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From the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, late October 2009...
Fans of TNA will be shocked to hear that a reported deal to bring wrestling's biggest ever name, Hulk Hogan, to TNA has fallen through. Hogan and Eric Bischoff demanded excessive levels of creative control, high pay comparable to the worst excesses of the WCW days, and carte blanche to bring several names they wanted to see, including the Nasty Boys, Scott Hall and X-Pac, and even Bubba the Love Sponge - he's a radio DJ in the Tampa area. Dixie Carter was apparently like "Well, whatever you need", but she was talked right out of it by management.
(It's my professional opinion that the sooner TNA gets a better owner than Carter, as soon as possible - she very nearly sleepwalked America's number two into a catastrophe trying to catch a buzz that just isn't there.)
(( Basically the concept is that Hogan and Bischoff never come to TNA, and so the hirings and firings that came as a result never happen, as well as no Monday Night Impact. I'll be posting this in terms of PPVs as well as just a few major Impacts, filling in general info required as necessary. It will probably suck ))
Fans of TNA will be shocked to hear that a reported deal to bring wrestling's biggest ever name, Hulk Hogan, to TNA has fallen through. Hogan and Eric Bischoff demanded excessive levels of creative control, high pay comparable to the worst excesses of the WCW days, and carte blanche to bring several names they wanted to see, including the Nasty Boys, Scott Hall and X-Pac, and even Bubba the Love Sponge - he's a radio DJ in the Tampa area. Dixie Carter was apparently like "Well, whatever you need", but she was talked right out of it by management.
(It's my professional opinion that the sooner TNA gets a better owner than Carter, as soon as possible - she very nearly sleepwalked America's number two into a catastrophe trying to catch a buzz that just isn't there.)
(( Basically the concept is that Hogan and Bischoff never come to TNA, and so the hirings and firings that came as a result never happen, as well as no Monday Night Impact. I'll be posting this in terms of PPVs as well as just a few major Impacts, filling in general info required as necessary. It will probably suck ))