The TNA Doomsday Clock Thread: 1 Minute to Midnight?

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Oct 3, 2016 15:48:05 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

American Horror Story: Impact Wrestling will be pretty interesting next year

Kathy Bates would be an awesome Aaron Rex.

[saintpat]

Oct 3, 2016 12:59:27 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Oct 3, 2016 12:49:00 GMT -5 saintpat said:

I choose Broken Matt Hardy to represent me on the field of battle.

That's not fair. I want a re do. Broken Matt is the king of chaos

You insult Samurai Cop and think I'm f-ing around in here?!!!!

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

According to 411Mania, Dixie has secured funding for the remainder of 2016.

Link: 411mania.com/wrestling/tna-reportedly-gets-funding-for-rest-of-2016/

[Hawk Hart]

Oct 3, 2016 16:23:45 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

According to 411Mania, Dixie has secured funding for the remainder of 2016.

Link: 411mania.com/wrestling/tna-reportedly-gets-funding-for-rest-of-2016/

[saintpat]

Well, one of their referees tweeted a "join us live tonight for taping" at Universal and TNA retweeted it, which is probably one of their better marketing jobs for a live event in years. Of course it didn't say exactly when.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Oct 3, 2016 16:23:45 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

According to 411Mania, Dixie has secured funding for the remainder of 2016.

Link: 411mania.com/wrestling/tna-reportedly-gets-funding-for-rest-of-2016/

We should make a board game similar to clue where we find out who's the f***ing imbecile who keeps bailing Dixie out.

If I had to bet, just like the article said, I think it was Dixie's parents.

[Talent Name]

Hearing that TNA has secured funding throughout the year

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To be fair, "funding throughout the year" just means for the next six days because they're taping through January.

Either way anyone who would support Dixie at this point deserves to go bankrupt doing it.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Oct 3, 2016 14:23:51 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

On the talent front, I understand the talent hating to hear about the fact that the company blows and the company is going to fold. If I was working there (and one Wikipedia article said I did for a short time before it was fixed (I LOLed on that)), I would hate being constantly barraged by the question as well and maybe at some point, I would build up a bit of disgust for the IWC.

Saying that, as long as Dixie Carter is still owning this garbage, this company deserves to die in a business sense due to how many times they have had to save themselves with loans, the whole being criminally late on paying people, and everything else that they have done. If someone else buys this company, it can only be run better due to how low it is now and maybe Billy Corgan has friends who can help out if he gets it as he may be a real life asshole, but he still has friends who probably make a lot more than any of us can.....and with the rebranding he would plan on doing, maybe some good could come out of the end of Dixie.

That is a strong maybe, does he have enough funds once brought to run it right because getting the company to start bring in a return in the investment is the true challenge and you need a plan and some capital to get that pan off the ground. Sure changing the name is fine and a fresh start in the minds but unless he has a true plan on how to break even and turn profits which doesn't happen over night, you won't last. Anybody know why RPW he was involved in, he didn't last there but what was the story?

[Reflecto]

Oct 3, 2016 16:43:19 GMT -5 Can you afford to pay me, Gah said:

That is a strong maybe, does he have enough funds once brought to run it right because getting the company to start bring in a return in the investment is the true challenge and you need a plan and some capital to get that pan off the ground. Sure changing the name is fine and a fresh start in the minds but unless he has a true plan on how to break even and turn profits which doesn't happen over night, you won't last. Anybody know why RPW he was involved in, he didn't last there but what was the story?

From all the stories it was- with RPW, he was running the company and basically being "hire the best guys in the region he could and get out of their way". It worked for a couple years- then Corgan tried getting RPW a TV show, but didn't have any real nibbles from networks (with only AMC willing to offer, and then only in a 'it's really a reality show about the guy from Smashing Pumpkins trying to run a wrestling promotion' instead of RPW getting a show...so, the opposite of Dixie's issue.)

