WWE, TNA forge pro wrestling partnership

[Brandon Blaze]

For a second there I was like who the fuck are they talking about. Then I remembered lol.. very dark times

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Turning on Scott is reprehensible even though I haven’t watched it since Eli was there

 

[JakeYourBooty]

I still understand he salvaged the garbage heap

 

[Chris]

Yeah I really don't think there was anything super sketchy about the firing either the longer we are from it. I put 0 credence to "they fired him because he didn't want to work with WWE" bc he had no issues with that, was for it. He also wasn't fired because he tried to buy it, he tried to buy it after it was obvious they had some disagreements in how to go forth for the future. Anthem didn't want to sell which I have no issue with from their POV and Scott already knew if he didn't buy it, he wasn't going to be running it anymore. Sure he was mad, but he saw it as business and that's really all it was.

I can disagree with the decision to fire Scott without also thinking there was anything nefarious on anthem's end or Scott's. It was a business disagreement

 

[Comrade Khan]

He believed in that company when no one else did

 

[Smart Marx]

I know nobody was calling me out, but I do want to say I haven’t turned my back on Scott. I do have a nuanced opinion of him in TNA, though.

While he was doing a good enough job when I first tuned in to get me to come back to TNA I do feel TNA is in a better spot today than at any point that I’ve been watching. I should preface this by saying that I only started watching Scott’s solo TNA After Don left as his co-vice president for about three months before he got fired so I wasn’t even one of the people that was like his impact wrestling booking super fan that was here for two years watching his product so it’s not like I had a strong allegiance to his booking anyway, but nothing will ever make me dislike Scott and his role as the president of TNA because there would be no DNA without Scott.

I’m not just talking about as a company, but he was single-handedly responsible for the return of the name brand that got me excited to start watching it. I will give Scott 100% of the credit because I don’t think anthem would’ve ever done that it Scott wasn’t promoted to president a year and a half ago and he single-handedly I believe pushed them until they agreed to let him do it.

I also want to see him get another shot at booking another televised wrestling show like Ring of Honor, perhaps.

That all being said, I do have a strong dislike of PCO and it’s not hindsight simply because of what he did. I haven’t liked him being a part of TNA since the moment I started watching, and I scratched my head when he was actually the first person that got rehired for the rebranded TNA back at last year’s hard to kill. I don’t believe the rumor Scott was going to make him a world champion so I’m not now attacking Scott for that, but I am kind of relieved he’s gone now so Anthem can trim people that I don’t believe are helping TNA anymore. That’s the extent of it.

I don’t like how they went about firing him, though when he just got TNA back on its feet. Like I said, I’m kind of torn on how I feel about it overall.

 

[Smart Marx]

Bc a 60 year old dude with CTE said Scott was gonna make him world champ....and also said he turned down a Tony Khan offer to main event a PPV against Omega

Wait, what?

I already didn’t believe that Scott promised him a world title run because nobody is gonna do that. But I would’ve been even more hard-core that’s a lie if I knew that he said that he turned down AEW and Kenny Omega. Not only is it unbelievable he’d be offered that position but it’s far more unbelievable he would’ve turned that down. What a pos.

 

[Chris]

Wait, what?

I already didn’t believe that Scott promised him a world title run because nobody is gonna do that. But I would’ve been even more hard-core that’s a lie if I knew that he said that he turned down AEW and Kenny Omega. Not only is it unbelievable he’d be offered that position but it’s far more unbelievable he would’ve turned that down. What a pos.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

So, he wants us to believe he was either going to be in the match to crown the first AEW Champion, or the championship match wouldn’t have been the main event. Can’t say I for a second believe either choice

 

[Smart Marx]

So this man expects us to believe that he was asked to main event the very first ever AEW show? Look if he simply said he was asked to be a part of the show in general and he turned it down for Ring of Honor. I would believe it because Ring of Honor probably felt like a more sure thing when this company just got off its feet and it didn’t have TV yet, but does anybody who knows Tony at all think that he was going to book PCO out in the main event just in general, but that Tony Khaun would’ve thought a match between him and Omega would be his cup of tea?

 

[Smart Marx]

So, he wants us to believe he was either going to be in the match to crown the first AEW Champion, or the championship match wouldn’t have been the main event. Can’t say I for a second believe either choice

Your AEW memory might be better than mine, but I don’t think the title match happened till all out right?

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Your AEW memory might be better than mine, but I don’t think the title match happened till all out right?

You’re right lmao. I just remembered that and was about to correct myself

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

I mean PCO has been known to be a dumbass for decades now, like when he pissed and moaned about having to lose to Kevin Nash in his home town on a house show in 1995.

 

[Smart Marx]

I mean PCO has been known to be a dumbass for decades now, like when he pissed and moaned about having to lose to Kevin Nash in his home town on a house show in 1995.

Was it him or the other one that actually got put over Hogan at a house show in WCW?

 

[Leon TrotSky]

Spoiler

mance is a dope signing tho!!!!

Spoiler

He really is and it's so so funny considering what PCO did on GCW TV that TNA has GCW's recent world champ now