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[YYC]

I don't get the hate for the six-sided ring. It was something different, and made for some cool spots on occasion.

[Leppardmania]

I saw the PPV.....I thought it was decent.

The good:

They dropped the 6 sided ring

The A.J. Style's heel turn w/Flair could be very interesting.

Anderson (Kennedy) to TNA.......he could fit very well in TNA if he can stay healthy.

Tara winning the belt back. TNA has a solid women's division.

The nWo losing their match.....glad to see them put the new guys over.

The bad:

Sean Morley..........who cares about this guy?

Brooke Hogan......please take her out of the front row....she is sooo annoying!

[Caustic Queen]

If I remember right, way back when Morley was doing the Val Venus thing, he wasn't actually that bad in ring, but his promos are terrible. He may have possibilities. Not exactly who I would call up to help get a company going against WWE, but he was worth watching back then.

As far as the 6 sided ring... well it was cool, and it did enable some different things to be done. I think I would have wanted it to stay, but I can see where people would look at it and not take TNA seriously, so I guess it had to go.

Val Venus was a joke.
He was one of the ugliest guys back in the day and was suppose to be a sex symbol???
Only George the Animal Steele would have been a worst choice to make a "sex symbol".

I think Russo's work is already speaking for itself.
Tara beating ODB 2 out of 3 in a row has "STUPIDITY" written all over it.
Who wants to take bets on how long it will take Russo to put Tara in a Bra and Panties match?

I get the feeling that Vince and his wife were sitting at home laughing at TNA last night and using the words "sucker" and "idiots" a lot.

[Monty610]

I don't get the hate for the six-sided ring. It was something different, and made for some cool spots on occasion.

Ditto. And it set TNA apart if you ask me.

But nobody is asking me, so Hogan can do whatever he wants...

[ozzyrulz777]

I am a little upset that they got rid of the six sided ring. That help set TNA apart from WWE a little.

[ozzyrulz777]

Also there is not a live TNA on Spike tonight. It is a Star Wars marathon.

[tripsgirl]

Russo has been in TNA since 2006...
This Nu shit is Hogan & Bischoff...

Return to TNA creative team (2006-present)

On September 21, 2006 TNA president Dixie Carter re-signed Russo as a writer on the TNA creative team

[Angry Jew]

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http://www.wrestlingradioawards.com

1) 2009 Show Of The Year-Monday Night Mayhem

2) 2009 People's Choice Award (Favorite Show)-Monday Night Mayhem

3) 2009 Male Interview Of The Year-Bill Goldberg on Monday Night Mayhem

4) 2009 Media Interview Of The Year-Ice-T and CoCo on Monday Night Mayhem (yes the rapper Ice-T from Law and Order and his hot-ass wife,Coco!)

5) 2009 Female Interview Of The Year-Nancy O' Dell (ACCESS HOLLYWOOD)-Monday Night Mayhem

6)Host Of The Year-Blade from Monday Night Mayhem
(yeah, not the coolest on-air name and it was stolen from The Blade Runners-Sting/Ultimate Warrior tag team back in the day)

7) 2009 National Wrestler Of The Year (Select as many as you wish)

2009 Match Of The Year (Select as many as you wish)


9) Most deserving of being pushed in 2010 (Select as many as you wish)

10) Hottest Wrestling Babe (Select as many as you wish)
(For 7-10, vote for whoever you want, I picked pretty much,Matt Hardy,Jeff Hardy and Shawn Michaels for everything except Hottest Wrestling Babe , I picked Maryse)

Let me know who you guys pick for 7-10
Yes, I know Umaga is up for Most deserving of a push in 2010. I can you Sludgers pulling some shit so that he wins too:)

[OverMe]

Before tonight's TNA iMPACT tapings began in Orlando, members of the TNA staff addressed the crowd at the iMPACT Zone about their behavior.

Fans were told not to curse, make obscene gestures or gang signs. The fans were referred to as "cast members" and were basically told they needed to be quiet, according to a fan in attendance.

This is likely another decision made by Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, who haven't been pleased with some of the reactions from the TNA crowd lately.

[Monty610]

Before tonight's TNA iMPACT tapings began in Orlando, members of the TNA staff addressed the crowd at the iMPACT Zone about their behavior.

Fans were told not to curse, make obscene gestures or gang signs. The fans were referred to as "cast members" and were basically told they needed to be quiet, according to a fan in attendance.

This is likely another decision made by Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, who haven't been pleased with some of the reactions from the TNA crowd lately.

This shit has GOT to backfire on them.

