Thread: TNA going live on Monday Nites!!!!

So how long can TNA continue to put up low ratings and support their new high-priced talent? I watch primarily because of the old wrestlers like Hogan and Sting, but I have to admit that Hogan really hasn't improved the product. Unless a medical miracle allows him to get back into the ring again, I don't see him taking TNA in the right direction.

sad part is they drew HIGHER for the replay on Thursdays

The old wrestlers is why a lot of folks dont watch it. I want something new...not WCW of 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Iceberg

The old wrestlers is why a lot of folks dont watch it. I want something new...not WCW of 10 years ago

I can definitely understand that sentiment. For me I guess it is just nostalgia for the 80's and 90's. 60 year old wrestlers don't make for a great product, but I just enjoy watching the same guys that I watched as a kid 20+ years ago.

BTW my thing with TNA is now over sence they dropped bubba, I think the reason for moving tna back to Thursdays was so they could say they compete with the WWE, but honestly we all know they cant, now the way things are going now!

seriously? The reason you watched TNA was because of him????

Happy he got fired because well he had no use on the show other than he's Hogan's buddy. But I guess when you screw up as much as he does you deserve what you get. I hope you know what I'm talking about. If not, here is a quick rundown...dang I needed to use the editing key alot to mute out the swearing

It tells you something about someone in wrestling when of all websites, WrestlingObserver.com has a actual headline about an wrestling figure being fired and titles it "TNA fires d***hebag". While wrestling has more than its share of real-life d***hebags, it's the first time I know of that Dave Meltzer's website called such a person for what they are.

As you've read by now, Todd Clem, otherwise known as "Bubba the Love Sponge" qualifies for this distinction of being called a "d***hebag"...and then some.

For some it was bad enough that he was in TNA as Hulk Hogan's crony. But that's hardly the first time a Hogan crony has gtten a gig...in WWF or TNA. So other than to make you groan...not worth much thought.

Then, in the wake of the Haiti tragedy, Clem lets out publicly with this statement:

"I say %$#@ Haiti. Why do we have to take care of everybody our country is in shambles? "

Clem got his ass kicked backstage by Awesome Kong....an action that resulted in her eventual termination; despite her hard work in getting over her character at a time when very little seems to be getting over in TNA. She worked even harder in organizing events for Haitian relief after learning of the disaster.

Even the TNA Impact Zone crowds that seem to drink orange and red colored Kool Aid knew that this was wrong and chanted for his firing repeatedly at taping after taping. Clem got stiffed accidentally (on purpose?) by a Mick Foley punch, no doubt caused by Foley's contempt for Clem's Haiti comments. Following all this, and her firing, Amazing Kong filed a lawsuit against Bubba after she claimed that Clem called her in the middle of the night and made "threatening and racist remarks".

Even after all this, Clem was kept on TNA TV as the house mike jockey for "The Band".

Finally this past week, the crap hit the fan after Clem suckered Awesome Kong on the Cowhead radio show, repeatedly referring to her as a "b**ch", a "coward", a "big fake black b**ch", a "black b**ch", a p$#@y, "a compulsive liar", "faking a {mental] breakdown" and calling for her to fight him in a "sanctioned fight". He then again ridiculed Haiti.

TNA, which never announces when they terminate talent, announced the following on their Twitter: "Effective immediately, TNA Wrestling has elected to terminate the services of Todd Clem p/k/a Bubba the Love Sponge." The statements by Bubba apparently angered Dixie Carter so much that she personally fired Clem.

Clem, in his "Bubba the Love Sponge" tweeted a response to his firing with this tirade containing the following hightlights (mis-spellings are Clem's)

...i was going to take the high road but looks like tna has fired the first shot...[Dixie Carter] based my firing on anti bubba tweets. TNA fans are nothing but a bunch of little cowardly #$^%$s.

...You love oiled up men in tights. You are a d***he nozzle that thinks wrestling is real. Get a #$#@ing life. Go away....You're entire life is pointless.

Somehow I think his own remarks on the Cowhead radio show did a more than adequate job at getting him fired than any tweets posted by anyone, anywhere. Speaking of "oiled up men in tights", its funny how Clem didn't mind kissing up to an oiled up man in tights for years, as long as he was getting a paycheck or notoriety from him. if Hogan has one ounce of decency, he'll stay as far away from this idiot as possible and let him fade away.

Presumably this will result in less "Bubba Army" members at the TNA Impact tapings in Orlando, meaning the average IQ level of those attending TNA Impact tapings will go up by an average of 50 points.

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