WWE hire AJ Styles, Austin Aries, and 3 New Japan stars. Doomed to fail.

WWE hire AJ Styles, Austin Aries,

and 3 New Japan stars. 

Doomed to fail.

WWE's signing of foreign stars of no value will offer no solution to an improved future or even a good, interesting way forward for Triple H's impulse choices of favouritism. Triple H hires people on a basis of who 'he likes' rather than who is made fr the company and can be tailored to a main event star that fans deserve and respect. 

The triple ignorant trio of AJ Styles, some old bald dude in Karl Anderson (who?), the other one (Nakamoron) and Doc Gallows (from TNA, who no-one remembers had a bit part in WWE beforehand) wont drive WWE to a new age future. It will only hamper them more and the hope of a 'buzz factor' won't last. The hype, as with Triple H's personal impulse buys, always evaporates quickly. 

Disingenuous, deceit ridden,
 ignorance abuser 

Everyone remembers Triple H's failings at trying to run WWE vividly. Paige, Sin Cara Mark I, Kharma, The renewed Tag Team division. Where are they all now? Fizzled out and defunct in less than three months to this very day and not one of them is over or respected. Poor Triple H. Always so desperate to prove to WWE's top boss and his wife that he can contribute as an honourary McMahon at running WWE and failing dismally. Why such a failure though? Stubborn pride, egotistical approach, hatred for not being better than creative British pioneers in the field today and too personally involved with fandom choices which truly aren't best for business.

Alas, Paul Levesque will not accept constructive criticism. It is all firmly about him and his pride. He will fail to listen, go against the grain and as a result, suffer the fallout. WWE lost huge ratings over 2015 and the product was overly disgraced, tepid and clueless in its direction as a product.

Triple H, in charge of hiring, has failed to make the necessary gains that benefit a long term goal and continues to hire ignorance, with high warnings, to be antagonistic. That is the true face of Triple H. Anyone who would assume he has changed as a manager of WWE are deluded. Tripper is exactly the same as he was when he jobbed out Booker T in thirty seconds at Wrestlemania, hated Edge for being 'better than Triple H' and wanted to overrun John Cena's world title wins as the key player in the business. Triple H has not learned and is truly bad for business. Unless he changes his disgraced attitude and more so, thinks that he can continue to behave like it and succeed, he's in for a serious shock. WWE and Triple H will always laugh and mock it with their own assumption they will always overcome. The time and the landscape is more tentative than ever and a couple of action figure hires in AJ Styles and other ignorance, not even with this trio, will cripple Triple H and WWE's long term future.

Some dude. Same old pose. Nobody.

Triple H has had and continues to have an option to stabilise the future. Until he figures it out and continues these fandom choices, WWE proves one thing. 

Triple H is a mark. They mock fans for being marks but desperately cling on to that hope that they will swallow such choices. They fail to respect the fact that WWE fail to respect fans and jump on a bandwagon of lunacy that wont ever materialise for WWE. It looks cheap, tacky and plainly pathetic.

Once again, WWE are the undoing of themselves. 

As of 22nd January, WWE have hired ignorant TNA disgrace and midget man Austin Aries of TNA fame, who left to chase Hollywood, to its developmental brand, NXT. 

Ah, NXT, WWE's desperation of Triple H's own personal project trying to make himself and Indy promotion feel. It looks foolish, ignorant and plain absurd. Fans fail to respect the show outside of its handful of bubble darlings. Austin Aries on the other hand? A pint sized nobody who has become ignorant over the last three years and never achieved much in TNA? 

Once again, Triple H breaks kayfabe commenting on the decisions by Tweet, when he is meant to be off TV and speaking duties when he has currently put himself on television, being slammed through tables and 'recovering' in efforts to build up green rookie Roman Reigns as heavyweight champion.

NXT is officially remained. NXTNA. Triple H is a fool.

© Max Waltham 28th January 2015

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Is James Storm joining NXT?

Is James Storm joining NXT?

Over the past week speculation was building that James Storm may well be joining NXT. 

Those are ringing true as Storm sent his first cryptic tweet and warning on behalf of WWE’s developmental brand. Though his language and ton was somewhat distasteful and WWE must better his mouth if ever to gain true respect and be a TNA flop upgraded to the big leagues.

Storm was seen at a recent event the week prior of NXT, in the audience, near the production crew curtain, trying to maintain a low profile. Fans took pictures. 

Storm has officially surfaced on NXT TV this week with Triple H confirming a speech. 

For Storm he is okay and not yet ignorant. Not mesmeric but can put on good entertainment and be needed. Though don’t over gush and hire people like Bobby Roode and all the other childish losers fans harp on about. Triple H is still suffering egotistical loss at listening to fans and getting it oh so wrong in flop stars called up to the main stage including Paige, Sin Cara, Kharma and others. 

Get smart and listen. Take note and change. Or fail as usual. Now is the most testing time for wrestling’s survival. 