Sure, lets piss off the fans in the ONE live venue we work in...

[ultraphobic71]

Before tonight's TNA iMPACT tapings began in Orlando, members of the TNA staff addressed the crowd at the iMPACT Zone about their behavior.

Fans were told not to curse, make obscene gestures or gang signs. The fans were referred to as "cast members" and were basically told they needed to be quiet, according to a fan in attendance.

This is likely another decision made by Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, who haven't been pleased with some of the reactions from the TNA crowd lately.

[Angry Jew]

Credit: PWInsider.com

Hulk Hogan was a guest on this morning’s Bubba the Love Sponge program and revealed that the reason Bubba the Love Sponge was sent home from yesterday’s production meeting was because he was assaulted by TNA star Awesome Kong.

BUBBA: She was wearing wrestling gear, and she came in on me and sucker punched me right on my left cheeck, and I was like, what’s going on… then she came out me again, hit me again in the mouth, and she goes, “This if for Haiti! This is for Haiti!” and I’m lke “What is going on?” Finally I put my left hand out and push her away from me, and she comes at me again and I just cover up, because I cannot fight back on a woman. Not only will I be fired from TNA, which I probably am, but my radio career is gone if I take a woman out!

HOGAN: I tell you what, after what happened, if you had clocked her you’d have got away with it. What nobody knows, and this is the real truth, that there were certain people there… she should get off the property, she should be fired immediately, that’s it. It was so violent. You could have actually lost an eye, you could have had your teeth knocked out. But, to give you your creedo, you are the one who said not to fire her.

[BlizzardBass]

Hogan is destroying this. Telling the crowd to act a certain way?! This is why I don't watch wrastlin' anymore.

[Caustic Queen]

Credit: PWInsider.com

HOGAN: she should get off the property, she should be fired immediately, that’s it. It was so violent. You could have actually lost an eye, you could have had your teeth knocked out. her.

Let the firing of women who don't look good in Bra & Panties begin.

Hogan/Bitchoff will kill TNA within a year.. it's a guarantee...

[Angry Jew]

Credit: PWInsider.com

HOGAN: she should get off the property, she should be fired immediately, that’s it. It was so violent. You could have actually lost an eye, you could have had your teeth knocked out. her.

Let the firing of women who don't look good in Bra & Panties begin.

Hogan/Bitchoff will kill TNA within a year.. it's a guarantee...

Umm,no. Hogan just gave Kong/Hamada the tag belts. Nobody wants to see either of them in a bra/thong but they are still getting a push. Hogan is a major proponent of Kong behind the scenes. He said she should have been fired for sucker punching Bubba in the face in a production meeting.

Eric and Hogan have increased TNA's ratings up from the 1.0 they have had for years.It's gonna take time to get to a 2.0 and beyond. So far,they have done what TNA couldn't do and that is get people talking and the ratings up.

[tripsgirl]

Credit: PWInsider.com

HOGAN: she should get off the property, she should be fired immediately, that’s it. It was so violent. You could have actually lost an eye, you could have had your teeth knocked out. her.

Let the firing of women who don't look good in Bra & Panties begin.

Hogan/Bitchoff will kill TNA within a year.. it's a guarantee...

Umm,no. Hogan just gave Kong/Hamada the tag belts. Nobody wants to see either of them in a bra/thong but they are still getting a push. Hogan is a major proponent of Kong behind the scenes. He said she should have been fired for suckerpunching Bubba in the face.

Eric and Hogan have increased TNA's ratings up from the 1.0 they have had for years.It's gonna take time to get to a 2.0 and beyond. So far,they have done what TNA couldn't do and that is get people talking and the ratings up.

I think they should give her a raise,if she stabed him the
neck give her the company!!!

[Caustic Queen]

Umm,no. Hogan just gave Kong/Hamada the tag belts. Nobody wants to see either of them in a bra/thong but they are still getting a push. Hogan is a major proponent of Kong behind the scenes. He said she should have been fired for sucker punching Bubba in the face in a production meeting.

Eric and Hogan have increased TNA's ratings up from the 1.0 they have had for years.It's gonna take time to get to a 2.0 and beyond. So far,they have done what TNA couldn't do and that is get people talking and the ratings up.

Umm.. sorry, but I think your optimistic view is short sited.

The rating went up .. of course.. who doesn't want to see a train wreck?
I admit, I want to see it.
But as for long term viewers, I seriously doubt they are going to find many with Bitchoff running his mouth week after week and the ring looking like lunchtime at the Old Folks home.

