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Shine posted:Del Raminos, you're at the end of your rope mods?
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TNA truly brings out the worst in people. I am curious where this story with Kurt Angle as director is going though. My expectation is that it will lead to an awesome setup to a storyline before they find a way to ummm... do something inane with it. Or Kurt leaves without letting anyone know. Oddly enough, I am starting to find the Menagerie somewhat entertaining.
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Lotus Brony posted:Oddly enough, I am starting to find the Menagerie somewhat entertaining. The Menagerie is so 'what' that I love them. Except Crazzy Steve.
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They'll turn Kurt heel within 6 months because TNA does not know how to exist without heel authority figures. Bonus points if he ends up returning to the ring as part of it.
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Blasmeister posted:They'll turn Kurt heel within 6 months because TNA does not know how to exist without heel authority figures. Bonus points if he ends up returning to the ring as part of it. His contract's up in Sept. He probably won't even still be in the company in 3 months, let alone 6 months.
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Chris James 2 posted:His contract's up in Sept. He probably won't even still be in the company in 3 months, let alone 6 months. 3 months is plenty of time to for Kurt to go badguy. Several times over.
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Chris James 2 posted:His contract's up in Sept. He probably won't even still be in the company in 3 months, let alone 6 months. once his contract is up they will make a handshake deal, put him in the main event angle, then promptly drop the storyline midway when he decides to leave aka tna's approach to high profile talent relations for the past 5+ years.
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Aren't they mostly taped until late August? He'd have to turn heel at the very last taping to do so.
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Great White Hope posted:The Menagerie is so 'what' that I love them. I HATED Steve with a passion, especially after the "match" with Kaz. I hate him a little bit less now that I realized that his character doesn't talk, and instead uses that horn to communicate. Emphasis on "a little bit less". BTW, who's playing the Freak character? Lotus Brony fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Jul 14, 2014 19:27
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Lotus Brony posted:BTW, who's playing the Freak character?
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:Aren't they mostly taped until late August? He'd have to turn heel at the very last taping to do so. "I'm leaving to go back to WWE as an asssistant deputy road agent, you freakin' morons" would be a pretty effective heel turn.
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:Aren't they mostly taped until late August? He'd have to turn heel at the very last taping to do so. They have six shows to tape on those tapings so it is enough time for Angle to turn heel and then return as the conquering babyface.
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Jul 14, 2014 19:48
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has pretty much every major departure for TNA been worked into an angle?
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Oh yes, it's a safe bet that Angle will exit with Dixie clinging to his ankle, trying to give him a car, or some other madness. I don't understand the reasoning in those end segments, all it does is make the leaving party look really important and TNA look desperate. Why would anyone write that?
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Squalitude posted:Oh yes, it's a safe bet that Angle will exit with Dixie clinging to his ankle, trying to give him a car, or some other madness. I don't understand the reasoning in those end segments, all it does is make the leaving party look really important and TNA look desperate. Why would anyone write that? Hogan had complete creative control over his departure, which is what ended with Dixie holding onto him as he left.
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Remember when Bobby Lashley quit TNA to do MMA but TNA wouldn't actually meet with him to hash those details out. His last angle in the company was that he wanted out of his contract but TNA wouldn't fire him. Then Bischoff fired him and he was furious???
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oatgan posted:Remember when Bobby Lashley quit TNA to do MMA but TNA wouldn't actually meet with him to hash those details out. I think it was timing, more than anything. He was starting to go through a messy divorce with his wife around that time, IIRC. All the times I've talked to him on twitter, Lashley comes off as super chill about life.
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coconono posted:I think it was timing, more than anything. He was starting to go through a messy divorce with his wife around that time, IIRC. This was the on-screen angle as well. She did all the talking for him and it was later revealed that he didn't want to quit at all. She did the talking while he was standing right next to her, so it's not like there were backstage segments of her loving with his contract negotiations or whatever. She would cut promos in the ring about how unhappy Bobby was that he apparently ignored?
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Shine posted:I never watched WCW and barely watched TNA, so I've never seen Sting and he, uh, looks dumb. The best way to describe Sting, is that he was WCW's Hulk Hogan before they got Hulk Hogan. Big, buff, bleach blond surfer dude from Venice Beach, played up to the crowds, loved by the kids, was the typical clean cut, bland babyface. He was John Cena, if the WWE had other babyfaces to swap in and out with John Cena. He could put on good matches with the right guys, but wasn't going to carry anything on his own. WCW pretty much put everything on his shoulders from 90-93 or so. Had obviously great feuds with Flair, Rude, Vader and Cactus Jack, had hilariously terrible ones with guys like Sid and the usual monsters of the month guys. He had a fun, if way too short feud with Jake Roberts which surprisingly holds up well today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37D569R_XbU Once Hogan showed up in '94, he got pushed to the background like most of the WCW guys, but made a resurgance with the nWo angle in '96. Once he "left" at the end of 96, they started the "crow" gimmick, keeping him out of the ring for nearly a year, and actually building a hell of a program with Hogan. The anti-hero/goth thing, coupled with not having him talk really built a hell of a character, think Undertaker in his prime. This culminated with the complete clusterfuck main event at Superbrawl (Starrcade?), whichever the December PPV was with the added Bret Hart bullshit, the incredibly long "fast" botched 3 count, and no real payoff. From there, he talked, joined the "face" nwo, left the face nwo, joined the wolfpac, left that, did some other bullshit, cut horrible promos, was in the Russo-tastic new blood fued, etc, had a hilariously awful feud with Vampiro, and then worked out this retirement package with TNA for the past decade. Essentially, he's milked nearly 2 decades of paydays off of an interesting run in 1997 where he only wrestled once. Gotta give him credit for that.