© Max Waltham 15th October 2015

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The final joke of Dixie Carter. The Matt Hardy saga.

The final joke of Dixie Carter. 

The Matt Hardy saga.

Dixie Carter made an astonishing choice at Bound for Glory, TNA’s self-professed version of Wrestlemania. After a Triple Threat held together well by Ethan Carter III against PVC mess Drew Galloway and ever redundant Matt Hardy, TNA allowed Matt Hardy the victory, pinning Galloway to lift the TNA world title.

Fans, who are in short supply loyalists, could not believe their eyes when the ageing blubber Matt Hardy lifted the TNA world title. Not only lacking entertainment or value for money, fans knew what everyone else did, but TNA seem clueless on. It was the signal that TNA had nailed its final bolt in the coffin. Fans could no longer support such mediocrity in some ex-WWE star who never cut the mustard to be TNA’s number one guy. 

Matt Hardy has since vacated the title two days later, claiming to win it back fairly at a later date. Apparently, in the bizarre world of TNA, Dixie Carter had this planned since June to have Hardy pointlessly win and vacate. 

ECIII who was a growing and last chance hope to save TNA, was booked like a chump, but still kept faithful with fans. His skills and decent attempts were better than most on the roster and fans supported it. Once more TNA, who has no clue who, how or what to book made a serious fool of itself, title lineage and staff. Morale is at its lowest ever in TNA. Actions like this will surely not encourage the people who work for TNA, many who feel trapped and are waiting for a solid opportunity to bail.

Fans have already bolted in their thousands. For Dixie, Ethan Carter was a strong chance to rebuild and potentially save TNA from its eventual collapse. Instead, Dixie Carter, clueless as ever, had no idea what to do and made up some random idea she thinks is amazing. Carter has placed herself into the realm of obscurity, becoming the worst wrestling entity on the planet. Her storylines are the poorest ever seen and has done nothing but sink her beloved company into the ground, by her own actions. Her failure to include fans and get the people who can to save her company are flawed. Carter, obsessed with ex-WWE stars front and back, was duped into getting useless producers and talent relators to help. She does no checks, has no depth and cannot think for two minutes of a way out. Therefore it is in her interests to hire someone who can fix it for her. Though Dix is too stubborn to admit defeat or hire someone greater. For Dixie her ego has overtaken her former self. Now believing her own character, Dixie has forked her own company, with catastrophic results.

For years, Wrestling Wonders’ editor and wrestling restructurer Max Waltham has been available and Dixie failed to take up the offer. She even avoided Paul Heyman years prior. Instead she chose Vince Russo, one of the worst game players who wants personal attention. She even lied about it publically. TNA has sunk. TNA would not however take its own problems on board and decided that it was online fans’ faults for being negative. Negative about supporting the company for years and having Carter throw it back in their faces. 

Dix has taken no steps to save her company and continue to destroy it from within. Lacking rosters, staff morale at its lowest and non-payment do not shine TNA as a grand company let alone Wrestling one to behold. Management acquisitions and backstage workers who have no connection to wrestling have further dipped TNA’s star. Carter believes all her hires are excellent and won’t take an ounce of humility. Title worth, leaving talent and no TV deals have also played a troublesome role for TNA. 

TNA have decent talent still on the books it could use to the best of their abilities. Once again TNA don’t value them and push all the wrong and bad choices as its main programming entertainment. It is more about just getting a job done and moving to the next angle to pass a two hour show than real depth. 

Can some random infatuation of twenty years ago in washed up loser Matt Hardy, a jobber at best, be the future of what is a failing company? Dixie Carter’s choices of ‘I like him so I’ll give him the title’ make further laughing stock of her role in TNA. Failing to accept advice and help, Carter has no-one else to blame and her meltdown’s and earn her no sympathy from lifelong fans who hate to see the once great TNA crumble beneath them. They want no part of this farce. Carter continues to blame them. Classy.

If only Carter listened she could have saved herself. If she just hired one guy to save everything she could have been real competition to WWE and survive the turbulent waters raising her paddleboat. Instead she hired everyone but. Dixie Carter is all at sea, and not a lifeboat to help. Only one person has the rubber ring on the salvage ship, and Dixie Carter is refusing to take it. TNA is sunk.

© Max Waltham 07th October 2015

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TNA superstar Bram arrested for domestic abuse

TNA star arrested for domestic abuse to

female, TNA suspension given

As if many problems could not be any worse for TNA Wrestling, and it’s lacking direction as a sinking ship, one of its main stars they hoped to become a bigger star for the company, Bram, was arrested on Sunday.

The TNA superstar was arrested for domestic abuse. The authorities released this statement on the details.

Gulfport, FL—On 8/30 at approximately 6:00 AM, officers responded to a call about a disturbance in an apartment at 3205 58th Street South. There they encountered Thomas R. Latimer and a woman who identified herself as his girlfriend.

