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[Silkk]

I'd probably pull a Fresh Prince and fake marry her to get the drawls

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

this non news thread

 

[Playaz Eyez]

the best ive seen her look

Also, did some backtracking the last two weeks, and the Wolves turn was very well done. Angelina Love look absolutely horrible though. I didn't think she could look any worse than when she was with Winter a couple years ago. Looks like a very washed porn star.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Bless Brandi's heart I do appreciate her out there actually showing some effort

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Spoiler

Haven't seen a huge chunk of TNA since late 2015, so I'm just plastering a bunch of recent gifs

 

[Playaz Eyez]

 

[Silkk]

Bless Brandi's heart I do appreciate her out there actually showing some effort

She may not be the best wrestler, but man she is fukking BEAUTIFUL

 

[mrken12]

TNA Offers Contract To Former World Champion - WrestlingInc.com

According to F4WOnline, TNA made a contract offer to bring Nick "Magnus" Aldis back to the company. Although, a deal hasn't been completed yet, talks between the two sides are serious.

Magnus originally signed with TNA back in 2008. During his time with the company he was able to capture the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, along with a number of other tag title reigns.

After 7 years with the company, Magnus parted ways with TNA, here's what he said on leaving back in July of 2015.

"It was my decision. The way my contract was structured, without getting too detailed, they couldn't release me. There was something in there that prevented that, which was nice. It was due to roll over at the end of June. At the beginning of June I decided to give them notice that they hadn't contacted me regarding anything. It was structured that if they hadn't made contact about it a month out, I had the option to end it. There was a brief conversation, it was really friendly. I think they knew how I felt, and I knew they were in a position financially where it was getting difficult for them to honor contracts like mine. Not trying to disclose too much, but I got it on pretty good authority from the office that I was in the upper echelon as pay is concerned. I knew they weren't in a position to offer the same structure. A year ago I had made peace with the idea of leaving. I always delivered everything they gave me whether I liked it or not. I knew in my gut a year ago I wasn't going to stay."
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Was anyone on here ever a Magnus fan? I never really thought much of him.

 

[TripleAgent]

TNA Offers Contract To Former World Champion - WrestlingInc.com

According to F4WOnline, TNA made a contract offer to bring Nick "Magnus" Aldis back to the company. Although, a deal hasn't been completed yet, talks between the two sides are serious.

Magnus originally signed with TNA back in 2008. During his time with the company he was able to capture the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, along with a number of other tag title reigns.

After 7 years with the company, Magnus parted ways with TNA, here's what he said on leaving back in July of 2015.

"It was my decision. The way my contract was structured, without getting too detailed, they couldn't release me. There was something in there that prevented that, which was nice. It was due to roll over at the end of June. At the beginning of June I decided to give them notice that they hadn't contacted me regarding anything. It was structured that if they hadn't made contact about it a month out, I had the option to end it. There was a brief conversation, it was really friendly. I think they knew how I felt, and I knew they were in a position financially where it was getting difficult for them to honor contracts like mine. Not trying to disclose too much, but I got it on pretty good authority from the office that I was in the upper echelon as pay is concerned. I knew they weren't in a position to offer the same structure. A year ago I had made peace with the idea of leaving. I always delivered everything they gave me whether I liked it or not. I knew in my gut a year ago I wasn't going to stay."
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Was anyone on here ever a Magnus fan? I never really thought much of him.

He had a few moments. I'll take him over Bennet and McIntyre

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Magnus fan here

Hes a better talking, less-wrestling inclined Cesaro

 

[Jello Biafra]

She just won a tag team title with big titty Taeler Hendrix.

With Maria leaving in the near future TNA needs to snatch Taeler back up.

 

[Jello Biafra]

TNA Offers Contract To Former World Champion - WrestlingInc.com

According to F4WOnline, TNA made a contract offer to bring Nick "Magnus" Aldis back to the company. Although, a deal hasn't been completed yet, talks between the two sides are serious.

Magnus originally signed with TNA back in 2008. During his time with the company he was able to capture the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, along with a number of other tag title reigns.

After 7 years with the company, Magnus parted ways with TNA, here's what he said on leaving back in July of 2015.

"It was my decision. The way my contract was structured, without getting too detailed, they couldn't release me. There was something in there that prevented that, which was nice. It was due to roll over at the end of June. At the beginning of June I decided to give them notice that they hadn't contacted me regarding anything. It was structured that if they hadn't made contact about it a month out, I had the option to end it. There was a brief conversation, it was really friendly. I think they knew how I felt, and I knew they were in a position financially where it was getting difficult for them to honor contracts like mine. Not trying to disclose too much, but I got it on pretty good authority from the office that I was in the upper echelon as pay is concerned. I knew they weren't in a position to offer the same structure. A year ago I had made peace with the idea of leaving. I always delivered everything they gave me whether I liked it or not. I knew in my gut a year ago I wasn't going to stay."
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Was anyone on here ever a Magnus fan? I never really thought much of him.

