Ring of Honor lands TV deal on Destination America

[The Rainmaker]

at Destination America airing ROH before and after TNA on the same night

So TNA also lost the repeat after the show? Good Lord

 

[FunkDoc1112]

AJ Styles like

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

 

[Alexander The Great]

Destination America saw TNA highlighting Black Stars and pulled the plug

and ya'll celebrating why exactly?

 

[Arrogance.]

"I quit Hooters for this?" - Brooke Adams (Tessmacher) on the call

Nah this didn't happen really did it?

 

[trick]

Destination America saw TNA highlighting Black Stars and pulled the plug

and ya'll celebrating why exactly?

ROH's pushing Black wrestlers too. Cedric Alexander and ACH got big matches against Nakamura and Okada. Looks like after the last TV tapings that Moose, Lethal and Cedric are going to get big pushes. They sent ACH and Moose to AAA last week. They're in a good place and they're on the way up

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

Notes from WOL

*Deal was in the works for months
*ROH TV (the usual Sinclair version) will air every Wednesday
*DA are syndicating the show
*DA's issue with TNA was advertising, they're paying money, and it's not financially viable
*ROH makes a bit of money off the deal, DA gets a wrestling show for significantly less than Impact
*The ROH show will be the lead-in for Impact for the next four months
*ROH signed up for 26 weeks of TV (likely the end of the year)
*If things go well with ROH and DA, ROH may get to do special live events on DA
*This allows ROH to air their show to markets who don't have Sinclair stations (NYC, Chicago etc)
*No relationship between ROH and TNA
*No-one in TNA knew about the DA/ROH deal until today
*MAYBE three people in ROH knew
*ROH planned for the news to break on May 27th for a long time
*Samoa Joe can work anywhere, including promotions with TV, as long as they don't have national TV, so this may preclude him appearing
*Dixie Carter is having a conference call with the wrestlers, breaking news audio with Bryan and Dave once the meeting concludes

 

[The Rainmaker]

 

[Alexander The Great]

ROH's pushing Black wrestlers too. Cedric Alexander and ACH got big matches against Nakamura and Okada. Looks like after the last TV tapings that Moose, Lethal and Cedric are going to get big pushes. They sent AAA and Moose to AAA last week. They're in a good place and they're on the way up

i mean people are celebrating TNA's demise. why? you could have 2 places for Black stars to prosper.

 

[I-Hate-You]

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

The ether of it all

 

[seanjohn21276]

DA got ROH to lead into Impact Wrestling and took the replay slot away from TNA? TNA was the little engine that could, but I guess with DA telling them to it's really over this time.

 

[AJW]

The fukkery

 

[seanjohn21276]

I was only joking when I said TNA would be grateful to wind up on the Food Channel. At this rate, Debit Card might take cable public access channels now.

 

[trick]

i mean people are celebrating TNA's demise. why? you could have 2 places for Black stars to prosper.

It would be great if there were more places for Black wrestlers to work and prosper, but it's just time to move on. Lashley and MVP will have no problem finding work elsewhere. Plus it's their second cancellation in a year, how many shows on TV can survive a second cancellation?