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Post by GaTechGrad on Nov 12, 2007 11:43:03 GMT -5
The only problem now is that if the TNA Webmaster adds Booker T to the roster page, then they won't have a perfect square anymore.
Edit: I guess they could combine Kip James and BG James into one square like they did with Team 3D.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Nov 12, 2007 11:45:12 GMT -5
The only problem now is that if the TNA Webmaster adds Booker T to the roster page, then they won't have a perfect square anymore. The Solution is simple. Fire someone. ;D |
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Post by Bocuma on Nov 12, 2007 11:54:15 GMT -5
I'll always see Booker as an ex-WCW guy, not an ex-WWE guy.
And even if I did? It's still smurfing awesome to see him in TNA.
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Post by Joekishi on Nov 12, 2007 12:29:16 GMT -5
I'm just glad he dropped the crappy Burger King gimmick. I'm not I LOVED KING BOOKER. I don't like stale Booker T. Seriously though, I like Book as a wrestler and this is just as big as the Angle signing. What I hope is that TNA doesn't make Book irrelevant in about 2 months time.. |
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Post by Michael Coello on Nov 12, 2007 12:46:02 GMT -5
The only problem now is that if the TNA Webmaster adds Booker T to the roster page, then they won't have a perfect square anymore. Edit: I guess they could combine Kip James and BG James into one square like they did with Team 3D. They could aways add the women signed and also Jimmy Rave. |
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Post by The Ichi on Nov 12, 2007 14:11:32 GMT -5
So what did Booker even do? He's a babyface, right? etc
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Post by cpbuff22 on Nov 12, 2007 14:20:13 GMT -5
why does it matter how many guys on the roster worked for the wwe? i personally don't care, if they are doing well in tna i like them. i don't dislike people just because they worked somewhere else. that has very little to do with my taste for the show. My comment about former WWE guys had nothing to do with the talent of the performers, because there is talent there. No, it doesn't matter, exactly, that they're former WWE guys. What matters is that they have abandoned, it seems, any attempts to put one single homegrown talent at the main event level and keep them there. This was a crucial mistake of WCW, and led to people jumping ship, that's the only connection I'm tryi8ng to make. Those who forget history, as Russo and Mantel have apparently done, are doomed to repeat TNA is NOT doomed by any stretch, but I just want to see somebody, anybody, who's been working in TNA, established themselves as a TNA "guy" get a prolonged spot in the upper card, ya know? Let me ask you this... Prior to Cena & Batista destroying the WWE Title picture who were the World Champions? Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio. So why are we upset about Kurt Angle, Booker T, & Sting? |
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Post by estrada on Nov 12, 2007 14:50:44 GMT -5
Its good to see Booker T wrestle again but I cant be the only one disappointed in his entrance. His new music was horrible. I probably would have went nuts if they used the flame pyro and the Harlem Heat music because that would have been an entrance. Also I swear I heard people booing him.
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Post by jaywatts on Nov 12, 2007 15:18:44 GMT -5
Come on guys. Where are the links to his debut last night? There are usually a few floating around by now.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Nov 12, 2007 15:31:47 GMT -5
Come on guys. Where are the links to his debut last night? There are usually a few floating around by now. relevance/search/tna+genesis/video/x3gn94_tna-genesis-07anglenash-vs-sting_sport |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2007 16:30:10 GMT -5
Anyone who thinks this is a bad accquisition isn't thinking straight. He's the biggest accquisition since Angle, and probably safer for the company than drugged out Angle is. The guy can wrestle. The guy is over. The guy has a fanbase. The guy is marketable. The guy is willing to put people over. The guy has a good mind for the business and can eventually work backstage with TNA, and not be in all for himself. The guy has a wrestling school that not only he can get TNA talent on, he can grow his stars for TNA. It's the perfect accquisition. Anyone else who disagrees obviously hasn't put that much thought into it. But, but, but he used to work for another company! TNA needs to pull wrestlers magically out of their ass and push them to the moon. No wrestlers that have had matches previously to coming to TNA. |
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Nov 12, 2007 16:37:09 GMT -5
Anyone who thinks this is a bad accquisition isn't thinking straight. He's the biggest accquisition since Angle, and probably safer for the company than drugged out Angle is. The guy can wrestle. The guy is over. The guy has a fanbase. The guy is marketable. The guy is willing to put people over. The guy has a good mind for the business and can eventually work backstage with TNA, and not be in all for himself. The guy has a wrestling school that not only he can get TNA talent on, he can grow his stars for TNA. It's the perfect accquisition. Anyone else who disagrees obviously hasn't put that much thought into it. But, but, but he used to work for another company! TNA needs to pull wrestlers magically out of their ass and push them to the moon. No wrestlers that have had matches previously to coming to TNA. I know some hate this, but they need established wrestlers to get noticed. Of course there are exceptions to the rule (Rikishi, Test), but honestly most fans aren't just going to watch a bunch of guys they don't recognize, just because they can do wrestling moves, etc. |
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Post by Adam Pacman Khan (akkilla) on Nov 12, 2007 16:58:35 GMT -5
i can dig it, but i agree either TNA needs a new show or to cut some people now.
