TNA Comments which don't warrant a thread

[razazteca 0]

Let the Armstrong brothers reunite at the next ECW PPV who cares what happens to Kip.

[Failed Bridge 0]

just watched Sting/Abyss from the recent PPV, thus finding out Abyss' deep dark secret and boy was it unoriginal. If they really wanted to make it a deep dark secret then they should have gone the route of him being accused of raping some headcase teen girl down the street from him during his youth and then she ended up killing herself during the whole trial process.

[Si82 0]

BG James we telling people backstage recently that if he could get out of his TNA deal and had an offer from the WWE he would jump in a heart beat. TNAWrestlingNews.com reports that Kip James feels the same way.

 

Wrestlingexposed.com

 

Yeah, like they'd take you back.

They spend months bashing WWE and now they come out with this.

[AlaskanHero 0]

Vince probably would take them back if they said that they wouldn't want to go back. He's always rehiring guys who don't want to return to WWE, those are the guys he wants the most.

[Mecca 0]

Vince probably would take them back if they said that they wouldn't want to go back. He's always rehiring guys who don't want to return to WWE, those are the guys he wants the most.

 

They would have got rehired for the DX angle if they hadn't done a shoot bashing HHH saying they wanted to kick his ass.

 

They purposely bashed DX thinking they could get resigned for a match, atleast that was my thought on it.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

WWE would re-sign them to have them work with DX, then HHH and/or Shawn Michaels would bury them, and they'd be jobbed out.

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just watched Sting/Abyss from the recent PPV, thus finding out Abyss' deep dark secret and boy was it unoriginal. If they really wanted to make it a deep dark secret then they should have gone the route of him being accused of raping some headcase teen girl down the street from him during his youth and then she ended up killing herself during the whole trial process.

 

Yeah, and then Sting can have sex with her corpse.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

just watched Sting/Abyss from the recent PPV, thus finding out Abyss' deep dark secret and boy was it unoriginal. If they really wanted to make it a deep dark secret then they should have gone the route of him being accused of raping some headcase teen girl down the street from him during his youth and then she ended up killing herself during the whole trial process.

 

Yeah, and then Sting can have sex with her corpse.

 

Vince Russo, is that you?

[razazteca 0]

just watched Sting/Abyss from the recent PPV, thus finding out Abyss' deep dark secret and boy was it unoriginal. If they really wanted to make it a deep dark secret then they should have gone the route of him being accused of raping some headcase teen girl down the street from him during his youth and then she ended up killing herself during the whole trial process.

 

Yeah, and then Sting can have sex with her corpse.

 

Vince Russo, is that you?

Would Tomko start telling everybody "It's not you're fault!"?

[dubq 0]

Then Sting would throw some brains at the camera and say "I just screwed her brains out" ...oh wait.

[Downhome 0]

Has this been posted yet?

 

 

MR. BACKLUND RESPONDS TO YOUTUBE VIDEO

 

It has come to my attention that a patron of Universal Studios in Orlando recently filmed me as I ventured throughout the various attractions inside the theme park.

 

Normally, I would articulate my abhorrence for intruding on the privacy of others. However, under the articles of the United States Constitution and the laws that govern this land, I was in a public area and said filmmaker was only documenting the events of which he saw! In other words, the plebian was well within his rights as an American citizen to capture my image on film for future generations, or even the internet, which is the vehicle he chose to publicize his findings!

 

However, what I do need to explain to the masses on the information superhighway concerning said video is the following:

 

1. The term “wandering” does not denote the correct explanation for my extensive travels that day! The proper terminology would be “exercise”, which nearly 80% of you plebians are lacking in vast quantities in the modern experience! In my opinion, the Universal Studios theme park provided an extremely adequate means of successfully completing my exercise regimen that given day!

 

2. Regarding my refusal to provide an autograph when requested to do so, it has been my longstanding belief that these types of encounters are an ideal platform to try to impress upon the masses the importance of a proper education! Before I offer my autograph, I simply require they recite the names of the Presidents of this great nation. If they are unable to do so, my hope is that it will provide them with an initiative to refocus their goals as an American citizen! It is quite easy to become immersed in the trappings of entertainment in our society, but it is another experience entirely to understand and appreciate the heritage of which the United States is built upon – and as a citizen it is vitally important for future generations!

 

3. It is not “garbage” that I was picking up! The applicable term is “refuse”. Imagine how much cleaner our cities and streets would be if every one of us allotted a few minutes on a daily basis to curtail such behavior!

 

In closing, to the filmmakers who publicized said video – and this goes to every one of you out there on the internet that are digesting this information in a digital format - I suggest for your future well-being and education that you spend less time online and more time at the library!

