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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #255 on: February 07, 2010, 12:17:27 am »
Either Eric Young is going to feud with Bischoff or they are just torturing the guy, "Another name I'll forgot by the morning".  And storyline wise, he is still champion.

That was probably the worst Main Event ever, I mean really, to advertise a No DQ match with a **** legend like Foley then to have that 2 minute match, with such a poor ending, he hesitated because of the picture of him and Abyss, come on.  Saying that I did like the post fight attack, did leave you with a, why did they do that feeling?  What will they do next? (Well tune in next week to find out).

I'd say the high point of the show was the post fight antics of Dinero, Joe, Styles and Flair, all of them were great and had some awesome intensity, especially Flair, loved the fire in his eyes, and even though giving Dinero a fluke win like that wasn't probably the massive rub it could have been, seeing him involved with those 3 top names made it look like he was one of them.  Pope is Pimpin'

I know they have a big roster, and are short on time, but its a damn shame when there is no room for Beer Money, Desmond Wolfe, oh, and the ENTIRE X-Division.

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #256 on: February 07, 2010, 12:23:57 am »
yeah but ratings are 1.4 instead of 1.0 so the are doing what they feel is best


the Samoa Joe/AJ Pope/Flair thing was Gold!!!!!! It seemed real and like a shoot. Felt real and exciting

like the angle/Hogan thing... is it a swerve? did they beat Nash down as a swerve?

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #257 on: February 07, 2010, 12:43:30 pm »
The treatment of Young is odd, that he lost his title too means Bischoff's contempt ain't scripted...

Personally I don't like Young and think it's time for him to go

anyway, it's been a month and the global title has yet to be seen...or World Elite really

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #258 on: February 07, 2010, 04:36:34 pm »
I think World Elite not being on Impact is a great thing

remember, Hogan and co. are seeing what draws and what doesn't.. so for the next couple months, things may be frustrating, but they are still in the try out process. The next couple months will still be the audition process and they will then get more consistent with who is on TV and who isn't

Abyss'  Eugene retard gimmicks needs to go **** quick. I am embarrassed for the guy everytime i see him on tv.
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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #259 on: February 07, 2010, 05:02:23 pm »
Abyss'  Eugene retard gimmicks needs to go **** quick. I am embarrassed for the guy everytime i see him on tv.
All you need is an occult like character in the James Mitchell, Fallen Angel or Undertaker sense, to kidnap him, brainwash him, and turn him back to a mute psycho, you know, the one he used to be, where everyone said he was a Kane rip off but better because they hadn't taken his mask off, let him talk and he also happens to be a better wrestler.

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #260 on: February 08, 2010, 12:56:54 am »
As reported earlier, Thursday’s episode of iMPACT! drew a final 1.2 cable rating with 1.6 million viewers — a drop from the previous week’s record high 1.4 rating. The Wrestling Observer is reporting that there was a lot of unhappiness within the company when Thursday’s rating was released.

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #261 on: February 08, 2010, 10:43:14 pm »
It has to be said TNA today isn't fundamentally different from TNA 6 months ago - and the ratings reflect that
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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #262 on: February 13, 2010, 01:52:19 pm »
- Hulk Hogan and Dixie Carter will be holding a press conference this coming Monday at the iMPACT Zone in Orlando to make a “major announcement.” The belief is that they will be announcing iMPACT going to Monday nights but that’s not confirmed.

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #263 on: February 14, 2010, 02:16:40 pm »
Should be good for all concerned, WWE wont let RAW get any worse and it makes TNA looklike a major wrestling force
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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #264 on: February 15, 2010, 06:49:19 pm »
TNA's Dixie Carter and Hulk Hogan will today announce the company's flagship show Impact is going head-to-head with WWE Raw in the United States.

According to film and TV trade magazine Variety, the two shows will be up against each other for two hours, from 9pm to 11pm Stateside, every Monday night.

