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Post by Sparvid on Sept 28, 2010 6:29:03 GMT -5
SWERVE!
It eventually turns out that TNA bought WWE.
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Post by The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM} on Sept 28, 2010 8:24:32 GMT -5
Maybe not a buyout, but how about a working partnership? This way, Vince can deny to his sponsors that he owns a non-PG show and is only attempting to help out the future of the industry by working with them to create new stars that WWE can then make superstars.
No?
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Post by Rolent Tex on Sept 28, 2010 8:38:49 GMT -5
The only way I could see WWE and TNA in a working relationship is if Vince really wants to do Taker vs Sting at Mania in a bad way. I doubt there's anything to it other than Vince having them name drop Foley, Flair, Sting and Nash's names on the air. It still wouldn't stop me from marking out huge if come 10/10/10 that it turns out that Nexus appears at "Bound For Glory" with Sting and Nash being the ringleaders.
It'll never happen, but with WWE ratings being down, who knows what Vince would do to spark an interest. I'd still mark out huge if it happened though.
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Post by The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM} on Sept 28, 2010 8:41:30 GMT -5
And now that I think about it, Vince or WWE as "They" makes total sense. Why WOULDN'T Abyss sell out to Vince and clear a path for him? Abyss basically thinks he Kankind, so he'd love to work with WWE. Sting, Nash and now Pope probably WOULDN'T want WWE to have anything to do with TNA considering their histories. Ms. Tessmacher was sent by Vince to seduce Eric and secretly gain some kind of inside knowledge or something, maybe just to sweet talk Dixie about Vince and WWE in general. So behind Eric's back, Dixie makes a working relationship with Vince. Sting, Nash and Pope probably think Eric knows about the deal, but Eric and Hogan are clueless.
Okay, I kind of lost myself at the end there. It fits, though. I'm sure of it.
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Sept 28, 2010 11:04:48 GMT -5
And now that I think about it, Vince or WWE as "They" makes total sense. Why WOULDN'T Abyss sell out to Vince and clear a path for him? Abyss basically thinks he Kankind, so he'd love to work with WWE. Sting, Nash and now Pope probably WOULDN'T want WWE to have anything to do with TNA considering their histories. Ms. Tessmacher was sent by Vince to seduce Eric and secretly gain some kind of inside knowledge or something, maybe just to sweet talk Dixie about Vince and WWE in general. So behind Eric's back, Dixie makes a working relationship with Vince. Sting, Nash and Pope probably think Eric knows about the deal, but Eric and Hogan are clueless. Okay, I kind of lost myself at the end there. It fits, though. I'm sure of it. If you lost yourself in the storytelling, then of COURSE it's a perfect fit! That's how wrestlign creative works!!!
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Post by GaTechGrad on Sept 28, 2010 11:28:28 GMT -5
I posted something similar on the TNA board, where "they" are Vince and the WWE and the laptop GM is Dixie. The McMahons being in cahoots with Dixie and Hogan is the "Deception" that Sting, Nash, and Pope are fighting against.
I wouldn't be surprised if Dixie and Vince struck some sort of talent exchange deal. WWE gets to use Sting for Wrestlemania, and TNA gets some "invaders" like Edge and Jericho. Remember Dixie had to get approval from the Spike TV execs for the big change. That makes sense, since guys like Sting have Spike TV contracts, and not TNA contracts. The deal probably occurred around the time that Impact moved back to Thursday.
Over the years, I've learned that Vince McMahon really isn't the one to hold a grudge against anyone. He's brought back pretty much everyone that walked out on him at one point or another. Plus, after listening to some of Bischoff's interviews on Monday Night Mayhem, he's been highly praising Vince McMahon, which seems to be really odd since he is the opposition.
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Post by Lord Bendtner on Sept 28, 2010 11:46:40 GMT -5
And what I find interesting (and I know it happens often...) is TNA is having a PPV the week after HiaC. And of course, that is when Abyss' big announcement is. Here's how I see HiaC going down...
Cena defeats Barrett, Nexus 'disbands', Barrett promises that we haven't seen the last of him, or Nexus as a faction. At BfG, Abyss is about to give the big reveal as to who 'they' really are, but Nexus, and possibly some other WWE invaders like the aforementioned Edge or Jericho, run down and attack him, saying they're taking over. Next night on Raw, we get the reveal that Dixie is the GM, with Vince and her shaking hands to close the show.
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Post by Woooooolhouse! on Sept 28, 2010 11:52:22 GMT -5
If WWE were to purchase TNA- or even begin making the appropriate steps to purchase them- wouldn't WWE have to announce such a possible transistion to its stockholders, being that it is a publicly-traded company?
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Post by hoganhallnash on Sept 28, 2010 11:52:59 GMT -5
Though it's fun to speculate and while this may have been possible back in the 80's and 90's, there's absolutely no way WWE would buy TNA and secretly run it without reporting it to its' shareholders.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2010 11:58:10 GMT -5
This would not benefit WWE at all so I cannot see it happening.