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Sting was that guy who was always pushed strongly and treated important for the 5 months a year he felt like working
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Kurt: Dixie, I'm leaving TNA to go back to WWE. Dixie: You're going to spy on them for us, right, Kurt? Just like Christian said he would? Kurt: Uh... yeah, sure whatever.
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MassRafTer posted:Sting could have great matches but they were almost entirely before 1996. After that point his good matches are limited to DDP who planned his matches out extensively and Kurt Angle and well, he's Kurt Angle. Even before 96 there isn't much after the end of the Vader series. It's hard to call someone underrated when he was mostly bad for 20 years. Yeah I think my mind is drawing a blank on anything he did past 1996 - I really can't remember almost anything except a Bret Hart match I was super pumped about, which ended in Sting being put unconscious in the Sharpshooter. WCW for you, I guess.
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ThatCguy posted:The best way to describe Sting, is that he was WCW's Hulk Hogan before they got Hulk Hogan. It's funny, I liked Hogan but was never a huge fan but Sting was my favorite WCW guyduring that period.
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Chris James 2 posted:Hogan had complete creative control over his departure, which is what ended with Dixie holding onto him as he left. So Hogan wrote that?? I thought it was TNA being dumbarses, (which it was), but now it is yet another brick in the mansion that is the orange goblins shrine to his own gargantuan ego and inability to ever look bad on TV.
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BrigadierSensible posted:So Hogan wrote that?? I thought it was TNA being dumbarses, (which it was), but now it is yet another brick in the mansion that is the orange goblins shrine to his own gargantuan ego and inability to ever look bad on TV. Hogan probably didn't write it, that was likely what they came up to try and please him. At the time it was possible he'd return.
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what the gently caress is this tna social site (nws) officially linked under "social" on the tna website? the kind of stuff showing up also nws
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Haha I forgot about the RDV shirt
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Jason Sextro posted:Yeah I think my mind is drawing a blank on anything he did past 1996 - I really can't remember almost anything except a Bret Hart match I was super pumped about, which ended in Sting being put unconscious in the Sharpshooter. WCW for you, I guess. I think the big thing about Sting was always what could have been. The nWo was kicking the poo poo out of WCW. Sting was supposed to be the cool anti-hero and beats the nWo and saves the day. It was super over, and everyone wanted to see it, and everyone bought the PPV and then all that happened was another cluster gently caress finish and WCW never quite reached that level of popularity again. Sting could have been a superstar and carried WCW for a couple years, but instead we were just given the same thing that had happened since Bash at the Beach 1996. I was twelve in 1997 and I had a Starcade 1997 poster on my wall, (The one that said "Hogan's a Colorful Guy, but his Nightmare's in Black and White") and I lived in Canada where it was hard as hell to watch WCW because TSN always bounced it around. Even here, everyone who was into wrestling loved Sting during that time. By the next year, people didn't have Sting posters, they had Steve Austin posters. To put it in perspective, imagine if Daniel Bryan got beaten clean by Triple H at Wrestlemania this year but Triple H was like, "Good match, kid. You earned my respect. I'm putting you in the main event anyway." It would have went over like a wet fart and made Bryan look like a chump even when he won the three-way. This is basically what happened at Starcade 1997. Zack_Gochuck fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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HulkaMatt posted:what the gently caress is this tna social site (nws) officially linked under "social" on the tna website? Scrolled down, saw Finlay Dick, Orlando Jordan dick, Chyna rear end, Knobb's sarlacc pit, Gail Kim topless and Mickie James completely naked. CROSS THE LINE
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Maybe it just compiles any mention of a TNA hashtag or star?? Whaaaaaat
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flashy_mcflash posted:Maybe it just compiles any mention of a TNA hashtag or star?? Whaaaaaat It looks like anyone can just post anything. I scrolled down as far as I could and one of the earliest posts (from about 18 hours prior) just said "sup /wooo/".
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Yeah, it got linked over on 420chan and they ran wild with it.
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triplexpac posted:Haha I forgot about the RDV shirt I'll have you know that it's a Shrit. Much higher quality than a shirt.
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Bobby Lashley sucks.
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HulkaMatt posted:what the gently caress is this tna social site (nws) officially linked under "social" on the tna website?
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NienNunb posted:Bobby Lashley sucks. We all sort of agree. The argument is what it is he is sucking/how often/frequency. Some say "everything/every second/all the time". I say a bit less than that. I feel he holds himself back due to lack of confidence, but that's me being an unrealistic douche.
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Flameingblack posted:/wooo/ somehow gained control of it and TNA either hasn't noticed yet or is too goddamn inept to kick them out. Breaking news: quote:Here is the whole story
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HulkaMatt posted:what the gently caress is this tna social site (nws) officially linked under "social" on the tna website? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IgrJfoia3E What?
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I don't know who their social media director is but if they're looking to hire a new one I have literal hundreds of Twitter followers. Who am I kidding it's probably another job Jeremy Borash does for them.
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