The move has been expected ever since Carter brought Hogan and Eric Bischoff into the company and enjoyed a ratings and critical success with Hulk's Impact debut — which went live against Raw on Monday January 4.

TNA are hoping to both challenge the WWE and also create a renewed interest in wrestling as a whole.

Viewing figures peaked during the original WCW v WWE Monday Night Wars of the late 1990s and never recovered after WCW folded.

The full details of Impact's move to Mondays will be announced by Carter and Hogan at a press conference later today.

TNA presdient Carter said: "We've always wanted to go on Monday nights, that's where the wrestling viewing audience is accustomed to being.

"Having two Monday night wrestling shows with healthy competition between them can make for great TV.

"Our goal is not to beat Raw immediately, but we feel confident this will accelerate our growth and make it fun for wrestling fans".

Bischoff, who ran WCW for most of the original Monday Night Wars, described the move as "a little bit of history repeating itself".

He added: "This is a great opportunity for TNA to step up, get noticed and showcase their product.

"I've said since the moment I started talking to Dixie, in my opinion we should go head-to-head with Monday Night Raw.

"To me, it's a battlefield and to win the battle, you have to be on the battlefield."

In response, WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman said Vince McMahon's group aren't worried.

He told Variety: "It's somewhat of a different audience. On Monday nights we're one of the top cable shows.

"We're focusing on our new show for Syfy, NXT and Wrestlemania XXIV. We're not too concerned as we're in good shape."

TNA Impact is shown every Saturday night on Bravo in the UK.


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/2854006/TNA-wages-war-on-WWE-by-pitting-Imact-against-Raw.html#ixzz0fdF02lY1

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #265 on: February 16, 2010, 04:41:28 pm »
First impact ever that I used the fast forward button

those endless interviews and the worst knockout match I've ever seen in TNA
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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #266 on: February 16, 2010, 09:08:52 pm »
* Rhino defeated Jay Lethal with a Gore in a match taped for Xplosion

Taped for 2/18:

* They do the opening for the show and D’Angelo Dinero comes out. He says that there is a party going on the Impact Zone. The crowd chants “Pope is pimpin’”. Pope says that he overcame the odds and is the number one contender. He says he only has two people standing in his way from achieving more greatness. He says that A.J. will never be as good as the Pope and at Lockdown, he will be the next TNA World Heavyweight Champion. Ric Flair’s music plays Flair and A.J. come to the ring accompanied by four ladies. Flair asks if Pope can read and write because Pope called him ‘dick flair’. He says he was bling before there was bling and ‘unless you’re tiger woods or Michael Jordan, you don’t tell me nothing’. Flair puts over A.J. as the best athlete alive.

* Pope gets the mic ‘our name may be Ric, but in Pope’s eyes, you’re a dick.’ He says that Flair can dress up a piece of crap as nice as he wants but at the end of the day it is still a piece of crap. Flair calls Pope a street thug. Pope and flair threw a few insults at each other. A.J. gets on the mic and mentions that he has yet to see Pope with a woman. He throws a couple more insults at Dinero before Dinero hits Styles and Flair. Eventually Flair and Styles get the upper hand and lay out Dinero. Flair grabs a chair and wraps it around Pope’s ankle before stomping on it. A.J. puts the figure four on Dinero until the security team comes out to chase off Styles and Flair.

* Tara defeats Daffney by disqualification in a Non Title Match. Daffney got disqualfied after hitting Tara with a tool box. Daffney continued to attack Tara and put a guardrail on top of Tara and hit the guardrail repeatedly with a chair. This continued until Stevie Richards took Daffney to the back.

* Orlando Jordan defeats Samoa Joe with a lungblower. Joe had Jordan in the rear naked choke, but Jordan was able to counter it into the lungblower.

* A video package was shown of Eric Bischoff telling Abyss that he is going to be unmasked tonight.

