Well, that wasn't particularly Chrrrrrrristeeyan of you.

Sami Zayn as El Locale.

First feud would be against the Real Americans with Zeb trying to figure out why he looks very familiar as a slight nod to their NXT stuff.

loopydate's idea of 3MB getting a midget roadie is pretty fucking awesome.

I'm actually all for a Juniors Division as long as it is booked right and not treated like a massive joke. It may not draw, per se, but it could make for some entertaining television and great for shows like Main Event and Superstars.

You've already got Hornswoggle and El Torito on the roster as babyfaces. Have JBL come through on his promise and bring in his own sponsored midget animal to do battle with El Torito. Damien Sandow could have Ignatius come into the WWE and reveal himself to be a midget worker. That's two heel competitors to go against them. Then there's the 3MB roadie and possibly the return of Mini-Dust. Think of the ratings.

Little E Langston

Little E. Langston is a must add to the little people's division.

Tin Ey Langston

Has there ever been a Little Show? I feel like this has to have already happened.

I don't know what I'm doing

Think Kurt Angle did something with one. I might be mistaken though, there was a midget era during the brand split where almost every main event face was portrayed in a promo via the art of the midget.

Spike Dudley

There should be midgets in the WWE. It'd be a potential job opportunity for Dronepool.

Think TNA already have him signed up for a midget Sting promo.

Ricardo Rodriguez should take one of the ring announcers under his wing. He could introduce Justin Roberts before Roberts introduces somebody else.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my personal ring announcer, Ricardo Rrrrodrrrriguez!"
"Damas y caballeros, el primer ring announcer de WWE, Justiiiiin Rrrrrrrrroberts!"
"The following contest is scheduled for one fall!"

It would get even weirder if Ricardo himself had a match, Justin introduces him, he introduces Justin, then Justin introduces him.

While Justin Roberts introduces him, he puts on the El Local gear.

Tables, Ladders, & Podcast #21 (October 15, 2013) (FEAR THE BULL)
 

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Starring: Jabba, Afterlife, Nowhere Man, & Poit.

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If Cesaro turns face, who should replace him in The Real Americans?

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I think a midget should be paired with the Prime Time Players. Like a mini ganggsta.

WWE should sign Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrobert Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooode to pair with Ricardo.

As for this week's question; Muhammed Hassan should come back to replace Cesaro.

If they keep wanting to go with the "foreigner who carries himself like a Real American" gimmick, call up Alexander Rusev and have him beast everyone for a while.

It'd be a comedy turn to the team, but could you imagine Zeb Coulter and Swagger playing the "Real American" seriously with Santino trying to be a pro-american bad ass. It'd be hilarious.

Every time Jabba recaps TNA xplosion in one minute he reminds me of this guy

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Jim Duggan should replace Cesaro. Fuckin HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A midget Jim Duggan. With a 0.5 x 1.

Jim Duggan with Swagger would be incredible. Have Duggan and Santino with Swagger and Coutler. Duggan and Santino can act like well...Duggan and Santino and have Coulter and Swagger playing the straight laced duo taking it seriously. Or hell, cut out Santino. Still would be hilarious.

Tables, Ladders, & Podcast #22 (October 22, 2013) (BUTT-GORE)
 

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Covering NXT, Impact, Smackdown, Bound For Glory, & Raw, with brief looks at Main Event, Superstars, & Xplosion.

Starring: Jabba, Narcissus, Afterlife, & Poit... PLUS special guests: Heisenberg & Gateman.

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Question Of The Week:

What will be the date of TNA's death? Put your reputation on the line, folks.

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As the Pulse of TPWW I will say it won't. It'll just linger on.

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling LLC. will cease operations and no longer exist as an active professional wrestling/sports entertainment entity on October 27, 2019. I do believe that Vince McMahon will buy it for roughly $1,056,944.16 and use it to sell a career retrospective DVD on Jeff Jarrett that will make roughly $3.28 Billion in sales.

if TNA loses any more core guys like Styles, Joe, Roode etc. then it will be 2015 July 26.

This doesn't mean everyone will be saved from terrible storylines as Vince will inject either some Main Event Mafia or Aces and 8s into the WWE, his creation

I want to give Afterlife a flying knee to the face the next time he complains about being sick so he slept all day.

Baring some huge drastic changes or financial turnaround, December 25, 2014 after Dixie Carter teases one last big surprise announcement.

