jhbboy198917
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Post by jhbboy198917 on Feb 5, 2010 17:02:10 GMT -5
Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter
- Sting missed last month's TNA Genesis pay-per-view and that week's iMPACT tapings due to a family emergency that we still don't know any details on. Nobody is questioning the legitimacy of Sting's reason as he has had a reputation for years of not being one to come up woth excuses to miss shows.
Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan talked about Sting on Bubba the Love Sponge's show last week and Bischoff knocked Sting for missing the tapings. Bischoff said that everyone in TNA has to be completely committed to the organization or things won't work out, with Hogan adding he doesn't see how they can use anyone missing shows.
This was seen within TNA as a message being sent to Sting.
Bischoff said, "Sting's a great talent. Love him to death. My problem is now that we're trying to do this big picture. I understand how big picture it is for the wrestling business. Sting had life-and-death personal issues, but from a business side, it totally screws us up. If at any time that happens, I got a personal issue, now we have to switch gears on who we use, you can't build the world around them. Everybody has got to make a commitment. It's easy to say we want TNA to be No. 1, but if you’re not willing to put TNA as a priority above almost every situation, then it’s probably not going to work out."
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NOwave
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Post by NOwave on Feb 5, 2010 17:21:57 GMT -5
To me this is one of those fine lines between shoot and work. Hogan and Bischoff have had storyline differences with Sting for nearly 15 years, and at least some real friction has existed between them from time to time over the same period.
Hogan/Bischoff are again playing the storyline roles of the new dictators in TNA, not terribly different from the roles they played in real life at WCW. So, are they now working or shooting? a little of both maybe?
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Post by psychokiller on Feb 5, 2010 17:28:01 GMT -5
I'm kind of mixed on this. If this is just a work, then whatever. But if it's for real than Sting should have at least contacted them to let them know he wasn't going to show up for whatever reason. But on the other hand, if it was a real serious family situtation than that should be the main priority over TNA regardless. The comments Bischoff made makes him seem heartless if he's really not in character. I'd easily put a serious family situation over some job anyday.
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Post by psychokiller on Feb 5, 2010 17:51:06 GMT -5
I'm kind of mixed on this. If this is just a work, then whatever. But if it's for real than Sting should have at least contacted them to let them know he wasn't going to show up for whatever reason. But on the other hand, if it was a real serious family situtation than that should be the main priority over TNA regardless. The comments Bischoff made makes him seem heartless if he's really not in character. I'd easily put a serious family situation over some job anyday. Let's see, family emergency or stand in the rafters looking down at the ring in a brooding fashion for the few seconds you'll be there that day. Sure being paid to literally do nothing is nice and all but putting on that makeup just to stare is time consuming and bad for your pores. lol, exactly. |
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Post by Chuckie Finster on Feb 5, 2010 19:15:27 GMT -5
They could have just put in the shot from Sting in the rafters from before and no one would have noticed the difference.
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Post by Krimzon on Feb 5, 2010 19:46:35 GMT -5
Who the hell are they to doubt Sting!? Scott "No Show" Hall is on the roster and they have a problem with Sting!?
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Post by ICBM on Feb 5, 2010 20:04:49 GMT -5
Who the hell are they to doubt Sting!? Scott "No Show" Hall is on the roster and they have a problem with Sting!? *****WINNER*****WINNER***** You pretty much summed it up for me dude |
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Post by Pounder on Feb 5, 2010 20:52:01 GMT -5
Who the hell are they to doubt Sting!? Scott "No Show" Hall is on the roster and they have a problem with Sting!? *****WINNER*****WINNER***** You pretty much summed it up for me dude Meh, you try turning up for work late and then using "But he was late last week!!" as an excuse. |
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Post by ________ has left the building on Feb 5, 2010 20:59:06 GMT -5
Hogan: "How dare Sting value his stable family over waging war with WWE, Brother? Everybody needs to be on the same page. This war isn't gonna to win itself, dude."
