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Spike TV Cancels TNA Impact Wrestling

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DeathyBoy said:
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best 500th post EVER
 
My GOD! That TNALOL recap may be the funniest and most awful things I've ever read related to wrestling. I'm only up to 2006 right now and it's just this horrible train wreck of bad booking. I have seriously lost count of the number of times a sentence ends with 'the angle was dropped' or 'they never explained why...'

I almost wish I had watched it all just to see it. The really funny thing is that it all sounded like text-book Russo booking even BEFORE he got there.

Fucking SAD. They just killed any young talent that could have taken them somewhere. The old guys were ever older and less of a draw than in WCW....where the hell did they think it was all going to go?
 
BobTheFork said:
My GOD! That TNALOL recap may be the funniest and most awful things I've ever read related to wrestling. I'm only up to 2006 right now and it's just this horrible train wreck of bad booking. I have seriously lost count of the number of times a sentence ends with 'the angle was dropped' or 'they never explained why...'

I almost wish I had watched it all just to see it. The really funny thing is that it all sounded like text-book Russo booking even BEFORE he got there.

Fucking SAD. They just killed any young talent that could have taken them somewhere. The old guys were ever older and less of a draw than in WCW....where the hell did they think it was all going to go?
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Russo was involved from the very start, even though it was unofficial at the start like it was at the end. There was really only a very brief stretch where Russo wasn't involved in any way at all from the first show to today.
 
Kurt angle's TNA theme was so epic :'(

Hope Roode, AA, Magnus and Gail go to WWE, and Kurt for some comedy with Lesnar once the beast thing is dead.
 
Dragonzord said:
TNA also had the best womens match in the United States in about the last 10 years. Probably the best televised one.
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And what did TNA do with their success? With the fact that they kicked the shit out of WWE's diva roster at the time? ...Why, they did nothing to capitalize on it of course!
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Why can't WWE women's matches be this awesome and sweet?
Also, I remember having a crush on Gail Kim when I was younger when she first appeared on tv. She was awesome too!
 
I used to like TNA. There was actually a time when they were consistently putting on a better show than WWE. Everything went to shit once Hogan and Bischoff took over. I miss six sides TNA.
 
I feel like Angle's wwe departure isn't covered well. I followed him until he was The Machine and had the match with Orton in 2006 ECW. I had heard he left WEE due to chronic injury and didn't know about his problems since. Shame, he was actually great in the brief ECW run and I remember his match at ONS.

Also, since I'm know reading TNALOL and got getting work done, here is a choice quote

"Since Black Reign feuds always ended up horrible, Harris' momentum ended up hitting the skids faster than Nick Hogan on a bender." damn!
 
Zee-Row said:
He would be perfect to debut in WWE for that new NOD stable.
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Headline: "Random Black Person Perfect For Black Stable."

BobTheFork said:
I feel like Angle's wwe departure isn't covered well. I followed him until he was The Machine and had the match with Orton in 2006 ECW. I had heard he left WEE due to chronic injury and didn't know about his problems since. Shame, he was actually great in the brief ECW run and I remember his match at ONS.
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It wasn't because of injuries, it was because he was so beat up and fucked up on pain pills he was being shuttled from town to town in a wheelchair and Vince didn't want another dead wrestler on his watch.
 
VKM issued a $1,000,000 challenge to WWE: send stars from the WWE -- specifically, DX -- to compete in an open challenge match. Dixie, thinking Vince will actually respond to this challenge, froze the million dollars.

...wat
 
industrian said:
From their paygrades that forced their mid-tier to get second jobs or foodstamps, to their seemingly suicidal mission of recreating the worst aspects of WCW with big cheques for over-the-hill "legends" and consistently awful in-ring product: TNA has always been godamn fucking awful, but this is an incredible read.

But...



...this would have been the greatest thing to happen in pro wrestling since the death of WCW.
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ha, Dixie is a fucking moron.
 
BobTheFork said:
I feel like Angle's wwe departure isn't covered well. I followed him until he was The Machine and had the match with Orton in 2006 ECW. I had heard he left WEE due to chronic injury and didn't know about his problems since. Shame, he was actually great in the brief ECW run and I remember his match at ONS.

Also, since I'm know reading TNALOL and got getting work done, here is a choice quote

"Since Black Reign feuds always ended up horrible, Harris' momentum ended up hitting the skids faster than Nick Hogan on a bender." damn!
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It's pretty well covered. He had a ton of injuries and was covering them with a pretty severe pain pill addiction. WWE wanted him to take time off and go to rehab. He refused, so they mutually exited from their agreement. It wasn't an expiration, and it wasn't exactly fired. They both agreed to walk away from each other. Kurt says it was because they WOULDN'T give him time off, which is the opposite of what actually happened and he immediately jumped to TNA, didn't take time off, didn't get cleaned up, didn't heal up. Injuries kept mounting, so did the addiction, and his personal life went to shit with multiple DUIs and arrests and his wife leaving him for Jeff Jarrett.

I believe he's been in rehab at least twice, maybe three times since being in TNA.
 
Russo and Spike were cool, but Bischoff and Hogan talked alot of shit about him to the Spike execs trying to get him fired and position themselves better. Hogan and Bischoff are the real reason TNA is screwed now.
 