Since he couldn't get a TV deal, he went to TNA who had TV.

[DASH 243✅]

So we tentatively have a TNA going under thread set for mid December. I'll pencil it in

[Reflecto]

Oct 3, 2016 10:10:56 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Dixie is not even gonna tell them when tna dies, the talent will find about it by Meltzer. You can quote me on that.

You're saying that like Dixie would even tell Meltzer TNA's dead and Dixie will just keep saying 'oh, TNA is still alive, we're still a company and not dead even if we haven't run a show in 10 years and every TNA Pay-Per-View and Impact are on the WWE Network...and I remind you, you DO have a contract with us when we get our money, so if you try and sign with WWE I'll sue you into the poorhouse".

Oct 3, 2016 8:56:58 GMT -5 wwotbh said:

I really wonder how Dixie secured the funding. Wouldn't put it past her to have hooked up with yet another shady creditor, putting the company further into debt so she can hold onto some kind of imagined glory.

If Dixie secured the funding before Bound for Glory...there isn't any knowledge of who the other money person is- but yeah, we all kind of know in our hearts the endgame was probably Gail Kim going to Robert Irvine and saying "but HONEY, TNA CAN'T DIE this weekend- they're going to put me in the Hall of Fame! It'll be the proof I was a legend of my sport I need! You just got your own talk show- can't you pay for just Bound for Glory and this last tapings so they can die with dignity and then I can retire without a problem? Come on, honey- do it FOR ME???"

[2coldMack is even more baffled]

God....cock sucking dammit! How does this company keep breathing?

[Von Wagner's Brownies]

Oct 3, 2016 16:23:45 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

According to 411Mania, Dixie has secured funding for the remainder of 2016.

Link: 411mania.com/wrestling/tna-reportedly-gets-funding-for-rest-of-2016/

Just. F******. Die. Already. TNA.

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

Oct 3, 2016 16:19:54 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Oct 3, 2016 15:48:05 GMT -5 lildude8218 said:

American Horror Story: Impact Wrestling will be pretty interesting next year

Kathy Bates would be an awesome Aaron Rex.

Probably'd put on better matches too.

[Texas Tornado]

Oct 3, 2016 10:14:49 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Oct 3, 2016 10:11:18 GMT -5 Mister Pigwell said:

So I guss we'll meet back up in 2-3 months for the next chapter in this saga.

Seems like it pig.

though damned if that EC3 promo didn't sound like a goodbye.

He's due to pop like a balloon any day now, so he had to get it out just in case.

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Oct 3, 2016 16:36:20 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

To be fair, "funding throughout the year" just means for the next six days because they're taping through January.

Either way anyone who would support Dixie at this point deserves to go bankrupt doing it.

So this makes it 3 years in a row, they done a 3 month taping in a couple days just after Bound For Glory? So pretty much nothing changes.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Oct 3, 2016 17:19:29 GMT -5 BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps said:

This is probably the best video describing TNA ever.

even the "Why won't you die?" doesn't even sound like real anger... just more like mild annoyance at the continued march towards the inevitable.

[Tea & Crumpets]

In honesty, I'm glad TNA is surviving a little while longer. If they'd just treat their roster a bit better, I couldn't care how shit TNA gets, an alternative is better than no alternative. It's mad that they've been around nearly twice as long as ECW and over twice as long under the name Extreme Championship Wrestling)

Oct 3, 2016 17:19:29 GMT -5 BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps said:

I want a Botchamania ending that replaces the gunman with Russo, the woman with Dixie, and Austin with Vince McMahon.

[Push R Truth]

You know... this goes counter to about everything I've said, but if TNA actually pays everybody off and treats people with respect, I'm totally ok with this last second 1UP they've been given.


But if it's yet just another "more of the same" scenario I'm going to... um... I can't think of a word. But I'm sure there's one that exists that describes bowel shattering disappointment mixed with "what did you assholes think was going to happen if you keep giving the same moron more money?"