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gnfnrhead

How the fcuk do you not realise the contract of one of your best guys is about to expire?

Charisteas

gnfnrhead wrote: »

How the fcuk do you not realise the contract of one of your best guys is about to expire?

No idea, ask Jim Ross and Jeff Jarrett :pac:

D2D

Bobby Roode and TNA have worked out the contract issues. We have been told his contact expiring was Bruce Prichard's fault, but the situation has been rectified.

Just about tonight's PPV

He is in San Antonio, TX and he will be working tonight's PPV.

gnfnrhead

Bruce needs a good smack upside the head. He'd want to check who else has their contract coming up just in case.

Surely its just a case of getting the dates, adding them to the calender on his laptop and setting a reminder a few weeks/months before hand. Once he gets that reminder, tell whoever is in charge that certain contracts are up soon. Simple. You think they'd have learned after almost losing Bully and Devon only a few months ago.

EdK

They could well have lost him if you leave a top talent without a contract.Bruce Pritchard is inept obviously you should have a list of contracts expiring listed month by month pinned to your fridge or something if you are in that job.

GTR63

Watching Impact describing the Roode story to my brother, he said that Pritchard should of been Aces and 8's VP, he wore a leather jacket and all.
Now Taz is complaining about not being told he was fired from Gutcheck, ha.

Headshot

That Gut Check is a bit of a joke at this stage

EdK

Headshot wrote: »

That Gut Check is a bit of a joke at this stage

Lei'D Tapa is green,awkward and cut the same promo twice in 2 minutes you'd wonder what's going on with these decisions

Headshot

EdK wrote: »

Lei'D Tapa is green,awkward and cut the same promo twice in 2 minutes you'd wonder what's going on with these decisions

Friends in high places I reckon

EdK

Headshot wrote: »

Friends in high places I reckon

Yeah she's not the kind of woman you see in wrestling all the time but that doesn't count if she's no good

Furious-Red

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Furious-Red

Also just seen this on Wrestletalk that Jesse Sorensen has taken a job in the marketing department in TNA . Looks like he wont be wrestling anymore which is sad

Headshot

Furious-Red wrote: »

Also just seen this on Wrestletalk that Jesse Sorensen has taken a job in the marketing department in TNA . Looks like he wont be wrestling anymore which is sad

man that is such a pity

Would of been wonderful to see him against Zema Ion

Machismo Fan

Random fact: Eric Young and ODB are now the first champions in TNA history to have a reign longer than a year.

Furious-Red

As previously reported, Rob Van Dam is not booked for tonight’s TNA iMPACT! tapings in Chicago. The reason for that is because his contract expired over the weekend.

While both sides are currently talking about a new deal, at this time, RVD is a free agent.

We posted the following late last night here on the website:

Rob Van Dam’s TNA contract is expiring very shortly, possibly this week. If not this week, then at some point next week. He didn’t appear at the Lockdown pay-per-view and there are rumors he may not re-sign with the company.

When asked by a fan on Twitter if he was looking forward to being in Chicago, IL for Thursday’s live iMPACT!, he replied with the following “Ill be in Cali. More on that in a few days.”

Wouldnt really miss him tbh

Riddle101

Didn't RVD sign a deal with WWE or something?

Charisteas

The TNA website has been hacked............. by Aces and Eights

starviewadams

No great loss letting RVD go,been phoning it in for the majority of his TNA career.

gnfnrhead

starviewadams wrote: »

No great loss letting RVD go,been phoning it in for the majority of his TNA career.

He's been phoning it in ever since he and Sabu got busted all those years ago.

Machismo Fan

Interview with Jesse Sorensen:

On where he is health and job-wise:
"Health wise, I feel I’m pretty close to 100 percent. I’m still doing rehab on my neck. I rehab 3 times a day. As for a job, I was wanting to come back and wrestle but my neck still has some issues, bumping and everything like that, so as of now I’m doing marketing and production for TNA, I’m backstage now."

On whether he'll be able to get in the ring again:
"Yeah, I think so, eventually. I think right now they’re just concerned on all the miles on my neck. If I was coming back right now for a one time deal it might not be that big an issue but to go back on the road full time would just be too tough on my neck right now. It’s only been about a year and a month now since I broke my neck."

On cry of support he received from the fans:
"I was extremely surprised. I remember when I first got to the hospital I told Dixie Carter that I don’t want everyone to forget about me since I wasn’t on TV that long and then instantly, within 2 days, my twitter went from around 1,500 people to around 12,000 people. It was cool to see everything blow up like that. But of course I was paralyzed at the time so I wasn’t really using my hands to tweet a whole lot."

