TNA Deathwatch: Die Another Day

[Chainsaw]

Oct 17, 2016 8:18:08 GMT -5 Final Countdown Jones said:

I can't stop dwelling on this whole Dixie thing now that I've really had time to think about it, because it's kind of a phenomenally appalling thing when you really stop to think about it. People going to bat for Dixie's refusal to sell the company because it's been her baby all these years and of course she would have trouble giving it away. But can it really be her baby if the only time her company is actually doing something, she's not accountable for it? Showing up late, leaving early... I remember Cornette giving a lengthy interview about his time in TNA and when asked about his impression of Dixie Carter he confessed he had almost never interacted her, despite being on-air talent, a road agent, the agent in the truck, and for a long time involved in the creative meetings. Hadn't had many conversation with her though? Doesn't sound like Dixie's baby to me, sounds like a vanity project, not a passion project.

I write for a living, and I live and die by everything I publish and its reception, because when you put your heart into something and really try to make it work, you care about seeing it proceed. When the coach sees two minutes left on the clock and knows the score can't be evened out, he doesn't walk off the field knowing the team's got it in hand. The stars of a movie don't go to the red carpet premiere just to see how the movie turned out, they do it to feel for the reaction in the room, for how people respond to what they've made. Stories of the reaction in gorilla position when someone gets backstage or moments like Triple H coming out after Alexander/Ibushi wouldn't have ever happened and rewarded the talented wrestlers who put on the great performance if everyone said "Well, match is going, time for a smoke" and left it barren. There is a pride in your work no matter what your job is that should leave you wanting to see it through if your heart is really in it.

Dixie is clinging to this company because it's her only chance at passing fame. It's the hope of a reality show, the fact that the "Dixie Carter (Wrestling)" page exists. She spent vast amounts of money, mostly other peoples' to court the biggest free names in wrestling and bring them all together, not so they could put on a great alternative product, but because they were status symbols. Every ex-WWE guy from the difference makers and reinventors like Angle and Christian all the way down to the shitty cast-offs like Kennedy, were just pieces to prove her company had money and notoriety. She thought having Hulk Hogan on the payroll would be enough to make people watch the show and care. Despite a marketing degree she never once tried to use Hulk Hogan to boost the profile of her company and instead of pushing her own product and advertising it, she tried to take shots at a titan of the business that mostly ignored them, but she craved the recognition enough to keep it going time and time again.

After Slammiversary 2015, it was reported that Jarret's return, push, and the GFW invasion were all part of Dixie buying up Jeff's remaining stake in the company, making her the sole owner. She'd done it, and become the person owning the entire kingdom of what had once been a Jeff Jarrett passion/vanity project, now fully a Dixie Carter vanity project. But in the past year and change, the money has kept drying up, almost everyone who came to define TNA is gone, and Dixie's had to keep the lights on by parceling off bits and pieces of the companyto different parties. She went from sole owner to one of allegedly four owners, who held little pieces and minority stakes in the company that she still ruled. Hell, even her intention earlier this year to get investors on board was to go and seek out four parties willing to buy 10% stakes in the company, leaving Dixie with a controlling 60. Instead, she's had to sell off some of the tape library to her Canadian network connection, defaulted on paying the second production company and ending up with them taking a lien on a portion of the company while she completely blew off the first company, which doesn't have potential neo-nazis in high positions in the place. And then she found the golden goose in Billy Corgan, who genuinely loves wrestling and may not be good at booking but goddammit he tries, and he comes off like he genuinely wants to make the company succeed for its own sake rather than so he can have people saying his name again.

It ties in a pretty sinister and despicable way into the news Dixie never intended to sell. f*** this idea that Dixie needs to be defended or that anyone would have trouble giving up their baby. This isn't about her baby. This is about letting everyone who wants to turn her company around and make it succeed tear each other apart while she plays the southern belle shit up as hard as she can, and then step in lying through her teeth to everyone, talent and owners included in different ways, and then not even stick around for the tapings afterward. Just f***ing right off, because the only thing that matters is keeping her company going, finding the money so that she can put on shows of people going out there and burning their lives out just a tiny bit faster to keep the minor notoriety about her name.

The sooner this company goes belly up, the sooner Dixie can do a couple shoot DVDs and then f*** right off from wrestling and her only distant shot at fame.

(I had a little bit too much time to think on this.)

