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| They literally set fire to the ring by accident |
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2 | 2.22% |
| They literally set fire to the ring on purpose |
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6 | 6.67% |
| Film 6 months of content accidentally using WWE prop belts |
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6 | 6.67% |
| Rehire Jeff Jarrett |
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23 | 25.56% |
| Start splicing in archival footage of AJ Styles and pretending it's current |
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23 | 25.56% |
| Accidentally switch the live Pop TV feed to the WWE Network |
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6 | 6.67% |
| Lose the keys to the production truck, film 6 months of content in the parking lot with a Samsung |
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7 | 7.78% |
| Sue a fan who flips the bird on air, lose all company rights to said fan |
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13 | 14.44% |
| Somehow everything gets good and they start making money (Comedy Option) |
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4 | 4.44% |
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Basic Chunnel posted:So the gimmick for the event is a tribute to the brand they tried to distance themselves from for years? They're unarguably in a worse spot now. It's one thing to be a hilarious disaster like they were from the early days up to like.. 2014 or so, but now they're in a spot where they're flat out begging fans to remember them, even if it was for the disasters.
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they're going to re-brand once again as Impact: TNA
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Feb 10, 2020 13:21
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Basic Chunnel posted:So the gimmick for the event is a tribute to the brand they tried to distance themselves from for years? how soon we forget the king of the mountain championship
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Feb 10, 2020 18:40
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[clapping hands emoji between words] BRING BACK THE LEGENDS TITLE
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Feb 10, 2020 18:57
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https://twitter.com/socaluncensored/status/1226715953292906499 I guess they might as well lean in to being the "controversial" company.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:15
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I will defend the Legends Title being a good booking decision that was immediately followed up with a succession of terrible booking decisions. People wanna see old guys wrestle. Its weird fun and it draws a bit. Give them a title to wrestle for so they're not hogging up prestige or career making berths for your younger guys. But when you're dealing with Russo and Bischoff who can turn pouring water into an exercise in herding cats, it goes to hell pretty quickly.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:16
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The Legends title was a dumb rear end idea, as was the KotM title or the Global title or that pts and rounds one. They did briefly just call it a TV title and do nothing special with it but at least that got to the idea that they just wanted a midcard title but also kinda didn't. TNA had complicated feelings on the idea.
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Feb 10, 2020 19:24
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the Legends title was fine as a vanity belt for Booker T but it got dumb after TNA recognised it as an official company championship
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Feb 10, 2020 20:00
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In true TNA fashion they'll pay homage to RTC by giving them a theme that doesn't destroy your ears, and have the whole stable be faces
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Feb 10, 2020 20:14
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If Impact hadn't burned every single bridge they'd ever had with other wrestling companies, they could still bring back the World X Cup again, which was a fairly neat idea other than anyone not America or Canada getting pretty well ignored.
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Feb 10, 2020 20:24
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AAA/Mexico mostly dominated the X Cup as far as I remember. Team Canada became mainstays in the main roster but never won an X Cup if I remember right. It was a very cool idea for the time but I think its kind of antiquated today. Not only do we just have more international talents in the US and more access to wrestling from around the world, but we've had the Cruiserweight Classic, the AAA World Cup, and lots of other stuff along those lines. I mean, they could still do it and it could be good but it wouldn't be unique or special anymore. It should have been a tradition in TNA and something they could celebrate and lay claim to, but its one of many mistakes they made abandoning it.
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Feb 10, 2020 20:28
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want AEW to counterprogram with an episode of Dark dedicated to the librarians reading the LOLTNA page to the crowd
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Feb 10, 2020 20:36
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Yeah the world x cup was a hoot
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STAC Goat posted:AAA/Mexico mostly dominated the X Cup as far as I remember. Team Canada became mainstays in the main roster but never won an X Cup if I remember right. Didn't they also eventually overcomplicate the X Cup and make it really weird? I feel like the last couple had some weird rules or were just confusing to understand from an outside perspective, but maybe I'm thinking of some other weird thing they did.
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Feb 10, 2020 21:00
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World X Cup 2008 was loving stacked. Check out this elimination match from Victory Road. Puma is TJP under a mask. Part 1 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x65osd Part 2 https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x65paf
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Feb 10, 2020 21:02
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Ganso Bomb posted:Didn't they also eventually overcomplicate the X Cup and make it really weird? I feel like the last couple had some weird rules or were just confusing to understand from an outside perspective, but maybe I'm thinking of some other weird thing they did. I don't know but this caused me to remember their G1-like that had Samoa Joe at a negative 13 points, so thank you
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Ganso Bomb posted:Didn't they also eventually overcomplicate the X Cup and make it really weird? I feel like the last couple had some weird rules or were just confusing to understand from an outside perspective, but maybe I'm thinking of some other weird thing they did. It was always a pts based thing. Like 4 man team competes in a mix of tag and singles matches, you get a pt for each win, then 1 ending match with a bunch of pts on the line. I don't think it ever got more complicated than that. It was always the kind of thing you had to kind of book in a contrived way to make sure the last match mattered, but that wasn't really the draw. You weren't watching for the pts system, you were watching for the international talent and good matches. Its why I think it would be a little antiquated today. You could still get good wrestlers and good matches but you'd probably be more familiar with them today and see plenty of matches at that level easily. The early 2000s was a different time for wrestling and access to it. You're probably thinking of the Bound For Glory Series which had a... complicated pt system.
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Feb 10, 2020 21:15
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Ken Shamrock just announced as this year’s TNA Hall of Fame inductee, so look for him in WWE by the end of the year.
