It still makes me sick that TNA really took off when Daniels/Joe/Styles were having those great X division matches. Then they said screw it, everyone wants Angle, Christian, and Sting.
Random stat Wednesday!
John Cena is 46-2 all time in 2 vs. 1 handicap matches. He’s 13-1 in 3 vs. 1 handicap matches!
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
The former two had good matches so how is that a bad thing? What hurt TNA was that they tried so hard to be a carbon copy of WWE instead of being its own company. You know what other company tried to mimic WWE before it closed? WCW. TNA made the same kind of mistakes that got WCW out of business.
That's inspirational!
I thought it was weird to see WWE fly RVD all the way to Texas just for a ring intro. And when they announced RVD as Rollins' opponent (aside from hoping for a good match), I could only think of RVD's promo in '97 after a PPV match with Lance Storm, where he said he was better than a last-second filler match. He's still better than that.
Nah, it didn't help that while WWE was poaching the indies and Ring of Honor in particular, TNA signed exactly no big name indie talents after Nigel McGuinness, and he fell into their laps because his WWE deal fell through. They even had El Generico and Colt Cabana have a try-out match against one another, and TNA signed neither. Basically all of NXT was floating out there, largely unsigned, and TNA went used-car shopping instead.
They didn't have a partnership - TNA used to allow their talent to take indie bookings until there was a big storm that threatened people's ability to travel back and forth to shows on a PPV weekend. They tried to pull several guys from a ROH show. Some went early, some didn't, they all made it to the PPV, but that was basically why Austin Aries' first run in TNA didn't amount to much.
TNA deciding not to allow their wrestlers to work on other networks and on other DVD releases may have had something to do with their Spike TV deal.
I doubt that...suits don't care about indy bookings, TNA probably wanted to make sure their talent wasn't banging themselves up on someone else mat
Heyman dropping bombs on the MMA hour:
Lesnar back in UFC:
"He had a clean bill of health. He was not ready for the Alistair Overeem fight. A liver kick, well placed, will drop anyone and a liver kick from Alistair Overeem, at that size and that weight, no matter how he attained it, or even if he was 50 pounds lighter, a liver kick from Overeem will drop a horse.
Brock wasn’t healthy. I don’t think Brock has truly understood nor accepted the severity of the illness that took him down. They did blood work on Brock and they found out he wasn’t healthy for many, many years. His body was fighting this affliction off and using so much of his energy.
He was handicapped the entire time. His body is so freakish, he was fighting this thing off and he had enough energy to do those other things while sick.
I think he’s very, very happy right now with what we’re doing in WWE. It’s (returning to fight in UFC) not a subject he has to think about. If the deal ends up over in WWE, if a change of circumstances happens, and if it’s a no-brainer to get him back into the cage, I’m sure it’s something he’d consider. Right now, it’s not a topic of conversation. Why would you mess up the WWE deal?"
And on CM Punk in WWE or MMA:
"I think CM Punk’s mindset is to never come back, and their (WWE) mindset is they never want him back. He’s driven and determined never to go back. He feels that if he ever goes back, it’ll be a sign of failure on his part. His success in life is predicated on the idea he never goes back.
Punk has always had the opinion that at its core, when the cage door gets locked it’s two really capable people punching each other in the face until one drops. Sometimes the skill level is overrated, and the ability to just fight comes into play. He’s educated in MMA. He’ a very serious student of the disciplines and he’s become far more entrenched. He’s a fighter at heart. One of the things that makes it so interesting is he came into the wrestling world as a fighter who ended up performing, not a performer making a transition into the fighting world.”
Last edited by BeastieRunner; 08-06-2014 at 11:32 AM.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
Brock does seem to be doing ok considering how serious diverticulitis can get