As for Kong... she won't last... neither will any of the women who aren't "doing the right thing".

[ultraphobic71]

To any wrestling fan,help me with this 2-part question:
With TNA bringing in Hulk Hogan,Eric Bischoff,X-Pac,Mr Kennedy,Jeff Hardy,The Nasty Boys,Scott Hall,Val Venis,Orlando Jordan,Ric Flair,Brian Kendrick,Shannon Moore and Tommy Dreamer,Did they
(1)At the very least double their average ratings.
(2)The amount of money they are now spending,is it justified?I pretty sure that some of these guys are just short term deals,but that alot of money being spent here.I still say they sign Paul Heyman and fire Vince Russo.I remember in Jerry Jarrett book about the early days of TNA,he didin't like the fact that Jeff Jarrett wanted to bring in Vince Russo from the get-go.Turns out,he's right right!!

[Garbageman]

Eric and Hogan have increased TNA's ratings up from the 1.0 they have had for years.It's gonna take time to get to a 2.0 and beyond. So far,they have done what TNA couldn't do and that is get people talking and the ratings up.

Remember there's a difference between people stopping to look at a car crash and building a following. The way things are going, they might turn off a lot of their original fanbase in another month or so, and they sure haven't done enough to replace those people...especially if they think they'd have a chance at going head to head live!


And if Kong is canned, we riot!
(especially because they'll probably replace her with Mae Young)

[Lardbucket]

Vince is probably praying to his demonic overlord for TNA to fire Kong.
I know he's all about "divas", but he'd probably have Kong wrestling guys.
Kong's the only woman on TNA's roster who makes me want to watch her matches. I slobber like a retarded kid when The Beautiful People appear on the screen, but I really like to watch Kong work.

[Leppardmania]

The TNA women's division is solid from top to bottom, IMO. They can out-wrestle and out-entertain the WWE Divas anyday of the week.

Knockouts>Divas

[Leppardmania]

Naysayers can say what they want, but the fact remains that since Hogan/Bischoff have showed up TNA has enjoyed 2 of its biggest ratings in their 7-year history.....they are obviously doing something right so far.

[Lardbucket]

Naysayers can say what they want, but the fact remains that since Hogan/Bischoff have showed up TNA has enjoyed 2 of its biggest ratings in their 7-year history.....they are obviously doing something right so far.

IMO it's still curiosity. Let's see if they can sustain it after they run out of "shocking acquisitions" and they have to rely on booking. I hope they can, but I really doubt it.

[Leppardmania]

Naysayers can say what they want, but the fact remains that since Hogan/Bischoff have showed up TNA has enjoyed 2 of its biggest ratings in their 7-year history.....they are obviously doing something right so far.

IMO it's still curiosity. Let's see if they can sustain it after they run out of "shocking acquisitions" and they have to rely on booking. I hope they can, but I really doubt it.

My guess is if they stay on Thursday Nights with pre-taped shows they can sustain this 1.3 rating they got this past Thursday.

But if they can go live on Mondays I think they will have good chance of increasing their ratings even higher over time.

[tripsgirl]

TNA are talking about going from 8 to 10(Mondays) so
its only one hour head to head with the WWF...

[Angry Jew]

TNA are talking about going from 8 to 10(Mondays) so
its only one hour head to head with the WWF...

I always thought they should do that. That way they still get the WWE's audience. If they wanna go up against the WWF though,they better have a time machine

[ozzyrulz777]

Yeah I see this backfiring big time.

[tripsgirl]

TNA are talking about going from 8 to 10(Mondays) so
its only one hour head to head with the WWF...

I always thought they should do that. That way they still get the WWE's audience. If they wanna go up against the WWF though,they better have a time machine

Yeah i still refuse to call it WWE,its still the WWF to me DAMN IT...

[Leppardmania]

Yeah I see this backfiring big time.

I disagree.....going live on Mondays should help their ratings, not hurt them......the Jan. 4th Impact rating was proof of that.

[LAglamrocker]

when your expectations of increasing a 1.0 are low, nowhere else to go but up to an impressive 1.26..ha,ha

TNA or any other promotion will always take the WWE castoffs and try to do something different, but they all are WWElite

so TNA means change, but they are so creative and rebels they cant do anything else with Ken Anderson but his WWE thing, and cant do a different thing with the porn star character

I read online havent seen it yet but does TNA have a briefcase to cash in on a title match or something like that...ha,ha so original...the causal fans laugh at TNA so fucking lame

ill be watching this TNA carcrash show, when I can..so so bad