Corey_Lazarus

True, true. I still think that the best main event TNA could hope for would be Harris (who is easily carried, despite being a medicore wrestler himself), Truth (can hold is own but can't carry, and is incredibly charismatic and sells like a mother), Daniels (experience, ability to improvise and carry, charismatic and sells better than anybody on the roster), and Styles (their [non-Jarrett] golden boy). Raven and JJ will have to be fazed out. Raven can stay longer than Jarrett, because the fans still respond to him, and he has a lot to offer the younger workers. Jarrett doesn't.

EDIT: Ne'ermind.

It's mostly the style. If you need more than 10 minutes to have a match that can be considered "good," then you're not too good of a worker (at least yet). You need to be able to go the distance, no matter if it's 100 yards or 10 feet, dig? And TNA does get too much of a freebie on this one, namely because they do allow their guys to do a little more than what WWE does. But notice how the WWE style has produced more classic matches in the past year than TNA has...

See, if TNA actually had smart businessmen in the company, they'd realize that having, say, two shows a month where two weeks worth of PPV are taped each would save money (and have it be on the weekend, so then more people would probably come), and when word got out that the shows were quality (assuming they were), people would order the PPV or the replay. Also...TNA needs to get their DVDs in stores. I think they signed a deal to start doing that, but I haven't heard any news on it since the initial "signing" (if it even happened, or maybe I'm just imagining things). The DVDs are the best product they've ever produced (even though the flaw of the pop-up screen with one of the match contestants talking about how they laid out the match is GH3¥), and passers-by that browse the wrestling DVD section would probably notice a few names they've seen on TV (Raven, Scott Hall, Jeff Jarrett, D'Lo Brown, Elix Skipper, Kid Kash, BG James, Konnan), a few names they remember reading about (AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, The Truth, LowKi), and a few legends (Dusty Rhodes, Sting), and might pick it up. I know I picked up a couple XPW tapes just by word-of-mouth that they were extremely hardcore (boy, talk about a huge disappointment), and didn't mind them too much (namely Go Funk Yourself and Baptized In Blood, and those are only because of the matches involving Messiah and Johnny Webb), so why not? TNA had the chance a while ago to completely differentiate themselves from WWE by allowing their workers to do what they want in the ring (as long as they don't use another wrestler's finisher as a transition spot, which I do believe was made clear to them), and provide some SE for the fans that WWE lost in 2001 and 2002, all the while making it clear that they were more about the fans than other companies were...but then they decided to become huge fucking tools by limiting their workers, booking crap, and driving away a larger percentage of the paying fanbase than WWE has ever done.

Eidos made a wrestling game, Buzz. They developed the Backyard Wrestling game. It's not too bad a game, really, but it's more of a fighting game with three wrestling moves (all of which, in true BYW fashion, are big finishers in WWE, mind you, but are transition moves in the game). It's also fucking impossible, because your opponents will always move faster than you, are always stronger than you, etc. If Konami made it...that Konami code better give you a few specials/finishers...or maybe we'd get an engine similar to Fire Pro, where you can hit any move at any time, but depending on how long the match has gone in is what determines whether or not its effective. ...nah. We'll get some fourth-rate fighting game with blah graphics and shitty gameplay. But I like the idea, DK, of being able to crush Dutch with the TNA truck.

Because they're trying to go back to how they sounded for money. They don't want to play that style of music anymore, and if you take out the overdone underproduction of St. Anger, it's just songs that would fit on Load and ReLoad with downtuned instruments. Metallica looked at the fact that the fans don't want to hear the new stuff live. They don't buy the new stuff as much as they do the old stuff. Hell, Puppets outsold everything they did post-Black, and that was released when Metallica had no radio play and no music videos. They saw that the fans of edgier music were coming back to the forefront of rock, and that metal bands like Shadows Fall, Lamb Of God, Killswitch Engage, and various Pantera sub-groups were becoming big, so they wanted to be edgy again. They failed because they did it simply to cash in on the trend. As for Phil selling out, I say that in the sense that he tries to do everything for when the trend in the "underground" metal scene is. It might not be exactly selling out, but he's pretty trendy in terms of metal, you have to admit.

