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I still remember the tag line, "its not about weight limits, it is about no limits!", in regards to the X-division, (probably a reason to allow Samoa Joe into it in the first place), which I thought was quite a good one.
Now though, it just seems like yet another cruiserweight division, with barley enough people there to call it a division. TNA has lost its way recently, and lost what set it as part from WWE, now more so than ever, it just looks like a direct copy sadly. (Before anybody says, ECW did not fold because of lack of fan interest or demand. It ended because Heyman was a financial basketcase who wouldn't accept any help with running that side of things. Taking that into consideration, what they achieved in terms of influence on wrestling as a whole, to the extent that WWE had to adapt their programming to try and match them, was nothing short of incredible) |
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TNA has removed the profiles of Mickie James and Ken Anderson from the roster section on their website.
Mickie James was never any good, not too bothered about the Knockouts currently as even WWE has stopped spotlighting women's wrestling in favour of reality TV cashin. More and more being cut, no more coming in.....yikes. |
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mickie james is the hottest women in wrestling today
wtf are TNA playing at???? so many releases,could the ride finnaly be over? tv has been great for past year but its all falling apart now, impact was boring this week bar sabin heel turn. |
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Mickie James is far from the hottest to be fair... but each to their own.
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Mickie James is far from the hottest to be fair... but each to their own.
her and aj lee rule the land just seen aj pipebomb inspired promo, pretty good except most of the wrestlers he mentioned are just flip floppers and not real wrestlers(bar shelley), dixie turning heel lol looks like TNA is going back to high school gym booking. would be good if hogan sticks around and him and dixie try to push their product and aj gets jarret on his side and pushes his they could do 1 hour wraslin booking and 1 hour sports entertainment. would be unique |
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The "Wrestler Roster" page on their website is certainly looking in a sorry state now. It would be even smaller but you have Abyss and Joseph Park. You have Christy, Jeremy Borash, Taz, Tenay, Spanish Willie and Spanish Hector on there who are not active wrestlers at all. Rampage is still listed as is King Mo. It's all looking a bit ominous and one wonders how the up-coming winter UK tour will go this time.
I guess the Sabin heel turn is worth a try after the horrendous situation with Bully and the brief title run. He won by a cheat, they had two diabolical matches (those two should never face each other again) and really his face persona was only suitable to be one of the reasonably good contenders within the X division (if there still was an X division to speak of in TNA). As for the Dixie heel turn, you would think they would have learned not to try silly storylines involving her and AJ after the Claire Lynch nonsense. With so few Knockouts left to have wrestling matches, maybe it is good for the ones that remain to just appear in high heels as girlfriends of the male wrestlers with perhaps the occasional scuffle between them. |
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(Before anybody says, ECW did not fold because of lack of fan interest or demand. It ended because Heyman was a financial basketcase who wouldn't accept any help with running that side of things. Taking that into consideration, what they achieved in terms of influence on wrestling as a whole, to the extent that WWE had to adapt their programming to try and match them, was nothing short of incredible)
Unfortunately, Vince's ego would never allow such a thing to happen.
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The "Wrestler Roster" page on their website is certainly looking in a sorry state now. It would be even smaller but you have Abyss and Joseph Park. You have Christy, Jeremy Borash, Taz, Tenay, Spanish Willie and Spanish Hector on there who are not active wrestlers at all. Rampage is still listed as is King Mo. It's all looking a bit ominous and one wonders how the up-coming winter UK tour will go this time.
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AJ Styles came across like a proper tool on Impact last week. He sounded like a typical YouTube commentor moaning that the latest indy darling isn't employed, and the big mainstream stars are...
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I think Mickie's gone too!
Just checked the roster page as not seen it for a while, theres loads gone ![]() Hogans supposed to have gone to now as well. |
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TNA is in a bad way. I think the writing is on the walls. WWE will pick off the scraps Angle, Sting & Hogan on legendary contracts however I doubt there would be many on the roster that McMahon will be interested in on a full time basis. Austin Aries, Jeff Hardy and AJ Styles may be decent mid-carders.
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Did I miss them, or was there no sign of anyone from the small tag team division this week??
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Did I miss them, or was there no sign of anyone from the small tag team division this week??
Aces are looking threadbare, most of their members cut, same for MEM, X Division is screwed, not surprising they canned Ultimate X format, they only have about 4 Xers left. Knockouts is empty, more leave weekly or are cut....worse still the writers seem to have lost the plot completely. Dixie and AJ? AGAIN? No thanks, it just isn't working. Dixie heel for an AJ face is not a good idea...at all. Sabin heel? Of all the wrestlers cut they keep the one with zero charisma who can't pull off a heel turn to save his life, no presence at all. Aces and MEM is barely worth using anymore, both might soon be tag teams and nothing more if they keep shedding members like they have been. Might stop watching soon, its getting so dire its barely watchable. |
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Wonder if thats why they had ODB win the belt then.
Just checked the roster page as not seen it for a while, theres loads gone ![]() Hogans supposed to have gone to now as well. |
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It does seem a bit of a farce to have both Abyss and Park listed, but then I cannot remember but did they WWE have all three of Mick's alter ego's listed at one stage or not?
