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It's springtime for Jarrett™! Things that happened in March: Let's just start with the obvious. Things became even pettier in Impact as the relationship with the Hardys died. Upper management claimed to control the entirety of the Broken™ gimmick, pursued lawsuits to prevent the team from using the gimmick on ROH and WWE, and successfully got ROH's PPV dropped from Dish the night of airing live over the matter. The bridge with the Hardys has almost certainly been burned at this point. BUT THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE Tapings happened! And new people showed up! Including: Bruce Pritchard Reno Scum Garza Jr Laredo Kid Kevin Matthews Fallah Bahh Mario Bokara Kongo Kong Alberto Del Rio Dutch Mantel Rachael Ellering And we had returns! Suicide, Karen Jarrett, Magnus, Matt Morgan, ODB, and LAX (Homicide, Konnan, and new people: Diamante and the indy team EYFBO)! We even have the return of live events promoter Rafael Morffi, which likely means Empty House Shows are coming back! Partnerships! Pro Wrestling NOAH, The Crash, and AAA all have working alliances with the company that desperately wants you to call it Impact now. Unfortunately they had (and likely still have) no idea AAA and The Crash hate each other. Oh well! Also they're bringing back World of Sport! And Magnus is going to be on the roster! And the biggest addition of all, of course, was rovert posted:We just need an owl: https://twitter.com/KevinSullyTV/status/837683671540846593 But of course, not all changes are positive. In addition to the Hardys, Jade and Drew Galloway fled the company. And yet another of the already weak teams broke up (DCC). How will this affect Bram's 47 contracts? More importantly, it means half of this image changed within a week:  In addition to the pettiness with the Hardys, pettiness with old management was blatant behind the scenes and even moreso on camera: PWInsider posted:As we discussed yesterday during the NXT & Beyond audio show in the Elite section of PWInsider.com, there will be some segments on tonight's Impact that knocks the previous regime. While there were a number of wrestlers backstage who felt it was a shot at the roster as much as previous members of management, Eli Drake became upset and confronted Jeff Jarrett about it and the two had a discussion. It was never described to me as getting ugly but Drake voiced some frustrations the existing roster was having with the changeover last week. There were talents who felt the shots at the previous regime were unfair because they didn't see them as a shot at management, but as everyone who had been working there. Since they had been perservering long before Anthem purchased the company, despite not knowing if and when it would fall apart and whether they would get the money they were owed - a number of talents felt there was nothing wrong with their work (and certainly, the product didn't suck) but the message the segments sent ruffled some feathers. So, Drake went right to Jarrett and voiced that. We are told he spoke with both Jarrett and Bruce Prichard. The pettiness re:Hardys escalated to the point this comedy occurred: https://twitter.com/willh94/status/844722618611744769 Luigi Thirty posted:OH MY GOD TNA IS THE STUPIDEST WORST COMPANY ON THE PLANET https://twitter.com/prowrestlingnet/status/838484100465983491 A whooooooole lot of dumb Russo poo poo happened at the tapings, including with the World title bouncing between Lashley, Del Rio, and Lashley again all in one taping. Current champions: World - Lashley Grand - Moose X Division - Trevor Lee Knockouts - Rosemary Tag team - LAX Benne posted:I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm kind of surprised. This was probably the company's last chance to get a legitimate fresh start, scrub away bad memories, and actually move forward as a real grown-up wrestling promotion. grack posted:TNA is really good at being terrible at everything. https://twitter.com/RebyHardy/status/840315276608565248
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Ain't Impact(TM) Great No.
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Apr 1, 2017 02:10
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Russo being back again is the most TNA thing ever Jarrett really is attached to the one guy who pushed him as a main-eventer
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Jason Sextro posted:Russo being back again is the most TNA thing ever How long until they get booked as co-TNA champs.
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Hey hey hey, TNA rehired Dutch Mantel as well, probably so they have someone to blame when the "Fire Russo!" chants start.
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grack posted:Hey hey hey, TNA rehired Dutch Mantel as well, probably so they have someone to blame when the "Fire Russo!" chants start. I can't wait until they contact Jim Cornette too
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The best part of TNA is getting pallets of their unsold merchandise for next to nothing thanks to Don West
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i haven't watched impact in years but boy it sure sounds like the new regime is a lot like the old regime that ran it into the ground originally
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Cardboard Box posted:i haven't watched impact in years but boy it sure sounds like the new regime is a lot like the old regime that ran it into the ground originally It pretty much is the old regime, just now with more Nazis.
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Last time I saw TNA was the tito ortiz reveal. Everyone is still with the company last I remembered at least
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He's the worst singer! He's the worst entertainer! He's the worst wrestler! He's the worst promoter! He's double J! J E double F, J A double R E double T! Ain't he great?! gently caress no, he loving isn't!
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Don't forget that you can go to http://pluto.tv/watch/pro-wrestling to watch TNA 24 hours a day on a random schedule highlighting all the talent they've lost over the years! It's like I'm actually watching the TV Guide Channel!
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grack posted:It pretty much is the old regime, just now with more Nazis. There's no Nazis. The only Nazis work closely with WWE.
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I just learned about Pluto TV, so I've been leaving Impact on while I do chores and such. How is the Jeremy Borash/Josh Matthews feud even worse than it sounds on paper? I can't imagine viewers having any reaction to this beyond "good god, shut up." Also, EC3 just said that he carried this company on his "perfectly symmetrical back" ZDar Fan fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Apr 1, 2017 |
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Apr 1, 2017 20:00
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MassRafTer posted:There's no Nazis. The only Nazis work closely with WWE. Are the Harris Brothers not involved in this shitshow?
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ChrisBTY posted:Are the Harris Brothers not involved in this shitshow? Anthem put them in charge, so yeah.
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ChrisBTY posted:Are the Harris Brothers not involved in this shitshow? They haven't been and supposedly TNA isn't using Aeroluxe for production which is interesting. grack posted:Anthem put them in charge, so yeah. No they didn't, Jarrett is in charge. He's stealing catch phrases from Nazis. MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Apr 1, 2017 |
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ZDar Fan posted:I just learned about Pluto TV, so I've been leaving Impact on while I do chores and such. How is the Jeremy Borash/Josh Matthews feud even worse than it sounds on paper? I can't imagine viewers having any reaction to this beyond "good god, shut up." 
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Oh hey I never noticed that before. How do you even do that?
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WrasslorMonkey posted:Oh hey I never noticed that before. How do you even do that? A shitload of steroids
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WrasslorMonkey posted:Oh hey I never noticed that before. How do you even do that? You made a bacne lion in the middle there.
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WrasslorMonkey posted:Oh hey I never noticed that before. How do you even do that? An absolute asston of Steroids. There was this guy called Dan Matha last year who showed up in NXT and he was almost as bad. You'd think these guys would pop if they took a back bump
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WrasslorMonkey posted:Oh hey I never noticed that before. How do you even do that? Unnerving.
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Apr 2, 2017 11:54
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That back is more shameful than Roman's
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MassRafTer posted:There's no Nazis. The only Nazis work closely with WWE. Checks out, over at WWE the checks arrive on time.
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ZDar Fan posted:Pluto TV Checks out.
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sportsgenius86 posted:I took it as her taking a shot at new TNA management Ditto in which case it's one of the best things she has ever done.
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sportsgenius86 posted:I took it as her taking a shot at new TNA management yeah that makes more sense
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https://twitter.com/RealJeffJarrett/status/848703218502836224 Definitely not bitter.
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:i bet vince legit does not know who Dixie Carter is that can only help her get in good with wwe, really
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