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The Hardys set off on their ‘Expedition of Gold’! TNA (aka IMPACT WRESTLING!) is in a major state of change, let’s get ya up to speed! Jan 5th 2017: Anthem Sports announce they’ve majority control of the company. • Dixie was demoted to ‘advisory board’ and still has a 5% minority stake. • Billy Corgan, after contesting, accepted a buyout of his stake …
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TNA Total Access! What is it? TNA’s version of the WWE Network. Only available in UK/Ireland at the moment (it will be coming to more countries) £5 or €6/month What platforms? Android (Google Play), iOS (Apple Store), Apple TV, Amazon FireTV and your PC. Three screenshots from my phone put side by side. What do they have? The last 3 impacts, all the …
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Clicky here!! Tix for our WrestleCon 2017 live show are now up! I wanna mention that we are not being paid for this, everything goes to Gimmick Tree to recoup purchasing our flights & accom! So we’re doing two days at WrestleCon, Thursday Live Show (an AXCLOOSIV review + Q&A!), Friday we’ll have a table for a Meet & Greet! Clicky for tickets …
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I’ve written up a blog getting you up to speed of THE STATE of TNA. Enjoy! Dixie Carter will no longer own TNA. Who will? Anthem Sports & Entertainment (the company that owns Fight Network) will take control getting 85%, Aroluxe getting 10% and Dixie getting 5%. Anthem funded Bound For Glory and the recent TV tapings. Aroluxe’s Jason Brown will be the …
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NXT Takeover Brooklyn II August 20, 2016 Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York Austin Aries vs. No Way Jose – Jose’s tee is “No Way -Jose”. That friggin’ hyphen. Does Jose say “No Way” a lot? 😛 I’m not a fan of his dance spot, it’s real house show gimmick and he got Aries to do it (at the Dublin house show anyway) …
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OH SHIIIIIIIIIII • YEEEEEEEOW! We’ll be at WRESTLECON 2017! It’s on the week leading up to WrestleMania 33, very close to where WM33 is being held, in Orlando Florida. It’s gonna be emotional! • The announcement vid was shot during WrestleCon last month, that’s Bill Apter (of Starrcade 94 PWI awards ‘fame’!), promoter Brad Jones, head of Gimmick Tree (the guys putting on the promotion) and of course …
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Yo! Here are my thoughts on WWE’s latest and RAW the next night afterwards. Pre-amble is in italics, and credit WrestlingDailyNews for the gifs! PRE-SHOW: Dolph Ziggler vs Baron Corbin Mauro is calling it with Byron – it’s not news but it’s so great to hear him call moves and his general high quality commentary. Ziggles is the most overexposed wrestler on the roster, in that he’s …
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Continued from Part 1 Funaki, part of the Japanese announce team, botches his one line and the camera moves away. It was so hilarious, even funnier than if he got his “#1 announcer!” line correctly. JERICHO vs DEAN AMBROSE Jericho’s such an entertaining heel troll. He’s quite funny on Twitter. Love his douchey aging rockstar heel-garnering look of a long scarf and dinner jacket …
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UR Fight (pronounced “your fight”) The Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix AZ 20 March 2016 An iPPV designed to promote the web-TV channel “URshow.tv”. It’s pitch was a broad nostalgia hodge-podge of worked pro-wrestling and shoot MMA/boxing bouts with older and/or disgraced personalities. Ken Shamrock was originally scheduled to fight Dan Severn (the match I was most looking forward to, that we never properly got …
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WWE Roadblock March 12th, 2016 Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Isn’t it great to have a WWE live event on a Saturday? WWE decided to televise the Toronto house show, as they’re looking to increase their live content on the Network (and more reasons to subscribe) as they continue to move away from traditional PPV. It also serves as a stop-gap in storylines between …