Notes on TNA TV Deals and Monty Brown

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I found this on the Death Valley Driver board, from this week's Observer news letter:

 

TNA's deal with FSN is going to be up in a few weeks. The network wants them to renew for at least 6 months but they only wanted a "month by month" deal. WGN has made them a good offer and they could start by next month or July with them. A decision will have to be made quick because they claim Spike TV is still interested and they have another meeting set up. However, if a deal was made they obviously couldn't begin until Oct. after WWE left. Meltzer said if they got Spike TV, the best and only choice would be to shut down until they could go on in the fall with a huge media blitz the weeks before. There was also a small blurb that Antonio Inoki has offered to buy the company because he would love controlling rights of the NWA Titles.

 

Monty Brown was not used at the last TNA tapings because they are pressuring him to sign a new contract before July but he is holding off if WWE decides to make him an offer.

 

Now after pressure from the Carter Family, Jarrett says he will drop the title but he doesn't want to do it for AJ. He was thinking to Monty after a face turn but obviously those plans are up in the air until Monty has a decision.

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TNA's deal with FSN is going to be up in a few weeks. The network wants them to renew for at least 6 months but they only wanted a "month by month" deal. WGN has made them a good offer and they could start by next month or July with them. A decision will have to be made quick because they claim Spike TV is still interested and they have another meeting set up. However, if a deal was made they obviously couldn't begin until Oct. after WWE left. Meltzer said if they got Spike TV, the best and only choice would be to shut down until they could go on in the fall with a huge media blitz the weeks before. There was also a small blurb that Antonio Inoki has offered to buy the company because he would love controlling rights of the NWA Titles.

 

I wonder what kind of timeslot WGN is offering. If it's any weeknight slot (except the old ECW slot), I think they should take it, because clearly Fridays at 4 aren't cutting it.

 

Monty Brown was not used at the last TNA tapings because they are pressuring him to sign a new contract before July but he is holding off if WWE decides to make him an offer.

 

I hope Monty sticks it out in TNA. I think he'd get lost in the WWE shuffle, but he's on the verge of being TNA's big thing.

 

Now after pressure from the Carter Family, Jarrett says he will drop the title but he doesn't want to do it for AJ. He was thinking to Monty after a face turn but obviously those plans are up in the air until Monty has a decision.

 

I thought Jarrett couldn't make booking decisions anymore. I agree that Monty would be better than AJ because him and AJ have basically traded the title since November 2002, he really shouldn't have a say in who he drops the belt to if he's not booking. And make no mistake, he needs to drop the belt.

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Inoki in charge of the NWA Titles. We could see the belts changing hands every week and the belt given to K1 fighters. It would be terrible. Even worse than Jeff Jarrett as Champion. Monty is with that agent that also represents Mick Foley and Triple H I heard. WWE he we come.

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Now after pressure from the Carter Family, Jarrett says he will drop the title but he doesn't want to do it for AJ. He was thinking to Monty after a face turn but obviously those plans are up in the air until Monty has a decision.

 

I thought Jarrett couldn't make booking decisions anymore. I agree that Monty would be better than AJ because him and AJ have basically traded the title since November 2002, he really shouldn't have a say in who he drops the belt to if he's not booking. And make no mistake, he needs to drop the belt.

I dont think he should be allowed in the booking, but I tend to agree that he shouldnt drop it to Styles. If the bookers tell him to drop it, he has to drop it . . . but to the best person there is to drop it to. You may describe this as time wasting but Brown (or Raven for that matter) makes more sense than Styles.

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I think its fucking nuts that the FSN contract is done in a few weeks and TNA has not made the decision yet whether to go to somewhere else or not. When/if they move from FSN, its going to be so sudden that nobody will even know about the move - that is something they should promote ahead of time before its done. So with that said, they might as well stay on FSN until they hear a definate answer from Spike, at the least. WGN to me still doesnt seem any better than FSN regardless of the time and day and especially if they still have to pay for the timeslot.

 

Inoki wants to buy TNA? Yikes - I dont know how that would fly at all. If he had a minority stock in the company, that might be interesting as he could have some creative input but not the final say.

