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"These normal formats don't work anymore"

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Title:
"These normal formats don't work anymore"
Date:
15.05.2012
Hulk Hogan: "Impact Wrestling. Show 734. Tape date: 5/15/12. Air date: 5/24/12. Any of you guys know what this is? It's the show format. This is what makes Impact Wrestling work or maybe not work. Open Fight Night has kind of opened everyone's eyes and this week on Open Fight Night we're gonna have a lot of more changes than even I expected. I want you guys to take a look at this. This is what goes on in that creative meeting earlier in the day. I'm sure you guys have all seen it, but that's what's supposed to happen on the show tonight. A lot of people love that old stuff. A lot of people are voicing their oppinions at how much they love the few little changes we've started. Bully, are you okay with that?"

Bully Ray: "Yeah. I'm fine with it."

Hulk Hogan: "Okay."

Bully Ray: "Whatever you wanna do. You're the boss, right? "

Hulk Hogan: "Yes, sir."

Kurt Angle: "So what's, uh, what's this, uh, four men?"

Hulk Hogan: "Well, that's what we're suppose to do now. This is... You know, if you read it straight of the top: Hogan resonate the premise of Open Fight Night, where anybody can challenge anybody. Anybody can call anybody out and you have to fight. And there's gonna be a guaranteed title match. All four men, which are all four you guys. I started to grill you guys. And then eventually I figure out a gameplan that doesn't work anymore. So we're opening this thing up to an open forum. We've got a situation with Roode who's on the verge of becoming the longest reigning Impact Champion ever. Once he defends his title here at Open Fight Night, if he wins he becomes, you know, what I would consider the greatest champion ever here at TNA Impact Wrestling. The record is now hold by this men right here, AJ Styles, who's made a huge impession...."

Kurt Angle: "What importance is that?"

Hulk Hogan: "What importance is, of, of wh..."

Kurt Angle: "Longest reigning champion."

AJ Styles: "It's important to me."

Hulk Hogan: "Well, it's important to the fans. It's important to, you know, in the nostalgia of the way this business is."

Kurt Angle: "It's how many times you win it. It's..."

AJ Styles: "I guess, I guess... What is so important about being a gold medalist? I'm just saying..."

Bully Ray: "Are you serious? He's a gold medalist, at least give him credit..."

AJ Styles: "Was I talking to you?"

Bully Ray: "I don't care."

AJ Styles: "Then shut up!"

Bully Ray: "He's a gold medalist."

AJ Styles: "I'm just trying to tell you that it's important to me just as that gold medal is important to you. I'm not saying it's not important, Kurt."

Kurt Angle: "Yeah, yeah, I understand."

AJ Styles: "I'm just saying it's important to me."

Kurt Angle: "That's your opinion."

Hulk Hogan: "You know, these guys laid the ground work. and then people started piling on over the years, you know. And I don't know the sequence of how it happened, I'm sure you probably do, but people came along, you know. From AJ to Bully to Kurt Angle to Jeff Hardy to Hulk Hogan. And some went on the band wagon. and all this momentum is pushing us into a fast forward situation that these normal formats, these normal ways we produce wrestling, these normal ways we do shows, don't work anymore. Now it's changing. And why should you, you know, try to break this role that Roode's on?"

Kurt Angle: "Because I've won more titles than anybody else in this room?"

Bully Ray: "Singles titles."

Kurt Angle: "That's a singles match."

Bully Ray: "I'm just saying, you said you won more titles. Singles titles. Be more specific."

AJ Styles: "Impact titles? TNA titles? Is that what we're talking about? Cause that's the only ones I recognize here."

Kurt Angle: "All right."

Hulk Hogan: "Bully..."

Bully Ray: "So you want us to, uh, convince you? I need to convince you..."

Hulk Hogan: "Yeah, convince me."

Bully Ray: "Why I should face Bobby Roode?"

Hulk Hogan: "Convince me. A guy, that has won more tag titles than anybody. Wwho's always been a team player. Who just, as of late, recently, has broken out and become a main event singles competitor. A guy that has never won the big one. A guy that has never been the world's heavyweight champion. Everybody else in here has. Convince me why you deserve a shot."

