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Eddie. Malenko. Ultimo. Rey. Benoit. Some of the very best workers ever. Paul knew he couldn’t match dollars so he was always looking for talent. Brought the Lucha’s to American tv.

Yeah it has that reputation. But mostly after wcw and wwe raided ecw Some amazing talent were seen by US audiences for the first time in ECW.

Well I think they’ve been together a long time.

Meltzer reports it’s an open secret (though not reported anywhere else) that impact was interested in selling to All Elite. But that Elite declined. A few months ago there was a confirmed meeting at Titan Tower between impact and WWE. At the time it was said to be a get to know you meeting and everyone agreed to be friendly but others reported it was to discuss a potential sale. Most likely it was impact letting wwe know they were open for offers. So....sure sounds like Anthem would be happy to get a sale

From Meltzer Sports Business Journal ran a story about the AAF, which starts play in February, and its rival, the XFL. The gist is, as we noted, the XFL is in larger markets and playing at a number of NFL stadiums while the AAF is playing in secondary markets and smaller stadiums. The feeling is the XFL has more money to spend, although the AAF claimed that they have $850 million in funding and will spend that over the next five years to get the venture up and running. Vince McMahon, who is funding the XFL on his own, has only said he will fund it for far more than the $100 million that he cashed out stock on to get the ball rolling. Oliver Luck, who will be actually running the XFL, at least as much as anyone can run a company owned by Vince McMahon, said that the NFL did a study on what markets have the most interest in football, and they got the results and placed teams in those cities. The XFL is expected to announce a television deal for 2020 within weeks. Vince McMahon was very confident in that. With sports channels needing live programming, getting a deal shouldn’t be hard, but getting ratings will be far more difficult than it was in 2001. What type of revenue they can get between television and streaming platforms will spell the success or failure of the league not things like ticket sales. They also expect to start naming head coaches for its teams in Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa and Washington, DC. The plan is also to sign eight star quarterbacks at around $250,000 to $300,000 per year, announce the signings early next year and spent a year marketing the star quarterback in the local market before starting play. Luck said the league plans to start signing players throughout 2019 to give teams time to prepare for the season. While not specifically addressed, it appears that the XFL will be making players sign exclusive contracts. The AAF is giving players contracts that allow them to leave teams at the end of the season if they get an NFL offer, which essentially means if the league is taken seriously as strong football, most stars will get NFL offers and leave. Luck said that the XFL will not become an NFL developmental league. That means that player who still believe they can get to the NFL, which would be the better players, would be more likely to sign with the AAF, although most athletes are going to go to who offers the most money. . .

married

We knew it was BS. Now it’s confirmed

After Kim played him like a fiddle

Thank you. Agreed.

Merry Christmas, kid

I follow a trump parody account and actually thought this was that. It’s not. He’s losing his mind He’s mad tweeting again. Includes ass kissing of Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Imagine being locked in the White House with this guy right now.

Clear desire on his part to see the jets lead, not just our division but the country and league. I like @iHeart keep up the good work.

Yeah but those guys have to realize they need to win the big one. Was Bernie going to win a national election? I don’t see it. Even now, the Dems biggest issue is going to be over coming their own in-fighting.

Scheif for Hart

And trump wants to fire the fed chairman which he probably can’t do. As stock markets tumble. Fear of impending economic slowdown. Walls are really closing in.

Paul Ryan turned out to be a huge disappointment.

Netflix does as they have the scripted drama GLOW (which does good ratings) and they show Lucha Underground. Im sure Impact would jump at the chance. But would Netflix? I would think so. WWE has a similar thing and has a live stream. It would be interesting if they got into it. if you get a million or so live viewers and more on delay, its probably worth it.

Dems should keep playing video of Trump claiming "Mexico is paying for the cement wall" intercut with "Ill own the shutdown". Over and over and over.

Even trump knows how stupid it was of him to claim the shutdown. Damage control!

If I understand correctly, Trump wants $5 billion for the wall. Which he now claims is not really a concrete wall. He says that was a Democrat lie even though there is video of Trump promising a big concrete wall. Dems offered $2 billion or whatever for border security.

Yeah, its listed as a sister channel to Fight Network. Anthem, owned by Asper, owns Impact. They're all connected. Thats why this seems bad. It comes across like Impact was unable to find a single interested party anywhere in the US and resorted to being given a bad night and bad time slot by their own parent company. And surely its a no-money deal. Its bad news for Impact. Anthem had already admitted they didnt realize the poor state TNA was in when they bought it and had buyers remorse. The whole Jeff Jarrett/Global Force Wrestling fiasco didnt help. Don Callis & Scott D'amore have done an amazing job of stabilizing the promotion and they deserve better.

Do we even get it up here? Not many fans have heard of it according to online chatter. Impact's deal with POP was basically a non-paying deal (they could sell the ad time). They were openly looking for a new home and speculation was they met with several significant networks. To end up on a channel like this, owned by their own parent company, doesnt speak positively.