Hogan still ruining TNA

[Champ]

A fan on Twitter wrote that it was annoying them that Taylor Wilde has not been featured on TNA TV lately. Wilde responded to the Tweet by saying, Yeah..........I'm not too thrilled about it either.

Company morale in TNA is way down. A number of wrestlers are upset about a lack of TV time while others are tremendously upset about the direction of the product as of late. The low ratings haven't helped anything and the release of Christopher Daniels had many people talking at TVs last night.

[Velkontés]

Perhaps Taylor should spend less time practising wrestling moves and more time practising pretending to be excited about stripping to her "bra and panties". That seems to be the direction.

[Champ]

OR opening up boxes with spiders and other people's world titles. Jeez!

[MasterSnit]

I've not been watching or commenting on TNA much recently because I've simply not been enjoying the direction it is going.

One thing I did find particularly annoying was Christopher Daniels getting released. I read that apparently Eric Bischoff didn't like him so he was released. Let's not consider that he is one of the few Originals left in the company, a well known and recognisable TNA star, a guy who is as good a wrestler as anyone else they have, and a guy who has constantly been in unenviable story-lines but has always got on with his job and performed to a high standard. Also someone who, in my opinion, could do a good job on any level of the card, whether he is in a world title feud or a lower card "personal" type feud.
It just seemed like a ridiculous decision. He gives years of loyal service and supposedly, after only waltzing in a few months earlier, Eric Bischoff decides to cut him because he doesn't really like him.
I just can't help but see the parallels with WCW ten years ago. They had guys like Chris Jericho, Eddie Guererro and Chris Benoit who would go out and perform as well as anyone else, yet were never pushed any further because they weren't in the right clique backstage. They were ultimately forced to quit.

I really didn't think they would go down the road they are going and make so many of the same mistakes the last company who tried to compete with the WWE did, but the way things are going it seems they are.

[Velkontés]

Yeah, I was a bit annoyed by that too. Daniels was one of the guys who made a good impression on me when I started watching Impact. So it figures they would cut him. I said before in another thread that he's basically their less-douchebaggy version of Matt Hardy. Veteran hand who can make their upcoming talent decrepit fossils look good. He'd be a good mid-card pickup for the Fed.

Or the next season of NXT ;D


I'm kinda beyond trying to figure out what Hogchoff's gameplan is, or who exactly is meant to be watching TNA. It's too risque for kids, too fucking stupid for adults. And kids.

[Naitch]

I have a feeling that Hogan and Bischoff don't have a clue how talented Daniels really is.

[Champ]

Ireally didn't think they would go down the road they are going and make so many of the same mistakes the last company who tried to compete with the WWE did, but the way things are going it seems they are.

That's what you would think. Common sense says, don't use the same strategy to fight a company, you already lost to, when it's 3 times more powerful now. The good thing about it is it makes me feel smart

[Champ]

- Monday's episode of TNA iMPACT! drew a less than stellar 0.50 cable rating, with 739,000 viewers. It broke the all-time record low rating for the show on Spike for a first-run episode, set on April 1, 2006, when the show scored a 0.57 rating on Saturday night at 11:00 p.m. going head-to-head with the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony when Bret Hart was inducted.


- Homicide was recently a guest on the Busted Open radio show. He didn't have kind words for TNA management as he said he didn't have faith in anyone in management and he doesn't know if his boss is Dixie, Russo, Hogan or the "jabroni security guards".

The TNA star said there's a lot if political BS going on and he goes out and gets paid and takes care of his family. He said he wants his money every Monday and "we'll see what happens".

Finally, Homicide said Hogan does interact with the roster and spoke with him once about his background. Homicide said Hogan told him he liked him, but if he liked it why doesn't do do something about it?


- SLAM! Wrestling has a new interview online with Melissa Anderson (formerly Raisha Saeed and Alissa Flash in TNA Wrestling). In the piece, Anderson speaks on why she parted ways with TNA Wrestling.

"It was the changes behind the scenes, and nothing more," Anderson said. "It was a very mutual split and it was time to move on. TNA is going forward with their direction as a whole, as a company, and I saw all the other opportunities."[/i]

Reports say that Tara has asked for some time off and wants to focus more on her custom auto detail shop in Kentucky. There has also been issues between Tara and some of the other Knockouts. Sources say Tara is always making comments about how things have been done in WWE which has rubbed some people the wrong way.


Tara took to MySpace this afternoon with the following:

"It appears that I'm winding down at TNA. Unfortunately some organizations "leak" information to wrestling websites to put their spin on a situation, to make sure they come out in the best light. Not me. I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna put my name on it. And I'm going to stand behind it.

I came to TNA last year because I still had a lot of wrestling left in me. I was paid a fraction of what I thought I deserved. But I wanted to show I was still at the top of my game. Now my contract is up in May. I want a modest pay increase. They don't want to pay me what I think is fair. I have no problem going my own way.

But about 12 hours after the conversation where we didn't agree on pay, unnamed sources claim that I am hard to work with and that I don't give my best effort. My only response is that TNA made an aggressive effort to re-sign me, among other things saying that they want to build the women's division around me. And I think wrestling fans see, both on TV and at live events, that I always give 100%. I take pride in that. Smearing me on the way out the door is an act of second rate character.

