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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 5, 2007 2:55:40 GMT -5
On the same update, Keller reported that Samoa Joe has more than two years left on his TNA contract, he just wanted a raise when TNA wanted him to tack a couple more years onto the deal. Which is what was reported months ago, but somehow, the newz and rumorz wildly spun it into Joe's deal being up at the end of this month.
So yeah, if you like TNA, Shelley and Samoa Joe will be around for a good while. Might not be good if you like Shelley and Samoa Joe, but not TNA.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 5, 2007 2:15:01 GMT -5
Wade Keller reported on his audio update last night that...
1. Alex Shelley's TNA deal was set to expire very recently.
2. Alex Shelley signed a new TNA deal for two years.
He said he had this from two sources, and that Shelley worked the PWG shows or whatever with TNA's knowledge and consent. Makes sense, because I didn't know why TNA make a new MCMG intro for Impact last week if it were his last match. Shelley's contract being up definitely explains the recent string of jobs.
Maybe Keller's sources is one of Shelley's buds working him. But the way it was stated, this is newer info than what Meltzer reported, and Keller said he looked into it Monday or Tuesday because of the rampant speculation that Shelley was done.
So that's that, I guess.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 5, 2007 4:15:30 GMT -5
Alicia Webb also does the old gimmick that Precious did for Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin, of spraying the place up with a sparkly can of air freshner when she walks out to the ring, so her man doesn't have to wrestle in such a smelly environment.
Her and X-Pac dress up in red, white, and blue (she wears the stars and stripes), and they're obnoxious gringos, I take it.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 5, 2007 3:35:38 GMT -5
I could see totally see Test in AAA right now in Konnan's Foreign Legion stable with Waltman, Killings, Rikishi, Sabu, Headhunter B, Alicia Webb, and whomever else is in it. But for some strange reason, I'd just assume that Konnan probably thinks Test is just as boring and pointless as the rest of us do.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 5, 2007 2:47:17 GMT -5
WWE needs more "starpower", right?
EDIT: I'm not gonna play this off all cool like I put it here 'cause WWE's gonna sign him. I put this in the wrong section guys. You can move it. I'm sorry, but with all this Ric Flair talk, I've been over here in WWE Current way more than I usually am, my bad.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 5, 2007 2:45:00 GMT -5
Credit: PWTorch.com Audio Update 9/4
TNA realized they couldn't have him around with the Congress thing. Keller's source was told by Test that TNA won't consider putting him on their TV unless he loses a lot of weight. Good move.
(NOTE: And somebody needs a new sig. I couldn't help it though. He was on TNA twice, and I overreacted.)
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 6, 2007 20:26:00 GMT -5
I'm not watching Impact until later, but this Louisville/Middle Tennessee State game on ESPN2 is wild. 38-35 barely into the 3rd Qtr. Both teams could get into the 60s tonight, or Louisville's gonna run away with it 73-49 or something.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 24, 2007 10:12:29 GMT -5
Somewhere in there, you've got to have Hogan go for the leg drop, and Austin sits up and stuns Hogan's leg.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Sept 2, 2007 8:11:52 GMT -5
This was quite good. Each one of these vids, except for the robot one (which was only hard to watch because of the robot's hard-to-decipher audio) is really great, smart satire of TNA. And the robot one had some really good bits.
Kudos to whomever is producing these, if they read the boards. +1000.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 27, 2007 3:03:12 GMT -5
Isn't the song on the video backwards?
