Paid Members Carbomb Posted December 20, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2023 14 hours ago, Merzbow said: island for nonces Worst reality TV show concept ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted December 20, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted December 20, 2023 10 hours ago, Carbomb said: Worst reality TV show concept ever I present Sean Locks Nazi Island as competition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69MeDon Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 On 12/20/2023 at 12:17 PM, Carbomb said: Worst reality TV show concept ever Unless it's the island from LOST. That would be entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted December 21, 2023 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 21, 2023 On 12/19/2023 at 9:29 PM, Merzbow said: MLW is even more an island for nonces than AEW! Sounds like Riddle has signed a proper deal with MLW. https://411mania.com/wrestling/court-bauer-mlw-talking-matt-riddle-fall/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westlondonmist Posted December 21, 2023 Share Posted December 21, 2023 A match with Jacob Fatu? Battle of the wrong uns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted December 26, 2023 Author Paid Members Share Posted December 26, 2023 I’d be lying if I claimed to have ever seen a match of theirs, but the Grizzled Young Vets have crossed the line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted December 26, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted December 26, 2023 Its a good fit to be honest. They have some name value to them, are talented and work better with smaller more passionate crowds about the product. Always felt they'd be swallowed up by the bigger WWE shows as they haven't the outward confidence of say Pretty Deadly, but them with the likes of Subculture, Rascalz, ABC etc makes for a really good division on the relaunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted January 2 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 2 You know when Jeremy Borash told TNA to move to the UK?.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I’m not sure I’ve ever seen her wrestle, is she any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted January 2 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 2 3 minutes ago, RedRooster said: I’m not sure I’ve ever seen her wrestle, is she any good? I saw her old man wrestle in Holyhead. That's good enough for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Robbie's kid? Surprising that she was one the WWE let go with the shutdown of NXT UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
METAL ON METAL Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 All I really remember is her being very anti-vax and posting Covid conspiracies continuously while still employed by WWE. Always came across as quite dim, not that either of those will hold her back in the wrestling industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 The TNA Impact! show is really worth catching this week, it's a compilation of great moments in TNA history, including the first ever TNA match (Styles, Lynn and Low Ki v Flying Elvises) and the first Kim-Kong match. Blimey, TNA has a good match archive. Of particular interest to me was Nash, Angle, Chono and Choshu v Bernard, Anderson, Ishi and Iizuka. Answering my long-held desire to see good-in-Japan Bernard v Big Sexy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 5 Paid Members Share Posted January 5 21 minutes ago, Loki said: Blimey, TNA has a good match archive. God almighty, this is an understatement. Narrowing "prime TNA" down to a specific era is even a challenge. My own preference is for, if I really narrow it down, Turning Point 04-Destination X 2006 (IIRC, whenever the Joe/Daniels/AJ rematch was). Fuelled by TNA nostalgia and trying to stay unspoiled for the Sunday teatime airing of the latest PPV. Not televised, obviously, but I'll always look back fondly on going to the first three legs of the 2008 tour as some of the most fun I've had "on the road." I remember taking a breath in after Motor City Machine Guns challenging LAX for the tag belts on the first night in Liverpool and thinking "Well, that was one of the best matches I've ever seen live" .... it was the first match. Set the tone nicely. To paraphrase Alex Shelley's old entrance theme.... whatever happened to my TNA?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted January 5 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 5 (edited) 4 hours ago, Loki said: The TNA Impact! show is really worth catching this week, it's a compilation of great moments in TNA history, including the first ever TNA match (Styles, Lynn and Low Ki v Flying Elvises) and the first Kim-Kong match. While clearly it makes sense to showcase classic TNA now, for a while now I’ve found the over reliance on archive material to be to the detriment of modern day weekly TV. There was a point they had a terrible habbit of filling 10-15 minutes of the weekly TV show with ‘classic moment of the week’. While maybe a good idea on paper, I always thought it made the current stuff look weak when you panned from a packed soundstage with the best sound and lighting featuring the biggest names of the day, to a dimly lit hall with nowhere near the star power. Having a rich archive is a good thing but its not always a bright idea to remind your audience just how much better you used to be. I’m incredibly nervous about the relaunch tbh. I think there are too many people expecting the TNA of old, which is impossible for many reasons. This is TNA on Anthem/Impact Wrestling money, not Panda Energy money. During TNA’s heyday, rising from the ashes of WCW, WWE was in a creative slump and wrestlers had nowhere else to go, WWE were only hiring a certain kind of talent so TNA could hire good workers relatively cheaply. While I have no doubt that the budget will be bigger and the TV will look better post-January, I doubt it’ll be revolutionary. Nowadays its a wrestler’s dream marketplace. There’s WWE, the ‘coca cola of wrestling’ and there’s AEW, owned by the geeky son of a billionaire who’s always looking to add to his roster of 140 odd wrestlers. Its an inflated marketplace, wrestlers can command big money. Its well publicised that TNA (over?)stretched themselves to offer Punk and Ospreay $1m a year deals and it got them nothing but egg on their face. They’re a levereging tool to get a better offer from where they really want to go. Five years ago that would have got you a lot, now it might get you a released WWE midcarder as long as AEW doesn’t want them. Scott D’amore better have something big up his sleeve because “you’ll never believe who’s turning up” type claims raises expectation. There is no one obvious other than Sasha Banks and her demands are in a different stratosphere. Dolph Ziggler, days after appearing on New Japan, or Matt fucking Riddle, who’s signed with the wrong’un whisperer, Court Bauer, won’t cut it. Now Trinity is apparently off to WWE and Deonna Purazzo has signed for AEW. Not the best look, on the eve of your big show, when you’re solely seen as a place to rehab careers only for wrestlers to leave the first chance they get. Edited January 5 by garynysmon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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