Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Sat May 19, 2012 3:07 pm  

I thought Brooke Hogan denied being signed by TNA?

RAW moving to three hours is interesting - could it signal the beginning of the end for Smackdown! and the era of supershows? And dare I say one champion!

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Sat May 19, 2012 4:07 pm  

94#Dennis_the_menace_Maxw wrote:

TNA sign Brooke Hogan who will help wrestlers to develop their characters, help with backstage promos and act as a musical consultant.

Jim Cornette made referrence to nepotism in a shoot interview about how it destroys the wrestling business and boy would he be right here. What an utter joke. I never thought I should say this about someone I respected and almost idolised as a child, but Hulk Hogan needs to just f**k off from the wrestling business - you're not a big draw anymore and you don't know how to run a company, so TNA really doesn't need you IMO. Ric Flair I would still keep though just for comedy value and blood.
Oh and the 'sick' smilie wasn't a reference to Brooke Hogan personally (as obviously she is physically pretty lovely ), but I'm sickened at the thought of her telling talented wrestlers with potential how to develop their characters. Let the wrestlers do that themselves with input and unscripted promos I say.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Sat May 19, 2012 4:10 pm  

richardviking wrote:

I thought Brooke Hogan denied being signed by TNA?

RAW moving to three hours is interesting - could it signal the beginning of the end for Smackdown! and the era of supershows? And dare I say one champion!

And the end of the Cena bling belt?!

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Sat May 19, 2012 4:12 pm  

lister wrote:

From May 31st Impact Wrestling is starting 1 hour earlier and is going live.

The shows seem to have improved since Russo went, and switching to live instead of taping 2/3 shows over a couple of days takes out spoilers, plus there will be more energy in the shows as that is the nature of live TV. Now they just need to get out of the Impact Zone more often.

Have you got tickets for the next tour mate? Doing Manchester again myself, had nothing but an enjoyable and fun time at each of the 4 TNA live events I've seen there, so although I admittedly often forget to tune in to Challenge it was still a no-brainer when tickets went on sale.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Sat May 19, 2012 8:55 pm  

Roofs wrote:

Have you got tickets for the next tour mate? Doing Manchester again myself, had nothing but an enjoyable and fun time at each of the 4 TNA live events I've seen there, so although I admittedly often forget to tune in to Challenge it was still a no-brainer when tickets went on sale.

Yeah I'm going Manchester in the same row (lower tier row G) again, received my ticket already.

The viewing figures on Challenge are going well, across the Sunday 9pm and Tuesday 10pm showings well over 300,000 are watching on average.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Sat May 19, 2012 11:00 pm  

Roofs wrote:

:shock:

Jim Cornette made referrence to nepotism in a shoot interview about how it destroys the wrestling business and boy would he be right here. What an utter joke. I never thought I should say this about someone I respected and almost idolised as a child, but Hulk Hogan needs to just f**k off from the wrestling business - you're not a big draw anymore and you don't know how to run a company, so TNA really doesn't need you IMO. Ric Flair I would still keep though just for comedy value and blood.
Oh and the 'sick' smilie wasn't a reference to Brooke Hogan personally (as obviously she is physically pretty lovely ), but I'm sickened at the thought of her telling talented wrestlers with potential how to develop their characters. Let the wrestlers do that themselves with input and unscripted promos I say.

If I was paying the cheques at TNA I would pay Paul Hayman what ever he wanted and say 'There you go Paul do whatever you fancy'.
I will guarantee you 3 things would happen.
1 the TNA product and storylines would improve 1000000%
2 the Viewing figures for TNA would in the long term go through the roof
3 Vince Macmahon would stop thinking the competition is a joke.

Hayman maybe an annoying little dwarf but by god does he know pro wrestling.
I mean in 9 years it went from zip to having a decent TV deal which was simply dumped due to WWE politics by all accounts otherwise heaven knows how big it would be now.
Heyman states that the only reason ECW went under was due to it no being able to get a new deal when TNN dumped them for RAW and there are decent suggestions that WWE politics was the reason another TV deal wasn't found.

TNA with Panda Energy behind it is a totally different animal.
He wont be able to push them around quite so easily so like I said give Hayman whatever he wants and watch the feathers fly.

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Mon May 21, 2012 2:50 am  

was all a very predictable night at OTL.
punk - bryan the one highlight

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Mon May 21, 2012 2:52 am  

The tag match was very good, proved Kofi & Ziggler deserve a shot at a main event IMO. Enjoyed Christian vs Cody and the WWE Title match.

Loved Johnny saying "5 time" on commentary though.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Mon May 21, 2012 6:22 am  

Was that last night poop

Re: Men in Lycra - the Wrestling thread : Mon May 21, 2012 11:59 am  

Woo hoo, now we've got yet ANOHER Cena feud to look forward to for another 4 weeks with no doubt the culmination being yet ANOTHER main event PPV match, this time at No Way Out. Booooooooooooring!!