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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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grack
Jan 10, 2012

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sbaldrick posted:

I wonder if I just showed up tonight they would let me in.

Sure, but they might make you wrestle a match.

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Super No Vacancy posted:

i just want billy to buy the IP out of spite after anthem goes bankrupt, now

Hire the worst female wrestler you can, call them Trixie Darter, have them get their rear end beat every show.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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rare Magic card l00k posted:

The main event was a reminder that it doesn't matter what the name is, who is in creative, who is the owner, who the wrestlers are, where the show is, how many fans there are, etc.

TNA will always be TNA. As mind-numbing as all of that is, that's been your standard TNA main event since the (first) Jarrett era.

Only the main event?

Three words for you, amigo:

"To the back!"

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Marmaduke! posted:

Worst part is this sounds so bad it's going to stink up pretty much a whole Botchamania.

Free press is free press, right?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Benne posted:

Those look like the kind of obviously lovely joke pizzas that YouTubers make/eat for easy laughs and clicks. They're actually selling those for real money?

Well, they're offering. Whether they sell is another question entirely.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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C. Everett Koop posted:

I would have accepted this video, which also shows how to make an Impact pizza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBdR98xE0Sw

This Youtube channel is what I've been missing in my life. If TNA did this, they would live forever.






Well, they're gonna live forever already because of some sort of terrible Faustian bargain but you know what I mean

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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rovert posted:

On Ric's end Ric is people pleaser and sadly Ric needed a steady stream of cash to pay for Reid's rehab which was very expensive. Ric was still wealthy at the time but most of his fortune was legally locked away in his retirement fund/investments.

On TNA's end it is TNA.

Also by all accounts Ric Flair manages his money as well as a chimp with a railroad spike stuck in it's brain.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Benne posted:

Not that it really matters since the entire show was trash, but here's Dave's BFG snowflakes

X-Division 6-way ***1/4
Ishimori/Dux *1/2
Abyss/Grado 1/2
Team Impact vs. Team AAA *1/2
OVE/LAX ***
Gail/Allie/Sienna *1/4
MMA guys vs. Wrestling guys **1/4
Eli/Johnny **3/4

Surprised that Monster's Ball didn't get the full Dud, but I guess Rosemary's death bump got her a pity 1/2.

2 3/4 is way too high for the main event on the finish alone.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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At least he's consistent

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Jerusalem posted:

I recall many years ago Dixie Carter insisting that there was a sizeable wrestling fanbase outside of WWE and that is what she wanted to target.

Almost none of us saw how that turned out because we stopped watching in 2007-8.

And just switched to listening Bryan Alvarez slowly lose his goddamned mind during the Monday Night Wars 2 debacle.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Chris James 2 posted:

Alisha Edwards, Hornswoggle, Veterans of War, and Mahabali Shera are done with TNA and have been removed from the roster section

They join James Storm, Low-Ki, Rockstar Spud, Bram, Teryn Terrell, Jeff Jarrett, Jim Cornette, Eddie Kingston, Reno Scum, Robbie E, and the referees in company exits over the past 2 months

Gail Kim is retired in-ring but no word if she's sticking with the company behind the scenes yet

The real news is that TNA actually updated their roster page.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Gavok posted:

Shake...?

Shake?!

SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fZuW-aJsg

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Warthur posted:

In fact, seeing how they're setting up in Nashville I wonder if Aro Luxe are deliberately making a bid to hoover up anyone from the Impact back office who chooses not to make the move to Canada.

This promotion would be dead before it even started.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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DJExile posted:

oh my god I remember this

why do i remember this :psyduck:

You died and went to Hell, and remembering stupid poo poo from TNA is your punishment for buying those Shinolas.


coconono posted:

[Insert Wrestler Name Here] appearing and never being mentioned again is another one of TNA's booking mysteries.

Seriously, that list is very, very, VERY long.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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EugeneJ posted:

I mean honestly there's not much to work with there and I don't know if I could have come up with anything better

Vicious Killing Machines, but lol that doesn't really describe them

Vanilla Kooky Monkeys
Vagrant Kindly Men
Vaguely Kinky Machinations
Vulpine Khaki Mammals
Vaporific Kinetic Mannequins
Vain Kindled Malocclusions
Valiant Kitschy Midgets
Variable Knotty Mechanics
Vulcanized Keen Managers
Vapid Knightly Masseurs
Virgin Knifelike Meteors
Visored Kosher Merchants
Victimized Kind Muffins
Vociferous Kept Mayonnaise
Virile Kafkaesque Matriarchs
Vertebral Kaleidescopal Manure
Viral Knobby Marks
Vivid Kindled Majors
Vindictive Knucklehead Melons
Vile Knavish Mermaids

It's like you're not even trying

grack fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Nov 16, 2017

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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exploded mummy posted:

TNA Impact superstar

I know those three words but this doesn't make any sense.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Aesop Poprock posted:

LAX is still a team??

Hernandez is long, long gone.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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oatgan posted:

tna, who had a legal department, taking his word for it and not bothering to check is the funny part

See, this raises an interesting question: Does TNA hire only stunningly incompetent people, or is there some sort of disease that affects everyone that works there?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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MassRafTer posted:

Only for a few matches but it doesn't excuse it.

