TNA Thread 8-27-09

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I enjoyed Daniels on commentary, but damn he looks creepy without facial hair.

[The Gold Standard]

TNA Stinks

[The Gold Standard]

WHY AM I WATCHING THIS??

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You people?!?

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I love how Hernandez is all Mexico'd out when he's Puerto Rican.

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I know it's a gimmick, I've just always found it funny.

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I'd semi-enjoy this if the Bashir promo didn't start the segment.

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Rather, I'd hate it less.

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Taz is amazing.

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Sharmell is awful.

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LOL awesome

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Does anyone actually have TNA Mobile?

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lol slowest snap suplex ever

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I may be the only person who actually likes Matt Morgan.

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Interesting shirt choice.

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TNA needs more Steiner promos.

[The Gold Standard]

Change this to the screech thread

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lol

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I totally forgot about this Jesse Neal thing.

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Not that I ever cared about it in the first place

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GORE!

[blak23]

I never understood how the ref could just decide to reverse the decision after bell

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LOL Foley

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I never understood how the ref could just decide to reverse the decision after bell

I never got that either. Seems silly.

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Mick should just be Knockout Champion

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Abyss keeps getting more and more ridiculous.

[KIRA]

Abyss is now ripping of Michael Myers

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Guns should bust out Total Elimination.

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Abyss is now ripping of Michael Myers

He's now a cross between Kane, Mankind and Eugene.

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That Black Hole Slam was pretty cool.

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Not the best video, but how cool would it be if the Guns paid homage?

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I am actually liking this Hamada/Daffney match

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I'm lonely in here :(

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Very nice moonsault.

[KIRA]

Vince should gather his Divas and make them watch the knockouts to see what a female wrestler is supposed to be like

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Velvet Sky is definitely the hotter of the two.

[KIRA]

YESSSSSSSSS BURKE

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There has been a lot more wrestling than usual tonight.

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:y:

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Poetry in Motion?

[KIRA]

Just waiting on the BME

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Waiting for the Elijah Express

[KIRA]

Id still be SOOO pumped if Burke adopted the KENTA knee

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Daniels looks phenomenal.

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LAME!

[taker707]

This impact has been actually good

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Not an in-ring announcement? Disappointing.

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Top of his game? I don't know that I'd go that far.

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LOL Rhyno?

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AJ Styles is NOT the best wrestler in the world. Just wanna throw that out there.

[taker707]

Dixie Carter should never speak on TNA TV again. Sit thier yes Speak No

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shut up taker707

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Why is Sting wrestling in a t-shirt?

[KIRA]

Ive yet to see the big deal about matt mrgan

[The Gold Standard]

TNA Stinks

[KIRA]

Why is Sting wrestling in a t-shirt?

Time marches on for us all

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Meh, that match could have been better. Wasn't really bad til the end, though

[Emperor Smeat]

LOL Steiner wanted to hit Hernandez with a chair while interrupting Morgan's finisher setup

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That sounded better in my head.

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Pretty solid iMPACT! I'd say. A lot more wrestling, which is always a plus for TNA.

[taker707]

shut up taker707

do u not agree

[KYR]

I agree - shut up taker707

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KYR's got it.

[taker707]

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM TNA OFFICIALS REGARDING THE "NO SURRENDER" WORLD TITLE QUALIFIER TOURNAMENT BRACKETS

“Due to a pending legal situation the brackets for next week’s No Surrender World Title Qualifier Tournament cannot be posted at this point. TNA Officials are working as we speak to iron out the problems, and TNAwrestling.com is being told the brackets will appear right here at 9AM Eastern time Friday morning instead."


hummmm......

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Mike Tenay lied to us! What a jerk.

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And shut up taker707

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KYR, Gold Standard wants to know if you actually watched.

[KYR]

KYR, Gold Standard wants to know if you actually watched.

:rofl:

[Skippord]

lol Sabin and Shelley make impact worthwhile

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lol Sabin and Shelley make impact worthwhile

Indeed. Last week's segment about renting them was great.

[Skippord]

Also I think Daffney is the hottest chick in TNA

dunno what that says about me

[Skippord]

that large asian man beating her up made me sad

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I think also Daffney is attractive.

[DaveBrawl]

I agree with Skippord. Also I enjoyed last nights show.

I never did see much of Burke/Diangelo in WWE so I didn't see what all the fuss about him was, but the last few weeks he has impressed me. The interactions between Suicide and him seem like it could be a fun little fued.

[The Pope]

I love matt morgan

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From the front page, probably on the TNA website too.

TNA will be holding two mini-tournaments next week on iMPACT! to determine the final two spots and the brackets have now been announced:

Bracket One
- Rhino vs. Sting
- Hernandez vs. Homicide

Bracket Two
- A.J. Styles vs. Chris Sabin
- Suicide vs. Doug Williams

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Pretty sure Sting and A.J. will get the last two spots. Hernandez is a possibility given his recent push, but that'd be quite a stretch at this point.

