Re: The Wrestling Thread : Wed Dec 09, 2009 3:23 pm  

Marcus Jones wrote:

Flair is minted isnt he? I think in his case at least its more to do with the fact he loves the industry and just cant let go

Flair has a number of ex-wives to pay. He has to keep wrestling just to keep up with his alimony payments.

Re: : Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:08 pm  

lister wrote:

If you mean the band with the female lead singer then they are called Otep, their song "Smash the Control Machine" is the theme song of Final Resolution.

Or the iMPACT! theme is "Cross the Line" by AD/AM.

Just ordered the Otep album with that track on, thanks again mate.

Re: Re: : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:26 pm  

Roofs wrote:

Just ordered the Otep album with that track on, thanks again mate.

No problem, glad I could help.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:52 pm  

gulfcoast_highwayman wrote:

Flair has a number of ex-wives to pay. He has to keep wrestling just to keep up with his alimony payments.

Hasn't he just got married again?You'd think he'd have learned by now wouldn't you.Give it another 18 months and it will be another ex-wife he'll be paying out to.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:04 pm  

Hogan predicts TNA ratings will treble on his debut.

Why can this guy not grasp that its not the 1980's any more?

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:07 pm  

MadDogg wrote:

Hogan predicts TNA ratings will treble on his debut.

Why can this guy not grasp that its not the 1980's any more?

Well i'll probably watch it that week and don't normally.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:59 pm  

Hogan is just trying to hype up the company and create that buzz. He's hardly going to say "Oh we'll go up by 0.2"

A nice target for them to aim for would be 1.8 - 1.9 at that level they would beat the normal Smackdown! rating. TNA got 1.3 when they weren't live and Hogan was on tape at the end.

Being live cuts out spoilers, anything can happen, people who don't normally watch will watch, word of mouth during the show, and people will want to see what Hulk does. The promotion for this show is going to be massive as well.

ECW this week got 0.8, which is really bad. News is that the ECW name won't be used for much longer, and that was before that rating.

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:40 am  

TNA now has a huge billboard in New York's Times Square promoting the live 3 hour iMPACT!

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:30 pm  

TNA sometimes outdraws Raw & Smackdown over here IIRC

Re: The Wrestling Thread : Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:23 pm  

MadDogg wrote:

Hogan predicts TNA ratings will treble on his debut.

Why can this guy not grasp that its not the 1980's any more?

Maybe it will, but triple nothing is still nothing

there's likely to be a bit of a spike in ratings. mainly due to nostalgia, the wwe have used hogan for such spikes in the past.

I've seen an interview with Hogan where he goes on about how pee'd off Vince is and how TNA are going to go head to head with WWE.

TBH, as this is an RL forum I'll use RL teams in my analogy, that's like Hunslet signing Andy Farrell and saying they're gonna win SL on the strength of that.

At the moment Vince doesn't sweat TNA though I'm sure he's got someone scouting it. But he doesn't see them as a threat.