Dixie/her rep said today that trying to get funds for BFG doesn't prove insolvency.

There's an interesting piece up the page where it's said basically Dixie is trying to argue it is cheaper and easier for Corgan to get TNA's financial records from elsewhere than TNA itself.

Trying to blame Corgan and his lawsuit for not paying talent is massive insult to everybody involved as she's said to have spoken about talent not being paid weeks before Corgan filed his suit and we know from those who worked there that it's been happening for years.

which of course it doesnt... all it proves is in order to do the "quality" of show they did they had to "invest"
what it doesnt say is what sort of show they would have put on without extra investment money & if as a "company" they actually have to do it (of course we don't know how flexible the contracts of how many hours & type of content agreed to be supplied are, and if any "penalty" clause is cheaper to pay than cost to supply etc...

unlike the end of spike, this period has a product that have several things going for it... the lighting is better, the background screens are better, the storylines with broken hardy, decay, even lashly are better. cody not winning was refreshing.. and the dcc look interesting..

so they have a product. whether the product is good value to an investor is another thing, but it isnt like the end of spike days, where they had nothing much that "popped"


so whatever happens... they have likely got some good shows "recorded" up to the end of the year (subject to the content actually being broadcast - like music etc)

Being said they've only shot up until December 8th, planned November tapings have been put on hold that were due to finish the year

There apparently was meant to be a taping on location with the Hardys but they've refused to go ahead with it until they are paid so it was cancelled.

All the treat or delete segements were crazy but hilarious.Senior Benjamin tasering Trump and the e-mail jokes about Hillary and the subsquent running off made me chuckle.Grado as one of the bromans was funny too.

what happened to those emails? delete delete delete

lol

Though Dixie should be the last one to make jokes about emails

A judge has ruled against Corgan's request for a restraining order which would have prevented any decision being made without his involvement.

Corgan will however receive all of the loans he's given TNA back by tomorrow. He's pretty much out of decision making but can continue his lawsuit.

It appears Anthem are paying his loans back and if that happens, they could become majority owners. They would receive 85% of the company, Aeroluxe 10% with Dixie at 5%.

Looks like Challenge have ditched TNA?

We know that many TNA fans will be disappointed to hear this, but we wanted to let you all know that as of January 2017, Challenge will no longer be the home of TNA in the UK. TNA has been a huge and important part of Challenge’s story over the years and we will treasure some great moments like the British Bootcamp and UK tours. We have been proud to bring UK viewers coverage of TNA and have huge respect for the company and its fans. TNA is packed with great talent and we know they will continue to do great things – we wish them all the best.

(took from their FB page)

Doesn't that take any value down when/if they do sell as TV deals can make it worth more if they have no UK TV deal that is a major loss of a big market.

Told you on 1st October. 😜

Am pleased the grand tour of channels in the middle of nowhere on the Sky EPG is on though.

It's also a possibility they lose their India deal due to breach of contract.

I'm not sure if it will have much of a knock on effect depending on who was the buyer. If it was WWE for example, and I'm fairly sure we can rule that out now, if anything it would make such a deal easier because WWE won't want TNA as a going concern so less contracts is better for them. If Anthem have gained majority ownership, one of their staff is now CEO, I imagine that would be a frustration. I'm not sure which type of channel would pick it up here. Spike possibly?

I presume this also means the UK tour is also off for 2017?

Well there is not exactly a captive market I would imagine for them over here, so I can imagine them struggling to find a suitable channel to get shown on, now that a retro gameshow channel has had enough of them.

The obvious one is of course Spike, but since their American cousin dropped them, would our version want them?

Tough to see where they go from here, as they do have somewhat of a decent following over here.

They never announced a U.K. Tour, they drew 2-3000 each in three 10k plus arenas this year, which was considered a disaster.

A shame about Challenge dropping it, but hardly unexpected.
Maybe they're trying to cut costs and just go with old material, or maybe they've now decided that they don't want to have wrestling shows any more anyway and TNA's present woes have given them a good reason to finally implement that. After all, they did drop Wrestle Talk TV apparently very suddenly with no warning only months after their boss had appeared on the show saying how much the channel valued and supported it!

I think years ago it was one of the most watched things on Challenge (Hell wasn't Bootcamp made because how popular it was in the UK) but now it's nowhere near.

It's losing to 30+ Year old game show repeats.

I can't think who will take it now if anybody.

That must be part of it why pay for TNA when they can put a 30 year old Bullseye on which gets more viewers and costs less than a quater what TNA does.

Sad but true.