Bully Ray: "Let me ask you a question. You are the be all and end it all of our business. I'm puttin' you over right now. I'm telling you that when it comes to pro wrestling Hulk Hogan is number one. I've been around for twenty years. I'm not a slouch. Why do I have to convince you why I should face Bobby Roode for the World Heavyweight Title? You know that when you look at the four of us I remind you more of those guys that you went to war with back in the day than anybody here. I'm the most legit guy. I'm not taking anything away from these guys, okay? They're all tough. But I'm the most legit. You know people fear me for a straight up shoe. You know people walk the other way when I walk in a room. And I could even intimidate you, Hogan, if I wanted to. But I got respect for you. I'm not gonna sit here and flap my gums about why. You know why!"

Hulk Hogan: "Is that true? Kurt, is that true? Is he the most intimidating guy in here?"

Kurt Angle: "I don't believe so. Why don't you intimidate me?"

Bully Ray: "Kurt, I just gave you respect before, okay? I could intimidate you if I want. I've intimidate you in the ring before. I haven't back down from you. As a matter of fact, you'd probably admit that I'm the hardest hitting son of a bitch you've ever been in the ring with. And you're the most talented guy I've ever been in the ring with."

Hulk Hogan: "AJ, why do you deserve the shot at Bobby Roode? Do you think you know Bobby inside and out, better than anybody, just because you guys used to be friends?"

AJ Styles: "Bobby has been here a long time. So have I. I've been here longer, you know that. This is all about for me. It's about ending his streak. I don't want him to become the longest reigning World Heavyweight Champion in TNA history. I want that for me. It's selfish? Yeah, yeah, it's selfish. I don't care. I want it. I want to stop him."

Kurt Angle: "So it's all about AJ?"

AJ Styles: "Right now it is."

Kurt Angle: "What about the last match that we wrestled? Who won?"

AJ Styles: "You did, Kurt."

Kurt Angle: "Right."

AJ Styles: "You beat me."

Kurt Angle: "So who deserves it right now?"

AJ Styles: You want to be the man? You think just because... And I wasn't gonna bring it up and you know that. You asked me, I didn't bring it up. But if you want to depend on Chris and Frankie to help you out than you go right ahead."

Kurt Angle: "You told me straight up that..."

AJ Styles: "I said I didn't want to talk about it, Kurt! And then you bring it up!"

Bully Ray: "Excuse me for one second. Can I just bring something up here? Your plan is working perfectly right now, isn't it? [an Jeff Hardy gerichtet] Your plan is working perfectly. You just sit there, you don't say a word and you let us all argue among each other, right? Exactly. Working perfectly."

Jeff Hardy: "Let the fans decide."

Kurt Angle: "You think you deserve a shot at the title because you're Jeff Hardy? Because everybody loves Jeff Hardy? Really?"

Jeff Hardy: "Yeah, it works for me. Your son loves me."

Kurt Angle: [zu Hogan] "I respect you more than anybody in the company. What do you want? What do you want?"

Hulk Hogan: "Everybody in here has potential to stop this thing with Bobby Roode. Now, Bobby Roode is not a bad thing. Because as bad as Bobby Roode may want to be and as much as the fans hate him, you have to see the good in Bobby Roode. Bobby Roode has locked this company down. He's been a constant, so that we can go and explore other avenues and give other people chances and do Open Fight Nights and Gut Check. And there are a lot of things that are good about Bobby Roode in being champion. But it's to the point now where he started to control the pace of this company. That's why he has to be stopped."

AJ Styles: "He's smart. We all know that."

Hulk Hogan: "Well of course he is, but he has to be stopped. So that's why I think you can beat him. [zu AJ] That's why I think you can beat him. [zu Kurt] I think you can beat him, Jeff. And Bully, I know that you can beat him. But for one simple reason, one simple reason, you haven't won the big one yet. You've only been a single main event guy for a year. I'm gonna eliminate you, Bully. You're not gonna get the shot."

Bully Ray: "That's your final decision?"

Hulk Hogan: "That's it, brother. You're done."

Bully Ray: "You think that's the right decision?"

Hulk Hogan: "It feels right."

Bully Ray: "You think in your heart that it's the right decision?"

Hulk Hogan: "Yeah."

Bully Ray: "Eric was right about you." [er verläßt das Büro]
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