TNA getting mentioned in front of 3-4X more people on Raw vs WWE getting mentioned to a crowd that already knows about them and likely already watches them.
Getting Sting 7 years ago would be a big draw, now - his brand value isn't what it used to be.
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Post by Branimal on Sept 28, 2010 12:07:24 GMT -5
Where did this theory come from in the first place? Was it reported from a newz site?
Not calling out the legitimacy of the original poster, I'm just curious as to when this surfaced?
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Post by corndog on Sept 28, 2010 12:39:48 GMT -5
No, he didn't like the way other former WCW stars were used, and didn't want to be what he saw as misused in the same fashion. And yet he stays in TNA where they do a pointless heel turn and never follow up on it. LOL It's not completely about the booking, it was his fear of the WWE trying to destroy his character. Yes the way TNA has turned him heel and refused to explain it is bad booking, but he still remains the same Sting character he has been since using "the Crow gimmic" since 1997 and is at legend status in TNA. DDP came to the WWE and had a fued with the Undertaker, Dusty Rhoades worked with Ted Dibiase and Randy Savage. They were high profile fueds, and with Rhoades he even won a good amount of the matches. However they made their characters look stupid. DDP became a stalker and even worse the motivational speaker(although I thought that gimmic was hilarious and he made it work). Dusty wore freaking polka dots and had ridiculous promos going into the company. Sting did not want to join a company that would treat him like a joke and try to destroy everything he accomplished in WCW to make him a top star. I am sure they would have used him to have dream matches with Undertaker and Shawn, but what would they have done with the Sting character? Vince is usually not a fan of other peoples creations, and Sting was the Ultimate Warrior for WCW, yet he could work and was far more loyal.
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Post by ToyfareMark on Sept 28, 2010 16:55:26 GMT -5
If WWE were to purchase TNA- or even begin making the appropriate steps to purchase them- wouldn't WWE have to announce such a possible transistion to its stockholders, being that it is a publicly-traded company? They were a publicly traded company when they bought WCW, and that was a big surprise to everyone on that fateful friday morning back in 2001.
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Post by jmdog on Sept 28, 2010 17:07:24 GMT -5
I personally hope Sting never sets foot in a WWE ring.
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Post by zeez on Sept 28, 2010 18:38:58 GMT -5
That'd be cool. I can't wait for the stars of TNA to finally enter a WWE ring. Guys like Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy and Mr. Anderson and Rob Van Dam and...
I hope it's not true. I need something to watch besides WWE. I'll lose interest in pro wrestling if all I have to watch is WWE. As bad as TNA may be, at least it's something other than John Cena and Randy Orton.
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Post by CarnieWC on Sept 28, 2010 18:58:21 GMT -5
"Seems that people are starting to believe that WWE may have bought out TNA or something."
Uh, no, people are not starting to believe that at all. There were some jokes like always, but that's it. But hey, more useless threads to clutter up the board are good, right?
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Post by Brian Suntan on Sept 28, 2010 19:24:08 GMT -5
I think it'd be shocking, but there is zero chance of it happening.
TNA target an audience that would watch TNA because they hate the WWE.
WWE target an audience that have no idea what TNA is.
Any kind of invasion would just be met with 'Urgh' on one side and 'Eh?' on the other.
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Post by flatsdomino on Sept 28, 2010 19:48:39 GMT -5
I posted something similar on the TNA board, where "they" are Vince and the WWE and the laptop GM is Dixie. The McMahons being in cahoots with Dixie and Hogan is the "Deception" that Sting, Nash, and Pope are fighting against. That would be amazing. Hogan and Bischoff were invaders all along, and Sting, Nash, Pope, and Fourtune were right to distrust them...It'd be an insane moment, and interesting to see if the Vince/Hogan/Bischoff/Dixie/Abyss team or the Nash/Sting/Pope/TNA Originals guys would be the faces, how the WWE guys (specifically Nexus, Cena, Orton and HHH) would figure into the "Invasion" story arc. Vince, Hogan, Bischoff and Dixie would be the Illuminati of Sports Entertainment, with a complete monopoly over all the workers and shows, and everyone's fate in thier hands. Abyss would be thier monster, and The Nexus would be thier personal army (the "much bigger picture"). The way I see it, it'd be interesting because Vince would be bringing in the Invaders this time, which is a very heel move, which would make the WWE guys the faces, and the TNA guys who were against Hogan and Bisch would be a loose cannon third party, like ECW should have been in the original invasion. The titles could be unified at 'Mania, and possibly, Shane McMahon could return to lead an Anti-Vince & Co. rebellion as the next part of the arc. HHH could be courted by both camps. ugh it'd be so great...too bad it won't happen
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 28, 2010 22:42:46 GMT -5
How about this. Cena defeats Nexus and sends them packing from the WWE.
One week later, on 10-10-10, Nexus are revealed as them, and they reveal that losing the match against Cena was part of the plan all along, sparking a war between WWE and TNA.
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