Post by andrew8798 on Nov 28, 2007 2:20:12 GMT -5
Consequences Creed signed with TNA.
Latest TNA idiocy is that the main event of this Sunday's PPV is a Feast of Fired Battle Royal. It's a f***ing POLE MATCH with briefcases on four poles. In three of the briefcases are contracts for the three major titles (World, Tag and X). In the fourth briefcase is a pink slip. So yes, COMPLETELY AT RANDOM, a man can either get a WORLD TITLE SHOT or GET FIRED.
I'm trying to think of a stupider concept for a match. This is seriously worse than the reverse battle royal. At least that match just was impossible to work without making it look stupid. In this, they are basically saying that their titles are so meaningless that any person completely at random can get a chance to win one, and has nearly as much of a chance of randomly winning the shot as he does of randomly being fired. And if title shots are given out so randomly in TNA, why not just wait until the next time you can randomly win one? Why enter this match where you may get fired? Futhermore, and obviously nobody thought this much about it, if the first three briefcases are opened and all contain title shots, why the f*** would anyone get the last briefcase? Can the match end without that briefcase being opened?.
The January 6th PPV will take place in Orlando and the February 10th show probably takes place in Greenville, SC.
Sting is finished until such time comes that he signs a new deal. It's not a guarantee he will. He was ready to walk away at the end of this year and quietly retire, but Dixie Carter really wants him back. I would think for $500,000 per year to work a super limited schedule he'd be willing. They beat him clean at the last PPV just in case, though, so for now that is the final match of his career.
Read a doozy of a Kurt Angle interview with David Robson on a bodybuilding site. It's actually several months old but I just discovered it. His VERY FIRST SENTENCE was about how he was on the road 300 days a year for WWE for seven years. This is the new Hulk Hogan. He couldn't handle the grind, he said, so he quit and went to TNA. Well, if you tell the story enough times you start to believe it. WWE fired Angle, fearing that he was about to die. That's the truth, no matter what anyone says now and in the future. He claimed TNA was averaging between a 1.1 and 1.5 rating on Spike, and that WWE was doing "around a 2.6".
TNA has never done a 1.5. They've done 1.5 million VIEWERS, but never a 1.5 rating. Raw is nowhere close to averaging a 2.6. Smackdown is, but that's a network rating as opposed to a cable rating, meaning they're still doing around 5 million viewers and have beaten Raw on certain weeks. He said TNA "easily matches the ECW ratings" and were "climbing fast to the Smackdown ratings". Does he believe this bullshit? They've actually never even beaten ECW, even when ECW bottomed out at the 1.1. He had a very specific percentage for how much more action we got with TNA: 210%. No idea where that came from. He said he was 6-0, 220 pounds and five percent bodyfat. He claimed with TNA he was on the road "100 to 150 days a year". Keep in mind the average guy in WWE is on the road 140 days a year. With four TV tapings a month and one PPV, that's 60 dates for TNA.
So I guess they're running 40 to 90 house shows a year. No idea where those shows are at. He said in WWE you could have 280 matches a year. He talked about his diet and training regimen and said he was far healthier now than he'd been in a long time. I'd agree with that. He said he'd love to have one fight and was negotiating with different MMA companies. When asked about opponents he said he'd love to face Randy Couture. He said the fans considered him the greatest pro wrestler of all time. He said he wrestled for "30 minutes a night, every night".
He added: "Just getting clotheslined and hitting the plywood or concrete floor is enough pain for one day, but we go through a thirty-minute match where we are doing all of these moves, being thrown on your heads and suplexing one another over and over. You have to remember the ring is metal and wood with very little give. The ring has a little bit of canvas but all-in-all it's a pretty solid surface." So Bret was right. He said Abyss was 400 pounds. He said "in the past seven years I have won more titles than any other wrestler in history winning 11 world and Olympic titles.
And no one has ever done that. Rick Flair has won 16, but he has been a wrestler for 34 years. If I wrestled over that period of time I would probably have 30 titles." Elsewhere, it was said that he was the best wrestler ever because he won the TNA, IWGP, X-Division and Tag Titles, and that no one had ever held that many titles at the same time before. Actually, Ultimo Dragon once held ten belts at the same time. I guess he doesn't count because he's a foreigner.
