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Post by Knapik on Sept 25, 2006 0:28:14 GMT -5
Congratulations to TNA for signing Angle. I didn't think it was possible, but it's good for everyone involved. Angle gets a big pay day and only has to wrestle a couple of times a month, while TNA gets one of the top performers in the sport. Ratings should be great for the next Impact... TNA had better hope so, anyways! This actually has me excited; but TNA is going to have to improve... signing a huge star really isn't enough. Seriously good luck to TNA! We need a true alternative.
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Post by thefamoustommyz on Sept 25, 2006 1:39:54 GMT -5
This should tell you all you need to know about TNA. On the website TNArevolution.com, it lists Sting as the #1 contender to Jarrett's belt. Sting hasn't wrestled since the last PPV, and has barely been on TV in a month. You know, people say TNA doesn't wanna follow in WCW's footsteps. Let's look at TNA: - have Jarrett - sign Sting - sign Steiner - sign Nash - sign Cornette - sign Vince Russo as a writer Seems like history is bound to repeat itself. WWE has done every one of those things...except sign Sting, because he kept turning them down. Hm. |
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Post by Bazzy on Sept 25, 2006 4:57:12 GMT -5
 Everyone is happy about Kurt signs for TNA . Am I the only worried one here ? . Don't get me wrong , its great news . I fear for Kurt , not just injury wise . Also for his life . The WWE are no fools .I feel that is why they released Kurt . So if destroy does strike , its out of there hands .
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Post by gatekeeper on Sept 25, 2006 6:16:29 GMT -5
WWE has done every one of those things...except sign Sting, because he kept turning them down. Hm. Yeah, but they weren't all washed up when VKM signed them. Big difference. |
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Post by inquisator2 on Sept 25, 2006 6:21:18 GMT -5
I'm Happy for TNA.........but i'm also affraid that in 6 months i'll read that this generations best wrestler is found dead in his hotel room.....
there is no drug policy in TNA, so he can stay on the painkillers that may have got him released....
i hope kurt is doing this for the right reasons,,,,,,,,,
one month off does not qualify has "resting up"
good luck kurt,,,,,,do not become another statistic...
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Post by inquisator2 on Sept 25, 2006 6:27:17 GMT -5
From a wrestling point of view........I do not want to see him hotshot an angle with a Jarret. loose and then join the army....
that is what every WWE castiff has done.......RHYNO, CHRISTIAN, etc...
this is the premier talent in the world today........lets just hope its not another ego trip for double J
........You screwed up sting, you are keeping Joe beneath the glass ceiling, DON"T SCREW THIS ONE UP TNA.....
.......but ultimately this whole thing is just Jarrets's playground after all....
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Post by Splattercat on Sept 25, 2006 7:00:33 GMT -5
I'm sure if I were interested I could go back and find multitudes of hate-threads about Steiner and Nash's last runs in WWE...
The Angle thing: Honestly, the fact that he left WWE apparently to join TNA speaks volumes about his condition...I honestly believe that like everything else with WWE (Batista/Booker fight?), we didn't get the full story on Angle...The big big big big difference that I think many are overlooking or taking lightly is that his WWE schdule offered him NO time to heal, even on a light schedule...Multiple matches per week, combined with travel schedules on top of that was too much for him...TNA right now has no travel schedule, and Angle will likely only be competing twice a month, 3 times tops...That will make a difference, and who knows, maybe it will be enough....
Am I worried for his health..? A little yeah...it's hard not to be with Angle...But at the same time, I don't think he's risking his life every time he steps into a TNA ring, especially since he said he was going to be toning down his style...
It's a different environment, and like they say, "Sometimes a change is as good as a rest."
Just my thoughts...
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Post by swarm on Sept 25, 2006 7:59:30 GMT -5
I'm sure if I were interested I could go back and find multitudes of hate-threads about Steiner and Nash's last runs in WWE... The Angle thing: Honestly, the fact that he left WWE apparently to join TNA speaks volumes about his condition... No. it doesn't. VKM having to fire him so he would die on his watch speaks volumes about his condition. Signign with TNA speaks volumes about how stupid and pathetic he has become. |
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Post by Splattercat on Sept 25, 2006 8:36:35 GMT -5
You feel that way about everything that has to do with TNA, so that point of view doesn't carry much weight...I still can't see why anyone would watch a show that makes them so mad...
Regardless though, fact is, we can only wait and see what happens...Angle won't be working as much, so that's a bonus in his favour...The guy's not dead yet, stop writing his obituary already...
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Post by canadianpittbull on Sept 25, 2006 8:45:48 GMT -5
Yes the Broken Records have once again started. Man and to think we were having some quiet, casual comments and having fun on these TNA boards until the big grumps showed up again and spoiled it all. I guess the nut riding comments can go both ways eh?  |
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Post by gwffantrav on Sept 25, 2006 8:46:27 GMT -5
WWE has done every one of those things...except sign Sting, because he kept turning them down. Hm. Yeah, but they weren't all washed up when VKM signed them. Big difference. Jarrett was in his prime when he was in the WWE, but Steiner and Nash weren't washed up?!?!?!? Come on Brett... |
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Post by Mad Dog on Sept 25, 2006 9:59:35 GMT -5
There's the video that introduced Angle last night. TNA was kind enough to post it.
