forehead7 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 In what way is he not a joke? He's all about skits and whatnot. Hell, he's feuding with a ring announcer ffs! It just strikes me that WWE are risking falling into WCW's trap. Aka holding onto more people than you need so your rival cant hire them. Theres no way theres 12 minutes between adverts, from what ive been watching theres been adverts sometimes as short as 6-7 minutes apart.Then you have the promo's and endless crap taking up screen time. Just strikes me it could be much better. That would be only relevant if they actually had a rival. TNA and anyone else are not even in the same league as WWE. They should have absolutely no concerns over TNA grabbing their talent. If they did, they(the talent) would go to TNA and get underpaid and used even worse than they are/did in WWE and come back, probably for less money. That's if TNA don't go the way of WCW(bust) soon. I just added up the 7 videos that my streaming site has upload, it comes to 1 hour 33 minutes and 24 seconds. There's a slight overlap between the videos but it's no more than a couple of seconds so you're talking a good 1:33 show. On average it's 21/30 or 42/60 that is actual show time so for a 2:15 length you should have 1:34:30 of show time(it's roughly 70%) so it's pretty close to the average. As I said, it's just because you're sitting watching the same program for over two hours. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 TNA is in dire financial straits. That's the reason that even the quality former WWE guys like John Morrison, MVP and Chris Masters haven't been hired by them. 3 or 4 years ago those guys would have been on Impact as soon as their no-compete was up. I'm not sure why Vince hasn't punted some of the dead weight from the current roster, maybe he is needing to retain them to fill up TV time for when (if) the WWE Network ever launches? Looking at the roster page on Wiki, these are the people who could be endeavoured immediately without being missed imo. Curt Hawkins, Epico, Mason Ryan, Michael McGillicutty, Primo, Tyler Reks, Camacho, Ezekiel Jackson, The Great Khali, Heath Slater, Hunico, Jinder Mahal, Johnny Curtis, Trent Barretta, Yoshi Tatsu, Aksana, Alicia Fox, Kaitlyn, Tamina, and Hornswoggle. Thats not even including wrestlers like Drew McIntyre, Alex Riley and Zack Ryder who are pretty worthless at this point . At least they were relevant once upon a time. Thankfully the developmental talent currently in NXT and FCW is as good as it's been for many years, possibly since the days of Cena, Batista and Orton in OVW. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Stewart Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Not really to do with Raw (haven't seen it this week yet), but having just seen his name there, what was the point of the Drew McIntyre "you're going to get fired" and then getting re-hired storyline? I assume it was just to fill some of the 'deadwood space' in Team Johnny at 'Mania now, but it really looked at the time that it might be the start of an actual proper push for him. Bit of a waste of 6 weeks of TV time I'd say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 TNA is in dire financial straits. That's the reason that even the quality former WWE guys like John Morrison, MVP and Chris Masters haven't been hired by them. 3 or 4 years ago those guys would have been on Impact as soon as their no-compete was up Are they? TNA could have signed any of those guys. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forehead7 Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Are they? TNA could have signed any of those guys. Haven't they been hemorrhaging money for ages? I thought it was all Dixie's money(or her dad's money) that was keeping TNA afloat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Yeah TNA is massively fucked financially because they threw money at guys like Hogan, Flair, Bischoff, Hardy, Val Venis, The Nasty Boys, Bubba The Love Sponge, Orlando Jordan and other such shite yet still struggle to reach 5 figures for PPV buy rates. And they get shitey house show crowds in America as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 And they get shitey house show crowds in America as well. Probably becasue it's absolutely shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 TNA should have stuck with its x division, tag division and knockouts. These were all quality and different from WWE. I don't really watch it now, other than bully ray and A double they havent got much going. Angle has got stale for me, shame as I think he's one of the best of all time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 When did Christian start using the frog splash? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I just read a possible spoiler for Raw tonight and I'm fucking raging that I did. I won't post it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I just read a possible spoiler for Raw tonight and I'm fucking raging that I did. I won't post it. Know what you mean! Not too fussed about getting spoilered though as i don't think it's a great move. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 (edited) Is this the first 3 hour Raw btw? Virgin only have it down as a 2 hour one as usual. EDIT: I'm talking shite, that's not till July. Edited June 4, 2012 by Marshmallo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomDom Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 That spoiler made the decision easy to go to bed. Well chuffed I read it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadStar Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I can't be hooped staying up, someone PM me? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 That spoiler made the decision easy to go to bed. Well chuffed I read it. Opposite effect for me, I was set on watching the basketball but I'm now going to have to watch Raw live. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballymoneyyin Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 will someone PM me the spoiler please? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forehead7 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Probably gonna go to bed. I was able to get my sleeping pattern back to some regularity over the weekend and would like to keep that up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuggie_Murray7 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Managed to avoid the spoiler as even if it's not upto much it's still a surprise. When does RAW go 3 hours? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) Managed to avoid the spoiler as even if it's not upto much it's still a surprise. When does RAW go 3 hours? July 23rd, for the 1000th episode. Edited June 5, 2012 by Marshmallo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 So what's the spoiler? Was that it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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