General WWE Discussion: Roman Weeps, Taker Retires, MNK/SAM/RDM LFP

[Krandor]

RIP Sami's spine

[Krandor]

IT'S HAPPENING

[Anoat]

Joooooooeeeee

[Fiendishone]

Fuck yes!

[Tyrath]

Who are the best wrestlets on WWE for women? Paige, Emma, Nattie, Summer Rae? 3 of those never get matches.

Summer Rae? lolwut.

[Anoat]

I think the crowd was chanting MOTHER FUCKER at KO lol

[Kang]

Fucking Samoe Joe. That was awesome. Main event wasn't the best, which shows you that Sami Zyan really was in no condition to put on a stellar performance. MOTN for me was the women's title match. Both ladies really showed me something.

[Krandor]

Impact gets cancelled the same night Joe shows up in a WWE ring. Coincidence? I think not

[Delirium]

Summer Rae? lolwut.

Well you also have Cameron, Brie, Nikki, Naomi, Rosa, Eva Marie to choose from. Only one that is passible is Nikki and I like Summers NXT matches more than anything Nikki has done.

[Fiendishone]

Impact gets cancelled the same night Joe shows up in a WWE ring. Coincidence? I think not

Lol that's funny. Honestly haven't really followed tna since aces n eights days. Hella glad Joe is on board. Now need Aries and Roode.

[Kang]

Wow. Impact was cancelled!? Damn, now how am I gonna watch it. They may be done for real this time. Krandor, I agree with you on Corey Graves. He's really a great commentator.

[Krandor]

To recap that main event, in a WWE ring we just watched Samoa Joe save El Generico from a Kevin Steen beatdown while the crowd chants "Motherfucker"

Women's match fucking killed absolutely killed it, I think that was a legit match of the year contender.

[Kang]

Does anyone know if Impact has been outright cancelled or is there going to be some more shows leading up to a final airing?

[Krandor]

Sometime in the 3rd quarter, most likely September

TNA just got the AXE from Destination America: "Destination America made the decision to cancel TNA Wrestling, with the time frame given at the end of the third quarter (roughly the last week of September, when the current television season ends). Key people at the Discovery Channel network were informed of the decision at that point. The word internally was that while they considered the ratings good, the ratings were not good enough to justify the cost of the programming. The other problem was that so many regular station advertisers specifically did not want to advertise on the show. It should be noted that when the word was sent out, it was stated specifically that TNA would remain on Friday nights, with original episodes, until that point, and informing people for the fall season plans for Friday nights. Just days later, they were moved to Wednesday. The decision was meant to be kept secret, very much like Spike kept secret publicly last year its decision to drop TNA for months after the decision was made and reported. It doesn't serve the station or the promotion any good to publicly cancel the show this far in advance. The public acknowledgment was expected to come around the time the station listed its 2015-16 television season prime time lineup with the launch of up front advertising. Those who were informed of the cancellation have not been told at this point anything different several days after the change of date was announced. But things obviously have changed, at least to the degree of moving days. So this story is very much ongoing. What is known is that Destination America reacts quickly to ratings. After the 3/13 episode, when the Friday show's numbers dropped to a new low, the decision was made to cancel the Saturday morning programming with the idea that eliminating the replay would help the Friday number, which is the only number they cared about. And Friday numbers did increase somewhat after that point. Eventually, they've dropped almost all their TNA programming except as far as time fillers, because of the difficulty in selling ads, and canceled all first run programming with the exception of the two hours of Impact airing multiple times on Friday nights. For the 5/8 show, the hope was going almost live would help deliver a big number, and Destination America also purchased an ad in USA Today to promote the show, thinking the added advertising and live would lead to an increased rating. Instead, the first episode did the second lowest number ever, and the replay, which is thought to be for the West Coast viewers in their prime time, did the all-time record low. Granted, that was more due to the NBA playoffs and going against a Cleveland Cavaliers game than anything else, but clearly the live hype meant nothing. Days later, the original decision to cancel was made."

[Kang]

Yeah I was just going to update my previous post because I just looked up that info. So TNA gonna get cancelled twice in less than a year lol.

[Krandor]

[Trigun]

Sasha/Becky MOTN. Kev coming out in Cena's shirt. Samoa Joe's wacky theme.
Damn good event.

[Vagrant]

I was totally expecting Cena to be the guy to make the save for Sami there. Then heard the music and at the start I thought maybe Uhaa had made a quick change out of his suit. Honestly pleasantly shocked to see Joe be the one to come out. Thinking he's going to be starting out at least with a deal like Rhyno signed where he can still work non-televised indy events as he's booked for quite a few during the summer.

As for Impact not much else to say. DA apparently had an out clause in September so I would expect that's the end date. Going to have a tough time finding another TV deal after being cancelled by two different networks in the past year and one of those networks is freaking destination america.

[Xno Kappa]

Wonder if Vince will make the decision to buy the library out. While TNA has some of the most stale story-lines in pro wrestling, hurr durr faction war #32, some of those guys went out there and put on genuinely good quality matches.

[Tyrath]

I hope the NXT chicks stay on NXT

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are reportedly big proponents of altering the way women are featured in WWE.

According to one source, the decision to change the way woman are used on WWE programming was very much based on Stephanie's influence and the success that the UFC has had with Ronda Rousey.

It's being said that while the two aren't big UFC fans, they are fans of Rousey and when they saw her recent Sports Illustrated cover, among other accomplishments, it was a sign to them that the times have changed and that it's a different era.

It's worth pointing out that while Triple H and Stephanie are on board, Vince McMahon reportedly still sees women in the same role that they've always had on the WWE roster.

Found it funny the commentators were ragging on Emma for not making it on the main roster. Too bad if they let her act and wrestle like she was on NXT, she would make it just fine.