Re: Topic: Wrestling?

by **Deus001** Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:54 am

[youtube=425,350:1axveopl]YBdpxD9f6QM[/youtube:1axveopl]

Gotta admit the speech that AJ Styles does at 0:03 to 0:52 really fits this whole lone wolf anti hero thing. <img src=

" title="Smile" />

by kerflubble Thu Jul 18, 2013 11:17 am

[quote="Old_Man_Tai":1heol4ue]

Really surprised they let Doc go. Hope TNA can figure out this budget thing soon.

yeah, they're not gonna.

[

by kerflubble Thu Jul 18, 2013 11:18 am

[quote="Old_Man_Tai":1nz27jug]Yeah, probably just wishful thinking. Would still be awesome though.

Really surprised they let Doc go. Hope TNA can figure out this budget thing soon.

Wrestling Observer posted:
Tons of issues going on regarding money stemming from the decision to tape Impact on the road at the cost of $600,000 per taping, with no increase in ratings or revenue. A lot of things are breaking at press time and this is what we know. Itâ€

s the cost of the tapings that have made the financial situation so bad. Dixie Carter had noted before that had she done it earlier she would be risking the future of the company. Many in the company, notably Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, had pushed for getting out of Universal Studios and taping on the road as the needed game changer. But there has been no increase in revenue to offset the expense, and ratings have actually declined.

TNA has made commitments to where it will be very difficult to change from the road tapings until the end of this year. But the big problem is what happens even if they decide they have to go back. Universal has changed the sound stage and it apparently has a tenant, so going back to the old Impact Zone, even if they wanted to do it, appears not to be an option. So they would have to find a new permanent home if thatâ€

s the direction they want to go, but being able to get that with the kind of deal they had in Orlando would be difficult. Plus, what was good about Orlando is that as an attraction at the park, where people could get in free with park admission, there were always hundreds of people who could help fill in and make it look presentable for television. In a new permanent location, whether theyâ€

d be able to maintain a crowd every week would be difficult. Bellator runs weekly and they mostly sell their shows to casinos and let the casinos try and sell the tickets or fill the place. But thatâ€

s a lot easier with an MMA product. TNA has been able to do this for very few shows, although Impact tapings are more attractive in that regard than just house shows. The problem is the belief that wrestling crowds donâ€

t spend money at the casinos as compared to MMA crowds, so the idea is even if they have to paper the tickets for a Bellator, a lot of those people will hang around the casinos to meet the fighters and gamble or spend money at the restaurants and the like.

(normal quotes weren't working)

by Kitten Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:35 am

What is that "people who watch wrestling don't spent money at casinos" thing?

Are they calling them cheap?

by kerflubble Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:02 am

[quote="Kitten":2q5o2fe7]What is that "people who watch wrestling don't spent money at casinos" thing?

Are they calling them cheap?

No gambling on wrestling. So any casino that hosts them wont get the added plus of some morons trying to think they know how a match is gonna go, then blowing all their money on Silva.

by Harrier Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:13 am

I could understand WWE not being able to draw people into a casino with the PG rating, but with TNA they could at least argue that it's a secondary market(Wrestling, them Gambling or the other way around). And someone who can sit through a Celine Dion concert in Vegas can also go and watch wrestling without feeling themselves like even bigger fools.

by **Old_Man_Tai** Sun Jul 21, 2013 2:21 am

Wrestling fans are always being given crap for being wrestling fans. Period.

Mick Foley's first biography/autobiography, whichever version means that he wrote it himself, since he did, all 700 pages, longhand, which became a New York times No.1 Bestseller? According to Foley, it was thought at the time that the book would flop horribly because of a perception that "Wrestling fans either didn't read, or couldn't read."

by **Deus001** Sun Jul 21, 2013 4:39 pm

[youtube=425,350:m5205aux]hVU0MW-IGrM[/youtube:m5205aux]

The thing I like best in this promo besides the humour of flair and lethal? How the rest of flair's team just stay in character during that, I'd be splitting my sides if I was there. <img src=

" title="Laughing" />

by Harrier Sun Jul 21, 2013 6:41 pm

The Nature boy is awesome at mostly everything wrestling related and terrible at everything marrying related.
Jay Lethal is a rather good talent too, but he'll never be big in the business over the stage of ROH and a little bit of TNA.

I always wondered why there is betting on wrestling anyway. It's predetermined and sometimes painfully obvious who will win(Cenawinslol), at least in boxing a lucky punch can happen from time to time.

by Cy_Man Fri Aug 09, 2013 12:48 am

WWE sucks anyway and ruins everything that wrestling stands for.

by Sponsored content