Reading all of that, my only wish in life now is to be in the room when someone, anyone, finally snaps, reads her the riot act, and calls her out on all of her bullshit that she's been laying down in an effort to protect her own interests.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Oct 17, 2016 11:25:14 GMT -5 Vice honcho room temperature said:

IDK if this means anything but Aron Rex changed his twitter handle back to his real name Aron Stevens. I wonder if other TNA wrestlers are going to change their name with the rumoured non payment leaving their contract thing

Hmm. I think this could be either or considering it look like TNA soured on him real quick but it will be interesting if others follow suit. This week will be interesting in that regard.

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

Oct 17, 2016 10:33:24 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

Did someone transcribe every single word that came out of Borash's mouth there? His statement reads like a madman's diary.

[Push R Truth]

Is TNA already dead and what we are seeing now is the corpse just shitting it's pants one final time?


Or is this just another speed bump 'cause TNA is still going to be signing new Bram Contracts 5 years from now.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Oct 17, 2016 12:09:09 GMT -5 The Heartbreak TWERK said:

Oct 17, 2016 10:33:24 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

Did someone transcribe every single word that came out of Borash's mouth there? His statement reads like a madman's diary.

I want to see Borash form a stable with Kurt Angle

[Nickybojelais]

Phew, until I heard Borash tell us that everything is awesome and morale is as high as Everest in TNA I was worried about the situation over there.

At least we don't have to speculate or worry anymore, TNA is gonna be just fine.

[Shai]

Oct 17, 2016 4:27:22 GMT -5 Final Countdown Jones said:

Oct 17, 2016 2:47:19 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Honestly the really amazing thing that's getting glossed over in all this is the word about how it's not at all unusual for her to show up for tapings late, relegate them entirely to someone else, then leave early.

So basically, she has no interest in actually doing anything to run the company nor does she care at all about the actual quality of it, Dixie's keeping such a desperate grip on it entirely to keep her name on the paperwork.

Say what you will about Vince's micromanagement of everything WWE, but control freak or not, the dude clearly lives and breathes his company with a commitment nobody can ever call into question. It was a big deal when he left Wrestlemania 30 early to go into the ambulance with Taker instead of staying to watch the main event go down, and reports that he was conducting a few weeks post-Summerslam from his office due to health issues was newsworthy in that he's never not there himself the whole time. His life is running his wrestling company and it is his baby. At least if he stubbornly goes down with the ship, you can make the argument that he's got the wheel the whole way through and that it's always been that way for him.

Dixie plays games to try and keep control of her company by manipulating everyone and lying about even wanting to sell so that she can keep in control, and she doesn't even have the gall to stay there through the tapings and keep shit together. It's f***ing pathetic.

This. I may shit on Vince for some of his decisions but no one can deny the WWE is his baby and he loves that damn company with his heart and soul.
Man is in his 70's and is still at pretty much every Raw, SD and PPV.

[Joe Neglia]

Oct 16, 2016 14:20:58 GMT -5 @jinxed said:

Oct 16, 2016 14:15:42 GMT -5 Schizo said:

Ok I have to ask. The That's 70s Show loop ad, is that really TNA's doing? Because that was freakin hillarious!.

Real but not TNA's doing. PopTV's control was knocked offline by a storm so they couldn't air TNA's "live" show. They got maybe 5 minutes shown at one point, but that loop played until there was like a 10 minutes left in their normal timeslot.

I could have sworn that was still TNA's fault because they (TNA) bungled getting the show to them and they were scrambling to get things thrown together when the storm hit.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Oct 17, 2016 14:44:07 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Oct 16, 2016 14:20:58 GMT -5 @jinxed said:

Real but not TNA's doing. PopTV's control was knocked offline by a storm so they couldn't air TNA's "live" show. They got maybe 5 minutes shown at one point, but that loop played until there was like a 10 minutes left in their normal timeslot.

I could have sworn that was still TNA's fault because they (TNA) bungled getting the show to them and they were scrambling to get things thrown together when the storm hit.

It was a half and half situation. TNA did a bunch of tapings that day and so you assume the edits had to be done quick fast which isn't ideal.

However, Pop had a storm near their control center which knocked the show out completely. If I remember correctly I believe they addressed it after the fact.

[Allie Kitsune]

If only there was some way the "Walls closing in on Dixieland" and "Paigeberto" stories could combine into a perfect shitstorm...