All the channels that have carried TNA in the past are now gone, The Wrestling Channel, Bravo, and Extreme Sports, so I do find it hard to image where it will find a home now assuming it survives.
The poor figures, all the question marks over its long term future, and the fact that the contract was up for renewal anyway, must have made it a no-brainer for Challenge to take the opportunity to ditch it.
It will be interesting to see how well ITV's one-off "World of Sport" wrestling revival show goes. If it gets good figures and people say they want more, that might encourage a network like Channel 5 to try showing a few TNA shows (if it still exists of course!) We will see, but I'm not holding out much hope.

Doubt there's anyway they get on another Freeview channel, they're not that lucky.

Taken from TNAs Facebook.

Well so it looks like they're keeping their tails up, at least at the moment!
I hope they do find another outlet in the UK, as they must have more fans here than anywhere outside the States (that's not saying much at the moment I know!)
Challenge did transmit one TNA PPV live, which must have cost them a bomb to do and the audience was probably minuscule. It would be nice to see the shows a bit closer to their US airtime though if someone does take them up. I hope it doesn't end up being only online. I'm sure some of the WWE Network's problem is that many people do actually want to watch shows on "proper TV" not on their computers. Yes you can hook your computer up to the TV if the system allows that, but how many people know that or can be bothered to do it?
Wherever TNA ends up, I do hope it's at least a channel that's on Freeview.

After "Wham!" and "Bam!" style graphics on Channel 5's coverage of WCW, and the way Channel 4 seemed to put random adverts into their coverage of WWE, I hope that they don't end up getting them, not that I think that they will be at all interested in TNA at all.

I don't know how that works now. I would imagine recieving a video signal then broadcasting it wouldn't cost that much to do, or maybe it does.

I said this all year, and I will put money on it when the WWE's contract negotiations come up in the US again, we are starting to see a time when wrestling wont be on prime time TV. WIth WWE Raw, the USA Network will say wait a minute, this show was doing 4 million when we signed the last one, now it's doing under 3 million. Smackdown is even worse. They'll get rid of Smackdown and and offer MUCH less for Raw. All wrestling companies have to look at WWE. All TV companies that get approached with wrestling programming have to aswell because the WWE tells them how well the business is doing, if people are likely to watch or not.


And look at WWE on Sky. You never see Sky Sports show clips from WWE. It's never mentioned on their News channel unless there's a UK Tour. All those indents, men with cricket bats, men kicking a football, you never see anything from wrestling. No channel in the world to my knowledge, if i'm wrong tell me i'm wrong but no channel that i'm aware of actually boasts about showing wrestling. It's a dirty little secret that happens to draw a decent audience. All it does is boosts numbers for the channel, that's all the WWE is here and in the US, the USA Network doesn't care about WWE but they give their channel a boost and even that's not a good thing anymore since less and less people are watching Raw.

Society has moved on. You can't do anything new with wrestling. You're stuck inside a box and Vince Russo was the last one that poked around the corners of that box and drew every bit of blood he could he out of it and boosted the business to a level that it can never reach again. You can't do that again, everything's been used up and like I said before I'm glad that I'm at an age where I was able to enjoy the biggest stars in wrestling at their peak. I've seen all the legends and real stars of wrestling at their best, many of them in person, I'm glad that I can say that I've seen the best wrestling had to offer and lived through it. I can only compare it to The Beatles or Mohammad Ali, it's ok for you to be fans now but to live through it? Forge about it lol. David Bowie too. The young people thought Lady Gaga was something special or all this stuff about sexuality and loving yourself. We seen that with Bowie and Madonna years ago but a lot of people never got to see it.


And that's one reason why i just shake my head sometimes. When I re read what I just wrote about those people, those stars, man.....it'll never be done again. They just don't exist anymore. Even actors. James Dean. Bette Davis. Jack Nicholson. Robert Deniro. Forget about it! You just don't get stars like that anymore. Real stars. Real singers. Real sportsmen. Real talent. Same with wrestling. Wrestling will never be that good again, that's why I know many people online that want to argue with me or send me messages, I know they're youngsters. I know they didn't see what I saw, same with the music fans and sports fans. If they saw what I saw they wouldn't be saying those things. They never knew how good it could be.


I wish TNA well and hope they find a new home in the UK, hopefully free to air. I don't think there's anything else that can be done. I think in this world of 2016 when TV is so sophisticated and people are used to intelligent writing and characters, a lot of these wrestlers look like young boys and girls. They don't look like real men and real women. They don't look as if they have ever been in a real fight in their life and so how can you expect anyone at home to believe they can fight and win a match? They can't. It's just not believable. I hope TNA do well but it will be hard.

LOL. That's up there with vaguely threatening to sue Meltzer because he said Destination America cancelled them as stupidest TNA statement ever.

Anthem apparently want to tape 12-13 impacts over a week four times a year. Not really something someone who cares about spoilers would do.

I can't see anyone taking it.

In the short term, they'll probably try to get it shown on Youtube or via some kind of online medium.