announced that Gargano had signed a contract and congratulated him on that fact..... To then later reveal it was the first DG USA/EVOLVE contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted July 28, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 28, 2012 We were desperate for pussy in the late 90s. After years of Bertha Faye and Luna, anyone would have done. In some ways the divas were better then, because they came across as so desperate, there was a genuine possibility we could see minge. Sable and Kimberly were great, though. Up there with the best you will see. Debra seemed to always have old hands. Even in the mid 90s.  And anyone did do          until Kong came along Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moofasa Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Half the attitude era divas seemed about 40-odd at the time. Sable, Debra, Ivory, Jacqueline, Major Gunns, Terri, BB, Kim Page, Tori. Maybe the makeup and bikini trends of the mid-to-late nineties made them seem older than they were though. Bad times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Generally I barely glance over moofasa's nonsensical white-noise windowlicks, but that gif almost renders him worthwhile. The King approves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobystag Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 The great irony is that Gargano did work a Smackdown back in 2010 so there was rumours back then if he would end up in the E. Gabe sent those rumours into overdrive when he announced that Gargano had signed a contract and congratulated him on that fact..... To then later reveal it was the first DG USA/EVOLVE contract. Â And last night Gargano announced that he had signed........ Another contract with DG USA. Â I kinda figured this would happen. As soon as Gabe starts teasing that one of his guys is leaving, you know they're definitely not. Because when they have legitimately signed for the E, he'd keep quiet on the matter before announcing as many as he can of their last Indy dates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted July 29, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 29, 2012 (edited) A high profile indy will earn more money doing the rounds in the States (and international dates) than they will in FCW. Unless you are an Alberto Del Rio or someone like that, FCW isn't paying you a superstar downside guarantee. Seth Rollins has been there about 3 years now, and he's still not on TV. Unless WWE is working you on the road (and that goes for the main roster), you aren't making much more than what you would on the Indy scene. Gargano's probably made the best choice at this point in his career. Its why AJ Styles, Bobby Roode and James Storm have never went to WWE. If you can make more anyway from WWE and aren't a mark for WWE (which a load of wrestlers are these days), there's no reason to go if its in your best interests financially. Edited July 29, 2012 by The_BarbarIAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobystag Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 (edited) Thing is, DG USA did 15 dates last year over 5 weekends, while EVOLVE did 3 shows. This year DG USA have done 6 shows (as of tonights) over 3 weekends and a double/triple shot potentially in November. EVOLVE have done 7 shows over 4 weekends and you saw the pics from the crowd at the Florida triple shot. Â And even as DG USA Champ he only did one tour of Japan in March 2011 and has not been back since which is a shame. Â I'm not arguing that he hasn't made the best choice at current time seen as even I wondered what he would offer to the E right now and what they saw in him. But for a high profile Indy............ Gabe is a notorious tight ass unless you're one of his main guys and Gargano as their Champ has only done 12 shows (he had to miss the Jan DG USA show due to injury) over 7 weekends. Edited July 29, 2012 by cobystag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted July 30, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 With three weeks left of live Impact left, the Observer mentioned today that TNA are in deep discussions with Spike about Impact going live permanent from now on. Which would be awesome news. Another thing is, Bellator is supposedly going on Spike on Thursday nights from 10pm following Impact, so Spike are inclined to make TNA as strong as possible to have a good lead-in for their Bellators debut. Hope this all works out. I dont need to see another piped in, shitty edited taped Impact ever again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted July 30, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 Why did they only agree to a limited run of live Impacts, Ian? Were they a test run for doing a permanent run of them or was there some other reason? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted July 30, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) I think its mainly due to how expensive it is to fly talent in once a week, since most of them are on appearance based deals. Spike did a three month run to see how it would do financially and how the viewership would far. If you taped 3 or sometimes 4 episodes in the same day or over a two day period, its cost effective to do that. They almost lost their arse in 2010, when they brought in a load of ex-WWE wrestlers and went live on Mondays. Actually might explain why Brother Love has started cutting the likes of Matt Morgan and signing people to lower paying contracts recently. And TNA's viewership has increased the last few weeks, which is good for them considering they've had the Direct TV situation and had to adjust to a new time slot. With Bound For Glory coming up and the BFG series still in process, nows the best time to continue going live. Edited July 30, 2012 by The_BarbarIAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1SinN6 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) Going live has done NOTHING for the ratings. Going live AND switching timeslots was a bad mistake. Â Impact doesnt feel any different for me. I never read spoilers when it was taped and most backstage shit is still pretaped. Â Big dissapointment for me. Spike won't have them going live after this stummer. Â Wouldnt they want Bellator on primetime? That MMA show is after impact because they know it wont draw flies with shit so it doesnt hurt their prime time average when the MMA show gets a 0.3 Edited July 30, 2012 by 1SinN6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted July 30, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted July 30, 2012 Going live has done NOTHING for the ratings. Going live AND switching timeslots was a bad mistake. Moral is up, the talent is more motivated to wrestle on a live show which lasts two hours instead of pissing about backstage all day waiting to do their part and the crowd is far better because they aren't watching hours of wrestling and getting burned out. Â I don't see how you can say the show doesn't feel different. It totally does. A live show always has a better flow and there's a sense that something unplanned might happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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