 

Mr. Backlund

[2GOLD 0]

I need to repeat, I love and missed Mr. Bob Backlund.

[Corkscrew_Senton 0]

Backlund is awesome. He would have been a great choice for the Bobby Roode manager angle. Since that didn't happen, I hope something longterm comes of this Austin Starr interaction.

[Si82 0]

The entire front row of any TNA event in Orlando should be shot.

 

God, those people are annoying.

[Corkscrew_Senton 0]

The entire front row of any TNA event in Orlando should be shot.

 

God, those people are annoying.

 

Agreed.

 

On a separate note, I was thinking of something for the X-Division, let me know your thoughts: Give the X Title to a worker who uses a slow, methodical style. Maybe Bobby Roode. Have him use a bunch of holds and power moves, and in his promos he bashes the fast paced X-style, a la Steve Corino's anti-hardcore movement. Then you have direction for not just the champion and the horribly wasted Roode, but you give the X faces some kind of direction.

[Guest mattw26]

Where can i find TNA wrestling on sky?

Rock

[Dobbs 3K 0]

That would actually be pretty interesting. Maybe have Roode attack Jerry Lynn as well, to put over that he's the real pioneer of the X Division, just to rub it in further. Roode should use a really boring finisher, like a sleeper hold or something as well.

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

The entire front row of any TNA event in Orlando should be shot.

 

God, those people are annoying.

 

Agreed.

 

On a separate note, I was thinking of something for the X-Division, let me know your thoughts: Give the X Title to a worker who uses a slow, methodical style. Maybe Bobby Roode. Have him use a bunch of holds and power moves, and in his promos he bashes the fast paced X-style, a la Steve Corino's anti-hardcore movement. Then you have direction for not just the champion and the horribly wasted Roode, but you give the X faces some kind of direction.

And that direction would be down. Well, if they weren't there already. The point of the X-Division is to have fast paced matches with big spots. Why not, I don't know, have a champion who can wrestle fast paced matches and do big spots? The idea of having an X-Division champion who doesn't wrestle the typical X-Division style isn't a bad one, but having that guy bury the X-Division wrestlers is.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

The entire front row of any TNA event in Orlando should be shot.

 

God, those people are annoying.

 

Agreed.

 

On a separate note, I was thinking of something for the X-Division, let me know your thoughts: Give the X Title to a worker who uses a slow, methodical style. Maybe Bobby Roode. Have him use a bunch of holds and power moves, and in his promos he bashes the fast paced X-style, a la Steve Corino's anti-hardcore movement. Then you have direction for not just the champion and the horribly wasted Roode, but you give the X faces some kind of direction.

And that direction would be down. Well, if they weren't there already. The point of the X-Division is to have fast paced matches with big spots. Why not, I don't know, have a champion who can wrestle fast paced matches and do big spots? The idea of having an X-Division champion who doesn't wrestle the typical X-Division style isn't a bad one, but having that guy bury the X-Division wrestlers is.

Plus, didn't we have that already with Sonny Siaki back in the weekly PPV days?

 

Oh, and we ALMOST had it with Kevin Nash too.

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

The entire front row of any TNA event in Orlando should be shot.

 

God, those people are annoying.

 

Agreed.

 

On a separate note, I was thinking of something for the X-Division, let me know your thoughts: Give the X Title to a worker who uses a slow, methodical style. Maybe Bobby Roode. Have him use a bunch of holds and power moves, and in his promos he bashes the fast paced X-style, a la Steve Corino's anti-hardcore movement. Then you have direction for not just the champion and the horribly wasted Roode, but you give the X faces some kind of direction.

And that direction would be down. Well, if they weren't there already. The point of the X-Division is to have fast paced matches with big spots. Why not, I don't know, have a champion who can wrestle fast paced matches and do big spots? The idea of having an X-Division champion who doesn't wrestle the typical X-Division style isn't a bad one, but having that guy bury the X-Division wrestlers is.

Plus, didn't we have that already with Sonny Siaki back in the weekly PPV days?

We did, and it didn't get over a lick then.

[Si82 0]

Where can i find TNA wrestling on sky?

Bravo 2.

 

Impact is shown Saturdays at 10pm and the PPV's the Wednesday after they air at 9pm.

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Bryan Alvarez on Impact getting killed by Raw and TNA in general. Yes, it's C&P job and I'll re-post a paraphrasing if I have to, but this is something that really should be read by everyone, especially our more super hardcore TNA loyalists:

 

It was an eye-opening day for some folks as the first-ever TNA vs. WWE battle saw WWE absolutely trounce the competition.