Damageplan and Superjoint would not be on the same show. Dime and Vinnie would fucking murder Rex and Phil.

Nah. THE MAN killed ECW. Didn't you attend the "Wrestling Conspiracy Theories" meeting? That was brought up right after we talked about how Vinnie Mac sent Russo to WCW so he could kill off the competition, and then tried the same with TNA, but TNA started getting more popular because of Russo's influence and the hard work.

Anytime, DK. Anytime. And it all comes back to TNA not wanting their wrestlers (whose contracts stated nothing about not being able to work RoH or other indies) working for another company that has a larger fanbase, makes money, and routinely puts on better shows and allows the workers to do whatever they want to in the ring as long as the finish remains the same. Yep...Teddy Hart carried Team Canada on his back. Soon, I guess I'll have to polish off my "FJJ" campaign...

Re: no hanging out with fans. Didn't ECW do this all of the time? Their workers would go out and mingle with the crowd? And if Paul E. had hired an accountant and he hadn't tried to push ECW too far so soon, they'd still be in business today (yes, I'm a Mutant at heart). So...why does TNA hate the fact that the wrestlers are hanging out with the people paying (in some cases, haha) to see them? Oh, right. That whole "we're TNA, and we hate the idea of actually making money" thing they've got down pat.

I can't think of any company that could publish a wrestling game that would be any good...who makes the Mortal Kombat games? Did Williams go out of business/change their name/get bought out/merge? Because the only contenders I could see making a decent game would have already made one by now (Capcom, mostly, and they already made Saturday Night Slam Masters).

Not really. It's one thing to cry "sell-out" when a band you like changes their style through experimentation and happens to get more fans, or just gets more fans in general. That's not selling out, that's just growing and more people happening to like it. Selling out would be altering your music strictly to make more money off of it. There's a difference. I wouldn't call Metallica sell-out's until St. Anger, and even then I wouldn't stress, and that's simply because they've ALWAYS said they make the music for themselves and for their own purposes. Ditto Megadeth. Mustaine grew up listening to Cat Stevens more than he did Black Sabbath, so we got Risk and a bunch of other slow Megadeth songs before that. But one band I will always yell at for being sell-out's is, well...EVERY SINGLE BAND PHIL ANSELMO HAS EVER BEEN A PART OF. Seriously. Pantera was glam rock. Glam rock started to die down and be replaced by edgier metal and hard rock (namely Metallica, Megadeth, and GNR), so they released Cowboys From Hell and Darrell changes his name from Diamond to Dimebag. Metal gets edgier. Vulgar Display Of Power is released. Metal becomes faster and heavier. The Great Southern Trendkill and Far Beyond Driven are released. Then Phil records Down's NOLA based off of the blues-influenced metal coming from New Orleans. Reinventing The Steel was a poor attempt at briefly touching upon the swamp and also old-school Pantera. Down's second record, II, comes out, and Phil also starts/joins Superjoint Ritual to cash in on the current craze of hardcore metal. And somewhere in there, I think Phil also played bass for Necrophagia. Fuck Phil Anselmo and his awesome voice and even greater stage presence. Fucking sell-out.

You motherfuckers voted off Ghostbusters...AGAIN! FUCK YOU ALL! Back to the Future Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope American History X Taxi Driver Mallrats The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Reservoir Dogs Almost Famous Seven (Se7en) Goodfellas North by Northwest Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back Raging Bull Terminator 2: Judgment Day Fight Club Blazing Saddles Schindler's List Kill Bill Vol. 1 The Shawshank Redemption Citizen Kane Scarface Forrest Gump Raiders of the Lost Ark The Godfather Part II A Clockwork Orange Pulp Fiction Rocky Memento Psycho (1960) Platoon The Usual Suspects Clerks

CC > CWM. That is all.

