Love that Maria is still in the wrestling business.

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TNA has announced on Twitter that they’ve signed Caleb Konley and Sienna (Allysin Kay on the independent circuit) and re-signed Robbie E to a new contract.

ROH had a bomb scare at their office today.

That happened yesterday. Dude was shot but still alive, had wires strapped to him.

So I decided to check in on ROH for the first time in a few years... holy shit, it was just what I needed. Filmed at Korakeun Hall, awesome atmosphere and the opening match was a tag with Lethal and Naito vs Okada and Yoshi Hashi... fucking amazing. Lethal and Okada were AMAZING together....

It's just what I've needed to see in some rasslin latley. I'll keep watching. I love the NJPW crossover.

I will say that Jay Lethal's corn row's make him look like a bum. He should be as extravagant as Okada. Come off like a bigger star, he comes off pretty basic in his entrance.

Love the House of Truths entrance music though.

If New Japan wants to get more of a presence in the United States, I'd love to see them work more with ROH and get put on that new network Sinclair bought. Get TNA and pluck the talent worth a shit and either use them in New Japan or ROH. Bobby Lashley in Japan? The Hardys against The Briscoes? Yes, please.

Sinclair should make a proper play at Kurt Angle and Rey Mysterio too.

If Sinclair can buy TNA...

God that would be amazing.

They should really float more money into their wrestling ventures. Keeping TNA alive with a bit of re-branding might actually work out for them. A lot of talent in the world doesn't really fit the ROH vibe and style. I could see James Storm coming in as kind of an outlaw heel, but I'm not sure how they will explain Lashley not being A1 in that universe, you know?

Plus, Dave Bautista seems to have a few frustrations with the WWE at the moment. If they could convince him to work a few PPVs a year, they could draw some attention and make some moolah. Bautista vs. Goldberg -- groan at the match quality all you want, don't deny that it doesn't have that star power. Throw Angle vs. Mysterio lower on that card and you have a show people won't miss.

I would so miss that show.

wonder what hapens with abyss with his sports med degree from ohio i see wwe hireing him with out him having to wrestle for them.

Lashley has spent time in Japan with IGF. ROH and NJPW have a real good working relationship and show off NJPW stars well. A TNA/ROH merger would be great. TNA has a weak tag division and ROH has probably the best tag division in the world. ROH would gain a much needed group of main event talent as well.

Jay Lethal vs. Bobby Lashley for the ROH World Championship would be an interesting feud for Lethal, just because he's been such a stoic champion, and now here's this beast for him to overcome.

New Bullet Club member revealed at Global Wars.


Adam Cole BAY BAY!!

Adam Cole is a good choice for a new member. Adam Page has also joined. Don't know much about him, but there are too many "Adams" and "Pages" in independent wrestling.

I guess Page joined at a TV taping? Know it didn't happen at Global Wars. I like it anyways. Feel like Page and Cole are very similar with Cole being superior. Think they are great additions to Bullet Club and are maybe an ROH wing, could see a few more guys joining if that's the case. Cole definitely has leadership potential but I'm not sure what they would do Omega.

Matt Taven says he's going to rebuild The Kingdom. Could see Matt Sydal, Will Ferrera, and Rhett Titus being candidates. Could also see Bennett returning if he didn't sign a long term deal with TNA and is up at the end of the year.

Not just because I'm slightly bias...... butt I really like Al Snow's "bitter grizzled vet" gimmick he's doing right now. A lot of throwbacks I know feel like that about the current product and I don't disagree.

Again personally, I've been a Pepper Parks fan for awhile now. I do like the idea of them dropping "the body" gimmick (considering they already have like 25 guys on the roster with that gimmick) and he's doing a "last ditch effort" gimmick of him making it in the wrestling business. Him being signed at 35 isn't "completely unheard of" (the guy is in amazing shape) but the idea behind his gimmick, it intrigues me

I saw a picture of Pepper Parks on their roster website. The guy looks like a thousand bucks. If TNA folded I wouldn't be opposed to seeing him form a team with Tye Dillinger. They both sort of have that journeyman story, both look great, and if Parks needs some more polish in the ring, Dillinger can certainly help with that.

