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What the hell happens next?
This poll is closed.
They literally set fire to the ring by accident 2 2.22%
They literally set fire to the ring on purpose 6 6.67%
Film 6 months of content accidentally using WWE prop belts 6 6.67%
Rehire Jeff Jarrett 23 25.56%
Start splicing in archival footage of AJ Styles and pretending it's current 23 25.56%
Accidentally switch the live Pop TV feed to the WWE Network 6 6.67%
Lose the keys to the production truck, film 6 months of content in the parking lot with a Samsung 7 7.78%
Sue a fan who flips the bird on air, lose all company rights to said fan 13 14.44%
Somehow everything gets good and they start making money (Comedy Option) 4 4.44%
Total: 90 votes
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rovert
Jun 10, 2013
https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1139762840561172480

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Davros1
Jul 19, 2007

You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible



https://twitter.com/XylotThemes/status/1139742989725532160

FunMerrania
Mar 3, 2013

Blast Processing

HOLY loving poo poo HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

dsriggs
May 28, 2012

MONEY FALLS...

...FROM THE SKY...

...WHENEVER HE POSTS!

Prokhor Zakharov posted:

"ya wanna get HARDCORE...ye wanna get EXTREME"

NoDQ!

.....daht cahm!

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
Impact is doing good in preventing us from having to see Elgin. :colbert:

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
This is just an extended Christopher Guest mockumentary at this point. Where’s Catherine O’Hara?

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
On the show that had higher ratings when they were both on POP.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Maxwell Lord posted:

This is just an extended Christopher Guest mockumentary at this point. Where’s Catherine O’Hara?

On a successful show.

Strawberry Panda
Nov 4, 2007

Breakfast Defecting, Slow Dick Touching, Root Beer Barreling SwagVP
We all made fun of Impact having Schitt's Creek as a lead in but that show is bonkers popular now.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Strawberry Panda posted:

We all made fun of Impact having Schitt's Creek as a lead in but that show is bonkers popular now.

It's good show and I've heard it in conversations about Emmys this year.

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer
It's just a pity they didn't have Moira around for the angle involving A. J. Styles' behbeh.

DarkstarIV
Apr 6, 2010

OFFICIAL RACIST
https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1139720529630203904
https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1139723988265869312
https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1139727450315743233
https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1139730268724420608

God bless Impact. :allears:

triplexpac
Mar 24, 2007

Suck it
Two tears in a bucket
And then another thing
I'm not the one they'll try their luck with
Hit hard like brass knuckles
See your face through the turnbuckle dude
I got no love for you
I’m so glad I decided to check out the ol Impact thread for the first time in months. Never change, TNA

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Those commercial breaks have been a mess since the beginning. My personal favorite was the week Melissa was at some gamer thing and was bouncing between nerds who didn't want to speak to her, nerds who seemed a little too excited to speak to her, and nerds criticizing how she played a video game.

Its funny thinking back to that first episode with the tremendous highlights in the commercials. I'm genuinely curious if Impact just los interest in trying that fast or if someone got mad that the Twitch airing was better than the Pursuit one.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


loving laffo at everything

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


STAC Goat posted:

Those commercial breaks have been a mess since the beginning. My personal favorite was the week Melissa was at some gamer thing and was bouncing between nerds who didn't want to speak to her, nerds who seemed a little too excited to speak to her, and nerds criticizing how she played a video game.

Wow, Kenny Omega just can't help himself

Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

forkboy84 posted:

Wow, Kenny Omega just can't help himself

Extremely problematic

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

It would be extremely funny if Kenny Omega held court in TNA's twitch chat.

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1140983100140335106

STAC Goat
Mar 12, 2008

Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

That is a shockingly huge loss for Impact. She was a lot of fun and definitely one of the highlights of the product.

I assume that means Kloss is gone too. He's less of a loss but I was still kind of enjoying him.

I'm still like a month behind though so i dunno. Maybe I'll catch up sometime if I'm bored.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

I don't feel like checking but apparently her social media engagement way outpaced anything else on TNA's channel as well.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

STAC Goat posted:

That is a shockingly huge loss for Impact. She was a lot of fun and definitely one of the highlights of the product.

I assume that means Kloss is gone too. He's less of a loss but I was still kind of enjoying him.

I'm still like a month behind though so i dunno. Maybe I'll catch up sometime if I'm bored.

Apparently people are saying Impact is still not going to grant Kross his release.

davidbix
Jun 14, 2016

Wow, Bix. First K.Rool, then Steve and now SEPHIROTH? Your dream game is real!

sportsgenius86 posted:

Apparently people are saying Impact is still not going to grant Kross his release.
Which I don't get at all. Dude's still less than 5 years in and still clearly not a finished product, but they're seemingly not doing anything to help him grow while booking him away from his strengths. In the ring he just needs time and the right opponents, and but the Bloodsport match showed that if he's given something he's comfortable with, he can deliver a legitimately great performance. Out of the ring, he's clearly been best at the sociopathic hitman shtick, the respectful martial artist shtick, and the times where he's blended the two together. But for most of his Impact run, especially since being in the top mix, he's been a generic heavy, which plays to none of his strengths and does nothing to develop him.

