Posted by: Great One
- Sustainer [053272014] Thu, Oct 25, 2007, 10:05
just wanted to open a thread dedicated to TNA since I know a few of us enjoy it...
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wiggs Sustainer
ID: 04991311 Sat, May 17, 2008, 00:11
he is definitely an Angle fan. It has also turned me into an angle fan. I always thought we was a good wrestler but i never like his role on any of the programs.
Others that did autographs and picture sessions
Consequences Creed ODB Tracy Brooks LAX Matt Morgan Eric Young
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Tree
ID: 15444176 Sat, May 17, 2008, 07:48
yea, when i went to my first (and only) TNA show a couple months back, they did the same thing. it was pretty cool. for me, it was for different reasons, as i got a chance to catch up with friends who i hadn't talked to in months.
i did get a kick out of talking to some of the guys, and then having some stranger walk up to me and say "you KNOW Jimmy Rave?!!?!?"
very cool your kid had a good time Wiggs. between that, and hearing Tom talk about taking his daughter to a WWE show recently, it's nice to know we're seeing the next generation of RWF nerds come up through the ranks.
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Greg Rude
ID: 3040623 Sat, May 17, 2008, 08:19
Tree, do you ever stop talking about who you know and don't know?
LOL
Did I win??
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Farn Leader
ID: 451044109 Sat, May 17, 2008, 10:24
LOL
Wiggs, your boy is what, 8? How many more years until we can have an expansion draft for him? Or will he serve as your apprentice first?
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wiggs Sustainer
ID: 04991311 Sat, May 17, 2008, 11:53
he is 7- he is going to need a little time?
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tree on the treo
ID: 40842210 Sat, May 17, 2008, 13:05
rude - as bobo will tell you, I'm known as being a member of The Name Drop Xpresss..
4 Lyfe!
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Greg Rude
ID: 3040623 Sat, May 17, 2008, 14:42
If I could talk to Melina, Kelly Kelly, Shelly Martinez, Angelina Love and Tracy Brooks ... you better believe I'd be name droppin' too.
*Does Rude Dance*
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Farn Leader
ID: 451044109 Sun, May 18, 2008, 00:21
Its never too late to start an apprentice program wiggs.
Give him full access to your team and let him know I'll trade him Angle for Cena. :)
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Great One
ID: 56438112 Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 09:05
Motor City Machineguns vs. the Dragon Gate team was a lot of fun and non-stop action with tons of innovative moves... hopefully a few of you caught it.
They also replay TNA at 11 PM on Saturday night... and its in the first half hour so you should be able to catch it pretty easily if you missed.
Yeah I enjoyed that tag match a lot but Alex Kozlov was fairly uninspiring. AJ was awesome as usual and I also liked the LAX v Storm & Roode match too.
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Great One
ID: 56438112 Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 12:44
Yeah, I taped those, but won't get to watch til later. Just watched that one while I was eating some dinner. I'm not familiar with Kovlov, were we expecting much? does he have a good reputation? I have heard of Tyson Dux, so looking forward to seeing him. Davari is a addition to bring Team International some cheap heat.
World X Cup is just good fun. No stupid storylines, no run-ins, clean finishes. Good stuff.
And to see such great tag team action was a treat. Motor City and the Dragon Gate duo did some really creative double teams etc that were brilliant. I think this makes us all sad in a way and to long for the days when tag team wrestling mattered and it was just two guys put together with nothing else to do that were champs (Holly/Rhodes, Miz/Morrison). At least LAX are a real good team and champs of TNA right now. Homicide rules and I've never seen a BIG man fly quite like Hernandez can.
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Greg Rude
ID: 39511317 Fri, Jun 13, 2008, 18:03
LLLLLLLLLLL. A. X ! L A X !
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Great One
ID: 56438112 Thu, Jun 19, 2008, 11:04
Rey Bucanero & Ultimo Guerrero are set to work TNA's Impact tapings on Monday and Tuesday of next week. They will be part of the World X Cup. The finals of the World X Cup will be at TNA's July 13th PPV in Houston, TX. Credit: PWInsider.com
This should be fun... hopefully they have some good opponents. And if these guys reach the finals vs. that team from Dragon Gate, that might just be ridiculous. I hear Milano Collection AT is on one of the other teams too... loved him in ROH.
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Great One
ID: 10658208 Sat, Aug 30, 2008, 17:58
Just 2 weeks after ROH draws 2500 fans at the Hammerstein Ballroom... poor TNA. Maybe one day they'll get a good crowd like an ROH show lol...
-- There were a ton of empty seats at last Saturday's TNA event in Topeka, Kansas as the house show only drew 500 fans to the Kansas Expocentre, which can hold 8,000 seats. Additionally, house shows the week before in Dallas, Texas (8/15) and Muskogee, Oklahoma (8/17) drew poorly as well. However, the 8/16 house show in Lawton, Oklahoma reportedly drew okay.
