Hi Scott. I'm not sure what the procedure is to submit new topics for the blog and I didn't want to threadjack but I wanted to know what you and the bloggers thought of this:http://www.facebook.com/l/GAQFz6ATPAQFpDLj_OG26oiZFVweMlQ_9AyBFmm13YRstDA/www.cagesideseats.com/2012/4/14/2949161/tna-news-eric-bischoff-and-dixie-carter-meet-with-spike-tv-executives I hadn't heard this about Bischoff stabbing Dixie in the back before and was looking for your take on it.
Well it’s not exactly an objectively written article, that’s for sure. I don’t really get what Bischoff’s endgame would be, since he already has all the talent that he would have access to now. And TNA has been saying the same “Focus on young talent” and “Revive the X Division” bullshit for years now. Yeah, we’re gonna focus on the young talent while Hulk Hogan is fighting Ric Flair in a featured role. Oh, and by “young talent” they mean Carrot Bischoff.
Dixie is very naive about the business and she unfortunately has put her trust in the wrong people and it’s cost her dad’s company millions of dollars.
Did anybody read the e-book at barbaric Wrestling, more specifically the final chapter written by "the [anonymous] Owner"? Very interesting times in TNA-land.
ReplyDeleteMan...if only Heyman had known in 1999 that some dolt named Dixie Carter was out there looking to waste a few hundred million of her daddy's money on wrestling.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, what kind of write-off is Panda getting from this? How the hell are they still open after a decade of being terrible?
I have this really bad feeling that Carrot Bischoff will be the one to finally dethrone Roode. This could be David Arquette levels of sad. Remember, Arquette pinned Eric Bischoff to win the WCW title. Oh my god. My head hurts.
ReplyDeleteI swear to God, if I ever win the powerball and win $500 million dollars and start a wrestling company, I would hire Scott and some of the posters here. Guaranteed to do MUCH better job BY FAR than the continued retreads of Bischoff, Pritchard, Russo, et al.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you get when you combine Erik Watts with Greg Gagne? I'm not sure, but I'd push him over Garett Bischoff.
ReplyDeleteI don't think things like Garrett Bishoff and Hogan/Flair in 2012 are the result of stupidity as much as ego. Paul Heyman's said it in the past, but wrestling really isn't that hard. You build up a bad guy, you build up a good guy, and when the time is right you have the good guy beat the bad guy. I know I'm over simplifying it, but at the end of the day, that's wrestling. Granted some bookers have better, more original/logical ways of doing it than others, but wrestling really isn't difficult to figure out.
ReplyDeleteAre you implying that TNA could change dramatically if they'd only hire Jesse Baker as their booker?
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing about Garrett is that he might become good later on but this current push will more than likely kill his career dead.
ReplyDeleteThey haven't been terrible for a decade. Only about five years now.
ReplyDeleteI did read that.....
ReplyDeleteSteiner's tweets lately have been interesting too. I root for TNA to do well, since I like having an alternative.. but I really hope this doesn't end up being WCW all over again. At least WCW had the namepower to justify an InVasion. TNA barely gets acknowledged by WWE, and to this day, I don't think the actual letters "TNA" have been spoken on WWE television. John Cena made a mild reference to it last year when Vince was about to "fire" him, by saying "i'll end up on someone else's show next week, BROTHER".
You mean you wouldn't watch a Jesse Baker booked show?
ReplyDeleteI'm calling it now, Garrett Bischoff will be the one to beat Robert Roode for the title.
ReplyDeleteGreg Gagne was a very good wrestler in the AWA. I hope that was not an insult.
ReplyDeleteI already did.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see a fan book a wrestling show. Since fans like to talk about how bad a show is booked and how they can do this better than the guys in charge.
ReplyDeleteIt's a like a baseball fan calling into a sports station saying that they can manage a baseball team better than the actual manager.
Easier said than done.
I agree with Greg, you're over exaggerating by saying a decade. I would say since Hogan and Bischoff arrived in 2010. But Russo 2009 was not very good either.
ReplyDeleteHe was a good wrestler but couldn't draw flies as a singles star.
ReplyDeleteThe curse of me sorting by "newest first".
ReplyDeleteYou win.
I think it's 100% plausible in baseball, seriously.
ReplyDeleteIt started picking up after Bound for Glory 09. The last three months of 2009 were very good for TNA. Angle/Wolfe was a great feud.
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