Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 397: Make TNA Great Again

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Hopefully this means Jeff Jarrett gets the title a dozen more times!
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I haven't really watched TNA in a while, but I do know Broken Hardy's were very hot. It was a good gimmick.

Has that died down? Why would they get rid of them?

Also have all the lower card WWE guys made an "IMPACT"? Aron Rex is a horrible name, so did he get over? Cody Rhodes? Tyrus? Like I am just curious if they are carrying the brand or if its the same ol' thing.
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Make Impact Wrestling* Great Again

Get it right.

Jukkie posted...

I haven't really watched TNA in a while, but I do know Broken Hardy's were very hot. It was a good gimmick.

Has that died down? Why would they get rid of them?

Also have all the lower card WWE guys made an "IMPACT"? Aron Rex is a horrible name, so did he get over? Cody Rhodes? Tyrus? Like I am just curious if they are carrying the brand or if its the same ol' thing.

The Hardys were bringing in literally 0 revenue. Weren't moving ratings, they sell all their shirts on ProWrestlingTees, the company doesn't tour so they're not pushing ticket sales, etc.
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Aron Rex was such a flop that he got totally repackaged after 3 months

Tyrus is just "generic big guy for hire"

Cody is in and out because he works so many other places
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So Rex is like a gay diva type? I mean, what....is that for real?
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tbf, Swagger vs Lashley could be pretty lit.
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Jukkie posted...

So Rex is like a gay diva type? I mean, what....is that for real?

Yes, he's basically Gorgeous George

It was his idea too
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Can someone expand on what happened to Honma?

That's pretty scary if he's really paralyzed.
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Jukkie posted...

So Rex is like a gay diva type? I mean, what....is that for real?

It's honestly an upgrade over his generic nothing character he started with....
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Can someone expand on what happened to Honma?

That's pretty scary if he's really paralyzed.

Got DDTd wrong I believe
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Jakyl25 posted...

scarletspeed7 posted...

Can someone expand on what happened to Honma?

That's pretty scary if he's really paralyzed.

Got DDTd wrong I believe

Correct, rope-hung DDT from Jado.

He was completely immobilized, taken out on a stretcher. Haven't heard anything beyond that.
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By Jado of all people to have a career ending injury with f***ing Jado.

Considering all of the crazy workers honma has worked with
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Geez. Hopefully he recovers. What happens to Makabe without him?
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They were probably going to lose the tag belts to War Machine pretty soon anyway. I reckon Makabe will just hang around the NEVER division for a while now.
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http://botchedspot.com/blog/comic/sister-abigail/
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Speaking of Sister Abigail, if they ever want to debut her, this is who to cast:

http://i.imgur.com/qcdmOl9.jpg
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Speaking of Sister Abigail, if they ever want to debut her, this is who to cast:

I would have suggested Daffney, but she's pretty good too! Who is that?
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RaidenZeroX posted...

scarletspeed7 posted...

Speaking of Sister Abigail, if they ever want to debut her, this is who to cast:

I would have suggested Daffney, but she's pretty good too! Who is that?

Rosemary in TNA; look up her promos or even just her ring entrance.

Daffney's career is super-over thanks to age and injury, but she would have been a good choice.
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I'm not really sold on Rosemary. I think it's all character based. Not convinced the actual performer is bringing a lot to the table.
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She had a cage match with Cherry the same weeke d as the hell in a cell between sasha and charlotte and hers was better
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Okay but the cage match with Sasha and Charlotte seems to be placed on a pedestal when it had weird timing issues, a terrible start and a nonsensical finish.

Which would make sense for the children of Eddie Guerrero and Ric Flair given what WCW made them do over the years.

So it's a tribute I guess!
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Eddv posted...

She had a cage match with Cherry the same weeke d as the hell in a cell between sasha and charlotte and hers was better

Well, that's actually really nice to hear that Sasha Banks inspired them to start wrestling and have such a good match!
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I'm now imagining a "Allie joins Decay" angle.... and I'm liking it
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I feel like WWE should incorporate real actors. It works with Cueto.