The officers observed evidence indicative of a physical altercation, and their investigation revealed that, after the couple had been arguing, the woman felt threatened and sought refuge in her bedroom.

Latimer followed her into the bedroom, closed the door, and refused to allow her to leave. He then pushed the woman onto the bed and was holding her down by her neck.

Latimer, who is a wrestler with TNA Impact Wrestling, was charged with domestic battery by strangulation and false imprisonment. Both are felony charges, and he is currently being held in the Pinellas County Jail.

TNA has since suspended Bram with immediate effect. 

"Wooo!"

WWE Diva Charlotte (Ashley Fliehr) is still legally married to Bram, despite the pair breaking up after marriage some time over a year ago. She is said to have nothing to do with Lattimer's arrest.

With such levels of violence in wrestling and TNA stoking up the language for attention, it is no wonder its stars would naturally adopt a reality from their larger than life characters. While this puts a huge strain on the stained name of professional wrestling in a murky context, as a company, for TNA, already in low standing with fans and insiders, needs to re-evaluate its company’s path. It is simply one thing after another in TNA, and makes its running team look entirely subdued, acceptable of abuse and constant lack of action when thinking about the company’s publicly damning image. TNA has hired many convicts in its time, knowing of their convictions, including MVP, as it's high profile recent storyline investor of the company.

© Max Waltham 04th September 2015

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TNA Slammiversary 2015 Review. Unintentional swan-song?

Was Slammiversary TNA's 

unintentional swan-song?

Slammiversary has been TNA’s answer to WWE’s Wrestlemania. The event has been going for well over ten years. TNA is still here, beyond everyone’s belief, but its recent Pay Per View transmission of the show may indicate the company’s unintentional swan song that could well lead to TNA’s untimely end, for all the wrong reasons.

The show aimed to have an air of surprise, returns and nostalgia to maintain the TNA faithful, all the while neglecting to understand the very reasons why the company has driven its core audiences away. Now so are the so called talent. Departures, switching sides and break up teams all battling one another in sloppy programmes do not excel TNA’s fruitless attempts to encourage fan engagement on from this point today.

Slammiversary had lots of surprises. There were returns in Matt Morgan, aging WWE legend Vader, and former exiled company benefactor Jeff Jarrett. On the downside, the show had no World champion, no defence of the title and returned a new title which was simply the old defunct Legends championship and turned it into the ‘King of the Mountain’ belt instead. Re-christening a title from seclusion does not bode well for anyone hoping to be something more substantial. 

After all the absurdity of the title reinvention, and the match rehashed by TNA founder Jeff Jarrett, who also participated in the poorly constructed match, fans simply could not understand for all its lunacy, featured multiple wrestlers, sort of like a Money in the Bank thing. Eventually, soon to be later that evening TNA Hall of Famer, Jeff Jarrett, not only returned with a uncoordinated promo and watch receiving plaudit, gained the Legends, now King of the Mountain, title. Good grief. An old age match, with an old age ‘star’ convoluting his own former project of personal desire. Can no-one in wrestling management subside their ego for the good of the product? Apart from yours truly, seems not.

The Slammiversary event, for Jarrett, was a nostalgic pat on the back and a ‘keep all doors open because TNA is now insanely desperate’ return that attains no wrestling value. His new ‘thing’ known as Global Force Wrestling, is not now, nor ever, is truly going to take off and is set to be filled with more ignorance and ex-TNA superstars. Jarrett has set himself up for failure before he has begun. That’s not wise at all. Lose the ego. Be a professional. 

After Slammiversary, scores of TNA stars are set to leave, many by way of contract expiration. Ignorant stars Austin Aries and Magnus are set to jump to GFW as a last ditch attempt to remain relevant. No other company could truly make them work, to its standard, any longer. Frustrated hard-worker James Storm is looking to leave for GFW too, after payment issues and lack of direction to his character, causing his family issues to be somewhat an imposing factor on work choices. Taryn Terrell and Awesome Kong denied rumours they may be off too. Though their contracts have ended, allegedly. It’s a bit of a mess. GFW has none and will not gain any standing by shifting TNA stars to and fro to gain any level of stardom. Their tactless talent exchange programme screams juvenile attitudes of failing to work together for the greater good of its parent company, which both still have ownership in.

The show featured some terrible matches. The hype was there for the King of the Mountain match-up. Jeff Jarrett brought it back, got a Hall of Fame induction and introduced the title. Naturally Jarrett had to be in the match. It also featured losers Eric Young, Drew Galloway, Matt Hardy and Bobby Roode. After some lunacy with running around and taking time outs with nor clever direction and suffering skills in the technical ring, TNA founder, tonight’s Hall of Famer and King of the Mountain concept maker Jeff Jarrett, won. This was the Legends title, re-branded as new. You cannot make this stuff up.

The X-Division title was on the line. Unknown talent exchange from Japan, who has no role, was given the gold in his first run. Tigre Uno won the longly vacant title (over how many months?) against DJ Z and Manik in a Triple Threat Elimination match. It had a few flying moments, but was nothing truly special and filled the time.