Thomas Moore, a British wrestling champion in the 1950s, passed away this past week at the age of 87. He wrestled under the name Jack Dempsey and had his roots in Wigan, home of the infamous Billy Riley catch wrestling Snake Pit. Apparently there was a major TV documentary done on him twelve years ago. He beat Mick McManus to win the British Welterweight Title in 1957.
After two days of deliberations, "Hardbody" Harrison Norris was declared guilty by a federal grand jury this week on multiple charges of sex trafficking and slavery related to a scheme to force women into prostitution. Norris took in a number of girls, promising to train them as professional wrestlers, and instead forced them into prostitution.
A number of women testified during the trial that Norris had threatened and beaten them if they disobeyed, with one claiming that Norris headbutted her when she refused to have sex with two customers and told her he'd throw her through a plate glass window. He ran his home like a military camp, putting the girls in "squads" overseen by an "enforcer".
He was referred to as the "General" and the girls often had to sleep with him in "the General's Quarter". One women said that Norris had forced her to sexually assault another woman during a party, and that acts of prostitution had occurred throughout North Carolina and Georgia, in hotels, nightclubs, apartments, etc. He really got hit hard because he crossed state lines. At the house, Norris forced them into labor, and also fined women for infractions such as not working out or talking too much. He would tell the girls they could not go free until their debts were paid, but then increase their debts regularly. Because his offenses were found to involve aggravated sexual abuse, he faces life in prison when sentences in February of 2008. Acting Assistant Attorney General Rena J. Comisac said,
This jury has vindicated the rights of the numerous young women this defendant exploited, abused, and forced into prostitution. The Department of Justice will continue to prosecute vigorously matters, such as this one, involving the sexual exploitation of young women." United States Attorney David E. Nahmias added, "The evidence at trial clearly proved that Norris used force and threats of force against the victims forcing them to work as prostitutes against their will. Sex trafficking and other forced labor are forms of modern day slavery and cannot be tolerated." The grand irony here is that Norris, involved in modern day slavery, won over a million dollars in a racial discrimination lawsuit from WCW/Time Warner.
The line-up for the Tokyo Dome show on January 4th, which has a New Japan vs. TNA theme, looks to be Manabu Nakanishi vs. Abyss, Giant Bernard & Maybe Travis Tomko (he underwent emergency surgery for some sort of muscle tear last week so I have no idea what the story is with him) vs. Rick & Scott Steiner for the IWGP Tag Team Titles,
Kurt Angle vs. Yuji Nagata for Angle's V2 or V3 or whatever version it is of the IWGP Title (the original belt that Brock Lesnar took with him when he left New Japan, that ended up going to Angle after Angle talked Brock into putting him over at the debut Inoki Genome Federation event earlier this year in exchange for an MMA match between the two down the road that probably is never going to happen) (got all that?), and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. the winner of the December 9th Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Toji Makabe number one contender's match.
I'm not sure what will go on last, but at least at this point they're really positioning Kurt's IWGP belt higher than Tanahashi's "official" IWGP belt. Obviously, the idea is to built towards a unification match. I suspect they'll go with Tanahashi vs. Angle since Angle is an outsider and that's been New Japan's modus operandi for two decades, though they could go with Nagata since Tanahashi beat Nagata for the official belt a few months back.
Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino of Dragon Gate beat Kotaro Suzuki & Ricky Marvin on November 24th at the NOAH show in Sapporo to win the GHC Jr. Tag Team titles. It's pretty interesting that if you look at all available factors (in-ring work, attendance, etc.), you could probably make an argument that Dragon Gate is one of if not the top wrestling promotion in the country right now.
