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Post by TK The Friendly Robot on Apr 28, 2013 9:53:16 GMT -5
I'd like to see Rellik, Judas Mesias and Ink Inc should all get another go round in TNA. Rellik could do with a name and/or gimmick change however the other guys were over and I think still had a lot more to give to TNA.
Hogan is good for TNA and should be on every episode of Impact however he should not be deeply involved in story lines, he should just be the guy who makes matches and adds stipulations, y'know, the General Manager, rather than at the center of a story.
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Post by SOR on Apr 28, 2013 11:47:22 GMT -5
I think Hogan should wrestle at this years Bound For Glory in a 6-8 man tag. Didn't think it was that unpopular of an opinion until I made a thread about it in the TNA section.
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Apr 28, 2013 12:21:09 GMT -5
Of all the divas/knockouts on the current roster of WWE & TNA, I find AJ Lee to be the least attractive both appearance wise and personality-wise(she looks too much like a 14 year old for my liking). I would say that it shouldn't matter as long as she gets it done in the ring but seen as she's not competing in all that many matches then I totally agree. If they're going to use someone as eye candy they could at least go the whole hog on it and go for a real sex symbol rather than a geek chic girl with "nerd" appeal. It wouldn't really matter how talented she was in the ring to me. Her character just annoys the hell out of me in general.
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Post by TK The Friendly Robot on Apr 28, 2013 13:20:48 GMT -5
I would say that it shouldn't matter as long as she gets it done in the ring but seen as she's not competing in all that many matches then I totally agree. If they're going to use someone as eye candy they could at least go the whole hog on it and go for a real sex symbol rather than a geek chic girl with "nerd" appeal. It wouldn't really matter how talented she was in the ring to me. Her character just annoys the hell out of me in general. Well yeah, and there's that.
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Apr 28, 2013 22:49:37 GMT -5
Going through some old DVDs, I have to say that the "New Generation era" looked like fun.
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bob
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Post by bob on Apr 28, 2013 22:53:46 GMT -5
Mideon getting sacrificed by satanic Taker on RAW was awesome
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Post by WBL a.k.a. Mountie II on Apr 29, 2013 8:14:34 GMT -5
Back during the Attitude Era, my favorite wrestler was X-Pac.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 29, 2013 14:28:21 GMT -5
Nobody played the "obnoxious douche who hangs out with the cooler people" better than Sean Waltman.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Apr 29, 2013 14:45:03 GMT -5
I'm a pretty hardliner in the thinking of Rick Rude was absolutely a world champion, yet I constantly see him making lists of the best to never be a world champion. Rick Rude held the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship. I consider this to have been a legitimate world championship. Why? Because that's how WCW presented it. They were a major North American promotion with TV and PPV and they presented the championship as if it were a world championship. In fact, when Ric Flair (International Heavyweight Champion) defeated Sting (WCW Champion) to unify the titles under the name 'WCW World Heavyweight Champion), they continued to use the belt that was the International Heavyweight Champion. I see no justification in saying that this was not a world championship. It's the same thing as when WWE introduced the World Heavyweight Championship for Triple H on Raw after Lesnar left for SmackDown with the WWE Championship. WWE presented it as another world championship. It was practically the same belt too!
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Apr 29, 2013 22:52:58 GMT -5
Back during the Attitude Era, my favorite wrestler was X-Pac. ... me too. because of X-Pac heat it's very easy to forget how over he used to be.
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Post by Crusty Ruffles on May 4, 2013 4:16:16 GMT -5
I love women's wrestling. I love Joshi. I respect her place in history, but I've never cared for Aja Kong.
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Lupin the Third
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Post by Lupin the Third on May 5, 2013 17:10:50 GMT -5
Back during the Attitude Era, my favorite wrestler was X-Pac. ... me too. because of X-Pac heat it's very easy to forget how over he used to be. One of my favorite parts of 1999 was the Kane & X-Pac tag team. It was amazing to see that kind of chemistry between two different workers. Then X-Pac turned heel, and it went downhill from there.
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Post by The OP on May 5, 2013 17:24:17 GMT -5
I'm a pretty hardliner in the thinking of Rick Rude was absolutely a world champion, yet I constantly see him making lists of the best to never be a world champion. Rick Rude held the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship. I consider this to have been a legitimate world championship. Why? Because that's how WCW presented it. They were a major North American promotion with TV and PPV and they presented the championship as if it were a world championship. In fact, when Ric Flair (International Heavyweight Champion) defeated Sting (WCW Champion) to unify the titles under the name 'WCW World Heavyweight Champion), they continued to use the belt that was the International Heavyweight Champion. I see no justification in saying that this was not a world championship. It's the same thing as when WWE introduced the World Heavyweight Championship for Triple H on Raw after Lesnar left for SmackDown with the WWE Championship. WWE presented it as another world championship. It was practically the same belt too! Interesting. At the very least it sounds like you've thought it through to the point where if somebody doesn't agree, they'll have to have a pretty compelling counterpoint to win a debate on the subject.