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Great One
ID: 209121913 Wed, Oct 21, 2009, 09:36
Tree, I think we might need to start watching TNA again. Spoilers below... or wait a few days.
Nigel debuts and immediately into something with Kurt?!... AJ vs. Joe vs. Daniels for the title at the next PPV?!
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Tree
ID: 248472317 Wed, Oct 21, 2009, 10:01
in regards to your spoiler - i heard all about that late tuesday night going into yesterday morning.
interesting back story as to how things went down in order to get the man now known as Desmond Wolf in TNA.
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Great One
ID: 209121913 Fri, Oct 23, 2009, 09:16
Nigel was great tonight, can't believe they put him right into something with Angle. WWE would never have had the balls to have an outsider jump right into a main event fued.
Danielson will surely debut vs. Funaki on Superstars and have a gimmick where he's a mute with a mohawk or something.
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Great One
ID: 391123011 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 15:00
Well as we all know 8 PM tonight with Hogan's debut. Should be interesting. I'm surprised WWE didn't counter with a 3 hour RAW to try and blow up their big move. Bret Hart is big, but Hogan's still... Hogan.
On a pure awesomeness level, if this match happens on my TV tonight it will be the best match on either show. - The Young Bucks are booked for the Impact shows this week. There is talk that they will face The Motor City Machineguns this week on TV.
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Farn Leader
ID: 451044109 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 15:02
I have to admit I've never watched more than 3 seconds (literally) of TNA. And tonight will be no different. I can't even pretend to care about 84 yr old Hulk Hogan, his fellow egomaniac Eric Bischoff, or any other NWO castoff they are bringing in for tonight. I'm all for competition but a bunch of geriatrics isn't competition.
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Great One
ID: 391123011 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 15:13
Its hard to think Hogan/Bischoff will work but its worth a look. But its not like WWE is very young either, we just tend to ignore the fact that their main guys are all in the 40's -- HHH, HBK and Undertaker all are. And 60 year old Ric Flair was a prime time player last year for WWE. That HBK vs. Flair match at WM25 was over 100 years old combined! lol...
TNA's last main event had AJ Styles, Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels who are all pretty young. And AJ Styles is a young fresh champ. Now if Hogan brings in Brutus Beefcake and he beat Styles in 5 minutes. Well, then you've got a great point.
And Young Bucks vs. Motor City Machine Guns will make you wish WWE still gave a crap about tag wrestling.
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Tree
ID: 248472317 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 15:34
Farn - turn it on. The Young Bucks vs. MCMG might very well change your mind.
and all four are very young guys - Chris Sabin is the oldest at the ripe old age of 27. But combined, they've been wrestling for almost 40 years.
Styles vs. Joe vs. Daniels was amazing. a match that shouldn't be missed.
Farn - give it a try.
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Great One
ID: 391123011 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 15:46
Young Bucks were trained by Marty Jannetty too I learned when Rude and I were chatting about them. They basically look like The Rockers in their prime, but with even crazier, high flying moves. MCMG are the more proven commodity, but I think the Bucks can take them up a notch in their TV debut and really push them.
Wiggs will watch I bet. He likes to try different shows.
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Tree
ID: 248472317 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 15:59
another little known secret about the YBs - they've been on Smackdown and ECW.
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Greg Rude
ID: 491046280 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 19:41
TNA ! TNA ! Can't wait!! F the WWE
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wiggs
ID: 33916913 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 23:26
Angle V Styles was awesome.
The rest of the show was weak. What happened to the Young Bucks? The Steel Asylum was a joke.
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Greg Rude
ID: 491046280 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 23:47
Have to agree ... it wasn't like the usual TNA programming that delivers. They were different in the spotlight. How the hell do you not let Beer Money have a match? They are the #1 merchandise sellers!
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wiggs
ID: 33916913 Mon, Jan 04, 2010, 23:56
very true.
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Great One
ID: 391123011 Tue, Jan 05, 2010, 09:14
Angle vs. AJ was awesome, I second that. Thats the reason I watch this stuff, to enjoy matches like that.
It was definitely a little out of whack for parts of the rest of the show. I think they were trying to cram in all these debuts (Hogan, Flair) and returns (Hardy). I think they did do a good job of planting seeds. But some of it felt disjointed. And no Beer Money or British Invasion among others was disappointing. Especially with 3 hours to work with.
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Great One
ID: 46051211 Thu, Jan 14, 2010, 11:34
I believe Youngs Buck debut tonight in the opening match vs. Motor City. So everyone make sure they tune in, hopefully they get more than 5 minutes.
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Greg Rude
ID: 491046280 Thu, Jan 14, 2010, 21:09
ok , yeah ... those dudes were badass.
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Great One
ID: 39342317 Mon, Apr 12, 2010, 20:40
TNA finally at 8 PM which is where they should have always been.
Moore vs. Kazarian time limit draw was really entertaining.