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STAC Goat posted:You're probably thinking of the Bound For Glory Series which had a... complicated pt system. The point system as such wasn't even that complicated, but TNA managed to completely screw it up by not keeping track of who has how many matches so by the time it was over Gunner had like 20 matches and Steiner only 10. And then of course there was the booking of Samoa Joe, who (as usual in TNA at that point) was booked like a stupid loser who could not manage a single point earned, and the one time he actually won a match by tapout to earn 10 points, he refused to let go of the hold after the match and the ref reversed the decision to DQ him, leading to Joe ending the BfG series with MINUS 10 POINTS. Next year, they actually managed the right amount of matches for everyone and had logical booking. Which they ruined by having top 4 guys wrestle in 2 semifinals, with BfG position #4 Jeff Hardy being the one to ultimately win the series. Same format the next year, but at the least the guy in position #1, AJ, actually won the final. Not sure if they tried the BfG series again after that year.
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Feb 10, 2020 23:07
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They also had BFG series matches at house shows and then never really mentioned them on air, except sometimes when someone's points were just inflated
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Feb 10, 2020 23:26
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RealFoxy posted:They also had BFG series matches at house shows and then never really mentioned them on air, except sometimes when someone's points were just inflated Didn't Samoa Joe or someone else have so many losses they were deep in the negative point range?
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Feb 10, 2020 23:39
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They missed big time by not having Sid on one show, then by the next show he'd have earned fifty thousand points. Then he'd have a match and close the show with a billion points.
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Feb 10, 2020 23:45
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DarkstarIV posted:Didn't Samoa Joe or someone else have so many losses they were deep in the negative point range? It was that he lost, getting 0 points, then got pissed and got DQ'd, hence negative points. Also lol. It's funny every time.
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Feb 11, 2020 01:56
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TNA did Samoa Joe so dirty he went and played video games for an entire summer.
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Feb 11, 2020 02:48
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Imagine thinking asking people not to be hurtful is censorship in the year of our dystopia, 2020.
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Feb 11, 2020 04:59
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coconono posted:TNA did Samoa Joe so dirty he went and played video games for an entire summer. are you saying he hired the ninjas
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Feb 11, 2020 14:23
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The TNA X Cups showed that TNA could book international talents reasonably well. COUNTERPOINT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QVhU614yaE
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Feb 11, 2020 15:12
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dsriggs posted:The TNA X Cups showed that TNA could book international talents reasonably well. That match has been on youtube for literally over a decade. It has 55,000 views. TNA!
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Feb 11, 2020 15:29
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DJExile posted:That match has been on youtube for literally over a decade. If they were smart, they'd put some actual identifiers in the title or description to let you know who any of these people are. I almost didn't click on it because I don't know who the hell Young/Holliday or No Limit are supposed to be. I could only assume Young was David Young – and I was even wrong about that!
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Feb 11, 2020 15:49
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:are you saying he hired the ninjas I'm saying the only upshot to the whole "draw a dick on your face" era joe was him fish hooking scott steiner with what looked to be a multipurpose gardening tool you'd order off of late night infomercials
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coconono posted:I'm saying the only upshot to the whole "draw a dick on your face" era joe was him fish hooking scott steiner with what looked to be a multipurpose gardening tool you'd order off of late night infomercials He claimed he literally killed Scott while holding a "blood stained" sword on some pay-per-view. Scott was back the next impact episode with his face cartoonishly bandaged up like a mummy, and I think was completely uncovered and fine by either the end of the episode or the next one. It was amazing.
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Feb 11, 2020 16:54
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The best part about TNA was MMA Dad Jeff Jarrett. Don't even try to convince me otherwise.
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DarkstarIV posted:The best part about TNA was MMA Dad Jeff Jarrett. Don't even try to convince me otherwise. That was legit phenomenal, yeah
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Feb 11, 2020 17:39
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if this show was just the women, AAA guys and knockoff yokozuna it might actually be good edit: willie mack & swinger might be spared from the cull. also tessa has to go Trying fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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Feb 12, 2020 04:12
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You can tell they have no plan or idea what to do with Tessa now
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Feb 12, 2020 05:30
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flashy_mcflash posted:You can tell they have no plan or idea what to do with Tessa now I've known Pinkie Sanchez for a long time, how do you gently caress up so much worse than him.
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RealFoxy posted:All she had to do was not log into twitter and people would be pretty happy that Impact crowned a woman as their main champion. I'd blanked out on most of the bad stuff she ended up doing and would've just been happy and assumed she became a better person if she didn't start trying to deny every bad thing she'd ever done. I wasn't even talking about the racism - it just seems like their idea was "put the title on Tessa" and they don't have any kind of coherent story to follow.
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Feb 12, 2020 05:40
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DarkstarIV posted:The best part about TNA was MMA Dad Jeff Jarrett. Don't even try to convince me otherwise. 
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flashy_mcflash posted:I wasn't even talking about the racism - it just seems like their idea was "put the title on Tessa" and they don't have any kind of coherent story to follow. here I have a plan for TNA: put the title on Tessa drop it to Jordynne Grace She does a bunch of strong poo poo it rules everyone claps. oh this is their plan: https://twitter.com/IMPACTWRESTLING/status/1227420934614781955 coconono fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Feb 12, 2020 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:I wasn't even talking about the racism - it just seems like their idea was "put the title on Tessa" and they don't have any kind of coherent story to follow. I'm not watching or paying attention to what they are doing but all the immediate story should be is "beat a bunch of random dudes and prove it wasn't a fluke." Then build up a serious challenger and beat him too. The creeper dude is a weird pick but I guess if she runs over him its theoretically on track.
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