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

[IANdrewDiceClay]

WWE didn't take long jumping in their grave.

[garynysmon]

Is that confirmed? Could be someone's dropped a major bollock on the truck's artwork.

[Undefeated Steak]

Can someone explain that image please? I don't get it. Are Spike and SyFy one and the same?

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Can someone explain that image please? I don't get it. Are Spike and SyFy one and the same?

Smackdown seems to be moving to Thursdays. Not Spike.

[WyattSheepMask]

Isn't that the same time slot as what Impact had though?

[garynysmon]

Well, still do for another two months anyway.

[bono]

When does smackdown start on a thursday then? :-) vince wants to put the final nail in the coffin :-)

Edited August 6, 2014 by bono

[JNLister]

Full list of the auditionees for British Bootcamp 2. Sounds like there'll be a round of auditions behind closed doors, then cut down to a shortlist for a live show on August 16 to pick the final cast.
 
 

Males: Rampage Brown, Dave Mastiff, Noam Dar, Martin Stone, Joel Redman, Mark Andrews, Sha Samuels, El Ligero, Tiger Ali, RJ Singh, Chucky Cyrus, Alex Cyanide, Josh Bodom, Matt Fox, Joe Vega, John Harding, Rory Bailey, Evan Sarven, Kevin Lloyd, Jack Gallagher, Hamish Campbell, The Fabulous Bakewells, Richard Parliament, Sebastian Radclaw, The Nordic Warrior, Pastor William Eaver, Sam Smitten-Downes, Joseph Conners, Bulk and Karn, Johnny Rock, Bill Duffy, Pyro, Priscilla, Kris Travis
Females: Skarlett, Lana Austin, Melanie Price, The Owens Twins, Heather Schofield, Miss Louis-Jane, Kay Lee Ray, Nikki Storm

The names I recognise are all either really good workers or are competent and have a good character/gimmick. Supposedly some of the other names are genuinely terrible ("worse than Khali" was mentioned) which suggests they're bringing in a few guys as whatever the opposite of a ringer is to make the audition episode of the show more entertaining before cutting down to the contenders.

[PunkStep]

Bulk and Karn- is that Bulk as in UK Pitbulls? If so, who's this Karn chap?

[Big Benny HG]

He's Bulk's (yes, UKP Bulk) partner in the 'Unnatural Disasters'.

 

Several of those announced for the audition rounds of Bootcamp are also scheduled for matches at FutureShock Wrestling's 10th Anniversary Show in Manchester this Saturday, so you can work out a few that won't make it as far as the York Hall showcase that's taking place the same night.

 

Still, I like the list of announced auditionees. For a faux-reality show like this, they've got a great variety of guys. Massive blokes, flying blokes, daft gimmicks - some might only be there for light-hearted skits in early episodes, byt it should make for good TV at least.

[CTXRussomark]

When did they start showing old PPV's on Challenge?  Just flicking through the channels on Sky and Unbreakable 2005 is on.

[Krytie 2X4B 523P]

When did they start showing old PPV's on Challenge?  Just flicking through the channels on Sky and Unbreakable 2005 is on.

New weekly thing Challenge are doing it seems. Lockdown 2006 is next week.

 

Worth watching tonight for Joe v AJ Styles v Daniels

[Big Benny HG]

When did they start showing old PPV's on Challenge? Just flicking through the channels on Sky and Unbreakable 2005 is on.

There's about the last year's worth of 'current' PPVs, including all the One Night Onlys, in the on demand section of ChallengeTV too. Well, there is on Sky, at least.

[Daaaaaad!]

There's an argument to be made for Unbreakable being TNA's best pay-per-view ever. Great matches all the way down, including a cracking Raven vs. Rhino hardcore match for the NWA title (which was what actually attracted me to the show in the first place) and then "The Unbreakable Match". Every match any combination of them had after this was just trying to recreate this one.

A little strange to me, then, that they never repeated the name Unbreakable.

[PBWFan]

I noticed that Noam Dar's name had been removed from the most up to date list on Facebook for the show they are doing.