This was a very entertaining Impact. We could've done without the extra Hulk Hogan I told you so's cause he was right there kissing Bully's ass too.

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:lol: The Legion of Boom...

It's good to see TNA stepping up.. It looked like there was more than 200 people in the crowd for once..

Chicago should now be considered the best wrestling city in North America. They're hot for WWE, they're hot for TNA, and they're hot for ROH.
Huge week for TNA overall. Attendance record of over 7000 for Lockdown and another 5-6 thousand for Impact that same week.

The match with Aries might have been Sting's best match in a long time. Aries deserves a raise.
As usual, TNA shows WWE how to protect their heels and still keep the faces strong.
 
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Chicago should now be considered the best wrestling city in North America. They're hot for WWE, they're hot for TNA, and they're hot for ROH.
Huge week for TNA overall. Attendance record of over 7000 for Lockdown and another 5-6 thousand for Impact that same week.

The match with Aries might have been Sting's best match in a long time. Aries deserves a raise.
As usual, TNA shows WWE how to protect their heels and still keep the faces strong.

Im still giving it to my hometown of Dallas but i love the Chi-Town crowds:yes:
 
Im still giving it to my hometown of Dallas but i love the Chi-Town crowds:yes:

Dallas has to show and prove, cant be living off the good ol days.

Count another 2-3 thousand in Corbin, KY (where the hell is that) for Bully's first title defense. This might be the best week they've ever had domestically.
 
Chicago should now be considered the best wrestling city in North America. They're hot for WWE, they're hot for TNA, and they're hot for ROH.
Huge week for TNA overall. Attendance record of over 7000 for Lockdown and another 5-6 thousand for Impact that same week.

The match with Aries might have been Sting's best match in a long time. Aries deserves a raise.
As usual, TNA shows WWE how to protect their heels and still keep the faces strong.

Chicago wasn't hot for Super Clash 3 back in the day
 
Dallas has to show and prove, cant be living off the good ol days.

Count another 2-3 thousand in Corbin, KY (where the hell is that) for Bully's first title defense. This might be the best week they've ever had domestically.

Have you not seen the crowds whenever they come here? ROH is basically a new version of WCCW & the reason we don't have a dominant indy promotion here is because of all the in-fighting between these local so-called promoters. TNA was here last year and the crowd was great, hell even Arlington was great for Slammiversary. You want an example of how Dallas crowds react to wrestling look no further than the Punk vs Cena match from a few weeks ago:yes:


Damn Angelina Love Got Ethered:lol:
Miss Tessmacher and Angelina Love appeared to take shots at each another Friday on Twitter over the topic of tattoos.

Diva-Dirt.com brought the apparent e-fight to light in a story on Saturday. Tessmacher, who frequently answers questions from fans on the website, was asked, "Hey Tess, do you like tattoos on your hands?" In a message that was later deleted, she responded, "On ladies no. Tats should be coverable. Classy not trashy."

Love, who boasts a large collection of tattoos, appeared to take offense to her former co-worker's remark by referencing the words "classy" and "trashy." She wrote, "Laugh of the day! Ppl who don't know the difference between "classy & trashy" giving opinions on what's "classy & trashy" LOL!" Soon after, Love posted two fan messages saluting her body artwork.

Tessmacher retaliated with a harsh message knocking Love's cosmetic appearance, including a shot at the 31-year-old's much-speculated weight.

"Eating is important, save the surgeries 2ur face when they are actually needed, age graceful, don’t over tan(leather skin) b proportioned," wrote Tessmacher.

Indicating that she was talking about Love in her biting tweet, Tessmacher added the following fan message to her favorites list on Saturday: "I love how @BrookeTess put @ActualALove in her place after getting butthurt over a comment that wasn't direct toward her #TeamBrooke."

Reigning TNA Women's Knockout Champion Velvet Sky showed her support for Love Saturday by tweeting a photo of her tattooed hand displaying a thumbs-up signal.. Later, Tessmacher earmarked a fan message responding to Sky's post, reading, "if you want to talk about somebody why don't you tag @BrookeTess in your tweets?"
 
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speaking of TNA

- Madison Rayne, who has not competed in recent months, announced on her Twitter account today that her recent absence from the ring is because she is expecting a child:

"I want to announce b4 it gets out elsewhere, that I've been away from the ring b/c @Reaper_3 and I are expecting our 1st Raynedrop in Aug. I appreciate the love & support y'all have shown and can't wait for this new journey."
 
I am watching RAW and it is so predictable right now. It is also very corny. TNA is doing it right finally. Or, maybe I just think the roster is better in TNA. I hope they rebuild the X Division and the Knockouts. On another note, can they put Jake the Snake in the Hall?
 
