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syzpid posted:Maybe the new guys? Old article from the Torch (first one I found when googling it) sounds like most of them knew what was up. Notice the article says that "some" believed it was their last show. Dreamer was determined to keep the company alive and several workers were bugging Dave about the company's status as late as March.
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That shocked woman going "WHAT?" is now my second favorite fan after "kid who was super, super excited that Ricardo beat the rat guy on NXT".
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So how long is it before we're reduced to Matthews calling Dixie Carter play wrestling with action figures
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:So how long is it before we're reduced to Matthews calling Dixie Carter play wrestling with action figures Minus however many days Matthews has been there. Action figures are very different if you are a billionaire
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Chris James 2 posted:Dixie's not going to film a movie ever, the roster's known they're hosed for at least all of 2015 or at most since 2012/13 depending on how long you've been on the roster, and even Rajah makes fun of them for being on borrowed time. Stuff was funny years ago, now it's just kinda sad and maybe still funny I guess. It is uncanny how much TNA's demise resembles one of their many botched storylines. I'm thinking of Aces & 8s specifically, started strong and interesting, dragged on for too long, got back around to being entertaining in a  way and ended looooooong after people stopped giving a gently caress.
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Aces and Eights will forever own because I think about 75% the GDT they debuted was convinced they were the ninjas who kidnapped Samoa Joe returning, with the ultimate goal of closing all the storylines Russo suddenly dropped with no explanation.
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triplexpac posted:Aces & 8s was so loving lame god drat It worked out well in the end because the show it was ripping off also went to and became complete poo poo (don't watch sons of anarchy)
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triplexpac posted:Did Hogan ever join Aces & 8s? No way brother he took the fight to them.
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Great White Hope posted:That shocked woman going "WHAT?" is now my second favorite fan after "kid who was super, super excited that Ricardo beat the rat guy on NXT". I don't understand how anybody in the crowd is surprised about this at all. Nothing about Aces & 8s was a surprise. Everything was so obvious the entire time. Also, I remember being real bummed out when ECW died but I also remember feeling so weird about the TNN show. Raven coming back and winning the Tag Titles with Dreamer and stuff like that - it felt so strange. It was like that entire run was ECW in some crazy person's dream, not the ECW I grew up on.
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Phenix Rising posted:Also, I remember being real bummed out when ECW died but I also remember feeling so weird about the TNN show. Raven coming back and winning the Tag Titles with Dreamer and stuff like that - it felt so strange. It was like that entire run was ECW in some crazy person's dream, not the ECW I grew up on. They had to keep the content different than Hardcore TV, but obviously with whatever crap budget/staff they had at the time, producing 2 hours of quality television every week was next to impossible. The first few months of the TNN show were good, but then it turned into "um, we ran a house show this week, here's a poorly filmed match from it".
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Phenix Rising posted:It was like that entire run was ECW in some crazy person's dream, not the ECW I grew up on. If that was a crazy person's dream what was the early days of ECW on Syfy with the Zombie and the other random characters? Now that was really bizarre. I hope that stuff ends up on the Network at some point.
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Aces & 8s did so many things wrong, it's like they wrote "invasion angle" on a whiteboard, wrote down a few names, and that was it. A lot of angles go wrong because they're overcomplicated, this was somehow undercomplicated.
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triplexpac posted:Did Hogan ever join Aces & 8s? There was that thing where Hogan and Sting assaulted the Aces and Eights clubhouse and right before A&8 overtook them Sting excalimed "it's...it's YOU" and then A&8 spent the whole next week with them taped to chairs torturing them.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Aces & 8s did so many things wrong, it's like they wrote "invasion angle" on a whiteboard, wrote down a few names, and that was it. A lot of angles go wrong because they're overcomplicated, this was somehow undercomplicated. it seemed like Russo's depression phase hit real hard and he gave up. Then again, if I had to sit in close proximity to Eric Bischoff, I'd be miserable too.
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quote:Brian Fritz of The Sporting News reported today that TNA's pay issues of late have also included members of the TNA Production team. The claims fall in line with what PWInsider.com has heard over the last several days from one source, although we had not been able to confirm with additional sources. http://www.sportingnews.com/sport/story/2015-04-17/tna-wrestling-pay-issues-production-staff-taz-dixie-carter-panda-energy
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yeah i echo what somebody on the board said. If most aren't getting paid then just shut it down. Most people wouldn't be losing out.
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Who is going to be the hero at Discovery Channel and finally stake this bastard company in the heart? We need a hero like Jamie Kellner.
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don't they often rebrand that particular network ? if so, that'll be the excuse for getting rid of impact.
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rovert posted:http://www.sportingnews.com/sport/story/2015-04-17/tna-wrestling-pay-issues-production-staff-taz-dixie-carter-panda-energy As long as TNA survives no man living today will perish, we are simply cursed to repeat the same year for all eternity.
