TNA may announce new TV deal this week

[mrbananagrabber]

I Wondered where Justin Roberts was going to end up.

[adamclark52]

Have they come out and said it's a wrestler? Because I heard Hoyce Gracie signed some sort of deal with Bellator.

[Deleted]

It will be whichever MMA tomato can beats Lashley's ass next week. Apparently he's fighting on Spike again on the 24th.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Oct 17, 2014 19:34:58 GMT -5 andrew8798 said:

Oct 17, 2014 8:57:02 GMT -5 HMARK Center said:

Enough with freaking "major signing buzz" crap. It's what's consistently harmed the company again and again, so for all that is holy, I hope this is just an unsubstantiated rumor.

If the announcement is a more thorough international relationship with promotions in Japan/Mexico/UK/etc., that's great, because it expands TNA's talent pool and opens the door for more varied matches and shows. If it's "HEY IT'S A BIG NAME I KNOW HOGAN IS THE BIGGEST NAME AND THAT FAILED BUT IT'LL REALLY WORK THIS TIME", then just...ugh.

From dave

It's suppose to Angle remaining with the company. So Dixie can say he turned down WWE to stay with TNA

Dixie: "He turned down WWE for us, and WWE wasn't going to let him wrestle, he's too real for them."

[DjZonk]

I think it would be best for Kurt to go back to WWE to wrap up his career, assuming he would pass medicals, which he likely wouldn't.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Oct 18, 2014 10:26:10 GMT -5 DjZonk said:

I think it would be best for Kurt to go back to WWE to wrap up his career, assuming he would pass medicals, which he likely wouldn't.

I don't think it's best for WWE.

This is one other reason I want TNA to survive and prosper. Because they keep guys like Kurt Angle out of WWE. If TNA folds and the likes of Angle, Jeff Hardy, and the Dudleys/3D go back to WWE, WWE will likely put them above the rest of the roster the same way they've done with Rock and Brock.

[DjZonk]

Oct 18, 2014 11:36:33 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

Oct 18, 2014 10:26:10 GMT -5 DjZonk said:

I think it would be best for Kurt to go back to WWE to wrap up his career, assuming he would pass medicals, which he likely wouldn't.

I don't think it's best for WWE.

This is one other reason I want TNA to survive and prosper. Because they keep guys like Kurt Angle out of WWE. If TNA folds and the likes of Angle, Jeff Hardy, and the Dudleys/3D go back to WWE, WWE will likely put them above the rest of the roster the same way they've done with Rock and Brock.

Jeff Jarrett was a mid carder in the WWE last seen about 15 years ago. If you think he would come back and treated "above the rest of the roster the same way they've done with Rock and Brock" you are dead wrong. And if this were to happen, you can have my daughter when she is 18. 

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I hope the mother is the one teaching your daughter to read because he said Jeff Hardy, not Jeff Jarrett.

[________ has left the building]

Oct 18, 2014 11:36:33 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

Oct 18, 2014 10:26:10 GMT -5 DjZonk said:

I think it would be best for Kurt to go back to WWE to wrap up his career, assuming he would pass medicals, which he likely wouldn't.

I don't think it's best for WWE.

This is one other reason I want TNA to survive and prosper. Because they keep guys like Kurt Angle out of WWE. If TNA folds and the likes of Angle, Jeff Hardy, and the Dudleys/3D go back to WWE, WWE will likely put them above the rest of the roster the same way they've done with Rock and Brock.

So you want TNA to survive so they can act as adult day care for former WWE talent? Those folks for years got put on a pedestal harder in TNA than when they return back to WWE. RVD in TNA=constant main eventer who they sacrificed established, homegrown talent to. RVD in WWE=seasonal upper midcarder who loses as much as he wins. I don't blame WWE for putting Brock and Rock in the forefront because they can still go and bring in money. Same reason I don't hate TNA for relaying on Jeff Hardy.    

[Celgress]

Oct 18, 2014 10:26:10 GMT -5 DjZonk said:

I think it would be best for Kurt to go back to WWE to wrap up his career, assuming he would pass medicals, which he likely wouldn't.

Agreed, of course I highly doubt at this point he can pass the medical exam.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Yeah I don't think Kurt is staying with TNA, even if the WWE don't take him, he could make a shit ton more money in select indies and japan. He's not gonna risk another injury just to get paid in peanuts, I think the whole debacle with EC3 made him slow down a bit, if he only has a couple of matches left, he's not gonna spend them on a failed company with an audience of 300 people.

