The Official TNA Discussion Thread

[Jello Biafra]

Things got testy at the official weigh-in for the EC3 vs Mike Bennett match:

 

[Jello Biafra]

The King of the Mountain E-Li Drake got the high quality vignette treatment....dummy!


Yeah!

 

[Jello Biafra]

TNA is selling t-shirts through Pro Wrestling Tees now.


That blue Impact Wrestling shirt looks alright.

 

[Jello Biafra]

And the greatest wrestling t-shirt of the year has arrived on the scene:

 

[DaylitoJames]

And the greatest wrestling t-shirt of the year has arrived on the scene:

The fukkery is over 9000.with this

 

[mrken12]

A new TNA Employee

 

[Green Ranger]

According to The Wrestling Observer, TNA is in the process of signing some of its top talent to exclusive contracts, which would allow the company to control the entirety of the said talent’s bookings.

Specifically, TNA is looking to lock down Matt and Jeff Hardy, Bobby Lashley and Drew Galloway, but as of this writing none of the aforementioned names have signed exclusive deals.

It will likely take a sizable money offer from TNA to secure all four names to exclusive deals, as The Hardys consistently get independent bookings and Drew Galloway is doing well for himself in The UK.

In related news, PWTorch.com is reporting that the ownership of the name TNA was taken over by Aroluxe Media LLC on May 3rd, and the company has registered the ownership of the name from May 3, 2016 to 2021. This company still owns the names TNA Wrestling and TNA Entertainment, LLC., as well as names associated with Impact Wrestling. As seen on TV, the name Impact Wrestling has been pushed in recent years.

 

[The Rainmaker]

While TNA Slammiversary was a very good show and TNA will produce a number of hours of Impact Wrestling for a "live" broadcast tonight as well as future episodes for Pop, perhaps their biggest accomplishment was even getting the tapings to take place.

According to a pair of posts made by Dean Broadhead, the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of TNA, on his personal Facebook page on Saturday morning, he had to "secure interim financing" with a 12 hour window in order for "production trucks to roll" for this weekend's events.

Aroluxe had been handling the financial end of TNA's TV production, so it may have been a case of the company having to reimburse them in order to have them to move forward with producing the PPV and TV.

Broadhead wrote that between Thursday and Friday of last week, he logged over 80 phone calls on his cell phone to attorneys, vendors, bankers and employees. Broadhead noted he had a 12 hour timeframe to deal with lawyers, bankers, accountants and owners and given that they were spread out over the world, that required all of his phone calls.

Broadhead commented, "Maybe it's time to retire. But maybe not until everything is in it's right place."

Should Broadhead follow through with that, it would be a major loss for TNA as we've heard from sources that Broadhead's financial management is a major reason the company has been able to exist the way it has the last few years.

TNA has been meeting with a number of potential investors and "strategic partners" in recent months. Obviously, they need to strike a deal soon because there's only so many times they can continue to duck before the law of averages catches up to them. We are told there are three potential suitors.

As we broke over the weekend, Billy Corgan is either close to or has come on board as a new minority owner in the company, so it's possible his investment helped the company salvage the weekend.

Still kicking out at 2.9999999999999999999999999

 

[mrken12]

 

[The Rainmaker]

Not going to spoil the rest of the shows but seems like Matt and Jeff going to have an "empty arena" match at Matt's house and you know that shyt is going to be outrageous


And Seargent Stumpy is gone.

Also this:

 

[DanielAlfredsson]

Dave Meltzer putting over Bobby Lashley big time on the latest audio update, talking about how he much he has improved, particularly his promos, and how he carries himself as champion better than anyone else in North America right now

I will say, they have some talent at the top of the card. If you need 3 strong faces and heels at the top of the card, they have a decent base with EC3, Drew, and Bobby. Need some more star power to augment that though.

 

[mrken12]

TNA Impact Wrestling Possibly Moving To Thursdays - WrestlingInc.com

This was expected by many when WWE announced that SmackDown goes live on Tuesday nights but Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that there is lots of talk about TNA moving Impact Wrestling back to Thursday nights.

TNA begin airing on Spike TV back in 2005 on Saturday nights and later moved to Thursdays in April 2006. They briefly moved to Mondays in 2010 and Wednesdays in 2014 before moving to Friday nights on Destination America, beginning in 2015. Impact moved to Wednesdays in June of that year before returning to Tuesday nights on POP TV this year.

The move back to Thursday nights has not been confirmed but there are definitely talks going on as Impact will likely take a hit in the ratings due to SmackDown, beginning July 19th with the WWE Draft show.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

TNA Impact Wrestling Possibly Moving To Thursdays - WrestlingInc.com

This was expected by many when WWE announced that SmackDown goes live on Tuesday nights but Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that there is lots of talk about TNA moving Impact Wrestling back to Thursday nights.

TNA begin airing on Spike TV back in 2005 on Saturday nights and later moved to Thursdays in April 2006. They briefly moved to Mondays in 2010 and Wednesdays in 2014 before moving to Friday nights on Destination America, beginning in 2015. Impact moved to Wednesdays in June of that year before returning to Tuesday nights on POP TV this year.

The move back to Thursday nights has not been confirmed but there are definitely talks going on as Impact will likely take a hit in the ratings due to SmackDown, beginning July 19th with the WWE Draft show.

they need to move back to wednesdays
that was the goat day

 

[RammerJammer]

TNA Impact Wrestling Possibly Moving To Thursdays - WrestlingInc.com

This was expected by many when WWE announced that SmackDown goes live on Tuesday nights but Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that there is lots of talk about TNA moving Impact Wrestling back to Thursday nights.

TNA begin airing on Spike TV back in 2005 on Saturday nights and later moved to Thursdays in April 2006. They briefly moved to Mondays in 2010 and Wednesdays in 2014 before moving to Friday nights on Destination America, beginning in 2015. Impact moved to Wednesdays in June of that year before returning to Tuesday nights on POP TV this year.

The move back to Thursday nights has not been confirmed but there are definitely talks going on as Impact will likely take a hit in the ratings due to SmackDown, beginning July 19th with the WWE Draft show.

The NYC was tapings in '14 was some of the best shyt TNA ever put on Thats when they moved to Wednesday's

The peak of Negrolution

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

its offical, they going to thursdays