Any wrestling fans on here?

Thanks for the spoiler Jebus, quite interesting.

Hardy, while an undoubted talent of the highest order, is a bit of a risk for the moment with substantial criminal charges hanging over him.

Don't get me wrong I want TNA to succeed, I'm just worried by some of the moves they are making. They can't afford to weaken the future of the company just for a quick ratings boost now.

While successful indy performers in their own right prior to joining the promotion, publicly the likes of Styles, Joe, and the Motor City Machine Guns are seen as home-grown talents of TNA. They can't let talents like these fall by the wayside.

Well I think if done right they can use the likes of Angle, the Gunns, Beer Money, the Knockouts, AJ, Joe, Wolfe, Daniels, that new team the Young Bucks, Amazing Red and others to keep the new viewers after Hogan, nWo, Hardy, RVD, Flair and their lot draw them in then they'll be doing very well. That should be their plan and believe me I'm rooting for them. I grew up a WWF fan, stuck by them even when WCW was miles better than them but the last couple of years they have been terrible (take a bow Stephanie McMahon, surely the worst booker in wrestling history?) and TNA have upped the game. No one wants slow, punch and kick, muscle men style wrestling that Vince has a hard on for anymore, people want fast paced, properly honed wrestling styles in the ring. The audience is too intelligent nowadays for Vince to do his usual 'you'll like this because I tell you you will' and the WWE hasn't been able to cope with that.

Has anyone got a link to watch this week's TNA on the net?

http://www.justin.tv/scheelz123#r=vhPnw1s

Replayed after the show is over, this showing is ending in about 10 mins

What criminal charges does Jeff Hardy have hanging over him?

Possession with intent and drug trafficking I believe

Could serve 20 years if found guilty

WWE is hamstrung as well by the networks their programming appears on, they just can't have anything as outrageous the classic Ministry storylines (ok, the ending was weak) for fear of losing their sponsorship. ECW is massively tamed down from its origins, it's not much more than Smackdown with some weapons outside the ring sometimes.

ECW is being changed soon anyway, SciFy are unhappy with it's ratings and want a show like Superstars on it's schedule or else they're out of the deal. Which is a shame because I've enjoyed Christian's version of ECW, often it has been better than Raw to be honest.

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If you had the old sky then TNT/TCM on the free channels always showed WCW, then it went bust or sumit and moved to Bravo I think!

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Great memories from the 90's when we used to have the old chorus cable or 'pipe' as it was known to some. At around 10pm on a Friday Cartoon Network would go off air and on came TNT with WCW Monday Nitro :D.

Here's Hogan's TNA debut (also involves X-Pac, Hall, Nash and Bischoff)

ECW, WWE's version is good if you like wrestling without storylines and just want to see people wrestle, I like wrestling but not that much. I had high hopes for it in 2006, I didn't expect hardcore wrestling all the time but I expected a different feel than that of RAW or Smackdown.

Get Christian on RAW.

Merged as requested.

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Here's Hogan's TNA debut (also involves X-Pac, Hall, Nash and Bischoff)

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''In the back all night talking''

They showed a limo driving to the Impact Zone for over an hour Hogan!!:D

ye i lold. the funniest was at the start when that fat boy homicide struggled to get out of the dome and then like a stack of potatos just dropped back to the ring.

Is Jeff Hardy on TNA now, just watching it on Bravo!

Was on TNA last night that a major signing will be announced at the paper view tonight, very bid star who will surprise everyone according to Hogan!

Only three big free agents that would be available to them are RVD, Kennedy and Goldberg

Goldberg is back in the WWE's good books and looks a cert for next years hall of fame so i'd say he's out. RVD is in talks with WWE too so I reckon it's Kennedy

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Only three big free agents that would be available to them are RVD, Kennedy and Goldberg

Goldberg is back in the WWE's good books and looks a cert for next years hall of fame so i'd say he's out. RVD is in talks with WWE too so I reckon it's Kennedy

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Reading around a few sites, Kennedy looks a certainty.

It just looks funny to see the former 'NWO' guys now, not quite in trim condition and a bit slow, but funny to watch :D

Nasty boys in there too!

Hall might be in tag team action with Nash against Beer Money tonight! Angelina Love back in TNA too, who else is to come back! I also noticed she had a job done on her chest!;)

Goldberg back in wwe would be class.