On what he went through that night against Zema Ion:
"The move, I don’t even remember exactly how it happened or what happened, I just remember I turned around and I see Zema do the moonsault and it looked like he was overshooting so I stuck my hands up to block and clearly that didn’t happen. I felt the knee hit me in the head and I blacked out at the time and then referee Brian Stiffler rolled out and checked on me, said, 'hey, you alright?' At first, I felt like I was fine, well then in my head I’m telling myself to push myself up just to get up and I look over and my wrists are completely bent in and nothings moving. Then I remember Stiffler rolled back out and he was like, 'hey, you know I’m going to count you out, you have to get up,' and I said, 'I can’t move, I’m paralyzed.' "

On Zema reaching out:
"Well it was really weird because him and I were really good friends before the incident. We had actually roomed together a lot and after the incident I didn’t hear from him really at all for probably 6 months. Didn’t hear a word and it was really weird because me and the guy were pretty decent friends and we both came in to TNA about the same time and he was one person, of course, I expected to hear from and never got a call or a text or anything. I think he might have come by the hospital one time but never really heard from him at all. It was weird because I did the X Division PPV in June or July and that was the first time I had even seen him since it happened. He came up, shook my hand like nothing had ever really happened and I remember for a while I was wondering should I reach out to this guy because I was hearing from people in the business that I didn’t even know, guys that aren’t even in this company, maybe I should just wait on him. It was just weird because we were friends and I was getting calls and texts from all sorts of people, I made so many friends in this business because of my injury, but I at least expected a 'hey bro, how you doing? If you need anything let me know.' Just something. And I remember I was so heated at him for a long time and then when I went to do the X Division PPV he shook my hand and I was just like, whatever, I'll let it go. And we didn’t really talk that day and then I think it was a week later he wound up working with my friend Dakota Darsow and had a long talk with Dakota about how he was worried about everything and I guess it was just one of those deals where he didn’t really know what to say to me. So then at that point we got on the phone and talked about it. I told him, 'I wasn’t mad at you at all, it’s wrestling, it could happen to anybody.' I said, 'I just wanted to feel like you cared,' and obviously he did care a lot. He was like, 'man, I just thought you instantly hated me, I could of killed you,' and all this stuff. Then we completely squashed everything and it was just a total big misunderstanding. He really did care but he didn’t know how to reach out and I didn’t know how to reach out. But as of now, we're great. We're still boys."

On his recovery:
"My poor mom, she loves wrestling and she’s not a huge fan of me doing it because she’s seen I've blown my knee out, I've separated shoulders, everything like that and I would usually call her after all the TNA events and let her know I'm OK. She was watching the PPV when it happened and she was sitting there with my little brother and my grandma and she’s like, 'o no, it’s probably just part of the show, he’s fine,' and then I remember Dixie called her up from my cell phone so she thought it was me calling and Dixie told her they had me in the ambulance and taking me to the hospital. Well then I remember I got to the hospital and that’s the only thing I wanted to do. I was like, 'just let me call my mom.' They had to completely stabilize me and they finally got on the phone with her and told her he probably won’t make it through the night. So they flew her out first class.

They thought I wasn't going to survive because I broke my C1, my C2 and then I herniated my C5 and C6, but the C1 is like a ring at the top of your skull and it controls all of your range of motion and they said normally what happens is that bone will snap inward and it'll sever all the nerves there which controls your breathing, controls the blood pumping to your brain, everything, and somehow mine went in, hit my spinal cord and bounced back out. So by some miracle that happened but like they said, I had to be completely stabilized, I couldn't move at all that day or that night when I was in the hospital just because any slight movement could cause that bone to go in. So they sedated me for the night and then when I woke up my mom was there and she told me, she was like, 'they said you're not going to move again', because I couldn't feel anything from the neck down. They were like, 'you're not going to move again' and it was funny because I always ate so clean and my mom brought me Wendy's and she’s like feeding me this milkshake and that’s when she decides to drop the news on me. I was like, 'you just ruined all this'. But yeah, they told me I would never move again and then it was almost two days later I moved. They had just come in to talk to me about how things are going to be and I could already move my hands. I didn’t have a lot of feeling but I could move them. Then within about an hour I could feel my feet and everything was coming back and they sent a physical therapist in to work with me and she helped me get out of bed and to the door of the room. Then I walked down this long hallway by myself. Like this 20 foot hallway just by myself."

