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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Oct 29, 2013 20:26:23 GMT -5
From Wrestleinc.com Also, from AJ's twitter: Figured this warranted it's own thread. I'm pretty sure that TNA still has a working relationship with AAA but hey, it's something.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Oct 29, 2013 20:33:39 GMT -5
Will he be facing the King of Mexico?
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Post by HMARK Center on Oct 29, 2013 21:57:55 GMT -5
So...they're actually doing what WWE should've done with Punk, eh?
Intriguing, but we'll see where it goes.
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Post by rybackrulez on Oct 29, 2013 22:27:08 GMT -5
If he loses the belt to Jeff Jarrett i will lol
Or hell have him lose it to one of the minis
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2013 22:30:15 GMT -5
It will be the most TNA thing ever if he gets hurt defending the TNA title in another promotion.
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Post by Error on Oct 29, 2013 22:34:35 GMT -5
On Twitter, Konnan said he's facing former TNA wrestler Mesias. His match for Muta will be more interesting to me, to see if he faces someone that has no TNA connection.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 29, 2013 22:36:57 GMT -5
So...they're actually doing what WWE should've done with Punk, eh? Intriguing, but we'll see where it goes. It'd have been cool, but there was virtually zero chance of it happening that way. Outside of maybe Ring of Honor, I can't think of anywhere it'd have been practical or have mattered.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Oct 29, 2013 22:40:46 GMT -5
So...they're actually doing what WWE should've done with Punk, eh? Intriguing, but we'll see where it goes. Sad thing is despite all of CM Punk's mentions, WWE was never going to let him defend their title on other shows. He was allowed to make appearances, but he was never going to be allowed to wrestle. WWE has that lack of trust with other promotions as far as wrestling goes once they are under contract and had fulfilled their independent duties before joining them.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Oct 30, 2013 7:37:08 GMT -5
I hate to be a downer but this isn't as groundbreaking as most think it is. The TNA World title and NWA title used to be defended in other promotions years ago. Jeff Jarrett was a travelling NWA world champion during his reign. Double J would show up in a number of southern and northeastern indies with the belt in tow and fought a wide array of opponents. I remember Christian defending the NWA title in Canada. Jeff Hardy defended the TNA title against Tetsuya Naito in New Japan on one of their January super show.
What made Punk's threat to take the title and defended in other promotions impactful (pun not intended) was that WWE hasn't let any of their titles especially the World titles be on shows not officially sponsored them in decades. The last time the world title was defended outside the realm of WWE's control was the first Terry Funk retirement show with Bret Hart defending it against Terry Funk. The TNA title was a familiar thing until TNA made that no tv/dvd/ppv rule and priced the top players out of most indies' budgets.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 30, 2013 8:37:52 GMT -5
If he loses the belt to Jeff Jarrett i will lol Or hell have him lose it to one of the minis I would mark like a little girl.
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Post by SOR on Oct 30, 2013 8:55:45 GMT -5
I hate to be a downer but this isn't as groundbreaking as most think it is. The TNA World title and NWA title used to be defended in other promotions years ago. Jeff Jarrett was a travelling NWA world champion during his reign. Double J would show up in a number of southern and northeastern indies with the belt in tow and fought a wide array of opponents. I remember Christian defending the NWA title in Canada. Jeff Hardy defended the TNA title against Tetsuya Naito in New Japan on one of their January super show. What made Punk's threat to take the title and defended in other promotions impactful (pun not intended) was that WWE hasn't let any of their titles especially the World titles be on shows not officially sponsored them in decades. The last time the world title was defended outside the realm of WWE's control was the first Terry Funk retirement show with Bret Hart defending it against Terry Funk. The TNA title was a familiar thing until TNA made that no tv/dvd/ppv rule and priced the top players out of most indies' budgets. Jeff Jarrett actually defended the NWA-TNA World Title heaps of places. Japan happened a couple times, Australia happened once, England happened a couple times I believe Canada and Mexico also. Not to mention all the WWA dates he did with the belt.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Oct 30, 2013 9:02:31 GMT -5
I hate to be a downer but this isn't as groundbreaking as most think it is. The TNA World title and NWA title used to be defended in other promotions years ago. Jeff Jarrett was a travelling NWA world champion during his reign. Double J would show up in a number of southern and northeastern indies with the belt in tow and fought a wide array of opponents. I remember Christian defending the NWA title in Canada. Jeff Hardy defended the TNA title against Tetsuya Naito in New Japan on one of their January super show. What made Punk's threat to take the title and defended in other promotions impactful (pun not intended) was that WWE hasn't let any of their titles especially the World titles be on shows not officially sponsored them in decades. The last time the world title was defended outside the realm of WWE's control was the first Terry Funk retirement show with Bret Hart defending it against Terry Funk. The TNA title was a familiar thing until TNA made that no tv/dvd/ppv rule and priced the top players out of most indies' budgets. Jeff Jarrett actually defended the NWA-TNA World Title heaps of places. Japan happened a couple times, Australia happened once, England happened a couple times I believe Canada and Mexico also. Not to mention all the WWA dates he did with the belt. And why I said he was a touring NWA world champion and why the idea of title defenses outside of TNA is not taboo.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 10:09:10 GMT -5
That's cool. I hope this becomes a recurring thing where he takes the TNA title to a bunch of indy promotions and challenges their top non-champion guys.