41 listed on the website roster...so 40 in truth. 7 are not wrestlers. 5 knockouts, including Taryn and Velvet....who we have not seen in ages and Brooke Tessmacher who is arm candy currently for Bully Ray. 4 X Division wrestlers, possibly 5 if you count Rockstar Spud who vanished long ago from sight and zema and Kenny King we haven't seen in ages either. King Mo, Rampage Jackson and Rob Terry are also listed, when was the last time we saw any of those guys? Sam Shaw? I don't even remember who that is. ...its all a bit depressing really. |
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TNA is in a bad way. I think the writing is on the walls. WWE will pick off the scraps Angle, Sting & Hogan on legendary contracts however I doubt there would be many on the roster that McMahon will be interested in on a full time basis. Austin Aries, Jeff Hardy and AJ Styles may be decent mid-carders.
If WWE wanted Aries or Styles they'd have gone long ago. |
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Just been reading that TNA have no house shows scheduled for October at all - it's only apparently a couple of Impact tapings and BFG. If they want to dispel rumours they're in big trouble, this really doesn't help ..
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Just been reading that TNA have no house shows scheduled for October at all - it's only apparently a couple of Impact tapings and BFG. If they want to dispel rumours they're in big trouble, this really doesn't help ..
Still, like I said, as long as Spike still wants wrestling they might be okay. |
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Their live policy seems to be completely nuts, they're running buildings that are way too big for them, the Baltimore Arena they're taping on November 21st in, for example, holds 12,000 people and they haven't a prayer of it being half full. Why they aren't taping at Manhattan Centre / ECW Arena 1500-2000 seat size theatres is a mystery.
Still, like I said, as long as Spike still wants wrestling they might be okay. The international markets could well be the only thing that's keeping TNA from folding completely, regardless of what Spike want. |
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Difference is that would have been more of an amusing fan hat tip, TNA its more to fill boxes.
41 listed on the website roster...so 40 in truth. 7 are not wrestlers. 5 knockouts, including Taryn and Velvet....who we have not seen in ages and Brooke Tessmacher who is arm candy currently for Bully Ray. 4 X Division wrestlers, possibly 5 if you count Rockstar Spud who vanished long ago from sight and zema and Kenny King we haven't seen in ages either. King Mo, Rampage Jackson and Rob Terry are also listed, when was the last time we saw any of those guys? Sam Shaw? I don't even remember who that is. ...its all a bit depressing really. Ramapage,and King Mo can just be chalked off straight away as well, as they are not going to be wrestling anytime soon, if ever, so that takes the number down to 38 then, which is no way to run a company, if you want to create storylines that make any sort of sense, or have any sort of long-term vision. At least when they were using Mexican talent of the international x-Division Cup (or what ever it was called, it has slipped my mind), they had a decent enough roster to back that up. Now if they did that sort of tournement again, the Mexican's might actualy be in the majority!
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The international markets could well be the only thing that's keeping TNA from folding completely, regardless of what Spike want. |
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Also could we see a sort of WCW collapse, as one of the reasons it failed was because they couldn't get a tv company to show the product (if I remember correctly), and without tv, there really is no point, so if Spike were to pull out, that would leave TNA in a very difficult position indeed, as they are not really set up like ROH or anything like that (who I believe run shows over the web).
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It is a shame really, that we are even having these sort of discussions, as I have always had a soft spot for TNA, right from the begining, then again I had a soft spot (and prefered it to the then WWF) for WCW, and look how that panned out!
My soft spots for companies don't really seem to help them too much! I remember the classic early days of the Asylum, and the Red Shirt Security, and all that side of things, right through to where we are now. I hope that it pulls through and gets better, as the last thing the industry needs, is yet another failed company. |
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Even though I don't really watch wrestling all that much any more, I've been a fan for almost 30 years so I suppose I'll always have a vested interest in it and it's success or failure.
If they do fold and leave the WWE as the only "big" promotion left, it'll be a sad day for the business. The likes of Joe, AJ, Roode e.t.c.. would have to earn their trade in places like ROH and other various indies. I suppose it's feasible that they could continue if Spike cancel them as they'd have the money from the international markets coming in. They'd have to scale back the operation again to a single location for filming and PPV's and most likely cut the house shows all together in favour of maybe 2 or 3 international tours per year. They'd have to cut the roster as well and likely re-promote the X-Division as a selling point. In other words, go right back to square one again. It could work, but it would take some working out. |
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Even though I don't really watch wrestling all that much any more, I've been a fan for almost 30 years so I suppose I'll always have a vested interest in it and it's success or failure.
If they do fold and leave the WWE as the only "big" promotion left, it'll be a sad day for the business. The likes of Joe, AJ, Roode e.t.c.. would have to earn their trade in places like ROH and other various indies. I suppose it's feasible that they could continue if Spike cancel them as they'd have the money from the international markets coming in. They'd have to scale back the operation again to a single location for filming and PPV's and most likely cut the house shows all together in favour of maybe 2 or 3 international tours per year. They'd have to cut the roster as well and likely re-promote the X-Division as a selling point. In other words, go right back to square one again. It could work, but it would take some working out. I remember the Monday Night Wars etc, and those were the very peak of competition, it is impossible now sadly to see anything like those same sort of levels of competition between companies. TNA even at its peak was still only small fry, but at least they were pushing above themselves, now they really are only a shadow of their former selves. If they had to cut back to only say somthing,like you suggest, then just who would stick around, their roster is already too small to run a promotion and build feuds etc as it is! I would fear for them if Spike start to make any sort of noises about their future. Good luck to them, as the industry needs them to survive and flourish, but it is not looking good at the moment sadly. |
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