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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 22:29:34 GMT -5
If he mouths off, he'll probably get suspended and sit out his contract. If he doesn't, there's no point in jobbing him out, because they've already almost destroyed the guy as a threat.
If they don't resign Joe, this is like WCW handing a young Steve Austin or Mick Foley to WWE on a platter.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 15, 2007 21:59:18 GMT -5
I remember hearing it on an old B&V show. Who knows if it's accurate, but even if it's significantly less. With all their high salary wrestlers, Brock Lesnar wouldn't be a good person to sign anyway. Well, I'll agree to disagree on Lesnar. But, it's no coincidence that the rash of signings and firings are coming on the verge of a new TV deal with Spike TV. In July, Spike re-upped with UFC, and handed them $100 million to stay, and that's with UFC not drawing a much higher rating than TNA. Now, I don't think they'll offer TNA that much, but they'll pay them a chunk of change to stay, plus they'll help out with talent, too. SpikeTV already pays a good part of Sting's contract, and I'd assume they're doing the same with Lesnar, and pushing for him, considering he was a big star on their network a few years back. I don't think signing Lesnar would drastically affect TNA's bottom line that much, especially if they're shedding dead weight in the interim. I'd be very content with a TNA show featuring Brock Lesnar, and not featuring VKM and everyone in my sig. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 15, 2007 20:32:03 GMT -5
TNA shouldn't sign Lesnar. Solely for the fact that they're already like 30 mil in the hole. I highly doubt Panda Energy is happy with them as it is. Where do you get your figures as to how deep they are in the hole? They've purposely never released those numbers. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 15, 2007 20:14:50 GMT -5
Matt Bentley is short. I could see him maybe doing well in ROH, but he'd look like a dwarf in WWE. TNA pushed the heck out of him in 2004-ish doing the "next HBK" gimmick, and he never really got over. I enjoyed him the most in the tag team with Kazarian long before the Serotonin days...which was broken up when Kaz jumped to WWE.
Basham and Damaja were never given a fair shot at getting over. You can't get somebody over by feuding them exclusively with VKM. It's a shame they never really got to showcase themselves against an athletic team like LAX or MCMG.
Runt and Lynn don't bother me, though it sucks that Lynn couldn't be kept around as an agent, which is what he did for the past couple years. Runt's just yesterday's news.
As for Lesnar, WWE and TNA both need him right now. He might be a turdball, but he's still a talent that's good in the ring for a big man. He's roughly 100 million times better than a guy like Test. And he's free to work wherever he chooses, that's what the courts decided, and that's why he changed the name of the "F5" to "The Verdict".
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 14, 2007 23:39:56 GMT -5
Can't stand Jamie Dundee. From what I saw of their shoot, it seems like the other guy from PG-13 has his head on semi-straight, but Dundee is a putz.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 22:33:11 GMT -5
So Joe was Tag Team and X-Division champion for an entire month and he defended those belts how many times exactly? Hold on, let me tally it up.....about 0 times to be exact. Well, techincally guys, Joe DID defend both of them tonight. So once each. TNA really made their biggest babyface look like a fighting champion.  |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 22:17:31 GMT -5
Three things coming out of tonight...
1. Angle is going to choose Karen as his tag partner.
2. Joe is gone.
3. TNA is done.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 4:57:38 GMT -5
I didn't realize he's 68 now. He had a long career before becoming The Missing Link.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 22:49:06 GMT -5
What was so wrong with Kurt's original TNA theme that it needed re-working? I thought it was a pretty sweet theme the way it was Apparently, Kurt's theme must have promoted too much of a big-fight atmosphere, and that no longer fits with the newer-100% "if WWE were held in a soundstage infront of 1,000 people" direction. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 22:35:40 GMT -5
Hasn't Angle publicly pissed and moaned about how terrible and clueless Cena was to work with back in WWE? Now he lets the guy's cousin ruin his theme song?
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 13, 2007 23:29:50 GMT -5
I got this from TalkImpact.com. One of the more senior members there who has some form of connection to Jeff Jarrett and/or Dixie Carter is organizing a mass boycott of Impact this Thursday. Here is his message. The message of it is simple: Whatever you do, do not tune into Impact this Thursday. Tell your friends to do the same. I'm just the messenger.. so take the message if you please. If not, thank you for reading and have a nice day. Some of us have explained this clearly over on the "Boycott Impact" thread, but this boycott idea WILL NOT work when you consider the way the Nielsen ratings are actually calculated. If that guy who "has a connection" to Jeff and Dixie is really considering this, he's embarking on a monumentally misguided waste of time and energy. If he really wanted to send a message, he should start an online petition for people who HAVE ordered TNA PPV and WON'T order a TNA PPV ever again until certain changes are made. And this online petition would have to be in the thousands, or tens of thousands for Jeff and Dixie to bat an eye, and honestly, they seem so clueless right now that I wouldn't even think they'd care. I'd sign a PPV petition. I won't boycott Impact, because I'm not a Nielsen household, and neither are 99.8% of the people this boycott dude is trying to reach. TNA has no idea whether I watch the show or I don't on a week to week basis. So it wouldn't make any difference, and it only takes 30 minutes a week to blow through the show with my DVR. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 13, 2007 20:27:01 GMT -5
According to news sites, he's in every single booking meeting working alongside Russo, Jarrett, and Mantell.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 13, 2007 22:38:07 GMT -5
With Wig:  Without:  In the bottom pic, look at the number of apathetic faces in the background. Even the guy with the camera looks like he's snapping a pic he doesn't care about. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 9:08:02 GMT -5
Yeah, and I only said Ole seems like a huge turd since nobody in the business seems to ever have a nice thing to say about him. But he did give a young, quirky, 180-pound opener the name "Randy Savage", and basically created The Road Warriors (named the guys/picked the workers/told them to no-sell and pound jobbers), so at one point, the guy had a clue.
