2012 Pro Wrestling Thread

While I agree that both organizations drop developing angles/wrestlers/concepts way too quickly, TNA had to cut bait on Monday night while they still had a fishing pole. They got a steady 1.1 to 1.2 on Thusdays, but when they tried to run regularly on Monday, they never hit 1.0. Their best show was the first of the regular Monday shows, a .98 with RVD debuting and Hogan wrestling, such as it was, Flair. The lowest was 0.5, which is just horrible.

Read this to see how bad it was.

TNA made a lot of boneheaded moves and will continue to going forward to their inevitable demise, but when your TV show drops more than 60 percent in a matter of less than three months, you have to scramble fast before you lose everyone.

 

Apparently a new WWE title is on the horizon. At a Q&A session sometime recently, Punk had this to say about it:

This, evidently, is it:



Not sure if that image is just one of the side panels, or the center piece.

 

It looks much better than the spinner belt, and it does look heavy enough that it would be believable as a club / foreign object. (If we were doing TV Tropes on wrestling, then it would be noted that a hit from a championship belt is about 10x worse than any chair or table, and equivalent to a sledgehammer.)

 

If that's the center piece, it's not an upgrade over the current belt.

 

Surely, that's not the finished piece. Looks like there's places for plenty of diamonds where the indentations are, and I'm sure it'll be plenty gaudy eventually.
But I'm with KY. The spinner belt looks better than that one. I don't like the square shape of it. The best looking belts always seem to have a round centerpiece.

 

My favorite belts:

 

It has to be a side plate. After all, where's the spot for the champion's name plate?

I was also hoping they'd get a new logo for Raw 1000, but it doesn't appear that way.

 

I agree. TNA was going to lose all its audience had it stayed there. Was watching a recent episode of Impact last night and I think there's potential for growth there. But whether they're willing to do what they need to do to make it happen (and they haven't so far, so what makes you think it'll change now) is another question altogether.

 

Folks, if you mess with "The American Dream", it's going to be one thing.....shameful.

Anybody who wants to be a pro wrestler needs to watch people like him, Ric Flair and many others cut promos. That's how you make money, people. Make people want to pay to see you kick somebody's butt (or in Flair's case, get his butt kicked).
Anyways, just wanted to throw some old-school out there for you today.....

 

They've had potential for growth for 10 years now. They haven't grown out of their little niche.

 

Sounds like it was a decent PPV for TNA last night. I'll be honest and tell you that I didn't order it (I don't order most PPVs, finances aren't such to where I can drop an extra $50 for them), but it did sound like most of the matches were pretty good.
By the way, what happened that Christian was allowed to appear on a TNA PPV? Did the WWE drop him suddenly or how did that happen?

 

I imagine it was part of the deal where TNA allowed Ric Flair to show up at the Hall of Fame.