 

The first-run Raw, taped three days prior in Portland and featuring the Vince McMahon/Donald Trump live confrontation, did a 3.0 rating to Impact’s 0.59. In the 18-49 demographics head-to-head it was Raw 2.5 to TNA 0.59, and in the 18-34 demographics it was Raw 2.9 to TNA 0.49, which was a vicious beating. TNA’s show did 726,000 viewers, and the Inside the UFC show at 11:00 PM did 623,000 viewers, nearly tying (with an 0.46 rating). In fact, the UFC show, which aired two hours later, beat TNA in both the 18-49 (0.63) and 18-34 (0.85) demographics.

 

TNA opened at an 0.59, grew to an 0.62, dropped to an 0.52 (after 1 minute of wrestling in 35 minutes of TV), then grew to an 0.64 for the final fifteen minutes.

 

I had always been under the impression that TNA had the most loyal 1 to 1.5 million viewers in the world, who would watch every week and follow them everywhere. This is why the Monday night rating opposite the dog show (1.5 million viewers, basically what they always do) didn’t surprise me at all. However, the reality ended up being that when push came to shove, when it was time to choose between WWE and TNA, almost half of TNA’s loyal audience decided they’d rather watch WWE, and that’s on a day where WWE was in a new timeslot and TNA was on at the same time it always is.

 

We’ve said it before: TNA is basically the 4th WWE brand behind Raw, Smackdown and ECW in that order. For all the talk of “This is Wrestling” and how they’re the “real alternative” to WWE, the reality is that there is no wrestling on the TV shows and there is nothing that they offer that you can’t get from WWE. WWE has the bigger stars. WWE has the better wrestlers. WWE has the superior skits. WWE absolutely has the better TV matches. WWE has the hotter girls. TNA USED to have the X-Division, but then they became the WWE Juniors Division. Something needs to change.

 

The sad thing is that this did not result in an immediate changing of the guard or major re-evaluation of the programming. There is an understanding that, yes, they need more wrestling on the shows. But, as usual, instead of looking at the real problems they are still looking at the next carrot to dangle, which in this case is TWO HOUR SHOWS~! Because, after all, one hour just isn’t enough.

 

My hope is that they get two hours preferably this week and fail quickly, so that, with no other options left (and what other options are there? They’ve got national TV on a strong network, they got a good prime time slot, they got big stars like Christian, Sting, Kurt Angle, etc., and they’ve got a money mark willing to lose millions; they have EVERYTHING they need to succeed), they can sit down and go, hey, maybe something ELSE is wrong; something like the fact that Impact is the shittiest TV show since the heyday of WCW Thunder.

 

There was a show in I believe November that may have been the worst wrestling TV show I’ve ever seen. When Vince Russo came in I said I’d give him a chance, but figured there was very little possibility that he was any different from the Vince Russo that helped kill WCW. Sure enough, Vince Russo hadn’t learned a goddamn thing since 1997, so basically we got 1997 in 2006, and what a disaster that turned out to be. We got outdated crash TV written by a guy who claims to be a great storyteller, who claims it’s all about the stories and all about the logic, and meanwhile his shitty storylines are such that none of them make any logical sense whatsoever and, unlike pretty much every great story dating back 3,000 years, instead of having a beginning, a middle and an end, we get an end without a beginning, or a beginning without an end, or a popular favorite, the middle without the beginning or the end, or a conclusion that in no way has anything to do with anything else previously in the story. He is, without question, the worst storyteller the world has ever known.

 

His “improved ratings” came about during a time where TNA also got an earlier time slot, meaning it was probably more the time slot than the writing. If anything, to be completely fair, he has kept the rating steady. Even this is not high praise since the rating had been staying steady since long before he returned to the company (he was around in the early days booking shit like the Dupp Cupp). The real problem is that TNA’s business model isn’t about the ratings, it’s about the money made on PPV. Well, it should be at least. Even if we LIE and claim that they were averaging 800,000 viewers per week when he came and are now averaging 1.6 million, or even 2 million (a figure they have never hit), what does that mean when PPV buyrates are actually LOWER now than when he came in? It means no one gives enough of a fuck about his stupid storylines to see them play out on pay-per-view, the operative term there being “PAY”.

