UrbanDandy
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Confirmed mark(ed) indeed. Watch Vince make another crossed love storyline.
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Confirmed mark(ed) indeed. Watch Vince make another crossed love storyline.
This predates all of the lie downs on WCW and is better than every single one of them.
Maybe Russo really was a splinter cell sent in to destroy WCW and TNA from within.
Bluekaveli
Member
At least this one was a swerve and gained something big from it. A big egotistical bitch.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
This is another thing people whitewashing the disaster that is their current audience numbers ignore: beyond the fact that millions have confirmed left (and left for good) over the last few (2-3) years, something that straight up doesn't happen with other shows in the same time span (Walking Dead and Game of Thrones for example), the few that remain cause the ad rates to be poor. They're not buying the products, so they're scaring off advertisers.
Wrestling is consistently one of the poorest products to advertise for during airings, to the point where TNA's name is so tainted legitimately any of us could buy at least one ad airing during Impact on POP. It's only around $250 to $300 for 30 seconds, so at most $100 for 10 seconds
That's not good. That is far from good. That is universes away from being good. You can only ignore a problem for so long. And yes, it is a problem.
Dark Ninja
Member
Del Rio truly an inspiration to the latino community.
BFIB
Member
Bro, what's up with that picture bro?
The Silver
Member
The D must be good
BFIB
Member
Who'd see it?
Bluekaveli
Member
Jr said dean Malenko's music is like James Bond l
Isn't it like 300 bucks for 30 seconds? Not much pooling needed IMO.
Malenko would make James Bond his personal bitch.
sf2fanatic
Member
That's an Enzo tattoo....
Bluekaveli
Member
Dean would take James' bitches and make James his errand boy.
Mr. Pointy
Member
If GAF pooled together... $30 a week for a month, could we buy TNA?
We'll have stables based on Nintendo, Sony and MS. Somebody can have a move called the Bomba. It'll be great.
We'll have stables based on Nintendo, Sony and MS. Somebody can have a move called the Bomba. It'll be great.
Professor Beef
Banned
only if I'm allowed to go over
UberTag
Member
How much extra money would they get if they made Smackdown 3 hours instead of 2 hours?
Or how about making RAW 4 hours instead of 3 hours?
Or how about adding a third live show later in the week in Smackdown's old timeslot? Maybe a 3-hour weekly NXT show?
Let's see how far we can stretch this quantity vs. quality dynamic.
Could we pool more than that and just run a competing wrestling promotion throughout all of the advert-time?
Bluekaveli
Member
Regal is so cool, I'd like to see dueling words between he and angle
Bluekaveli
Member
The Radicalz attacking Taker reminds me of the little people attacking the giant in Gulliver's travels.
Yeah I can't believe they don't have any educated and experienced professionals doing a cost/benefit analysis of the number/length of their television programs.
Team D-Minus
Myself
DMczaf
Blue
Zach
We'd all dress up like Monday Night Wars has-beens such as Al Snow and Val Venis.
Bluekaveli
Member
I got dibs on Val maybe even David Flair.
shaowebb
Member
Which poor bastard gets stuck dressing as Evan Keragias then? White guy dreads and a backwards hat...
British Monsoon
Member
I totally called Marufuji and the Sublime Master Thief taking the belts, NOAH is such trash at present, but the strong booking of K.E.S. was one of the high points. The weird thing with NOAH is that I just don't understand what the point of it all is - what value do Bushiroad see in the promotion beyond having a place to send guys they've got nothing for (like Suzuki-gun) and using their young boys on Lion's Gate shows? I guess the deal with NTV must be worth something, but it still seems to me they'd be better off ending it already and taking the best talent for New Japan.
NOAH is still around because Japanese promotions don't know how to die anymore unless they regularly book Tajiri. That's the only way they can die now. As proven by AJPW.
NJPW would have to do the most cherry picking to bring people over if they did. Juniors they could be a little more open because they need a junior roster ,but there's tons of independent junior top tier wrestlers they could go after but don't. So they don't seem interested. Kenou seems like the only obvious sign there, and I don't even know if they think of him as obvious. What would you do with Go in NJPW? I would have put him in the Sanada spot, but now they have Sanada. They already have the 'legendary gaijin protege/failed ace of our competition' spot filled. Sugiura would be nice to have some matches in NEVER, but he'd likely fall into the same trap as Nagata, Tenzan, Kojima of just being occasional oldhead sticking around.