 

Its weird with Brown as if they are pressuring him to sign a new contract, thats understandable, but then the report this week from the Torch says that he IS negotiating with TNA right now, but TNA wont even negotiate back. What the ??!!!

 

With the title situation, I actually agree with Jarrett's sentiments and that was something that should have been done months ago - again what Jarrett supposedly was pushing and building towards back before Rhodes came in SUPPOSEDLY. But yeah if they can't come to some agreement soon with Brown, Styles is the second best choice.

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I agree with Jarrett as well. I think its cool he finally is willing to drop the title but he shouldn't drop it to Styles. My main reasoning is due to the fact the only real champions for TNA so far has been Styles and Jarrett. Killings was a cool champion but I wouldn't really count him as one of the best, and Shamrock was just sorta...there. I think its time for TNA to actually have someone new beat Jarrett, so people get that "Holy shit!" feeling. Style's did it before, so if he did it again, I think it would make others whose already gone for the title look pretty weak.

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Styles should get the belt, and his first feud should be with Daniels. Right there you've got two fresh people feuding over the title, guaranteed good matches, and your champion (AJ) is far and away a better worker than either of the World Champions in WWE.

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Waiting for Spike to decide might hurt TNA in the long run.

 

Does Ted Turner have any say about what goes down on his networks anymore?

 

I thought he couldn't broadcast a wrestling program until 2005.

 

And he couldn't have interests or own a wrestling company until 2006.

 

It was all part of the sale of WCW. But i don't know if this is true.

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Waiting for Spike to decide might hurt TNA in the long run.

 

Does Ted Turner have any say about what goes down on his networks anymore?

 

I thought he couldn't broadcast a wrestling program until 2005.

 

And he couldn't have interests or own a wrestling company until 2006.

 

It was all part of the sale of WCW. But i don't know if this is true.

Turner doesn't own any of his TV networks anymore and he lost a lot of money when Time Warner merged with AOL and the stock value tanked.

 

At this point, he doesn't have any TV networks.

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Turner doesn't own any of his TV networks anymore and he lost a lot of money when Time Warner merged with AOL and the stock value tanked.

 

At this point, he doesn't have any TV networks.

Damnit thats what i thought.

 

thanks for the info.

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Yeah...it's weird. People still think Ted Turner owns a TV station, and he got out of it, like, what? Five or six years ago now? Kind of stuck in that Monday Night Wars mentality on the internet, I guess. (I'm not trying to take the above poster to task, it happens a lot on this message board and others).

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I would have seriously thought he still owned a network if it wasn't for someone saying he didn't a while back on here, mikesc i think.

 

This was just confirming my fear, it kinda feels like all hope is lost now for another monday night war. I feel dead inside.

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Inoki in charge of the NWA Titles. We could see the belts changing hands every week and the belt given to K1 fighters. It would be terrible. Even worse than Jeff Jarrett as Champion. Monty is with that agent that also represents Mick Foley and Triple H I heard. WWE he we come.

If Inoki did take charge of TNA would that mean japanese wrestlers working the main event? That would be a good thing since it would expand its current demographic from southern rednecks to puro geeks and maybe some MMA fans. Just to get away from the "all of our workers are cowboys" stigma is a good thing. It would make for an interesting X Cup, at least.......Antonio Inoki vs Antonio Pena in a power struggle would be very very intersting.

 

Monty Brown would not get lost in WWE since he has superior mic skills and a interesting personality. But then again there is the risk of Monty going to OVW to learn how to over act and be a laughing stock.

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Its weird with Brown as if they are pressuring him to sign a new contract, thats understandable, but then the report this week from the Torch says that he IS negotiating with TNA right now, but TNA wont even negotiate back. What the ??!!!

 

I think we'll get a clue of how the negiotations are going at the PPV. If Monty jobs in that tag match, chances are he's on the way out, as they wouldn't have him take 2 straight PPV losses if they are prepping him for a title run, however, if they put him over strongly, he's probably staying.