The Official WWE/TNA thread

[retro]

Cena needs to be heel!! I would like a heel cena

Fans totally shat on him last night. The kids loved it tho

Kinda reminds me when The rock was stale when he faced Hogan and the fans turned on The Rock.

The "smart" fans have pretty much always been anti-Cena, while the women and kids have for the most part been in love with him. I agree though, serious heel Cena would do wonders for him... but instead, I'm sure we'll have Super Cena go over at Wrestlemania once again. He'll probably get the shit beat out of him by the Rock, Miz, and Miz's... well whatever he is, and then come back, punch the Rock out, give him a five knuckle shuffle, attitude adjust Riley, and then make Maz tap out in the middle of the ring with the STF. Then he'll go celebrate with Stone Cold, kick him in the gut, and stun him, and then get involved with HHH and the Undertaker and end Taker's streak himself. Since he's Super Cena and all.

 

[Springsteen]

I think Michaels is still going to get involved in this HHH/Taker match, Triple H told him to tell Undertaker why Taker had no chance of winning, and Shawn then left, telling HHH he had no chance, I'm sorry. I'd love him to be the special ref and cost Triple H the match, saying that if Shawn couldn't beat him, then he can't either.

 

[Springsteen]

Some newz~

-- No real surprise but Triple H is inducting Shawn Michaels into the WWE Hall Of Fame.

-- No word yet on who's inducting Sunny, she was on a radio show yesterday and wasn't allowed to reveal.

-- Raw got a 3.8 overall for the Wrestlemania go home show, up from last year's go home (3.3), with the overrun hitting 4.0 with the Cena/Rock/Miz interaction.

-- The Rock has teased closing Wrestlemania.

-- Rob van Dam says Hulk Hogan was the reason he joined TNA.

-- A gay wrestling organisation criticised the decision to not fire Michael Cole for his usage of the word faggot in relation to Josh Jatthews last week.

 

[dkwrtw]

Michael Cole called Josh Matthews a faggot on TV? I agree with the gays, fire his ass.

 

[Springsteen]

No he made a jibe on Twitter which was removed quickly but TMZ picked up on it. Raw on Monday had Josh and Cole both announcing, so it could be they are just trying to sweep it under the carpet. Dave mentioned on the radio on Tuesday though that Cole could be injured at Wrestlemania courtesy of Lawler and take a little break, he also hinted this could be the lead in for Cole to be revealed as the anonymous general manager, which might be difficult considering Cole has always been there reading the GM's messages. Bait and switch, possibly.

 

[dkwrtw]

I always LOL when famous people say stupid shit on twitter and get themselves in trouble. I PRAY TO GOD that Michael Cole isn't the anonymous GM though, it'd be cool if it were like Shane McMahon or something.

 

[Springsteen]

There's been lots of theories, Shane has been mentioned in that role, though he did leave the WWE before the GM came in, Vince was mentioned even though it were he who instigated the anonymous GM, heck even JR was mentioned. I'm not so sure it will ever be revealed, it's got past the point of people actually caring who it is, rather that they just accept he's there.

 

[dkwrtw]

lol I'm sure they'll reveal it eventually, I would love for it to be either Shane or JR.

 

[dkwrtw]

lol what it it turns out to be ERIC BISCHOFF, and it's revealed that McMahon has secretly owned TNA all along? :24:

 

[Springsteen]

Lol that would be great.

Eric Bischoff coming out on Raw in 2002 as the new Raw GM was a huge moment.

 

[dkwrtw]

That would definitely be the funniest possible outcome. I was kinda hoping it would be Triple H, but that's unlikely, it'll probably end up being JR or a member of the McMahon family. Or Paul Heyman.

 

[Springsteen]

Heyman is a really long shot, he's mainly working with Brock these days and has his own thing going on. He was touted as going to TNA last year but he had demands which Dixie Carter was unwilling to meet. I believe he wanted 10% of the company, to be the sole head writer (thereby getting rid of Vince 'I broke MS Word's word limit writing iMPACT' Russo), have TNA go public within 5 years and for Dixie Carter to have a sex change.

Ok the last one is untrue.

 

[dkwrtw]

LOL at 10% of the company and head writer

 

[Springsteen]

The head writer thing wasn't such a bad idea. A deformed monkey with aids and leprosy could write a wrestling show better than Vince Russo. Maw Maw from Raising Hope could write a better wrestling show than Vince Russo. You could write a better wrestling show than Vince Russo, I could, Retro could, Haus could, Maulds could. So bringing in Heyman for that purpose would have been a great thing. Or at least a writer with a clue about wrestling booking. As for the 10%, I dont actually blame Dixie for not agreeing to that, I wouldn't trust Paul Heyman to take money to the bank for me. Going public would have been a good thing because TNA would have become more profitable. If she's worrying about the buyrates becoming public information, it's way beyond that because Dave Meltzer has people inside TNA who tell him the monthly PPV buyrates, let's just say TNA lose a lot of money from PPV's. TNA is now in WCW 2000 financial territory, it's just that Panda Energy are keeping TNA afloat because Panda's profits equal TNA's losses. Janice Carter is now in charge of giving Dixie money for TNA, it's gotten that bad. Dixie is not Vince McMahon, and while that's a good thing in that she's generally more approachable, she's also a very naive businesswoman. Whereas Vince knows wrestling, and is the chairman of a successful wrestling company.

In short. Heyman becoming head writer = Good. Heyman getting 10% = Bad. TNA going public = Good. Dixie Carter = Fuckable but naive.

 

[dkwrtw]

lol well put, I haven't watched TNA in months, I wish they'd just die and Mr. KENNEDY could come back to WWE.

 

[Springsteen]

I try to watch it now and again. The last good Impact I saw was last April, I forget what happened, but it was good. The last PPV was horrible.

It was 10 years last week that WCW finally died, had it not TNA would never have come to fruition, and what a much better world we would live in if that was the case.

 

[dkwrtw]

I loved WCW, I wish it had never been bought out, pretty much the same thing is happening in MMA right now between Strikeforce and the UFC, they might as well rename the sport as ULTIMATE FIGHTING at this point.

 

[Springsteen]

WCW really dug it's own grave, I mean the problem was all the guaranteed contracts they had and they didn't have the big stars at that stage to justify them. Also Jamie Keller didn't cancel WCW TV because of those contracts though, it was more because WCW was doing 2.1 on a Monday night, which was terrible, especially considering WWE were hitting the 6's and 7's. If WCW were doing 3.5 or thereabouts then I absolutely guarantee you that WCW would still have been on the air come May 2001, when Bischoff wanted to relaunch WCW. But it wasn't. A 2.1 only looks good nowadays because of how ratings worked then and also consider TNA has been hovering above a 1.2 for years and years. But in 2001 it was horrible.

 

[dkwrtw]

Really a shame, I thought WCW was great.

 

[Haus]

a part of me thinks Hulk Hogan and eric bishoff are still employed by WWE and sent to TNA to destroy them :24::24:

but seriously TNA needs to worry about them selves and stop trying to go head to head with WWE. it will never happen. They just look pathetic trying