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Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Man, those guys are awesome at readingyelling their scripts.

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X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!


I see him flashing that sweet TNA paycheck of his.

Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ALrysh0Qo

The way TNA deserves to end.

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003


The Devil's Disavowed Demon

I am hella PEEVED
Oct 25, 2007

Welcome to Earth.

Remember that time TNA totally nailed the spelling on Rob Van Dam's shirt?



Me too.

Shrecknet
Jan 2, 2005



This thread is for posting the worst, not the best of TNA :kratos:

Rhonne
Feb 13, 2012

Do you want to know what we do to artists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2-JxwcYG04

This was a thing TNA actually thought it was a good idea to play on TV.

Dr.Smasher
Nov 27, 2002

Cyberpunk 1987
I recall the days when their pay per view event was dropped in favor of softcore pornography about thongs.

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

Rhonne posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2-JxwcYG04

This was a thing TNA actually thought it was a good idea to play on TV.

this clip could have been literally anything

Bumper Stickup
Jan 7, 2012

Mmm... Offshore Toast!


Grimey Drawer

"Huh. So this is money."

RacistGuidingLight
Apr 5, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Someone post that video of bubba ray having something stinky in a casket for Amderson

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

Please watch this video. It is short but very informative. I heard it mentioned on a B&V show a long time ago and tracked it down because I had to see it. It was worth the effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rHymMJOy0

Luneshot
Mar 10, 2014

if only that applied to Dixie and Russo, TNA might still be alive

RacistGuidingLight
Apr 5, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

Deadpool posted:

Please watch this video. It is short but very informative. I heard it mentioned on a B&V show a long time ago and tracked it down because I had to see it. It was worth the effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rHymMJOy0

I like this a whole lot

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

Deadpool posted:

Please watch this video. It is short but very informative. I heard it mentioned on a B&V show a long time ago and tracked it down because I had to see it. It was worth the effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rHymMJOy0

on this same episode of Reaction while someone is cutting a promo you can see RVD and Kazarian (who are feuding) going over their match from that night on Impact in the background. And not even somewhere off the distance they are totally in focus and everything.

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

Here's another great forgotten moment in TNA history

Okay so remember back in 2011 when Booker T and Kevin Nash showed up at the Royal Rumble causing Matt Striker to mark out bro? Well TNA had planned to bring them in to reform the Main Event Mafia to take on Immortal, their flavor of the week giant heel stable that controls the company. The only problem was they didn't actually have Nash or Booker under contract at the time but they did the angle anyway so they had to scramble with a nonsensical reveal that Fortune, who had been attacked repeatedly in the build for this turned out to be ambushing itself???

Anyway, the week after the Rumble Eric Bischoff comes out and brags that there is no "they" coming because Kevin Nash and Booker T went to WWE. He says that "Nash did the right thing for his family. Got an action figure, dyed his hair, and rode off into the sunset." So according to Bischoff, the right thing to do is STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM TNA and actually make money somewhere else and also that "nobody cares about Booker T, that guy we tried to sign but couldn't"

oatgan fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Jul 29, 2014

Ty1990
Apr 22, 2011

Wasn't it one time a thing that Samoa Joe would see Taz and get powers from it?

SamuraiFoochs
Jan 16, 2007




Grimey Drawer

coconono posted:

Only because the Monty Brown promo was amazing.

Just so this doesn't ever get forgotten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEqEas9hUAI

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

Ty1990 posted:

Wasn't it one time a thing that Samoa Joe would see Taz and get powers from it?

"And afterwords Taz got in the ring and looked blocky and nobody cared."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TlpvYedug&t=1661s


(PS watch this whole video because it's amazing.)

Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~

Deadpool posted:

Please watch this video. It is short but very informative. I heard it mentioned on a B&V show a long time ago and tracked it down because I had to see it. It was worth the effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rHymMJOy0

Was this like a 2000 era WCW worked shoot or what? It'd be pretty hilarious if Hulk Hogan was poo poo talking people for being belt marks unironically.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

Sanguinia posted:

Was this like a 2000 era WCW worked shoot or what?

Yes, exactly.

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

best tna clip of all time coming right up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpzDKmcyQWI

Sanguinia
Jan 1, 2012

~Everybody wants to be a cat~
~Because a cat's the only cat~
~Who knows where its at~

Deadpool posted:

Yes, exactly.

Wow. Even Russo had limits when it came to this kind of thing. When you watch the best of those, like the one he did with Ric Flair on the Thunder when Arquette won the belt, or the one where he talks about the Hulk Hogan Memorial Belt, you kind of get the vibe that the concept for that kind of thing was to bring the audience back to a state of suspension of disbelief in wrestling, to make them question what was real and what wasn't again.

Maybe that's giving Russo too much credit, but if that was his intent it's the shadow of a good idea absent all of the obvious flaws.