Plus, he was pretty scary as the voice of the Black Scorpion and The Shockmaster ;D
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 8:31:12 GMT -5
I had this one on tape for a loooong time. That's the one where Doom unmasks and The Horsemen kick Sting out of the group. Which is when I first realized how much I like Ole Anderson on the mic. Ole seems like a legit turdball in real life, but that segment's great. If any heels were wanting to learn how to cut a realistic, non-screaming jerk promo, they need to watch that segment a couple hundred times, just to imitate the energy of Ole's "Look, Sting. Pay attention. You're a big, strong, tough kid...but you're not gonna be a Horseman anymore. No more Horsemen for the Stinger." Awesome. Before the days of "shoots", guys like Ole made real promos look like "shoots", but with the intention of drawing money and real fan emotion for a match. Plus, from that same segment, my friends and I have turned Flair's "Get out of this business!" to Sting into somewhat of an inside joke for times we don't like someone or something. Lame of us, since that's from the Flair DVD we watched two years ago, but we'll get over it. |
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 10, 2007 7:17:31 GMT -5
The Clash was always cool, since it was a hard sell for the quarterly PPV...after initially starting out as an "FU" to Vince on 1980s WWF PPV days.
If anyone needs evidence as to why wrestling was cooler in the late-80s/early 1990s...look no further than the Clash. Every week, WCW had a two-hour show on TBS on Saturday evening, a one-hour show on Saturday morning, a one-hour TBS show on Sunday, and a national one-hour show in syndication.
YET then, after all of that TV programing...every couple months...WCW would ask you to watch three hours of very cool matchups you wouldn't usually see on TV...in primetime.
Boo to WCW Thunder for choking out the entire "Clash of Champions" concept.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 12, 2007 8:17:26 GMT -5
Wow. Eight people really voted yes?
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 13, 2007 7:42:47 GMT -5
My first choice from a creative standpoint is Heyman, but my first choice as an Executive V.P. type would be Bischoff.
Bischoff's smart, and this time around, he wouldn't have the bankroll to make the exact same types of enormous financial mistakes he made with WCW.
He's already said that TNA can't beat WWE at their own game, and said that the people in charge of TNA didn't have a clue by trying to do so, they have to be different than WWE. By saying that, he must have an idea of what could make TNA great, I'd think his vision probably isn't very far off from something we'd appreciate.
He's already shown a consistent appreciation for in-ring talent through the years, which is why he strengthened the NJPW relationship back in the WCW days, and signed guys like Rey, Psicosis, Ultimo Dragon, Jericho, Malenko, Guerrero, and that other guy. Right now, the only great asset TNA has is some of their talent (Angle, Christian, and the younger guys like Joe, AJ, LAX, MCMG, etc.), and I think he'd want to showcase that. You can't compete with WWE by being older, dorkier, and arguably better in the ring. They need to be younger, cooler, and more exciting, and right now, they aren't even that...and they easily could be.
I'd assume Hogan would get in his ear, but Dixie can't afford Hogan, so I don't think it'd be a problem anyway. Who knows if TNA could even afford Bischoff, but he'd be a good guy to at least consult on current matters. And hell, if they hired him, he'd be a great asset in dealing with TV networks, and getting better licensing deals, because he's got great experience in doing that. Hell, he could probably even sweet talk some big-time investors to back the company and help the Carter family out.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 13, 2007 0:30:16 GMT -5
Putting Paul Heyman in charge of booking and hiring/firing decisions regarding on-air talent, and nothing else.
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Post by "Nature Boy" Ric Moranis on Aug 9, 2007 12:14:36 GMT -5
From 1985-88, Windham was roughly 25X better than Randy Orton is right now at the same age. It stinks that it never worked out for him, and he jumped companies at terrible times (WWF in 1985, WCW in 1989, WWF in 1990...etc., etc.).
The guy could really work (against anybody), but the theory is that he got fat and lazy while dating some rich girl, and apparently lost his passion for the business. Which stinks, since even the Windham/Muta or Windham/Anderson matches from 1990s WCW weren't a fair representation of how good he once was.
He was such a sloppy lower midcarder in WWF/WCW during the Attitude Era that it almost tarnishes his legacy. But Windham was awesome.
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