[kareru]

he still has that money in the ba- ... erm i mean feast or fired case

[Skippord]

oh yeah Elijah Burke is my favorite wrestler outside of Chris Hero, CM Punk, Edge and Chris (FUCKING) Sabin

so him being on is a plus

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I'm looking forward to seeing Burke do some good things.

[NoRoolz]

iMPACT! was good, again.

Liked the opening segment with Kip James, Foley segment was funny. I'm already excited at the prospect of Hamada/Kong. Match-quality is a hell of a lot better than in WWE, and some storylines look interesting.

Fuck, I really don't think the TNA-abuse is warranted any more. Admittedly, there's a shit load that could be better and they do some unnecessary and stupid shit. But so do WWE, and the match-quality like 70% of the time is a lot better in TNA.

I can't be fucked to go too far into it because I enjoy iMPACT! and really that's what matters, and there's no chance of convincing half of the TNA hate-bandwagoners to open their deluded eyes, but I just find that every week I think TNA's improving and does a lot of entertaining segments/feuds/matches, and they deserve just as much credit as criticism.

Also, to anyone a bit clued up, does TNA really beat WWE ratings here in the UK?

[Dave Youell]

iMPACT! was good, again.

Liked the opening segment with Kip James, Foley segment was funny. I'm already excited at the prospect of Hamada/Kong. Match-quality is a hell of a lot better than in WWE, and some storylines look interesting.

Fuck, I really don't think the TNA-abuse is warranted any more. Admittedly, there's a shit load that could be better and they do some unnecessary and stupid shit. But so do WWE, and the match-quality like 70% of the time is a lot better in TNA.

I can't be fucked to go too far into it because I enjoy iMPACT! and really that's what matters, and there's no chance of convincing half of the TNA hate-bandwagoners to open their deluded eyes, but I just find that every week I think TNA's improving and does a lot of entertaining segments/feuds/matches, and they deserve just as much credit as criticism.

Also, to anyone a bit clued up, does TNA really beat WWE ratings here in the UK?

Yes, it did, for 2 weeks. There's reasons though.

It costs more to have the channels that show WWE (sky sports, roughly £20 a month ontop of other fees) You can get Bravo that holds TNA relatively cheaply.

Now there's a few schools of thought on this, WWE has 4 replays a week, 2 'Major' ones though in decent slots. TNA beat the combined figures including the replays.

This week WWE beat TNA, so fucks knows, they don't go head to head at the same time (for the 1st showings anyway)

Now, Bravo is owned by the Virgin network. Sky, are looking to buy Virgin's channels, basically this would mean that Sky would have the rights to 2 different promotions, so chances are, TNA will be looking for someone new to broadcast their show, if they pick up a freeview channel, they could easily be the biggest promotion in the country ratings wise.

As for TNA itself, I totally agree, no wrestling show is perfect, but right now, I am really enjoying TNA, all the talent up and down the card have a purpose and direction and the product is very solid, just a shame their PPV's are the shits.

[NoRoolz]

I expected this answer to come from you, Dave :love:

Cheers for the information, that sounds pretty positive for TNA overall :y:

[Dave Youell]

I expected this answer to come from you, Dave :love:

Cheers for the information, that sounds pretty positive for TNA overall :y:

Just think of me as the your resident UK expert :y:

Oh definitely, it's grown very well over the past 18 months over here. They are doing another tour at the start of the year in some pretty big arena's. The M.E.N Arena in Manchester holds 16,000 people. Thing they are doing 7 venues this time round and all the reviews from the house shows have always been positive, so I'll be going to these I think.

[NoRoolz]

Are they doing iMPACT! shows in the UK or just a normal tour sort of thing?

If they're recording iMPACT! over here I may well attend.

[erickman]

Are they doing iMPACT! shows in the UK or just a normal tour sort of thing?

If they're recording iMPACT! over here I may well attend.

i think it is just house shows, but there house shows are pretty good, i think they are better then wwe house shows.

[NoRoolz]

Ah right cheers. Can't say I've ever been to a house-show, dunno why I'd just always prefer to go to a televised event.

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iMPACT! was good, again.

Liked the opening segment with Kip James, Foley segment was funny. I'm already excited at the prospect of Hamada/Kong. Match-quality is a hell of a lot better than in WWE, and some storylines look interesting.

Fuck, I really don't think the TNA-abuse is warranted any more. Admittedly, there's a shit load that could be better and they do some unnecessary and stupid shit. But so do WWE, and the match-quality like 70% of the time is a lot better in TNA.

I can't be fucked to go too far into it because I enjoy iMPACT! and really that's what matters, and there's no chance of convincing half of the TNA hate-bandwagoners to open their deluded eyes, but I just find that every week I think TNA's improving and does a lot of entertaining segments/feuds/matches, and they deserve just as much credit as criticism.

Also, to anyone a bit clued up, does TNA really beat WWE ratings here in the UK?

Definitely agree. iMPACT! was very good this week. Match quality is usually better in TNA, and this week there was a lot more wrestling than normal (which was great).

TNA is improving, no doubt. There are a lot of things they're doing well right now. Of course, there are some things that could be going better, but they are definitely making strides.

[The Pope]

I like the Matt Morgan storyline. anyone see angle vs morgan at bound for glory?