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Great One
ID: 39342317 Mon, Apr 12, 2010, 21:19
MotorCity Machineguns amazing as usual... they blow every WWE tag team out of the freaking water.
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Greg Rude
ID: 292433117 Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 00:22
I guess, if you like that flipping - circus shit (as DOUGLAS Williams says) LOL
BEER MONEY!!!
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Great One
ID: 33326158 Mon, Apr 19, 2010, 12:24
Rude, you get Lockdown last night? Supposedly the X-Division matches were awesome and that Kurt Angle vs. Mr. Andersen Kennedy Andersen is being talked about as a Match of the Year contender.
Angle/Anderson was great. Especially the moonsault off the top of the cage. Pope (Elijah Burke) and AJ was pretty good too.
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Great One
ID: 33326158 Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 16:32
And coming off that great PPV, Impact blew RAW out of the water too.
Certainly the ratings won't reflect it yet because there are so many WWE sheep out there, but if they continue putting shows on like this the gap will start to close.
In defense of WWE, they were a bit off kilter last night thanks to the flight issues. I won't condemn that bad show last night.
That said, they really need to start upping the product a little. Outside of what I thought was a solid Swagger/Taker match there wasn't much. But like I said it was a tough night for them.
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Great One
ID: 33326158 Tue, Apr 20, 2010, 16:43
Absolutely that Swagger/Taker match was top notch. Main event was ok too. And they did just try and patch it together and did an alright job given the circumstances.
But agreed they need to step it up a bit. And these guest hosts are getting stupider and stupider. I wonder how HHH and co. really feel about having to work with these people each week. And frankly, the MacGruber stuff wasn't that bad. Although it would have been awesome if Santino was there lol...
Impact has just been no nonsense badass wrestling lately. RVD, AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, Samoa Joe, Kurt Angle, Pope, Sting, Abyss, Beer Money, Machineguns etc are getting it done right now. Hogan and Flair are actually doing the right thing, being manager types, helping these other guys out. The womens division is light years better than WWE and they are doing with the X-Division what WCW used to do with the cruisers like Rey/Eddie/Malenko/Juvy and letting them put on great shows with tons of action on the undercard.
I should probably tune in and watch TNA. I'm just hesitant to add more programming to my week. I can barely keep up with what I already watch.
The WWE women's division is awful. Not only do they not give them TV time but they only give them time to be eye candy instead of to wrestle. Give them a chance to show what they've got.
Glad to hear Hogan and Flair aren't wrestling. I figured it might be like vintage WCW where Hogan hogged all the TV time.
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Great One
ID: 33326158 Wed, Apr 21, 2010, 09:01
He gets plenty of airtime, but in the authority figure or manager role. Flair is merely manager to AJ Styles. So I think those have gone pretty well.
Watch the replay this Thursday at 9-11. This episode was real good. Plus had the big title match.
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Great One
ID: 39342317 Thu, May 27, 2010, 17:52
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Great One
ID: 47515621 Mon, Jun 28, 2010, 19:23
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Great One
ID: 47515621 Mon, Jun 28, 2010, 19:24
with TNA soon getting Heyman... one of his best promos, and hopefully we'll get a similar one when he debuts, likely to mentor Abyss if I had to guess
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Great One
ID: 2275057 Tue, Aug 10, 2010, 09:28
WWE loyalists... tape TNA this Thursday at 9PM and give it a shot this one time... we'll never ask you again. Just sit and watch this one episode. Without commercials its about 90 minutes of your time. You WILL be impressed.
Thursday August 12th - 9 PM
“The Whole F'n Show" Rob Van Dam vs. Abyss (TNA World Title Match)
Kurt Angle vs. “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles
Angelina Love vs. Madison Rayne (TNA Knockouts Title Match)
“The Charismatic Enigma” Jeff Hardy's Open Challenge
“The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero vs. “The Blueprint” Matt Morgan vs. Mr. Anderson
Beer Money vs. Motor City Machine Guns (Best Of 5 Finale, TNA World Tag Team Title Match)
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Tree
ID: 248472317 Tue, Aug 10, 2010, 10:26
everything i have heard about impact this week - ESPECIALLY THE END - is supposed to be really good.
the ending from what i've been told is shocking and brutal and compelling.
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Great One
ID: 2275057 Tue, Aug 10, 2010, 10:38
and Beer Money vs. MCMG will blow the roof off the joint I'm sure... they have had the best series of matches in tag team wrestling in a LONG time.
Is Rude ready for Thursday?
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wiggs
ID: 356532011 Tue, Aug 10, 2010, 12:13
The Beer Money MCMG matches have been awesome. Its what keeps me watching TNA
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Greg Rude
ID: 2151181 Tue, Aug 10, 2010, 20:10
BEEEEER MOONNNNNEY!
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Great One
ID: 2275057 Fri, Aug 13, 2010, 09:10
Has there been a better 2 hour wrestling show -- PPV or free television --- at any point his year? I don't think so.