Based on the bullet points I speculate, they, or the owner personally, owed money to somebody that could take the company, and that somebody is likely on the board or knows someone on the board based on the CEO getting pissed about a board member being cc'd on an email.
Taking the TV money to use on other stuff screams of when AOL Time Warner used to do this to WCW, take parts of the big revenue and put them on the Warner books and claim WCW lost money, and while WCW lost money either way, on paper it was more the way Warner was cooking things.
Refusing to do loans is another red flag about the board, they didn't want to take out loans likely because the board would need to be notified. I can see why AEW was their golden goose, it was the only real "brand name" they carried and it was far cheaper than a cable plan.
Those final two bullet points... y'all remember when Dixie was playing the investor shell game, which ultimately led to TNA going to Anthem... yeah, this sounds eerily close to that, to me.
::: SPOILER
Adrenaline in my soul... Drew just dethroned Cody Rhodes!
:::
I had to switch to lemmy because I couldn't get the spoiler to show right in Piefed, maybe it doesn't work or I was screwing it up. Anyway... I'm super happy with this spoiler, I am so bored when watching this feud these days. Then again I'm burned out on wrestling lately.
Probably deserved it's own topic but here it is...
Rollins may be injured, looks like his knee buckled when he came off the top rope, they immediately went to the finish and he was helped to the back during commercials.
Goldberg ended up losing as predicted, made to look strong, Gunther is a miracle worker getting an ok match out of him, but it's nothing to go out of your way to watch, NBC has gone straight to commercial, no Goldberg in the ring or nothing from what I saw, just Gunther rolls out, commercial... they then came back to Goldberg and his friends and family in Ring and he has a mic thanking them and the fans, for his career. NBC cuts him off and leaves the show... I assume there is more on peacock.
For us old timers, I have a bittersweet thought on this, tonight we have potentially seen the actual final bit of WCW's existence in active (well semi-active) wrestling, Goldberg retires and takes the last WCW Theme Song with him, short of Naomi going back to Ernest Miller's (The Funkadactyl's) music one day.
I switched over to t.Lemmy.zip from Piefed for this because Piefed.zip is currently really slow for me. For anyone that wanders in here, Piefed and Lemmy each have some strengths. Lemmy (at least Tesseract) has a better notifications system. Piefed has a more bulletin board style (they're damn similar though) that I kind of prefer. It's a tossup.
I'm assuming it's to work with Dom and just long enough WWE gets to use Eddie on TV and secure the rights to his name and likeness for a while longer. If we're lucky it'll just be some vault filming or something.
I can't believe people don't like their state police wearing plain clothes, using unmarked cars, hiding their badges, showing up without judicial warrants, and just snatching people before sending them off to foreign prisons, what a bunch of wokesters. /s
It's important to stand up to the fuckers, but equally as terrifying knowing this is likely just the beginning. We still have 1309 days to go, assuming they don't go full coup the way so many think they will.
I don't disagree with the opinion, but where do we go? If Firefox goes down the forks do too, Chrome/Chromium has a monopoly on almost all other browsers, we're stuck between two turd sandwiches as far as I know.
TK should hit the settlement button and make some extra rules not to touch the fucking staff. I just hope they don't pull the arbitration thing.
I don't like how long it took to file the lawsuit, and don't like it wasn't reported, but after seeing the video, that was fucked up now knowing it wasn't an extra, I assumed taking the screwdriver meant it was part of the show.
Hasn't online always kind of had the IRS? Every 48 minutes (GTA day) I lose money for property upkeep, the mechanic and other stuff; sounds IRS like to me.
Now if this DLC could lower those miniscule daily charges that would be funny, to me.
The Harris Brothers had some questionable taste in ring attire in the 00s including SS logos, they were part of Aerolux (something like that) who had a stake in TNA during their big money trouble era. Aerolux at the time they were part of TNA claimed they were just playing biker characters and weren't Nazis but those logos even in the early 00s were frowned on.
AXS TV is a low carriage network, or it was when TNA's parent company bought it and TNA ended up there. They had coverage in about 32 million households compared to 73 million for USA, TNT, TBS, etc in 2022-2023. They may be in more homes now, some cable companies used to not have it.
I guess Punk learned to love blood money covered dick... I hope Miz was waiting for him like SpongeBob when he realized Squidward liked krabby patties.