Dude had one of the breakout performances of Mania weekend, and he's gained nothing from it...other than fans who watched Bloodsport being able to invoke that Impact is squandering one of the breakout stars of Mania weekend. I get that having a great UWF-style match with a ridiculously motivated Harry Smith at the one show all year where U.S. indie fans will surely be up for it is not exactly a scenario that will be frequently replicated. But dude had a great standout match on the best top to bottom show of the weekend in a way where he still made his presence known even though there were numerous established great workers on the show.

WrasslorMonkey
Mar 5, 2012

Somebody ring the drat bell.

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

TNA has run out of commercial interests to gently caress over and lie to so now they're loving with talent again. Someone hook them up with a Six Flags sponsorship.

Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

The more things change the more they stay the same

Strawberry Panda
Nov 4, 2007

Breakfast Defecting, Slow Dick Touching, Root Beer Barreling SwagVP
Wait do I need to go back and watch Bloodsport?

Luke72w
Oct 28, 2011

Unlovable

Strawberry Panda posted:

Wait do I need to go back and watch Bloodsport?

It is a hell of a card, if you like the style it's must watch.

davidbix
Jun 14, 2016

Wow, Bix. First K.Rool, then Steve and now SEPHIROTH? Your dream game is real!

Strawberry Panda posted:

Wait do I need to go back and watch Bloodsport?
Yes, Bloodsport was great. From my Mania weekend diary:

quote:

Thursday, 4:00 p.m.: Time for the now-annual experimental show of the week, Game Changer Wrestling Presents Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport, a no-ropes, MMA-inspired kumite. The first show, which was produced by future WWE-signee Matt Riddle, sure looked like the weirdest event of the 2018 weekend, but even with some hiccups it delivered a fun, brisk show that was widely well-received. The concept was refined this year, with clearly defined rules and competitors who mostly had legitimate fighting backgrounds. Even with the stronger MMA aesthetic, though, the card maintained the variety and broader insanity of the first try. Every match was different from the next, and there were plenty of pleasant surprises.

As this was my vote for the best overall show of the week, I will run it down in a little more detail. Killer Kross, the sociopathic heavy in Impact Wrestling, had his breakout match with Davey Boy Smith Jr., a modern twist on early Japanese faux MMA. Technician Jonathan Gresham had the card’s one style-clash match with MMA fighter turned death match specialist Masashi Takeda, and it was brilliant. Catch wrestlers Timothy Thatcher and Hideki Suzuki had a sort of ’70s style bout resembling a old school world title march, which the crowd ate up. They went even more nuts for the war and spectacle of Barnett vs. Minoru Suzuki minutes later. Because there are so many more hours of wrestling to address, I will just encourage you to check out the whole show. It’s worth it.

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
To another 14 years

https://twitter.com/garrettkidney/status/1141362752184733697

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Still one of my fav moments :unsmith:

Of course they had to gently caress it up almost immediately and get it off him/back onto Jarrett in time for the Spike debut though :smith:

Hellblazer187
Oct 12, 2003

Raven, child AJ, and Ron Killings were the best part of early TNA.

Bigass Moth
Mar 6, 2004

I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.
:boom:
he knows...

Chris James 2 posted:

Still one of my fav moments :unsmith:

Of course they had to gently caress it up almost immediately and get it off him/back onto Jarrett in time for the Spike debut though :smith:

Now hit my drat music slapnuts!!!!

rovert
Jun 10, 2013
Bully Garrett into doing this

https://twitter.com/garrettkidney/status/1141517837846142977

Pinche Rudo
Feb 8, 2005

Hellblazer187 posted:

Raven, child AJ, and Ron Killings were the best part of early TNA.

Don't forget Jerry Lynn and Amazing Red!

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS


We really do need a definitive tome for all crazy poo poo TNA has pulled.

Strawberry Panda
Nov 4, 2007

Breakfast Defecting, Slow Dick Touching, Root Beer Barreling SwagVP

davidbix posted:

Yes, Bloodsport was great. From my Mania weekend diary:

Hell yeah. Guess I know what I'm doing tonight, then.

Max Coveri
Dec 23, 2015

by Athanatos

coconono posted:

We really do need a definitive tome for all crazy poo poo TNA has pulled.

There's the LOLTNA History page, but once Hogan and Dixie leave it gets really cluttered.

Chris James 2
Aug 9, 2012


Dave says Davey Boy Smith Jr asked New Japan for permission to work Impact dates because management was interested in him. New Japan said no because "loving Jeff Jarrett and TNA" and were still mad about how Okada was booked

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pathetic little tramp
Dec 12, 2005

by Hillary Clinton's assassins
Fallen Rib

Wait so to be king of the mountain you have to unsnap the belt and then put the belt back on or did Raven gently caress up?

I mean, he just grabs the belt a second later so, I really don't get how that was supposed to end.

edit: I do like how they cut to reactions of other wrestlers looking upset, that's something you don't get very often.

edit edit: OHHHHHH I see he's putting the belt up, so you have to physically grab the belt and do a reverse ladder match with it I guess

edit edit edit:

Ganso Bomb posted:

Yes, the rules are quite simple. Just don't wind up in the penalty box!

hahaha oh it's the penalty box match too? loving awesome.

pathetic little tramp fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Jun 20, 2019

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