Enigma 0 Report post Posted August 30, 2004 The wrestlers were officially told about the change to monthly PPVs on 8/18, and the company sent out a press release the next day. The first of the monthly shows will be on 11/7. No location is finalized, but both Nashville and Fort Campbell, KY (a military base near Nashville) have been talked about, although the latter may not be available due to the war. Those inside are talking about perhaps doing as many as the first few Sunday PPVs from Nashville, before taking it on the road, but always using Nashville at least every third or fourth show after that. Wrestlers were told about it in different groups, I guess in case someone complained about the loss of income, it wouldn't spread as fast. The general consensus was the company was doing the right thing. The wrestlers were told that the TV's would be moved to Tuesdays, starting on 9/15, and they would try to start running Wednesday night house shows in Florida to help the wrestlers make up the lost income. It would be more financially prudent, as they'll learn, to simply pay the guys a weekly salary and try and work on sold shows, because doing house shows in this day and age, unless you don't pay the talent, is a money loser. Sources at Fox Sports Net have confirmed there is serious talk about moving the TV show to Sunday mornings once football season starts. The idea at this point seems to be to tape Xplosion as an upgraded one hour show along with Impact every Tuesday starting on 9/14. The battle plan now is to upgrade Xplosion with better matches and interviews, and attempt to get it syndicated into more markets. Because that means two hours of taping every Tuesday, the idea of cutting the tapings back to every other week as a cost-cutting measure isn't likely, at least at first. That would require four hours of taping at one sitting and that isn't going to work with a modern audience. Remember when WCW taped Thunder immediately after Nitro, and how desolate Thunder used to come across as? Vince Russo sent us a letter saying he's been off the creative team only for the past 3-4 weeks (the company had portrayed him as being off the creative team for much longer). He said until that time he used to go back to Tennessee after the Florida tapings and stay with Jeff Jarrett and Dutch Mantel on Fridays, but hasn't done it in a while. He said he asked Jarrett to take him off creative. He said it's true he did do the D-Lo Brown bit a few weeks ago (when Brown did the interview that at this point seemed to have gone nowhere saying he didn't care about wrestling and only cared about his baby daughter). He said he's still producing segments on the show but not doing any writing, and he doesn't know the nature of the segments he's producing until he shows up at the building and gets his orders from Jarrett. He said his reasons for asking out are time constraints, as he still has a CD business in Atlanta, and has been working on seminary school by internet since May. He said there has never been any heat between himself and Jarrett, but that he comes from a different school than Jarrett and Mantel and he couldn't adjust to their writing style. He said there was no yelling, screaming, or arguing, and he's never complained to anyone about anything TNA has done or is doing to anyone (several who have heard this have strongly denied this being the case, although they say he doesn't make an issue of it in public). He said he has no desire anymore to write TV or book wrestling anymore, that his heart is a million miles from wrestling and he wants to start his own ministry so he can share his miraculous story with others. The talk among everyone is that Jeff Jarrett & Dutch Mantel as bookers don't want any of their ideas challenged, and aren't the best at listening to ideas from others, so most have shied away from even offering. There are complaints with the booking of Monty Brown. At first, a lot of guys were unhappy when top guys were jobbing for him, feeling he was being pushed when all he had going for him was his physique. Now, because he's getting over and showing charisma, the problem is he's being booked as a heel, but he's gotten so popular that it's hard for the babyfaces to work against him without coming off badly, so the feeling is he needs to turn. Brown's interviews come from his watching Discovery Channel and learning terminology. The situation with ROH getting use of A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels came down to another impasse. TNA demanded that Gabe Sapolsky apologize to them over how everything transpired, because TNA felt vindicated by the Rob Feinstein mess getting out. Sapolsky agreed to do that. They then demanded he also admit that he knew all along that Feinstein was still involved with ROH and profiting from the company. Being that, with the exception of the one meeting that took place after the ROH/TNA incident took place, there is no indication Feinstein was involved with ROH, and he certainly wasn't profiting from it since he wasn't on salary from it and the company was losing money, Sapolsky said that at the time he didn't know and wouldn't publicly say that. Glenn Gilberti, after losing the deal where he was fired, apparently called in to find out if and when he's going to be used, and got a "We'll call you when we need you" in return. David Sahadi has agreed to start working in production, which is a big coup, since his departure from WWE was considered a significant loss. He's won awards for some of the PPV commercials he's produced. Sahadi will be working on doing features and ideas to get guys over, similar to the stuff he did in WWE years back when the guys like the Hardys, Edge & Christian, and Val Venis were introduced. A funny story is that Universal released a promotional video, and one of the things it showed was Jimmy Hart recruiting fans from the park to come to the Impact tapings. They show a woman coming up to him to ask for information, and he tells her that Sting and Dusty Rhodes were going to be there, and he walked away. Add Johnny Swinger & Glenn Gilberti to Pat Kenney on the list of people who won't be around for a while because the company wants to repackage them. The ETA on all of their returns is next month, and different ideas have been talked about for Swinger & Gilberti. They were told this week to come in this coming week to be fitted for costumes for their new version of the NYC gimmick. Kid Kash may be back in hot water for comments he made in May on a video called "Holy Shoot" produced by BBrownVideo.com. He hinted about wrestlers trading sexual favors for pushes, saying, "All of a sudden there are a couple of guys that let guys blow them, and then they get title shots and they're making more money than you." He said he's working on getting a chiropractic degree and said TNA has a lot of young punks making lots of money who don't know how to get over, and said as far as he was concerned, he was working their just for the paycheck. He ripped on Bob Ryder having decision-making power. He hinted Ryder had put money into the company (I've never heard that other than unsubstantiated rumors) but that shouldn't give him the right to making booking decisions. He said he doesn't enjoy working for TNA, and specifically ripped on A.J. Styles, Chris Harris, and James Storm. He said the first time he talked to Styles, Styles gave him a list of moves not to do because they were Styles' moves, and Kash said Styles copied them all from Nova in the first place. He said Harris, if his match is cut, will screw up the time, just to get his spots in, and claimed there was spot with Quiet Storm and Harris where Storm wanted to do an elbow move and Harris didn't want it in the match because of the size difference, that Storm did it anyway and knocked him out with it, and started calling Harris a "tomcat." He put over Amazing Red and Trinity, said Jonny Fairplay was the biggest waste of TNA money since Lex Luger, and laughed about Luger and Buff Bagwell saying all the time they spent laughing at the younger wrestlers came back on them because now nobody wants to use them. Kash also said he didn't think TNA could succeed, even with television, and said everyone in WWE laughs at TNA. 