* Kaz, Amazing Red, and Generation Me defeated Doug Williams, the Motor City Machine Guns, and Brian Kendrick when Kaz pinned Williams.

* It is announced that Abyss will be wrestling Jeff Jarrett with the stipulation if Jarrett does not use the barbed wire baseball bat, Jarrett will be gone from TNA.

* Abyss versus Jeff Jarrett goes to a No Contest. During the match, Eric Bischoff comes out to watch the match. Jarrett almost uses the barbed wire bat, but he refused. Bischoff gets on the mic and says that he knew he could not trust Jarrett. Bischoff calls out ‘his guys’ (Rhino, Raven, Tomko, Homicide, and Desmond Wolfe). They attack Abyss and Jarrett. Bischoff’s men hold Abyss and Hogan comes out but instead of unmasking Abyss, he tells Abyss to go to his office.

* Beer Money defeats Rob Terry and Brutus Magnus with the DWI on Magnus. After the match, Brutus calls out Terry for always messing up and then he slaps Magnus. Magnus tells Terry that he should be the Global Champion. Rob gives the belt to Magnus and then attacks Magnus and gives Magnus a clothesline. Terry poses with the belt.

* On the screen, they show Abyss in Hogan’s office. Hogan tells Bischoff to get out of the office. Hogan calls Abyss a monster and then he shows Abyss his Hall of Fame ring and calls the ring ‘his life’. Hogan puts the ring in Abyss’ hand and says that Abyss will be a God. Abyss screams with joy at what Hogan just told him.

* Kurt Angle beat Daniels via ankle lock. After the match, Kurt gets on the mic and he says that he can admit that he lost, but the fact that Anderson used the tags was a sign of disrespect. Angle says that he had an appearance a while back at an army base in Texas. One soldier came up to him and told Angle that he believed in him. Angle reads the inscription off of the back of one of the tags. When Anderson cut him on Sunday, he didn’t make Angle bleed, he made those soldiers bleed. When Anderson spat on the tags, he spat on those soldiers. For that, he will make Anderson suffer. ‘I will make you bleed until there’s nothing left. Ken Anderson, I will see you in hell.’

* Anderson comes out to the ramp and he welcomes Kurt to hell. He sarcstically says that he is very touched and moved. He is amazed at Angle’s abilities to suck up to the people. He just thinks that Kurt just wants a pat on the back. He sees the tags as nothing more than a utensil to carve Angle up. Anderson calls Kurt up the ramp and the two fight at the top. Anderson kicks Angle low and hits Angle with the mic and welcomes him to Total Nonstop Anderson.

* Eric Young and Kevin Nash come to the ring and Nash says that when he is in the back, he is used to being called ‘brother’. He says that years ago, Rick Rude told him about two things in this business and that was money and miles. He says that you can choose your friends and then he called out Hall and Waltman.

* Hall and Waltman come to the ring through the crowd. Young goes after Waltman and he takes care of Waltman. Hall stared at Nash from the apron before getting in the ring. Hall and Nash brawled until security comes out to stop them.

* Hogan comes out to the stage and he stares at Hall and Waltman.

* Xplosion Match: TNA Knockout Tag Team Champions Awesome Kong and Hamada defeated Velvet Sky and Madison Rayne (with Lacey Von Erich) when Kong pinned Velvet after hitting the Implant Buster.

Taped for 2/25:

* A.J. Styles and Ric Flair come out. Styles jokes about Pope being ‘champion of the people’ and he says that Pope will not be beating him. Styles says to be the man, you have to beat the man and because he is the champion, he is the man. Flair takes the mic and calls out Hogan for giving his Hall of Fame ring to Abyss and he bashes Hogan and calls out Abyss. Abyss comes out to Hogan’s American Made. Flair asks Abyss why he came out to that music and says that Abyss makes all wrestlers look bad. ‘You may have some superhuman strength, but you’re not a Hall of Fame wrestler.’ Flair says the only thing Abyss is good for is shining the champs boots and calls Abyss a clown.

