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Yeah, Bill Watts is the bloke you go to when you want lessons in how to get back onside with TV executives.

Some of his best enemies are black.

 

Jim Cornette as booker would be a better idea than Bill Watts in network negotiations.

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Apparently Spike wants to keep wrestling on the network. They just dont want TNA. They've apparently spoke to two groups.

 

Might not even be active promotions. It might be a case that someone has said "if there's a timeslot available, we can get something together". The hardest problem in starting up is getting a timeslot on a network. If there is one up for grabs, there's surely someone out there.

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Apparently Spike wants to keep wrestling on the network. They just dont want TNA. They've apparently spoke to two groups.

 

Might not even be active promotions. It might be a case that someone has said "if there's a timeslot available, we can get something together". The hardest problem in starting up is getting a timeslot on a network. If there is one up for grabs, there's surely someone out there.

 

Do you have any more info on why exactly Spike want rid of TNA? The Russo story is an obvious excuse for them to throw them off the air but there must be more to it. Were they expecting the ratings to grow more than they have? Even if they got ROH or GWF then it would take a while for them to build up a million viewers a week for the show or whatever the precise number is. Do they just think there's too much stigma attached to the TNA brand now? 

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There could be million reasons. Just all sorts of different shit all built up for years I assume, with lying about hiring Russo being the killer. A lot of people thought they would finish them up 2 years ago, but maybe they sold them on the idea of them going on the road. Maybe TNA ran out of golden carrots. You just have to read this thread the last 18 months. TNA keeps getting sued, their wrestlers keep leaving, the owner keeps lying, the TV is as bad as its ever been. I could easily see someone at Spike going "get rid of these fuckers before we get dragged into their mess". The Daffney stuff and the Jesse Sorenson stuff are just two things that should not happen.

 

interestingly though, if Hogan was still there they probably wouldn't have dropped them, because they know who he is at the Spike offices. When your big stars like Angle, Sting and Hogan the white flag is flying.

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Apparently Spike wants to keep wrestling on the network. They just dont want TNA. They've apparently spoke to two groups.

 

Surely it's Double J, like everyone predicted months and months ago? If they've spoken to a couple of groups, who could possibly have a good enough, well-presented product for Spike? I haven't seen RoH in donkeys but if they're anything like they used to be, they've a long way to look anywhere as presentable as TNA have been in terms of production. It's gotta be Jeff, with Toby Keith as a backer.
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This is sad news and losing a wrestling company on TV can never be good news, however TNA has made so many mistakes with what talent and money they had, actually there's a part of me that is optimistic that the dust will settle and a smaller company would rise, making use of lesser talent and work their way up, without blowing its load on the former "superstars".

 

Like someone said, wrestling has to take two steps back before going forward. Hopefully if they do go under, this is the beginning of the end of the beginning.

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Apparently Spike wants to keep wrestling on the network. They just dont want TNA. They've apparently spoke to two groups.

 

Might not even be active promotions. It might be a case that someone has said "if there's a timeslot available, we can get something together". The hardest problem in starting up is getting a timeslot on a network. If there is one up for grabs, there's surely someone out there.

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I watched TNA Xplosion a few weeks ago and the crowd was absolutely empty and silent. It didn't make good television at all.

 

WWE would bite the cosmetic surgery off Dixie Carter's face to get hold of that tape library.

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Apparently Spike wants to keep wrestling on the network. They just dont want TNA. They've apparently spoke to two groups.

 

Might not even be active promotions. It might be a case that someone has said "if there's a timeslot available, we can get something together". The hardest problem in starting up is getting a timeslot on a network. If there is one up for grabs, there's surely someone out there.

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You know, given his partnership with Jason Hervey and contacts in the TV industry, that might not be such a bad call.

Double J isn't allowed to speak with Spike TV as per terms of his release is he?

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Going by reports, Double J can only have talks with Spike if TNA ceases to exist as a promotion. There were all sorts of rumours a year or two ago that Bischoff and Hogan were in the ear of the high ups at Spike, trying to get TNA kicked off, with their new promotion taking its place.

 

TNA is rotten and was going nowhere if they renewed. It's encouraging that Spike are supposedly keen on bringing in another promotion to fill the spot. It really is a shame the type of people running TNA squandered such a grand opportunity. Let's hope a new promotion is afforded at least half the investment TNA were. Somebody with the ability to promote their shit can do great things with Spike - or at least make some money and put on a good TV show.

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What are the chances of WWE actually buying the TV library if everything does go tits up for TNA?

I really cannot see it. Is there anything that the WWE would really want?? The WWE have never acknowledged TNA. When a wrestler comes back to WWE who has been to TNA they never mention it(sting for example) i just dont think they would want it

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