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

[FLips]

Tried to watch it purely to see if they did anything big with the American Wolves and to the shock of nobody I fell asleep before the 12 man tag even happened. Read the spoilers this morning and didn't miss anything.

Hopefully Sting is gone for real, he's thick to stay there money or not, it's damaging to his reputation now.

[Ian 86]

We'll possibly find out from the UK tapings, whoever it is. If it was a big inside thing where its a mega surprise, we'll know via spoilers weeks in advance, so it seems pretty pointless.

 

Alex Shane? sorry, couldn't resist

[AshC]

If it was Alex, they'd have to make Impact three hours long to get his promos in.

[Forrest]

Bravo Impact on hiring Davey Richards, a man I actually dislike more than Mr. Anderson.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Someone on another forum noticed this, but check out the Dixie/Wolves pre-taped. Listen to the delivery, look at the filter on the video, check out the outfits and look at the positioning of the people on the clip. Now imagine the Brazzers logo in the corner. It is like a one of them milf porn trailers you see pop up on the tube sites. The whole set up of it seemed like Davey Richards was going to say "tryout? How about you try this out" and he gets his penis out.

Edited January 17, 2014 by IANdrewDiceClay

[KingOfMetal]

Someone on another forum noticed this, but check out the Dixie/Wolves pre-taped. Listen to the delivery, look at the filter on the video, check out the outfits and look at the positioning of the people on the clip. Now imagine the Brazzers logo in the corner. It is like a one of them milf porn trailers you see pop up on the tube sites. The whole set up of it seemed like Davey Richards was going to say "tryout? How about you try this out" and he gets his penis out.

 

your spot on with that Ian.

 

Might be a daft question here, but

 

If Dixie Carter is the president of TNA, wouldn't she be clued up on where the finances for 'her' wrestling promotion come from and therefore know exactly who the investors are? Or is she really just that fucking daft?

[Cobra1000]

Dixe TOWERING over one of them is a bit of an overstatement lads. Come on. Obviously its a bit crap shes taller and it makes them look like goofs but ah well it was a shit debut. I dont really know much about them bar the hilarious GIF's that get posted here so I think they can only go up after this. The MILF porn comparison was hilarious though

 

Also, another fucking power struggle, I swear to God. Its probably the Ace's and Eights 2000 or something.

Edited January 17, 2014 by Cobra1000

[KingOfMetal]

its nearly as bad as Primo's debut with Adamle.

 

Adamle: Let me introduce you to the newest member of RAW, Primo. How does it feel to be here?

Primo: It feels great Mike, I can't wait to...

Adamle: Oh look, theres John Cena! John!...

 

but yeah, heres these new guys who have 'quite the following', but lets not talk about them, who are these mystery people?

[FireBrand]

I'm not sure why the new investor being Jeff Jarret would be a genuine shock to anyone?

 

Internet wrestling news can be so utterly untrustworthy and manipulated at times it's hard to believe a lot of what is written. I also seriously do not rate the viability of Jarret creating another company. I mean the net result is him making the same mistakes as he did with TNA. I do see him as learning anything valuble in terms of keeping his fingers out of creative.

 

I love the guy onscreen but that's it.

 

Also EC3 is crying out to be dressed in sports casual wear and to enter the arena driving a Rover Vitese.

Edited January 17, 2014 by FireBrand

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Its not net speculation, though. He resigned from the promotion and has actually been setting a new promotion up in the last week in Los Angeles. That isn't net speculation. Nobody is speculating on it. Everyone is waiting for him to announce what type of business model this will be. The fact he's not been on TV in 2 years and is no longer part of the promotion doesn't tell me he's rushing back to TNA any time soon. This isn't like he had a bust up over night and took a strop. Jarrett and the Carters have been at odds for years now.

 

Also, what a failure Jarrett was. They were profitable when he had power. He lost power in mid-2009, and they've lost millions per year ever since. What a cunt he is, eh?

Edited January 17, 2014 by IANdrewDiceClay

[The Cutting Edge]

Why/when did the Jarretts give up there power or ownership or whatever they had to the carters, seems a shame they started the company and got kinda forced out and are back to square one (well Jeff is not Jerry)

[FireBrand]

Its not net speculation, though. He resigned from the promotion and has actually been setting a new promotion up in the last week in Los Angeles. That isn't net speculation. Nobody is speculating on it. Everyone is waiting for him to announce what type of business model this will be. The fact he's not been on TV in 2 years and is no longer part of the promotion doesn't tell me he's rushing back to TNA any time soon.

 

Also, what a failure Jarrett was. They were profitable when he had power. He lost power in mid-2009, and they've lost millions per year ever since. What a cunt he is, eh?

 

 

Cunt!?

 

I said I didn't like a lot of the stuff he did in creative and I didn't think anyone actually knew for sure how much money TNA lost or made because they do not release detials like that. All I am going by is what I read about Jarret, I haven't seen anything offical abo7ut a new company just specualtion.

 

HOWEVER!

 

Should Jarrett being doing exactly what you are saying he is and he is backed with serious money by a dedicated investor than he might have a chance but unles he does something different to what he did at TNA I am uncertain of the companies future.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Why/when did the Jarretts give up there power or ownership or whatever they had to the carters, seems a shame they started the company and got kinda forced out and are back to square one (well Jeff is not Jerry)

Jeff and Jerry got done over by a PPV consultant in 2002 and sold the majority share of promotion in 2002. Since Jeff found the money mark he was the power man until about 2009. He would gradually lose power as the years went on where more influences came on board, like Russo or whoever. Jarrett got sent home and lost all power when he said to Dixie he wasn't shagging Karen. And when it all hit the fan and she realised he lied to her, she sent Jarrett home and there's been bad blood ever since. The bitch sacked Dutch Mantell, Rudy Charles, BG James, Jim Cornette, Billy Gunn and Savio Vega over the space of a few months. All Jarrett's boys..

 

Say what you want about TNA, because sometimes the product was horrendous, but they had a steady growth up until 2010. They grew and grew through some horrible TV. I honestly dont think it would ever have died a death like it is right now with Jarrett in charge. Whatever mistakes he made, he was never thick enough to spend $600,000 a fortnight taping on the road. He brought Russo in, so he deserves the blame for that. But that's because he fell for his born again Christian routine. It was Dixie who kept him around. Jeff fired Russo in 2004 when things weren't going how he liked. He wasn't scared to make changes in creative like Dixie is. She just doesn't seem to have the instincts to see the iceberg coming.

 

Speaking of Jeff, he's wrestling Colt Cabana in April for that WrestleCon thing. That sounds pretty amazing.

Edited January 17, 2014 by IANdrewDiceClay

[Vamp]

I'm still waiting for the match against LA Park, I reckon that would have been class if it had ever happened.

[dangerously420]

Tonights Genesis show:

 

The picture is taken from the end where there are actually people there, but its amazing watching. The arena is so fucking dark. They backed most of the arena out. The crowd are really loud, but there's no fucker there.

 

Obligatory post picture of the fans filing in the venue and passing it off as the actual live crowd when show is actually in progress. Twat.