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 31, 2007 21:56:52 GMT -5
2. Nobody had any incentive to team with Kurt Angle. Being a champion should be incentive enough. But the belts don't mean anything, so that kills it. Again, being a champion should be proper motivation. And if TNA has proven anything, being in a tag team (even the champions) isn't going to stop you from getting world title shots. No one would be "stuck" anywhere. 4. If Sting, Joe, A.J., or Christian really cared about being the tag champs in storyline sense, wouldn't they currently have already found a really great tag team partner, compete in primarily in the tag-team division trying to win matches, move up the tag ranks, and not concentrate on their singles careers? If nobody in the match wanted to be Angle's tag team pal, all four guys could've just gotten themselves counted out. This is probably why Karen Angle felt she needed to put something extra at stake. Possible, but but maybe not. I mean this was almost like having a title handed to you. No finding a partner, no wrestling several matches or moving up the ranks. Win a match and boom, you've got a belt. As far as everyone possibly getting themselves counted out, again, if the belts meant anything, that wouldn't be a possibility because everyone would want to be a champion. I totally get where he's coming from with this one. I forgot to preface my statement with my opinion that TNA should've never booked themselves into this corner to begin with. But I still think the Karen Angle angle on this week's Impact was a reasonably effective way to play a part in helping find Angle a partner. Not perfect, and they shouldn't have put their tag belts in this position in the first place, but it still made sense to me. I agree with your points, I just don't agree with Lance Storm's point that it made no sense. And I think we can all agree that it's a small, positive step in TNA's creative direction that they solved their tag team championship situation without putting anything on top of a pole. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 31, 2007 16:01:15 GMT -5
I just watched the show on DVR, I don't get Lance Storm's complaints about Karen Angle offering guys a world title shot if they won.
Um, okay Lance...Karen had to find a partner for her husband, who is obsessed with gold (even the tag belts), and probably can't stay champion for very long fighting by himself.
Thus, because Kurt Angle loves gold so much, and has since at least 1996 (in case Lance missed an Impact or two), she wanted to make her husband happy by finding him a great partner. Also, she wants to make him happy because she loves him (which is why they're married, Lance), and we've seen that he's a real "jerk", "bully", and miserable towards her when he isn't. So she has personal motives, and they aren't even that selfish. Yes, by offering title shots, she's possibly putting Kurt's world title reign in danger, but isn't marriage about making uneasy compromises and sacrifices sometimes for day-to-day happiness?
All of this made complete, 100% sense in the kayfabe reality of TNA, plus you have to dangle the "title shot" carrot to the four contenders because...
1. Nobody likes Kurt Angle.
2. Nobody had any incentive to team with Kurt Angle.
3. The participants of the four-way were supposedly done by "lottery drawing", which put random babyfaces (Sting and Joe) in the match. Why the hell would they care about winning the match? To be tag champs with a partner they can't stand, and stuck in tag team matches at PPVs when they'd probably rather go after bigger prizes like, I don't know...world titles?
4. If Sting, Joe, A.J., or Christian really cared about being the tag champs in storyline sense, wouldn't they currently have already found a really great tag team partner, compete in primarily in the tag-team division trying to win matches, move up the tag ranks, and not concentrate on their singles careers? If nobody in the match wanted to be Angle's tag team pal, all four guys could've just gotten themselves counted out. This is probably why Karen Angle felt she needed to put something extra at stake.
Maybe I'm totally wrong here, but Lance Storm's just looking for stuff to gripe about when he brings up simple, basic stuff like this. It really isn't confusing. TNA's got booking problems (like making MCMG look like jobbers), but every single motivation for every character in that main event story/match made sense to me...and it looks like Angle/Sting is definitely gonna be at Bound For Glory, and if that means no Angle/Jarrett for all the gold, that's a yet another definite bonus coming out of that story last night. Thought the four-way was pretty darn good too, for a TV main event.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 27, 2007 8:54:44 GMT -5
1992 gets my vote.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 31, 2007 16:18:08 GMT -5
HULK HAS SEEN THIS BEFORE. BUT HULK IS STILL LAUGHING. Hulk probably drank a couple gallons of Agent Orange before watching this. Plus, I think he was shocked when that Agent Orange wasn't hot. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 30, 2007 7:08:07 GMT -5
This is gonna sound dorky as hell, but ever since the Flair WWE DVD set came out, my buddy and I have kind of a long-standing, running inside gag that involves Flair's propensity to give the Road Warriors a consistent shout out whenever he's cutting a promo and talking about big opponents.
It usually comes up when were talking about something non-wrestling related, and giving numerous examples, or making a long list. Like, we'll be talking about the NFL, and one of us is like..."Man, the AFC's gonna be tough this year. Think about it...the Colts, the Patriots, the Steelers, the Bengals--", then the other one interrupts with a quick whoo and goes,"...The Road Warriors!". Like I said, dorky as hell, but it makes us chuckle.
