CTDWAT: TNA Edition

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Kayfabe lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

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For what it's worth, I'm thinking the Angle divorce is just all work.......just like that whole reality show shit seemed to be all show.....

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The next storyline will be Karen Angle hooking up with AJ Styles.

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If the Angle thing is true, it would be the first time ever a real life couple broke up after breaking up in kayfabe. And by "first", I mean around the "485th".

 

Seriously, I have heard IWC folk saying that this storyline will absolutely end badly, and now it may have.

 

 

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Kevin Nash apparently has re-signed with TNA.......oh yay.

 

My guess was that if he didn't ever re-sign back up, the angle they did last week with Nash hugging Joe and leaving the ring would have been his final shot.

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So re-signing Kenny Rodgers Nash was the first priority while signing Christian, Awesome Kong, Angelina Love, ODB, and offering Gail Kim more money wasn't.

 

Great TNA, just great. Bring back dead weight but let valuable pieces walk. Sure, makes perfect sense.

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How do you know TNA is letting those people walk just because Nash was the first one to re-sign? For all we know, TNA is trying to re-sign all those people.

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Yeah, that seems to be a pretty ambitious jump to conclusion. Just because he re-signed before them doesn't mean he was made priority. Logically it means that TNA is negotiating with all of them but Nash (and Team 3D) were the easiest to negotiate with. Kong and the Knockouts probably have some good bargaining power given how successful they've been but TNA's also probably hesitant to give them all "big" money and throw off the pay scale. So those are probably real negotiations. Christian is said to be considering WWE so there's a 3rd party involved and Christian has to take his time fielding the offers and playing leverage.

 

Nash and Team 3D re-signing quickly is probably a simple matter WWE or the indies never really being big options so they took the early offers and it was done. Not that TNA threw its biggest effort in them over Kong or Christian.

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Nash and Team 3D wouldn't have much other option but to re-sign with TNA. WWE wouldn't want Team 3D back (I'd imagine) and Nash saying he'd been talking to WWE is pure Nash Horse Shit.

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Hey, question: I don't watch much TNA, but I watched their most recent PPV, and I gotta ask: what's with the stolen gimmicks?

 

Shark Boy doing a Stone Cold bit didn't bother me, because I know he's something of a comedy act. Petey Williams totally aping Scott Steiner's look (am I mistaken, or does he even wear the chainmail hat?) was something else, and it made me wonder why he was doing that. But when Jay Lethal came out to a remix of "Pomp and Circumstance", wearing Macho Man's ring gear, I literally got up and left the room.

 

But I gotta ask: are there angles to explain why those guys are doing that? Or are they just doing it?

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Hey, question: I don't watch much TNA, but I watched their most recent PPV, and I gotta ask: what's with the stolen gimmicks?

 

Shark Boy doing a Stone Cold bit didn't bother me, because I know he's something of a comedy act. Petey Williams totally aping Scott Steiner's look (am I mistaken, or does he even wear the chainmail hat?) was something else, and it made me wonder why he was doing that. But when Jay Lethal came out to a remix of "Pomp and Circumstance", wearing Macho Man's ring gear, I literally got up and left the room.

 

But I gotta ask: are there angles to explain why those guys are doing that? Or are they just doing it?

 

Jay Lethal's been doing the Macho Man gimmick for about a year and a half now. He's been playing it ever since he was goaded into a Savage impersonation by Nash and it stuck from there.

 

Petey Williams was recently aligned with Scott Steiner, who had put him through an initiation to be worthy of the look.

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Okay, I guess that sorta makes sense....but sheesh...not knowing that, it really cheesed me off while watching.

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Lethal was the first and took the Black Machismo gimmick at the suggestion of Kevin Nash after a spot-on Savage impression when Nash was working with the X-Division a while back.

 

Shark Boy was in almost immediate response to that and seemed to be dropped for a while before they brought the idea back.

 

Williams was Maple Leaf Muscle for a bit and soon began feuding/tagging with Steiner before they moved into an official tag team and mentor/student relationship, which is when he adopted the look.

 

Edit. I didn't know someone else had responded. However, the current state of the X-Division ticks me off, as well.

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Hiroshi Tanahashi, quiet since returning from injury and after having a mediocre G1, is set to head to TNA on an indefinite refresher. His last NJPW match will be on October 13th and then he's off to TNA for a yet undetermined period of time.

 

--Puroresufan

 

 

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Tanahashi coming in makes me want to watch TNA.

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They will not know what too do with him.

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Doesn't matter. Now I get to see my favorite Japanese wrestler on hopefully a weekly basis.

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Hey, question: I don't watch much TNA, but I watched their most recent PPV, and I gotta ask: what's with the stolen gimmicks?

