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| They literally set fire to the ring by accident |
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2 | 2.22% |
| They literally set fire to the ring on purpose |
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6 | 6.67% |
| Film 6 months of content accidentally using WWE prop belts |
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6 | 6.67% |
| Rehire Jeff Jarrett |
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23 | 25.56% |
| Start splicing in archival footage of AJ Styles and pretending it's current |
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23 | 25.56% |
| Accidentally switch the live Pop TV feed to the WWE Network |
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6 | 6.67% |
| Lose the keys to the production truck, film 6 months of content in the parking lot with a Samsung |
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7 | 7.78% |
| Sue a fan who flips the bird on air, lose all company rights to said fan |
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13 | 14.44% |
| Somehow everything gets good and they start making money (Comedy Option) |
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4 | 4.44% |
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beggar posted:I know him as the dude who slapped the poo poo out of terry funk and makes weird noises when he throws punches Also he got a settlement out of WWE for rescinding his contract because, apparently, with the no blood policy they had, he had a solid legal argument for discrimination under Canadian law.
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coconono posted:Remember that lawsuit with the Hardys? I guess its gone.
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Nov 30, 2017 01:47
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Tato posted:I have TNA trading cards of CM Punk and Chris Hero, both of whom were in TNA for like one week.
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Dec 19, 2017 02:31
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Chris James 2 posted:Show more respect to the AAA world champ
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Aug 15, 2018 05:18
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So it looks like Impact's debut on Pursuit did a... Wait, that sounds wrong... NO RATINGS AT ALL. https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1085042553479663616
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Jan 15, 2019 19:57
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sportsgenius86 posted:They drastically decreased what ads pay out for wrestling content
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Feb 4, 2019 01:34
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The lawsuit appears to be talking entirely or almost entirely about the finished, edited/produced shows. Which obviously Jeff should have backed up, as well, but...well, he gets a pass on that for now for obvious reasons. Anthem clearly has the footage in some form; it aired on Fight Network this past weekend. But the "masters," in ProRes or something like that, appear to be gone. I'm not sure where I weigh in on the sabotage vs. actual accident/incompetence discussion, but remember: Even if the ownership has changed, this IS a company where the entirety of one of their TV shows (British Boot Camp) was being stored on Jeremy Borash's MacBook while it was being edited...without any backups. So...who knows?
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Feb 26, 2019 05:42
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MassRafTer posted:Heyman said that when he looked at the books in 2009 that they'd lost almost 100 MM.
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Mar 19, 2019 02:42
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...Rosemary is a heel now?
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Apr 20, 2019 19:25
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EugeneJ posted:tl;dr - the woman was crazy, and many goons are still butthurt that they tried to ruin Elgin's life for nothing
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Apr 29, 2019 04:33
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Elgin also bragged about pissing on a groupie non-consensually on Kevin Steen's old Highspots show, Kevin looked uncomfortable during the story.
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Apr 29, 2019 06:11
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El Gallinero Gros posted:He strikes me as completely lacking in self awareness And even if he was a perfectly decent person, he probably would have lost a good bit of status from the number of guys who do better versions of his act breaking out. Which is part of what's so dumb about Impact bringing him in, much less with an immediate main event push: He's not a buzz guy or bringing in any goodwill! They have and can find better strongman hoss types! What does he bring other than some history with Cage?
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Apr 29, 2019 06:34
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rovert posted:To me the biggest concern/damage comes from IMPACT breaking the seal on booking Elgin prominently again in North American and UK/Europe. Other promotions will follow when they see the online outrage is just basically for the lack of a better word just noise. Rich Swann has been wrestling on big indie cards for a good year now with very little issue with in part IMPACT's help.
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Apr 29, 2019 18:52
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coconono posted:when I was checking out Twitch Friday night, I saw TNA had the most live viewers of all the wrestling shows, so they've got going that they screw up.
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Apr 29, 2019 19:02
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rovert posted:The initial backlash to IMPACT booking/using Swann was much, much bigger than what I've seen today for Elgin. That might change who knows. coconono posted:I don't have the hard numbers but I imagine it can't be more than $500/mo. Everyone who gets twitch checks is really coy about what the money looks like.