Can't really see Spike TV stay that committed to TNA for the rest of their tv deal (ends in 2018) but more likely Panda Energy or a new owner pulls the plug well before then. Also doubt TNA will shrink or downgrade enough to follow a ROH-like route to stay alive and instead crashes more like ECW did because of financial problems.

August 23, 2017

I think they'll get one more surge in a year or two when new ownership manages to get a high-profile free agent, but continued mismanagement will eventually lead to them scrapping the project before the end of the fiscal year.

Jabba comes close to doing me justice.

March 2015. A year of struggling on and then 6 months of decline.

18 May, 2016.

Would love to see Jim Duggan return as a heel who tells the crowds that they can't raise their kids properly and they're all soft. Men used to be heroes, but now you worship metrosexual idols in the magazines.

How about Yoshi Tatsu as a Real American? Zeb Colter can change his name to something like Cliff McQueen.

Jim Duggan could be the story of a great American icon who has succumbed to bitterness and confusion in old age. Could be an incredibly heart-wrenching story.

Thanks TPWW Podcast for the prize. Oh and March 26, 2016

I'm not a regular, but thanks for listening Graveler

When Bob Carter dies.

I'm gonna be honest... I was sorta hoping you would hold one DVD in each hand, with a Graveler photoshopper over you.

Also, congrats!

Tables, Ladders, & Podcast #23 (October 29, 2013) (THE LEGEND LIVES)
 

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Covering NXT, Impact, Smackdown, Hell In A Cell, & Raw, with brief looks at Main Event, Superstars, & Xplosion.

Starring: Jabba, Narcissus, Afterlife, Nowhere Man, & Poit.

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Question Of The Week:

Which member of the Shield is most likely to disappear into obscurity, when they eventually disband?

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Our contest winner:

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Since when do I sound like The Penguin from the 1960s Batman show?

Also, better to have Triple H's cock in my mouth than drown in the musty fluids from drip from Dixie Carter's furry muff.

I've learned two things this week so far (still got a fair amount of show left):

1) TNA's heel women's champion of Asian descent with a Pacific Islander bodyguard to protect her from the rest of the division she's pissed off is utterly different from WWE's heel women's champion of Asian descent with a Pacific Islander bodyguard to protect her from the rest of the division she's pissed off.

2) Poit's voice makes my rabbit flip the fuck out.

The Poit drinking game:

1) Drink when he sighs.


2) Drink when he says OH COME ON

Pretty sure you'd be dead by the end of the podcast.

I'm sorry, but I really want to see a video of this. :lol:

Well, it isn't really all that different. My argument is that the bodyguard angle is used like twice a year in like every promotion. It isn't anything new in prowrestling, so the "copying" thing doesn't really register with me.

But my point was that if you reduce the comparison down to just "they both have bodyguards", then of course claims of copying would be ridiculous. But there are many more similarities than just that.

I just can't imagine them having a conversation about it and actually going out of their way to copy a storyline like that. What would the benefit be? And I mean, this is a low card women's storyline. Is anybody on either side going to make money off of this?

I see the similarities but "copying" gets a Poit-esque "Oh, come on" from Narcissus.

I'm not saying that TNA copied WWE here.

I was just pointing out that it's ridiculous to say the only similarity is that they're both bodyguard angles.

Sorry if you guys contacted me, but good for me, I get a podcast to listen to. Steve Perry and death metal go only so farrrr

I'll see if I can catch him doing it during the next one and post it in the thread. He was fine during the intro stuff, but once you started on the NXT report, his started just running laps around his cage, knocking shit over and just kind of causing a racket. He calmed down, but as soon as your voice took over, he was crazy pants.

Also, this.

Tamina is the female Diesel. Love Tamina.

You'd have thought that the similarities would have put TNA off running the angle.

Also, why doesn't the Gong Master have a gong?

3) Says an NXT match was "pretty good."

Come the fuck on. They got the same type of woman for fucks sake right after AJ got Tamina.

You are ignoring the facts of the issue by talking about it generally as a "bodyguard" gimmick.

It was quite the coincidence when Mike Tenay used the word "cadence" a few times (and I can't recall him using it before then or since) just a week or two after Triple H used it twenty times on Raw.

I really want to defend TNA, but I can't after viewing the latest episode. Dixie, with her good looks and all, just can't promo to save her soul. The authority figure has been done, it's like watching the same show with fragmented time periods, jagged characters.

Part of me feels bad for the rumors going around of the sale, EC3 sounds good on paper and the kid is trying to get over on what little is given to him. It would be mad awkward if they kept him around with the gimmick if the Carters choose to sell.