[Chainsaw]

I would think the crap they put Angle through with begging him to wrestle when he was seriously hobbled, and then to see no return on that, would be the final straw for Angle. But he may be crazy enough to see signing with WWE would be the end of his career, and he'd want to stave that off as long as possible.

But I've heard failing businesses tell their employees all the time to expect a "big announcement" for weeks at a time, and that's usually preceded by said employees coming to their place of work barricaded up and the bosses gone. It's a dodge, as far as I'm concerned.

[Woo]

Oct 18, 2014 17:19:26 GMT -5 DjZonk said:

Oct 18, 2014 11:36:33 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

I don't think it's best for WWE.

This is one other reason I want TNA to survive and prosper. Because they keep guys like Kurt Angle out of WWE. If TNA folds and the likes of Angle, Jeff Hardy, and the Dudleys/3D go back to WWE, WWE will likely put them above the rest of the roster the same way they've done with Rock and Brock.

Jeff Jarrett was a mid carder in the WWE last seen about 15 years ago. If you think he would come back and treated "above the rest of the roster the same way they've done with Rock and Brock" you are dead wrong. And if this were to happen, you can have my daughter when she is 18. 

In light of the fact he said Jeff Hardy does that offer still stand?

[Deleted]

TNA is reminding me of the wacky Iraqi Minister of Information that was making all sorts of outrageous claims about Iraq kicking ass as they were getting jobbed out by the Coalition.

[Malcolm]

Oct 19, 2014 14:38:39 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

Oct 18, 2014 11:36:33 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

I don't think it's best for WWE.

This is one other reason I want TNA to survive and prosper. Because they keep guys like Kurt Angle out of WWE. If TNA folds and the likes of Angle, Jeff Hardy, and the Dudleys/3D go back to WWE, WWE will likely put them above the rest of the roster the same way they've done with Rock and Brock.

So you want TNA to survive so they can act as adult day care for former WWE talent? Those folks for years got put on a pedestal harder in TNA than when they return back to WWE. RVD in TNA=constant main eventer who they sacrificed established, homegrown talent to. RVD in WWE=seasonal upper midcarder who loses as much as he wins. I don't blame WWE for putting Brock and Rock in the forefront because they can still go and bring in money. Same reason I don't hate TNA for relaying on Jeff Hardy.    

But the WWE midcard... He'll be taking spots from guys people really want to see like Alex Riley and Zack Ryder and that other guy whose name I can't remember.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

lol Jeff jarrett before he held them up, was actually loved by Vince, hell when he debuted he was a solid midcarder, then he jumped ship to the WCW, then Vince took him back. If his exit had been on better terms, I think that Jeff would've returned to the WWE after his second WCW stint. I think the fact that Vince kept hiring him was due to the fact that VKM loves Jeff's dad Jerry, he even hired Jerry to run his company in case he was going to jail during the steroids trial.

[kevin]

Oct 19, 2014 20:35:06 GMT -5 Malcolm said:

Oct 19, 2014 14:38:39 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

So you want TNA to survive so they can act as adult day care for former WWE talent? Those folks for years got put on a pedestal harder in TNA than when they return back to WWE. RVD in TNA=constant main eventer who they sacrificed established, homegrown talent to. RVD in WWE=seasonal upper midcarder who loses as much as he wins. I don't blame WWE for putting Brock and Rock in the forefront because they can still go and bring in money. Same reason I don't hate TNA for relaying on Jeff Hardy.    

But the WWE midcard... He'll be taking spots from guys people really want to see like Alex Riley and Zack Ryder and that other guy whose name I can't remember.

Its Curtis Axel.

[Celgress]

Oct 19, 2014 19:45:02 GMT -5 @akeem said:

TNA is reminding me of the wacky Iraqi Minister of Information that was making all sorts of outrageous claims about Iraq kicking ass as they were getting jobbed out by the Coalition.

At the time my maternal grandmother, a news junkie, loved the guy. She thought he had the best comedy act on TV.

[DjZonk]

Well played Woo.

[Tony Schiavontay]

Oct 19, 2014 19:45:02 GMT -5 @akeem said:

TNA is reminding me of the wacky Iraqi Minister of Information that was making all sorts of outrageous claims about Iraq kicking ass as they were getting jobbed out by the Coalition.

Hogan didn't need a coalition to take that spoon down, brother. He jobbed Slaughter's ass out all by himself, Jack. And as for TNA, let's just say Hulkamania ran wild all over Dixie Carter and her bush league wrestling show and the Hulkster was just smart to abandon a poorly built ship, brother.