The sheer amount of talent that wrestled in TNA at some point is unbelievable.

Of course TNA also had perhaps the greatest tag team of all time on their roster and they hosed that up as well.

Bad Influence, of course. Who else would I be talking about?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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So how long until Jarrett has the title?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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rovert posted:

Haven't listened to the new Wrestling Observer Radio that just dropped but yesterday I heard some of the talent who worked the November TV tapings haven't been paid yet.

*In Ron Perlman's Voice*

"TNA. TNA never changes"

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Testekill posted:

That was when he had the penis tattooed on his face

edit: Or did he lose it when he was beaten up and kidnapped by Ninjas

Can you imagine that Vince Russo complained that the wrestlers were never grateful for all of his hard work as a writer?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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coconono posted:

my fave part of impact last year was all the tweets from wrestlers telling people that such and such "dream match" had already happened on an impact show.

Example:
https://twitter.com/AllieImpact/status/947175480700166145

Nightmares are technically dreams

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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How is Jerry Lawler still alive much less still working?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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rovert posted:

And they are on Pluto TV.

They are experimenting.

This might be a Twitch broadcast:



Emma is NOT part of the IMPACT "iPPV" Wrestle Pro are doing. But she is on the live card.

Ahem, I believe you mean "Former WWE Superstar Tenille"

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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DeathChicken posted:

And yet he's a step up from Eli Drake

Setting the bar real high, here.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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DJExile posted:

there are dead people that are still a step up from eli drake

What's Chris Candido doing in the Impact Zone?!!

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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ChrisBTY posted:

TNA needed 3 things to function as a company.
2) Jeff Jarrett needed to realize Vince Russo's name was associated with failure and that any company with him as the architect would be evocative of the dying years of WCW.


Uh, no. Jeff Jarrett needed to realize that Vince Russo is one of the very worst writers in the history of professional wrestling.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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DarkstarIV posted:

Hey Rovert, are you absolutely sure that Russo is writing for that one lucha promotion now? Because this has his fingerprints all over it.

Like any other truly horrifying disease, it's difficult to ever be completely rid of Vince Russo.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Jerusalem posted:

I remember the first time they announced it I couldn't understand why the gently caress anybody in Kayfabe would take part in a match where you had a 25% chance of getting fired. The fact it is still around all these years later is even more perplexing.

I liked it when they did the Knockouts' version where they actually put the title belt in one of the cases. Tara was the reigning champ and that's how she lost her title. I believe it was because her contract was up soon and TNA didn't know if she would re-sign (she did, eventually) but they couldn't come up with literally any other idea.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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RealFoxy posted:

Didn't they also not tell Daffney she had to do a striptease which lead to more awkward moments though?

I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. She definitely didn't want to do it, and Lacey Von Erich did the striptease instead.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Explosions posted:

Also:

LOCKBOX CHALLENGE
The actual Knockouts Title, not a title shot, just a belt in a box: Angelina Love
A spider: Tara, who loses her title via random draw even though she won the match. But hey, free spider.
Knockouts title shot: Velvet Sky, who gets a Leather and Lace match with Love (it didn't actually happen)
Striptease: A visibly uncomfortable Daffney, who non-heel backstage interviewer Jeremy Borash stone-facedly forces to dance and strip telling her he'll fire her if she doesn't. Lacey Von Erich is involved, I don't know.

Yep, TNA gave away a title like it was a prize at the bottom of a cereal box. Probably the most self-aware thing they've ever done.

VVVV Edit: You're attempting to find logic in a TNA storyline. A storyline, that even by the horrendous standards of Vince Russo's TNA, was mindbogglingly stupid.

grack fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Jan 14, 2018

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Have him come out as the Jive-A-Raptor to his new theme song, "Someone Tweet My Mom"

Instant gold.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Ad by Khad posted:

Those wednesday and thursday shows go head-to-head against Overwatch League. That's no good.

OWL gets almost 300k viewers four days a week, TNA gonna be lucky to get 300

I agree, 300 people is kind of a high estimate for TNA

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Sotar posted:

Russo has to be back.

Russo never left.

Everything that we've seen in the last 3 years with TNA was a work. The multiple rebrands, the lawsuits, Billy Corgan, Jeff Jarrett's face turn... it was all written by Vince Russo to fool the smarks AND BY GOD HE SWERVED EVERY ONE OF US.

grack fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Jan 19, 2018

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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I'm pretty sure you could stream yourself pedalling a Big Wheel around your living room for an hour and get more viewers than TNA.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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corn in the bible posted:

I get why he'd do that but why on Earth would they take him?

He's a good announcer and he knows how to get talent over, both things WWE desperately needs.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Mel Mudkiper posted:

Footage of a shera/mahal matchup on the indies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01mdGW9-Zg

Not enough bacne for a matchup between those two.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Testekill posted:

Writing was on the wall when Borash walked.

The writing was on the wall when Jeff Jarrett convinced his father to hire Vince Russo in 2002

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

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piss tape israel posted:

Hello broken ribs and sternum

Vader used to murder people all the time with moonsaults. I really don't want to see a guy who's both fatter and likely a worse wrestler try it.

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