 

TNA had been doing 25,000 buys on PPV pre-Russo. Russo came in and “booked” Joe vs. Angle I, which increased the number for that PPV to about 60,000 buys. I put “booked” in quotation marks because he really didn’t book anything, they just announced the match. The real booking started after that match when he proceeded to rush two more matches within the next month and a half, all on PPV, and fucked the storyline up to such a monumental degree (remember Angle breaking the ankle of Joe’s mystery girlfriend? If not, don’t worry, Joe and Angle don’t seem to remember either) that the next two shows were down in the 25,000 range again. Recent PPVs are dipping even below that, to around the 20,000 range. This is coming on the heels of doing 1.6 million viewers for a show two weeks ago (and, granted, that number was up because Nielsen is now logging ratings in college dorms). So out of 1.6 million viewers he’s convincing 20,000 of them to buy the PPVs, which is about 1.25% of the viewing audience. Out of every HUNDRED TNA viewers (and these are hardcore loyal viewers), ONE buys a PPV. I’m not certain, but that may be an all-time record low percentage in the history of televised professional wrestling. GO VINCE RUSSO.

 

I shed no tears for TNA as they spiral into oblivion with Captain McSwervyson at the helm. Anyone with a fucking brain knew this was coming, but Dixie Carter, God bless her, may actually be the Dixie Carter of Designing Women fame for all she’s learned in the past few years about the wrestling business. As mentioned before, nobody in a position of power got those numbers (either the head-to-head Thursday rating or the recent PPV figures) and axed the Vin Man. Instead, they thought, well, that Monday rating was pretty good all things considered!, and no! I wasn’t surprised by that Thursday number, I thought it held up pretty well! Meanwhile, guys are backstage miserable as all hell, the great positive word-of-mouth about the greatness of TNA is no longer being spread, guys are getting hurt and getting their pay docked to pay for the surgeries, the X-Division guys hate life so much that they openly mock it on TV, guys are banned from doing unapproved radio show interviews because they might say something negative about the company due to interviews two former WWE stars gave where they flat-out said that they’d go back to WWE if WWE snapped their fingers, and meanwhile the Forgiven One fiddles away and continues to book the same sort of television that was already out of style when Thunder was putting on the original-but-now-outdone stupidest television shows ever seen by man.

 

Hate this article? Love TNA? Well, guess what, you’re probably part of the problem. The LAST thing this company needs right now is folks talking about how everything is OK, and people like me are just so mean to rip them apart, and that it just TAKES TIME (how much time, five years, fifteen years, thirty years?), and that you have to LOSE MONEY TO MAKE MONEY (try SPEND money to make money, which is COMPLETELY different), how they’ve GOT TO GET TWO HOURS (they can’t even make one hour great, why the fuck would two hours be any different?), and how RUSSO HAS MADE EVERYONE A STAR (which shows a complete lack of understanding about what it means to be a star). This sort of blind fandom is the equivalent of having an alcoholic friend come up to you in a near-suicidal state telling you that they’ve got to get sober, and you joyously saying great!, let’s go discuss it over a few drinks!

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Apparently, the latest Torch says the rules of the Last Rites match between Sting and Abyss call for the winner to strap the loser to a cross like structure.

 

Welcome to 1998. Again.

[razazteca 0]

Hey its working in AAA for Cibernetico's group Hells Brothers When the hell is TNA going to start promoting pro wrestling again instead of this sitcom that they call Impact?

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

When the hell is TNA going to start promoting pro wrestling again instead of this sitcom that they call Impact?

When someone gets a clue and fires Russo.

[razazteca 0]

Russo isn't the only one that needs to be released.

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Russo isn't the only one that needs to be released.

True, but as the guy doing the vast bulk of the writing, he's the guy who needs to go first.

[dubq 0]

I'd like to be a fly on the wall in a room where Cornette is talking about Russo's booking. I wonder if he's spoken up yet about this tripe..

[razazteca 0]

Cornette is probably trying to sell the company on more baseball ideas which may include some Cubans defecting to join the Marlins and/or LAX.

[pgi86 0]

According to new reports by The Pro Wrestling Torch, Vince Russo was overheard making a comment after watching a recent episode of iMPACT! on Spike TV. This source stated Russo said something to the effect of that he "couldn't tell you one thing he just saw" after viewing an episode.

 

Russo said this in front of members of TNA's management and other staff, which included TNA President Dixie Carter, Jeff Jarrett and Spike TV network executives. The word making the rounds right now is that Russo is just as frustrated as anyone with the number of things he is being told to fit into each episode of iMPACT! every week. There is reportedly pressure to put everyone on TV every week because many talent get paid per TV appearance. Rather than adjust the current pay schedule, TNA management has decided to require that everyone gets a short segment every week.

 

It is also being said that TNA management wants Vince Russo to relocate to Nashville from Atlanta, where he currently resides. Based on what is known right now, Russo is said to be hesitant about making the move because of the lack of long-term assurances that comes with the role of a booker in the wrestling business. So, while there are no indications that TNA wants to remove Russo from his role right now with the company, he understands there is no long-term guarantee and making this move would be a big change for his family. We will continue to follow this situation as it develops.