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I would guess it's because they like to jab at each other.

In other news, this is the most "Only in TNA" story I've ever read:

-According to a source within TNA, a major issue which lead to tension between Ric Flair and TNA was the handling of the Gut Check segment on Impact featuring Alex Silva. Flair reportedly went off script when he chose Silva as the winner, which is now causing issues for TNA for two reasons. First of all Flair went into business for himself, which has upset people. Secondly, Silva is from Quebec, requiring TNA to spend more time and money getting him a US Visa if they want to use him regularly.


Flair went off-script on a TAPED SHOW and accidentally kayfabe hired someone who wasn't supposed to be kayfabe hired, and now TNA is STUCK WITH IT? LOFREAKINGL.

Unless this is some lame attempt at reality era stuff.

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<p>From: Jakyl25 | #299
Hey, Cody Rhodes once beat himself for a title.

- When a fan suggested on Twitter that Randy Orton use his "punt kick" n Chris Jericho once again, Orton responded with the following…

"the punt has been banned. 'Concussional' awareness."

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That's absurd. The punt takes people out for such a long time that it ADDS to concussion awareness.</p>
This probably just means Randy Orton eventually snaps, punting Jericho, letting Jericho go on tour and getting Orton "suspended" so he can take some time off, too.

I mean Punk and Dragon still kick people in the head every match.

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Yeah, maybe Orton tweets in kayfabe too and he just means that "The Board of Directors" banned it or something.

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swerve: during the match where R-truth has to choose between Kofi and Curtis, he re-wins the titles with Little Jimmy.

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Orton mostly tweets out of kayfabe, but I'm pretty sure I've seen him tweet in kayfabe sometimes.

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They mean Orton's punt was making people too aware of concussions, so knock that off

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At the end of RAW when Johnny says "if you touch me I'll fire you" Cena totally should have kicked his crutch out from under him.

Get it. Because technically that's not touching him!

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He should have just punched him.

Johnny's clearly bluffing about having the authority to fire anyone who touches him, since Sheamus is still employed.

And when they reveal he was actually bluffing, that Sheamus thing is gonna look brilliant.

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Really he SHOULD call Johnny's bluff.

There are 2 outcomes:

1.) He CAN'T fire Cena, which then means it's open season on Johnny.

2.) He CAN fire Cena. But let's not forget what the Board thought of the last guy who wanted to fire Cena.

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I think I just broke the last year of WWE.

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3) Johnny files a lawsuit, which coupled with Cena's divorce, leaves him penniless

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2.) He CAN fire Cena. But let's not forget what the Board thought of the last guy who wanted to fire Cena.

See, I feel like he's already overcome this hurdle. After all, there was a segment a few weeks ago where he personally went out of his way to injure Cena to a great extent. The board did nothing. He called THEIR bluff and won!

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Well the Board did do something.

They said "Well now we're gonna fire you unless you can actually beat Cena legit somehow" and then proceeded to cover up all the potential loopholes.

But he outsmarted them.

But really they clearly WANTED to fire him anyway, just not before Cena kicked his ass, so really they SHOULD just have sent a memo on Monday firing him.

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heh, that would be the ultimate poetic justice (because that's what he did to big show)

congratulations, you won, you're still fired

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From: Jakyl25 | #315
But really they clearly WANTED to fire him
What are you talking about? They had so much faith in his ability to beat a heavily injured Cena that they added all those stipulations about no interference and Johnny's job being on the line!

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Hell I would have accepted "John Laurinaitis is fired. Control now reverts to the last acting General Manager, the Anonymous GM"

Who would then chime in and reveal himself to be John Laurinaitis.

I could live with that!

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God dammit now that I really sit and think about it, Big Johnny as the AnonGM makes more sense than anyone.

No wonder he made such a hard push to unseat Hunter. Why risk his cushy role in middle management where he was out of the way and not bothering anyone unless he already had power and lost it and coveted getting it back.

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I think the Anonymous GM has been anonymous long enough to be its own character.

Or at least it can be another one of The Patriots' AIs.

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Who is the one person who figured out who AnonGM was (besides Vince), and could thus expose him? Chris Jericho.

Who keeps getting title shot after title shot after title shot with Ace in charge? Chris Jericho.


IT ADDS UP.

AND JOHNNY LOVES TO SEND TWEETS AND TEXTS.

OH MY GOD.

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Psh, we all know who the Anonymous GM was



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It was Big Dave.

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Meltzer?

That would explain the GM seemed to hate fun so much.

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Could be any Big Dave.