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Post by swarm on Sept 25, 2006 10:01:45 GMT -5
Yeah, but they weren't all washed up when VKM signed them. Big difference. Jarrett was in his prime when he was in the WWE, but Steiner and Nash weren't washed up?!?!?!? Come on Brett... Umm...hello, Nash debuted in the WWE and all his prime years were spent there. Steiner was in his prime in the WWE too as a Steiner brother so... |
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Post by cakejedi on Sept 25, 2006 11:39:38 GMT -5
Assuming that it is safe for Kurt Angle to wrestle, this is very exciting news. But the other part of the big announcement is not so exciting for me. My wife watches CSI on Thursdays at 9:00. It is her favorite show. I just hope that they keep replaying Impact on Saturday nights, or else I won't be able to watch it . |
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Post by Splattercat on Sept 25, 2006 11:55:03 GMT -5
Jarrett was in his prime when he was in the WWE, but Steiner and Nash weren't washed up?!?!?!? Come on Brett... Umm...hello, Nash debuted in the WWE and all his prime years were spent there. Steiner was in his prime in the WWE too as a Steiner brother so... Doesn't negate the fact that WWE also picked them up post-prime...The most notable difference is that WWE thrust them right to the top of the card, and into World Title picture...TNA hasn't used them as such... Plus on Payback's point, I think a huge difference with the signing of Russo as writer is that WCW made him onscreen "talent"...He was visible, every week you saw him in the midst of everything...To my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) TNA isn't using him as such, and he's just a writer...I heard no mention of him at all at the PPV...With any luck he'll stay behind the curtain this time... |
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Post by BDS on Sept 25, 2006 11:58:52 GMT -5
To my knowledge (please correct me if I'm wrong) TNA isn't using him as such, and he's just a writer...I heard no mention of him at all at the PPV...With any luck he'll stay behind the curtain this time... Nobody knows yet, Splattercat. D'Amore and company were (supposedly) still in charge of handling all of the booking last night, and the Russo era doesn't officially start until today's tapings. |
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Post by Pete on Sept 25, 2006 12:00:28 GMT -5
Yeah, but they weren't all washed up when VKM signed them. Big difference. Nash literally could not walk across the ring without blowing out his knee, and he was signed about 3 years after his run as a draw had ended. Steiner was probably worse in the WWE than he is in TNA. Nothing he's done in TNA has been as gutwrenchingly awful as his Rumble match with HHH. I have a feeling that if Jarrett were willing to go to the WWE, they'd take him. At the very least, I'd think OVW could use another veteran in charge. And even Cornette had seen better days by 1993, when he signed. I don't really agree or disagree with either side on this particular point, but facts is facts. |
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Post by Pete on Sept 25, 2006 12:03:48 GMT -5
Nash didn't debut in the WWF, either. He was in WCW for 3-4 years and accomplished nothing due to the ridiculous gimmicks they gave him. Then went to the WWF where he successfully worked his way up the cards, though he was the worst-drawing champion in company history to that point. I believe he may have been surpassed by Sid and/or JBL, but he's still up/down there with the worst.
Nash's best-drawing days were all with WCW. With a character completely different than what Vince had in mind as his Glad-Handing Babyface Champion.
Then they signed him again in 2002, when he was totally washed up. They don't get a free pass just because they made him a champion 8 years earlier.
Steiner's prime, on the other hand, effectively ended with the back injury he got while in WCW that led to his eventual leaving of the company. When he got to the WWF he had ballooned to the point of absurdity (though still not as bad as he would become later) and could just barely pull off the Frankensteiner anymore.
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Post by thefamoustommyz on Sept 25, 2006 12:04:57 GMT -5
Jarrett was in his prime when he was in the WWE, but Steiner and Nash weren't washed up?!?!?!? Come on Brett... Umm...hello, Nash debuted in the WWE and all his prime years were spent there. Steiner was in his prime in the WWE too as a Steiner brother so... Nash debuted in WCW, having runs as a Master Blaster, Oz and Vinnie Vegas before going to WWE and becoming (at least at the time) the lowest drawing champion of the company, then jumping back to WCW for the biggest run of his career in the nWo... And Steiner only wound up in WWE the first time because he was already a b***h to deal with and Bill Watts didn't think he was worth the money, so he let Steiner go...where The Steiners have hardly been fondly remembered as cornerstones of the tag roster. Steiner's prime years, for sure, were almost entirely in WCW. |
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Post by swarm on Sept 25, 2006 12:09:38 GMT -5
ok, no.1,the second time around Steiner did suck, VKM saw that, fed him to HHH, and got rid of him...
TNA picked up VKM's sloppy seconds and never thought twice about it...
ditto for Nash...
no.2, saying WWE would take JJ back is absurd. It's well known in the wrestling community that JJ burned his bridges long ago, not to mention he can't draw in a piss-ant fed with 500 people in the audience what makes you think he could do it in the big leagues? lol...
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Everyone is happy about Kurt signs for TNA . Am I the only worried one here ? . Don't get me wrong , its great news . I fear for Kurt , not just injury wise . Also for his life . The WWE are no fools .I feel that is why they released Kurt . So if destroy does strike , its out of there hands . 
