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    The Official TNA / Impact / GFW Discussion Thread

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

    Hulk Hogan Plays Def Jam Rapstar, Flashes his Junk

     

    To watch the video, click here.

     

    Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, daughter Brooke, and Jimmy Hart are having a wonderful time paying tribute to The Notorious B.I.G in Def Jam Rapstar, until the Hulkster decides the cameraman wants to see his penis. Thank goodness for censor bars.

     

    Not even during the height of Hulkamania was flashing Hulk Hogan's privates a winning marketing strategy. There's not a single product in existence that I would buy based-on a fleeting, censored glimpse of the Little Hulkster.

     

    I say "in existence" because if a company wanted to market a line of disposable eye-gouging forks, I think it would work quite nicely.

     

    As a special note to any aging wrestler who thinks this is a good idea, try not to have your daughter in the room when you present your penis.

    The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

    LoNdOn,

     

    Former WWE Women's Champion Lita made an appearance on Monday's episode of WWE RAW in a segment with Pee-Wee Herman, Melina, Mark Henry, Eve Torres and The Bella Twins.

     

    Lita's appearance on RAW was a one-time deal and she has not re-signed with World Wrestling Entertainment.

     

    Lita is said to be a huge Pee-Wee Herman fan and was called over the weekend to see if she was interested.

    The Official TNA / Impact / GFW Discussion Thread

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

    Source - PWTorch

     

    By Wade Keller

     

    Hulk Hogan is spewing more pointless gibberish today that won't do anything to turn around TNA's fortunes. The in-house attitude in TNA for years has revolved around this faulty notion that TNA's market is "smart fans" who "don't want to be insulted" with "fake storylines" and "fake wrestlers."

     

    That's not true. Not in any respect whatsoever.

     

    TNA's market is all wrestling fans, not just the type of fans who check this site six times a day. TNA's market is people who want to get wrapped up in a fantasy sports combat world - one that has stars they care about and identify with, one that has action that is exciting and dramatic, one with storylines that make sense with an internal logic that applies from the start of the show to the finish of the show.

     

    None of that is reliant on incorporating anything from "real life" into the TV show. That just gets in the way.

     

    If you're watching a top TV series starring lawyers, doctors, vampires, or whatever, and if the main male star cheated on his wife with a female co-star, no intelligent scriptwriter or producer in Hollywood would force references to that real life situation into their show. It doesn't matter what happens to the actors in real life. What matter is whether their characters are well drawn and well acted. If an actor has irritable bowel syndrome, I don't want to hear about it on his show. If his son in real life has cancer, his TV son doesn't need to get cancer.

     

    Nobody watching TNA is going to think anyone is really fighting each other. Nobody watching TNA cares if someone arguing on TV are really friends or enemies behind the scenes. If people want to see real fights, they'll watch UFC. If they want to hear people argue for real, they'll invite their in-laws over for a week.

     

    People tune into TNA hoping to see an entertaining pro wrestling show with great athletes having dramatic simulated battles inside the ring with outcomes that have ramifications on what happens afterward.

     

    Spike TV targets men 18-34 more than any other. Their advertising department is geared toward seeking advertisers looking for that demo. So why is TNA Impact dominated by athletes and personalities who are known among people 35-54 - people who were into WCW Nitro?

     

    This obsession within TNA with pandering to fans with fake shoot storylines - such as tonight's concussion storyline inspired by a real-life concussion - just gets in the way. If they feel a concussion storyline is the best storyline they can feature, then do it whether someone has a real life concussion or not. It makes no difference at all that tonight's show is built around a real concussion situation. If there's a better storyline that isn't based around a concussion, then do that instead, even if it's totally made up.

     

    Hogan says they should have been doing this all along. Well, first of all, he's wrong. Second of all, he doesn't have a clue how to execute what he's purporting to execute since he's already mixing his storyline feud with Dixie Carter into his supposed commitment to "no more fakery." And third, just to emphasize this point, nobody believes a word he's saying.

     

    Hogan, Eric Bischoff, and Vince Russo are out of touch and behind the times. Their ideas are rooted in a 1995-2000 world, and a lot has happened since then.

     

    Pro wrestling is going to succeed when it stops trying to be something it's not meant to be. It's not real. It's not better when fake storylines are based around reality. It's definitely not better when it spends the majority of the time talking about backstage power plays and 12 year old insider grudges that most don't know or care about (and even those who do know about it don't care about it anymore).

     

    I understand Hogan feeling like he needs a Big Idea to give Dixie Carter some hope that the disastrous audience loss of last four hours of Impact can be turned around. This new idea is silly and based on a faulty premise that has plagued TNA for years.

     

    This "we're getting real" idea isn't new or even a remotely smart strategy. It's transparently patronizing since the whole premise is that people are going to believe that because a dramatized scripted storyline on Impact was inspired by something in real life that anything else about it is real.