I'm somewhere between the two, I used to care about the tv product through the '90s and early '00s. Then when WWE became basically a monopoly I really enjoyed reading the backstage shit and looking at the business functions that lead to that product. I mean I'm not quite in that camp 1 but I enjoy business news and scandal some.
What we know of TNA over the years is that they are a miracle business. Almos nobody could have withstood their crazieness. Hell they were basically a ponzi schemed for a while there with Anthem, Billy, the Nazi Bros and others all believing they were getting the company when Dixie couldn't pay them.
WWE on the other hand fell upwards in spite of themselves, their implosion, granted part of that is Viacom's fault, coincided with the slow death of Cable so live programming became coveted by networks who just wanted fans to tune in no matter what. You can look at WWE's past financials and see in real time as fans and ticket numbers (not sales, they raised prices) declined their revenue kept growing thanks to the TV contracts, had TV not declined the way it did, they would have been WCW'd or been on some obscure channel like Destination America.
I also respect AEW being a private company that doesn't share that information. No matter how much I would enjoy reading some of it.
No amount of backstage business info really hurts my enjoyment of a product which is way more heavily weighted for my enjoyment, the story-lines do though. Triple H came out and righted WWE's ship when Vince left, I've watched a lot more WWE up until probably Mania than I had for a long time, especially with AEW coming along... now WWE has shit the bed again and it's as bad if not worse than Vince booking and I quit caring, that hurts my view of the company more than anything.
Overall, neither company is playing a tune I completely care for, but I'm glad they exist, wrestling has been so much better with the inclusion of a second major promotion, and TNA is decent enough even if they don't have a real tv channel. I don't know, this feels rambly, I'll stop here.
Just wait until they start shoving it into the wrestlers gear too, it's being rumored now. I imagine it's going to be like when they had Ziggler dress as The Colonel for KFC, just in the new WWE he would always wrestle that way.
Ok... but these carnies really like to carny, so you can't necessarily trust him. Although I lean towards trusting him based on info that's come out and the way his kid was calling cap on Triple H's comments about it being a work.
Based on the bullet points I speculate, they, or the owner personally, owed money to somebody that could take the company, and that somebody is likely on the board or knows someone on the board based on the CEO getting pissed about a board member being cc'd on an email.
Taking the TV money to use on other stuff screams of when AOL Time Warner used to do this to WCW, take parts of the big revenue and put them on the Warner books and claim WCW lost money, and while WCW lost money either way, on paper it was more the way Warner was cooking things.
Refusing to do loans is another red flag about the board, they didn't want to take out loans likely because the board would need to be notified. I can see why AEW was their golden goose, it was the only real "brand name" they carried and it was far cheaper than a cable plan.
Those final two bullet points... y'all remember when Dixie was playing the investor shell game, which ultimately led to TNA going to Anthem... yeah, this sounds eerily close to that, to me.
::: SPOILER Adrenaline in my soul... Drew just dethroned Cody Rhodes! :::
I had to switch to lemmy because I couldn't get the spoiler to show right in Piefed, maybe it doesn't work or I was screwing it up. Anyway... I'm super happy with this spoiler, I am so bored when watching this feud these days. Then again I'm burned out on wrestling lately.
Probably deserved it's own topic but here it is...
BOO!
That’s one hell of a World Tour they’re going on!
Wrestling at its finest.
Rollins may be injured, looks like his knee buckled when he came off the top rope, they immediately went to the finish and he was helped to the back during commercials.
Goldberg ended up losing as predicted, made to look strong, Gunther is a miracle worker getting an ok match out of him, but it's nothing to go out of your way to watch, NBC has gone straight to commercial, no Goldberg in the ring or nothing from what I saw, just Gunther rolls out, commercial... they then came back to Goldberg and his friends and family in Ring and he has a mic thanking them and the fans, for his career. NBC cuts him off and leaves the show... I assume there is more on peacock.
For us old timers, I have a bittersweet thought on this, tonight we have potentially seen the actual final bit of WCW's existence in active (well semi-active) wrestling, Goldberg retires and takes the last WCW Theme Song with him, short of Naomi going back to Ernest Miller's (The Funkadactyl's) music one day.
I switched over to t.Lemmy.zip from Piefed for this because Piefed.zip is currently really slow for me. For anyone that wanders in here, Piefed and Lemmy each have some strengths. Lemmy (at least Tesseract) has a better notifications system. Piefed has a more bulletin board style (they're damn similar though) that I kind of prefer. It's a tossup.
EXCUSE ME!?! Duck that.
