The TNA Doomsday Clock Thread: 1 Minute to Midnight?

[Reflecto]

Sept 27, 2016 19:38:17 GMT -5 eldandyjamupguy said:

If this were to happen, I would imagine WWE would just make an announcement on .com and corp website, then quietly shut it down and then select 5-10 wrestlers to assign to NXT (save for the Hardy's who would rightfully go to the main roster ASAP likely ditching their Broken gimmick and defaulting back to their 2007 Hardy form. I am not confident the Hardy's would get to do whatever stuff they are doing now seeing how WWE didn't let Bubba Ray be Bully).

Don't see TNA getting any ceremony like WCW Final Nitro did. Like, at all.

Honestly, given how NXT's handled people and how the Performance Center has built itself up- plus how few people on the roster there are, and how fewer still are openly radioactive to WWE on paper [with only Bram and Gail Kim even coming close to "so radioactive to WWE they have NO CHANCE of getting brought back- and even then, Shawn Stasiak was as radioactive as a worker could be to WWE and he still got welcomed back as a WCW 24 member"], it wouldn't shock me if WWE brought almost the whole TNA roster into NXT or the Performance Center, with only the guaranteed main roster stars [Hardys, Lashley, MAYBE Brodus Clay/Drew McIntyre/Aron Rex, and likely Maria [depending on whether they send her to NXT with Bennett] there.

It also helps that TNA hadn't signed too many people who'd be unlikely- with Bennett/Moose both being just as likely to be "Well, we WOULDN'T have signed them- but hey, they had a TNA contract, so we're stuck with them- so I GUESS we have to use them. Oh dear" as in the "too radioactive to hire" pile. Even then, it's more likely The Tribunal get rejected than those two (as the only TNA signings WWE cut from NXT for not being good enough).

[Final Countdown Jones]

I really can't think of a more fitting way for TNA to go under than to just flat-out not be able to run Bound for Glory. To have everything left dangling there impotently in glorious storytelling anticlimax.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

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[katiemorgan67212]

Sept 27, 2016 11:34:03 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

It would be a little funny if after all these years of TNA copying WWE, they actually end up being bought by WWE. If you think about it, it's almost a dream come true for them. They don't have to imitate WWE anymore, they can BE WWE.

If WWE buys TNA Dixie will always always always maintain that it was proof of what a good job she did that even WWE noticed and wanted to be a part of TNA.

[katiemorgan67212]

I am predicting that Bob and Janice cave in to Dixie and bail her out, clear out the debts and keep TNA going another year.

[Captain & Diet]

Sept 27, 2016 19:57:14 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Better yet, should we start a campaign to convince Martin Skrelli to buy TNA?

I'd give all my next paycheck and all my savings to this.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Sept 27, 2016 19:57:14 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Better yet, should we start a campaign to convince Martin Skrelli to buy TNA?

Isn't Damien Sandow supposed to be his favorite wrestler?

[corndog]

Sept 27, 2016 15:44:37 GMT -5 Heinz Doofenschmirtz said:

At least with WCW you were interested in see how the end happened and who ended up on WWE tv. We're not getting a Shane on Nitro moment. We're gonna get AJ out front putting up a closed sign saying 'Good riddance' and walking away while Abyss, James Storm, and EC3 weep while holding signs that say 'Will wrestle for food'.

Lol, I hope we get that, but it will probably be Samoa Joe, since they wouldn't want to pay to fly AJ out to Florida.

[Chainsaw]

Sept 28, 2016 0:31:15 GMT -5 Captain & Diet said:

Sept 27, 2016 19:57:14 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Better yet, should we start a campaign to convince Martin Skrelli to buy TNA?

I'd give all my next paycheck and all my savings to this.

Only if it completely bankrupted that smug little shit.

Anyhow, would anyone be surprised if Corgan decided to float the money for the tapings with the condition that Dixie sign over her majority stake, and Dixie instead takes the deal with WWE just to stick it to Billiam and kills TNA out of pure ego and spite?

[G✇JI☈A]

Dixie: I just watched this here Yotub video.. This person called the Cinema Snoob was gabbin about a movie calling Breaking 2: Electronic something.. and I just had a great idea to raise some money sug!

[thetower52]

I want bound for glory to open with Samoa joe putting a box of nxt shirt in the ring and making the roster fight over them. If they don't get a shirt they don't get a contract

[Perfect Timing]

If this means Damien Sandow could end up on WWE TV again then I'm against WWE buying TNA.

