BoboBrazil
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People are watching TNA?
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January Wrasslin' |OT| It's a New Year, Yes It Is!
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TarpitCarnivore
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I don't see this logic. If a belt has a chance to change hands during RAW or Smackdown then people will tune in again.
You're the worst.
oo7
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TNA just don't get it do they? They have an opportunity to change it up for a potential new audience and what do we get? Dixie fuckin Carter opening up the show yapping. Change your ugly ass logo. Change the impact wrestling font. Change your color scheme. Everything about the product looks cheap, and has for 15 years. You have a title called the King of the Mountain title????? Get the fuck out of here jesus christ. I could vent all day on this company but why bother.
Look at WCW from mid 96 to early 98 formula and copy it verbatim. Boom, you instantly have a watchable product.
Look at WCW from mid 96 to early 98 formula and copy it verbatim. Boom, you instantly have a watchable product.
Sweeney Tom
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TarpitCarnivore
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After watching WK10, I hope the transition from NJPW to WWE can be pulled off. The feel and dynamic of that PPV was so different and fresh (for me as a newcomer to NJPW) compared to WWE. Similar to how I appreciate and enjoy LU going full tilt on gimmicks, production and story it's nice to have NJPW kind of be the opposite. WWE feels like a cartoon show by comparison.
oo7
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Yes because that's what made it an exciting product to watch when the bell rang...
This deserves an OT thread.
Lucha Underground makes the most of a small budget, and more importantly looks completely different from WWE instead of a cheaper version.
serenewarfare
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I don't how you guys haven't learned by now. TNA will never change. They will always be who they are. No matter what network, no matter what roster. Tonight's show was a chance to do something new, and they opened it with all the bad shit that brought their product down to where it is. Bad authority figures, run-ins on top of run-ins, and chaos for the sake of chaos. Also Josh Matthews and the Pope are fucking garbage announcers and the fact that they didn't change them out tells you all you need to know.
The push is real. From Smackdown:
Plus from TNA. lol some never learn
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYAA-FiWMAAxbw1.jpg
* Kalisto defeated Alberto Del Rio in a great non-title match
Plus from TNA. lol some never learn
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYAA-FiWMAAxbw1.jpg
Pristine_Condition
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Since when do people not care about people having legit athletic backgrounds?
wwe.com is the best dirtsheet
BoboBrazil
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Exactly. I gave up on them like 3 years ago after multiple chances for them to fix things.
Also, James Storm is a dumbass.
Sweeney Tom
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FUCKING LOL
How do you think they hired the best roster known to man for both exciting matches in the undercard and named talents from the early 80's and 90's to sell tickets? A gigantic budget. One-Three hours on one of the best nights for television. Another program when things were going really well. A merchandise line. A successful touring brand.
Takes money to make money.
You're not wrong though, they had the budget to do this in the Spike years.
FUCKING LOL
It's like watching Pookie go back to the crack house in New Jack City
TarpitCarnivore
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Didn't Bischoff convince Turner to give him a blank check to fix things?
Him being in the World Title tournament a few months back should have been a big clue that he was a protected project.
The Tuesday Night wars is real. TNA Impact versus Smackdown spoilers.
sf2fanatic
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EC3 still undefeated. Lol
LOL this is amazing
Serpentine
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FUCKING LOL
sorry about your damn luck
BoboBrazil
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WWE already ruined Smackdown. They put Byron Saxton on commentary for some reason. It didn't need a 3 man team.
serenewarfare
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FUCKING LOL
What's that quote about the definition of insanity again?
TheStruggler
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So when you have Styles and the others potentially come over how do you start them off, do you start them off separately, or put them together as a stable because League of Nations can fuck off and suck so bad, maybe a new stable would be better with them being heels (Aj and the others I mean)
TarpitCarnivore
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They've done it before with the Nexus, I think they could do this again with Balor/Bullet Club. They just need to not have it be so god damn hokey. Have it have a slight edge to it ala NWO or Shield.
serenewarfare
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Sweeney Tom
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Here's what you missed in the last year:
Recovered from a torn MCL
Won the world title again (DA thought literal ex-Marine Bobby Lashley wasn't patriotic enough to hold the belt in their first few televised title defenses, so they asked for Angle to have the belt)
Lost it 6 months later
Took a couple weeks off and had surgery to get rid of a tumor he had in his neck for over a year (kept wrestling until it started to press on a nerve, at which point they booked him to drop the belt)
Announced January would be his last match in TNA
Is expected to have at least one fight in Bellator after leaving, either against Ken Shamrock or Tito Ortiz
Didn't he also have to interact with his ex-wife and her new husband regularly for a couple weeks? His face shows psychological scars and not just physcial.
TheStruggler
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Def thinking a NWO type of thing, have them be heels but razor sharp and have an edge, I know wrestling is more directed towards adolescence now but with the right guys coming in they could definitely make the product a little edgier, just hope vince and creative dont fuck it up.
BoboBrazil
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As said before any angle or signing with potential that happened in the last 6+ years.
TarpitCarnivore
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I think they need to just be on their own. I worry if a larger name, HHH hypothetically, is involved it will become more about HHH than them. This is the same thing that happened with nwo once Hogan and Bischoff came in. It started to be the Bischoff show or the Hogan show and less about the nwo being the nwo.
avengers23
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TheStruggler
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I think they need to be their own thing, they need to be heels but stand against the authority, would it make them faces maybe, but give them an NWO where they are their own bosses do as they please and fuck up the show on purpose when they want
New TNA is same as the old TNA that led it to leave two networks.
Plus the New Japan conference has started and someone is translating it.
https://twitter.com/e_key_oide
Plus the New Japan conference has started and someone is translating it.
https://twitter.com/e_key_oide
While im sure this is a big deal for some of the bigger wrestling fans, I have a hard time believing that they are gonna illicit any sort of giant reactions from the main roster crowds.
NXT crowds on the other hand....
Sweeney Tom
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#Pray4Data
El Pescado
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Why is Impact Wrestling windowboxed on my TV? Why did I even turn this on? LOL
BoboBrazil
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Isn't it on the tv guide channel? I think they need room for the guide info. Also, I read the spoilers already. Don't waste your time. TNA is garbage.
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