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Post by kickassforumguyme on Nov 12, 2007 17:33:50 GMT -5
But, but, but he used to work for another company! TNA needs to pull wrestlers magically out of their ass and push them to the moon. No wrestlers that have had matches previously to coming to TNA. I know some hate this, but they need established wrestlers to get noticed. Of course there are exceptions to the rule (Rikishi, Test), but honestly most fans aren't just going to watch a bunch of guys they don't recognize, just because they can do wrestling moves, etc. Its as simple as that. If TNA gets more ex E guys people will see characters they know and will watch TNA. Its not like TNA got Funaki. They got Booker T. |
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Post by skillz on Nov 12, 2007 18:45:59 GMT -5
I stopped watching wrestling completely in 2004, and have never watched TNA, so I guess I'm a casual fan now. Speaking as a casual fan, I'd be much more likely to watch TNA if I knew the wrestlers they were featuring. Now I've never been a fan of Angle and Christian, and I was always mild on Booker, but those 3 are fairly recognizable names in the wrestling community. They all have fanbases. Sting and Nash are big names. TNA is much more likely to attract newer fans if they could produce recognizable stars, whether they were from the WWF/E, WCW, ECW, or whatever.
I never understood the "they are just taking WWE/WCW rejects" logic. Who cares? The WWF built their late-90's monster behind 4 guys WCW couldn't wait to get rid of (Austin, Taker, Foley, HHH), with exactly one homegrown star (Rock). Does that matter? Of course not. Either it entertained you or it didn't. WCW built around WWF stars who left for greener pastures (Hogan, Nash, Hall, Savage, Piper, etc) and their homegrown established guys (Sting, Goldberg, etc). Again, either it entertained you or it didn't.
That's all wrestling is about. If you care about the "future" and putting over younger guys, then you're watching for reasons I can't really comprehend. Maybe I would have liked Happy Days better if Fonzie put over Mork a bit more. Right.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Nov 12, 2007 18:51:49 GMT -5
Definitely a good signing, both for TNA ( as has been mentioned, a 'name' that while may be a bit past his prime, can still go and has fan recognition) and him ( glad to see he got the belt there for a bit, but there wasn't much else for him to achieve in WWE after he lost it.)
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Post by Joekishi on Nov 12, 2007 19:18:32 GMT -5
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Nov 12, 2007 21:50:19 GMT -5
Good signing. He adds much needed name recognition to the promotion, having been champion in both the WCW and WWF. Plus he once called Hulk Hogan the N-word and and Karen Angle and Sharmell allows us to relive the Gutterslut angle.
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Post by Boku AKA Da Green Guy on Nov 12, 2007 22:08:31 GMT -5
Just watched the clip...
Good ole TNA, ripping off old entrances to screw with their fans.
First with Christian's Jericho's now Booker T with the Hollywood Rock stalled organs.
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Post by Adam Pacman Khan (akkilla) on Nov 12, 2007 23:45:12 GMT -5
Good signing. He adds much needed name recognition to the promotion, having been champion in both the WCW and WWF. Plus he once called Hulk Hogan the N-word and and Karen Angle and Sharmell allows us to relive the Gutterslut angle. I want the GOLD SUCKAA KURT ANGLE WE COMIN FO UU N-WORD |
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