[Centraal] Pro Wrestling Topic #90 Same Old Shit!

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Unless something changes over the next few days, AJ Styles will be leaving TNA for the first time since the company was founded in 2002 next week.

Styles' current contract extension expires on 12/16, PWInsider.com has confirmed. As of 12/17, he is a free agent and has already begun to accept independent bookings via his long-time agent Bill Behrens at Showbis@aol.com.

As PWInsider.com has reported for months, Styles and TNA have been far apart on money. The two sides did not really begin negotiating until Styles' last long-term deal was close to expiring and signed a two month extension in order to continue working together while they attempted to seal a new deal.

Unfortunately, the two sides remained far apart on money. We have heard that it was a situation where TNA just wasn't able to offer Styles what he had been earning and he, feeling correctly that he had been a big part of the heart and soul of the company, would not agree to take a lesser deal. The situation put both sides in between a rock and a hard place, leading to the breakdown between sides.

Styles officially finished up with the company last week at the Impact tapings in Orlando, Florida with appearances for episodes that will air in early 2014.

Styles is already moving forward with outside projects. He has an autobiography set to be released in the first quarter of 2014 and will be making an appearance next year as part of a talking tour in the UK. Initial dates for that tour had been announced but the tour will be pushed back as Diamond Dallas Page had already scheduled a similar tour for the same time period and the decision was made that it wasn't right to compete with something already scheduled.

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Op dinsdag 10 december 2013 22:14 schreef Vault-Boy het volgende:
Einde van Raw was echt goed

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Op woensdag 27 november 2013 04:42 schreef The-Brahma-Bull het volgende:
Wat een drama de laatste tijd zeg, niet te geloven. Cena injured, megapush voor Bryan, en dan alles in een paar weken verwoesten om weer lekker terug te gaan naar Super Cena, die niet genoeg heeft aan 1 titel dus maar gelijk weer 2 moet

En ondertussen heb je al die momentum van Bryan weggegooit en laat je hem met punk en tag team maken... ok.

Maar goed. Doet er niks tegen. Survivor Series 1 van de saaiste PPV's in jaren. Raw was ook niet echt wat. Gaat hard achteruit. Hopelijk met WM season dat het nog wat wordt maar de main event zal wel Cena die alle titels tegelijk wilt zijn (en natuurlijk wint)

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Op maandag 23 december 2013 21:10 schreef Sick-my-duck het volgende:

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Batista en Goldberg zijn beide talentloos. Allebei doen ze drie moves, waarvan twee half-assed, beide piekten vroeg en waren daarna niets meer. Ik kan me geen enkele reden bedenken om Batista en Goldberg aan te nemen waar je goed zit met de grote gasten: Sheamus, Wyatts, Show, Reigns, Henry, Big E, Kane voor zover hij nog in de ring werkt...
En Lesnar is een beest.
Ik zie absoluut geen ruimte. Zeker als je ziet dat op dit moment talenten als ADR, Christian, Ziggler e.d. in de wachtrij staan voor een redelijke match / storyline.
Totaal geen toevoeging

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Op dinsdag 24 december 2013 15:16 schreef Sick-my-duck het volgende:

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Dan zijn wij het over twee superstars totaal niet eens. Kan gebeuren. Ik vind Batista 1 van de meest waardeloze main eventers ooit. Promo's kon hij niet, het Ultimate Warrior touwtje trekken is slecht gejat en zijn Sit-Out Powerbom is ronduit lelijk. Wat verhaal vertellen in de ring... hangt het er bij hem naar mijn idee te veel van af wie hij tegenover hem heeft staan.

Batista segment 22.03 Cena gets you cant wrestle chant

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PWInsider reports that TNA is not scheduled to return to Universal Studios to tape Impact Wrestling episodes any time soon. Word is that TNA was unable to secure any dates for 2014 due to the soundstages being booked out for other productions already.

You may remember when TNA returned to Universal in late 2013, they touted Universal as being the hub of their new #IMPACT365 campaign and said the company would have a training facility there also.

TNA's last Impact episode from Universal will air this coming Thursday. They will tape several episodes in Huntsville, Alabama later this month before going to the UK to tape a few episodes. After that, there's no word yet on where they will tape Impact.

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WWE® NETWORK LAUNCHES FEBRUARY 24

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