On getting back into shape so quickly:
"It was weird because anytime I told the story nobody believes that I broke my neck. Then I tell them how serious it was and they're like 'there's no way you broke your neck.' I think I just never really stopped training which in the long run might have affected me a little bit, but I remember being at home in my neck brace and I started losing a bunch of weight so I would do pushups and stuff at home. I had a stationary bike I would ride. I was sitting there in my recliner and I had these 10 pound dumbbells; I was sitting there just doing curls and just sitting around watching wrestling. I guess I never really quit training so I didn’t really lose a whole lot."

On Dixie and TNA's support:
"Dixie has, out of everybody, probably been the most amazing. She's totally taken care of me. When she was in the hospital with me she was just like a mom. She was there before my mom was and was just there telling me everything’s going to be ok and totally took care of me. I mean, she was there from the time I got hurt, she was holding my hand right after I got paralyzed. Dixie has been absolutely amazing. Totally taken care of me and its cool because still to this day some people are like, 'are you going to wrestle? Are you not?' Dixie always tells me, 'I know you’re going to wrestle again. I know it’s going to happen.' So she’s been very positive. So has everyone else at TNA. All the boys, they’re like, 'I can’t wait till you come back and wrestle,' even if we don’t know I can. It’s been really cool. Everybody’s been very supportive, which was cool because I hadn’t been in TNA that long and I was just always a shy kid so I didn’t make a whole lot of friends while I was at TNA. I had the guys I hung out with but it was cool because I got really close to a lot of people after this happened."

On working with TNA but not as a wrestler:
"It’s getting easier, a little bit. My first night doing production was really rough. I hadn’t been around TNA, I stayed away from it and for a while, like right after I got hurt I would watch the product, I would watch as much wrestling as I could because all I thought about was getting back and how soon can I be back. Then I think it was probably 2-3 months down the road, because I spent 3 and a half months in a neck brace and sleeping in a recliner, and I just completely gave up on wrestling. I was like, 'I’m done with that.' I didn’t watch the product for a while. Then I went down to TNA and I was standing in the back with Dixie and just watching all the boys get ready and going over everything, I was like, 'man, that's what I want to be doing.' It was weird seeing all the guys go do their thing and like I feel fine but I just can’t. There’s just no telling what could happen. Doctors said it could be one slam; it could be a thousand before my neck gives out again."

On what he would do if he never wrestles again:
"I've been told by doctors a million times over again now, when they see what I do, I remember my first orthopedic surgeon I guess he thought I did high school wrestling and at my 6 month mark he was like, 'if that’s what you do you're fine, you can go back.' I was like, 'I don’t think you know how this happened.' I showed him some videos and he was like, 'whoa, you can’t do that. There's no way your body can take that.' And then every doctor I’ve seen so far is like there's no way, it's just not going to happen. My mom is totally supportive of it. She's like, 'if you can make it through being paralyzed, you can more than go back.' I see a good career going here in production; everything’s going good. I like it. I’m learning more and I’m really happy that I have the opportunity to do it but I think wrestling-wise, that's what I want to do. I'm 23, so I still have that young fire and want to go.

And that’s the thing; all the older guys are like, 'man, it’s not worth it.' All the older guys they want to stop wrestling and get an office job like I have now. I think it was like my fourth day in ICU, I was laying there and I had seen so many people. I really had not even maybe said hi to Kurt Angle, I was just intimidated by him and then my mom comes in and says, 'you have another visitor.' I was like, 'please, just send him home, do whatever with him,' and Kurt spent his own money and flew down from Pennsylvania just to see me. I had never even really talked to him, I just said hi and respected him and that was it, and he sat there and talked to me for like an hour just about how I was going to get better, how I was going to get a big push when I come back. I remember I was just laying there; I was like, 'Kurt, I’m stuck in a neck brace. This is not going to happen.' And he yelled at me like he was my dad. He was like, 'you know what? You can lay here on your ass and feel sorry for yourself, that’s not going to get you back in the ring, that’s not going to make you walk.' So he motivated me to get up and actually do it. I was supposed to spend like 2 weeks in the hospital and I left in 5 days. So I got out of there pretty quick. ICU was not fun, so I had to get out of there. And the food was terrible."

Furious-Red

Miss Tessmacher and Angelina Love appeared to take shots at each another Friday on Twitter over the topic of tattoos.

Diva-Dirt.com brought the apparent e-fight to light in a story on Saturday. Tessmacher, who frequently answers questions from fans on the website, was asked, “Hey Tess, do you like tattoos on your hands?” In a message that was later deleted, she responded, “On ladies no. Tats should be coverable. Classy not trashy.”