 

Shark Boy doing a Stone Cold bit didn't bother me, because I know he's something of a comedy act. Petey Williams totally aping Scott Steiner's look (am I mistaken, or does he even wear the chainmail hat?) was something else, and it made me wonder why he was doing that. But when Jay Lethal came out to a remix of "Pomp and Circumstance", wearing Macho Man's ring gear, I literally got up and left the room.

 

But I gotta ask: are there angles to explain why those guys are doing that? Or are they just doing it?

 

Welcome to TNA, dude. I've said before that if someone was a first viewer of TNA, they would be totally thrown off guard by all these rip-off gimmicks. Like, why is Shark Boy acting like Austin? Why is there a Steiner look-a-like? Why is Jay Lethal acting like Macho Man? TNA expects people who watch to be long term viewers, I guess. Petey Williams still looking like Steiner is the most puzzling though, since Steiner has been injured for months, and Petey just looks like this now for no reason.

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Petey Williams still looking like Steiner is the most puzzling though, since Steiner has been injured for months, and Petey just looks like this now for no reason.

 

Not to mentioned TNA just turned him face again. How's that going to work since Steiner was a heel before getting injured, unless they turn him face too?

 

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The Petey thing is just him doing the Steiner wannabe gimmick, it's just that Steiner is currently hurt. I would assume they'll do something with it again when he returns.

 

I think this recent Impact pointed to Lethal giving up the Macho gimmick. I don't know if he will, but they are at least planting seeds that he is considering just being himself again.

 

As far as Shark Boy goes, it's a guilty pleasure but it's obviously bush league to have him act like Steve Austin. Curry Man is carrying that group big time, since Shark Boy is a little stale doing Austin and Eric Young is beyond stale. Curry rules though.

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The Petey thing is just him doing the Steiner wannabe gimmick, it's just that Steiner is currently hurt. I would assume they'll do something with it again when he returns.

 

You just repeated what 10001110101 had already posted, but 10001110101 worded it a lot better. Petey isn't being a "Steiner wannabe" as you put it, he's under the wing of Steiner.

 

I think this recent Impact pointed to Lethal giving up the Macho gimmick. I don't know if he will, but they are at least planting seeds that he is considering just being himself again.

 

Lethal turns the gimmick on and off. It's sorta like when Booker T changes his voice from educated to street when Booker gets angry. Lethal isn't dropping the gimmick because it's still just Jay Lethal paying tribute to Randy Savage.

 

As far as Shark Boy goes, it's a guilty pleasure but it's obviously bush league to have him act like Steve Austin. Curry Man is carrying that group big time, since Shark Boy is a little stale doing Austin and Eric Young is beyond stale. Curry rules though.

......yeah...no.

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Is TNA going to let Angle do MMA like he wants to do next year?

 

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He's been saying this for a while so I'm skeptical. However, in this interview it sounds like he just wants to have one MMA fight, so that does sound a little more reasonable than him wanting to go at it full time/semiregularly.

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I honestly hope he gets his ass kicked.

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Me too the guy is a crazy dick. I'm sick off all this MMA shit.

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In other Angle news, he was on Chris Angel Mindfreak last night totally selling that the magician died in a car crash stunt. It was really ridiculous to the point where Angle was even starting to cry. Don't ask why he was even on this show, I am still trying to figure it out.

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So...when did Booker T become the African King, complete with new accent and all?

 

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And when did Abyss become a huge pussy who talks about how cute and cuddly bears are?

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Booker has been talking that way since taking Joe's title and then taking Joe's locker room. It's pretty much a take on his King Booker gimmick but I think the new accent is a better accent for him to be using.

 

Abyss got "sent" to some kind of mental hospital to be mentally reformed. So now he doesn't use weapons in fear that the old him will come out.

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Abyss got "sent" to some kind of mental hospital to be mentally reformed. So now he doesn't use weapons in fear that the old him will come out.

 

I hope the old Abyss does come out on PPV because this "I'm afraid to use weapons" pussy character is dragging on.

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Abyss got "sent" to some kind of mental hospital to be mentally reformed. So now he doesn't use weapons in fear that the old him will come out.

 

I hope the old Abyss does come out on PPV because this "I'm afraid to use weapons" pussy character is dragging on.

 

Just gives a good excuse for him to eventually snap and go batshit on someone with a bardwire baseball bat or something. I saw a little of his interaction with Matt Morgan last night. All it took was Abyss to ask "Did you talk to my therapist?" in a normal voice, and I turned the channel. "Tame" Abyss is pretty lame. Hey, that rhymed!

 

From Rajah

TNA star Kaz underwent surgery to repair a torn triceps earlier this week, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He is expected to be out for four months.

 

Looks like there goes the Suicide character, or will they just put someone else in the outfit?