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Post by gnr123 on May 5, 2013 17:46:55 GMT -5
ECW had NOTHING to do with the Monday Night's Wars. If TNA want to compete with WWE they have to be like the WWE.
Bully Ray and Devon Dudley aren't good wrestlers.
The worst thing a young wrestler can do is go to TNA. Hell, that's the worst thing any wrestler can do. If your an indy worker just wait until WWE come calling or you'll go to TNA and end up like Samoa Joe.
TNA should push Jeff Hardy as their top face and PLEASE stop with the heel stables. It's not working.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 5, 2013 20:03:14 GMT -5
ECW had NOTHING to do with the Monday Night's Wars. If TNA want to compete with WWE they have to be like the WWE. Bully Ray and Devon Dudley aren't good wrestlers. The worst thing a young wrestler can do is go to TNA. Hell, that's the worst thing any wrestler can do. If your an indy worker just wait until WWE come calling or you'll go to TNA and end up like Samoa Joe. TNA should push Jeff Hardy as their top face and PLEASE stop with the heel stables. It's not working. Wait, wait... So to succeed, TNA need to push former WWE guys and be exactly like the WWE, yet indy guys shouldn't sign with them because they'll be made to play second fiddle to former WWE guys like Samoa Joe was? Alrighty then. They tried to be like WWE for most of the years they've been running, it didn't work then and there's no reason for anyone to think that it'll work now.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 5, 2013 20:17:52 GMT -5
If we're only going to get one or two posthumous inductee's into the WWE Hall of Fame every year, then honestly I think there are more deserving people then "Ravishing" Rick Rude. I'm not saying he shouldn't go in at all, but there are atleast a dozen guys I can think of who are no longer with us who should go in before him.
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Post by thecrusherwi on May 5, 2013 20:25:36 GMT -5
ECW had NOTHING to do with the Monday Night's Wars. If TNA want to compete with WWE they have to be like the WWE. Bully Ray and Devon Dudley aren't good wrestlers. The worst thing a young wrestler can do is go to TNA. Hell, that's the worst thing any wrestler can do. If your an indy worker just wait until WWE come calling or you'll go to TNA and end up like Samoa Joe. TNA should push Jeff Hardy as their top face and PLEASE stop with the heel stables. It's not working. Wait, wait... So to succeed, TNA need to push former WWE guys and be exactly like the WWE, yet indy guys shouldn't sign with them because they'll be made to play second fiddle to former WWE guys like Samoa Joe was? Alrighty then. They tried to be like WWE for most of the years they've been running, it didn't work then and there's no reason for anyone to think that it'll work now. As stupid as it sounds, for TNA to be successful they should try to be as much like WCW as they can. They work most of those southern markets where WCW was king and if they emulate WCW at it's best, they could bring back the WCW loyalists who stopped watching wrestling the day Vince bought it.
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Post by Sam Punk on May 5, 2013 20:40:14 GMT -5
I think Tim Tebow is a good guy. As stupid as it sounds, for TNA to be successful they should try to be as much like WCW as they can. They work most of those southern markets where WCW was king and if they emulate WCW at it's best, they could bring back the WCW loyalists who stopped watching wrestling the day Vince bought it. I was thinking this the other day. TNA going for a pre-nwo wcw would be awesome.
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Post by mrjl on May 5, 2013 20:55:29 GMT -5
I think Tim Tebow is a good guy. As stupid as it sounds, for TNA to be successful they should try to be as much like WCW as they can. They work most of those southern markets where WCW was king and if they emulate WCW at it's best, they could bring back the WCW loyalists who stopped watching wrestling the day Vince bought it. I was thinking this the other day. TNA going for a pre-nwo wcw would be awesome. except wasn't TNA during the Team Canada or Planet Jarrett days pretty much a prenWo WCW?
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 6, 2013 6:36:39 GMT -5
The WWE was more likely to have treated Samoa Joe like Colt Cabana and Low Ki than CM Punk. At that point in time, they did not treat big name indy talent and people with unusual looks or styles particularly well, they either didn't know what to do with them like Colt, or flat out set out to sabotage them like they did with Low Ki. I'm sure Joe feels he made the correct decision, given how he's re-signed with them several times now.
I still feel that the Ring Ka King format had a great deal of potential and could have been the future of wrestling in large parts of the world. With it's mix of American Indie and TNA talent, it could have helped build up native talent in countries that lack major promotions with television and given the domestic companies something to point at an say 'Look, homegrown talent can work on TV, so why not give us a shot?'
Say what you want about his in ring career, by starting TNA and getting the right backers on board, Jeff Jarrett has contributed more to wrestling in the long term than the vast majority of people seen as 'main event talent'.
The idea that indy talent should turn down TNA just because they're TNA is absurd, it's like telling programmers they shouldn't accept jobs that pay far better than what they're doing currently because they should wait in the hope of someday going to work for Google. If TNA are prepared to pay them a fair wage and have specific plans for them, they should go for it.
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