I am watching RAW and it is so predictable right now. It is also very corny. TNA is doing it right finally. Or, maybe I just think the roster is better in TNA. I hope they rebuild the X Division and the Knockouts. On another note, can they put Jake the Snake in the Hall?

Hell Ravishing Rick Rude. I think the problem with Jake is that he's still alive and considering his issues they don't trust him in that scenario.

Boy have they gotten the Swagger-Del Rio thing wrong. The crowd was cheering USA while the Swagger was whooping ass and only started booing after he injured Ricardo Rodriguez.
 
Boy have they gotten the Swagger-Del Rio thing wrong. The crowd was cheering USA while the Swagger was whooping ass and only started booing after he injured Ricardo Rodriguez.

could tell ricardo sold the hell out of it when he was screaming like a bitch,and had cole and lawler doing their"serious" voices coming back from commercial break :lol:
 
Chicago wasn't hot for Super Clash 3 back in the day

Really? Super Clash 3.
:lol::lol::lol::lol:


Have you not seen the crowds whenever they come here? ROH is basically a new version of WCCW & the reason we don't have a dominant indy promotion here is because of all the in-fighting between these local so-called promoters. TNA was here last year and the crowd was great, hell even Arlington was great for Slammiversary. You want an example of how Dallas crowds react to wrestling look no further than the Punk vs Cena match from a few weeks ago:yes:

I don't know about ROH being the new World Class but Dallas could be a contender. Chicago just gave TNA one of their largest domestic crowds ever, the same week as their largest crowd ever.


Damn Angelina Love Got Ethered:lol:

WTF? Love doesn't even work with the chick anymore so why would she even think Tess was talking about her? Thin skinned bitch.

Hell Ravishing Rick Rude. I think the problem with Jake is that he's still alive and considering his issues they don't trust him in that scenario.

Boy have they gotten the Swagger-Del Rio thing wrong. The crowd was cheering USA while the Swagger was whooping ass and only started booing after he injured Ricardo Rodriguez.

It's them not knowing what they're doing. Week by week, they make ADR softer and softer and his scripted promos are getting worse and worse while making Swagger a bad ass dude. Wrestling fans like bad ass dudes.
 
My question was why did they use the, "We comin for you, nigga" video? :lol:

I was dying at that shit...I had to take a double take like "Did they just play the "We coming for you nigga"? ". Then they hit us with that GI Bro....:lol: I was like damn....Booker had a great career though.

As far as African American wrestlers, he's numero uno right? I can't think of anyone else. We consider Rock black but i'm speaking just strictly black with no Samoan heritage...
 
Really? Super Clash 3.
:lol::lol::lol::lol:



It's them not knowing what they're doing. Week by week, they make ADR softer and softer and his scripted promos are getting worse and worse while making Swagger a bad ass dude. Wrestling fans like bad ass dudes.

I think that's what the WWE wants to do. I think they want to make Swagger the bad ass. I got a feeling once Del Rio loses this title he's gonna get buried. He's gonna be on Kofi status.
 
I was dying at that shit...I had to take a double take like "Did they just play the "We coming for you nigga"? ". Then they hit us with that GI Bro....:lol: I was like damn....Booker had a great career though.

As far as African American wrestlers, he's numero uno right? I can't think of anyone else. We consider Rock black but i'm speaking just strictly black with no Samoan heritage...

For me, even considering Rock, it's still Booker. Rock, from the beginning had the "machine" behind him even when fans weren't. Booker didn't have that until late and had the ball snatched from him plenty of times but every time he got a chance, he shined and showed why he should have always been a main eventer.
I saw his and his brother's debut in Global Wrestling as the Ebony Experience and they were rough but they had potential. For Booker to go from a legitimate all time great tag team to becoming an all time great singles is a rare feat and puts him in exclusive territory.
Rock was a bigger star and draw but Booker T was hands down a better wrestler and it's not even close.
Add Booker to the list of guys who will always have missing matches in the WWE library because many of his best involved Chris Benoit.

I think that's what the WWE wants to do. I think they want to make Swagger the bad ass. I got a feeling once Del Rio loses this title he's gonna get buried. He's gonna be on Kofi status.

That would be stupid but it wouldn't shock me.
But I doubt they would bury ADR since they want to break into that Hispanic market and into Mexico.

They took a long ass time to get to Cena burying Darren Young. Shave some time off that and it would have been funny. But even in that mess, Titus has something for real.

Wash rags.:lol:

I know Fandango is not about to make his WM debut against a former world champ in Chris Jericho and they still have nothing for their current US champ and a guy with world champ potential in Antonio Cesaro. Mixed up priorities is part of the problem with that damn company.
That must have been the most nothing show of the year. The few good moments were diluted with long stretches of nothing.
 
