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[Starkist]

All that in my opinion is story line. Funny how this GFW stuff comes out about an invasion angle and TNA needing to find a new home. It has to be a work to setup GFW getting on to DA forcing TNA to look for a new home.


Idk maybe i am tired but that is ny thought on it all

 

[Thriller Ant]

https://twitter.com/The305MVP/status/621841268868382720

 

[The Dragon Saga]

The business model has obviously changed, it's a much, much smaller operation now; they don't tour, no house shows, they're barely doing PPV and when they got a PPV, while I didn't watch, its been heavily criticized for its lackluster card, set-up and final product, so Bound for Glory will be interesting because if PPV providers don't think your PPV is going to make money, they themselves won't advertise it.

That said, if they lose Destination America everything will be scaled back once more, potentially to the point where TNA doesn't really look like TNA anymore, but not in the good, "TNA has finally got their shit together" way, but more in the, "what the fuck is this? This isn't TNA" kind of way. The international agreements are all fine and dandy, but what is the point of them recording TV for the UK, India and Italy? They only tour one of those countries. They need to get a domestic TV deal.

I also highly doubt that they are the ones looking to get off Destination America when its been reported for the better part of two months now that Destination America will cancel the show anyway. This is an attempt to shift the reasoning to being theirs, when it's not.

 

[Alex]

I might get the new Jeff Hardy DVD when it comes out.

From the main page

Spoiler

– June 2004: Jeff Hardy vs. AJ Styles
– Destination X 2005: Jeff Hardy vs. Abyss
– Lockdown 2005: Jeff Hardy vs. Raven
– Bound For Glory 2005: Monster’s Ball Match
– January 2010: Jeff Hardy’s return to TNA
– March 2010: Jeff Hardy vs. AJ Styles w/ Ric Flair
– Bound For Glory 2010: Jeff Hardy vs. Kurt Angle vs. Mr. Anderson
– Against All Odds 2011: Jeff Hardy vs. Mr. Anderson
– Turning Point 2011: Jeff Hardy vs. Jeff Jarrett
– Final Resolution 2011: Jeff Hardy vs. Jeff Jarrett
– Lockdown 2012: Jeff Hardy vs. Kurt Angle
– Bound For Glory 2012: Jeff Hardy vs. Austin Aries
– Turning Point 2012: Jeff Hardy vs. Austin Aries
– Genesis 2013: Jeff Hardy vs. Austin Aries vs. Bobby Roode
– September 2014: The Hardys vs. The Wolves vs. Team 3D
– October 2014: The Hardys vs. The BroMans
– October 2014: The Hardys vs. EC3 and Tyrus
– November 2014: The Hardys vs. Samoa Joe and Low Ki
– January 2015: The Hardys vs. The Wolves
– March 2015: Jeff Hardy vs. James Storm
– April 2015: The Hardys vs. James Storm and Khoya
– April 2015: Ultimate X Match for the Tag Team Title
– Bonus Content: An interview with Jeff Hardy, an exclusive music video, acoustic performances, a tour of his art collection and more!

 

[It's Damn Real!]

@JohnGaburick: TNA @IMPACTWRESTLING and MVP (@The305MVP) have mutually agreed to part ways.

We wish him the best in the future.

 

[Dirk]

That's uncomfortable.

So... Who's the next stable leader?

I got Bram for $2.

 

[FitFinlay4Life]

That's uncomfortable.

So... Who's the next stable leader?

I got Bram for $2.

Jeff Jarrett and his GFW stable?

 

[Dirk]

Jeff Jarrett and his GFW stable?

Hmm...

The NEXT next one

 

[It's Damn Real!]

That's uncomfortable.

So... Who's the next stable leader?

I got Bram for $2.

Bram hates everyone. Doubt he's leading anything.

 

[Lowdown]

Maybe they'll do a funeral for them like they did Aces & Eights. Have Drew Galloway give the eulogy.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

So I haven't heard this, but Dave Meltzer apparently said this on the Observer radio yesterday, this is taken from another forum where others listen to the cast and nobody has disputed it after 24 hours but I'll listen tomorrow for context:

Bryan: TNA haven't been mentioned at all in this ROH and NXT mini-feud going-on. Does this make TNA superior or obsolete?

