Brood Lone Wolf Funker
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jul 29, 2014 16:27:53 GMT -5
What if Knux's dad's carnival is actually TNA
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Jul 29, 2014 16:51:48 GMT -5
For continuity sake, if TNA is done at Spike can Don Callis show up at the next round of Hammerstein Ballroom tapings to cancel iMPACT! on behalf of The Network?
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 29, 2014 17:02:23 GMT -5
For continuity sake, if TNA is done at Spike can Don Callis show up at the next round of Hammerstein Ballroom tapings to cancel iMPACT! on behalf of The Network? only if he says it's being replaced by Rollerjam
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jul 29, 2014 17:45:58 GMT -5
Weird, this is the first time that TNN/Spike TV will be left without wrestling.
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Jul 29, 2014 17:55:28 GMT -5
Weird, this is the first time that TNN/Spike TV will be left without wrestling. Or will they.....? Duhn Duhn Duhn.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jul 29, 2014 17:56:49 GMT -5
Weird, this is the first time that TNN/Spike TV will be left without wrestling. Or will they.....? Duhn Duhn Duhn. #LOLCHIKARA
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Jul 29, 2014 17:59:23 GMT -5
Or will they.....? Duhn Duhn Duhn. #LOLCHIKARA Well, I was thinking OMEGA, but....
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Doctor Of Style
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Post by Doctor Of Style on Jul 29, 2014 18:05:11 GMT -5
Zooey Deschanel should play Daffney on the upcoming movie "The Tragedy of Total Non Stop Action Wrestling". Gary Oldman will play Vince Russo. Allison Janney=Dixie Carter Josh Holloway=Jeff Jarrett Justin Bartha= "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles Martin Landau= Ric Flair Kathy Bates= "The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe
Kathy Bates as Samoa Joe? They're about equally saggy at this point.
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Post by Dragonfly on Jul 29, 2014 18:09:05 GMT -5
My apologies in advance for rambling.
What started on Sunday afternoon as a speculation thread has become, in a strange way, a dimly lit waiting room in some unnamed suburban hospital. We all are reacting to what is happening in different ways. Some of us wait anxiously, sipping the stale coffee and trying to convince those around us that a change in management, network and/or geographic location is all the company needs. Others are kicking the shit out of the aging Coke machine, mostly out of pent up frustration. Some make jokes, some start fights, some simply stare at the ancient tube TV locked on HLN. As for me... I'm the sad guy in the corner, pretending to read the worn Newsweek from 2007 and thinking of better times.
I didn't watch TNA from the beginning. I physically couldn't. My parents refused to get a digital cable box, and that was the only way of getting the pay-per-views. A low-power independent station in Pittsburgh had the rights to air Xplosion, but didn't actually show it much. The one episode I was able to catch had Jeremy Borash and Goldielocks interviewing the likes of Low-Ki and Sonny Siaki. It was rough around the edges - Ki's interview was obviously done in the men's restroom, for example - but it was enough to convince me that this was something different, and I was missing it. For the next two years, I followed TNA through a variety of "alternative" sources - message board posts, the dirtsheets and EWR. (As an aside, I have to thank Phil Parent for his work on the old EWR and TEW data packs. As goofy as it sounds now, it was those packs that introduced me to a world outside of the WWE, TNA and XPW.)
My first real experience with TNA was the second episode of Impact. (The debut wasn't shown in Pittsburgh due to a Pirates game.) I was starting to grow tired of the WWE, so this was wrestling's last chance to keep me hooked. To this day, I don't remember what was on that show, but whatever it was, it worked. I never missed an episode. Over time, I was able to convince my girlfriend (now wife) to give it a shot. It took a few episodes, but she was sufficiently hooked as well. It was the one non-animated thing that we could agree on.