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Jakyl25 posted...

I would guess it's because they like to jab at each other.

In other news, this is the most "Only in TNA" story I've ever read:

-According to a source within TNA, a major issue which lead to tension between Ric Flair and TNA was the handling of the Gut Check segment on Impact featuring Alex Silva. Flair reportedly went off script when he chose Silva as the winner, which is now causing issues for TNA for two reasons. First of all Flair went into business for himself, which has upset people. Secondly, Silva is from Quebec, requiring TNA to spend more time and money getting him a US Visa if they want to use him regularly.


Flair went off-script on a TAPED SHOW and accidentally kayfabe hired someone who wasn't supposed to be kayfabe hired, and now TNA is STUCK WITH IT? LOFREAKINGL.

Unless this is some lame attempt at reality era stuff.

Would it have mattered? All 3 judges voted yes, and it only took 2 yeses for a contract, so Flair's vote didn't matter. Right?

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Didn't Bruce Pritchard vote no and made Flair the decisive vote?

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I remember him saying something about wanting to see more, or something, but I don't know if he said 'yes' or 'no' specifically.

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All I remember for sure is that the initial vote was 2 no, 1 yes, and then he cut that (admittedly pretty good) promo and then Flair changed his mind.

I'm not sure if Pritchard changed his mind as well or not.

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I actually think Flair was in the right there. A segment like that being scripted is stupid. If you want to hire guys in a scripted fashion don't use judges' panels.

Now whether I'm arguing that the segment shouldn't be scripted or that the segment shouldn't exist is another thing entirely...

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The segment was dumb because the kid was boring as hell, lost to Robbie E (the lowest level of the impact roster that exists), and displayed NO charisma.

And yet, the way they booked it, everyone knew they were going to sign him.

So now the question is, what would someone have to do to NOT get signed?

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It's a LITTLE kayfabe breaking in a sense too, since they openly have a developmental territory.

It should really be "Win and you're in, lose and you're not, but if you are impressive in your loss you can go to developmental"

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I mean, it's one thing to face Kurt Angle and lose, but to face ROBBIE E and lose it's like, why even bother signing this guy? What's he gonna do exactly?

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Wait was Silva the guy who lost to Robbie E last week or two weeks ago? I thought you guys were talking about someone else cause that guy's promo was no good <_<

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Muffin said he had no charisma so I assume he thought it sucked too!

I liked it but I like most things. I'm a pushover except when it comes to Trips and Hogan.

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His promo was basically

"My dad died. I wanted to be a pro wrestler. Let me be one because my dad died."

In-ring he was boring as ****.

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It would probably also behoove the concept to not have there be a week gap between the match and the judging.

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I wouldn't quite agree he had no charisma-- he showed that generic TNA "passion" well enough-- but he like... rambled on too much.

He was like the Ultimate Warrior but saying things that make sense and less powerful yelling.

And no one wants that.

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Speaking of developmental territories existing in kayfabe, what's the relationship between FCW and WWE? I know WWE exists in FCW, but it seems like FCW doesn't exist in WWE.

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Bingo. You already get it.

Seth Rollins says that tomorrow's set of FCW tapings could be the last though, so that paradox may be moot very soon.

And Biscuit will be out of a job!

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So for all WWE's attempts to exist "in reality," it's really just a TV show in FCW's reality.

We need to go deeper etc.

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It would be a neatly seamless transition to just burn through whatever FCW episodes they've still got in the can plus whatever they tape tomorrow night, script some angle about the end and the transition, and then just start the new NXT tapings the week after that.

NXT could then be in FCW's timeslot on Brighthouse Cable but internet-only to the rest of America.

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That one is a ton of exposition to get to an interesting point, but the point is still interesting.

Cena and Punk really do sort of exist as the two pillars of WWE that don't overlap.

Although that just means that they're building to an eventual match between the two the right way.

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Yeah, Punk/Cena is such a compelling story that it's one of those rivalries they can kind of just stick in their back pocket and pull it out whenever they may need it.

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Although Punk did say creative can't pit the two against each other anymore since they're the top merchandise sellers.

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Although Punk did say creative can't pit the two against each other anymore since they're the top merchandise sellers.
Cena vs. Rock happened.

It's a Hogan vs. Andre scenario in a way. Hogan's on this super-long run with the belt, and Andre is off in his own little sideshow world seemingly unconnected with the title picture, then one day Heenan gets in his ear and every fan around the world drops a brick in their pants.

Obviously this isn't at THAT level but it could be a poor man's version.

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