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

[Nick Soapdish]

The man lost his wife to cancer and ended up with former pole dancer Karen Jarrett. Nothing surprises me with this

[Winston]

On 23/10/2017 at 10:30 PM, Love-Wilcox said:

EC3 is so great

https://twitter.com/therealec3/status/922504556918996992

Should've been rehired by WWE a long time ago. He's fantastic.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

It's easy to blame Karen, but didnt he get caught with a crack pipe at the airport going back to maybe 2005? Cant imagine how bad it was for him when his wife had those several bouts of cancer. That's got to be hard on a man.

[Carbomb]

Wait a minute - didn't they just re-brand to GFW? Are they going back to being Impact/TNA? If so, what a fucking mess.

1 hour ago, Winston said:

Should've been rehired by WWE a long time ago. He's fantastic.

I thought it was something to do with injuries that they won't hire him back?

[WyattSheepMask]

13 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Wait a minute - didn't they just re-brand to GFW? Are they going back to being Impact/TNA? If so, what a fucking mess.

Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions LLC (who themselves are an arm of Anthem Sports & Entertainment) is the operating company that owns them, but the official trading name is still Impact Wrestling. Jarrett sold/conned them into buying the GFW stuff (namely the few GFW shows that were recorded but never broadcast along with the GFW belts and some trademarks) to Anthem in June and they then incorporated  those into the show

Edited October 27, 2017 by WyattSheepMask

[Carbomb]

So what does that mean in terms of what the fans see? Have they already had a few "Amped" shows and shown the belts on screen? In which case, does that mean they're going to be switching back to "iMPACT" and the old belts?

Sorry for all the questions, but this whole situation has been confusing for a while now, and this new development seems to have confused things further.

[WyattSheepMask]

Until they have Bound For Glory in a couple of weeks, everything has already been taped. I would imagine that they'll just hit the reset button again at the tapings afterwards and hope that people just go with it. Nothing they do seems to matter, in the US they've been floating around the 300k viewer mark all year, so while they didn't lose any substantial number of viewers when they finally ditched TNA, they're not making any new ones either. They've got a set number of fans that will watch it regardless seemingly out of blind loyalty

I think the Amped shows are done with now, there wasn't many of them to begin with.

Edited October 27, 2017 by WyattSheepMask

[Rosler28]

Unless the title matches they do unification matches again, have the tna belts go over and then let Jarrett have the gfw belts and green ropes back. And move on with the tapings using tna name again

[simonworden]

I'd just quietly switch them back to be honest. I don't think anyone is going to notice anymore. They could come out with toy WWE belts and it really wouldn't matter. 

[Philjax]

I think the belts have just had the Global Force part replaced with an Impact plate from what i've seen. Looked alright from the pic of the womens belt I saw.

[BomberPat]

If nothing else, TNA have been a godsend to the title belt manufacturing industry.

Edited October 30, 2017 by BomberPat

[PunkStep]

Him and Abyss became road agents/producers, hadn't they?

[Jon-Carr_92]

Saw Spud had quietly left last night. I'll never forget going to Jokers Wild II in Birmingham and him stealing the show with his antics with Bully Ray and Earl Hebner bodyslamming him. One of the funniest things I've ever seen in person. I'm sure he'll find work no problem. He was utterly brilliant that night.

[D@mm]

It would be good to see Spud in WWE in the 205 division, he would have some fun matches with Neville, Kalisto etc.

[Merzbow]

Spud vs Enzo on the mic would be golden, 205 would be worth catching at last.