We spent the next five and a half years as hardcore fans. We always made sure to have an extra $25 just so we could get the pay-per-views. We were there for the highs (Monty Brown, Kurt Angle comes to TNA, Paparazzi Productions), the lows (the never ending Bobby Roode/Eric Young feud, VKM hates Christy Hemme, that time Rikishi showed up) and the freaking Deathbed match. Don't get me wrong here: We weren't a part of the delusional masses. We knew it could be, and often was, a train wreck. But it was our train wreck, dammit and we enjoyed every minute of it... until Hulk Hogan took over, brother. We tried watching it, but outside of the phenomenal cage match match between Angle and Ken Anderson at Lockdown 2010, the company we bonded over in college was dead.
We largely ignored TNA until 2012, when positive reviews brought us back in. For the briefest of moments, it felt like they were back. It was, once again, far from perfect, but the good (the Bound for Glory Series, Austin Aries/Option C, Bully Ray and his "fire breathing Twitter machine") outweighed the bad. We even drove to Orlando that January just to attend the last live PPV event ever to be held in the original Impact Zone. They were starting to slip by this point, but we ignored it completely. We've seen rough patches from them before. It would only be matter of time until it got better again.
But it didn't. What started as a few mystery bikers turned into a bizarre NWO rehash. A few firings became dozens. Chris Sabin, then Eric Young, was champ for some reason. By the beginning of 2014, AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels and even Jeff Jarrett were gone. They tried to fill the gaps with the (admittedly entertaining) EC3 and Rockstar Spud, but it didn't work. The company was dead to us again and this time, it wasn't ever coming back.
And that's why I find myself sitting here, reading an article about how Hilary Clinton is a lock for the presidency in 2008. It's the only thing keeping the feelings of nostalgia-tinged sadness at bay. Maybe later the wife and I will rent another show from YouTube, if for no other reason than to remind of our college days. The days when I would drive three-plus hours just so we could watch our favorite show, Impact, together.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 18:19:36 GMT -5
Videogame Record Holder/All around Coolest Guy ever, Billy Mitchell as Vince Russo? Billy Mitchell is histories greatest monster!
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jul 29, 2014 18:25:22 GMT -5
I think Dixie is gonna become that weird cat lady after the Carters cut her trust fund
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Jul 29, 2014 18:47:35 GMT -5
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Jul 29, 2014 18:50:56 GMT -5
I'll laugh my head off if that's real, but I'll bet it's just some smartass pulling a prank. Hella funny, though.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jul 29, 2014 18:52:15 GMT -5
I'll laugh my head off if that's real, but I'll bet it's just some smartass pulling a prank Yeah that's 100% obviously a prank.
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Jul 29, 2014 18:53:38 GMT -5
Well the crowd around the ring, definitely shows that at least the pic is photoshopped.
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Post by Chainsaw on Jul 29, 2014 20:21:17 GMT -5
I honestly think that the TNA comments section on their Facebook is worse than F***ing WWE's... Seriously get a look and a laugh at this trash:
so out of morbid curiosity I went to check it out. It's not quite youtube levels of crap, but hot damn it's weird there Just wait until it actually does go under.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 29, 2014 20:34:23 GMT -5
What if Knux's dad's carnival is actually TNA That makes way too much sense to be something involving TNA...
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Brood Lone Wolf Funker
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Got fined anyway. Possibly a Moose
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jul 29, 2014 20:36:31 GMT -5
What if Knux's dad's carnival is actually TNA That makes way too much sense to be something involving TNA... Knux could be the black sheep of the Carter family
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 29, 2014 20:37:53 GMT -5
Videogame Record Holder/All around Coolest Guy ever, Billy Mitchell as Vince Russo? Billy Mitchell is histories greatest monster! He's actually just a giant head in secret... /reference
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ICBM
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Post by ICBM on Jul 29, 2014 20:39:12 GMT -5
Soooo, a wrestling site I won't give press to, said that not having Hogan is hurting TNA. With other stations finding interest in picking up TNA. Yeah...umm...I remember this one time when another wrestling company was going out of business, there were like a ton of stories online about what was happening and junk. One of em even Sid J I'm Ross totally went down to CNN center and personally fired everyone.
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