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

[ClassicsGuy]

The fans chanting sounds a bit of a shame since TNA were there to impress Spike. To anyone who isn't a wrestling fan (who expects that kind of thing,) executives must have walked away think "god that crowd hated pretty much everything"

 

I think the fact they couldn't even fill an 800-seater capacity ballroom in New York for an international tv taping of their flagship show would probably have more of a detrimental impact on Spike tv executives than a few smarks chanting dumb things.

[Vamp]

Dixie really should have saved up the money and built a lair in a volcano instead of trying to make a go of the wrestling business. Just such a waste.

[wrestlingmad]

Second set of tapings, good looking stuff too.

 

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THE REST OF THE 7/24 IMPACT, TNA DESTINATION X SPOILERS FROM NYC AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2014-06-26 21:33:11

This is part two of the second episode they began filming last night.

 

Bobby Roode vs. MVP Falls Count Anywhere. MVP wouldn't come out so Roode went to the back. They brawled into the building. The crowd loved the brawl. Way hotter crowd tonight. Kenny King attacked Roode but Eric Young hit the scene and ran him off. Roode worked over MVP with a chair and locked in the Cloverleaf for a submission. Really fun brawl!

 

TNA Knockouts champ Gail Kim vs. Taryn Terrell. They were having a really good match when The Beautiful People attacked them. No contest.

 

Gunner & Mr. Anderson vs. Magnus & Bram. Bram pinned Anderson. After the match, Bram went to attack Gunner with a piece of metal from under the ring. Samuel Shaw ran in but was laid out with it. Bram beat down Gunner. Abyss' music hit and he came to the ring.. They brawled and Abyss cleaned house.

 

Destination X is next.

 

It opened with Kurt Angle doing the same speech as last night, minus mentioning the names no longer with the company. Could be a reshoot from last night since the building is way more packaged tonight.

 

Out comes Dixie Carter with her crew including Snitsky and Big Zeke. Dixie cut a promo and the crowd was so loud you legitimately couldn't hear her. I think the promo was that these men were the true stars. EC3 said they were his Army of Extreme. They are calling Snitsky by that name but renamed Zeke. EC3 cut a hell of a promo. He said this is war and issued a challenge for a final battle. He said he will put them down forever.

 

TNA Tag Team champions The Wolves defeated The Hardys. Great match and a super hot crowd for everything. Just an awesome match. Best match of the taping a so far and by far the best The Wolves have looked here to date. Tons of near falls and highspots.

 

Low Ki defeated Zema Ion and Manik. Great stuff.

 

James Storm introduced Sanada and said the student has now surpassed the teacher. He said he is Sanada's new teacher. Brian Cage vs. Sanada vs. Crazy Steve. Cage did lots of awesome power spots. Sanada wins with Tiger Suplex and a bridge on Steve.

 

Tommy Dreamer and Team 3D come out. They say they will go to war right now so no one has to wait. EC3's crew came out and said they will do it on Carter time, next week. Bully Ray said no one wants to go to war next week. Ray threatened to start a riot and the crowd wanted that and chanted for it. He said if it's next week, it's going to be an Eight man Extreme Weapons Hardcore War. Ray then swore to God he is putting Dixie through a table.

 

Samoa Joe vs. Homicide vs. Tigre Uno. Joe cut a great promo saying he told Kurt Angle to put him in the X-Division. He said he is still pro wrestling and he was going to win the X-Division title. Big reactions for Joe and Homicide. Joe pins Homicide. He and Homicide shake hands after. Crowd popped for the reunion of old ROH foes. Good stuff.

 

The Three-Ways are qualifying matches with the winners facing off for the X-Division title down the line. I am assuming that will be taped tomorrow.

 

The crowd is awesome tonight.

