If I was paying the cheques at TNA I would pay Paul Hayman what ever he wanted and say 'There you go Paul do whatever you fancy'.
I will guarantee you 3 things would happen.
1 the TNA product and storylines would improve 1000000%
2 the Viewing figures for TNA would in the long term go through the roof
3 Vince Macmahon would stop thinking the competition is a joke.

Hayman maybe an annoying little dwarf but by god does he know pro wrestling.
I mean in 9 years it went from zip to having a decent TV deal which was simply dumped due to WWE politics by all accounts otherwise heaven knows how big it would be now.
Heyman states that the only reason ECW went under was due to it no being able to get a new deal when TNN dumped them for RAW and there are decent suggestions that WWE politics was the reason another TV deal wasn't found.

TNA with Panda Energy behind it is a totally different animal.
He wont be able to push them around quite so easily so like I said give Hayman whatever he wants and watch the feathers fly.

was all a very predictable night at OTL.
punk - bryan the one highlight

The tag match was very good, proved Kofi & Ziggler deserve a shot at a main event IMO. Enjoyed Christian vs Cody and the WWE Title match.

Loved Johnny saying "5 time" on commentary though.

Was that last night

Woo hoo, now we've got yet ANOHER Cena feud to look forward to for another 4 weeks with no doubt the culmination being yet ANOTHER main event PPV match, this time at No Way Out. Booooooooooooring!!

Anyone else notice who the crowd was most behind in the Battle Royal? Fantastic reaction for William Regal, he deserves one last title run.

And Ryder got squashed (by the sound of it) in an internet-only PPV. Okay WWE we get the point, no-one under any circumstances is allowed to get over and shift merch without your permission, just let the poor guy go rather than keep burying him ffs.
That company is so backward-thinking sometimes it's ridiculous.

Ric Flair has quit TNA

Alex Shelley reportedly set to jump to WWE, Matt Morgan also been rumoured.

Raw was terrible tonight. Can't even think of a highlight.

Punk telling the ref he has till 5 when he had Bryan in the figure four at Over the Limit was a massive smark moment

I was just going to say, after reading the write up on PW.net, it didn't sound the least bit interesting at all.

And yep, Cena in the main event AGAIN for another PPV.



Would like to see Shelley in WWE, he's a great worker!

Appears as if the "Lord" part of Tensai's name has been dropped, along with that hideous costume he used to wear on the way to the ring. You can hear a pin drop when he makes his way to the ring, and the only reaction he elicits during the match is the "Albert" chant.

Raw needs a major shake up.

It's beyond predictable that anyone that 'speaks up' against JL will end up in a handicap match, or his new favourite - a handicap tag team match.

There is no longevity in anything. Cena headlining another PPV. This time against The Big Show. I remember years ago when they had a match at WMXX for the US title. These tag teams that are thrown together on a weekly basis have very little future.

Hopefully in the near future guys like Ziggler, Miz and Ryder will stop being treat like crap. Miz is very good, Ziggler is one of the best workers in the company and makes even the terrible look alright, and Ryder is very much over with the fans so at least let him win one bloody match.

I just don't like that the camera cuts away when someone gets hit with a chair, put through a table etc.... It's getting sanitised.

PG era

its bloody awful, bring attitude back.

They need to get rid of 'Big Johnny' ASAP.

How are they gonna fill three hours of Raw when two is a push to start with?

More crap promos and backstage nonsense probably.

...and bring back guest hosts

Gutted about Flair.

Getting his autograph last year in Manchester was a hell of a buzz, + the guy has produced some absolute comedy gold over the last two years!

They need to bring back the enhancement talent. The guys who are just glorified jobbers.

With them on the roster, there's no need to job out guys like Ziggler because you can have those guys getting beaten every week and by extension you make guys like Ziggler look stronger. You also don't have people bored by the same matches on PPV's every bloody month. It seems WWE doesn't seem to understand that people won't buy what they can get for free and if they've been giving the match away for the last 3 weeks on TV why would anyone pay money to see it again on a PPV?

I know a lot of people want the attitude era back, but while Linda is trying to buy her way into the US senate WWE programming will remain as banal and inoffensive as it currently is.

Chris Jericho got in trouble at a live event for desecrating the Brazilian flag.

It was during a match with CM Punk who brought the flag to the ring. Jericho then took the flag and kicked it out of the ring. Then the police came to arrest him because desecration of the flag is an offence that is illegal in Brazil and can lead to imprisonment.

So there is a rumour WM30 is going to be in London due to the WWE magazine saying it'll be an Olympic city. That'd be great. I'm sure it's more likely to be in Montreal though.

I would HAVE to go.

atlanta could be unlikely with 27 being held there, what about LA?