Like Kenou is the only really obvious one to me. Nakajima's a great wrestler, but that's basically another Go in the personality department. And no one wants that.
I still think Go is WWE bound soon.
NJPW would have to do the most cherry picking to bring people over if they did. Juniors they could be a little more open because they need a junior roster ,but there's tons of independent junior top tier wrestlers they could go after but don't. So they don't seem interested. Kenou seems like the only obvious sign there, and I don't even know if they think of him as obvious. What would you do with Go in NJPW? I would have put him in the Sanada spot, but now they have Sanada. They already have the 'legendary gaijin protege/failed ace of our competition' spot filled. Sugiura would be nice to have some matches in NEVER, but he'd likely fall into the same trap as Nagata, Tenzan, Kojima of just being occasional oldhead sticking around.
Like Kenou is the only really obvious one to me. Nakajima's a great wrestler, but that's basically another Go in the personality department. And no one wants that.
I still think Go is WWE bound soon.
British Monsoon
Member
Nakajima I'd put in Shibata's current role of NEVER feuds with the 3rd gen guys, then push Shibata further up the pecking order. Kenou & Harada I'd have for the Jr's, Kenou could have such an awesome match with KUSHIDA I'm sure - maybe bring Kotoge along, as much as I find him bland and uninspiring, so we can get a native Jr. tag team in NJPW again. Go...add him to CHAOS as Goto's tag partner, I guess.
The biggest problem would be re-introducing Suzuki-gun, can't have 3 heel stables at once - I thought they'd split up in NOAH at some point, but it just seems to keep on going and going.
The biggest problem would be re-introducing Suzuki-gun, can't have 3 heel stables at once - I thought they'd split up in NOAH at some point, but it just seems to keep on going and going.
I wouldn't reintroduce Suzuki-gun at all. I'd bring back Suzuki and that's it. The rest can go get bookings in like Akebono's promotion or something. Iizuka can fuck off forever. I'd bring in Ohara as Kenou's mouthpiece/manager/occasional tag partner since he's much better at the charisma thing than any of NJPW's current juniors and that way Kenou can continue to be the badass samurai/punk thing while Ohara works the crowd. I'd make Kenou a big deal coming in.
I'd throw the junior heavyweight tag titles into the river.
It's funny that Wrestle-1, despite being the typical butt of jokes and having a weird roster, has been more entertaining all year than NOAH. NOAH might have bigger crowds, but you can watch a Wrestle-1 crowd vs a NOAH crowd and the W-1 crowd look way, way more into it.
I'd throw the junior heavyweight tag titles into the river.
It's funny that Wrestle-1, despite being the typical butt of jokes and having a weird roster, has been more entertaining all year than NOAH. NOAH might have bigger crowds, but you can watch a Wrestle-1 crowd vs a NOAH crowd and the W-1 crowd look way, way more into it.
British Monsoon
Member
Iizuka's probably got a job for life, unfortunately - he's Nagata's boy. A few years back Honma pitched the idea of him and some of the other jobbers doing a 'save Iizuka campaign', to bring him back to how he used to be before he went nuts.
Not so keen on the new DG stable name, but it alludes to Kzy & BxB's old tag pairing. Can't wait to see the King of Gate show from today;
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Not so keen on the new DG stable name, but it alludes to Kzy & BxB's old tag pairing. Can't wait to see the King of Gate show from today;
Kzy beat Shingo
NOAH seems like a dumpster fire.
Oh my god can't wait for that. The airing schedule for King of Gate is so random though. I'm fully caught up now, Day 2 was excellent apart from a 6 man with BxB Hulk clearly not up to speed yet.
Totally into this new faction though, great mix of characters. Wonder who gets to beat Shingo for the big one though.....
well
at least he won it, I'm seeing people saying it was a very tepid response. Poor Go, the booking for this whole thing has been very bad.
British Monsoon
Member
I like Devil Masami's theme, so chill for a lady who's gonna piledrive the fuck out of her opponents;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73wP2Xgtms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73wP2Xgtms
I'll be Horace. I'm just happy to be here.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
If the brand split and especially Smackdown's going live is a success you can be pretty damn sure USA will be wanting that third hour when the next round of TV negotiations roll around.
I think mine would start with everyone in, and then they get jumped out of the group when they post something I don't agree with. No name is coming to mind, though.