TNA News from the Torch

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

The guy on this wrestling message board got the Torch and reposted it. Enjoy.

 

TNA NEWZ:

 

- The Nov. 30th PPV is off due to Hogan's "knee injury". That's in quotes to suggest that it is not legitimate. The two schools of thought are that the knee injury is a total lie, or that Hogan does need surgery but could have put it off until well past the PPV. Having the surgery now lets him save face by delaying the PPV that almost surely would have been a failure with the last second nature of it.

 

With the second theory, you gotta wonder if TNA may be involved in the chicanery, since they would be burned by a huge failure just as bad as Hogan would. The delay also gives them time to obtain a license to promote in Vegas, which they wanted to do, although Nashville and Tampa are still on the table. Most sources see the rescheduled PPV happening in January.

 

Of course there's always a chance that Hogan really does need the surgery now. But if Hogan thought for a second that this TNA PPV would be a success, he'd surely go through with it regardless of how much his knee hurt.

 

- Ron Killings is not at all happy about his push, nor is AJ Styles.

 

- Kid Kash and Abyss had a little shouting match after their wrestling match. Kash complained to TNA officials that Abyss worked rough, and Abyss took exception and confronted Kash in the shower area. A wrestler then did an impression of the routine that Kash apparently does when he gets mad, which is a lot. Dutch Mantell has already talked to Kash about his awful reputation.

 

- There's lots of rumors that Jimmy Hart has been talking with Jeff about joining forces. The Jarretts have an existing product, and Jimmy has some connections to possible TV deals. Dave Penzer was working backstage at last week's show, which people took as a sign that Jimmy is more involved than ever with TNA. Cause Penzer is his boy.

 

- Danny Doring was dating Francine for a while. But they broke up. How sad.

 

- They had promoted an interview with Roddy Piper, but on the show they had the red-shirt security faction destroy the Piper tape before it could air. People say that Piper's interview was so incoherent that Jeremy Borash couldn't get any quality footage out of it, so they did the angle with the tape being broken.

 

- Wrestlers say that Goldylocks has either moved to Nashville, or is doing work in the area for a while, so the company gave her another chance since they don't have to pay to fly her in anymore. Nobody was happy to see her come back cause she's a huge pain in the ass.

 

- AMW got more locker room heat after "boo-boo facing" once they found out a finish to a match last week. This time it wasn't even their own match, they were boo-booing over Doring and Roadkill going over Simon and Swinger, even though it was AMW's interference that would lead to the win. One wrestler said that nothing gets you heat with veterans like boo-boo facing.

[Guest The Last Free Voice]

I have seen half of these before, but the possibility of Hogan faking the knee injury is shocking to say the least.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

Hogan's been having knee problems since LAST summer. I doubt he'd fake it before a big show. Even HE wouldn't stoop to HBK levels of faking injuries.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Hogan's had messed up knees since his WCW run so I doubt he's faking.

 

And this is the Torch. They are probably the most anti-Hogan rag out there. Remember just a few weeks ago they were saying Hogan was lying by saying he was in talks with TNA.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

Hogan's had messed up knees since his WCW run so I doubt he's faking.

 

And this is the Torch. They are probably the most anti-Hogan rag out there. Remember just a few weeks ago they were saying Hogan was lying by saying he was in talks with TNA.

I thought Hogan had surgery during his WCW Run (1999 I'd assume) which is why he started wearing the knee brace.

 

 

Or I'm just thinking that's what happend in my EYE-magination.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

Yeah he did. But surgery doesn't necessarily mean your knees are normal after that.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

I know, I was just trying to remember if he's had the surgery before. I guess he'll be fine until 2006 after the next one.

[Guest Salacious Crumb]

I think he had it in spring of 99, but I'm not sure if it was a work or not.

[The Thread Killer 0]

I heard that Hogan's knee is so shot, that after he retires for good, he's going to have to get an artificial knee.

 

Ouch.

[Guest Doyo]

Meltzer posted this on Thursday :

"--The key thing on last night's TNA show was the official announcement that the 11/30 PPV is now "rescheduled." More people are catching on to this one than I imagined, as almost everyone who called last night had already figured it out."

 

 

That last sentence is kind of cryptic. Did people figure out that the ppv was going to be a

disaster and needed more planning or did Hogan just use TNA to get a better deal with

Vince - "don't work TNA and you will get a prominent role at Wrestlemania 20"???

Edited October 25, 2003 by Doyo

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

The "faking" of the knee injury is a definate possiblity. With the proper planning and advertising this PPV could do very well, but with a rushed PPV it WILL fail. Hogan is the biggest political person ever in wrestling, and that hasn't changed. I think he is trying to insure the fact that if the show fails it's not on him.

[Fökai 0]

I'd suspect that TNA wanted to plan the PPV out better - booking more workers, renting a better arena, while advertising the HELL out of it - so "rescheduling" it due to Hogan's injury would be a easy way out of the original date.

[Guest nikowwf]

Yeah, no way Hogan would be faking to get out of doing something he thought wouldn't be succesful. Thats not like him at all. That is the last thing Hogan would ever do.

 

Peeps, it may all be legit and ill be plunking down my cash for the 3 hour show even if the evil orange goblin is there, but everyone here acting oblivious that there could possibly be any funny business with Hogan is a bit ridiculous.

 

niko

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Yeah, no way Hogan would be faking to get out of doing something he thought wouldn't be succesful. Thats not like him at all. That is the last thing Hogan would ever do.

 

Peeps, it may all be legit and ill be plunking down my cash for the 3 hour show even if the evil orange goblin is there, but everyone here acting oblivious that there could possibly be any funny business with Hogan is a bit ridiculous.

 

niko

Why is that? Hogan has proved time and time again that he is the biggest political person the business has ever seen. Vince has said this plenty of times, other guys in the business have said this. Now, I'd be the first one to say that I don't believe everyone in the business. So many people have spoken out about Hogan though I highly doubt most of this talk would be false. Also, if you already haven't read Hogan's book and listen to his distorted details of the past. But just to give you some insight, all of those distorted details just so happen to make him look GOD like.

 

 

go figure

[eirejmcmahon 0]

Nikko was being sarcastic in his opening paragraph.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

sorry, I guess I'm retarded