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Pet Rock Band posted:There's probably a 0-1% chance of TNA ever making the old weekly PPVs available for purchase in any format, right? There's not even any chance of WWE buying them and adding their archive to the network? I've had an urge to watch them lately. I never actually saw them on TV ever since I lived in Nashville and went to every stupid weekly PPV except one or two. I thought it would be cool to see myself in the front row as a kid. They used to have them all up on their Video on Demand service, but it's taken down now. It happened before, so never say never.
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oatgan posted:Remember when Miss Tessmacher's character was Eric Bischoff's prostitute and she was demoted to being a wrestler demoted TNA
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oatgan posted:Remember when Miss Tessmacher's character was Eric Bischoff's prostitute It had been 8 years so it was OK for TNA to repeat themselves.
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DJExile posted:and she was demoted to being a wrestler only because she was also Kevin Nash's prostitute and during pillow talk blabbed about Bischoff's plan to take over the company. Nash used the information to form a heel stable to take down the company without actually telling anybody why.
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Ghidzilla posted:This company's run has gone on for longer than WCW's run and is almost a third longer than ECW's total run and my brain cannot comprehend this. Not yet, they'll reach WCW in 3 months.
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Since I'm a star ratings whore, I went back and counted how many ****+ matches WCW produced compared with TNA. WCW (1988-2001): 101 *****: 6 matches ****3/4: 4 matches ****1/2: 15 matches ****1/4: 30 matches ****: 46 matches TNA (2002-present): 89 *****: 1 match ****3/4: 3 matches ****1/2: 10 matches ****1/4: 27 matches ****: 48 matches
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Pet Rock Band posted:What was the one 5* match in TNA history? aj vs. joe vs. daniels some ppv in 2005
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yea ok posted:aj vs. joe vs. daniels some ppv in 2005
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The star ratings are based on the whole package, buildup, audience reaction, the story told in the match itself, etc. Not just how good the match itself is.
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Endorph posted:It's on TNA's youtube channel in full last I checked. It's p. good but iunno if I'd go five stars. I haven't watched it in forever but at the time I thought it was something really special. HulkaMatt fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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yea ok posted:aj vs. joe vs. daniels some ppv in 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-azR3pLkI
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I don't care for TNA and know very little in terms of the context for the match and the competitors but that was a hot match and by Ebert metrics (the match in and of itself, not compared to others) I'd call that a fair 5* competitor. The monkeyflip to hurricanrana is a tad too convoluted as I like my spots, but they're all going 100% and it's a joy to watch.
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It's a very well-paced, 100-mile-an-hour match with zero botches and a cool finish. Everyone is really high energy and hit everything perfectly. Basically exhibits why triple threats can be the best gimmick match, because you never need to do a rest hold and you can constantly change the direction of the match. The crowd is also really into it in a way I haven't seen in a TNA broadcast for a long time.
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Wow, the Grand Ballroom looks anything but there. It's not well lit at all. It's not the best place to do TV, but they didn't do it any favors.
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Cardboard Box posted:yeah I saw some clips of it and the way the arena looks makes the product look super minor league And yet it still makes them look better than the Impact Zone.
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Testekill posted:And yet it still makes them look better than the Impact Zone. The Impact Zone never felt as small to me as the Grand Ballroom feels. Granted I've been in the Grand Ballroom and never been in the Impact Zone, but they shot the Impact Zone to feel like it was a small arena. Even at its best the Grand Ballroom looks kind of out of place for wrestling.
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Testekill posted:And yet it still makes them look better than the Impact Zone. I think it actually looks worse on TV than the Impact Zone. at least the Impact Zone is lit decently.
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When ROH was running there it was a huge step up because their typical venues looked pretty terrible and this was a legitimate nice looking room. TNA doesn't run the nicest places, but the Grand Ballroom just looks... off.
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Cardboard Box posted:I think it actually looks worse on TV than the Impact Zone. at least the Impact Zone is lit decently. I think it's the balcony making it seem so tiny. With the Impact Zone, it was what - bleachers? So it still sort of looked like an arena and they lit the crowd differently. Here, you can visually SEE the end of the room due to the balcony so it just feels more boxy and closed-off right away.
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MassRafTer posted:The Impact Zone never felt as small to me as the Grand Ballroom feels. Granted I've been in the Grand Ballroom and never been in the Impact Zone, but they shot the Impact Zone to feel like it was a small arena. Even at its best the Grand Ballroom looks kind of out of place for wrestling. The Impact Zone made them look super-minor league when you were there, though. It had bleachers on two sides of the ring and a concrete wall on the hard camera side. It was just this really low-end TV studio turned into a wrestling venue. I went there with my mother and father and sister and wife a few years ago, and everyone was just kind of like, "That was pretty low-rent." Zack_Gochuck fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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To be fair, just about everything makes TNA look super minor league.
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Zack_Gochuck posted:The Impact Zone made them look super-minor league when you were there, though. It had bleachers on two sides of the ring and a concrete wall on the hard camera side. It was just this really low-end TV studio turned into a wrestling venue. I went there with my mother and father and sister and wife a few years ago, and everyone was just kind of like, "That was pretty low-rent." I was in the studio audience for a game show on PAX that they filmed there and it was a dump.
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Zack_Gochuck posted:The Impact Zone made them look super-minor league when you were there, though. It had bleachers on two sides of the ring and a concrete wall on the hard camera side. It was just this really low-end TV studio turned into a wrestling venue. I went there with my mother and father and sister and wife a few years ago, and everyone was just kind of like, "That was pretty low-rent." Eh, I always thought it looked fine. Maybe it was because I watched so much WCW Worldwide and that was filmed in the same kind of venue.
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Yeah I agree. By the end they clearly figured out how to shoot the Impact Zone so it didn't look like a total empty shithole, which is pretty admirable. The biggest thing wrong with that venue was the fans, who were generally lovely if they bothered to show up at all.
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MassRafTer posted:Eh, I always thought it looked fine. Maybe it was because I watched so much WCW Worldwide and that was filmed in the same kind of venue. No, don't get me wrong, it looked OK on TV. It's just when you were there live the venue itself was ghetto as gently caress.
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Bhester posted:Is anything from Impact last night worth checking out? It's Impact so probably not. Since a few people have asked, the TNA History video is being edited right now and should be done later tonight! It better be because if I don't finish it before this weekend it's getting delayed some more.
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Bhester posted:Is anything from Impact last night worth checking out? You might want to check out the end to see the debut of ECW alumni Beared Gene Snitsky and ECW Champion Ezekiel Jackson!
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Rhonne posted:You might want to check out the end to see the debut of ECW alumni Beared Gene Snitsky and ECW Champion Ezekiel Jackson! But you won't hear them say "...from WWE!" unfortunately. 
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