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The Paparazzi Championship Series skits were a fever dream. I watched TNA on and off from like 2005 until someone drew a dick on Samoa Joe's face. There was a lot of really dumb poo poo storyline-wise but the X-Division matches were consistently good. I thought Christian was pretty good at first as well. I remember when Don West turned heel. It's amazing they're still around.
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GenghisTron posted:Couple of questions - I heard ImpactPLUS does not have all the episodes of the old TNA stuff, is this true? I was thinking of watching through what people say are the good years, 05-09, is this also correct? The "good years" of TNA are January of 2005 through June of 2006. 2007, 8 and 9 are very bad years except for the fall of 2009. Some of the worst in wrestling history.
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Destroy My Sweater posted:The Paparazzi Championship Series skits were a fever dream. I watched TNA on and off from like 2005 until someone drew a dick on Samoa Joe's face. This feels like the start of a Scorsese film.
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Destroy My Sweater posted:The Paparazzi Championship Series skits were a fever dream. I watched TNA on and off from like 2005 until someone drew a dick on Samoa Joe's face. There was a lot of really dumb poo poo storyline-wise but the X-Division matches were consistently good. I thought Christian was pretty good at first as well. I remember when Don West turned heel. It's amazing they're still around. I'd say this is pretty accurate. They got a bad rap IMO. I'd say between when they got on Spike to the dick on Samoa Joe's face it was... something to watch. Not saying it's good, but I remember a ton of moments from those years and I remember pretty much nothing from WWE during that time. There is good stuff and there is odd stuff and bad stuff, but I remember never being bored.
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MassRafTer posted:The "good years" of TNA are January of 2005 through June of 2006. 2007, 8 and 9 are very bad years except for the fall of 2009. Some of the worst in wrestling history. This. And that 18 month period is good mostly because the booking is dirt simple. Like "Guy X has the belt; I, Guy Y, wish to have the belt, we will have a fight" simple. And because the people involved are all really good workers, it works.
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Gaz-L posted:This. And that 18 month period is good mostly because the booking is dirt simple. Like "Guy X has the belt; I, Guy Y, wish to have the belt, we will have a fight" simple. And because the people involved are all really good workers, it works. It basically correlates with the time Russo wasn't there to Russo it up, right?
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Is Shota/Shooter Umino still stuck on Terf Island and if so is there any plans to bring him back, how long do young lion excursions last?
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I really don't know what's going on with Shooter. If he's still stuck in the UK you'd think that RevPro would be using him now that they're running again, but his last march was almost exactly 12 months ago. And it can't just be travel since O-Khan was also working RevPro and NJPW got him back in the country.
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Royal Updog posted:This feels like the start of a Scorsese film. lmao it does
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I think a big problem with TNA is that nobody really got over. Like, even something good like Booker T doing his own commentary involves making the younger guys look pretty stupid: https://twitter.com/IandrewDiceClay/status/1148712386888683525 I feel like the only non-WWE talent they really tried to protect to any significant degree were AJ and Joe. I also feel like there was a lot of buzz about the women's division at the time but everything I remember about it is bad (the Sarah Palin parody character, etc).
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Mar 11, 2021 04:21
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shota doesn't like wrestling that much
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Destroy My Sweater posted:I think a big problem with TNA is that nobody really got over. Like, even something good like Booker T doing his own commentary involves making the younger guys look pretty stupid: I think that boils down to vaguely recalling the admittedly very good Gail/Kong series.
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Destroy My Sweater posted:I also feel like there was a lot of buzz about the women's division at the time but everything I remember about it is bad (the Sarah Palin parody character, etc). It was bad but they had one. The bar was still pretty low at the time. Dawgstar posted:I think that boils down to vaguely recalling the admittedly very good Gail/Kong series. Also this.
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Is Impact Wrestling generally considered a separate company from TNA, or is that just a thing from people who want to distance themselves from the stink of TNA as much as possible?
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sticklefifer posted:Is Impact Wrestling generally considered a separate company from TNA, or is that just a thing from people who want to distance themselves from the stink of TNA as much as possible? TNA the company founded in 2002 is dead. TNA Entertainment was folded and the current company Impact Ventures was sold to Anthem during the complex series of moves made to fund tapings and shut out Aroluxe and then Billy Corgan during the sale process. But Impact is TNA.