I take pride in making my best effort to elevate my own wrestling and the entire TNA Women's Division. If people were rubbed the wrong way in the process, I stand behind my work and my positive intentions.

In closing I will say this. In the few weeks that I have left in TNA, I will be the same wrestler that you have seen for the past ten years. After that, I haven't decided if I will stay in wrestling, or finally make the jump to MMA. I do have a lot of irons in the fire. We'll see where life takes me. But wherever that is, there's gonna be competition, and I'm gonna give it my all."[/i]





First of all, even with Jeff Fuckin Hardy they're hitting all time rating lows? The guy was actually starting to outsell Cena in merchandise less than a year ago for Christ's sake! You got a major problem already right there......Then again, Jeff has been super lame in TNA


Tara's the best chick veteran in wrestling right now and Melissa Flash was awesome. Good one, management


Let's not forget, whether you like Homicide or not, the dude knows what he's doing out there and he has fans.



In closing, I have to steal a V quote,

God, this company!

[Velkontés]

You missed out the funniest (Spinal Tap-esque) thing about that rating, Champ. This week, TNA Impact was beaten in the ratings by... the replay of TNA Impact! Perhaps they should stop trying to compete with Raw and start taking on their own replay. Hogan could cut a promo on how 3-Days-Into-The-Future-Hogan sucks.

"It was the changes behind the scenes, and nothing more," Anderson said. "It was a very mutual split and it was time to move on. TNA is going forward with their direction as a whole, as a company, and I saw all the other opportunities."

TRANSLATION: "I'm not busting my ass for $200 for this stupid company anymore. What's the fucking point? I could get paid more for flipping burgers or stacking shelves. In fact, I'd get paid more doing shit porn, and it would be less embarrassing. I can see all the other opportunities."

[Champ]

You missed out the funniest (Spinal Tap-esque) thing about that rating, Champ. This week, TNA Impact was beaten in the ratings by... the replay of TNA Impact! Perhaps they should stop trying to compete with Raw and start taking on their own replay. Hogan could cut a promo on how 3-Days-Into-The-Future-Hogan sucks.

LMAO! That's just too awesome. TNA is owning itself right now!

[MasterSnit]

May 1, 2010 6:11:28 GMT -5 Velkontés said:

You missed out the funniest (Spinal Tap-esque) thing about that rating, Champ. This week, TNA Impact was beaten in the ratings by... the replay of TNA Impact!

LOL! That is too funny!

TNA Impact



Replay Of TNA Impact




I have all but given up on TNA. I saw RVD win the title last week and had to laugh when Hogan got in the ring and raised the title himself.

[Champ]

That's basically like getting a finisher win on yourself. How the hell is that possible unless you're Chris Masters and Supercrazy pins you while in the masterlock?

[Velkontés]

[Champ]

That's awesome. Opening up for a cover version of yourself is ultimate self ownage

[Champ]

I don't know if it's Hogan, the writers, or a combo but the writing is still fuckin SUPER clown car!

Instead of Jeff coming out to claim his match against RVD, instead of them being standup faces and allowing AJ in the match for a triple threat, what do they do? They make it sound like Jeff is missing. No one can find him. He no showed! They make the match with AJ and RVD 2 minutes later. THEN Jeff just so happens to show up to Impact and now it's a triple threat match. Why does TNA ALWAYS have to jump through fuckin hoops just to advance one step?


TNA is the company that takes 5 hrs to get to a supermarket that's only 10 minutes away. For example,




WWE Smackdown: Supermarket errand segment


1. walk out arena door, get in car, drive 3 miles to store

2. park car and go into store

3. pick up items you need and check out

4. get in car, drive 3 miles back to arena



TNA Impact: Supermarket Errand segment


1. walk out arena door, stop and make a face like you forgot something or something is wrong

2. take your phone out of your pocket and start texting or talking about nonsense

3. go back to arena door like you're about to go back and grab what you forgot.

4. Stop, say forget it, turn back around and walk to the car so Taz can say, "I wonder what that was all about, Mike"

5. get in car, drive away. Half block into the drive, stop the car and notice that one of the tire's is flat

6. get out of the car to see what happened and a masked guy comes from out of nowhere and ONLY clotheslines you and runs away and disappears

7. get up angry, proceed to fix the tire

8. Finally gets in the car and start driving to the store

9. notice the gas tank is on empty so head to the gas station first.

10. get gas. Then go to pay for the gas and the attendant tells you your credit card has been declined. Unfortunately and ironically, you don't have the cash to back you up.

11. do janitorial work for 2 hours to settle up the tab

12. finally get back in the car and head to the supermarket(with no money but somehow, you plan to pay for the food)

13. Park the car. As soon as you get out, a shopping cart rolls into your car from out of nowhere, putting a scratch in it. No one is around to explain what happened so it was just yet another pointless occurance

14. Walk to the supermarket front door and the cops roll up with sirens and flashing lights to arrest you.

15. No one knows what happened. Find out next week on Impact. BTW, the groceries never get picked up so Eric Bischoff has to go out and get them. That will be a whole new story