TNA/Impact Wrestling

[darthjoker]

so...the guy at the bottom...he is just a victim? nothing to do wit that pic?

[Tank]

i just wanted to give myself i big ol barry horowitz style pat on the back for recognizing magnus potential when he was still doing the gladiator gimmick and everybody bashed him & TNA for hiring him when they should've been pushing the x-division and homegrown talent.

I thought he had tallent, but he looked goofy as a gladiator. Joining the British invasion helped a lot.

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I hate to keep mentioning this, but that crowd sucked fucking balls, and it wasn't even in the impact zone.
I don't think TNA fans give a shit about their own product, or they weren't fans and they gave tickets away to randoms.
But i read the building held 9000 people and they only had 2000 there, so i would imagine they were all fans, because if you are going to give out free tickets, the number would have been higher.
But F that crowd.

At first I thought the crowd was being quiet like the japan crowds, But after a wile I relised they just sucked.

TNA has a core like WWE. The WWE's core business for watching is 5 million people a week (3.0-3.3 ratings mostly) and they have taken some hits on PPV. TNA's core is 1.5 million (1.0-1.2 most weeks ratings wise). Its unlikely TNA will ever match a WWE's buyrate. The company will likely have to handle doing 7,000-10,000 for the lesser PPV's each month and the 20,000+ for their 2 big Event PPV's ...Lockdown and BFG.

They can exist as they recently signed an extension with Spike (its hinted Spike may gave them more TV with this new deal) and my thoughts is this. Rerun Impact. I think what helped some buyrates in 2011 was the fact TNA was airing twice a week. It gave viewers more chances to catch . In fact once combined TNA was drawing 2+ million viewers a week . One show would do over a 1.0 . The Monday night show would do a 0.6-0.9 some weeks.

With Tuesday clear , I'd schedule Impact as a repeat for Sunday night (Except on PPV nights and air it on Monday) and just air it twice a week. It would fill a spot for Spike and also help expose TNA to more people likely. Its what the company needs.

After the UFC left, Spike doesn't have much else going on. Impact is something that is relativity consistent in the ratings. A second show wouldn't surprise me. I mean if you only watched impact you wouldn't have known that Devon won the tv title a month ago. IIRC this past week was the first time he was on impact with the belt.

Im assuming the whole thing was shit and we have no idea why he isn't with WWE.
I was going to say when he came out at Lockdown no one knew who he was, but the crowd didn't react to 90% of the show anyway so that might not have been it.

Maybe Kaz just wanted a haircut, and short hair is easier to take care of. As for leaveing wwe, he could have simply just not liked it there.

Q. Both TNA and ROH are celebrating ten years this year, but how far behind is ROH from TNA?

A couple of thousand dollars behind, there is no money in Ring of Honor, and that means they will only be able to secure talent for a certain amount of time before they move somewhere else.

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Say what you will about tna, they can at least turn on the lights during their show.

[Tank]

I like how guys like Ken Anderson, Jeff Hardy and now RVD are all gunning for an opportunity to take on Roode and Roode still remains defiant. Roode is becoming my favorite TNA wrestler (with Austin Aries coming in at a close second).

Didnt Roode already beat Anderson and Hardy? What have they done to get a title shot. And every time rvd says he didnt loose the belt, I have to bring up that Sting gave RVD his rematch a year ago, and he lost.
Being the big orange monkeys buddy, doesn't mean you should get a shot every time you bring it up.

I also like the decision when it came to the TV Title. I also remember when the TV Title used to mean something and it get defended each week so I like that TNA brought that concept back, just hope that they stick with that concept. I'm actually liking D-Von as the champ, his promo tonight brought some importance to the belt. A better champ than Eric Young I know that

I thought they should have had a tv title match weekly or biweekly. Same with the X division. But seeing that Aries is apparently the only x division wrestler on tv it doesn't matter.

while we're sharing stories...
we were at an indy show at like a hotel ballroom. DDP was there and Al Snow

funny thing is is when my buddy came back from the bathroom he's like," you know who was in there too?"

"who?" I asked

he said: "Snow, had to piss before his match, and he brought Head in with him"

that's still funny to me. Head...