 

TNA champ Bobby Lashley vs. Austin Aries. Aries really took it to Lashley and they had a good match, Aries hit the brain buster for two and went up for the 450 splash. Lashley rolled out. Aries went for a dive and Lashley moved. Aries knocked himself out hitting the rail in brutal fashion. Lashley tossed him in and speared him. There were a few times where Lashley looked tenative but Aries worked his ass off and there was some really good stuff here.

 

Best two hours of Impact in forever.

 

Xplosion - Knox and The Freak defeated The Bromans.

 

Impact episode, post Destination X.

 

Hardcore War. Team EC3 vs. Team Extreme. Each man will enter with a weapon. They are doing Wargames like entrances. Dixie Carter is sitting in a balcony with King Mo. Out first is EC3 with a baseball bat. Tommy Dreamer is first for his team with a Singapore Cane. Rhino was next out for Team Carter with a trash can. Devon was next out with a trash can. Snitsky with a hockey stick was out next. Bully Ray with a chain was next. Last for Team Carter was the former Ezekiel Jackson, who had a chair. Last out was Al Snow complete wth the rave lighting and heads in the crowd. Snow whipped out an Asai Moonsault to the outside. Spud tries to interfere and gets killed by the ECW crew. Team 3D pin Rhino with 3D. Really Fun brawl with the villains getting the upper hand only for the babyfaces to get fire when the odds evened up.

 

After the match, Ray asked where Dixie was and the crowd all pointed to her. He promised tonight she was going through a table. She freaked out and said that wasn't going to happen but promised King Mo would knock Bubba out tonight. Crowd was all over Dixie. The crowd is making the show.

 

The next segment saw Dixie Carter come out with the Carter Army. She was pissed and fired Snitsky and Zeke for failing and said they were losers and has-beens. So, they are already done here. She began firing and screaming at the fans and demanded they get out of her venue. Dreamer and Team 3D came out with the table. Ray said he promised something for a long time, that Dixie - the most hated woman in wrestling - is going through the table. Dreamer said he warned her and said she was going through because she represents all that is wrong with wrestling. Mo nailed Dreamer. Bully attacked Mo and took him out. Dixie tried to escape and the entire babyface roster came out and forced her back in the ring. Bully nailed her with a sitdown power bomb through the table as the roster cheered, surrounding the ring. Dreamer took mic and said his work here is done. Bully got the crowd to sing " Ding Dong the Witch is Dead." Everyone celebrated over Dixie, who was stretchered out. The crowd chanted TNA to close the show. A hell of a way to close the show and an awesome spectacle. Just great.

 

TNA had a hell of a turnaround tonight. Best taping in a long time that I am aware of.

 

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[CTXRussomark]

Dixie tried to escape and the entire babyface roster came out and forced her back in the ring. Bully nailed her with a sitdown power bomb through the table as the roster cheered, surrounding the ring.

I know Dixie's a heel and all, but that sounds horrible. Seems like such an outdated angle. If this was 1999 I would have probably loved it, but it just seems so out of touch in 2014. Seems quite odd they'd build the tapings around it too since I'm sure Spike warned them away from violence against women a while back, didn't they?

[Ant]

Doesn't sit well for various reasons. Simply sounds in bad taste. But even in "wrestling psychology" terms, should it not be the heels that do things in packs, and the good guys prevail as the minority? In any case it sounds rotten.

[tiger_rick]

Apologies for the daft question but I'm avoiding the spoilers. What is the airdate for the Manhattan Centre tapings?

[wrestlingmad]

Apologies for the daft question but I'm avoiding the spoilers. What is the airdate for the Manhattan Centre tapings?

First episode is next Thursday.

 

Some notes from yesterday's tapings. No spoilers inside but I'll tag it incase.

 

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NOTES AND NEWS FROM NIGHT TWO OF TNA'S IMPACT WRESTLING TAPINGS IN NYC

By Mike Johnson on 2014-06-27 03:31:32 Again, no spoiler-related items here.

Thursday night's Impact Wrestling taping in New York City was one of the best tapings the company has had in years and in speaking to a number of people who work for the company after the show, it was being praised as one of the top three or five best TNA events in the company's history.