Another potential ally for Parks in that vein is Damien Sandow. TNA are fools if they don't try and get him on board for something.

I like Parks to I think his new name is Braxton Sutton. I'd like to see him interfere in the EC3/Bennett match on Bennetts behalf. Think him and Bennett would make a good tag team and they already have his wife Allie(Cherry Bomb) working with Maria.

Dont see what TNA sees in Raquel, basically only using her because she was on Tough Enough. She's not ready for TV and looked lost at ringside. They have her playing a Guru for BroMans which makes plenty of sense considering shes never even wrestled a match.

Well, Raquel is coming off her "15 mins of fame" and kinda gives off a Sofía Vergara vibe, which probably would of been more useful like 5 years ago when Modern Family was the biggest show around but still.....
I will give her some credit, she did train at the Wild Samoan School after Tough Enough. So when you add it up, former Reality TV star, IBBF Pro, trained at a credible wrestling school (local to Florida).... I can see why they hired her.

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A lot of people are shtting on the Matt/ Jeff segment that ended the night (I'm just gonna say I DVRed through it) but I really liked this one. I feel like they kinda wanted to do this "gimmick" with Adam Pearce like 5 years ago (when he did that Gut Check match) but it fell though for various reasons. Braxton can work, great body (said in the most hedro way possible :kiss:), and I would prefer to see him get a good singles run so he can feud with guys like EC3 and Bennett as opposed to teaming with them (TNA does need more main event level singles stars)

It think the perfect way to go with him would to team with Bennett for a bit maybe even win the Tag titles and eventually have him grow tired of Bennett and have him and Allie battle Bennett and Maria as TNAs power couple and then start his singles run. I feel TNA needs a lot more depth in the Tag division.

Was watching ROH this week and had the thought that Silas Young and Paul Titan would be a great tag team. He has the Real Man gimmick and has a similar look to you.

Silas is one of my favorite workers in ROH, and I'm not gonna lie, I was kinda going for a gimmick similar to his when I worked as a "non monster heel" recently

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Was hoping they would do a King of the Mountain match considering it's the King of the Mountain Championship. Another reason they should change it back to the TV title of they are not going to have King of the Mountain matches. I don't even think either one of them has ever been in a King of the Mountain match.

Yeah TNA is dumb

I know it's "kinda dumb" that they don't defend it constantly in KOTM matches..... but I like that it isn't just named the "intercontinental, US, TV, etc" title

They haven't put James Storm in anything for Slammiversary. Throw him in a King of the Mountain Match with those guys. And...uh...

Would love it if Hiroshi Tanahashi challenged Jay Lethal for the ROH World Title, Lethal won, they shook hands, Tanahashi gets a huge send-off, then Cody Rhodes attacks him from behind...

Lethal has to survive Jey Briscoe first. Really not sure what they'll do at Best in the World but I'd like to see Lethal retain. If Tanahashi wins the IWGP it be cool to have Lethal vs Tanahashi at Wrestle Kingdom where the loser has to drop their title. I couldn't see NJPW wanting Lethal to look stronger than their ace so I couldn't see Lethal winning if the match was for both titles.

You could have Tanahashi win the World Title off Lethal and Jay returning to America a broken man. Someone like Adam Cole could get in his business for failing the company. Well, I think Adam Cole will end up in NXT at the end of the year, but someone could do it. Mike Bennett might be back if TNA folds.

Yes Adam Cole will be in NXT in 2017. Vince is reportedly real high on him and wanted him now but his contracts not up.

Adam Cole Bay Bay

I'd have no problem with Tanahashi having a reign as ROH World Champion. I dont see Lethal lasting til Wrestle Kingdom for my hypothetical match though. I think he'll beat Briscoe but I believe Cole will get another title run before the end of the year. Could see Adam Cole vs Cody Rhodes as Coles ROH send off match before he goes to WWE.

Yeah, I agree that Cole ends up in WWE. I don't think they need to put the ROH World Title on him if that is the case. I certainly wouldn't go back to Jay Briscoe. I'm quite content with Jay Lethal remaining champion until either Wrestle Kingdom or whenever Cody finishes his hit list.

Feel like ROH would put it on him in hope that he would consider re signing with them. With him joining Bullet Club I can see him getting a pretty good push.