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Post by HMARK Center on Oct 30, 2013 11:28:32 GMT -5
AJ also defended the NWA belt in other promotions when he was TNA champ back in the day; he'd bring the belt with him to ROH sometimes, which was almost used as the basis of a mini-feud with ROH Champ Samoa Joe.
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Post by ICBM on Oct 30, 2013 20:29:37 GMT -5
Cool. I like it. Great idea though if I am an international promotion, shoot pin, the locker room rushes the ring, carries AJ out of the building, new champ splits and goes dark. Is the US dept of justice going to step in for a fake sport's fake title belt? No. That my friends would be the most TNA thing that could happen from this
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Post by The Masked Heel WAS WRONG on Oct 30, 2013 20:41:55 GMT -5
It'd be better if he would defend it places where it isn't common knowledge that TNA has a working relationship with.
I mean have AJ actually work indy shows. Have AJ promote the shows on Twitter and have him issue "open challenges" to ex TNA talent that they let go in the past. Imagine AJ Styles vs. Joey Ryan in California or AJ Styles vs. Jay Lethal in the Northeast.
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Post by ________ has left the building on Oct 30, 2013 20:49:07 GMT -5
Cool. I like it. Great idea though if I am an international promotion, shoot pin, the locker room rushes the ring, carries AJ out of the building, new champ splits and goes dark. Is the US dept of justice going to step in for a fake sport's fake title belt? No. That my friends would be the most TNA thing that could happen from this Considering about a month ago a group of AAA guys got robbed at gunpoint on their tour bus, AJ might want to take a replica belt with him. Be a shame the TNA title is sold for pills & liquor and Jeff Hardy isn't the person selling it.
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Post by saintpat on Oct 30, 2013 21:17:33 GMT -5
Cool. I like it. Great idea though if I am an international promotion, shoot pin, the locker room rushes the ring, carries AJ out of the building, new champ splits and goes dark. Is the US dept of justice going to step in for a fake sport's fake title belt? No. That my friends would be the most TNA thing that could happen from this Considering about a month ago a group of AAA guys got robbed at gunpoint on their tour bus, AJ might want to take a replica belt with him. Be a shame the TNA title is sold for pills & liquor and Jeff Hardy isn't the person selling it. Jeff Hardy would never sell the belt for pills and liquor. Meth and coke, sure, but never pills and liquor.
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Post by rybackrulez on Oct 31, 2013 1:04:01 GMT -5
Cool. I like it. Great idea though if I am an international promotion, shoot pin, the locker room rushes the ring, carries AJ out of the building, new champ splits and goes dark. Is the US dept of justice going to step in for a fake sport's fake title belt? No. That my friends would be the most TNA thing that could happen from this That would be hilarious Judas Macias shoot pins aj, and aj is in on it because he really wants out of tna. This leads to jeff jarrett coming down to aaa to win back his title
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 31, 2013 5:41:54 GMT -5
If TNA ends up sold to someone else midway through this angle, and they kill the angle, AJ might end up genuinely being the real world champion and genuinely just wrestling all over, turning the angle into a shoot.
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