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Guest Staravenger Report post Posted August 30, 2004 Finally Xplosion gets better. The dark matches from Impact look to be entertaining and it shouldn't be THAT hard to film them to air the next week. One thing makes no sense: They say they'll "Call" Gilberti when they need him (aka get lost), but then reported they said he'll be back within a month with a new look? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Last Free Voice Report post Posted August 30, 2004 Kid Kash is fucking retarded. Styles is ten times the talent Kash is. Fuck Kid Kash. Just fire the guy already. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Staravenger Report post Posted August 30, 2004 WWE is laughing at Kash too, because when everyone had a chance to go to WWE (if they were offered a contract), he was on the list of people that Vince wanted nothing to do with. But I do like his comments on Harris going against the bookers to do shit and making fun of Luger & Bagwell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Last Free Voice Report post Posted August 30, 2004 What week did Devine Storm fight AMW? Cause I probibly have it, and i wanna see if Kash is right, or just full of shit.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Staravenger Report post Posted August 30, 2004 I don't think Devine Storm has competed in TNA since the Winter of 2002-2003. So an educated guess would put it around November/December of 2002. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest The Last Free Voice Report post Posted August 30, 2004 I'll have to check it out tonight... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bort Report post Posted August 31, 2004 Sexual favors.......Goldylocks getting a big push? maybe As for his comments on AMW, Hes pretty much right. TNA gives them more money and treats them as if they were the second comming. Its been reported many times that They dog it if there gonna lose the match. I really think at this point Kash is just trying to get his release Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo Effect 0 Report post Posted August 31, 2004 What week did Devine Storm fight AMW? Cause I probibly have it, and i wanna see if Kash is right, or just full of shit.... January 15, 2003 - NWA:TNA: Chris Harris & James Storm defeat Devine Storm to retain the NWA Tag Team titles.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cmpunk04 0 Report post Posted August 31, 2004 they had an earlier meeting as well in late 2002 just before the TNA break for christmas. Devine Storm won when trinity helped them. It was non title btw. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magus 0 Report post Posted August 31, 2004 Jarrett and Dutch... whatta team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted August 31, 2004 Kash > Styles. Kash can get a crowd hating him by just doing a punch and a kick. Styles needs to often use his arsenal of great moves and bump his ass off to make the crowd love him, and it took a little while for him to get over as a heel, originally. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Donners Report post Posted August 31, 2004 He still has a very big mouth for somebody who really has done little in the wrestling world. Not sure where the line between work and shoot ends, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vyce 0 Report post Posted August 31, 2004 Okay, explain the logic to me of making Xplosion - the show that's only syndicated in a few markets, as opposed to the other show, which is NATIONALLY SYNDICATED - the better show. What angers me is not that they aren't trying - it's that they fuck it up so incredibly when they do. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CubbyBr 0 Report post Posted August 31, 2004 Okay, explain the logic to me of making Xplosion - the show that's only syndicated in a few markets, as opposed to the other show, which is NATIONALLY SYNDICATED - the better show. What angers me is not that they aren't trying - it's that they fuck it up so incredibly when they do. This is the kind of mindless bashing that just pisses me of. Who said that Xplosion was going to be made into the better show? What was said was that Xplosion would get upgraded with better matches/interviews in order to promote the PPV more and get it into more markets. What was also said in the Observer was that once the monthly PPV's would go into affect, Impact would become the main show and have the bigger matches instead of the squashes they have now. No one ever said XPlosion was going to be the main show or better than Impact yet you just assume it, state it as fact, and start bashing away when you don't know jack shit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Enigma 0 Report post Posted August 31, 2004 Okay, explain the logic to me of making Xplosion - the show that's only syndicated in a few markets, as opposed to the other show, which is NATIONALLY SYNDICATED - the better show. What angers me is not that they aren't trying - it's that they fuck it up so incredibly when they do. Nowhere in that report did it say that they were going to make Xplosion a better show than Impact. Quit jumping to stupid conclusions. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheZsaszHorsemen Report post Posted August 31, 2004 No shit, Monty Brown watched the DISCOVERY CHANNEL to become a better interview? I love Monty; turn him and give him the strap. He fucking rules. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MikeSC Report post Posted August 31, 2004 No shit, Monty Brown watched the DISCOVERY CHANNEL to become a better interview? I love Monty; turn him and give him the strap. He fucking rules. And now we know why hosses have jobs. -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheZsaszHorsemen Report post Posted August 31, 2004 No shit, Monty Brown watched the DISCOVERY CHANNEL to become a better interview? I love Monty; turn him and give him the strap. He fucking rules. And now we know why hosses have jobs. -=Mike The Discovery Channel? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted September 1, 2004 Yes. The Discovery Channel. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
