Classic TNA Live Watch-along Thread

[Chris]

Report: Spike TV hates Vince Russo, were kept in the dark by TNA about his rehiring

Dave Meltzer is reporting that the reason TNA was so secretive about rehiring Vince Russo as a creative consultant was because Spike TV hates Vince Russo and they didn’t want their television partners to know about it.

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[Santa Hoss]

Such a bizarre move. As if there's just no other creative minds who could possibly substitute lmao

 

[Comrade Khan]

Im starting to piece together why some people are and were so apprehensive about AEW succeeding and also when something went wrong they thought it was over. seems TNA did a number on ppl lol

 

[Barry Poppins]

What's funny is the only reason Russo's working for TNA in secret was exposed was because he accidentally sent an email to David Bixenspan who exposed it.

 

[Santa Hoss]

I wanna say Dutch Mantel had the book at one point in TNA too right? Maybe even Brother Bruce somewhere along the lines? I do know they both were creative team members at various times

 

[Santa Hoss]

I wanna say Dutch gets credited with the advent of the Knockouts Division

 

[Chris]

What's funny is the only reason Russo's working for TNA in secret was exposed was because he accidentally sent an email to David Bixenspan who exposed it.

I didn't know it was Bix but I knew he accidentally emailed a dirt sheet guy which is the funniest shit ever

 

[Chris]

I wanna say Dutch Mantel had the book at one point in TNA too right? Maybe even Brother Bruce somewhere along the lines? I do know they both were creative team members at various times

Bruce for sure

 

[Santa Hoss]

Which arguably is historically one of TNA's biggest contributions to wrestling, after the X Division and of course the reverse battle royal

 

[Chris]

He was on screen as a gut check judge for a time too

 

[Barry Poppins]

I wanna say Dutch Mantel had the book at one point in TNA too right? Maybe even Brother Bruce somewhere along the lines? I do know they both were creative team members at various times

It was Dutch, Bruce Pritchard, Taz, JC, and Russo as a committee from 2007-2009-ish.

 

[Comrade Khan]

What's funny is the only reason Russo's working for TNA in secret was exposed was because he accidentally sent an email to David Bixenspan who exposed it.

that does sound like something that snake would do. lol

 

[Comrade Khan]

was Bix more relevant back then?

 

[Santa Hoss]

It was Dutch, Bruce Pritchard, Taz, JC, and Russo as a committee from 2007-2009-ish.

a fairly respectable, if flawed, committee

 

[Chris]

I'd never heard of him until like 3 years ago