TNA backstage favourite and idiotic, ignorant goof on screen Robbie E, in his tried out goon persona, defeated former pal and team mate Jessie Godderz. “The Man” Jessie looked hot, powerful and skilled in his technique. Robbie E was a comedy joke. Barely even good enough to be WWE’s Zack Ryder. It was a dumb decision which sees TNA further disrespect an fail to boost the growth of Goddderz, who should have been champion two years ago, when TNA was on the starting brink of failure, in order to save its brand. Instead it opted for some burly big homophobic a** in Bully Ray. His run, which insulted a live fan in attendance on sexuality insults, was a terrible one at best, that even dropping Dixie Carter through a table could not save. (Ray has returned to a contract as you read this.)

Bram defeated the returning brick of uselessness Matt Morgan. Easy on the eye he might be, but Morgan is talk, clunky and heavily clumsy with his interactions. He has not improved from the last time he left. No other company was interested in him. He hasn’t done anything since. Bram, however, was decent, but no level of interest was scored. A nothing match built on Morgan’s ‘shock’ return. Epic.

Ignorant ducklings Austin Aries and Davey Richards took to the TNA air to have a little bouncy bouncy moment on the show. Full of theatrics the two aging stuntmen of minor stature and heavy negativity everywhere they go as unprofessional and lacking grace fought in a minor battle which was better than all the other mess on the card, by default. No match should be like that. Aries defeated Richards after Booby Roode caused a distraction. Aries picks a stipulation match for their fifth outing in an on-going ‘series’ ending on main TNA programming shortly. They have already been taped, as was Slammiversary. This was Aries’ last TNA match in the company.

Awesome Kong and Brooke beat a bunch of Divas calling themselves a ‘Doll House’ group. That will play to the strengths of women as powerful figures in the sport. These little dollies, Jade (Mia Yim), Marti Belle (who?) and Taryn Terrell. Of course we know who Belle is, but the audience doesn’t and she accompanies Yim, thanks to her noticeability from the Wrestling Wonders Pro 25 2012. No other company noticed who she was, nor her skill at all. Kong dominated the match and put in a great show with Terrell, which while was placed as a useless divas, throw around match of silliness, had strong impact in the two’s attempts to make magic. Fans, however, were unimpressed and thought the standards were below average. Ouch. Another meaningless battle then. Kong and Terrell’s contracts are also expiring after Slammiversary, unless Dixie Carter says it’s ‘not true’.

James Storm ploughed through TNA’s greatest ignorance and bitter disgrace in Magnus. The vanilla block of uselessness and un-gentlemanly ways within the business, failed to create a interesting final show. Storm won the match, which suffered technical difficulties, after the pair, using smoke screens and pathetic gimmicks to remain relevant, smacked one another with bottles. Storm collapsed onto Magnus and secured the pinfall.  Thank You and good luck in your future endeavours.

Ethan Carter III and the bumbling oaf of ignorance Tyrus beat the equally ignorant Bobby Lashley and his partner Mr. Anderson. The only saving grace her was Carter III, who unlike his aunt Dix, has chances to go places, even though he has ‘the name’ to which fans recognise Eith for his skill, not Carter’s tosh. A waste of his time. He cannot carry the brand in minor matches with useless entities watering him down.

PPV Rating – 4/10

Men/Women of their matches – Drew Galloway, DJ Z, Jessie Godderz, Bram, Austin Aries, Taryn Terrell, James Storm, Ethan Carter

Man/Woman of the PPV – Jeff Jarrett

One again, two years on from advice, TNA continue to sideline one chance of real talent as a mainstream star in Jessie Godderz. With the right booking, the body to match and the charisma available for any side run, Godderz continues to be overlooked. At which point if TNA take too long, it will cost him and themselves a great opportunity. 

Ethan Carter III is also another chancer that can go to the top. He looks good, body wise and with title as well as having the background skills, bar his surname, to carry them. TNA again, miss vital options. It is purely clueless.

Terrell. One of many TNA talents out
the door, post slammiversary

The rest of the show was filler. High flying moments, and few ‘surprise!’s’ and imbecilic matches that went nowhere did not excel amazement. Rubbish stars, touted ignorance for press attention and not liking the press response when you purpose leaked details to get ‘good’ responses are as tame as they come. You cannot pick and choose the reviews that come, abused on your tawdry levels of idiotic production. You are responsible for what you put out there and if fans are also paying, they have the right to review, let alone express public opinion, whether you don’t like the bad words. It was better than average due to the announcements and feel, but that's all TNA ever relies on, and the novelty wears off, quick. Fans are not entirely stupid, but TNA seems to treat them as such.

Kurt Angle, it's heavyweight World champion, was not there as another injury was damning him. He was actually having a public "daddy-daughter day" as he put it, in Disneyland. TNA already had the X-title and Tag Titles vacated for months and worried another one would ruin their legitimacy. 

