dsriggs posted:

If you haven't, listen to the Wrestling Observer Live radio show the night the WWF/WCW deal was announced. Call after call after call of "So... it's a work, right?" & "So what do YOU think will happen on Nitro next week?"

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Stardog Champion • 16 hours ago

If TNA is cancel TNA then I'm done with pro wrestling forever. I'll leave TNAmecca, and shut down my youtube channel. I am not going to watch GFW or stream indy wrestling. Nope I'm done for good.

Perdido posted:

Almost as funny as some people around here thinking that RAW was gonna be on AMC.

Perdido posted:

I never said it originated on here.

CopywrightMMXI posted:

This reminds me of my favorite TNA anecdote. I think it's originally from the Board:

"I went to Best Buy today to pick up the Against All Odds 2008 DVD with the tremendous Kurt Angle © vs Christian Cage TNA World Heavyweight Championship match. I had no intention of buying any WWE dvds since I had crossed the line in 2002 and never looked back, but they had the Rey Mysterio: Ultimate Fan Collection on sale and since I've started working out regularly, I figured it was worth it for the wrist bands. When I got up to the counter, the cashier said "Which of these things is not like the other?" and gave a sarcastic smirk while scanning my TNA disc. I asked him what the deal was and he talked about how TNA wasn't "legitimate." Uh, the TNA World Heavyweight Champion is a freaking Olympic Gold Medalist! That's as legitimate as it gets. WWE's champions are a white rapper, a zombie, and the brother of a zombie. He offered to void it if I wanted to and it'd be no problem. I declined his "polite" offer and I paid for my stuff and got out. How much is WWE paying Best Buy to try to discourage them from crossing the line?"

rovert posted:

Sad news:

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MST3Claye PhenomAJJones • 25 minutes ago
Don't do that.. had me thinking it was legit till I read "From PWInsider"... Here we go again.. It's funny all these rumors and reports.. yet.. a company being canceled signs for a big PPV in Japan... signs up a war veteran for a wrestling contract... another UK tour... and now this with Bully Ray even though he's HoF and signed for the UK tour. When will they give up?

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

Fine. Bray's problems have nothing to do with Husky Harris.

Madtrixr posted:

Yeah their name is Kronik but theres NOTHING that they did that said "I smoke weed" other than their finisher being High Times or whatever, also they were mercenaries at one point or another?

God Kronik sucks

flashy_mcflash posted:

How is this guy real

sportsgenius86 posted:

The only things my uncle watches other than SyFy are the Detroit Lions and MASH reruns.

He made me watch "Frogs" once and swore it was amazing.

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Ninjafitz Timothy Tate • an hour ago

If you care about the wrestlers safety at the next big spot where Davey Richards takes a powerbomb on the barricade or Jeff Hardy Swantons on the steel steps change the channel I want you to not pop. I want you to come on here and bitch about them putting there body on the line. Every flip every move has an element of danger to it. So unless its a straight wrestling match I want you to complain otherwise your hypocritical about their safety.

Cardboard Box posted:

https://twitter.com/roselyne777/status/544930396706967552

help me lmfao

Great White Hope posted:

It's stupid because Babe Ruth isn't the GOAT, Barry Bonds is.

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This is ridiculous. The 9/22 issue spent four-and-a-half pages on the death of Fritz Von Erich. What the hell am I paying for? I can understand a half page, even a page, but four-and-a-half pages? It's time to speak up. I ignored the issue with the story about some dead Roller Derby lady. This was the final straw. I get this newsletter because it's the best. I've tried all the others and it's the best. But if you're going to keep this up every time somebody dies, you're going to lose readers. Nobody cares about a lengthy story surrounding a wrestlers' death. If we don't already know about their career, after they die isn't the time to start educating us. Simply tell us that the guy died, what names he wrestled under and a few quick facts about his career. It's hypocritical to go any deeper and I'm not paying for that crap much longer.

John Kashmer

Burlington, New Jersey

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

Could be 500k when you add the replay as a de facto west coast airing.

A Dapper Man posted:

This is even more of a long shot now that the head of DC has said that they are going to move back towards actual nature documentaries and the like. I wonder if TNAMecca has heard that yet.

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Will1225 Moderator • 22 minutes ago

Fun fact: two full length uploads of the 1/7/15 episode of Impact had a combined 200K views in two days. #ProofTVRatingsAreNotAccurate

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PWI

I'm sure by now you've seen the PWI Top 500. A friend of mine and I were goofing on it pretty hard. "Hey, you know, Bart Gunn's way better than Dory Funk Jr. It must be true, they wrote it." Dean Malenko is a tremendous talent, but No. 1? I was shocked that they actually placed Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada and Kenta Kobashi in the top 15 but that same top 15 included Diamond Dallas Page, Lex Luger, The Giant and The Undertaker. Okay, Page has improved to the point where I could see him being in maybe the top 50. Undertaker is probably the most over gimmick performer ever. The Giant? Let's see in five years. But Lex Luger as the No. 5 wrestler in the world was way too funny to the point of being sick. Think about it. Year in and year out he's always been pushed and only the densest marks buy it.

As much as I mark out for ECW, in their employ is absolutely the worst wrestler I've ever seen. Big Dick Dudley blows up picking his nose. Crush and Jim Duggan can now look in the mirror and say, "Hey, at least I'm not the worst wrestler in the world." Mercifully they placed Taka Michinoku ahead of this tie-die wearing refrigerator.

Pat Crocker

Newport, Rhode Island

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PANCRASE

Here are a few things about Pancrase to think about.