BoboBrazil said:
Russo and Spike were cool, but Bischoff and Hogan talked alot of shit about him to the Spike execs trying to get him fired and position themselves better. Hogan and Bischoff are the real reason TNA is screwed now.
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The real reason TNA is screwed now is because it has been a terribly run and unprofessional company since day one. Just took a while for it to catch up with them.
 
strobogo said:
The real reason TNA is screwed now is because it has been a terribly run and unprofessional company since day one. Just took a while for it to catch up with them.
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Yeah, this list I'm reading is insane. Midgets jerking off in trashcans from the beginning....wow


TY for the Angle info. Maybe it was covered but I wasn't in the habit of checking inside stories then. When I heard about his injuries, I just took it at face value. When I saw him pop up in TNA I assumed it was a bad falling out with Vince.

Since I'm asking, which Hardy Brother was the total fuckup...both? All this time I was thinking Matt Hardy when to shit and got wasted but I was just reading quite a bit about Jeff no-showing events and sleeping during taping right after he was picked up.


Again, this list is insane and makes it hard to put one reason for TNA dying. Honestly I can't fucking believe they lasted as long as they did with all this shit. It really feels like they booked on a show by show basis and never gave any thought to what just happened or what happens next. That really feels like classic Russo.

What gets me the most is how many times someone got over or got a huge push that THEY BOOKED and then they would bury them a month later. Was it really just the mentality of the older known wrestlers being the money and must always come out ahead? It's like they ran out of guys for legends to squash so they would push a new guy for 2 weeks just so they could be fed to the legends in hopes there would be a tiny pop.

I actually think I could have booked TNA much better and that says tons.
 
With out Double J in charge TNA went off the rails.

Sure when he was in charge it wasnt perfect but at least it seemed like the company had a direction and was growing.
 
BobTheFork said:
Yeah, this list I'm reading is insane. Midgets jerking off in trashcans from the beginning....wow


TY for the Angle info. Maybe it was covered but I wasn't in the habit of checking inside stories then. When I heard about his injuries, I just took it at face value. When I saw him pop up in TNA I assumed it was a bad falling out with Vince.

Since I'm asking, which Hardy Brother was the total fuckup...both? All this time I was thinking Matt Hardy when to shit and got wasted but I was just reading quite a bit about Jeff no-showing events and sleeping during taping right after he was picked up.


Again, this list is insane and makes it hard to put one reason for TNA dying. Honestly I can't fucking believe they lasted as long as they did with all this shit. It really feels like they booked on a show by show basis and never gave any thought to what just happened or what happens next. That really feels like classic Russo.

What gets me the most is how many times someone got over or got a huge push that THEY BOOKED and then they would bury them a month later. Was it really just the mentality of the older known wrestlers being the money and must always come out ahead? It's like they ran out of guys for legends to squash so they would push a new guy for 2 weeks just so they could be fed to the legends in hopes there would be a tiny pop.

I actually think I could have booked TNA much better and that says tons.
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Jeff went off the rails back in 2002-2003, which is why he was released from WWE back then. Then he went to TNA, didn't clean up, no showed and was pretty unprofessional. Then he went to rehab and got cleaned up, and WWE took him back. Right on the verge of getting a title match (and probably win) at WM, he fucked up again and it took him the rest of the year to get back to that spot. He was pretty much the hottest guy they had and decided he was going to not resign with WWE that Summer. And something like 2 weeks later, his house was raided and they found tons of drugs. Enough to get him a distribution charge. So he went back to TNA, stayed fucked up for most of it, with the biggest offense being completely fucked up in a main event on PPV against Sting where Sting had to SHOOT pin him to end the match. Then he went to rehab and came back with this huge ONE MORE CHANCE push where we were supposed to see him as inspirational for getting cleaned up. Again.

Since then he has been kind of a non-factor for TNA.

As for Matt, he was pretty normal until the end of his WWE run when he got fat and then when he was let go, he went full Jeff and was constantly fucked up and causing trouble. Getting fired from TNA for being fucked up, no showing indies, all that. They're allegedly both cleaned up now.
 
funkystudent said:
With out Double J in charge TNA went off the rails.

Sure when he was in charge it wasnt perfect but at least it seemed like the company had a direction and was growing.
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TNA was equally fucked with Jarrett in charge. They did a few things right - Jarrett-Raven's build, the Joe-Angle build-up for the first match and the Lockdown match, and then some stuff in late '09 before the Hogan/Bischoff changeover. Since then, they've been trying to recover from bleeding tons of money due to all the big-money deals they signed at one time and it's been a hell of a transitional period. With MVP as a lead talker, things have gotten quite a bit better and the past few months felt like a format, minus all the Dixie stuff, that could work fairly well. I wouldn't be shocked to see TNA back on Spike - just at a lower rate than Spike is currently paying.
 
strobogo said:
It's pretty well covered. He had a ton of injuries and was covering them with a pretty severe pain pill addiction. WWE wanted him to take time off and go to rehab. He refused, so they mutually exited from their agreement. It wasn't an expiration, and it wasn't exactly fired. They both agreed to walk away from each other. Kurt says it was because they WOULDN'T give him time off, which is the opposite of what actually happened and he immediately jumped to TNA, didn't take time off, didn't get cleaned up, didn't heal up. Injuries kept mounting, so did the addiction, and his personal life went to shit with multiple DUIs and arrests and his wife leaving him for Jeff Jarrett.

I believe he's been in rehab at least twice, maybe three times since being in TNA.
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Let's not forget that it's WWE funded rehab he's been in. That's right - WWE pays for the rehab of TNA's most consistent star of the last 8 years
 
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