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MassRafTer posted:TNA the company founded in 2002 is dead. TNA Entertainment was folded and the current company Impact Ventures was sold to Anthem during the complex series of moves made to fund tapings and shut out Aroluxe and then Billy Corgan during the sale process. Huh, I didn't know it was that elaborate. So is Jarrett out? I assume you just made up the name "Aroluxe" for fun.
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jarrett and dixie are both out, right? that was the whole "big change"?
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Jarrett’s been on the WWE creative team for about a year or so now.
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1glitch0 posted:So is Jarrett out? He currently works for the WWE as part of their booking team, such as it is, so yeah.
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Vagabundo posted:He currently works for the WWE as part of their booking team, such as it is, so yeah. Literally lol for both sides. What a story I missed!
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Mar 11, 2021 19:11
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The wwf also has this core of former TNA people (Abyss, Sonjay Dutt, Jarrett, AJ Styles even) that we can only assume are part of the reason the wwf continued past lovely WCW into full TNA.
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They also have Jeremy Borash but they’re not letting him do any of the things he’s good at.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:They also have Jeremy Borash but they’re not letting him do any of the things he’s good at.
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I know, but compared to the other backstage TNA acquisitions, Borash actually has something to offer.
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It will always have the TNA stank no matter how many name or ownership changes it goes through
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I know that Jeremy Borash is a legit talented guy both in front of and behind the camera, but when I see him and he speaks I can't not hear, "Daffney, I'm afraid you opened the strip tease box. Now you must go to the ring and perform a strip tease."
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Mar 11, 2021 19:53
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Wasn’t it Russo that demanded she strip and Terry Taylor that demanded she do the spot that ended her career?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Jarrett’s been on the WWE creative team for about a year or so now. I knew/know this information, but I still don't understand any part of this sentence. Edit: Actually, given the ratings and lovely product, maybe I do Red fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Mar 12, 2021 |
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1glitch0 posted:Huh, I didn't know it was that elaborate. So is Jarrett out? I assume you just made up the name "Aroluxe" for fun. Jarrett sold his remaining stock in 2016 but has been involved in legal drama with Anthem after the ill fated GFW merger and deletion of the fabled GFW video library. I am not sure if Dixie Carter sold her small minority share but she did step down from her face saving position on the board.
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karmicknight posted:The wwf also has this core of former TNA people (Abyss, Sonjay Dutt, Jarrett, AJ Styles even) that we can only assume are part of the reason the wwf continued past lovely WCW into full TNA. Now that you mention it, yeah, that does make a lot of sense.
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Vagabundo posted:Now that you mention it, yeah, that does make a lot of sense. It's mind-boggling to recall the time someone asked Vince on an investor call if he'd ever purchase TNA, and he just laughed in response. Yet, here we are.
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Who started using the Sharpshooter / Scorpion Deathlock first out of Sting and Hart, and was the second guy ripping on the first or was it just coincidence?
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Saul Goode posted:Who started using the Sharpshooter / Scorpion Deathlock first out of Sting and Hart, and was the second guy ripping on the first or was it just coincidence? Sting who took it from Riki Choshu
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the original name of it is the scorpion hold too
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What are some poster's favorite entrances? Not someone's every night entrance but a big special that's been done? I'm not entirely sure myself but I was watching Onita vs Chono in the barbwire deathmatch and drat those were a couple real good ones.
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Scorpion Deathlock and Sharpshooter were both applied very differently when Sting and Bret Hart were the only mainstream wrestlers using them stateside. Nowadays the name of the hold is interchangeable.
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TheKingslayer posted:What are some poster's favorite entrances? Not someone's every night entrance but a big special that's been done? Nakamuras wk entrance with the dancers should have been extremely corny, but he was so effortlessly cool it looked ace
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TheKingslayer posted:What are some poster's favorite entrances? Not someone's every night entrance but a big special that's been done? Kenny's Undertale tribute at WK13.
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Nick Jr. Face posted:Scorpion Deathlock and Sharpshooter were both applied very differently when Sting and Bret Hart were the only mainstream wrestlers using them stateside. Nowadays the name of the hold is interchangeable. Riki Choshu called it something. Power Knuckle Hold doesn't sound right.
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