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Apr 29, 2019 21:12
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Basic Chunnel posted:It’s hard out here for a CAW
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May 15, 2019 05:33
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sportsgenius86 posted:Apparently people are saying Impact is still not going to grant Kross his release. 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.
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Jun 19, 2019 05:52
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Strawberry Panda posted:Wait do I need to go back and watch Bloodsport? 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.
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Jun 19, 2019 23:42
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Pinche Rudo posted:What are the odds of Jarrett convincing someone in WWE to hire Vince Russo
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Jul 21, 2019 05:39
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This is entirely a guess, but I wonder if she feels that she makes enough on appearances and indie bookings that Impact was the superior financial decision for now to being more locked up in AEW.
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Jul 30, 2019 05:09
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MassRafTer posted:They subscribe to another ratings service so they can only claim that for like 2 weeks until the numbers get reported. So the only numbers we have are very limited old ones from Meltzer and we ain't getting anything else. Also: Rentrak uses cable and satellite boxes somehow, so it's possible that they're more accurate than Nielsen, but we really have no idea. And since that's not the currency advertisers deal in: If Anthem wants AXS to go ad-supported, they will be going in completely blind as far as what king of audience AXS has in Nielsen terms. This isn't the '80s, when Nielsen and Arbitron had competing samples that resulted in ratings within spitting distance of each other. Rentrak is entirely its own thing. I'd LOVE to know what kind of numbers Anthem got during due diligence. Bigass Moth posted:Someone explain why Killer Kross went from a nobody to suddenly this huge desired star.
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Sep 11, 2019 05:34
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Chris James 2 posted:John Morrison Also, IIRC, he was Johnny Spade for a week or so on the main roster. "Smooth" Johnny Spade in OVW was a different guy.
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Sep 17, 2019 01:30
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hi everybody, how's your weekend FWIW, Bill Pritchard's sources are telling him the same thing about the royalty statement story, though Impact did send him the denial that they didn't bother sending me for some reason. https://twitter.com/bpritchard152/status/1175112098340323329
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Sep 21, 2019 23:04
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flashy_mcflash posted:I mean, TNA's merch sales are probably not unlike their tv ratings; just too low to properly estimate. They had stupid quantities of excess overstocked ill-advised merchandise when they were a MUCH more popular company. They honestly have no reason to be doing anything other than print on demand merch these days.
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Sep 21, 2019 23:19
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flashy_mcflash posted:I still regret not buying one of those Jeff Jarrett laser-etched guitars when the price plummeted to around $30. What a piece of history. Even if they never paid for any of the merch they bought in the last quarter of 2015: https://www.sescoops.com/exclusive-tna-owes-yet-another-debt-this-time-to-merchandise-designerimporter/
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Sep 21, 2019 23:51
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DoctorGonzo posted:I still can't believe how TNA went from hey nobody wanted our TV show to hey we buought a channel to put our TV show that nobody wanted Has there been any reporting as to if Fight Network was paying Impact a rights fee before the foreclosure and/or if they still have been since then with both under Anthem's roof?
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Sep 22, 2019 22:05
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LividLiquid posted:How the gently caress does the company make money?! When all of the crazy Impact financial poo poo was coming out three years ago, someone with access to the books told me that basically everything we'd ever heard (mainly from the Observer) about Impact's profit/loss was true: That aside from a quarter or two in 2009 that were in the black, the company has run at a loss for its entire existence. Being owned by a TV company for the last two years does recontextualize losses for the last two years, of course, because of the value for their networks, but yes, it's legitimately insane that this company has outlasted WCW by a good five years or so. As for Anthem... I feel like a lot depends on whether or not you think they specifically bought AXS for Impact.
