WWE

[Lithium05]

.... Did Kelly Kelly's boobs get bigger?

[metallimuse]

ECW invasion anyone?

[luckysalt]

ECW invasion anyone?

[luckysalt]

This is what Heyman said when asked by Meltzer. I doubt very much he's coming in, and EVERYTHING he says is right.

They want you at the next PPV

"not happening"

What have they said?

"There are no moving parts yet, there won't be but let them try it, good luck to them, if Eric Bischoff can turn it around then good for him. I don't know if he can turn it around, its not happening currently.

I didn't call them, I don't want to get back into wrestling. If I wanted to get back into wrestling I'd go work for Vince"

other gems include

"TNA doesn't have an effing clue on how to make a star"

"They don't know how to do good television, if they did good television they don't know how to market the good television and if they market what they are doing now everyone would say oh god they suck"

"if someone says I wanna be the booker or head writer they are fooling themsleves thats not the answer"

What it would take for him to come to TNA

"Vince Mcmahon has 90-95% of the market share which means TNAs fighting for 10%, that doesn't mean they are worth a lot of money, they may have sunk a lot of money into the product but thats just costs.

TNA need to redefine their company and take 10% away from a then 74 year old Vince McMahon. Then you have a situation where you have a $100 million company, then you take that $100 million company into an IPO it becomes a $275 million $300 million company and if you have a Dana White deal so you own 10% of that you now have $25 million to $35 million dollars.

Thats when I can look at my children and say I'm going to spend a lot of time working but boy am I going to set us up for life. If its that kind of deal where I think I can get the right people, right team and right staff and the right outside people involved to turn the company around with spike tv with ppv buys then having 10%, 7%, 12% of that company and part of the IPO then its insteresting enough to seriously consider."

[Uncle Liam]

He'll be in sooner or later.

The full interview is on youtube somewhere.

[Halcyon]

The full interview is on youtube somewhere.

[luckysalt]

I love to have a drink with Heyman. The guy is just a legend

[Gre]

I don't watch TNA, but;

Bischoff + Russo + Heyman + Hogan + Flair + Nash = either completely awesome, or absolutely unwatchable clusterf**k.

[rexclark]

I don't watch TNA, but;

Bischoff + Russo + Heyman + Hogan + Flair + Nash = either completely awesome, or absolutely unwatchable clusterf**k.

[luckysalt]

I don't watch TNA, but;

Bischoff + Russo + Heyman + Hogan + Flair + Nash = either completely awesome, or absolutely unwatchable clusterf**k.

[luckysalt]

Carlito speaks

On Not Going To Rehab: "They wanted me to go to rehab. My opinion was I didn't need it. I'm not addicted to pills. I think what happened is I was depressed. That thing just creeps up on you. I have scripts (for pain medication); I have legit reasons for using them. I think I was abusing them as anti-depressants instead. I remember other people not in WWE would tell me to go to rehab because it looks good on paper. I said, 'One, I don't want to keep my job. Two, I'm not going to admit to a problem I don't have.'"

On Being Called Lazy: "They turned me babyface and I refused to be a babyface. It wasn't that I was being lazy, but it wasn't just me," Carlito said. "I'm a little disgruntled with the business. I actually have a lot of passion for the business, but I get to the point where I'm very frustrated with certain things. I'm a very vocal person. I don't keep my mouth shut. I don't kiss anybody's ass. I like to give input and if I don't agree with something, I'm not going to just stand by and keep my mouth shut."

Would He Go To TNA?: "I'm open to whatever. I'm listening to offers. The main problem I had with WWE is I didn't want to spend my prime years doing nothing. It was ridiculous what they were doing with me. I refuse to spend my good years doing stupidity. I don't want to be that old guy always looking for his chance to keep the young guys down. I want to have my run and give back to the business."

On Primo: "I try not to influence him and let him have his own perspective. He's young and enjoying it. Right now, he's having a ball. I wish him the best. I don't try to put all my negativity on him. At the end, I was just bitter and miserable. It wasn't me. I was just going off on people and I was just so friggen' frustrated."

[luckysalt]

On my phone so i cant direct quote but after just reading dixies and heymans twitter feeds. Id say the deal is done and heyman is coming in!

[luckysalt]

TNA Victory Road preview video, including opening PPV video at the start, give it a watch great package, especailly Abyss at the start

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS7a7fZnzrw

[luckysalt]

Victory Road is tonight and if anyone doesn't have to get up in the morning Id recommend staying up for it, for me its the best PPV card and build up to a PPV of the year. Should be an absolute belter!

Flair v Lethal, Angle v Pope, Hernadez v Morgan in a cage, Beer Money v MCMG for the vacant tag straps, Love v Raine, Kendrick v Williams in an ultimate X! AJ & Kaz v mystery opponents and RVD v Abyss v Jeff Hardy v Anderson in the main event PLUS they're coming...