Magnus was good when he was doing the "ladies man" gimmick and tagging with Desmond Wolfe/Nigel McGuinnes.
His tag team run with Samoa Joe was the truth.
And he was booked really well as a young babyface in the hunt for the world title but that was all tossed in the garbage when they made him turn heel for no legit reason.

 

[Jello Biafra]

IMPACT will be returning to Orlando for TV Tapings from Thursday, March 2 to Sunday, March 5.
The Thursday taping will be a Live Episode of IMPACT.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Jeff Jarrett and the Resurrection of Impact Wrestling

“Make Impact great again,” says Jeff Jarrett, sitting across from me in a hotel boardroom overlooking London’s River Thames. Even just 45 days ago, Jarrett never imagined those words would come out of his mouth.

Jarrett, 49, is back in power at Impact Wrestling, the company he created in June 2002 with his father Jerry Jarrett as an alternative to WWE, the global giant in professional wrestling. Jarrett resigned from his company in 2013 following years-long tensions with then-president Dixie Carter and went on to form another company, Global Force Wrestling, in 2014.

In a bizarre turn of events befitting the bombastic nature of professional wrestling storylines, Carter herself is now on the outs, having sold Impact—previously known as TNA Wrestling—to Canadian media organization Anthem Sports & Entertainment, which owns cable’s The Fight Network, Impact’s television home in Canada.

“From the very first meeting I had with them, it was very apparent to me how sound business-wise and structurally [they were] and where they wanted to go with things aligned with my thoughts,” Jarrett tells Newsweek. “It was a pretty quick realization that we should work together.”

Rocky Stewardship

Fans and wrestling industry pundits place Impact’s spiral into near-insolvency square at Carter’s feet. A Nashville music PR professional, she invested heavily in Impact in its early days through her friendship with Jarrett and eventually took over the company as president and CEO. But critics believed she was out of her depth running a professional wrestling organization.

Carter is no longer involved with Impact under Anthem, although she retains an advisory role with the parent company. “The buck has to stop someplace,” says Nordholm. “The reality is the company got into a dire position and she was CEO. There was never any question [she wouldn’t be involved in the day-to-day operations], but not out of any particular animosity,” says Nordholm.

Talent Key to Growth

The first set of tapings under the new Jarrett-led creative regime will take place in Orlando, Florida, in early March. Jarrett says viewers shouldn’t expect a drastic reboot of the way Impact looks or feels or in terms of ongoing storylines—something Impact has attempted numerous times in the past.

Talent is key to that effort. Jarrett says he has a database of non-contracted wrestlers across the world that he hopes to begin hiring from in order to create new homegrown stars. Many of Impact’s past headliners—A.J. Styles and Samoa Joe among them—are now in main event matches for rival WWE. “That energizes me. Let’s go find that new crop,” he says.

Jarrett and Anthem also share a vision to branch out beyond just utilizing talent it has under contract, which includes Matt and Jeff Hardy and reigning world champion Lashley, and work with other companies to use their stars, too.

“Just recently we struck up a relationship with [Japan’s] Pro Wrestling Noah,” Jarrett explains. “It’s obvious with [independent tag team] The Young Bucks and [Impact’s] The Hardys, there’s some unique stuff being developed—that’s another extension of promotions working together. Part of the vision is to work within the wrestling community. That’s what fans want—dream match-ups.”

New Broadcast Homes?

“Finding a U.K.-based broadcaster is the most important short-term initiative for us,” says Nordholm. Jarrett says talks with U.K. networks has had “positive momentum,” although he refuses to disclose which channels they have been in talks with.

Jarrett hints that there may be something in the works with BT Sport, the premium cabler that rivals Sky Sports, by way of an existing relationship. He and Nordholm have met with British production company Sunset+Vine “which has a huge contract with BT Sport,” says Jarrett. His U.S. producing partner Arthur Smith—the man behind shows such as Hell’s Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior —is on the board of directors for Sunset+Vine’s parent firm, Tinopolis.

Beyond the U.K. deal, Nordholm says Anthem’s two other priorities for Impact Wrestling in 2017 are ensuring “the creative direction and consistency” of the Impact television program and securing U.S. distribution for 2018. “Our American television contract expires at the end of this year so sometime [this year] we hope to sort [that] out with [cable network] Pop TV or, if not them, who is going to be our American partner next year.”


Read the full article: http://www.newsweek.com/resurrection-impact-wrestling-jeff-jarrett-558334

 

[Jello Biafra]

From ProWrestling.net:

As for potential television partners, a Spike TV official has been backstage at more than one Impact taping. People have described these as friendly visits, but the timing is certainly interesting.

Spike is about to be rebranded as Paramount TV but is still going to keep the boxing and Bellator programming so its not the most outrageous idea that they would want to get back into the wrestling gamer again. Plus Spike's main issue with TNA was Dixie and now that she's gone they can deal with Jarrett again who they always had a good working relationship with. ANd with the Pop deal ending this year TNA will be in the market for a new home.