* Abyss gets on the mic and says Flair is right. ‘I couldn’t shine your shoes because I am not a shoe-shine boy’. Abyss says that he would be more than happy to remove A.J.’s boots and stick them up flair’s ass.

* A.J. takes the mic and asks if Abyss thinks that the people came to see him and calls Abyss a disgrace. He asks Abyss to take the ring off and Flair demands that it be put on A.J.’s hand.

* Hogan comes out. Hogan gets in the ring and asks A.J. what he knows about having a good name because associating himself with Flair gives him a bad name. Flair and Hogan exchange words. Flair asks for a fight right now, but as Abyss and Hogan are ready, Flair and Styles go around the ring. Flair claims that before the night is through, the ring will be on A.J.’s finger.

* Team 3D beat the Nasty Boys in a tables match. Jimmy Hart was going to hit Devon with the motorcycle helmet but Jesse Neal came out, took the helmet from Hart, and tossed it to Devon who used it on Sags. Team 3D then hit a 3D on Sags through the table for the win.

* After the match, Beer Money came out and they talk about it was almost two years ago that they formed. They made a promise to each other about being the best and they run down their accomplishments. They mention how the new management seems to have put them on the sidelines. Hernandez came out and gave Beer Money a TNA World Tag Title Match in the future.

* Kaz defeated Brian Kendrick via flux capacitor.

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #267 on: February 16, 2010, 09:10:05 pm »
source: www.prowrestling.net

TNA newcomer Orlando Jordan kissed a man prior to his match with Samoa Joe at last night’s iMPACT! taping in Orlando. The former WWE United States Champion was escorted to the ring by a man and a woman. He had his arms around both of them and kissed each prior to his match.

This reportedly didn’t go over well with everyone backstage in TNA as some felt the company “crossed the line” as it were. One TNA performer offered the opinion that the angle will turn off viewers from Spike considering it’s specifically geared towards men.

It’s worth noting that before Jordan’s release from World Wrestling Entertainment in May 2006, there were creative plans for him to be repackaged with a bisexual gimmick in a storyline involving former TNA performer Stephanie Finochio (a/k/a Trinity) and a friend of his with no prior background in the wrestling industry. While bisexuality is considered taboo in some wrestling circles, it was passed for Jordan since it’s his lifestyle in the real world. It should be noted that the storyline was Jordan’s idea because creative had no plans for him at the time.

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #268 on: February 21, 2010, 04:34:29 pm »
Wasn't keen on the Abyss crap, that segment with Hogan was awful!

The 4 vs 4 match was a fantastic showcase of the X-DivisionJoe's demise has at least got me interested, the dude was kidnapped and all the commentators cared about was who did it, not shall will call 911  ;D

I like the look of Bischoff's new stable, well aside from Raven, big fan of his work as I am, firstly he doesn't fit with the others and secondly he looks beyond rough these days.

Clearly Bischoff has fond memories of Daffney from his time in WCW as it seems Zombie Hot is getting a push, great stuff, she plays the hot psycho role perfectly!

D'Angelo Dinero I feel has really gone to the next level, his back and forth stuff with Flair at the start was really enjoyable.

Rob Terry has now been acknowledged as the Champ and is going babyface then, should be interesting, he still needs to learn how to wrestle though  :P

The final segment was decent too, I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm starting to like Eric Young.  As goofy face I hated him, at the other extreme as far right heel leader he had just gone from one extreme to the other, but in his current role, with Nash, I think he's found his niche, and was it me or did Scott Hall look noticeably slimmer round the face, like he's actually motivated to get in shape now.

Overall really liked the show, Abyss, Jarrett stuff aside.

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Re: TNA Impact Thread
« Reply #269 on: February 23, 2010, 09:43:38 pm »
Well, they are going to Mondays permenantly - should kick start a weak wrestling scene
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