caboose, explain how Deftones are metal. Because they're not. At all. They share a lot more in common with the SoCal punk scene than they do with Bay Area (which churned out four of the Big 5 in Thrash: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Exodus). KoRn are grunge because Jon Davis whines? Um, okay. Grunge music was founded on post-punk indie rock (like The Pixies and Sonic Youth) with a touch of old-school punk and some minor folk elements. The guitars are minorly distorted and standard tuned (low to high: EADGBe), the bass is clean, the vocals deep and sung, and the drums are pure rock drumming. KoRn uses heavy distortion, detuned (I believe they either use Drop-C or are tuned to C) 7-string guitars, chunky slapbass (done poorly, might I add), the vocals whiny or screamed, and the drums are jazz drumming (also done poorly). So, again...HOW ARE THEY GRUNGE? As for bands that sold out...I'd say Misfits, but the change in music is mostly because Doyle was a better guitarist than the original one (I always forget his name), and Graves was the closest sounding voice to Danzig Jerry could find. Oh, wow, so Jerry learned how to play. Yep, he sold out alright. He's just the one wearing the same boots he was 15 years ago, writing the same 50's-influenced songs he was then too.

I somehow doubt that any animated movie designed for children could be smarter than South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut, considering most of the jokes in that got by a lot of the "smart" people I know. I'll check it out when it comes to DVD. I didn't mind the first one, but it wasn't as funny as people made it out to be.

Heat Wave 1999. Dayton, Ohio. "We Love Tommy!" (clap, clap, clap clap clap) "We Love Tommy!" It's my favorite, and just because Tommy broke out in tears when he realized that his hard work and his broken back mattered to the ECW fans.

Plus, Nitro is a young worker that needs to be put over in the fans' eyes. Although he'd lose the Jericho program, getting the best of Jericho for a little while until the blowoff would get him over enough where he could carry himself. Plus, he'd learn a great deal about how to work a match, since Jericho's been around for over a decade.

Nah. Society wins if all of Kylie's personalities kill each other off, and thus she dies, and then Kotz kills himself in response.

-Top hat. 1800's style (don't know the actual name for them). The kind you'd see Ebenezer Scrooge wear in any production of A Christmas Carol. -Camouflage jacket, preferably urban camouflage (black, white, and shades of gray), left unbuttoned. -Fishnet shirt. -Electrical tape over your nipples. -Plaid mini-skirt with "EAT ME" written on the front in strips of white duct tape. -A pair of old Chucks with holes in them, any color. -Long, knee-high tubesocks. There's no way in hell you won't be remembered for this one.

See, the problem with that is that Russo's booking while in TNA (until he left) was surprisingly very solid. He booked with Jerry Jarrett, and wrote most of the programming, and it was a great show. I willingly forked over money to see it, and now I wonder if I'm making the right choice. I shouldn't be wondering this, and TNA shouldn't make me wonder this. And again, I put the blame on Dutch, since he can't book for fucking shit.

Then they should start producing a good product again instead of the mediocre one we've been getting since Russo returned to level off Dutch's shittiness, eh? Step 1: Get rid of Dutch. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit.

I believe that Botox Kylie would kick all of their asses, if only because she doesn't seem afraid to get hit in the face. Sex Kylie is used to taking shots in the face, though, but Cute Kylie? Doesn't stand a chance. Indie Kylie would take the bat away and beam her off the head, eliminating her after the 1-2-3. Yes. I'm putting my money on Botox Kylie.

...a little different, since you weren't contractually bound to play basketball, and I'm also betting not a lot of people came to see you play, right? I've never seen more than, say, 20 people show up for a high school basketball game in my life. But the question is: why is Jarrett (be it Jeff or Jerry, whoever actually runs the show now) being such a douchebag lately?

And another Masshole bites the duts...**sniff** But hey, this may open the doors for Jonah, assuming he's still working, who doesn't seem like he'd be too bad of a wrestler (and in his ONE TNA match, he wasn't that bad at all, although very green).