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Booker T in the Hall of Fame

:dance:

My only question is why did they have to bring up GI Bro?

Booker and his wife Sharmel were sitting behind us at a Rockets game a couple of years ago. I've run into him a couple other times too. Real cool cat to chop it up with. Congrats to him on getting into the Hall of Fame.

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For me, even considering Rock, it's still Booker. Rock, from the beginning had the "machine" behind him even when fans weren't. Booker didn't have that until late and had the ball snatched from him plenty of times but every time he got a chance, he shined and showed why he should have always been a main eventer.
I saw his and his brother's debut in Global Wrestling as the Ebony Experience and they were rough but they had potential. For Booker to go from a legitimate all time great tag team to becoming an all time great singles is a rare feat and puts him in exclusive territory.
Rock was a bigger star and draw but Booker T was hands down a better wrestler and it's not even close.
Add Booker to the list of guys who will always have missing matches in the WWE library because many of his best involved Chris Benoit.



Agreed. That best of seven series with Benoit was classic. They brought the best out of each other.
 
Booker and his wife Sharmel were sitting behind us at a Rockets game a couple of years ago. I've run into him a couple other times too. Real cool cat to chop it up with. Congrats to him on getting into the Hall of Fame.

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Good to hear. I hope he and his brother have moved past whatever had them not speaking for years.
I guess because me and my brothers are close and we always liked them being legitimate brothers (and Black), it hit me kind of strange to hear they weren't speaking.

For me, even considering Rock, it's still Booker. Rock, from the beginning had the "machine" behind him even when fans weren't. Booker didn't have that until late and had the ball snatched from him plenty of times but every time he got a chance, he shined and showed why he should have always been a main eventer.
I saw his and his brother's debut in Global Wrestling as the Ebony Experience and they were rough but they had potential. For Booker to go from a legitimate all time great tag team to becoming an all time great singles is a rare feat and puts him in exclusive territory.
Rock was a bigger star and draw but Booker T was hands down a better wrestler and it's not even close.
Add Booker to the list of guys who will always have missing matches in the WWE library because many of his best involved Chris Benoit.



Agreed. That best of seven series with Benoit was classic. They brought the best out of each other.

That series put him on another level. He had already had some good matches with Rick Martel and Perry Saturn over the TV title but the Benoit matches were special.
People always talk about the best of 7 but they had like 3 great time limit draws before those that set the best of series up. I still remember being like :eek: when Benoit came out to challenge Booker for the TV title the first time.
The forgotten man in that was Fit Finlay, who walked into the middle of that feud and beat both of them and himself became a star.
 
THE SLIDE CONTINUES - RAW AUDIENCE DROPS
by Dave Scherer @ 5:26 PM on 3/19/2013



Date aver hour 1 hour 2 hour 3
1/7/2013 4,420,000 4,290,000 4,320,000 4,650,000
1/14/2013 4,550,000 4,500,000 4,680,000 4,470,000
1/21/2013 4,317,000 4,370,000 4,419,000 4,162,000
1/28/2013 5,020,000 4,860,000 5,270,000 4,930,000
2/4/2013 4,810,000 4,863,000 4,857,000 4,711,000
2/11/2013 4,260,000 4,350,000 4,250,000 4,180,000
2/18/2013 4,662,000 4,818,000 4,674,000 4,493,000
2/25/2013 4,707,000 4,860,000 4,700,000 4,560,000
3/4/2013 5,018,000 4,968,000 5,239,000 4,847,000
3/11/2013 4,813,000 4,980,000 4,890,000 4,570,000
3/18/2013 4,260,000 4,252,000 4,415,000 4,114,000


I expect them to do something to hotshot those ratings for next week. They are going in the wrong direction for Mania.
 
I thought that having Fandango come out with that huge production and then leave was pretty classic heel tactics. I wish he would decide whether he was White or Latino tho. He goes from sounding like Del Rio to Val Venis to Dolph Ziggler in the span of one sentence.
 
For me, even considering Rock, it's still Booker. Rock, from the beginning had the "machine" behind him even when fans weren't. Booker didn't have that until late and had the ball snatched from him plenty of times but every time he got a chance, he shined and showed why he should have always been a main eventer.
I saw his and his brother's debut in Global Wrestling as the Ebony Experience and they were rough but they had potential. For Booker to go from a legitimate all time great tag team to becoming an all time great singles is a rare feat and puts him in exclusive territory.
Rock was a bigger star and draw but Booker T was hands down a better wrestler and it's not even close.....