I'm assuming it's to work with Dom and just long enough WWE gets to use Eddie on TV and secure the rights to his name and likeness for a while longer. If we're lucky it'll just be some vault filming or something.
I guess if they aren't stripping the titles they'll just have Roxanne take the title and Dom.
I can't believe people don't like their state police wearing plain clothes, using unmarked cars, hiding their badges, showing up without judicial warrants, and just snatching people before sending them off to foreign prisons, what a bunch of wokesters. /s
It's important to stand up to the fuckers, but equally as terrifying knowing this is likely just the beginning. We still have 1309 days to go, assuming they don't go full coup the way so many think they will.
You lose every shot you don't take, so good for them.
I don't disagree with the opinion, but where do we go? If Firefox goes down the forks do too, Chrome/Chromium has a monopoly on almost all other browsers, we're stuck between two turd sandwiches as far as I know.
The rumor was that's why the title was put back on GUNTHER, so he and Goldberg could have the retirement match the weekend of Evolution on SNME.
The screwdriver and then push part is the only big thing that draws it into question for me, I'm somewhat hopeful you're right.
TK should hit the settlement button and make some extra rules not to touch the fucking staff. I just hope they don't pull the arbitration thing.
I don't like how long it took to file the lawsuit, and don't like it wasn't reported, but after seeing the video, that was fucked up now knowing it wasn't an extra, I assumed taking the screwdriver meant it was part of the show.
Hasn't online always kind of had the IRS? Every 48 minutes (GTA day) I lose money for property upkeep, the mechanic and other stuff; sounds IRS like to me.
Now if this DLC could lower those miniscule daily charges that would be funny, to me.
You know, Jim Cornette is kind of a fucking blowhard, but sometimes this man is just right.
The Harris Brothers had some questionable taste in ring attire in the 00s including SS logos, they were part of Aerolux (something like that) who had a stake in TNA during their big money trouble era. Aerolux at the time they were part of TNA claimed they were just playing biker characters and weren't Nazis but those logos even in the early 00s were frowned on.
AXS TV is a low carriage network, or it was when TNA's parent company bought it and TNA ended up there. They had coverage in about 32 million households compared to 73 million for USA, TNT, TBS, etc in 2022-2023. They may be in more homes now, some cable companies used to not have it.
I guess Punk learned to love blood money covered dick... I hope Miz was waiting for him like SpongeBob when he realized Squidward liked krabby patties.
I'm somewhere between the two, I used to care about the tv product through the '90s and early '00s. Then when WWE became basically a monopoly I really enjoyed reading the backstage shit and looking at the business functions that lead to that product. I mean I'm not quite in that camp 1 but I enjoy business news and scandal some.
What we know of TNA over the years is that they are a miracle business. Almos nobody could have withstood their crazieness. Hell they were basically a ponzi schemed for a while there with Anthem, Billy, the Nazi Bros and others all believing they were getting the company when Dixie couldn't pay them.
WWE on the other hand fell upwards in spite of themselves, their implosion, granted part of that is Viacom's fault, coincided with the slow death of Cable so live programming became coveted by networks who just wanted fans to tune in no matter what. You can look at WWE's past financials and see in real time as fans and ticket numbers (not sales, they raised prices) declined their revenue kept growing thanks to the TV contracts, had TV not declined the way it did, they would have been WCW'd or been on some obscure channel like Destination America.
I also respect AEW being a private company that doesn't share that information. No matter how much I would enjoy reading some of it.
No amount of backstage business info really hurts my enjoyment of a product which is way more heavily weighted for my enjoyment, the story-lines do though. Triple H came out and righted WWE's ship when Vince left, I've watched a lot more WWE up until probably Mania than I had for a long time, especially with AEW coming along... now WWE has shit the bed again and it's as bad if not worse than Vince booking and I quit caring, that hurts my view of the company more than anything.
Overall, neither company is playing a tune I completely care for, but I'm glad they exist, wrestling has been so much better with the inclusion of a second major promotion, and TNA is decent enough even if they don't have a real tv channel. I don't know, this feels rambly, I'll stop here.
Just wait until they start shoving it into the wrestlers gear too, it's being rumored now. I imagine it's going to be like when they had Ziggler dress as The Colonel for KFC, just in the new WWE he would always wrestle that way.
Ok... but these carnies really like to carny, so you can't necessarily trust him. Although I lean towards trusting him based on info that's come out and the way his kid was calling cap on Triple H's comments about it being a work.