The General Wrestling Thread

[SuperKevin]

Rhett Titus to the E?

With SCUM dead it'd make sense

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

TNA is strugglin'...

I guess last week that had a terrible rating, too.

At what point do you look at Hogan and Bischoff, even if you're mark Dixie, and do something besides cut Christian York and OVW talent?

 

[JayDizzle]

TNA is strugglin'...

I guess last week that had a terrible rating, too.

At what point do you look at Hogan and Bischoff, even if you're mark Dixie, and do something besides cut Christian York and OVW talent?

Considering Hogan and Bischoff see wrestling as a business to make money for themselves; especially when it comes at the expense of a company...

Either Dixie hits the bricks and somebody like a Heyman comes in or TNA's gonna R.I.P. sooner than we think.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

To be fair the last two Impacts were up against Game 7 and 4th of July.

Meltzer had me rolling when he said on his podcast that the fact that the July 4 rating didn't really go down all that much shows that TNA fans are the type of people who must not leave their house very much.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Considering Hogan and Bischoff see wrestling as a business to make money for themselves; especially when it comes at the expense of a company...

Either Dixie hits the bricks and somebody like a Heyman comes in or TNA's gonna R.I.P. sooner than we think.

When Paul was just doing the Heyman Hustle and working on Brock's book...sure, he took an honest look, but they wouldn't even come close to giving him what he wanted...

Now, he's got a consistent, good gig in the WWE, where he doesn't have to develop anything, just work with young guys and get guys over while working with friends.

I am not sure he'd ever consider TNA.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

To be fair the last two Impacts were up against Game 7 and 4th of July.

Meltzer had me rolling when he said on his podcast that the fact that the July 4 rating didn't really go down all that much shows that TNA fans are the type of people who must not leave their house very much.

I was reading that the three lowest impact ratings of the year have been the 7/4 show, the 6/20 show, and the 5/30 show. Basically, three of the past six episodes.

 

[BigBiss]

Considering Hogan and Bischoff see wrestling as a business to make money for themselves; especially when it comes at the expense of a company...

Either Dixie hits the bricks and somebody like a Heyman comes in or TNA's gonna R.I.P. sooner than we think.

since 2006 i am shocked every day I wake up and its still afloat

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

I was reading that the three lowest impact ratings of the year have been the 7/4 show, the 6/20 show, and the 5/30 show. Basically, three of the past six episodes.

Yeah, it's not good. I'd try to come up with a solution, but honestly, what's the point?

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Its officially 7/11/13...

Can not wait for the live tweeting from A Night of

HOOPLA!!

by the one and only FedEx.

Should be good.

Take good pics.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I'm churning through this year's PWG stuff...

And, wtf is Brian Cage on? He eats Alistair Overeem meat. This dude is swole beyond recognition. Holy fuck.

 

[s@ppisgod]

I feel bad for Morgan. I mean, he's off the sinking ship and he got some ok paychecks for nothing. But man, did they just constantly waste his time. Even before recent times, they had him sporadically off and on TV. They never gave him feuds or storylines or much of a gimmick. The TNA graveyard claims another.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Keiji Muto announced the formation of W-1 (Wrestle-1), in a presser with the rest of the All Japan refugees that quit last week.

The start running in September.

New Japan - killing it
Dragon Gate - steady as usual, always growing, international branches in US & UK, easily #2
DDT - stronger business than NOAH at this point
NOAH - bottomed out, but picking up momentum after Final Burning Kobashi show
whatever is left of All Japan - who the fuck knows. upcoming tour looks dreadful. no roster.
Zero-One - realistically probably bigger now than a couple ahead of it but by defualt
W-1 - probably will be closer to IGF, or align itself with New Japan or NOAH
Inoki Gnome Federation - really this is part time, don't tour, but they draw ok when they run a show
Big Japan - full time
Michinoku Pro - blur the line between full time & indie, basically a big indie
Osaka Pro - basically a full time indie, like Chikara was before they closed (or whatever it is they did)

 

[XavierDZ]

So I may be late on the topic. You think the head "trauma", Kane got from Rowans and Harper is going to make his a psychopath again and start squashing guys as the Big Red Machine. Btw the Bray Wyatt Death to the Machine line or whatever he said to Kane was awesome.

 

[Liquidrob]

 

[FedEx227]

Its officially 7/11/13...

Can not wait for the live tweeting from A Night of

HOOPLA!!

by the one and only FedEx.

Should be good.

Take good pics.

If I finish washing my hair in time I'll try to swing by.

I wasn't even going to go to this when I just assumed it was on a weekend, it's on a Thursday? Yeah, no thanks. Card's absolutely stacked though:

 

[FedEx227]

Cheap domestic beer, 2.50 long islands and live performances by Jimmy Jacobs AND the Beach Bum Alcoholics. Man, this is everything I love.

 

[SuperKevin]

So TNA has like 18 people on their roster and they're almost all divided between two stables

 

[SuperKevin]

More entrants in the ROH World Title Tournament. Field is now:

Michael Elgin
Karl Anderson
Brian Kendrick
Paul London
Sonjay Dutt
Jay Lethal
Roderick Strong
Kevin Steen
Tomasso Ciampa
Adam Cole
BJ Whitmer
Mike Bennett

and

The winner of Adam Page and Silas Young

I've seen Page twice now live and I've been impressed both times

 

[FedEx227]

Empire's Evolution of Sting series continues with a look at perhaps the most disappointing match of all time, the Starrcade 1997 main event against Hollywood Hulk Hogan

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2013/07/11/the-evolution-of-sting-96-98-starrcade-97-56/

 

[SuperKevin]

Impact is so bad so far