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[PowerButchi]

Apparently that's the "Jeff's injured so won't be on the UK shows wink wink" bump.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

HA! Forgot he couldnt leave the country. That might be the last we see of him then. His contract usually ends in February.

[WyattSheepMask]

For a tour that will have happened before Lockdown airs. Do TNA freely admit that shows are taped, or do they pretend they are airing live

[Big Benny HG]

For a tour that will have happened before Lockdown airs. Do TNA freely admit that shows are taped, or do they pretend they are airing live

But the TV they're taping on the UK tour will air after Lockdown, no?

[air_raid]

But the TV they're taping on the UK tour will air after Lockdown, no?

 

Yeah. The fans that go to the tapings over here will see the fallout get taped for a show which hasn't aired yet. TNA, LOL.

[wrestlingmad]

 

But the TV they're taping on the UK tour will air after Lockdown, no?

Yeah. The fans that go to the tapings over here will see the fallout get taped for a show which hasn't aired yet. TNA, LOL.

It's nothing new. This has happened for the past 3 years. Before a match / segment Borash usually brings the crowd up too speed. Never took away the enjoyment for me.

 

Usually the show you saw live, was totally different on tele with the storylines.

[King Pitcos]

I think I've been to two house shows where they've had to announce things that hadn't happened on telly. One was a WCW show in 1993, where Sting and Vader had done a title change on the tour the night before. The other was the Attitude Adjustment show at the NEC, where they announced Kane and X-Pac had won the tag titles on a taped Raw that hadn't aired yet, but they never had any tag team matches on the tour so they'd have been as well to pretend Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett were still champions.

[Jon-Carr_92]

Apparently that's the "Jeff's injured so won't be on the UK shows wink wink" bump.

I remember a couple of years ago when he was billed for the tour. But a couple of weeks before the tour, they announced he got "injured" at the Impact tapings (this was when an Aces & Eights guy clubbed the back of his knee) and that he wasn't coming and Sting would take his spot. People were throwing huge strops over it. Someone even went as far as to say "Oh! I'm selling my tickets now! I was only coming to see him!"

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Which is fair, considering he was all over the poster and more people would rather see Jeff Hardy than Sting at that point. They false advertised him to get people to buy tickets and pulled him at the last minute. It was sly as fuck on their part.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Impact Wrestling star Jeff Hardy was KO'ed in frightening fashion Friday night in New York ... and TMZ has learned the very painful looking fall left him pretty banged up.

 

The famous wrestler climbed to the top of a cage during a match at the Manhattan Center ... but when he was knocked off by an opponent -- sources say the fall didn't go as planned.

 

We're told Jeff was supposed to land on the ground -- instead, he hit the steel steps and was knocked out cold. Hardy eventually regained consciousness ... but was left in a lot of pain.

 

After the match, Hardy got checked out by doctors for IMPACT -- which now airs on Destination America -- plus he's made an appointment this week to get his head scanned by a specialist.

 

[d-d-d-dAz]

They've surely been worked, right?

 

Watching that video, there's zero chance he meant to hit the floor. He hit the steps flush.

[Sphinx]

Yeah, he aims his landing to hit the steps. No chance of him getting knocked out from that.

[wrestlingmad]

I can understand being Ko'd! But like everyone has mentioned, he way he aimed for the floor. He loves bumping off those steps.

[Undefeated Steak]

I'm gonna call work. With Dixie's new reality rulez style and the fact that it's TMZ reporting it, I can't see it being legit. 

[reychampion]

I've heard a lot of people in other places that it's a way to write him out of the UK shows. Not sure if there's any truth to it but something seems to happen every year