Maybe you should make the product better then? An alien concept to TNA, who have been making it up as they go along with personal interest than professional means. Get in the game, or you’ll soon disappear from it. You can’t have it all your way. What egotistical maniac thinks that is achievable?

Grow up. With it, maybe the fans will finally respect you. Currently the lack of maturity in TNA from staff, management and workers does not encourage barely anyone to spend their money on what they view is a tarnished company with no wrestling knowledge, credibility or respectability. No-one front or back is viewed as capable of ‘saving’ TNA from what it used to be.

© Max Waltham 30th June 2015

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GFW. The new age non-entity of wrestling promotion

Global Force Wrestling has launched. With it, the hopeful

prospect marred as a non-entity production 

After their announcement sometime over the last year, Jeff Jarrett’s new attempt at a wrestling federation was met by disengaged fans of the sport with promise. Now, one year on, after their very first show some two weeks ago, Jeff Jarrett’s promotional thing has slumped harder than TNA’s management directive. 

Over the year, Jarrett took a slow, steady and somewhat distilled approach to building his federation. That’s fine, something should not be rushed without severe thought as well as the fact a brand new company that delivers needs behind the scenes thought process. 

So Jarrett relied on his pals in the industry, ex-TNA stars and managerial friends, to give them a top job, unskilled, for their efforts. What was delivered was none other than a poorly stacked roster of handfuls of stars and a forgotten Pay Per View that screamed utter delusion. 

Mid-way through that year long process, Jarrett dropped everything after being offered a wasteful run in New Japan to battle ex-TNA top liner AJ Styles. Styles, who while on top with a World title to boot, has been more than underwhelming outside of TNA. While the offer may have been better at the time to dump TNA, Styles has not made any progress outside of the initial buzz as a free agent internationally.

After a tense year trying to build what Jarrett quietly promised would be a star studded roster with many in the industry keen to join him, he filled it with an ignorant ex-WWE steroid junkie, less than mid-card material, tag team jobbers and a paltry produced card that simply said below an ordinary show. He even secured the event in the backyard of a Baseball field, after a mjor game, to encourage productivity. Only a handful of people were scattered among the arena seats, worse than one of TNA’s PPV’s or House Shows and looked inanesly amateurish. It did not scream world wide or national contender as a new show, especially on its debut.

Many had already  mocked Jarrett’s ignorant promotion before it began. We didn’t. Though Jarrett began filling the show and its ‘affiliates’ as he began the final, hard push towards launching the event. Jarrett, who has stocked a few ‘all over the world’ national promotions he thinks are great as his friends to produce joint shows with free talent have been a somewhat ridiculous decision to  employ. 

Jarrett has already set his promotion as a nothing brand that has ‘anyone at any-point’ for a throwaway motion. Jarrett’s promotion simply is a non-entity.

Many fans have likened this to TNA version 2. They are wrong. This is TNA version 3. 

Since Jarrett left TNA on not so favourable terms being majoritaly bought out, he has simply picked up where he left off in TNA and has childishly attempted to relaunch a TNA on his own. The first TNA, when it did not have Dixie Carter involved as it has today, was not a roaring success either, it should be noted. This was under Jeff Jarrett’s managerial directive. TNA, to this very day, has not made a profit. It has been active for well over a decade. 

So why is this TNAv3? TNA is TNA. With the recent news that its broadcasting partner, Destination America secretly sidelined them with a safety option of hosting Ring of Honor too, Jarrett is TNAv3. While ROH is not under any level a TNA and desperately trying to seem like it can overtake TNA because of its idiotic slump as a promotion, Jarrett’s GFW is a pathetic third attempt wannabee.

Global Force Wrestling, whose logo looks like it was cheaply born in the 80’s and is not any level relevant today, looks to serve as a continuous embarrassment for years to come. Why waste so many efforts and fan hopes to produce this level of trash?

If fans wanted another TNA they would be watching the already losing attendance company. Fans are desperately looking for a wrestling alternative. One that is not TNA, or second rate promotion attempting. They want fresh, original options which also provide healthy competition to WWE. There is only one legitimate contender to which all companies snub, but think they can make it on their own ego. They fail to understand the direction needed and all make the same mistakes of pushing it forward. Hence there is nothing different about any of them and their insane ego’s convolute the product to which fans are not stupid enough to be manipulate on liking. Smark's they might be, but some fans are smart. Others are simply fans and even they are not cheaply encouraged to participate.

GFW is a public and ignorant embarrassment, scoring cheap people, old hat staff and terrible workers who should have been relevant 15 years ago. How is this current? It’s a joke. Though fans and industry experts are not laughing. At least not with you.

If Jarrett truly cared about the show and wanted to make it grow, hiring ex-UFC criminals and old hat TNA announcers with ex-WWE washed up ignorance, TNAv3 might have had a chance. Since now, Jarrett is producing a show from the point when he was let go by TNA and running the promotion as such. He is about four years behind already. He has also recently hired TNA’s terrible announcing loudmouth Don West. Yeah. That will make the company grow to new heights. 

