Impact Wrestling paying $50/day to come out and sit in the crowd :flabbynsick:

[JerseyBoy23]

I was part of the paid crowd. It was quite the experience.

It was through a local casting company, so when I went to the meeting point before the show the company coordinated, I expected to see attractive looking people they could put in the background. You know, get their moneys worth.

Instead, it was basically just wrestling fans who I am sure if they had sent out an alert saying "FREE TAPINGS", they'd have gladly attended without the $50. The guy coordinating it told us to be loud but not offensive with our chants and asked if anyone had any WWE merchandise. Oh, and also please do not mention on any social media that we were paying paid to be there. They made us sign NDAs that no one read before signing. I hope I didn't sign my kidneys away brehs.

The show itself was pretty boring, and I find myself enjoying the TV show more often than not when I watch at home so I'm no hater.

The tapings have no flow, it's a 6 minute match, then a 5-10 minute break, and then another. Very few angles and whatever was done backstage wasn't shown to us.

I had hoped it would feel like an old Raw taping, where it's just live to tape and at least feels like a TV show. Jeremy Borash had the toughest job of the night, trying to get the crowd excited. He must have said "WERE GONNA BE ON TV!!!" 15 times as they taped spots to come out of commercials and have a "hyped" crowd.

They mixed it up with One Night Only matches but provided no context for them expect Borash saying "this is for Pay Per View!". None of the matches were especially strong, but I also can't blame the guys considering they are being asked to wrestle 6 nights in a row.

Despite the paid crowd, there were still a whole lot of empty seats as the tapings started, but it filled up a bit by the mid-way point. The venue is in a trendy-ish part of town with a movie theatre and some restaurants near by so I suspect they just got those people coming out of those things and encouraged them to come in. Some of the faces of people definitely indicated they were amazed by the concept of pro wrestling. Most of these people didn't stay long. Very family heavy as well, but they didn't stick around long either.

Oh, and they said they'd send us an e-Transfer of our $50, but I have yet to see anything.

I left feeling pretty sad about the state of this company and the fate of these wrestlers. If a lot of them aren't second guessing their decision to work for this place after this week then I dunno what to say.

Is it 50 Canadian dollars? I still have a theory that they're going to count you guys to get a production tax break for using Canadians.

 

[GreenGrass]

I am giving hints to vince and the wwe universe. We need another invasion angle, breh. Forget about smackdown versus raw..

 

[LurkNowitzki]

They tried to book me again brehs

REBOOKING TONIGHT - IMPACT


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Hello,

I have been asked to add to tonight's roster - but to focus on using as many of the same people from last night's show.

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Get that bread (maybe) breh

 

[8WON6]

I can't believe a company like TNA just keeps making more and more horrible decisions. WWE puts on a better product with NXT and all they do is just run common wrestling tropes with lots of rookies and washed up indie vets. NXT doesn't even get too gimmicky. TNA needs an overhaul of everything. Even their camera/audio quality just looks too "TNA".. Officially, announce that your wrestling "universe" is going to hit a reboot. Officially call yourselves Impact Wrestling and drop anything TNA/GFW related. Run with that basic blue/black/white color scheme. Completely start from scratch. Start with basic wrestling and storylines. Certain wrestling things will always work. I might be in the minority, but the 6 sided ring looks retarded. It always has and it always will. Seems like people keep trying to duct tape whats already there, when they really need to reboot. That match I tuned into from their PPV over the weekend with Moose and Lashley was one of the worst matches I've ever seen. (Granted it had MMA people in it). But that was one of the worst matches I've ever seen. Indie promotions can book better matches than that. I really want there to be viable non-wwe places for wrestlers to go in the U.S. It seems like TNA just attracts shytty minds or something.

 

[richaveli83]

They tried to book me again brehs

REBOOKING TONIGHT - IMPACT


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Booking Smyth Casting
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Hello,

I have been asked to add to tonight's roster - but to focus on using as many of the same people from last night's show.

If you can attend again tonight, please email me back ASAP so I can get you into the mailing list for further details.

Thanks,
Shelby
Casting Associate