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Sept 28, 2016 1:51:35 GMT -5 thetower52 said:

I want bound for glory to open with Samoa joe putting a box of nxt shirt in the ring and making the roster fight over them. If they don't get a shirt they don't get a contract

Feast or Fired - three briefcases have NXT shirts and contracts in them, the fourth has a magic spell that teleports you to the Wyatt compound.

[Mozenrath]

Sept 28, 2016 1:43:37 GMT -5 G✇JI☈A said:

Dixie: I just watched this here Yotub video.. This person called the Cinema Snoob was gabbin about a movie calling Breaking 2: Electronic something.. and I just had a great idea to raise some money sug!

Pure Flix is buying TNA? Oh dear.

[Aya Reiko]

At this point, I think all parties are in "S*** or get off the pot" mode. They don't want a slice of the pie, they want the whole thing and Ditzy has until Friday to make her decision. No matter what, I think the Ditzy era is over.

More telling is that no creditors are willing to lend Ditzy the money to run BFG. Just how much does it cost to run the thing, and how much in the hole is TNA in for not even that to happen.

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Sept 28, 2016 2:32:39 GMT -5 Aya Reiko said:

At this point, I think all parties are in "S*** or get off the pot" mode. They don't want a slice of the pie, they want the whole thing and Ditzy has until Friday to make her decision. No matter what, I think the Ditzy era is over.

More telling is that no creditors are willing to lend Ditzy the money to run BFG. Just how much does it cost to run the thing, and how much in the hole is TNA in for not even that to happen.

Supposedly it takes around $600,000-$700,000 per taping. Probably higher for Bound for Glory between being longer and being live.

[Ted Sheckler]

The hardcore TNA fans are burying their head in the sand and are saying Meltzer is wrong and he has something against TNA. Makes me laugh.

[evilone]

LOL @ the amount of people who want WWE to buy out and shut down TNA.

Outdated and poor quality wrestling company buys another horrible wrestling company is not good for wrestling at all cause soon whole industry will shut down. If WWE is smart acting and not shark acting they would actually fork some money to TNA and LU to keep the industry a float. But ego trip was always more relevant in wrestling than anything else, like common sense.

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Sept 28, 2016 4:38:12 GMT -5 evilone said:

LOL @ the amount of people who want WWE to buy out and shut down TNA.

Outdated and poor quality wrestling company buys another horrible wrestling company is not good for wrestling at all cause soon whole industry will shut down. If WWE is smart acting and not shark acting they would actually fork some money to TNA and LU to keep the industry a float. But ego trip was always more relevant in wrestling than anything else, like common sense.

TNA has at every single turn blown every opportunity they have, wasted tons upon tons of money having never once turned a profit in these past fourteen years, ruined the prospects for wrestling on two different networks now (and ran a different company off the channel they're currently on), has a loooong history of not paying or barely paying people both wrestlers and production alike, has on tons of occasions endangered or otherwise screwed over the people working there, and is a joke of a company no one takes seriously with no remaining avenues for expansion. Any money WWE put into it other than buying it would just be pissing into the wind, as would be any money put into buying it by someone other than them because the only thing of value they have is the tape library and only WWE can do anything with it.

TNA had its chance. It blew it. It's time for it to die.

[evilone]

Sept 28, 2016 4:43:03 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Sept 28, 2016 4:38:12 GMT -5 evilone said:

LOL @ the amount of people who want WWE to buy out and shut down TNA.

Outdated and poor quality wrestling company buys another horrible wrestling company is not good for wrestling at all cause soon whole industry will shut down. If WWE is smart acting and not shark acting they would actually fork some money to TNA and LU to keep the industry a float. But ego trip was always more relevant in wrestling than anything else, like common sense.

TNA has at every single turn blown every opportunity they have, wasted tons upon tons of money having never once turned a profit in these past fourteen years, ruined the prospects for wrestling on two different networks now (and ran a different company off the channel they're currently on), has a loooong history of not paying or barely paying people both wrestlers and production alike, has on tons of occasions endangered or otherwise screwed over the people working there, and is a joke of a company no one takes seriously with no remaining avenues for expansion. Any money WWE put into it other than buying it would just be pissing into the wind, as would be any money put into buying it by someone other than them because the only thing of value they have is the tape library and only WWE can do anything with it.

TNA had its chance. It blew it. It's time for it to die.

Now go back to 1993-1997 and say the exact same thing to WWF.