Which got me thinking that they kind of did the reverse thing here with Eva Marie. They kind of have a home grown actress that they can cite as a diva, instead of an actress hats come to wrestle. its very backwards of what they could be doing with WWE films
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But WWE doesn't want managers. Except for I guess Lana.
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Just bought the family tickets to SmackDown Live on the 14th here in Pittsburgh
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S***. I need to talk to my buddies about going to that show too! We totally forgot.
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On this day of TNA tapings...

After beating Bobby Lashley for the World Title, Alberto el Patron vacated it.

Since we're bringing TNA back to how it used to be, does that mean we can go back to TNA TNA TNA chants?
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So ticketmaster has a deal, at least for where we were sitting, that was call the 3 + me deal. Where tickets that were normally 30 bucks were on sale at 22.50. So if you only need three you might as well buy a 4th because it will be cheaper that way. I needed 7 so we bought 8 because the 8th one was basically only a dollar after all of their fees.
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Thanks for the heads up eaed. I'll be seeing my wrestling buddies this weekend, so since we have 4 people who usually go, this should be perfect!
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On a cool note, Mario Bokara and Fallah Bahh apparently debuted on TNA. Indy guys from here, they're both really good. Bahh is pretty much Yokozuna before he got cripplingly heavy, Bokara is a Croatian wrestling machine
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just what wrestling needs, more fat guys and eastern europeans who will be shoehorned into terrible gimmicks forever
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So? Bahh's an awesome fat guy. Bokara doesn't really have a gimmick besides "Wears a Croatian flag to the ring and suplexes the s*** out of you" >_>
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yugee
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

On this day of TNA tapings...

After beating Bobby Lashley for the World Title, Alberto el Patron vacated it.

Since we're bringing TNA back to how it used to be, does that mean we can go back to TNA TNA TNA chants?

And then won a #1 contenders match

I'll wait until we see it on TV but this regime certainly feels worse than the one they had
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If they really hired Pritchard in part because his podcast fanbase thinks he has credibility due to his criticisms of TNA and ideas to improve it, I think he's about to take quite a credibility hit
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Apparently Josh Matthews told the crowd that all of the fans who can't afford NXT to shut up.

...I keep hearing that Josh Matthews is the worst announcer, and I think this alone convinces me.
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They think he's an effective heel that way

But when the only endgame is a match with Borash I don't think that matters
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people aren't really hating Josh for being a heel though, they're hating him for being bad at announcing and that every story about him seems to indicate that he's an a******.
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Jakyl25 posted...

They think he's an effective heel that way

But when the only endgame is a match with Borash I don't think that matters

are announcer heel turns EVER actually entertaining?

I mean besides Don West, but that was clearly an accident!
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SmartMuffin posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

They think he's an effective heel that way

But when the only endgame is a match with Borash I don't think that matters

are announcer heel turns EVER actually entertaining?

I mean besides Don West, but that was clearly an accident!

Corey Graves
JBL (at one time)
Jerry Lawler

Just to name some recent ones.
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The Brain
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Heel turns. Those guys are career heel announcers. (or rather, were when they were heel announcers anyway)

Face announcer turning heel seems like a bad idea in general.
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Lopen posted...

Heel turns. Those guys are career heel announcers. (or rather, were when they were heel announcers anyway)

Face announcer turning heel seems like a bad idea in general.

This.
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Coach's turn was good though
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Was Josh a face announcer in TNA at first or something then?
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face, neutral, whatever

the point is that the storyline basically becomes "I have suddenly decided to start being really annoying on purpose oh and also this will affect every segment on the entire show"
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XIII_rocks posted...

Coach's turn was good though

The other was Vince but BOTH led long term to them moving to a non announcer role
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For the most part announcer alignments are pretty well defined just by how things work. You want a face as the play by play straight man and a heel as color because if your play by play is a heel, you wind up with Heel Michael Cole diverting all of the show's attention to himself while simultaneously s***ting on everything
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I overlooked the word turn
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