Mr. Mediocre
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Post by Mr. Mediocre on Oct 31, 2007 10:23:21 GMT -5
Source: PWInsider
The Mediocre One's Thoughts: Poor sales? Lack of interest for wrestling in Israel?
Anyone want to speculate?
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Post by krill on Oct 31, 2007 10:41:35 GMT -5
it would be safer recording a show on the sun?
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Post by Welfare Willis on Oct 31, 2007 10:59:27 GMT -5
Last I read Gail Kim missed Impact tapings to head over there and promote. Must suck for them having to turn the plane around.
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Post by GaTechGrad on Oct 31, 2007 11:13:28 GMT -5
Probably due to the possibility of an idiot terrorist suicide bomber running into the middle of the show and blowing himself up. I know WWE has done shows in Iraq, but there is a huge military prescience there... not so much in Israel.
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Post by cartern923 on Oct 31, 2007 11:15:27 GMT -5
Doesn't The E do shows in Israel?
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Post by estrada on Oct 31, 2007 11:18:12 GMT -5
Maybe the people were like TN...who? Dont think theres a really big fanbase in Isreal. Or TNA could have been hyping more crap they never intended on delivering.
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Post by Munkie91087 on Oct 31, 2007 11:18:59 GMT -5
Doesn't The E do shows in Israel? Yeah they have done a few shows in Israel. I think they did one or two last year. |
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 31, 2007 11:24:08 GMT -5
Its official TNA is anti semitic.  |
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Post by wahoowah11 on Oct 31, 2007 11:43:52 GMT -5
Probably due to the possibility of an idiot terrorist suicide bomber running into the middle of the show and blowing himself up. I know WWE has done shows in Iraq, but there is a huge military prescience there... not so much in Israel. u are right |
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Post by Limey on Oct 31, 2007 11:44:09 GMT -5
Its official TNA is anti semitic. Well...that WOULD explain why they haven't yet picked up Heyman... |
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Post by AriadosMan on Oct 31, 2007 11:45:33 GMT -5
The real question is:
Does TNA have a fanbase in Israel of any size to justify the expense of going international?
Even if WWE did Israel shows, TNA doesn't have the worldwide fanbase that WWE has.
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Post by humorousled on Oct 31, 2007 12:00:10 GMT -5
I think that saftey must have been the concern that caused the shows to be canceled. The company sent Gail Kim to Israel to promote the shows (if I'm not mistaken) and their website had the shows up on their live schedule. Perhaps they couldn't get a level of security for their performers that they felt was acceptable. The company should always put the saftey of their performers first.
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Post by AriadosMan on Oct 31, 2007 12:02:35 GMT -5
I think that saftey must have been the concern that caused the shows to be canceled. The company sent Gail Kim to Israel to promote the shows (if I'm not mistaken) and their website had the shows up on their live schedule. Perhaps they couldn't get a level of security for their performers that they felt was acceptable. The company should always put the saftey of their performers first. Where exactly were they planning to perform? If it was a major venue, they should have good security... |
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Post by Mr Ismaeal Naji on Oct 31, 2007 12:05:26 GMT -5
yea, because all that palestinians are good for is running into buildings and blowing things up, (sarcasm)
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Post by fuzzywarble, squat cobbler on Oct 31, 2007 13:52:08 GMT -5
This is sad, especially considering that WCCW had a very successful tour of Israel in the '80s that completely sold out
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Post by Joekishi on Oct 31, 2007 14:25:51 GMT -5
Considering how dangerous Tel Aviv is, and bombings, and all that. And since unlike WWE they wouldn't be doing it in the comfort of a Military Base...something like this would fall through
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Post by Baixo Astral on Oct 31, 2007 15:39:47 GMT -5
Probably due to the possibility of an idiot terrorist suicide bomber running into the middle of the show and blowing himself up. I know WWE has done shows in Iraq, but there is a huge military prescience there... not so much in Israel. Israel has an enormous standing miltary presence. |
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Post by Mr. Mediocre on Oct 31, 2007 15:41:13 GMT -5
Probably due to the possibility of an idiot terrorist suicide bomber running into the middle of the show and blowing himself up. I know WWE has done shows in Iraq, but there is a huge military prescience there... not so much in Israel. Israel has an enormous standing miltary presence. And when you factor in that the shows were to be at the Nokia Arena, which I'm POSITIVE is a high security area, I don't think it's threat of terror. |
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Post by AriadosMan on Oct 31, 2007 15:56:46 GMT -5
And when you factor in that the shows were to be at the Nokia Arena, which I'm POSITIVE is a high security area, I don't think it's threat of terror. So it was a high-security area after all. The other thread blamed lack of ticket sales, which seems the most likely reason. |
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Post by messiah on Oct 31, 2007 17:56:28 GMT -5
I'm really not surprised. I've just never known Israel to be a huge wrestling market, and one would think people over there have more important things to do than stay up until midnight to watch TNA.
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