ROH announced that Daniel Puder would be appearing at the December 29th and 30th Final Battle shows in Manhattan. They said he liked the physical style of the company and was there to see what ROH was about in person. Don't know if he'll have any interest in wrestling since he's fighting fairly regularly these days, and pro-wrestling is much harder on the body and would require quite the pay cut,
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Latest TNA idiocy is that the main event of this Sunday's PPV is a Feast of Fired Battle Royal. It's a f***ing POLE MATCH with briefcases on four poles. In three of the briefcases are contracts for the three major titles (World, Tag and X). In the fourth briefcase is a pink slip. So yes, COMPLETELY AT RANDOM, a man can either get a WORLD TITLE SHOT or GET FIRED.
I'm trying to think of a stupider concept for a match. This is seriously worse than the reverse battle royal. At least that match just was impossible to work without making it look stupid. In this, they are basically saying that their titles are so meaningless that any person completely at random can get a chance to win one, and has nearly as much of a chance of randomly winning the shot as he does of randomly being fired. And if title shots are given out so randomly in TNA, why not just wait until the next time you can randomly win one? Why enter this match where you may get fired? Futhermore, and obviously nobody thought this much about it, if the first three briefcases are opened and all contain title shots, why the f*** would anyone get the last briefcase? Can the match end without that briefcase being opened?.
The January 6th PPV will take place in Orlando and the February 10th show probably takes place in Greenville, SC.
Sting is finished until such time comes that he signs a new deal. It's not a guarantee he will. He was ready to walk away at the end of this year and quietly retire, but Dixie Carter really wants him back. I would think for $500,000 per year to work a super limited schedule he'd be willing. They beat him clean at the last PPV just in case, though, so for now that is the final match of his career.
Read a doozy of a Kurt Angle interview with David Robson on a bodybuilding site. It's actually several months old but I just discovered it. His VERY FIRST SENTENCE was about how he was on the road 300 days a year for WWE for seven years. This is the new Hulk Hogan. He couldn't handle the grind, he said, so he quit and went to TNA. Well, if you tell the story enough times you start to believe it. WWE fired Angle, fearing that he was about to die. That's the truth, no matter what anyone says now and in the future. He claimed TNA was averaging between a 1.1 and 1.5 rating on Spike, and that WWE was doing "around a 2.6".
TNA has never done a 1.5. They've done 1.5 million VIEWERS, but never a 1.5 rating. Raw is nowhere close to averaging a 2.6. Smackdown is, but that's a network rating as opposed to a cable rating, meaning they're still doing around 5 million viewers and have beaten Raw on certain weeks. He said TNA "easily matches the ECW ratings" and were "climbing fast to the Smackdown ratings". Does he believe this bullshit? They've actually never even beaten ECW, even when ECW bottomed out at the 1.1. He had a very specific percentage for how much more action we got with TNA: 210%. No idea where that came from. He said he was 6-0, 220 pounds and five percent bodyfat. He claimed with TNA he was on the road "100 to 150 days a year". Keep in mind the average guy in WWE is on the road 140 days a year. With four TV tapings a month and one PPV, that's 60 dates for TNA.
So I guess they're running 40 to 90 house shows a year. No idea where those shows are at. He said in WWE you could have 280 matches a year. He talked about his diet and training regimen and said he was far healthier now than he'd been in a long time. I'd agree with that. He said he'd love to have one fight and was negotiating with different MMA companies. When asked about opponents he said he'd love to face Randy Couture. He said the fans considered him the greatest pro wrestler of all time. He said he wrestled for "30 minutes a night, every night".
He added: "Just getting clotheslined and hitting the plywood or concrete floor is enough pain for one day, but we go through a thirty-minute match where we are doing all of these moves, being thrown on your heads and suplexing one another over and over. You have to remember the ring is metal and wood with very little give. The ring has a little bit of canvas but all-in-all it's a pretty solid surface." So Bret was right. He said Abyss was 400 pounds. He said "in the past seven years I have won more titles than any other wrestler in history winning 11 world and Olympic titles.
And no one has ever done that. Rick Flair has won 16, but he has been a wrestler for 34 years. If I wrestled over that period of time I would probably have 30 titles." Elsewhere, it was said that he was the best wrestler ever because he won the TNA, IWGP, X-Division and Tag Titles, and that no one had ever held that many titles at the same time before. Actually, Ultimo Dragon once held ten belts at the same time. I guess he doesn't count because he's a foreigner.