[Shai]

Oct 13, 2016 20:20:41 GMT -5 Shai said:

Oct 13, 2016 16:40:35 GMT -5 Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 said:

Is this the offical meme of TNA now?

Right now in Borash's office...

[dreidemy]

Oct 17, 2016 14:52:58 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

If only there was some way the "Walls closing in on Dixieland" and "Paigeberto" stories could combine into a perfect shitstorm...

BREAKING NEWS

Dixie Carter shows her support to "Paigeberto" and funds their wedding.

The wedding will be filmed for Impact Wrestling and will be part of the episode TNDeletion

Source: dankwrestlingnewz.org

[FHgrad99]

Oct 17, 2016 8:21:00 GMT -5 Dub H said:

We have our first morale : HIGH statement, by Borash

Current state of TNA:
"Well again, and this is just, you talk about wide view looking down, this, whatever came out yesterday. In the last seven days. In the last week-and-a-half. In the last month-and-a-half. We're getting sold, our tape library is going to WWE, da-da-da-da-da, Lucha Underground is buying us. And, how many of those things that you've read about, have turned out to be true? We're still here, we're still producing a show, and as of last week, my checks have never been missed. So you know, it's kinda one of those things where 'Alright, there's another thing that's out. Is it all factual? Is it all speculation?' I can tell you that there have been huge things that have been reported in the last two weeks. Completely fabricated by somebody. And, when you have those things out there, it really takes away from the narrative, which is the boys, which is the product, which is the storylines, which is the television show. You know, there is no other business in the world, I can tell you, I know first-hand. You go out into the real world, there is no other business where you have to go to work, and fear that every detail of what we are up to is going to be online, criticized, read. It's messed up. It's just the passion that the fans have. And, it's the reality of the situation."


"Morale is great. Wrestlers wrestle, and that's it. You know, again, hopefully it's, whatever is out there does not serve as a distraction. Here was my philosophy, and I adopted this about eight years ago, seven years ago. Strangely enough, just uh, talk to somebody about it, that we kinda talk to. I had had enough, but AA really preaches the Serenity Prayer, and that is about being able to separate what you can do something about, and what can't do anything about, and not stress yourself over things you can't do anything about. At that point in my career, I thought, 'I'm going to wake up every day, and do exactly what I want to do.' And, once you can kinda separate that, and realize that there are things that you can't do anything about, there are things you can focus on though, you'll probably be a happier person
www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/1016/618489/jeremy-borash-talks-current-state-of-tna

He says he was paid on time but it seems like he's in the minority when much of the roster either has left or is threatening to leave due to TNA being behind on payments. There are a lot of important people in TNA who seem to be in denial about what really is going on with the company but if you look at everything else that's going on in wrestling that involves people who used to be with TNA, it's clear that things aren't as rosy as Jeremy Borash wants us to believe.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jeremy Borash: SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOW!

[Sephiroth]

Oct 17, 2016 16:57:38 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Jeremy Borash: SERENITY NOW! SERENITY NOW!

Sanity later.

[xCompackx]

I want to mention too that if nothing was wrong, there wouldn't be at least two lawsuits with verifiable proof of their existence.

[Reflecto]

Oct 17, 2016 14:52:58 GMT -5 Allie Kitsune said:

If only there was some way the "Walls closing in on Dixieland" and "Paigeberto" stories could combine into a perfect shitstorm...

With how much both stories have gone through all year- I'm steadfast the law of equivalency will happen:

TNA will officially announce they have closed up shop on the same day WWE announces Paige's release.

There is no doubt in my mind the two will happen on the same day.

[Mozenrath]

Oct 17, 2016 12:09:09 GMT -5 The Heartbreak TWERK said:

Oct 17, 2016 10:33:24 GMT -5 xCompackx said:

Did someone transcribe every single word that came out of Borash's mouth there? His statement reads like a madman's diary.

Jim Norton?

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

Oct 17, 2016 19:01:39 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Oct 17, 2016 12:09:09 GMT -5 The Heartbreak TWERK said:

Jim Norton?

[Mozenrath]

Oct 17, 2016 19:37:02 GMT -5 The Heartbreak TWERK said:

Oct 17, 2016 19:01:39 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Jim Norton?

I remember that the first time I saw this picture, I just assumed Lancers made it, but no, he is becoming a potato.