Head likes to watch.

Thank you very much for that glorious mental image

You cannot unsee it!

so...the guy at the bottom...he is just a victim? nothing to do wit that pic?

It looks like homicide.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

Didnt Roode already beat Anderson and Hardy? What have they done to get a title shot. And every time rvd says he didnt loose the belt, I have to bring up that Sting gave RVD his rematch a year ago, and he lost.
Being the big orange monkeys buddy, doesn't mean you should get a shot every time you bring it up.

roode hasn't beat mr butthole yet, hogan "reversed" the decision because bobby hit him in the head with the bottle.

[Tank]

Roode still won.
Remember, the refs decision is final.

Anderson needs a new catchphrase, every time he starts with the asshole rants. He sounds like a kid that just learned about swearing.

[Legato]

Roode still won.
Remember, the refs decision is final.

Anderson needs a new catchphrase, every time he starts with the asshole rants. He sounds like a kid that just learned about swearing.

The guy could use a new gimmick. It's about as stale as Cena's face run

[Alex]

The guy could use a new gimmick. It's about as stale as Cena's face run

Nah, it's only been like a year or 2.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

didn't care for impact tonight at all. OFN is too complicated a concept for their booking team, KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID. i see it going the way of the of top 10 rankings. too much hogan jibba jabba and horrible bitchoff main event, and since when in the hell are hardy/butthole a team anyways??

[The Great Grape]

What parts of the show I watched were crap. No wonder ratings are tanking and their (reported) PPV buyrate was poor even by TNA's modest standards.

The product is almost totally unexciting these days and many things better change longterm for both popularity and product interest sakes.

[Alex]

didn't care for impact tonight at all. OFN is too complicated a concept for their booking team, KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID. i see it going the way of the of top 10 rankings. too much hogan jibba jabba and horrible bitchoff main event, and since when in the hell are hardy/butthole a team anyways??

Both of them are faces....i think that's all it takes.
Oh and Grape, the buyrate was down from last year, but it wasn't bad by TNA standards, early reports re 15-17000 buys. I know that down isn't good, but it's not like it did 8000 like one of their b shows or something.

[The Great Grape]

Certainly, but isn't Lockdown in effect supposed to be TNA's Summerslam or something? (Yes, I'm laughing at even teasing the comparison too. Though I'm only referring to status within.)

[Alex]

Certainly, but isn't Lockdown in effect supposed to be TNA's Summerslam or something? (Yes, I'm laughing at even teasing the comparison too. Though I'm only referring to status within.)

Yeah, it's their second ppv, but it did over twice what a b ppv does.
....i've been shitting on TNA for a long time, im not saying they are doing great things, just saying the big show still did a big number, for them.
A smaller number, but still much bigger than random shitty ppv.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

What parts of the show I watched were crap. No wonder ratings are tanking and their (reported) PPV buyrate was poor even by TNA's modest standards.

The product is almost totally unexciting these days and many things better change longterm for both popularity and product interest sakes.

i wouldn't go that far. they're just in one of their shitty periods. leading into lockdown they had strung together about a months worth of good tv, and the ppv was good i thought. i think it's like that because they tape multiple episodes at a time. 1 shitty taping=a months worth of shitty tv

[Alex]

i wouldn't go that far. they're just in one of their shitty periods. leading into lockdown they had strung together about a months worth of good tv, and the ppv was good i thought. i think it's like that because they tape multiple episodes at a time. 1 shitty taping=a months worth of shitty tv

I don't think at this point the quality of the product TNA produces will have anything to do with the size of the audience.
They'd need to be really good for like 6 months.

[lboinyamouf4sho]

Both of them are faces....i think that's all it takes.Oh and Grape, the buyrate was down from last year, but it wasn't bad by TNA standards, early reports re 15-17000 buys. I know that down isn't good, but it's not like it did 8000 like one of their b shows or something.

yeah but hogan was saying shit about how they haven't been able to work as a cohesive team and yakety yak as if they were a regular team or something. he said a lot of stupid shit though. and as xpected OFN ended up being just a bunch of randomness that seemed made up as they went along