Thomas Moore, a British wrestling champion in the 1950s, passed away this past week at the age of 87. He wrestled under the name Jack Dempsey and had his roots in Wigan, home of the infamous Billy Riley catch wrestling Snake Pit. Apparently there was a major TV documentary done on him twelve years ago. He beat Mick McManus to win the British Welterweight Title in 1957.
After two days of deliberations, "Hardbody" Harrison Norris was declared guilty by a federal grand jury this week on multiple charges of sex trafficking and slavery related to a scheme to force women into prostitution. Norris took in a number of girls, promising to train them as professional wrestlers, and instead forced them into prostitution.
A number of women testified during the trial that Norris had threatened and beaten them if they disobeyed, with one claiming that Norris headbutted her when she refused to have sex with two customers and told her he'd throw her through a plate glass window. He ran his home like a military camp, putting the girls in "squads" overseen by an "enforcer".
He was referred to as the "General" and the girls often had to sleep with him in "the General's Quarter". One women said that Norris had forced her to sexually assault another woman during a party, and that acts of prostitution had occurred throughout North Carolina and Georgia, in hotels, nightclubs, apartments, etc. He really got hit hard because he crossed state lines. At the house, Norris forced them into labor, and also fined women for infractions such as not working out or talking too much. He would tell the girls they could not go free until their debts were paid, but then increase their debts regularly. Because his offenses were found to involve aggravated sexual abuse, he faces life in prison when sentences in February of 2008. Acting Assistant Attorney General Rena J. Comisac said,
This jury has vindicated the rights of the numerous young women this defendant exploited, abused, and forced into prostitution. The Department of Justice will continue to prosecute vigorously matters, such as this one, involving the sexual exploitation of young women." United States Attorney David E. Nahmias added, "The evidence at trial clearly proved that Norris used force and threats of force against the victims forcing them to work as prostitutes against their will. Sex trafficking and other forced labor are forms of modern day slavery and cannot be tolerated." The grand irony here is that Norris, involved in modern day slavery, won over a million dollars in a racial discrimination lawsuit from WCW/Time Warner.
The line-up for the Tokyo Dome show on January 4th, which has a New Japan vs. TNA theme, looks to be Manabu Nakanishi vs. Abyss, Giant Bernard & Maybe Travis Tomko (he underwent emergency surgery for some sort of muscle tear last week so I have no idea what the story is with him) vs. Rick & Scott Steiner for the IWGP Tag Team Titles,
Kurt Angle vs. Yuji Nagata for Angle's V2 or V3 or whatever version it is of the IWGP Title (the original belt that Brock Lesnar took with him when he left New Japan, that ended up going to Angle after Angle talked Brock into putting him over at the debut Inoki Genome Federation event earlier this year in exchange for an MMA match between the two down the road that probably is never going to happen) (got all that?), and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. the winner of the December 9th Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Toji Makabe number one contender's match.
I'm not sure what will go on last, but at least at this point they're really positioning Kurt's IWGP belt higher than Tanahashi's "official" IWGP belt. Obviously, the idea is to built towards a unification match. I suspect they'll go with Tanahashi vs. Angle since Angle is an outsider and that's been New Japan's modus operandi for two decades, though they could go with Nagata since Tanahashi beat Nagata for the official belt a few months back.
Naruki Doi & Masato Yoshino of Dragon Gate beat Kotaro Suzuki & Ricky Marvin on November 24th at the NOAH show in Sapporo to win the GHC Jr. Tag Team titles. It's pretty interesting that if you look at all available factors (in-ring work, attendance, etc.), you could probably make an argument that Dragon Gate is one of if not the top wrestling promotion in the country right now.
ROH announced that Daniel Puder would be appearing at the December 29th and 30th Final Battle shows in Manhattan. They said he liked the physical style of the company and was there to see what ROH was about in person. Don't know if he'll have any interest in wrestling since he's fighting fairly regularly these days, and pro-wrestling is much harder on the body and would require quite the pay cut,
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