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Martys_not_smarty said:
Also to add to the whole JCP deal and also possibly misremembering but didn't he have one if not a couple private jets to fly around Flair and friends? Last time I checked it ain't cheap to maintain a private private jet let alone a on call pilot and flight arrangements.
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I think they may have had two, couldn't swear to it. One they had for sure was named Stardust if I remember correct.
 
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Martys_not_smarty said:
Also to add to the whole JCP deal and also possibly misremembering but didn't he have one if not a couple private jets to fly around Flair and friends? Last time I checked it ain't cheap to maintain a private private jet let alone a on call pilot and flight arrangements.
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If I'm remembering correctly, the jets were Dusty's idea (He was part of the front office at that point in time). It was Dusty's penchant for overspending JCPs $$, and the Crocketts for going along with it, that was a big part of the reason that The Crocketts had to eventually sell out to Ted Turner.
 
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trent said:
Lee Fitting and Hunter were both listed as producers for TNAs latest PPV.

WWE are finally going to be the ones to kill the company. Letting De'sha'wn Jamal'Shenae or whoever the fuck it was take the belt off Hendry was fucking idiotic on TNAs part. WWE can just bigtime the fuck out of them now because they have no cards to play and are going to sign all of their decent bigger names anyway.

"Hey Hunter. Can we have your new identical black light-heavyweight guy "Crunk Pete" win our belt over on NXT and then build up against one of our hot new guys to lose it at the next PPV?"

"Uhhhhhh, nah. See, Pete's going to be working the Largo Loop for a bit because he's only learned 3 of the 5 moves we want him to do. His new gimmick is going to be literally pissing on your shitty podunk belt mid-ring whilst calling you all faggots. So, anyway, we have this new tiny Mexican girl who keeps injuring herself getting in and out of the ring. Can she be the next Knockouts champ?"
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You're right, they should read the AEW buys ROH chapter from Tony Khan's latest book: 'How to handle a dead and dying wrestling promotion.'

Also, what benefit was there for TNA with Omega making the Impact champ look like a geek and then losing it to Christian on AEW TV?

TNA's struggling to stay afloat and I don't think they're going to be around long regardless of who is pillaging them for spare parts. It really feels like they're subsisting off of the goodwill of whichever bigger org is feeling charitable, like Paul Heyman ECW.

I think the only thing really keeping them alive at the moment is their TV deal with Sportsnet in Canada and all the tax breaks/grants/etc that come from being CanCon (I think....are they still producing out of Ottawa?)
 
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"Wrestling" Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends | S02E06 (1999)

Spends time around WCW in 99 and the Powerplant.

Featuring: Rowdy Roddy Piper, Goldberg, Randy Savage, Berlyn, Raven, and Pez Whatley.

 
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Julius Caesar The 187th said:
Takeshita and Sakazaki are married.

Suffah, Yuka simps.
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trent said:
Just saw that. The long tradition of Joshi keeping their relationships secret until they are suddenly just married one day continues. That's probably a wrap for her in-ring career.
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My favorite joshi tradition is when somebody has to suddenly retire due to "poor health" then they almost always come back a couple of years later but their boobs are twice the size as before. I wonder what happened...
 
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Well Intentioned said:
You're right, they should read the AEW buys ROH chapter from Tony Khan's latest book: 'How to handle a dead and dying wrestling promotion.'

Also, what benefit was there for TNA with Omega making the Impact champ look like a geek and then losing it to Christian on AEW TV?

TNA's struggling to stay afloat and I don't think they're going to be around long regardless of who is pillaging them for spare parts. It really feels like they're subsisting off of the goodwill of whichever bigger org is feeling charitable, like Paul Heyman ECW.

I think the only thing really keeping them alive at the moment is their TV deal with Sportsnet in Canada and all the tax breaks/grants/etc that come from being CanCon (I think....are they still producing out of Ottawa?)
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TNA is owned by Anthem, a very big Canadian media company's sports arm. They aren't "struggling to stay afloat", they are a tax write-off.

Anthem bought AXS just to ensure TNA had a TV home in the US. Their pockets are basically bottomless, and they are fine with TNA running below break-even financially. Since their events are all in Ontario, they get tax credits and funding from federal and provincial CanCon programs as well as education ministry bucks due to partnering with media programs in colleges and universities to use student labour in their TV and event production.

TNA will keep existing as long as it is a working tax dodge for Anthem.

Also, people really need to quit saying TNA needs a new US TV deal. (See it a lot in other places online!) Their parent company owns the network and nobody else wanted them, so they aren't going anywhere.
 
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