But coming out and saying things like the belts are fake and all that matters is your ability to draw, put asses in seats and get coins in the coffers is beyond any kind of sense, that's literally taking a crap on your entire concept. Even Russo never devalued the World Title by saying it was worthless, he just stupidly made it worthless by his incompetence.

weekly font
Dec 1, 2004


Everytime I try to fly I fall
Without my wings
I feel so small
Guess I need you baby...



oatgan posted:

best tna clip of all time coming right up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpzDKmcyQWI

gently caress everyone in this video

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

Sanguinia posted:

Wow. Even Russo had limits when it came to this kind of thing. When you watch the best of those, like the one he did with Ric Flair on the Thunder when Arquette won the belt, or the one where he talks about the Hulk Hogan Memorial Belt, you kind of get the vibe that the concept for that kind of thing was to bring the audience back to a state of suspension of disbelief in wrestling, to make them question what was real and what wasn't again.

Maybe that's giving Russo too much credit, but if that was his intent it's the shadow of a good idea absent all of the obvious flaws.

But coming out and saying things like the belts are fake and all that matters is your ability to draw, put asses in seats and get coins in the coffers is beyond any kind of sense, that's literally taking a crap on your entire concept. Even Russo never devalued the World Title by saying it was worthless, he just stupidly made it worthless by his incompetence.

Russo was writing TNA when Hogan cut that promo and also yes Vince Russo waffles back and forth between "belts are fake who cares" and "WHOEVER CONTROLS THE BELTS HAS THE POWER"

oatgan
Jan 15, 2009

weekly font posted:

gently caress everyone in this video

Bischoff and Eric are supposed to be comically over the top heels so I can kinda shrug it off but then that trainer comes in with the "but what about Dixie's policy about protecting our athletes from head trauma" and I lose it

also Taz's potshot at the Taker/Brock standoff

NienNunb
Feb 15, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzmBUUSDDKM

Maxwell Lord
Dec 12, 2008

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die.

I hope we both die.


:smith:

Grimey Drawer

Sanguinia posted:

Was this like a 2000 era WCW worked shoot or what? It'd be pretty hilarious if Hulk Hogan was poo poo talking people for being belt marks unironically.

At times TNA was basically the low budget sequel to WCW. Same cast, same creative personnel, same approach to storytelling.

Perdido
Apr 29, 2009

CORY SCHNEIDER IS FAR MORE MENTALLY STABLE THAN LUONGO AND CAN HANDLE THE PRESSURES OF GOALTENDING IN VANCOUVER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaDzOYdFlU0

Perigryn
Oct 22, 2010

TaJaaaaadoruuuuu

Rhonne posted:

Remember that time Hogan gave Abyss his magic WWE Hall of Fame Ring?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnZcOVA6Sb0
And if you just use the audio...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5agGnu40g

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

oatgan posted:

btw the way this episode ends is one of the highlights of MRT's Tuesday Nitro experience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3IDC2IltpA&t=6918s

I'm really going to miss this company.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

oatgan posted:

Here's another great forgotten moment in TNA history

Okay so remember back in 2011 when Booker T and Kevin Nash showed up at the Royal Rumble causing Matt Striker to mark out bro? Well TNA had planned to bring them in to reform the Main Event Mafia to take on Immortal, their flavor of the week giant heel stable that controls the company. The only problem was they didn't actually have Nash or Booker under contract at the time but they did the angle anyway so they had to scramble with a nonsensical reveal that Fortune, who had been attacked repeatedly in the build for this turned out to be ambushing itself???

Anyway, the week after the Rumble Eric Bischoff comes out and brags that there is no "they" coming because Kevin Nash and Booker T went to WWE. He says that "Nash did the right thing for his family. Got an action figure, dyed his hair, and rode off into the sunset." So according to Bischoff, the right thing to do is STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM TNA and actually make money somewhere else and also that "nobody cares about Booker T, that guy we tried to sign but couldn't"

They actually did have Nash under contract but Nash got Dixie to release him either out of the goodness of her heart or blackmail, so probably blackmail.

Perigryn
Oct 22, 2010

TaJaaaaadoruuuuu

MassRafTer posted:

They actually did have Nash under contract but Nash got Dixie to release him either out of the goodness of her heart or blackmail, so probably blackmail.
Nash implied it was blackmail, I think.

Tokyo Sexwale
Jul 30, 2003

He maybe had either a video, or pictures, or both of Dixie and Vince Russo.

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

Jason Sextro posted:

He maybe had either a video, or pictures, or both of Dixie and Vince Russo.

In real life? or in storyline?

I can totally see Dixie saying on TV, "That wrestler I wanted to sign has incriminating photos of me, so I let him go to that other, better company."

sonicice
Oct 21, 2000

Michael J Beverage, I've got a bone to pick with you.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

Popular culture has passed you by.
My god, it's phallic! That's cillahp spelled backwards!

Discount Trombones
Jan 22, 2014
Is that a Hitler mustache?

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
That time Dixie did an interview with the fans and was asked how much she'd be willing to sell TNA for and she in turn asked how much Vince was willing to sell WWE for because she might have bought it.

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Kaskadan
Mar 28, 2010

I've got some bad NOMS for you
I linked the LOLTNA history to a mate who is a bit of a TNA mark

He claims that most of it is bullshit, brought about by so many 'big name' wrestlers screwing TNA over that the company never stood a chance.
Citing that all the money they paid to Nash, Syxx and Hall in the early years doomed the company to failure, but for whatever reason, the names Russo, Hogan and Angle never came up.

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