1. Why are the fighters allowed to kick each other with shoes? You can't do that in the UFC. The shin pads didn't cover the hardest part of the shoe, the bottom. Front and side kicks, which use the bottom of the shoe, were thrown.

2. Why are punches not allowed and brutal leg kicks rarely used? Could it be because punches are impossible to fake convincingly and leg kicks, while not as difficult to fake as punches, are hard to make look full power and the fighters tend to overact when hit by them (like in UWFI)? I don't think you'll see too many people outside of shootfighting get knocked out cold by a palm heel slap.

3. Why do none of the fighters seem terribly worried when they are obviously in a position to be choked out and the fighter in the position to do the choking rarely tries very hard to do so? You rarely see anybody who knows chokes in the UFC not take advantage of the opportunity.

4. With points scored so infrequently, doesn't it seem silly that Ken Shamrock would have said that one fighter, in a dominant position, would just let his opponent up when the opponent would lose a point if he locked on a submission hold because of a rope break, would decide against working for the submission because he didn't want to give away any of his submissions. Doesn't he know at least a few?

5. I've never heard of a boxing, kick boxing or judo organization that only consists of about 20 fighters, most of whom are trained by the same people, who just rotate fighting one another. The UFC is actually fairly easy to get into and anyone can compete. From what I understand, Pancrase is a very exclusive organization and difficult to get into. I wonder why? Also, why are the fighters paid salary like pro wrestlers instead of given purses for each match based on the result?

6. Finally, doesn't it seem strange that even SEG won't come out and state officially that Pancrase is 100% real?

Pro wrestling is great, but in no way should it be confused with something real like UFC. I loved the Rocky movies, but Sylvester Stallone was never the legitimate heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Let's not blur fantasy and reality. Pancrase may occasionally have some legitimate shoots but so did the UWFI. It is not terribly hard to tell the difference between real matches and not-so-real matches. Pancrase is simply a better worked, though less entertaining, version of UWFI. As much as I like and respect Ken Shamrock, I have to say that if he wants to claim any glory from his victories in Pancrase, he is also going to have to acknowledge his losses in pro wrestling matches, such as his loss to Bart Vale, which was an obvious work. You can't have it both ways.

Joe Silva

Richmond, Virginia

Optimist with doubt posted:

You know I was just thinking that TNA was exactly like Brian Wilson because that is a rational thought for a human being to have.

Solomonic posted:

Lmao that's amazing. Was that written before he got his position in the UFC?

Great White Hope posted:

Christian was a career midcarder at best in WWE before going to TNA, where he was immediately treated like a bigger star than WWE ever had. Christian was definitely on the long path to nowhere in WWE at the time of leaving, and if anything his career was heading downward quickly. I'd say he's a legitimate case of "This guy was way better off in TNA than had he stuck around in WWE".

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TheJoker138 posted:

At the time I was SUPER into American Bad rear end Undertaker. Looking back I understand it was loving terrible, but I don't care. I will always remember the night that Kid Rock played on Raw, got all the swearing in that song past the censors who were always too slow or early bleeping it, and then Undertaker was there on a motorcycle. And I will cherish that memory.

TheJoker138 posted:

WWE IS racist and homophobic though.

Pinstripe Hourglass posted:

Are you seriously gonna defend how they treated Kanyon? Dude came out and they put him in makeup on national television and had a biker beat him up.
WWE has had one closeted gay man very high up in the company for decades. They've also produced some of the most blatantly homophobic television for that same amount of time. Don't hold up an exception and pretend it's the rule.

DJExile posted:

What's Mitchell up to these days anyway? I miss him and his spectacular eyebrows.

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MarkC201 • an hour ago

Didn't catch RAW, but I heard HHH said that Sting disappeared after WCW. A lot of people roll their eyes at that but I find it pretty fascinating. Pair that with when RVD said people would ask him why he retired while he was at TNA. Is brand awareness really what it all comes down too? All these years of scrutinizing the creative end when the real issue is that a lot of people simply still haven't heard of TNA after all these years? It's a disturbing thought, but encouraging at the same time believe it or not.

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Chris Regal Moderator MarkC201 • 44 minutes ago

I'm sure there's something to that. Vince McMahon will never let another company get as big as WCW did again.

Dixie Carter even said it in a recent interview that they fight TNA all way.

That market share I mentioned earlier could take a hit if TNA was ever mentioned on RAW.

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Magna • 29 minutes ago

TNA is competition to WWE, it is not a threat to WWE, people like Meltzer and other NEWZ sites should learn the difference between the two.

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Feed Me Morons - Oooh Yeah!!! • 26 minutes ago

I don't know why HHH didn't mention TNA it wouldn't have been a big deal if he did. TNA mentions WWE and other companies mention WWE too.

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Harry • 5 minutes ago

I'm not hurt by Joe leaving. Never a big fan of him.. But... Idk. It came out of nowhere.




JaySin420 Harry • 2 minutes ago

I've only been watching a few years and I know I missed his best stuff. But I really don't mind this at all, he's always looked very slow to me. I'm more pissed knowing the haters are gonna have a field day with this.


Angela M Campany JaySin420 • a minute ago

I'm more pissed knowing the haters are gonna have a field day with this.

Agreed on this part of it immensely !

dsriggs posted:

Reddit also buzzing over some bullshit report that ROH is in talks with Spike, completely forgetting they're already owned by a television company.

Under the vegetable posted:

There could be, but ad companies decide that, and they're idiots.