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Sep 22, 2019 22:40
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flashy_mcflash posted:It's the only thing that makes sense, though it still doesn't make any sense. Anthem has sunk an astronomical amount of money into Impact - settling lawsuits, etc - when, if it was live programming they were after, they could have dealt with any number of independent promotions to get the same/similar product. There is just something about the TNA/Impact brand that makes idiots (executives, not fans) open their wallets and walk away. And yes, I agree with your sentiment about the AXS purchase, in large part because I don't remember Anthem making that much noise about further U.S. expansion. There's other stuff, too, that doesn't make any sense: Why did they initially tell everyone that Pop was giving them a grace period to find a new network the same way Spike did...only for it to turn out to be utter bullshit? Was there something there—like Pop was fine with a few extra weeks and Anthem thought the AXS deal would be closed that soon (even though they started talks just a few weeks earlier)—or was it a completely made-up story for either no reason or to keep people from quitting for a few weeks when they heard that Impact was off Pop? Why would you even do that when you'd be exposed so quickly? On top of all that: Why would a filthy rich billionaire who basically operated AXS as a vanity network be so gung-ho to sell even though AXS's revenue should, by all logic, be nice and fixed since it's entirely carriage fees? None of this really makes sense at all past the idea that they'd buy AXS specifically for Impact is the type of not making sense that makes sense.
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Sep 22, 2019 23:15
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Taintrunner posted:the AJ cum shirt
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Sep 23, 2019 05:24
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DoctorGonzo posted:Post the flag
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Sep 24, 2019 00:26
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STONE COLD 64 posted:kevin sullivan (not that one) quit https://www.postwrestling.com/2019/09/23/impact-wrestlings-vp-of-production-leaving-the-company/ First, John Pollock reported on Monday that he had "confirmed with multiple sources that Sullivan has given notice along with several others in his department and is expected to be working with All Elite Wrestling," and more specifically that a “select few” would be joining him. https://www.sescoops.com/aew-raids-impact-wrestling-production-team/ Then, late this morning, Brad Davis reported that AEW had actually "raided the production team of Impact Wrestling" and "the mass exodus of virtually its entire production division has left Impact scrambling" and that "Impact was blindsided over the weekend when the Sullivan group notified them the working relationship was over effective immediately." Apparently, Sully had been trying to get a contract and some security to no avail, and now "Impact hired a local Tennessee producer to handle the work of several people." All of this in spite of Sully and company having been working for AEW so openly for months that myself and others had just kind of assumed that he had already jumped. They were even in the credits of the All Out TNT countdown special!
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Sep 25, 2019 19:14
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overmind2000 posted:That was when they were under the ownership of the same guy that brought us "Make Impact Great Again" hats so they probably didn't see any problem with it https://twitter.com/davidbix/status/1148267063246557184
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Sep 28, 2019 04:08
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rovert posted:I know. Just it is annoying that people think it is some kind of clubhouse thing why people aren't talking rather than actually protecting Kylie's privacy and wellbeing. Also: If people's worst fears were true—I don't think they are—then it would be something you couldn't ethically report without her involvement.
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Oct 8, 2019 18:06
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Did anyone go to the press conference? Like, literally anyone?
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Nov 9, 2019 02:21
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pressedbunny posted:They should have moved the title off Brian earlier and had this match at BFG, but hey. In the grand scheme of TNA booking, I'll still happily take this.
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Nov 9, 2019 05:34
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flashy_mcflash posted:Dave used to get approximate figures for New Japan but that might be a combination of NJPW enlisting a third party to measure it and a person inside the company willing to release that. I'm not sure TNA has any real motivation to do either. Even if it was someone else, Dave...never really got actual numbers? He reported in 2015 that they were averaging around 200,000 viewers and would give occasional relative updates after that. AXS was/is clearly happy with NJPW, because the shows went from old matches aired seasonally to up to date matches aired year-round, but we don't really know anything. Hell, even if we want to fully trust that they've sat at 200,000 or thereabouts the whole time, we have no idea how a Rentrak 200,000 compares to a Nielsen 200,000.
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Nov 10, 2019 06:48
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Gaz-L posted:Didn't Anthem fire most of the AXS PR staff?
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Nov 10, 2019 21:41
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coconono posted:its a short walk from Allysin Kay to Sami Callihan. The timing is totally suspect because no one gave a gently caress about that match until Allysin spoke out against Tessa. Then It Became A Thing.
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Jan 17, 2020 23:07
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Edge & Christian posted:Dixieland continues to be a heel faction, leading to the point where TNA announces that August 7 is "Put Your Boss Through a Table Day", commemorating the episode of Impact where the Dudleys 3D Dixie Carter through a table against explicit requests from Spike TV that they not show man-on-woman violence, one of the key acts that led them to losing the Spike TV contract.
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Chris James 2 posted:Ethan Page's company
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