Dave: I think it makes them pretty obsolete. I mean, WWE never counter acted a single thing TNA ever tried to do to them you know. I mean, when TNA went to Monday's they did that knowing Bret Hart was going to return at that show. WWE didn't pull strings to bring Bret back because TNA decided to run Monday's with Hogan leading the line-up. This is the first time since WCW that a WWE owned operation has an issue with a non-WWE wrestling promotion and it just so happens to be ROH. TNA don't factor into this at all.

Bryan: So what you're saying is, despite years of "poking the bear" if you will and getting zero reaction, TNA hasn't been able to get nothing more than a slight, vague acknowledgment of their brand, but ROH not only has gotten acknowledgment but has been credited in articles and documentarys released by WWE as being more-or-less the brand who begins developing WWE's future stars, but is now their main enemy because of the toy deal, their similarities with NXT and son-on?

Dave: Pretty much, yeah. I mean, WWE is pretty obviously basing NXT after ROH. It looks like ROH with higher production costs, it feels like ROH with its presenation, wrestling is the main feature; granted, I'd say ROH has better all around wrestling right now than NXT does, but NXT has the WWE Network and has pretty much been the staple of it, you know, so ROH is swimming against the tide, but the thing that interests me is that ROH is challenging NXT whereas TNA never was able to challenge WWE. Like, if I had to pick between a WWE show in 2010 and TNA show, even though WWE was pretty boring around that time I'd still rather see a WWE show than seeing Hogan, Sting, Hardy and Angle. And obviously that was the general opinion because TNA had such difficulty selling seats when they went on the road but WWE were just doing what they do. There are as many tickets sold to ROH in Brooklyn as there is WWE in Brooklyn with NXT and NXT has like a million subscribers watching it, weekly. ROH has like 600,000 viewers a week between Sinclair and Destination America. They have the New Japan guys at that show but the fact is I see ROH gaining a lot from this NXT issue because ROH is going to take back the whole "anti-WWE" or "alternative to WWE" auras they had before TNA became, you know, like mainstream on a national level?

Bryan: Yeah but, lets make this easy, what you're saying is ROH has done something in its month on Destination America which TNA has never visibly been able to do, which is piss off WWE?

Dave: Yeah, I guess they have. ROH has pissed off WWE and I don't think TNA was ever able to do that even on Spike or with Hogan. They certainly never got reaction anyway while ROH has pretty obviously got one.

 

[ABMorales787]

Of course, we all fail to mention that pissing off factor is holding a major event in the Wrestlemania vicinity to the point of now announcing it a year in advance on a yearly basis and now doing it (by coincidence, I know) at Summerslam too. And that NXT did not exist in 2010.

Vince doesn't care. About TNA or ROH. It's Triple H. And the TNA brand was long damaged by the time Triple H had the ability to cause any harm with NXT.

 

[FlexAmerican Dynamite]

What's more of an accomplishment, pissing off a cenile old man or the guy who already holds a lot of power and will soon control anything and everything?

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Exactly. But the point he was trying to get across now that I listened is, that for the first time since WCW, another promotion has caught WWE's eye to the point that people in WWE are obviously looking at ROH and saying, "how can we keep them in line?", and that despite all the attempts to get a reaction like that, TNA never were.

 

[ABMorales787]

I can't blame them. ROH has theoretically summoned the buzzards onto Wrestlemania with all the non-WWE that now goes on and now might do it to Summerslam too.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Exclusive talent now working per-appearance, except for Angle, Hardy and potentially EC3.

http://pwinsider.com/article/95318/major-change-within-tna-regarding-talent-contracts.html?p=1