Love, who boasts a large collection of tattoos, appeared to take offense to her former co-worker’s remark by referencing the words “classy” and “trashy.” She wrote, “Laugh of the day! Ppl who don’t know the difference between “classy & trashy” giving opinions on what’s “classy & trashy” LOL!” Soon after, Love posted two fan messages saluting her body artwork.

Tessmacher retaliated with a harsh message knocking Love’s cosmetic appearance, including a shot at the 31-year-old’s much-speculated weight.

“Eating is important, save the surgeries 2ur face when they are actually needed, age graceful, don’t over tan(leather skin) b proportioned,” wrote Tessmacher.

Indicating that she was talking about Love in her biting tweet, Tessmacher added the following fan message to her favorites list on Saturday: “I love how @BrookeTess put @ActualALove in her place after getting butthurt over a comment that wasn’t direct toward her #TeamBrooke.”

Reigning TNA Women’s Knockout Champion Velvet Sky showed her support for Love Saturday by tweeting a photo of her tattooed hand displaying a thumbs-up signal.. Later, Tessmacher earmarked a fan message responding to Sky’s post, reading, “if you want to talk about somebody why don’t you tag @BrookeTess in your tweets?”

GTR63

Ah Women.
Apparently they are having real problems convincing former knockouts from coming back to do the ppv special.

gnfnrhead

GTR63 wrote: »

Ah Women.
Apparently they are having real problems convincing former knockouts from coming back to do the ppv special.

Not surprised. Most leave over money. TNA are probably offering them less now since its a one time deal. With RVD seemingly off the books they could probably use his monthly wage alone to pay for them all and still have money to spare.

Dont know what they are planning for the show but I'd guess a tournament of some sort. In which case:

8 current Knockouts (Velvet, Mickie, Gail, Tara, Madison, Brooke, ODB and Taeler Hendrix or Taryn) for 4 opening round matches, a tag with four former Knockouts, semi finals, singles with two more former Knockouts and then the final as the main event. Throw in a few segments and youre done.

Cant be that hard to find six girls? Love, Kong, Sarita, Rosita, Jackie, Flash, Roxxi, Lacey, Taylor Wilde etc. Thats just former Knockouts too. I'm sure they could find a few Indy girls who would be happy with the tv time for very little money.

Machismo Fan

Alissa Flash, Trinity and Mia Yim

have appeared so far.

GTR63

Machismo Fan wrote: »

Alissa Flash, Trinity and Mia Yim

have appeared so far.

Who the hell is the latter? Any links to ongoing taping spoilers?

Machismo Fan

GTR63 wrote: »

Who the hell is the latter? Any links to ongoing taping spoilers?

An indy wrestler. From what I can piece together from a couple of places and Twitter (I'll post the full spoilers in the One Night Only thread when they're up):

Gail Kim vs. Alissa Flash (a match I'm particularly looking forward to), Mia Yim vs. Tara, Mickie James vs. Serena Deeb, Sojo Bolt vs. Hendrix vs. Blossoms, and Jackie, Jillian Hall, Ivellise, Taryn Terrell, Madison Rayne, Trinity, Tessmacher and ODB are all there aswell.

Sounds like a fun show.

Charisteas

Sounds like a very pointless and missable show to me. It's being pushed as a show to crown the queen of TNA, yet half the talent asked to appear turned them down and so they have had to asked some indy women to appear.

Though I am looking forward to seeing which talent they have for the 10 year reunion show with the six-sided ring tonight.

gnfnrhead

GTR63 wrote: »

Who the hell is the latter?

Mia Yim was Adam Cole's valet in CZW, then a member of the Embassy (one of the new, crap versions) in ROH before eventually debuting in SHIMMER. Havent seen her recently, but she wasnt great then.

Machismo Fan

Charisteas wrote: »

Though I am looking forward to seeing which talent they have for the 10 year reunion show with the six-sided ring tonight.

I will be so, so happy if they have Monty Brown.

jaykhunter

On Zema reaching out:
"Well it was really weird because him and I were really good friends before the incident. We had actually roomed together a lot and after the incident I didn’t hear from him really at all for probably 6 months.[...]"

Hearing Zema going silent after almost kiling Sorensen reminds me of Owen after injuring Austin at SummerSlam 97. He didn't ride with Austin to the hospital or apologise, and things were strained (at best) afterwards. Maybe it's a case of horrific guilt stopping facing whom he injured. It took 6 months for a mutual friend (Darsow) to start communication. Although there's tons of mutual respect in wrestling it does seem like a very solitary place. Tons of acquaintances but very few friends. (in the big leagues anyway)