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Without being funny or ironic, someone tell me what TNA is the alternative to these days. They used to have a legit boast about being the WWE alternative by having blood-feuds, great wrestling, indy darlings, and giving guys a chance that the WWE refused. Now they have Low-Ki who is the indy darling nobody wanted, and they're probably going to cause Kurt Angle to die in the ring.
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Flameingblack posted:Without being funny or ironic, someone tell me what TNA is the alternative to these days. They used to have a legit boast about being the WWE alternative by having blood-feuds, great wrestling, indy darlings, and giving guys a chance that the WWE refused. Now they have Low-Ki who is the indy darling nobody wanted, and they're probably going to cause Kurt Angle to die in the ring. If you don't like deathmatches, you should watch it instead of CZW. If you don't like juggalos, you should watch it instead of ICP's promotion. If you don't like homophobic world champs, you should watch it instead of ROH and the last match of the last New Japan PPV (but can watch the aftermath).
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Flameingblack posted:Without being funny or ironic, someone tell me what TNA is the alternative to these days. They used to have a legit boast about being the WWE alternative by having blood-feuds, great wrestling, indy darlings, and giving guys a chance that the WWE refused. Now they have Low-Ki who is the indy darling nobody wanted, and they're probably going to cause Kurt Angle to die in the ring. Nothing, honestly. They're an indie with a TV deal. They used to have it on a channel people at least knew of, now it's buried on a channel almost nobody has, and those that do don't even know about it.
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Tato posted:Who is going to be the hero at Discovery Channel and finally stake this bastard company in the heart? We need a hero like Jamie Kellner. Time for Jamie and Adam to bust the myth that TNA is an actual legitimate company.
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I like to think Dixie believes she is a business mastermind for coming up with "the cheque is in the mail"
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coconono posted:if you're a regular employee of a company and they still send you paper checks, that's a warning sign right there. The direct deposit is being held up by the bank. How do you feel about bitcoin? - Dixie
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Is Destination America the TNA of cable networks? The way that Observer piece talked about DA made it seem that way.
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keevo posted:Is Destination America the TNA of cable networks? The way that Observer piece talked about DA made it seem that way. It's a Discovery channel C-channel that's on the super extended cable package that has all the channels you'll never watch.
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It's a little watched network that seems to be the repository of the reality shows too lovely to even get on Discovery Channel. They gave TNA a lot of slots for programming, but from what Meltzer says, they had very little knowledge of the wrestling business and really assumed that TNA would bring all of its Spike audience with them. With that obviously not being the case, they no longer give a poo poo and have cut their programming down to the bone. I doubt they care at all about TNA at this point, and the channel is only a revamp away from getting rid of it. If only TNA were on a channel that tolerated their stagnant but consistent rating for years and promoted them on television even though re-runs of COPS garnered more viewers. A channel that literally only required one thing of them - no longer employing a misogynist, horrendous wrestling booker who turns everything to poo poo whenever he gets a hold of it and who did nothing but harm their company and their popularity. If only that channel existed they'd be golden, as even TNA would never be stupid and arrogant enough to secretly try to employ a guy like that and gently caress over a channel that had given them so much.
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Tato posted:It's a little watched network that seems to be the repository of the reality shows too lovely to even get on Discovery Channel. They gave TNA a lot of slots for programming, but from what Meltzer says, they had very little knowledge of the wrestling business and really assumed that TNA would bring all of its Spike audience with them. With that obviously not being the case, they no longer give a poo poo and have cut their programming down to the bone. I doubt they care at all about TNA at this point, and the channel is only a revamp away from getting rid of it. If they expected all of their Spike audience to go from a basic cable channel owned by loving Viacom to their C-tier mega-expanded digital cable package only Discovery network, they probably have very little knowledge of the television business either.
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flashy_mcflash posted:If that was a crazy person's dream what was the early days of ECW on Syfy with the Zombie and the other random characters? Now that was really bizarre. I hope that stuff ends up on the Network at some point. They thought of another stock science-fiction character, the zombie, and had Sandman beat the poo poo out of him, but people don't associate science-fiction with zombies, so it was just really confusing.
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Tato posted:If only TNA were on a channel that tolerated their stagnant but consistent rating for years and promoted them on television even though re-runs of COPS garnered more viewers. A channel that literally only required one thing of them - no longer employing a misogynist, horrendous wrestling booker who turns everything to poo poo whenever he gets a hold of it and who did nothing but harm their company and their popularity. If only that channel existed they'd be golden, as even TNA would never be stupid and arrogant enough to secretly try to employ a guy like that and gently caress over a channel that had given them so much. they never promoted them though
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rovert posted:Josh went solo Cool Youtube review Josh.
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