In the past year Joe has had the privilege of doing paid work for Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling and Global Force Wrestling. On today’s show Joe went in to depth with his thoughts on TNA signing a new TV deal with POP TV and other topics from around the world of pro wrestling.
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You can listen to Joe’s appearance in the embedded audio player below. Some of his quotes have been transcribed below it:
On the work he has done this past year for ROH, TNA & GFW:
JD: I believe, and someone will correct me I am sure if I am wrong, I believe I am one of only two people in 2015 to have done paid work for TNA, Ring of Honor and Global Force Wrestling. Not just in the span of a year but in the span of six months. I believe there is only one other person in wrestling who can make that claim. If anyone knows who it is feel free to tweet me @Joe_Dombrowski. If I feel charitable and if you are right or if you think of one that I can’t think of I may put you over on Twitter. I’m opening this to the people.
On TNA’s new TV deal with POP TV:
JD: I think you are going to run in to the same bit of growing pains that TNA did with Destination America. Vis-a-vis people just finding it. People being able to get comfortable and familiar with the new home. It all comes down to the give and take. It’s certainly a better fit content wise and branding wise. Destination America’s programming, I think even to a wrestling fan, can be a little bizarre at some points. Based on how much they focus on bar-b-q grills and Bigfoot and exercising a house. Like what Destination America did on Halloween. It was always weird to me that there wasn’t always a lot of supporting programming that could really prop up TNA or vice versa. I’m not really familiar with POP TV’s line-up. It does seem like they are a little bit more broad based in the content and the audience they are shooting for. I am excited. I am very happy for everybody in TNA and Impact Wrestling. Certainly the office and my friends that are there and everybody there who is not my friends. I’m very happy to see all of them succeed and all of the TNA doomers and gloomers that continue coming out constantly for now thirteen and a half years and counting. They once again have to go back in to the cave. I understand TNA’s TV deals in UK and India are also up for renewal soon. Which will also help their stance. Certainly the upcoming foreign tours will be well timed in getting leverage there. Hopefully 2016 will be a good building year for TNA. A good rebuilding year for TNA to kind of forge this new identity they have kind of settled in to the past couple of years.
On the possibility that Roman Reigns turns heel and joins The Authority at Survivor Series:
JD: The thing is with Roman Reigns, this all goes back to Royal Rumble. You only need one bad night to ruin a character. That’s not to say that Roman Reigns is ruined by any stretch. He will get to where they want him to be eventually but no where near as quickly and no where near as directly. They obviously want Roman to be the top guy but the fans have not bought the manufactured forcefulness of it. I’m not going to say that wrestling fans are smarter today but they are absolutely more demanding and more perceptive. You look at how Punk and Bryan rose to the top. How believable they were in the positions they were put in. How much reality was infused in to it. That helped the fans rally behind them and the fans felt like they picked Punk and Bryan. Whether they did or not is inconsequential. Ambrose is more to that line of thinking than Reigns is. The fans have rallied behind Ambrose a little bit more. I think if Reigns does the heel turn it’s going to be met with cheers and you’ve just changed the problem rather than fixed it.
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