     

    Just give us good matches with outcomes that matter and present us with athletes who can do dazzling things while telling their story in the ring. And stop doing a show within a show about the politics of backstage gamesmanship and powerplays. Wrestling fans care about wrestlers, not executives. They want to see wrestlers that relate to them, not to their uncles or dads.

    The Official TNA / Impact / GFW Discussion Thread

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

    TNA's Hulk Hogan posted a new worked-shoot video blog tonight promoting upcoming changes to TNA storylines. Hogan said it's about to "get real" with the elimination of "fake" characters and storylines.

     

    "I guess you could call this the final warning to the weak, the frail, the faint of heart. TNA is for real. It's going to get more real as we move along in the coming weeks," Hogan said.

     

    "We're not going to be like wrestling used to be with a bunch of fake-poo (PG) wrestlers and fake storylines. We're going to start shooting. This is about drawing money. And if you don't draw money, you don't belong here.

     

    "We're going to blow the roof off this place. We're going to do in TNA what should have been done all along. We're going to make it interesting. We're going to make it real interesting."

     

    To view the video, http://www.twitvid.com/ZFNGA <--Click Here

    The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

    WWE turned into Zombies

     

    Courtesy of WWE.com, click here to access it.

     

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    http://www.wwe.com/content/media/wallpapers/1600x1200/16097726

     

    http://www.wwe.com/content/media/wallpapers/800x600/8496910

     

    http://www.wwe.com/content/media/wallpapers/1280x1024/8497010

     

    http://www.wwe.com/content/media/wallpapers/1600x1200/16098082

     

    http://www.wwe.com/content/media/wallpapers/1600x1200/16098158

     

    http://www.wwe.com/content/media/wallpapers/1280x1024/12191086

     

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    The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

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    The WWE website announced that the three-hour Monday Night RAW event taking place on November 29, 2010 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will feature the return of the King of the Ring tournament.

     

    The synopsis reads: “In a single evening, one man will become a legend as the King of the Ring Tournament returns for the first time in over 2 years live from Philadelphia. On a special 3-Hour Raw Event Superstars from Raw and SmackDown will battle for the honor to be crowned King of all WWE and royally solidify their spot in sports-entertainment history.”

    The Official MMA Discussion Thread

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

    The California State Athletic Commission has released the disclosed payroll figures for last Saturday's UFC 121 event. Brock Lesnar earned his base $400,000, although he also receives a percentage of the event's pay-per-view purchases which brings up his overall total. Tito Ortiz, due to the deal he signed in 2009, earned $250,000 in his loss to Matt Hamill. New UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez earned $200,000 for his first round victory, and just behind the three of them was UFC newcomer Jake Shields, who earned $150,000 for his split decision victory over Martin Kampmann. Full disclosed payroll figures are below:

     

    • Cain Velasquez: $200,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus)

    • Brock Lesnar: $400,000

    • Jake Shields: $150,000 ($75,000 win bonus)

    • Martin Kampmann: $27,000

    • Diego Sanchez: $100,000 ($50,000 win bonus)

    • Paulo Thiago: $18,000

    • Matt Hamill: $58,000 ($29,000 win bonus)

    • Tito Ortiz: $250,000

    • Brendan Schaub: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus)

    • Gabriel Gonzaga: $67,000

    • Court McGee: $30,000 ($15,000 win bonus)

    • Ryan Jensen: $10,000

    • Tom Lawlor: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus)

    • Patrick Cote: $21,000

    • Daniel Roberts: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus)

    • Mike Guymon: $8,000

    • Sam Stout: $32,000 ($16,000 win bonus)

    • Paul Taylor: $16,000

    • Chris Camozzi: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus)

    • Dongi Yang: $8,000

    • Jon Madsen: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus)

    • Gilbert Yvel: $30,000

    The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

    Just watching NXT and I have now seen the worst professional wrestling match of my life. Maxine against Kaitlyn, sweet cream on an ice-cream sandwich that was awful. I honest to god think I could do a better job than they did.

     

    Kaitlyn had less than six weeks of training. I think she signed in July 2010 and assigned to NXT in September 2010. So it was expected that she isn't very good at all. Especially when they put her with another inexperience worker.

     

    I think she'll be a perfect valet for Dolph Ziggler and hopefully years of training would erase memories like the one you witnessed on NXT recently.

    The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*

    in The Dog Pound

    Posted

    FW4Online is reporting that The Undertaker is injured with a torn rotator cuff which is due to be operated on soon. The original plans for last nights WWE Bragging Rights PPV scheduled Taker to win the World Heavyweight Championship, but due to the injury plans were changed and Kane retained with the help of Nexus who were used to protect Taker's image as he had already lost to Kane on two straight pay-per-views.
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