The General Wrestling Thread

[Warner2BruceTD]

WWE very rarely signs anybody who spends time with TNA. Draw your own conclusions.

I think with Triple H in charge of personnel now, they would find a spot for Samoa Joe.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

WWE very rarely signs anybody who spends time with TNA. Draw your own conclusions.

I think with Triple H in charge of personnel now, they would find a spot for Samoa Joe.

They signed Chris Harris and wanted to push him...any conclusion I otherwise would have drawn is now faulty.

[s@ppisgod]

They were going to sign Alex Shelley before the lawsuit, so I find it hard to believe they wouldn't have similar interest in Styles.

[Warner2BruceTD]

They were going to sign Alex Shelley before the lawsuit, so I find it hard to believe they wouldn't have similar interest in Styles.

Five years ago maybe, ten years ago for sure.

He's pushing 40, and they have a bunch of Justin Gabriels on the roster already.

I think Styles is great, but that's the way they would probably see it.

[EmpireWF]

@sempervive says the Briscoes and their family are front row at the WWE house show in Maryland.

[Warner2BruceTD]

One of our new initiatives is to allow the "inmates to run TNAsylum." Our site has always been reader-driven and we hope it will be even moreso as we head into the future. These changes will allow our readers to participate more in how the site is run...

4) The biggest change to the site is one that will bring on controversy. We are strongly toning down the rumors on the site. Due to the conflicting nature of Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer and the arguments his stories bring to this site, we won't be running any more Wrestling Observer stories. We are focusing on clear-cut news instead of focusing on unclear rumors that may or may not be true. We will focus on stories that we can confirm (one way or another).

When they say "conflicting nature" of Observer reports, they are talking about when Meltzer calls arenas to get paid attendance numbers, reports the real figures, which then conflict with the ridiculous estimates the fans report. This leads to the dumbest arguments ever in nearly every comment section, with of course the allegations that Meltzer is a "WWE puppet" spreading propaganda.

I was in the building for Lockdown, and they had a nice crowd of about 6,000 people. Asylum was claiming 8,000-10,000. LOL.

Same for Impact in Corpus. Somewhere between 3-4,000 tops. Asylum geeks claiming 6,000. I even posted pictures of the half empty, half curtained arena on the VOW twitter feed. Those people are nuts.

Dixie Carter goes on twitter and announces worked attendance, which is fine because that's what promoters do, but the goofs at Asylum use that to counter the real figures that real journalists report.

Two weeks ago Meltzer reported big financial problems in TNA, which caused a giant stir at Asylum, and low & behold two weeks later they lay off a half dozen wrestlers and the PR boss. LOL.

Those mouth breathers have no hope.

[s@ppisgod]

Yeah, but he's in good shape and the WWE wouldn't allow him many high spots anyway. He's in line with the guys they've had interest in. Professional, great wrestler, well-built Indy rep.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Yeah, but he's in good shape and the WWE wouldn't allow him many high spots anyway. He's in line with the guys they've had interest in. Professional, great wrestler, well-built Indy rep.

I think like a lot of people, he'd have a better shot with Triple H than he would with Laurinaitis, that's for sure.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Actually I do remember reading a story many years ago that somebody convinced Vince to sign Shannon Moore because he had pinned Styles on TV the week before and his contract had run out. Which was ridiculous, because most of the WWE fanbase has no clue TNA exists, and even the ones who do don't care about AJ Styles because they don't watch. So there is that.

[SuperKevin]

The big question with a lot of these guys is whether or not WWE would force them into developmental first. I can't imagine some of these guys being willing to spend a lengthy time in NXT

[s@ppisgod]

I think the main strike against him is that he worked for TNA for a long time, but it's not really a big deal if TNA is going belly-up. It's not like WCW where they were such a large and heated rival with Vince that he felt the need to bury them all beyond their bankruptcy. The WWE just never wanted to recognize them and give them credibility. I think the WWE would be willing to, and should, cherry-pick the cream of the TNA crop and let the rest of the guys wallow in independent obscurity while Vince does some sort of maniacal evil laughter.

[Warner2BruceTD]

The big question with a lot of these guys is whether or not WWE would force them into developmental first. I can't imagine some of these guys being willing to spend a lengthy time in NXT

I think there is less of a stigma attached these days, because they've been using it for so long, and it's more of a place to "get ready for TV" rather than "learn how to wrestle" in some cases.

I mean, they know Sami Zayn & Kassius Ohno can go.

With that said, I doubt they'd ask somebody like Joe to go down there. Didn't Kharma skip Florida? I can't remember.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I think Styles would have less interest in the WWE than the WWE having interest in him.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Cant wait for Asylum to inflate this one:

[s@ppisgod]

Solid 5,000 people, most of whom are midgets who can't be seen beyond the seats.