For Jarrett, who is washed up with appearances and coming to the end of his professional career, is also ruining his respected insider knowledge as some guru or hero that knew what he is doing. He has exposed himself as yet another Dixie Carter and fans are realising that the pair of them where tarnishing TNA together. Jarrett needs to think, get in the game and remove all ignorance. If he thought about his hiring and promotional choices it could grow, yet Jarrett has set himself back a number of years. It is not capable of transmitting the image of a new, hopeful and outstanding wrestling production that has become flawed from the start. Some fans are already putting their own odds on how long it takes Jarrett to file for bankruptcy. Does Jarrett's company have a World title? Does it have adequate people to put it on? Would Jeff be the one to wear it? Does anyone truly care?

In short, the show is embarrassing, doomed and a pathetic non-entity born out of sheer idiocy.

Tonight, on Sunday 28th June, TNA produces its PPV Slammiversary. Jeff Jarrett has returned to the show, with an un-organised, free speech from TNA management as a 'surprise' entry. Also returning are the shabby likes of Vader and Matt Morgan. It does not scream now or never that TNA or GFW can grow beyond the point of self-defeat. As expected, the pair have colluded to pair up and use one another as talent exchange programs to do their own thing. Both fail to realise being unable to work together and separate with two new brands, both lacking on the TNA franchise old and new, make the pair a national and international laughing stock. It is again, a non-entity business. Jarrett, while bought out with majority stock, owns a fair proportion of TNA shares as an investor.

TNa decided to tape, yes tape its grand PPV. How embarrassing that they forget their own principals of what PPV is. Clueless. Then they leak the information almost a week beforre the show to get some interest from fans. Idiotic. This just exposed how sad TNA is to a) leak for attention and b) their lack of talent they think is going to encourage fans back, the one's who left because of this approach in the first place. You do not 'tape' PPV. Unprofessional.

Either way, the pair have entered new levels of embarrassment. Failure to work together to better the product, no matter how disagreeable the ideas, childish games of launching expensive companies like toy cash and failure to get the right people to help succeed their future, while relying on old, washed up names and company outlook with negativity cannot help the rocky road TNA, with its trailer hoisted pal GFW tagging along, travelling on. Where are the going and what is their goal? That's right, TNA don't know either. Hope for the best and see how long you can go before you run out of petrol. Good luck with that. 

Post Slammiversary

At time of writing, ignorant media blabbermouth Austin Aries' contract is set to expire past Slammiversary and won't be coming back to TNA. They have lost interest in the mini stuntman who has high levels of arrogance in the sport. He has issued plans to jump to GFW in a potential last chance opportunity to remain in the spotlight. He has failed to repent. Fans, too, are bored.

Ignorant ballbag Magnus is also planning to jump to GFW. If Jeff Jarrett had any sense he would dump losers that threaten his entire company growth. Dixie Carter should have dropped him to begin with, but failed. Look at her now. 

Oh, and TNA are inducting someone into its pathetic attempt at an 'Hall of Fame' wanabee thing. The inductee? Can you guess? It's Jeff Jarrett! Never saw that one coming.

© Max Waltham 28th June 2015

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Dixie Carter: Destination Wasteland!

Dixie Carter: Destination Wasteland!

Since TNA was dropped by broadcaster SPIKE TV and replaced by Destination America, late last year, TNA President (who gave her that name?) Dixie Carter sent out a message to her locker-room staff. Dixie’s message was simple. Expect for the “Best Case Scenario” Dixie said.

Clueless Carter, who has snubbed multiple people who could rebrand and support her staff, show and company to new heights, has stumbled due to her own ignorant ego.

Dixie lied to the crew and production members that they would be going ‘onwards and upwards’ on Destination America. Either that was pure bull she knew of or she was insanely deluded.

Carter has also decided to cancel April TV tapings for May, instead leaving TNA having a month's TV programming cast into a black hole. TNA plan to fill that with their ‘TNA Specials’ consisting of archived footage from years ago which is boring and outdated. Embarrassingly, SPIKE recently announced at the beginning of March that they would be producing a new show, with Wrestling Hollywood moviestar The Rock. SPIKE decided they'd had enough of Carter and decided to 'ditch the b*itch!' Rock for Dix? Well you would, wouldn't you?

The morale in the TNA locker-room is once more fastly evaporating under Dixie’s loose management. Stars are said to feel that no growth is being made and when contractors leave, they go somewhere else to be a superstar, while TNA has not benefited at all as a company nor the wrestlers boosted who remain trapped there.

Dix is said to have been advised to sit down and inform talent where TNA may actually be going. When signing to Destination America, an unknown company that no-one had heard of, Dixie made a naively weak statement. She added that Destination America would help her get to where she needed to be, someone that would help her produce wrestling. 

