The offical TNA thread - News, Spoilers and the rest...

Charisteas

I also read 8000 for London, 5500 for Manchester, and 3000 for Nottingham.

Headshot

Man i had a good laugh about taz junk bit in the ODB match

rovert

Yelped on this one legitmately:

Headshot

rovert wrote: »

Yelped on this one legitmately:

FAIL

Machismo Fan

Latest episode of Ring Ka King:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEscNU51hZ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC42NJ9vtZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eCtN6LVcpI

GTR63

The Rock a fan of the "IT" factor of pro wresting & Bully Raymond's calves.
http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/1984/the-rock-praises-top-tna-star-ring-ka-king-ratings

rovert

Charisteas

Can't imagine Vince will be too happy to hear about Dwayne promoting the 'other companies' Heavyweight Champion.

He wouldn't even let Punk escort Chael Sonnen to the ring for one of his fights and that wasn't even the same sport.

gnfnrhead

Didnt Punk say he was never confirmed for that and it was simply something that had been discussed? I dont think Vince just decided no, you're not doing that.

As for Dwanye and Bobby, the cynical side of me thinks it may be WWE approved to let Bobby know that people in WWE think he's doing great so that when his contract comes up, he might be willing to jump ship.

GTR63

Charisteas wrote: »

Can't imagine Vince will be too happy to hear about Dwayne promoting the 'other companies' Heavyweight Champion.

He wouldn't even let Punk escort Chael Sonnen to the ring for one of his fights and that wasn't even the same sport.

Considering the amount of back acne Chael had that nite its probably best Punk didn't acompany him. Sonnen ain't straight edge thats for damn sure.

JP Liz V1

rovert wrote: »

Furious Red has Rock and Roode in the draft, I smell a conspiracy

Machismo Fan

WWE should've struck a deal with TNA to bring in Calves and Abs to face Rock and Cena at Survivor Series instead of Miz and Truth.:)

gnfnrhead

Ring Ka King apparently got over 14 MILLION viewers.... I'd love to know what WWE and Impact get over there.

the groutch

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Ring Ka King apparently got over 14 MILLION viewers.... I'd love to know what WWE and Impact get over there.

that is out of a 1.2bn population though

La Coka Nostra

Its not that bit where he says hes nothing against us is it?

gnfnrhead

the groutch wrote: »

that is out of a 1.2bn population though

Doesnt take away from it really. Im not an expert on Indea but from the outside it looks like an awful lot of the country are in poor living conditions. 1.2bn skews that a little as a result, how many of them have access to a TV? Using that number would be a fairer assesment imo.

Either way, I doubt WWE or Impact would get anywhere close to that number.

jaykhunter

TNA having the business acumen to tap India as a new source of revenue is nothing short of genius. Having their own wrestling promotion IN India with US wrestlers and their own is a fantastic idea. I think they'll do great. I've been in India -when Khali was champion no less- and the WWE shows/ads/fan reactions were all about him.

It'd also be better to see where they are ~8 episodes down the line, so their audience stabilizes. The XFL got a 9.5 rating their first match

rovert

jaykhunter wrote: »

TNA having the business acumen to tap India as a new source of revenue is nothing short of genius.

AND TNA getting Endemol as a partner instead of say Bischoff-Harvey Productions.

Hopefully this wont be a fad like Wrestling in Italy was in the mid to 00s.

jaykhunter

Is that how bret met his ex-wife? If so then it wasn't a total bust hiyooooooo!

Charisteas

Dunno about Bret's wife, but pretty sure that The Ultimate Warrior beat Orlando Jordan for their WHC and he still hasn't defended his title 5 years later.

jaykhunter

I have a feeling that was Spain?

Cherry_Cola

Didn't Rikishi own one of those Italian prmotions? Remember seeing it on the Wrestling Channel a few years ago.

Charisteas

Yeah I think Barcelona, but i'm sure it was an Italian promotion.

I like to think I know my Orlando Jordan trivia!

rovert

jaykhunter wrote: »

Is that how bret met his ex-wife? If so then it wasn't a total bust hiyooooooo!

Yep. She was an obsessive fan who met him at an autograph signing. Who also went to one of his signings in early 90s as a child.

jaykhunter wrote: »

I have a feeling that was Spain?

It was.

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

Didn't Rikishi own one of those Italian prmotions? Remember seeing it on the Wrestling Channel a few years ago.

He did along with Mafia types.

The Italian boom was first. Smackdown aired in Italy was really big and was then taken off air. So they viewed ex-WWErs as stars. The first tour drew huge. Then they started putting Cena and Mysterio on posters didnt deliver and killed off interest. Then they moved to Spain.

Machismo Fan

Above all else, that promo by Magnus was just great last night (even if it was a complete face promo (which was entirely understandable given the circumstances)). The man is a star.

Riddle101

Machismo Fan wrote: »

Above all else, that promo by Magnus was just great last night (even if it was a complete face promo (which was entirely understandable given the circumstances)). The man is a star.

Agreed, next to Storm, Roode and Daniels. Magnus is one my favorite TNA wrestlers. He's only 26 as well, so he's quite young. Hogan should have called him the future of TNA and not Bischoff's son.

rovert

Breaking Exclusive: TNA Makes Major Creative Team Change
by Nick Paglino February 12, 2012

According to several TNA sources, Vince Russo is no longer a part of the TNA creative team, and former WWE creative team member Dave Lagana is now the new head of TNA creative. The previous head of creative had been Bruce Prichard, who as far as we have been told is still working with TNA.

Dave Lagana had formerly been working with TNA on the new Ring Ka King promotion in India. More on this developing story as it becomes available.

The king is dead

Machismo Fan

If it ends up being confirmed here's a picture of me with the man himself to mark the occasion (I bet my brother that if we ran into Vince Russo during BFG Weekend I'd take a picture with him with a nice cheesy grin and 20 seconds later we turned the corner and there he was, terrible Batman tattoo and all):

jaykhunter

This news is far too good to be true. It's not even April! Hopes low

rovert

@SethMates
I want wrestling. Lose the i, lose the w, shift the remaining letters. TNA wrestling. How did u guys not break the code years ago?