Impact Spoilers - The Name May Change But It's Still The Same Ol' TNA!
by Keith Harris on May 5, 2011 10:18 PM EDT
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Next Thursday's Impact, taped on Tuesday night, is set to be one of the most newsworthy shows in TNA's history. For several weeks there had been rumours that TNA was planning a campaign to rebrand their company, with the possibility of even renaming their promotion. Well, on the taped May 12th episode of Impact, they pulled the trigger on this promotional name change and rebranding campaign as the payoff to the convoluted onscreen storyline where Hulk Hogan stole TNA from Dixie Carter. At the tapings, Vince McMahon's BFFL Mick Foley was revealed as the mystery Network consultant who had been messing with Immortal in recent weeks. He announced that the Network was dropping TNA (I'm not sure it's wise to tempt fate) and bringing in a new wrestling promotion called Impact Wrestling.
The name change from TNA to Impact Wrestling seems to be legitimate, not just a short term angle for TV. As this week's Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter reported, the company has purchased the ImpactWrestling.com website address and registered the name Impact Wrestling on March 4th. I will say this, changing the name of their company to proudly feature the word wrestling is a shrewd move to differentiate themselves from WWE, who are trying to purge that word from their very lexicon. However, it will all be for naught if this isn't accompanied by a fresh booking philosophy where they push some new stars for once, and well there are definitely no changes on that horizon.
The company's management mentality is still stuck in the past. Instead of using Lindsay Hayward, aka Isis The Amazon and Aloisia, the giant young lady who was pulled from NXT and later fired for failing to disclose her past fetish photos, as originally planned, the company brought back Joanie "Chyna" Laurer for the role of Kurt Angle's mystery mistress (clearly one major mystery angle isn't enough for an episode of Impact). If nothing else, as a short term freak show attraction Hayward would have been a hell of a lot cheaper and been something fresher than a tired act who was past her sell by date a decade ago. Laurer, also brings with her a lot of baggage, as she's had a long line of troubled behaviour, most recently being accused of viciously beating a female friend. Given that there are no indications that she's cleaned her act up since her last brush with the law, why risk using her? As she's working on a handshake agreement without a contract TNA obviously think there's a smaller chance of her jumping ship to WWE than her being reliable. I guess Jeff Jarrett must need his job back then.
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Clearly after the failed MEM storylines.. TnA.. IW hasn’t learned much.. is one way.. but Seeing how they screwed up w/ Hardy & Hall they may have learned something.. is another way.. Ok, so here’s my idea… Nash was let out of his IW contract during the MEM storyline, because he asked to be.. with that kind of past, who really needs a contract.. Dixie will let you walk no matter how hot the story is for that person to be in it. Also, given Joanie’s past.. why put her on contract & waste time knowing she may.. very may..lol… end up back on pills & booze and messed up. This allows IW to just kick her to the curb quick & not worry about breaking a binding deal… as opposed to what happened in past PPV main events w/ Hardy & Hall.
by Rawuncutnxrated666 on May 6, 2011 4:13 AM EDT reply actions
Putting it in bold doesn’t make it important. It makes it more annoying.
And please learn basic grammar. Your post makes my eyes hurt.
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
-Lao Tzu
On the upside
Angle is just drugged up enough to sell having Chyna as his mistress.
Writer (and a handsome one at that),
And the Valley Shook
by Billy Gomila on May 6, 2011 10:13 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I was about to write a fan post about this. The thing that TNA has yet to grasp is that look like the island of misfit toys. Look who is involved in the major power angle. Everybody is old and known as being from someplace else. You have the faces of the Monday Night Wars arguing about a company no associates them with. If you look at the results of the whole show, almost all of the focal characters were known before they got to TNA.
Hiring Chyna as opposed to Isis is just the latest example. The KO has become the wayward home of failed Diva’s. TNA insists on taking thins that were successful with their own original talent and infusing it with WWE castoffs and killing it,
I like the idea of re-branding especially if they emphasize “wrestling”. I remember when WCW used to say “WE WRESTLE” to differ themselves from WWF. OF course like TNA they just ended up copying the WWF and looked bad.
The rebranding could have worked if the would have tied it in with Fortune turning, Fortune turned on Immortal and did the obvious promo about how EB screwed up companies. What they should have done is then go after Anderson and Angle and made all the guys that are best know for being from WWE as the heels. Say that TNA is for wrestlers and not sports entertainers. So forth and so on.
You could have still used Foley as the Network guy because he has is proud to be known as a wrestler and has more of that appeal.
They’re obsessed with that initial pop, aren’t they! Yeah, you bring back Chyna and the fans will go bananas but what are you going to do with her after that? It’s like judging a film’s success on the premiere rather than the takings/critics. And, besides, what kind of pop do they think the Rock, Stone Cold or Cena got on their debuts? You’ve got to build ’em up ya eejits.
Royal B
I put it in bold because I choose to. I don’t care how you perceive it. Just because you have some stupid quote doesn’t mean you should get a big head & a bigger feeling of self worth. I know my grammar is on par, I don’t know who made you the grammar police, but you’re a moron.
by Rawuncutnxrated666 on May 6, 2011 4:19 PM EDT reply actions
Via Jason Powell @ ProWrestling.net
TNA star Jeff Jarrett addressed the name change that will be unveiled during Thursday’s TNA Impact television show. Jarrett was asked whether the name of the company or the television show is changing. “Impact…it’s now Impact Wrestling,” Jarrett wrote. To read more from Jarrett, visit Twitter.com/JeffJarrettTNA.
by Anthony Steven Lewis on May 6, 2011 5:55 PM EDT reply actions
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