The broadcaster, which has no real affiliation to the wrestling industry, which nabbed up TNA on the cheap, under Dixie Carter’s fluttering desperation to gain any TV deal since all broadcasters realised she is not a probable investment, choose idiotically. She signed them to a two year deal, too.

Dixie Carter had real strong proposals to help save her company ranging from Paul Heyman and Max Waltham to which she stupidly snubbed due to her ego thinking she was on top of the world. Dixie, who regularly pimps out talent to ignorant back room gossip shows of no importance and tries to get some headlines in a tacky magazine of no value which plagiarizes Waltham constantly, has shown her ignorant failure to succeed. It does not look like it will ever grow beyond this point with such juvenile decisions. 

Carter, in early 2015, compared herself to WCW and said she was the number two national promotion. Carter’s absurd self-belief has cost her credibility with fans and insiders. In the Wrestling Wonders 2014 Awards, Dixie failed to make the top five companies of the year and was placed in 12^th position of all companies. She really is that clueless. Even after crucial advice, she ignorantly continues using what she classes as ‘media’ with her gossip fandom thrills of no value to try and get some views at TNA. She fails to understand this does nothing to get extra views and neglects real fans who could come forward to TNA. These shows destroy any talent hoping to mean something and have proved their insane ignorance too. They will never get over as a result. For a company who wants all its stars to gain numbers, why would you continue throwing your proverbial money down the drain?

Carter has hired ex-WWE writers, keeps rubbish wrestlers she likes personally and puts friends who have no skill or ideas on its creative decision making team, including Playboy model Christy Hemme, who posed nude for the magazine years ago and still dresses provocatively in TNA.

Stop and think or get out of the business. Fans have come to the realisation under their own label of Carter as a fraud who has no place in wrestling any longer. Most can’t wait for her TNA project to sink into that black hole for good.

If Carter can’t get the real people to save her company, she is as doomed as her own ignorant ego. You are running out of chances. Fast. Move it or lose it. There is only so long Daddy Carter can give you hand-outs in money to produce TNA because its Dixie’s new toy project. For well over fifteen years, TNA has failed to make a profit.

Outside talents are wary to join TNA as it could ruin or affect their careers once booked as cheap fodder and empty booking decisions on the shows. 

TNA continues to be saddled with WWE cast offs and hasn't made any 'TNA original' its main star. TNA's recent attempts of giving titles to originals with no idea has made them and the brand, alongside its championship, worthless.  

© Max Waltham 20^th March 2015

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Samoa Joe to WWE? Would it work?

Could Samoa Joe make it in WWE?

Over the last few couple of weeks, Samoa Joe and TNA parted ways when Samoa Joe’s contract expired. Joe has not yet re-signed and since has been under speculation of an offer from WWE. Talks have already taken place, however fans seem to forget the last two years when Triple H asked Joe to follow him on Twitter so the pair could exchange private messages. These were details indicating WWE were keen to talk with Joe once his TNA contract was up.

Triple H is said to be very keen on making Samoa Joe his new pet project and boost him under the WWE directive. However, can Joe honestly provide something new to fans, be a new star in said company and have credible options for the future?

Let’s address these now then, shall we?

Joe was going nowhere in TNA and knows it, so he is now able to hear external offers to see if they are viable for him. That’s not a negative choice to make. Though TNA have proven their desperation for Joe which has somewhat convoluted the issue.

Samoa Joe has no real worth in TNA but even so he doesn’t have any in WWE, either. What can Joe honestly do? A burly bloke in a tee shirt who has exhausted his career in TNA, has no real aptitude or presence to make it, pardon the pun, big. Joe is a vanilla block that will never materialise in WWE and is only selected for looking popular to fans by Triple H and impressing daddy in law, Vince McMahon with a big man to be crafted the ‘WWE way’.

The problem Triple H fails to realise yet again, after such crucial advice, is that these pet projects are so ill thought out and chosen on a whim that it makes WWE look inferior and tacky. Joe can’t offer any real star quality in WWE and is just a jobber that might and it’s a strong might, make it to mid card title reign now and again if he’s lucky. He is not any level of a star now or forever.

So why are WWE getting it so wrong? Is it stubborn juvenile choice? Triple H has chosen call ups recently from WWE developmental territory NXT. These included WWE diva Paige who has shown to be a complete fluke with no real skill, overwhelmed by others on the main roster, also without any direction switching from favourite to hater in minutes. She was chosen by Triple H as the ‘fan choice’ to seem like WWE know how to appeal to fans as they raved about her on dirt sheets. The majority do not watch NXT and for those who do, they were simply gushing over a chance of change from the main roster having no competition. Sometimes call ups so green are not the answer. Triple H once added he wanted no plans for any call ups who did not have a strong creative place on the main rosters.

