TNA Wrestling (On TNA+ and Triller TV)

[Firestarter]

Would love to see both in the WWE they're both great workers in the ring and good on the Mic.

Young is a fantastic Heel but he could play the Face role that WWE is desperate for as well. Only problem is they're lesser known than AJ was so won't be immediately accepted by the WWE "universe"

Entire careers in TNA don't help.

 

[Cleavy]

Roode was on their radar several times, but chose to sign new deals with TNA.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

'Bout to watch today's episode

#impactdelayed

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

lol impact have earl hebner in a match

 

[Bomberboyokay]

This Willow thing is interesting even if it's another Hardy vs Hardy angle. People bag Matt Hardy but he's got more of a character than 80% of the Raw roster.

Impact theme music > Raw theme music

Maria Kanellis is their Stephanie/Shane? That sounds weird. Oh nevermind Dixie Carter is still there...

Earl Hebner is in the Hall of Fame? Does TNA need a Hall of Fame?

#impact

 

[Cleavy]

Earl Hebner is in the Hall of Fame? Does TNA need a Hall of Fame?

he's the only TNA Hall of Famer still with the company (others inductees: Sting, Angle, Jarrett and Dudleys).

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Tyrus is a better Big Show than Big Show

Oooo rough fall through the table.

The finger got blurred booooo!

Pope > JBL. Impact commentary > Raw commentary.

#impact

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Flogging AJ Styles DVD

#impact

 

[JP Sauce]

Insert anything here > Raw commentary.

And it's probably still true.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Eli Drake

TNA still does the backstage stuff much better than WWE.

#impact

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

the training video's they did with lashley etc were good he has really improved since being in tna

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Is Trevor Lee their Daniel Bryan?

Haha I remember Robbie E!

#impact

 

[Bomberboyokay]

That was comfortably better than this week's Raw.

Don't know what Pop's story is but the picture is shithouse.

#impact

 

[Firestarter]

Their personnel Wiki page has filled up since last time I checked.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

This Willow thing is interesting even if it's another Hardy vs Hardy angle. People bag Matt Hardy but he's got more of a character than 80% of the Raw roster.


Maria Kanellis is their Stephanie/Shane? That sounds weird. Oh nevermind Dixie Carter is still there...

Willow is back? Eh.


Maria won a divas ladder match a few weeks back with the prize being control of the division. See how it goes.


Started re-watching last week and it was entirely bland, not Raw level of being either good or s**t, just absolutely nothing interesting.

About the only good thing was Drew McIntyres bits, and you could call everything that happened 5 mins ahead of time.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Not long for Tuesday nights with the incoming of SmackDown.

 

[Cleavy]

apparently Billy Corgan is minority owner now.

 

[JOELY]

Just watched the ppv on a stream. Was actually...pretty decent! Main event was really good.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

Just watched the ppv on a stream. Was actually...pretty decent! Main event was really good.

Nothing new there
The in ring stuff has always been miles ahead of the WWE (it's effectively an indie promo where they go big or go home)

Their main issue is they don't have a good PR department, so you don't get force-fed the "omg this is awesome" a million times a week like WWE (and AFL!)

Also, side note, my friend, the AK47 (sienna) won the KO championship!
So exciting

 

[Firestarter]

Nothing new there
The in ring stuff has always been miles ahead of the WWE (it's effectively an indie promo where they go big or go home)

Their main issue is they don't have a good PR department, so you don't get force-fed the "omg this is awesome" a million times a week like WWE (and AFL!)

Also, side note, my friend, the AK47 (sienna) won the KO championship!
So exciting

The whole "no presence or promotion whatsoever" thing is also dodgy.

 

[Cleavy]

Their main issue is they don't have a good PR department, so you don't get force-fed the "omg this is awesome" a million times a week like WWE (and AFL!)

good thing that Dixie has a background in PR. oh wait!

 

[Cleavy]

more TNA money issues (recap from Hobbes on the Observer forum from the Observer show today):
- Dave says TNA was in an absolute crisis situation. Dean Broadhead, the BUSINESS HEAD of TNA, wrote on facebook this week that on Thursday and Friday he logged over 80 business calls with "attorneys, accountants, vendors, bankers, employees" and said it may be time for him to retire, but not until everything is in the right place. When asked why he had to make all those calls, Dean said he had twelve hours to secure financing for TNA, so that production trucks could come. I'll note here that Rovert posted on twitter a few days ago that there had been rumblings of a possible TNA production staff mutiny, so this jives with that.

- Dave says he thought TNA had money for this TV taping, but apparently they didn't have enough. Dave brings up again that TNA was originally going to tape not just Monday through Wednesday this week, but an extra month of Impact on Thursday and Friday, and canceled plans for those last two days to save money short term (It'll cost more in the long run, because they'll have to fly everyone out sooner than usual for another set of Impact tapings).

- Dave says this was where Billy Corgan came in, and while he doesn't know all the details, TNA had some loans to Aroluxe that needed to be paid back, and seeing as how they run production, "they control all the equipment". Dave makes it sound like these tapings wouldn't have happened without Corgan paying off Aroluxe.

- Dave says people are going to get mad that he said all this, but points out that this isn't investigative journalism, Dean Broadhead posted about the trouble they were in on facebook.

- Dave says the big problem for TNA coming up, beyond finding money for the NEXT TV tapings, is that sooner or later they have to go to India to fill their once a year obligation to Sony Six. The problem is that while Sony Six will pay some of the costs, they're not going to pay all of them. Dave says a trip to India is very very expensive for TNA, but at the same time, not doing the shows puts them in danger of losing Sony Six, which is one of their key revenue streams. Dave says not only was last year's India tapings canceled, but this year's have already been delayed once.

 

[Mitchell Madness]

good thing that Dixie has a background in PR. oh wait!

It's America
Having a "background" means nothing there

The worst thing they did was let sting go
He was beginning to become the GM of impact, and ratings were claiming slightly

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

lol tna

 

[Ry009]

"The final deletion"