A sizable portion of the TNA roster have been informed over the last week that their current TNA contracts, which include a monthly guarantee, will be dropped by TNA. In their place, TNA is offering per-appearance deals. The way the former contracts worked is that TNA paid talents a monthly fee and then paid them additional per appearance. So if a talent was booked ten times a month, they were paid that as well as their guarantee. If they didn't work at all, they still had the guarantee. In some cases that we have heard of, TNA will now pay talents a little more per appearance than they were already receiving with the idea that it will make up for the loss of the guarantee and should the company start booking more dates, the talent could be in line to get even more money. As you can imagine, we've heard from a number of talents who aren't thrilled about this. No one wants to see money they knew they had coming in suddenly disappear and become something they have to hustle to now make up for. It's entirely possible some of them could turn down the new deals and end up finishing up their TNA tenures abruptly. Obviously, this is part of the new, changing financial reality of TNA as it changes it's model to fit what it's become: a company that produces a TV show, as opposed to what it was trying to be - a full fledged, touring pro wrestling company. While I suspect certain top talents will be held to guarantees (Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy and if TNA is smart, EC3), the vast majority of the company will now be working on per appearance deals.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Would imagine you'll see a few more "vets" hit the open market in light of this. Lashley, Anderson, etc.

 

[klunderbunker]

TNA continues to keep losing their incentives to keep talent around. That's not good going forward and it's going to become a problem soon enough.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

TNA continues to keep losing their incentives to keep talent around. That's not good going forward and it's going to become a problem soon enough.

Yup. Talent will be working more, this probably opens them up to being able to appear on other promotions PPV's, DVD's, opens them up to getting injured which could effect TNA's plans.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

I'd imagine it already is one. Manik — TNA's proverbial mascot for defending pay — has routinely pointed to his guarantee as part of why TNA's pay scale is a success. If those are being dropped in a massive sweep, you're going to disgruntle the majority of your talent. Like you said, it's one less incentive to stick around.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

This from TNAInsider:

TNA could possibly be taping Impact Wrestling at long awaited House Show event.

There have been rumblings indicating that the Impact Wrestling house show scheduled for September 17 2015 in York, Pennsylvania’s York Fair Grandstand could be converted into a television taping.

York Fair Grandstand is an open air arena venue with a stage which mostly caters to small concerts. It would be very interesting to see how the crew configure the venue to suit their needs. If the rumors do pan out this will be the first Impact Wrestling tapings outside of the Impact Wrestling Zone in soundstage 22 in Universal Orlando resorts in some time.

The rumors have not been confirmed by any TNA official so please take this with a grain of salt for the moment.

 

[Dirk]

It's not like I wasn't a little panicked about my favourite promotion, but this is something new...

 

[It's Damn Real!]

I've said it before and I'll say it again — the hits never seem to stop coming.

TNA are like a boxer trapped in the corner just getting pounded by combinations left and right. Every time they duck the left hook, the right jab comes in and pounds them right in the nose. They stumble but don't go down, then dodge a body blow only to get caught with an upper-cut the next punch and so on and so forth.

By the end of every round, they're standing, technically, but the fight itself is destruction. Their destruction. Sometimes they even counter the barrage and land a couple really solid punches that have you thinking, as a fan, "oh man, they could turn this around!" Then the next thing you know they're back in that corner just hanging on for dear life.

This is what it's like to be a TNA fan.

 

[klunderbunker]

I've said it before and I'll say it again — the hits never seem to stop coming.

TNA are like a boxer trapped in the corner just getting pounded by combinations left and right. Every time they duck the left hook, the right jab comes in and pounds them right in the nose. They stumble but don't go down, then dodge a body blow only to get caught with an upper-cut the next punch and so on and so forth.

By the end of every round, they're standing, technically, but the fight itself is destruction. Their destruction. Sometimes they even counter the barrage and land a couple really solid punches that have you thinking, as a fan, "oh man, they could turn this around!" Then the next thing you know they're back in that corner just hanging on for dear life.

This is what it's like to be a TNA fan.

It really is. The worst part though is their trainer. If the trainer just let TNA try its own strategy, they could at least make it fun. However, when the trainer's strategy is to grab their boxer's foot and to tell them to lead with their face, there isn't much any fighter can do.

 

[ABMorales787]

I'm just waiting for Destination America to sign up GFW as more and more guys go for TNA to go

"Ha-Ha! Transferred our roster there before you contracted them, fool!"