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Old 06-15-2016, 10:16 PM   #38
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Dave says TNA was in an absolute crisis situation. Dean Broadhead, the BUSINESS HEAD of TNA, wrote on facebook this week that on Thursday and Friday he logged over 80 business calls with "attorneys, accountants, vendors, bankers, employees" and said it may be time for him to retire, but not until everything is in the right place. When asked why he had to make all those calls, Dean said he had twelve hours to secure financing for TNA, so that production trucks could come ...

Dave says he thought TNA had money for this TV taping, but apparently they didn't have enough. Dave brings up again that TNA was originally going to tape not just Monday through Wednesday this week, but an extra month of Impact on Thursday and Friday, and canceled plans for those last two days to save money short term ...

Dave says this was where Billy Corgan came in, and while he doesn't know all the details, TNA had some loans to Aroluxe that needed to be paid back, and seeing as how they run production, "they control all the equipment". Dave makes it sound like these tapings wouldn't have happened without Corgan paying off Aroluxe ...

Dave says the big problem for TNA coming up, beyond finding money for the NEXT TV tapings, is that sooner or later they have to go to India to fill their once a year obligation to Sony Six. The problem is that while Sony Six will pay some of the costs, they're not going to pay all of them. Dave says a trip to India is very very expensive for TNA, but at the same time, not doing the shows puts them in danger of losing Sony Six, which is one of their key revenue streams. Dave says not only was last year's India tapings canceled, but this year's have already been delayed once.
From the Observer's forums about TNA's issues during a recent Observer Radio show. If TNA was in a dire situation now, they pretty much are screwed once the India tour happens in terms of finances.

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Originally Posted by PWI
Mattel will be releasing the first ever action figure of the legendary former NWA United States champion Magnum TA as part of it's WWE Elite Legends action figure line.

Also featured in the line will be Kamala, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Ultimate Warrior and Chris Jericho.

Magnum was slated to be featured in a previous Legends of Wrestling toy line produced by Jakks Pacific several years ago but when the initial releases did not sell well, the line was scrapped.
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Originally Posted by Observer
ROH made a big announcement today, that they will be returning to the famed Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City for their biggest PPV of the year, Final Battle. This will mark the first time ROH has run the building since 2014. The company has declined to use the Hammerstein due to increasing facility rental costs, but recently decided to head back to the building. The Hammerstein Ballroom will now be the site of all of ROH's future NYC shows.
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Originally Posted by Observer
TNA will be rebroadcasting last night's Gold Rush show tonight on Pop TV. Apparently there were some technical difficulties due to weather that prevented the show to be seen in its entirety in certain markets. That show will at 9pm eastern tonight.
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Originally Posted by PWI
The 6/14 edition of Impact, which aired at 10:50 PM was understandly down this week, bringing in 210,000 viewers. They were down from 326,000 viewers last week. The episode will air again tonight at 9 PM as the technical issues were on Pop's end.
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Originally Posted by PWI
As noted several days ago on PWInsider.com, WWE filed a trademark for the name "Legion of Doom", a moniker used by WWE Hall of Fame tag team The Road Warriors during their careers and used as their primary team name during their initial WWE run in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

With the appearance of Paul Ellering as the mouthpiece for NXT team The Authors of Pain, there was speculation the name might be used by WWE for that team. That speculation is now rendered moot as WWE abandoned the trademark application on 6/13.
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Originally Posted by PWI
During his latest episode of the Ross Report podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross announced he had signed on board to produce a new film, currently titled " 6:05 On The SuperStation! " The film will be produced in conjunction with the team responsible for the "Mid-Atlantic Memories" documentary that debuted last summer. Ross narrated that film.

The "feel-good film" will cover the 20-year period in time -- late 1960s to late 1980s -- "when folks down south were glued to their TV sets at 6:05 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays",
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Originally Posted by PWI
There was a good reason why the TNA Hall of Famer didn't leak in advance: no one knew who it was. TNA didn't tell anyone who the Hall of Famer was beyond a very small group of people. We are told that Gail Kim didn't know she was being announced as the new Hall of Famer until Dixie Carter announced it during last night's taping.
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Originally Posted by 411mania
According to pwinsider.com, WWE has applied for a number of trademarks for “Clash of Champions.” One of the trademarks is for a television show. With the news of the brand split, and rumors of more PPVs/WWE Network specials going around, this will likely cause a lot of speculation.
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She says she enjoyed her programs with Trish Stratus, Brie Bella, Lita and Jacqueline Moore. Having the privilege to get in the ring without being a wrestler is an honor to her. She says the decision to get back in the ring isn't up to her, it's up to the 'decision maker.' She says that as long as it helps get somebody over, that's the ultimate goal of her character.

Being a heel is her preference over being a babyface. Heels getting their comeuppance is her favorite part, according to her. She cited Sable and Chris Jericho as doing that.
Highlights from a recent Q&A session Stephanie McMahon had on Facebook. http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/...er-is-getting/

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Originally Posted by Observer
The participants in this year’s G-1 Climax tournament will be announced at the 6/27 Korakuen Hall show
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Originally Posted by Observer
Stu Bennett, who was Wade Barrett in WWE, on Twitter when talking about Barrett said “the other guy is dead and buried.” He’s been mostly talking soccer. He has interest in getting a job as a soccer analyst
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Originally Posted by Observer
SummerSlam as a live event at the Barclays Center is listing a 6 p.m. Eastern start time. Usually they would list a 7 p.m. start time for the pre-show, so it looks like they will start the PPV at 7 p.m. and do a four-hour or longer show. As noted last week, WWE has sent notices to PPV carriers that some shows going forward may go past 11 p.m. Eastern
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Originally Posted by Observer
WWE really wanted Will Ospreay for the cruiserweight tournament. He signed a two-year contract with New Japan, so it didn’t happen. There was actually talk in recent weeks of WWE trying to still get him even with knowledge he was under contract, perhaps even trying to work through New Japan

Some other sheet news includes:
  • Observer's Dave Meltzer daily Q&A session on Twitter focused today on the WWE and ad rates. Apparently the WWE gets around $50 million yearly for the 3rd hour of RAW from USA Network, likely would be posting fiscal report losses if it wasn't for the extra hour, and the Network would need an extra 500k subscribers just to make up the loss if RAW ever went back to 2 hours. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...postcount=8109
  • Cena was a recent guest on the Maya & Marty comedy show with a skit involving him playing as Hogan making fun of both Hogan's sex tape and the Gawker trial. http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/201...nbc-maya-marty
  • Zack Ryder is currently offering free autographs as a gift for those who order his new shirt on WWE's online shop. https://twitter.com/ZackRyder/status/743112119260942336
  • In a "WWE Did You Know" type fact, today is the 10th anniversary of Cena-RVD WWE title match at ECW One Night Stand 2006 and the "If Cena Wins, We Riot" poster. https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCirc...wewell_nothing
  • Sports Illustrated had a recent interview with Stone Cold Steve Austin with topics including Vince originally being against Austin doing middle fingers, running a beer company, and the infamous walkout incident in 2002. http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2016...ipa-what-chant
  • Recent episode of the Talk Is Jericho podcast show had Damien Sandow as its guest. Sandow revealed after the Hogan racism backlash, he wanted to tweak his gimmick to be a general parody of the 1980s. http://podcastone.com/pg/jsp/program...93&pid=1656887
  • Next NXT special was revealed to be called "NXT Takeover Brooklyn II" and like almost every other Takeover event, tickets sold out very quickly. Logo for the event was also revealed: http://i.imgur.com/nuvo3A9.jpg
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