The OFFICIAL NWA Wrestling thread. . . I guess
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PlayerNinety_Nine
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She's really good. I've enjoyed her work in Bloodsport.
If Tony Khan plays his cards right, they could still buy themselves a fleshed out Women's division yet.
Big fan of the way she blew Tessa Blanchard's whole entire shyt up, the day before her greatest achievement, with a single tweet too
I've been a fan since she was in TNA. She'd be a great pickup for AEW's women's division.She's really good. I've enjoyed her work in Bloodsport.
If Tony Khan plays his cards right, they could still buy themselves a fleshed out Women's division yet.
Big fan of the way she blew Tessa Blanchard's whole entire shyt up, the day before her greatest achievement, with a single tweet too
It's got me wondering just how much longer most of the other contracts in NWA are though because she was one of the Day One crew.
Playaz Eyez
Veteran
A fan of Allysin for the same reasons mentioned here. She had a nice Impact run and was a highlight then
TheGodling
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They're returning next week with a new weekly wrestling show called Shockwave. At this rate they're gonna go through names faster than TNA Impact Anthem Impact Again.
So the change of name and background music probably means that they're tossing away the territory fetishism for a more contemporary look then.
Also the ego is something else Billy has gone out of his way to burn every bridge with Anthem since his whole lawsuit with Dixie when had he kept his options open he probably could have snagged a deal on AXS/Fight Network that would have kept the lights on for the NWA and allowed it to stabilize. Powerr didn't look like a particularly expensive show to produce (relative to something like Impact or WOW) so they probably would have seen value.
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
does that nikka still make music?Checked out Shockwave it's not actually a new show it's just a rerun of the NWA specific matches from the UWN Primetime Live weekly PPV. Corgan definitely shouldn't have burnt bridges.
does that nikka still make music?
If he is then he ain't making money off it man
. I get that there's no planning for something like COVID but the NWA doesn't look like its holding up right now and I'm not sure what his plan is. Are they just going to be a parasite promotion clinging on to their partners until crowds return and then gamble again? Even when crowds come back what are they going to do? Their biggest storyline before COVID involved a guy who got Me Too'd so... you can't revisit that.He doesn't have much to raid in terms of talent, Ricky's already out and he's lost some of the girls. Drake and Aldis are probably the best guys left but what's the market for them?
Pinyapplesuckas
He's A Good Man
i hope it sticks around just to have another option but yeah i see everyone leaving...one of their top producers or whatever also just left. honestly this might be closer to the end but the same could be said for Impact numerous times and they found a way to stick around.If he is then he ain't making money off it man
He doesn't have much to raid in terms of talent, Ricky's already out and he's lost some of the girls. Drake and Aldis are probably the best guys left but what's the market for them?
If they lose Kamille and Aldis tho its pretty much a wrap. I dont know what the market is for them either but i still see potential. then again i thought Bram was the future.
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
Smashing Pumpkins literally dropped an album last week. It sucked ass.does that nikka still make music?
Wouldn't worry too much about Corgan though, he's still eating of those old album sales.
TNA is like WWE in the sense that the perspective of them in the wrestling bubble has never really reflected reality. I know that TNA has sort of become the poster child for "if they can survive then anyone can" but stories of their demise have almost always been greatly exaggerated. They were legit the #2 wrestling promotion in the world and comfortably so.
Since Nitro came through and crushed the buildings the holy grail for wrestling has been TV money. Every other revenue stream is secondary, TNA not only had US TV deals but they're the only company to ever come close to matching WWE's reach internationally and monetize it. They were the only company outside of the WWE since WCW that had the capacity to create new fans, everything else is in the wrestling bubble and you had to be a hardcore fan to care. Not New Japan, not ROH, not AEW (which is designed to cater to smarks anyway). TNA's deals bundled their weekly shows and PPVs just like WWE so even when they had 12k people paying for their PPVs in the US they were still getting paid for those shows. They should have found a way to get the other revenue streams like PPV, touring and merchandising to catch up to TV but they were getting paid regardless. Even when they were at their darkest when Anthem took over Dixie was just sitting around waiting for a payment from India to come in the next month. TNA's problem was never money it was mismanagement of that money.
I didn't just bring this up to big TNA up it's to contrast their model with the NWA's like where's Corgan's India? Their shows were shot in bulk at a studio with a small crowd. They've had like a handful of PPVs and their main weekly show was out on YouTube essentially for free. Where is the money coming from? MLW are out on YouTube but at least they have BeIn too. NWA's model is difficult to sustain. Which is why burning bridges with a TV company that not only wants wrestling but is heavily invested in it doesn't make sense if you plan on being in the wrestling business especially when Anthem did nothing wrong to him, they made him whole after he pumped money to help Dixie in between TV payments. Ego
.Kamille has great potential but her problem is that in virtually all the other companies they have someone to play her role and she's still super green. Where she's at now she essentially needs to be Chyna. The only companies with decent women's divisions are WWE and Impact and they not only have women playing that role they're considerably larger than her. I don't know if Kamille can play the underdog to someone yet or if anyone wants to see that. AEW has Nyla too
. I want the NWA to continue but Billy definitely needs help ASAP.