Originally Posted by KaosDarksol (Post 4374638)

More like "What the fuck?" chants

Originally Posted by Innovator (Post 4374794)

Listening to part 2 of the Jericho podcast with Chavo. I feel horrible for Chavo having to go through Eddie and Benoit's deaths

Originally Posted by Anybody Thrilla (Post 4374549)

Eric Young is awesome. Nobody ever talks about him, though.

Originally Posted by F4W

The Network launched for select WWE employees this week for testing purposes. One person who has access told us, "It's literally the best thing ever. It's totally like Netflix, very easy to use. If porn wasn't free on the 'Net this would be the greatest thing on the 'Net ever."

Originally Posted by F4W

They are reconsidering certain things on the Mania card, and we're told the company is going to gauge crowd reactions and business over the next few weeks before making any major final decisions.

There is talk of Shield doing a triple threat against each other at Mania, but that's only if they don't add Bryan to the main event. They don't want two triple threat matches on the same show. So realistically, whether or not Bryan gets put into that match could determine when and where Shield breaks up.

Originally Posted by Jura (Post 4375307)

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Originally Posted by Observer

The proposed Toby Keith-Jeff Jarrett promotion, which is a long way from happening, stemmed almost exactly as you’d think. TNA was for sale and Jarrett through his connections with the Nashville music industry and Keith in particular, tried to put together a bid to buy the company. The deal was very close at one point. Bob Carter came to Keith to finalize the deal and the two sides were close on a price, although they were not quite there. The belief is they were going to hash it out, but Carter only had one request in selling, which was that Dixie Carter would remain with her title, have some power in the company and remain a television character. Keith said he wasn’t going to buy the company with any creative limitations, so the deal actually fell apart because Bob Carter in the end was going to protect his daughter. Someone in TNA who was aware of how it went down noted to us that, “That’s why we all are still here,” noting if it was about business, TNA would have never survived after the last golden carrots (prime time TV and Hulk Hogan) failed to increase popularity or take the company from losing money. At that point, the feeling was from Keith and Jarrett that they didn’t need to buy the company, as they could start their own company from scratch. The deal falling through would have been shortly before Jarrett quit TNA in December. The other thing noted is when this story got out inside of TNA, those who had tried to believe the Janice Carter memo and thought the idea was that the Carters wouldn’t sell, and the talks were for just a minority investor, realized they’d been had.

Originally Posted by New York Post

This Valentine’s Day NBCUniversal will either be giving WWE a big kiss or they’ll be breaking up.

The two parties are grappling over continuation of the sport-meets-reality TV programming on NBCUniversal’s USA Network and SyFy Channel.

An exclusive negotiating period ended last week with no deal in sight. We hear the pressure is on for a deal to get done in the next few days.

An industry source told On the Money, “NBCU has until Friday, Feb. 14, to respond to WWE’s final offer.”

It’s not clear where the price tag stands, but reports have suggested the last deal was priced at $140 million, and the WWE had been looking for a leap up that gives it a similar premium accorded to sports rights.

WWE — which announced the launch of its own over-the-top network for wrestling fans at CES — is one of the few things on TV ( besides sports) that fans want to watch live.

The question is, how badly does NBCU want to keep it? And where will it land if the two parties split up?

Originally Posted by PWInsider

while the company appreciates its relationship with NBCU and does not want to move if it doesn't have to (as that creates confusion in the marketplace), they will if NBC doesn't make the offer that the company is looking for. With the ability to show Raw and Smackdown replays on the WWE Network, the feeling internally is that they will not have a problem with fans finding the product if they change networks. WWE has felt for years that their programming has been undervalued and Vince McMahon is determined to get what he feels is market value on this contract.

The company has done a fantastic job setting up this situation by making sure all of their TV deals expire at the same time so that they can sell them as a package.

The risk is that if they turn down NBCU's "best offer" and solicit elsewhere, if no one steps up, then NBCU will have all the power in negotiations going forward.

Originally Posted by ProWrestling.Net

The Post previously reported that NBCU was thinking about creating a physical Hall of Fame for WWE at Universal Studios to sweeten the deal. There's no word yet as to whether that's officially on the table. It also remains to be seen who the other network suitors for WWE programming will be if NBCU doesn't strike a new deal before Friday.