Impact Support Club House

[Starkist]

Bankruptcy?

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Apparently Jimmy Jacobs is backstage and is expected to work the tapings. There's also a rumor going that Pentagon Jr. could show up.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Santino Marella is also backstage.

 

[Skairipa Matrix]

Unless they stopped with demanding 10% of all other earnings from the talents and making them ask permission to work anywhere else, why would talents really want to go to TNA? Basically I'm suprised at the names rumored to be going to TNA or in talks with them.

But if they get some of these people even part time there it'd be good for them.

EDIT: Santino would be useless to bring in.

 

[klunderbunker]

Yeah I don't get it either. Is Pop TV really that big of an attraction anymore? That's far from enough to get people to show up.

 

[Richard Blonoff]

It's because they have a tendency to overpay talent up front before they start running out of money to pay them, especially if you ever worked in WWE.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

I'm a little intrigued by Jacobs. That's really it, though. Hoping for something chaotic to come out of these tapings that'll spark some real interest.

 

[Richard Blonoff]

Jacobs was the one who came up with the idea for the List of Jericho while he was a WWE writer, so he has a decent enough mind.

 

[Starkist]

Are they tapping tonight?

 

[klunderbunker]

I don't know about tonight, but they're having to PAY ACTORS TO COME TO THE SHOWS BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FILL IN THE ARENA.

https://411mania.com/wrestling/impact-seeking-paid-actors-fill-weeks-taping-crowds/

That suggests to me that they couldn't even give away tickets to the show and are offering cash to get people in. This is the same company that couldn't afford REFEREES this week and they're having to pay people to appear.

Just.....that might actually be a new low.

 

[Richard Blonoff]

They have been doing the paid audience thing for years though. Maybe not to this scale, but they used to have paid plants all the time. I remember a time when it seemed every moderately attractive girl in South Florida was an Impact fan and always managed to get on camera for reaction shots.

Didn't they also pay people on the India tour and tell them who to cheer and boo?

 

[klunderbunker]

They paid the India tour something like $5 each, which is a common thing in India. This is $50 a person a night. Also, this sounds like SEVERAL people instead of just a handful.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

@Thomas_Latimer_: I've been granted my release from @IMPACTWRESTLING
Thank you to everyone from top to bottom and to you the fans for your support ��

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What a waste.

 

[klunderbunker]

So much for all those multiyear contracts.

 

[Alex]

Bram was one of the biggest wasted potential they had (granted his legal problems didn't help but still)

 

[Starkist]

No more Bram! Damn, goodbye Bram.

 

[Richard Blonoff]

So less than a hundred people answered that casting call before the company faced such backlash they pulled the ad and made their Twitter private.

Also, the venue they are taping at has no bathrooms so they had to bring in porta-potties.

 

[klunderbunker]

They can't even get the most basics right.

 

[ShinChan]

This company surprises with something at least every week.

 

[ABMorales787]

A real pity. Out of the shows I watch, Impact has had some of the better production values outside of WWE. Hell some of those edited vintage/promo's blow WWE away. Looking at that Eli in Mexico promo there. Tonto, si!

It's a well produced show and it just blows up on everyone's face like this. Often too. Hell, they pulled The LAW off the air due to Impact costing money. This show is actually making me lose things I like. What the fuck?!

 

[klunderbunker]

This show is actually making me lose things I like. What the fuck?!

I've lost my sanity and time with my wife as a result of it. Seriously: she works late on Thursdays to avoid having to watch Impact because she can't stand it.

 

[ABMorales787]

I cheat and watch it early. But now I don't have my morning walk podcasts to listen to.

 

[Richard Blonoff]

So I wish I was making this up, but they had fans help set up the ring for the tapings, and apparently one of the ring posts was slanted because they had no clue what they were doing.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

LMFAO

 

[It's Damn Real!]

So less than a hundred people answered that casting call before the company faced such backlash they pulled the ad and made their Twitter private.

Also, the venue they are taping at has no bathrooms so they had to bring in porta-potties.

They can't even get the most basics right.

The bathrooms thing was known months ago when they announced they would be holding BFG there. Not sure why that's being made a big deal right now.