I am a Dixie supporter, but she didn't let the audience guide her at all. She seems focused to stay on scripted time, she didn't connect with the audience and bask in the heel heat.

Hopefully she can realize her strengths and just be present for looks

Her being annoying is part of the shtick.

At the PPV Dixie just stood constipated and did nothing as AJ won the match.

What car did Al Bundy drive in Married With Children.

A Dodge.

To answer the actual question, I think it'll be Rollins. Ambrose has the personality to stick around as a mid-to-upper card heel until he retires, and Reigns will always fit in as muscle for someone. I think Rollins is doomed to be Justin Gabriel after the Shield.

I agree, Rollins is most likely, and I'm not nearly as high on Ambrose as others. Reigns has a great look. HATE using a spear as a finisher though. He was using the Mark of Excellence than Mark Jindrak used to do while Reigns was in NXT. Gotta improve though mic skills though. It's almost like you wish you could take Rollins"s speed, Ambrose"s personality and Reigns"s size and mold them into one wrestler.

Gail Kim is too fucking good to need a bodyguard. If they wanted to do something with Tapa, Chris Sabin should have hired her to be Velvet's unwanted protector. Or they can keep her down in OVW until she becomes better.

Also, as much as I love him, Seth Rollins seems like the least sticky of the Shield guys. Ambrose has got enough of a blend between personality and skill. Reigns is the sort of prototypical WWE Superstar the company likes. Rollins is a great worker, seller and a decent promo, but he's the sort of guy who -- if he gets a few wellness suspensions against his name or has a few backstage incidents -- could suddenly be losing constantly on Superstars and Main Event.

I doubt that will happen, but I just can't see Ambrose failing or Reigns being allowed to.

Agree with others about Rollins seems to be the one who's very likely to fade once the Shield disbands. Not because he's an obvious weak link but because he seems to be one of those types where his real star potential won't start to show up until years later like a Ziggler and others who had slow builds.

Ambrose and Reigns already have their star potential showing with Ambrose being pretty well rounded as a wrestler and Reigns fitting the big man mold that Vince and the WWE love.

Roman Reigns seems to be teasing some sort of dissatisfaction with The Shield at the moment -- his look to Ambrose during their backstage promo on SmackDown and then being pulled away from a fight by Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins. Could we be heading towards a Triple Threat for the US Title between the three in the near future?

Think it could be Ambrose...it was rumored he rubbed a few people up the wrong way as he is a little strange,a little off the wall and people didn't know how to take him in the beginning.

WWE likes team players who give little trouble (Punk aside), and I think he could easily make mistakes running solo and find himself lost in the shuffle. After all, his look isn't enough to win second chances. Hope it's not true, but I think he could be the most likely candidate.

Rollins could be like a daredevil Jeff Hardy-like character, except more stable and better in the ring, and Reigns could be the Batista-like explosive power man, wish would see them both safe.

You dodged the question and talked about something irrelevant. Them having the girl signed doesn't mean they planned on teaming her with the champion as her bodyguard.

It's a ripoff. Plain and simple.

It looks like the Shield break up seed is already planted with the way Reigns looked at Ambrose on RAW and Smackdown. If they feud, I can see Rollins getting lost in the shuffle.

I made no insinuation of her being a recent hire. They "got" means they just put her on tv in the same angle as Tamina.

Seth Rollins, good workrate and all, don't get me wrong, but he doesn't do much for me outside of the ring.

Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose are set up for great things, Roman has that Samoan type Rock shit going and Dean Ambrose reminds me of HBK in the early 90s with the IC title and such.

I wish Seth Rollins well and that he stops with the CM Punk lookalike stuff, but only time will tell.

AJ Lee is Puerto Rican, not Asian.

No way, she's--

[Checks Wikipedia]

Well, I'll be damned.

Tables, Ladders, & Podcast #24 (November 5, 2013)
 

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Covering NXT, Impact, Smackdown, & Raw, with brief looks at Main Event & Xplosion.

Starring: Jabba, Poit, & Afterlife. Plus special guest: Heisenberg.

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Who would you be most surprised to see in a suit, working for the authority, next week?

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For the question of the question of the week, I'm gonna go with Denis Haskins. Thinking of Mr. Belding yelling "Hey Hey Hey!" at The Big Show amuses me. If not him, then The Swedish Chef.

Great stuff. I guarandamntee it.

the only reason i sticky these is because jabba makes them

I'm glad he brings such esteem to the podcast.

Umaga