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Post by Pounder on Feb 5, 2010 21:00:43 GMT -5
Hogan: "How dare Sting value his stable family over waging war with WWE, Brother? Everybody needs to be on the same page. This war isn't gonna to win itself, dude." Just to think if Hogan no-showed a Paul Heyman ECW event for the same reasons. Can we close our eyes for a moment and imagine the empathy...... ....nope, can't see it either. |
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Feb 5, 2010 21:40:42 GMT -5
Hogan: "How dare Sting value his stable family over waging war with WWE, Brother? Everybody needs to be on the same page. This war isn't gonna to win itself, dude." Just to think if Hogan no-showed a Paul Heyman ECW event for the same reasons. Can we close our eyes for a moment and imagine the empathy...... ....nope, can't see it either. I'm still trying to imaggine Hogan in ECW.......... |
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Post by hollywood on Feb 5, 2010 22:41:51 GMT -5
Hogan: "How dare Sting value his stable family over waging war with WWE, Brother? Everybody needs to be on the same page. This war isn't gonna to win itself, dude." Just to think if Hogan no-showed a Paul Heyman ECW event for the same reasons. Can we close our eyes for a moment and imagine the empathy...... ....nope, can't see it either. So... Just so I'm clear on this... Because ECW fans would've been dicks toward Hogan if he no-showed an event due to a family emergency, it's justified to be dicks toward Sting for no-showing a TNA event due to a family emergency? |
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Post by AriadosMan on Feb 5, 2010 22:46:32 GMT -5
Why does ECW always get trotted out in these arguments anyway? The real ECW only had a cult audience in the Northeast for most of its existence. Therefore, most of the wrestling fanbase wouldn't care whether he showed or not.
Also, ECW fans are a breed apart from almost all other wrestling fans. They always punished a disappointment brutally. TNA fans, on the other hand, are by and large desperate for any alternative to WWE and will cheer most things.
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Post by moonlight on Feb 5, 2010 23:34:46 GMT -5
I watched ECW from pretty much the beginning on Directv, I don't get you at all. I loved the old ECW, and bought every pay per view from the 1rst show to the last. I can't say that about any other promotion. I suppose I am a breed apart, I like to watch wrestling more than the bullshit they have on WWE and TNA.
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Post by barley96 on Feb 5, 2010 23:42:37 GMT -5
To me this is one of those fine lines between shoot and work. Hogan and Bischoff have had storyline differences with Sting for nearly 15 years, and at least some real friction has existed between them from time to time over the same period. Hogan/Bischoff are again playing the storyline roles of the new dictators in TNA, not terribly different from the roles they played in real life at WCW. So, are they now working or shooting? a little of both maybe? Agreed. I can't see Eric being this bad in real life. He may be a jerk, but I think that he would understand about a family emergency. |
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Feb 6, 2010 0:05:57 GMT -5
To me this is one of those fine lines between shoot and work. Hogan and Bischoff have had storyline differences with Sting for nearly 15 years, and at least some real friction has existed between them from time to time over the same period. Hogan/Bischoff are again playing the storyline roles of the new dictators in TNA, not terribly different from the roles they played in real life at WCW. So, are they now working or shooting? a little of both maybe? Agreed. I can't see Eric being this bad in real life. He may be a jerk, but I think that he would understand about a family emergency. Isn't Eric the guy that fired Davey Boy Smith while the guy was in full traction after getting slammed on a trap door for an angle Bischoff promoted, and fired him by Fed Ex, no less? And isn't he the one that tried to put Flair in the poor house for not showing up to a show he said weeks in advance that he wasn't gonna show up for in order to go watch his son in an amateur wrestling tourney? I don't think you can really make any kind of character assessments on Bisch with that kind of track record. Not saying that this is true, of course, it may be, it may not be, but just playing Devil's Advocate. |
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Feb 6, 2010 2:50:28 GMT -5
I call angle.
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Post by Perigryn on Feb 6, 2010 2:54:53 GMT -5
What does Kurt have to do with this? ;D |
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Post by Bram wants to 'urt you on Feb 6, 2010 4:16:38 GMT -5
I think it's a work tbh. As spindoc and Herr Hund both mentioned; Sting's contribution over the past couple of months has been to appear in character in the rafters. It's not like he was in a huge ongoing angle where he was needed to speak for 20 minutes every hour or anything. A couple of minutes of pre-existing footage of him up in the beams would have just kept things ticking over the same way they have for a while now.
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Post by Ryushinku on Feb 6, 2010 5:24:51 GMT -5
Probably a work, although with Bischoff involved it's not the hardest thing in the world to imagine it being legit.
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