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It's a shame that won't happen, but maybe, just maybe, "ECW" fans got wind of the promo and decided to watch Impact to see it, leading to an ever-so-marginal increase in ratings. I hope that happened, since new viewers got to see a pretty good AJ/Daniels match, and hey, the mystery Amazon got a name!
I don't want to.Quote:
Originally Posted by omfgninjas in iraq
WWE even acknowledging TNA's existence isn't a good idea. Also a bit hypocritical based on what you just said about TNA doing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by avatar
Man, looks like I got screwed. I picked up One Night Stand '06 + Barely Legal today at Best Buy, but it was $20 for the thing.
Also, just as a warning... the encoding quality is CRAP for One Night Stand. I hardly ever buy wrestling DVDs, though, so that might be a usual WWE DVD thing.
Edit: Man, did they already take the EC F'N W shirt off of WWE Shopzone? Good going Vince.
Taboo Tuesday '04 was also encoded badly, with pixelated images all over the place. How good does Barely Legal look?
Edit - SHEIKY ON SPRINGER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Cqm7tN1cA
There's also news footage of him at a court room dealing with the arrest of himself and Duggan. God bless Sheiky - he wears his pointy boots with a suit on Springer, and came up with a logical reason to explain why he was in the car with his rival.
Even funnier - a Hogan PSA on smoking. DON'T SMOKE, IT'S A JOKE! AGHHH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHIEqWThGrE
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/465...kingpsaph3.jpg
I really haven't watched too much of it yet, but having never seen the PPV before, damn does the audio suck. *heh*
The shitty audio could be due to bad music dubbing, or more likely, a mix of that and the fact that the PPV was done on a shoestring budget. The building's power even went out right after the show. The ECW arena's acoustics are also notoriously terrible - even the Hardcore Homecoming show held there in June of '05 had horrible audio.
I WILL MAKE YOU HUMBLE!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy
I don't think WWE has anything to lose from acknowleding them. Yeah TNA wil see a rating boost but only marginally and the rating for TNA are nothing compared to WWE. Only the hardcore fans will care about WWE and TNA shooting on each other and maybe that will get the hardcore fanbase to give ECW another shot if just to see how ECW will respond every week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
Pwinsider:
New Japan Pro Wrestling announced today that Brock Lesnar had been stripped of the IWGP championship as he will no longer be returning to defend the title due to "visa issues". New Japan Pro Wrestling announced also announced that there will be a tournament to crown a new champion on Monday.
Speculation among a number of people is that Brock Lesnar may well have been scheduled to drop the belt to Hiroshi Tanahashi. Looking towards his MMA future, a loss wouldn't help his case.
Meltzer updated that situation saying that Brock has left the promotion. That came out of nowhere, but it does open him up to work elsewhere.
More on New Japan from Puroresu Power -
In other news, Kurt Angle's wife is pregnant again, Johnny Fairplay wants a job in WWE, and would have loved to be Joe's manager in TNA. I almost wish that had happened so Joe could beat him up like Finlay does with his Little Bastard.Quote:
7/16/06) - (Inoki) Antonio Inoki arrived at Narita Airport on Saturday. Inoki told reporters that he was going to have 380,000 yen priced seats for his 9/1 Nippon Budokan show, with his reasoning being that he wanted to bring fans back to a time warp when fans paid $1,000 USD for a seat at Budokan 30 years ago to see him facing Muhammad Ali. Inoki also stated his intentions to appear at New Japan's 7/17 Sapporo show to see Tanahashi vs. Lesnar for the IWGP title (seriously).
- Inoki's brain is now entirely vanilla ice cream and it rules.
More on MavTV, TNT Pro Wrestling, and WSX from the Torch -Quote:
TNT Wrestling made official a story broken nationally by Pat McNeill in last week's Torch, which is that the promotion will be Wednesday night, Sept. 27 on the new MavTV cable network. The first TV taping will be Sept. 9 in Welch, W.Va. followed by a taping on Sept. 23 in Georgia at a venue to be named later. TNT ran its first live event on Oct. 28 in Virginia and four dates this year in Virginia and Georgia. They are promoting Orlando Jordan, John Heidenreich, and Ro-Z (WWE's Rosey) as its top stars.
An announcement is also expected soon that MTV has picked up the Wrestling Society X series for this coming TV season. Wrestlers with WSX were told they could not wrestle on another televised wrestling show and that WSX and MTV would be enforcing the noncompete clause, indicating MTV has not passed on the project. No night for the show has been announced, but if it lands on Saturdays, that could mean on PPV weeks there is first-run wrestling programming on national cable every night of the week (counting TNT Wrestling on MavTV)