Impact wrestling thread - It's a Don West tribute thread now!

[wooly]

here is a updated list for aj styles' post tna tour from early 2014

 

- Jan. 4: ROH TV taping in Nashville (vs. Roderick Strong)

- Jan. 18: Magnum Pro in Cedar Falls, Iowa (vs. Jaysin Strife)

- Jan. 19: PWX in Winston-Salem, N.C. (vs. Cedric Alexander)

- Jan. 26: Smash Wrestling in Toronto (vs. Chris Hero)

 

- Feb. 1: DREAMWAVE in Chicago (vs. Christian Rose)

- Feb. 7: D.S.C.H. in Blue Ridge, Ga. (w/Cody Roberts vs. Corey Hollis & Shaun Tempers)

- Feb. 8: CZW in Voorhees, N.J.

- Feb. 15: House of Glory in Queens, N.Y. (w/The Amazing Red vs. Young Bucks)

- Feb. 23: Pennsylvania Premiere in Freeland, Pa. (vs. Tommy Suede)

 

- Mar. 1: PCW in Preston, England (vs. Lionheart)

- Mar. 14: 2CW in Binghamton, N.Y. (vs. Eddie Edwards)

- Mar. 15: UWE in Harrisburg, Pa. (vs. AR Fox)

- Apr. 26: RPW Pro in Marietta, Okla. (vs. Facade)

[wrestlescotland]

Wonder if BT/Sky sports would look at TNA TV rights in the UK. Still getting good ratings over here and the WWE network looks it will soon be up and running with their SKY contract expiring this year. Although they aren't growing their TV ratings they are maintaining similar levels in the US and pretty good ratings over here.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

TNA's US contract is up in 2014. There's no guarantee there will be a TNA Impact by the end of the year. And without Spike, TNA are dead. Without TV money, they dont exist (they barely exist now). If WWE fail to sell their TV rights in a package deal, there's a massive chance Viacom is going to make a play for them and put Smackdown on Spike. This is a hugely pivotal year for wrestling in the states. With the network starting, PPVs disappearing and TNA and WWE's TV deals up for renewal, as well as TNA's current problems, the business could look totally different by January 2015.

Edited January 2, 2014 by IANdrewDiceClay

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Well this is mental:

TNA will not be taping Impact Wrestling at Universal Studios Orlando anytime soon, PWInsider.com has confirmed.

 

According to multiple sources, TNA will not be returning to any of Universal's sound-stages as they were unable to secure any dates for 2014 due to the sound-stages being booked out for other productions already.

 

TNA returned to Universal to tape a number of Impact Wrestling episodes at the end of last year. At the time, TNA's press releases presented Universal as being the "hub" of their Impact 365 social media campaign and noted that the company would have a training center centered in that market as well.

 

The Impact episodes taped at Universal Studios will conclude with this Thursday's edition of Impact. TNA will tape several episodes later this month in Huntsville, Alabama, including live "Genesis" themed episode before heading to Europe at the end of the month for their annual tour, where they will tape a number of episodes as well.

 

From there, it appears Impact will be back on the road, unless the company is able to find a new regular home for the tapings, because as of now, Universal Studios won't be home base.

 

This fucking company.

[PowerButchi]

Does Nashville Fairgrounds still exist?

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Ring of Honor are running there tonight I believe. Headlined by Roderick Strong and AJ Styles. Which was on the first episode of Impact on Spike, funnily enough.

Edited January 4, 2014 by IANdrewDiceClay

[PowerButchi]

They hould do an Abrams and have a taping on the grass by Nickelodeon Studios.

[Ant]

I wonder if it's donned on them to try and book Disney Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM) or one of the larger dinner show venues (eg Arabian Knights).

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Its Florida they want to be in. Anywhere else they'd have to fly all the talent in, and that would do them in.

[Jaffa]

Anyone got a house with a big garden?

[wrestlingmad]

It's mental to think that just 9 months ago TNA had their record attendance show with Lockdown, then a few days later began on the road and almost filled a arena in Chicago. Now there pretty much fucked.

 

THIS

 

AND THIS

 

TO THIS

[PowerButchi]

Its Florida they want to be in. Anywhere else they'd have to fly all the talent in, and that would do them in.

 

Disney Hollywood/MGM is in Orlando. It's the old WCW taping place before WCW moved to Universal.

[Glen Quagmire]

Surely given their recent run of venues I'm sure there is a high school sports hall in Orlando they could do Impact tapings in.

[wrestlescotland]

I'm sure their filming 6 weeks of TV over here so that takes them in to the middle of March. I'm sure they will find somewhere to do a couple of months worth of tapings. Dressing a place up right won't look any worse than the current soundstage with about 50 people in it.

[Psygnosis]

How are tickets doing over here out of curiosity? - I like what they're doing with Magnus/Spud/EC3 in an effort to try and rebuild things but I think they have suffered heavily with mistakes since 2010 it'll take a lot of work especially with the TV deal expiring this year and with Jeff Jarrett and AJ Styles departing the company. I don't want TNA to go out of business at all as I don't like seeing people out of a regular job, but I'd be concerned.