Needless to say, that same friend was pleased as punch when I passed along this video and it included a Flair/Road Warriors shout-out x2. Flair's the best.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 29, 2007 16:12:19 GMT -5
HATED:
-When NWO came to the WWE, and Scott Hall stopped wearing the Maker's Mark/blood drip knee and elbow pads for his short run. I always thought those were pretty cool.
-When the Freebirds went from rebels to wearing glitter and long gloves.
-"American Badass" Dieseltaker.
-Dusty in polkadots.
-"Kung Fu" Superstar Billy Graham. Graham's said that Jim Crockett finally forced him to knock it off, because he wasn't paying "Superstar Graham money" for the guy come out in black karate pants.
-That Bret Hart outfit circa 1994 with the tiny paint splotches all over the singlet, where it looked like wore his wrestling gear while he painted seven houses (I only saw this a few times, but it was brutal).
-When Konnan went from tassled lucha superstar to street gear and a wifebeater. He seemed like a bigger deal in a real wrestling outfit, IMO.
LIKED:
-Hollywood Hogan's original NWO gear.
-Pretty much every time Muta reinvents himself.
-Shelley and Sabin's matching MCMG gear.
-Orton switched from those blue and neon Adidas-looking biker shorts he debuted in.
-Most wrestlers deciding to wear knee pads after 1980.
-Whoever the first guy was that decided to wear kickpads in pro wrestling (Akira Maeda?). It's been overdone since, but it was a cool introduction.
-When Jarrett switched the weirdass Double J-suspenders and stuff to his current look (though his gear looks pretty stale and dated now).
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 30, 2007 7:36:08 GMT -5
Two of my faves squaring off for the NWA World Title, I believe in Jan. 1985 when The Freebirds were faces in WCCW, as the Von Erichs were more concerned with Gino Hernandez & Chris Adams... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb9L0gk-bMI |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 29, 2007 2:50:29 GMT -5
Nice. At least this time, he didn't look like he just smoked a trunk full of crack. This 95 Fall Brawl promo contains one of my favorite Luger botches. He's only given like 15 seconds towards the end, and he still bungles it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=skp0wNDNJeM |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 30, 2007 6:48:13 GMT -5
Despite my sig, I really think two hours will help. A bad three-hour PPV would still be a pretty decent 2-hour free TV show. Also, those old weekly 2-hour PPVs were generally quite good/entertaining, and had more than enough wrestling to account for bad comedy and guys that I didn't particularly care for. With commercials, they'll only have about 90-92 minutes as opposed to roughly 110-115 from the weekly PPV days, but 90 minutes is more than enough time for matches. Plus, their roster is far better than back then, yet they still utilized a lot of guys on those old shows.
The only true two-hour special they had on SpikeTV was excellent IMO, and it was last year when the product was entering decline. That "This is TNA" 2-hour Spike special with the old PPV matches that bombed against RAW didn't really count to me.
If anything, I think two hours could show casual fans that TNA's more "major league", since back and 1996-97 only your truly major league wrestling shows have been two hours long. That kind of perception could help TNA with casual fans that don't pay attention to them. Plus, then fans can really compare TNA's shows to WWE's main shows like RAW and Smackdown, where it's now kind of apples and oranges. By that, I mean...
Apples = TNA cramming everything they can into one hour, and it can get confusing and tedious (at times).
Oranges = WWE stretching things out to run two hours, and it can get boring and tedious (at times).
Not trying to flame either show/company, but that's what happens (to me). It's been reported that Impact scripts are 14-17 pages long for one hour of TV, whereas a RAW script is something like 6-10 pages for two hours. Both sides could find a happy medium.
Two hours isn't the Golden Goose that will solve TNA's problems, but I can't see it as a bad thing at all. It's twice the opportunity per week to catch curious eyeballs flipping through channels, win new fans, and turn them into PPV buyers.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 28, 2007 13:47:47 GMT -5
To me, Bret's punches looked the best. You could buy he was really hitting the guy. Bret did look like he connected, totally, but nobody on earth would throw real punches like Bret would (except Kurt Angle). And I guess they wouldn't throw punches like Hall either in a real fight, but dammit, I thought they looked pretty cool. And that's why we all win in threads like this ;D PS: Raven also threw a pretty strong right hand in his salad days... |
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