This PPV will be quality, hope some of the casuals on here check it out, god knows wrestling been in the toilet but TNA have really upped their game in the last month

[luckysalt]

BTW RVD v Joe from Impact last week was f**king awesome, check it out if you can

[Halcyon]

So I watched victory road last night. Shockingly, it was alright. Not great by anymeans, but decent enough. Flair vs Leathal was great, and Angle vs Pope was good, but the highlight was the Machine Guns winning the belts in a fantastic little match.

There was plenty of overbooked rubbish on the bill too. The bubbha ray and the cage matches were pretty bad, and the ultimate x match made no sense at all. The finish to the women's match was the stupidest thing I've seen for a long time (masked motorcyclist costs rain her belt, so rain rides of with said motorcyclist?!?!).... what ever happened to the womens division?

The main event though. Oh god. Never has group of 4 people been any less over. RvD got absolutely NO reaction coming out, and Hardy is just phoning it in these days (like he did last time he was in TNA). Just a terrible main event match, with no crowd reactions and a lack lustre finish.

At least there was no hogan and bitchoff.

Overall, worth fast forwarding to the Flair match, but after the Machine Guns match turn it off, save yourself 2 hours and be happy.

[Halcyon]

Oh boy... Mexico is going up in flames.

Dr Wagner Jr, Triple A Champion and top company babyface (he is to AAA what Cena is to WWE), has just jumped ship to CMLL.

More to come happarently..

[Uncle Liam]

LOL @ TNA.

[Uncle Liam]

TNA is DYING!

[luckysalt]

TNA is DYING!

[Uncle Liam]

Well,

Dixie is under increasing pressure, after all, its not her money. And she's under pressure from someone who has a clue, i.e. her dad.

Buy rates are under 10000

Bischoff seems to have lost interest

The 'ECW' invasion is a joke. Simon Diamond? WTF?

Heyman doesnt appear to be interested.

For whom the bell tolls...

[luckysalt]

Well,

Dixie is under increasing pressure, after all, its not her money. And she's under pressure from someone who has a clue, i.e. her dad.

WTF? Im sure anyone in her position in any company would be under pressure, but I haven't heard that whatsoever, what child wouldn't be under pressure though im sure Vince put pressure on Shane so much so he f**ked off

Buy rates are under 10000

TNA buyrates have always been in the toilet, no difference here whatsoever, but they have addressed this and said they may stop doing PPV's altogether or less, and focus on fight night specials like UFC do, WWE PPV buyrates are down, compared to the audience WWE gets worldwide for their TV shows, the PPV numbers WWE gets are awful, totally dreadful, WWE website hits are down, their merch sales are down, whereas TNA's merch sales have gone up Im sure I heard 200% in the last year.

End of the day though wrestling PPV buyrates are down, because UFC's are so high, people only have so much to spend, if they do shift to fight night specials and focus on advertising through that for income, that may be the way for TNA to go, but TNA doesn't exactly do anything extra for their PPV's they use the same building don't have to fly the talent extra cus they're there for the next days tapings of impact, no extra pyro, set designs like WWE, so whatever money they make from buyrates is basically all profit for TNA

Bischoff seems to have lost interest

Or rather TNA have lost interest in Bischoff and Hogan, knowing that they have done nothing to help the company other than IMO get RVD to sign, RVD said himself when he heard Hogan was involved it got him interested I wonder if Hogan hadn't come onboard would RVD have signed? Bischoff is apparently worried of Heyman coming in, wants control and has walked in a threat to TNA, TNA don't seem bothered in the slightest

The 'ECW' invasion is a joke. Simon Diamond? WTF?

Simon Diamond is road agent, its not like they've brought him in, road agents always get involved in brawls, WWE have done this since I watched wrestling 20 years ago, A lot of people are moaning that the nexus angle on WWE is trying to create new stars, whereas the old ECW isn't, I don't agree, its chalk and cheese, i have no problem with the ECW angle, as long as thats not all TNA is about, It would seem its just leading to a ECW style PPV next month which I ain't got ANY problme with the WWE sancated One Night Stand PPV was one of THE best PPV's in the past decade. But anything past that its gunna get stale

Heyman doesnt appear to be interested.

Well all words are that he met with Dixie last week, if he wasn't interested he wouldn't have met with her, and he wouldn't be plugging RVD and Victory Road on his website, all the news Ive heard lately is that he IS interested in coming in

For whom the bell tolls...

Really?

They just got their highest US house show attendence ever two weeks ago

Impact ratings are at their highest I believe they have ever been in the USA and in Europe

They're doing great in other areas too planning a Indian tour and last week they were the 4th most watched show in the whole of Australian TV

They have the most star packed roster they've ever had

They're provided quality matches and have direction in storylines and building up matches long term [seriously Impact has been so much better recently]

[Uncle Liam]

You need to see Impact this week!

[luckysalt]

I will, I'm very much looking forward to it, Hardy v Lethal, MCMG v Beer Money in the start of a best of 5 series, Kendrick v Williams, sound like great matches, and of course the ECW invasion at the end which includes the return of Mick Foley, which to me is great news

Edited July 13, 2010 by luckysalt

[When Jokers Attack]

Anyone see that RKO on Raw?