The General Wrestling Thread

[EmpireWF]

That Sting deal has nothing to do with him potentially signing with WWE/showing up on TV.

Bryan won't be competing on the PPV so look for them to vacate the strap tonight.

(IMO, whomever ends up winning the belt should be a transitional champion to get it to Brock Lesnar at Summerslam. Hopefully, Bryan will be able to resume his career down the road and they can build up to a Brock/Bryan match in the fall or whenever. Among the active guys, it's the one match that can push the needle)

 

[ThomasTomasz]

So can someone tell me why Cena was paired with the Shield tonight? Has to be something absurd.

 

[EmpireWF]

A wiki of all that's made TNA a joke, from 2002 to now.

http://taimapedia.org/index.php?title=LOLTNA_History


It takes a while to load, but it's painfully funny.

 

[OnlyOneBeerLeft]

A wiki of all that's made TNA a joke, from 2002 to now.

http://taimapedia.org/index.php?title=LOLTNA_History


It takes a while to load, but it's painfully funny.

I just read a lot of that, good stuff, a lot of things you forget lol

 

[EmpireWF]

ROH on LIVE PPV next Sunday night (8pm ET, 5pm PT)

ROH World Champ Adam Cole vs. Michael Elgin
ROH World Tag Champs reDRagon vs. Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian
Mark & Jay Briscoe vs. Matt Hardy & Michael Bennett w/ Maria
Kevin Steen vs. Silas Young
ROH World TV Champ Jay Lethal vs. Matt Taven (Truth Martini will be handcuffed to the post)
Roderick Strong vs. Cedric Alexander (Submission match)
Plus 1 more match to be announced this week

Not a spectacular line-up, but I'm expecting Elgin to win the belt and that tag title match should be fucking awesome. Is this Steen's last ROH match?

Anyone planning on buying it (pricing depends on cable/satellite providers)?

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Is this the first time we've seen Bad Influence wrestle together this year? TNA buried them off the roster when it was clear they couldn't re-sign either.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Is this the first time we've seen Bad Influence wrestle together this year? TNA buried them off the roster when it was clear they couldn't re-sign either.

Nope. They were involved in tags early in the year.

They were involved in what is STILL TNA's Match of the Year so far, for me, back on the 2/20 Impact. Bad Influence v. The Wolves.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Nope. They were involved in tags early in the year.

They were involved in what is STILL TNA's Match of the Year so far, for me, back on the 2/20 Impact. Bad Influence v. The Wolves.

Is there an award for best feud that never happened? I think everyone was anticipating those two teams feuding and TNA missed the boat on it, because they took Daniels off the show after that.

 

[EmpireWF]

I only discovered today that Camacho is Haku's son.

First, WTF.

Second, why the fuck would you have him portray a Mexican and not a Samoan?

 

[s@ppisgod]

Never knew that. And maybe I'm in the minority (no pun intended), but I like Camacho. It's a shame that he's destined for next year's Dead Pool thread.....

 

[EmpireWF]

He was already cut last week.

 

[s@ppisgod]

Damn, I saw there were a number of cuts, but I never paid attention to who. They weren't gonna do anything with him anyway...

 

[ThomasTomasz]

I've been hearing Slammiversary wasn't a bad show, what do you guys who watched it think?

Also funny how TNA inducts Team 3D into their HOF right now. I have a feeling that in five years, probably much sooner, that all members of the TNA HOF get put into the WWE HOF.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

There are currently 786 seeders and 536 leechers of a singular torrent for Slammiversary 2014...are there more people that pirate TNA than actually buy a show?

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

There are currently 786 seeders and 536 leechers of a singular torrent for Slammiversary 2014...are there more people that pirate TNA than actually buy a show?

A bunch of those people probably wont watch the show, either, and just download everything.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Anyone else think Ricochet is going to beat Ibushi at Dominion?

 

[ThomasTomasz]

- It was reported earlier this week that WWE is looking to trim $20 million from their budget this year.

Apparently production will see a number of cuts in various places. For example, WWE has reportedly nixed Fandango's curtain entrance and stopped using Bad News Barrett's podium. It was said that the truck WWE used to transport those items and other items was taken off the road, saving around $250,000 per year.

Rant Sports noted that WWE is using similar stage sets for RAW, SmackDown and pay-per-views now and the ring ropes on all shows are all white now. Some pyro for wrestler entrances also may be cut back on.

 

[BigBiss]

how will they ever do shows with out pyros and big sets ...

 

[s@ppisgod]

WWE is crazy. They picked a hell of a time to condense revenue streams when they have the most bloated roster in wrestling history and their new training facility just built.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

WWE is crazy. They picked a hell of a time to condense revenue streams when they have the most bloated roster in wrestling history and their new training facility just built.

It was about time they trimmed fat from the books.

They essentially had guys sitting at home for yearS just collecting a check. They still have a group of guys they have signed that they haven't used and are still in training.

Plus, RAW and Smackdown are overproduced anyway...might as well cut down on gimmicks that don't help anybody. No need for huge pyro, special entrances and shit at a common RAW.