I hear you but The Rock was better on the stick...I respect Booker but I'm not sure that he was MILES ahead of The Rock in the ring...especially when you consider the fact that The Rock was only a full time wrestler from 1996-2002
 
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I thought that having Fandango come out with that huge production and then leave was pretty classic heel tactics. I wish he would decide whether he was White or Latino tho. He goes from sounding like Del Rio to Val Venis to Dolph Ziggler in the span of one sentence.

:lol:
The tactic is cool, even if Jericho just did it last year. But it's another young midcard guy with a gimmick that has no hopes of being a main event player no matter how good he is in the ring.

I hear you but The Rock was better on the stick...I respect Booker but I'm not sure that he was MILES ahead of The Rock in the ring...especially when you consider the fact that The Rock was only a full time wrestler from 1996-2002

Rock was much better on the mic.

I stick "miles ahead". Rock could go but at his best, he's a limited guy. Booker could literally do everything, from being a decent mat wrestler to a great brawler to being a 260 lbs guy who could pull over that rolling legdrop from the top rope.

Really good lineup for a free iPPV next month

2CW will return to Watertown, NY with a free iPPV that features a really loaded card on Saturday 4/20.
2CW in Upstate New York announced they would be debuting on iPPV with a free broadcast on Saturday 4/20 at the Fairgrounds Arena at 8 PM. The card will feature:

*2CW Heavyweight Champion Kevin Steen vs. John Hennigan (Morrison)

*Matt Hardy vs. Sami Callihan

*Spike Dudley vs. Masada - No Holds Barred.

*Colt Cabana vs. Slyck Wagner Brown

*“Juggernaut” Jason Axe VS. Isys Ephex - Stairway to Hell Match

*The Punisher VanSlyke & Kevin “The Man” Graham 2CW’s Tag Team Title Challenge

Also appearing will be Rachel Summerlyn, Colin Delaney, Super Smash Brothers, Bin Hamin, ZSIII, and many more.


The two top matches will be great but the sleeper might be the Cabana vs Brown match. Slyck should have been in WWE or TNA a long time ago.
 
I hear you but The Rock was better on the stick...I respect Booker but I'm not sure that he was MILES ahead of The Rock in the ring...especially when you consider the fact that The Rock was only a full time wrestler from 1996-2002

Mic Work - Rock

Ring Work - Booker T

Rock's advantage was being incredible smooth in the ring and making any match look believable, Booker T on the other hand was an outstanding wrestler who could do it all (except lucha). Both were great in their own right but each had something the other couldn't do which isn't a bad thing imo, i mean we all saw the horrible idea WCW had when they thought it would be a good idea to have Booker T impersonate Rock:smh::thumbsdown:

From NoDQ
There have been discussions about turning Kofi Kingston heel with the idea that he's talented but has been booked in a way where they will never be able to get him over as a babyface without a heel turn and push first.

- A new change in WWE developmental is to give the talents bullet points instead of scripts and teaching them to do promos like they used to be done.

It's been noted that Triple H is far more old school in his thoughts on pro wrestling than Vince McMahon and when he's in full control, we will likely see the storylines evolve back to a more believable and serious approach.

This all sounds great which means it won't happen, after all what happened to HHH wanting to bring the TT division back?
 
Mic Work - Rock

Ring Work - Booker T

Rock's advantage was being incredible smooth in the ring and making any match look believable, Booker T on the other hand was an outstanding wrestler who could do it all (except lucha). Both were great in their own right but each had something the other couldn't do which isn't a bad thing imo, i mean we all saw the horrible idea WCW had when they thought it would be a good idea to have Booker T impersonate Rock:smh::thumbsdown:

While Rock was limited, the best thing about him was how he bumped for smaller guys like Jericho and Benoit. He made them look credible when they beat him even though he outweighed them by 20-30 lbs.

From NoDQ


This all sounds great which means it won't happen, after all what happened to HHH wanting to bring the TT division back?

He can want all he wants but the boss's name is still Vincent McMahon and he thinks tag teams suck.

I knew it

Another WWL performer that took part of this set of tapings was Ivelisse Velez, as appeared on the TNA KnockOuts PPV, as well as the “World Cup” one. During this last one, Velez was introduced a Team Aces ‘n Eights surprise female member.

They had to do it. Taryn's okay but Ivelisse can really go in the ring.
 
Another WWL performer that took part of this set of tapings was Ivelisse Velez, as appeared on the TNA KnockOuts PPV, as well as the “World Cup” one. During this last one, Velez was introduced a Team Aces ‘n Eights surprise female member.

and i bet she wont be the only one,they probably will start adding more females to the group,like,say,Daffney(since she was in the audience at the Knockouts PPV),as well as maybe even Mickie James and Madison Rayne if she decides to come back after having the kid..

however if they end up having Dixie Carter herself join up :rolleyes:
 
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