Triple H’s other pet projects included the failed tag team division over the last year or so, Kharma failing and Sin Cara being an abysmal flop decision. It is not looking good for someone dubbed the future of the business after Vince McMahon. Seeming like he is listening to fans, Triple H has done anything but listen to crucial advice. His ego upon hearing it goes through the roof and becomes personal. He needs to calm down and control himself. This is not going to boost your reputation by being absurdly wayward and neglectful of those offering guidance, support and ever more than average whatnot.

Triple H wanted to prove he could choose someone, have his reputation boosted and gain fan respect. Trying to turn the screw, Triple H messed up his own seemingly clever plan. It backfired spectacularly.

All the stars that could and should be hired or called up are not the ones WWE select, which puts its fan base in natural neglect of WWE’s failure to connect with its so called Universe.

Vince McMahon wants the big, tall boys. Triple H looks towards the supporting cast. Though Hunter has pressure to impress. He realises he needs to schmooze McMahon for the respect by picking some of his ‘types’ of guys. Trips feels he chooses carefully, but cannot help choosing personally. This is what troubles WWE for its longterm future. Fans, already feeling it is watered down with characters and outdated routines, is driving people back to disinterest, even if they are WWE loyals. Though eventually, they are dropping or missing shows.  McMahon, whether he likes to admit it or not, respects people for their opinion, often disagreeable, where legitimate to the cause, not pooch petting pandering.

There are alternatives and people are starting to find them.

© Max Waltham 12^th March 2015

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TNA British Bootcamp 2 participants revealed

TNA British Bootcamp 2 

participants revealed

TNA are back with its second series of British Bootcamp this autumn. After its lame first series with only three contestants the show has expanded to a record 12 hopefuls. Wrestling Wonders has the EXCLUSIVE list unveiled below.

TNA, who warned fans not to reveal this season’s stars not only neglected its fan base with disrespect but also assumed they were fame hungry marks desperate for attention. Though TNA assume this because of their own practises, one of the contestants was revealed on a lame backroom UK British television show. The most ignorant guest in the wrestling world revealed that farmer Sha Samuels would be taking part.  

Others on the show will be scrawny Scottish teenager Noam Dar, man of the minute Grado, who plays an insulting downs syndrome type, ignorant non-entity Kris Travis, weighty bruiser Dave Mastiff, weakling Martin Stone, flying spot monkey El Ligero and beefy Rampage Brown.

TNA has also added its extra range of divas. TNA Diva’s include four unknown empties including Scarlett, Nikki Storm, Kay Lee Ray and Miss Louise Jane.  

The first series was won by ‘Rockstar’ Spud who has never won a UK title or interesting match and always used in jobber matches losing nearly every one, every year. Since joining TNA Spud has barely wrestled and chaperoned boss Dixie Carter as her company stooge in a traditional American viewing of British people as upper lip tobacco chompers. Clueless Carter used the show to hire the other contestants in the show, The Blossom Twins afterwards.

Obsessed with gathering media attention alone to raise finances still underachieved, Carter is as clueless as ever on how to run or pick anyone who is right. Fame hungry and financed by daddy Carter decided to avoid listening to fresh warnings on returning the empty show filled with ignorance.

Bulging Samoa Joe, Diva Gail Kim and former WWE superstar Al Snow will be the mentors on the show to the game show wannabee’s. 

Going against the grain to seem in charge will not endorse your product, managerial process nor creative buzz. It will only detract and offer stern neglect from the fans, of whom suffer in the product which is said to be for them but is clearly not.

Fans are unimpressed by TNA who “never listen” and care for their needs.

We know exactly who will win the show, so stay tuned for this as we shall EXCLUSIVELY reveal this soon.

You’re Welcome!

© Max Waltham 02^nd September 2014

TNA secure new TV deal, in Africa!

New deal from Dixie Carter

expands TNA lunacy 

In the next episode of the Lunatic Tales of Dixie Carter the TNA President has managed to secure herself a new global deal.

Carter, who has a) final troubles with hiring and keeping staff, b) no television deal and c) never makes a profit from TNA's entire business operations, staged a coup. 

Carter has secured a TV deal for TNA's Impact Wrestling, in, wait for it, Africa! Yes, Carter decided it was a solid investment to launch TNA wrestling to one, if not the most poverty stricken countries in the world who cannot and will not prioirtise spending cash on watching an already floundering TNA. 

The laughable business decision from Dix see's TNA, without any TV deal as yet expand to the continent of Africa, a place which has no full burning desire for wrestling and again, through no fault of its own, cannot afford to purchase anything TNA related.

The barmy delusion on offer as a mocking point to seem creative and take hold of a 'never done before' motion to secure the one continent no wrestling organisation is currently a full part of is Carter's most clueless to date. There is probably a business reason why, but then, Carter is not a wrestling, nor general business woman.

Carter needs to get with the program. Either hire people who can really develop the product into a profitable company or hand over the share ownership to someone who knows how to run the show (preferably not into the ground) as fans would prefer.

Clueless and idiotic, Carter is pushing the self-destruct button on TNA to the maximum.

© Max Waltham 28th August 2014