 

Scott Fishman, Senior vice president and executive producer of Spike was in attendance at the taping. There were some Spike employees at the taping yesterday, but Fishman is a top level exec with the cable network and has had a long standing relationship with TNA.

 

Company morale was extremely up after the taping. There was a feeling that the crew had accomplished something special and that it was a night where a lot of talents who had worked hard but hadn't been spotlighted as stars received a star reaction. I would say that was a fair assessment as there were names like The Wolves who received a homecoming welcome from the audience that made them look far more important than they had been coming off. TNA staff who had never really seen how loud and passionate the NYC fans could get were blown away.

 

The taping drew a legitimate 1,200 fans to the Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom. The paid was a little less, although signs posted backstage noted that the show was sold out and there were no comp tickets available for guests.

 

A source with the venue (not TNA) stated that 150-200 fans who attempted to buy tickets at the door were turned away as letting them in would have put the venue beyond fire code capacity and there was no way that was going to be allowed.

 

The third and final TNA Impact Wrestling taping at the Manhattan Center tonight is already sold out in advance. TNA had sold that date out first (it was announced as the Hardy Boyz reunion initially) but released an additional 20 tickets yesterday. They were immediately bought up. It's possible there will be seats released but it won't be many and it won't be until the last minute.

 

TNA held tryouts before the fans were in the building for some local independent talents. The only name I've confirmed is female talent Kasey Ray.

 

Former WWE referee Kevin Keenan was at the show visiting.

 

Reby Sky, Matt Hardy's wife who has worked for Lucha Libre USA, currently hosts a Playboy TV series and is a NYC native, was also at the show.

 

TNA was selling signed and framed posters commemorating Matt and Jeff Hardy's reunion.

 

After tonight's taping, TNA is off on Saturday and then has a house show Sunday in Lakewood, NJ at the FirstEnergy Park with TNA champ Bobby Lashley vs. Eric Young, Bully Ray vs. EC3 with Rockstar Spud, Angelina Love & Velvet Sky vs. Gail Kim & Madison Rayne, TNA Tag Team champions The Wolves Eddie Edwards & Davey Richards vs. BroMans, Sanada vs. Manik vs. Tigre Uno plus Kurt Angle appearing.

 

TNA will be taping in the venue again 8/5-8/7. Don't be surprised to see TNA go back and tape TV at the Sands Bethlehem Events Center in PA either as the staff and performers really loved the atmosphere there as well.

 

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[IANdrewDiceClay]

Cant believe in 2014 the tapings are built around a middle aged woman getting put through a table by Bubba Ray Dudley.

[Bosco Blick]

After tonight's taping, TNA is off on Saturday and then has a house show Sunday in Lakewood, NJ at the FirstEnergy Park

 

Why do they keep running these shows at open-air baseball stadiums? It does them no favours.

 

And yes, I did Google 'FirstEnergy Park' to establish that it was a baseball stadium.

[King Pitcos]

They're the pre-paid shows, aren't they? Where they actually make money on them because someone hires TNA in as an act.

[garynysmon]

Cant believe in 2014 the tapings are built around a middle aged woman getting put through a table by Bubba Ray Dudley.

 

Yeah, but i'm still intrigued to see it though. I want to start watching TNA again now after reading about these recent shows, which is surely a good thing.

Usually taping beforehand is not a positive but if word gets out that these are unmissable shows, it might boost the ratings and get people talking about the company again. As, lets be honest, almost no-one here has been watching TNA for a few months beforehand.

[Loki]

It's Bubba Ray in an old ECW stomping ground - of course he needs to put a woman through a table. And fair play to Dixie for being up for it.

 

I'm going to watch these tapings, so they've done their job as far as I'm concerned.

[pgi86]

The Dixie bump:

[Your Fight Site]

The Dixie bump:

I hope she didn

[IANdrewDiceClay]

How are they going to get around Spike's ban of man on women violence then?