Who do you most forget was TNA Champion?

[KingPopper]

Weither it be the NWA title or the TNA title. Outside of Jarrett, Christian, and now Angle. Everyone eles held the title for only a short period of time. Just doing research I found out Killings held the belt more then once and Styles won it 3 times. Hell I even forgot Sting won the title twice, and the 2nd time was only a month ago.

Sure things were different during the weekly ppv days, but it's still apart of TNA's title history. Plus all but Shamrock are still in TNA right now.

[Baixo Astral]

Shamrock... I missed the start of TNA, so I don't remember him as champ at all.

[Celgress]

Ron Killings for me, the guy's run just seemed very forgettable.

[Welfare Willis]

thegoldenspike said:

Shamrock... I missed the start of TNA, so I don't remember him as champ at all.

Ditto. Honestly after he left WWE I thought he went back to MMA.

[Deleted]

Actually, none of them. Shamrock being champ was hammered home in a lot of the video packages about the title and I remember Killings having the belt. Everyone else is pretty easy to remember IMO; the company still pretty young.

[AriadosMan]

Truth becuase even TNA can't seem to remember that one

[Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan]

irontyger said:

Actually, none of them. Shamrock being champ was hammered home in a lot of the video packages about the title and I remember Killings having the belt. Everyone else is pretty easy to remember IMO; the company still pretty young.

That's what I was thinking.

[MGH]

There really are times I forget that Styles was Champion. They off handedly mention it from time to time, but looking at him now it's damn near hard to believe.

[hollywood]

Those guys were champs? I keed! I keed!

For me, when I was watching, it's definitely Abyss. I kept forgetting he was champ even when he had the belt.

[Deleted]

Rhino.

He had it for, like, three days? Then they just forgot about his reign completely.

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catfishjake said:

irontyger said:

Actually, none of them. Shamrock being champ was hammered home in a lot of the video packages about the title and I remember Killings having the belt. Everyone else is pretty easy to remember IMO; the company still pretty young.

That's what I was thinking.

Same. Up until Abyss's reign, I could remember them in order.

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

I have a hard time remember that Killings held the belt twice, but I have no trouble remembering he held the belt. Actually, Rhino is the hardest one to remember, simply because he won it at a PPV then lost it at the tv taping the next night.

[Ace Diamond]

chuckymac314 said:

I have a hard time remember that Killings held the belt twice, but I have no trouble remembering he held the belt. Actually, Rhino is the hardest one to remember, simply because he won it at a PPV then lost it at the tv taping the next night.

I agree with Rhino...hell I can remember even Ken Shamrock just because he was the first one, and I can remember AJ and Killings because I get mad when I see either of them being misused (by the way, where's Killings been on TV besides nowhere since PacMan left? So much for the "push of his career", right?) but yeah...Rhino...no clue.

[Dragonfly]

With a handful of exceptions (AJ's title reigns, Raven's debut, Raven getting scalped, the Hogan thing, AMW, Triple X), TNA acts as if everything before September 15th, 2005 ever happened. It was the most obvious when Sting debuted two years ago. "It's the first time Sting's been in TNA ever!" Right...

With that said, I have to say that Ken Shamrock is TNA's most "forgotten" champion. From what I've heard, Shamrock's title win was a total panic maneuver. Jerry Jarrett's original plan was to have then-champion Dan Severn drop the title to "The Truth," with Shamrock as number contender and Jeff Jarrett playing a "Russo-free" version of his "Chosen One" character. Those plans fell through when the elder Jarret started to hear rumors about how Severn and Shamrock hated each other. It was only after the NWA stripped the title that Jarrett found out that in reality, they had only met each other once or twice. Jarrett ended up getting cold feet about putting the belt on Ron Killings, due to the fact that no one knew who he was. Shamrock's title reign was deemed to be a total failure by everyone involved at the time, which is why Killings ended up with the belt rather quickly. In his book about TNA, Jarrett makes out the Shamrock title reign as a tremendously bad idea, and that he should have went with "his gut" (Killings) from the beginning.

[Ace Diamond]

ariata said:

With a handful of exceptions (AJ's title reigns, Raven's debut, Raven getting scalped, the Hogan thing, AMW, Triple X), TNA acts as if everything before September 15th, 2005 ever happened. It was the most obvious when Sting debuted two years ago. "It's the first time Sting's been in TNA ever!" Right...

With that said, I have to say that Ken Shamrock is TNA's most "forgotten" champion. From what I've heard, Shamrock's title win was a total panic maneuver. Jerry Jarrett's original plan was to have then-champion Dan Severn drop the title to "The Truth," with Shamrock as number contender and Jeff Jarrett playing a "Russo-free" version of his "Chosen One" character. Those plans fell through when the elder Jarret started to hear rumors about how Severn and Shamrock hated each other. It was only after the NWA stripped the title that Jarrett found out that in reality, they had only met each other once or twice. Jarrett ended up getting cold feet about putting the belt on Ron Killings, due to the fact that no one knew who he was. Shamrock's title reign was deemed to be a total failure by everyone involved at the time, which is why Killings ended up with the belt rather quickly. In his book about TNA, Jarrett makes out the Shamrock title reign as a tremendously bad idea, and that he should have went with "his gut" (Killings) from the beginning.

I also thought that they planned to put the title on Brian Christopher at one point before settling on Shamrock but even he (Christopher) thought that was a terrible idea?

[Spankymac is sick of the swiss]

ariata said:

With a handful of exceptions (AJ's title reigns, Raven's debut, Raven getting scalped, the Hogan thing, AMW, Triple X), TNA acts as if everything before September 15th, 2005 ever happened. It was the most obvious when Sting debuted two years ago. "It's the first time Sting's been in TNA ever!" Right...

With that said, I have to say that Ken Shamrock is TNA's most "forgotten" champion. From what I've heard, Shamrock's title win was a total panic maneuver. Jerry Jarrett's original plan was to have then-champion Dan Severn drop the title to "The Truth," with Shamrock as number contender and Jeff Jarrett playing a "Russo-free" version of his "Chosen One" character. Those plans fell through when the elder Jarret started to hear rumors about how Severn and Shamrock hated each other. It was only after the NWA stripped the title that Jarrett found out that in reality, they had only met each other once or twice. Jarrett ended up getting cold feet about putting the belt on Ron Killings, due to the fact that no one knew who he was. Shamrock's title reign was deemed to be a total failure by everyone involved at the time, which is why Killings ended up with the belt rather quickly. In his book about TNA, Jarrett makes out the Shamrock title reign as a tremendously bad idea, and that he should have went with "his gut" (Killings) from the beginning.

Yeah, plus there was some weird worked/shoot(I'm not sure if it was a flat out shoot or just a worked shoot) in Japan involving Severn that got the title vacated by TNA. I think it was Severn vs. Shinjiro Otani(Again, I'm not sure of names), a few months before TNA launched, and that's why it was vacant at the time of the first show.

[YouStayClassy]

Shamrock.... I completely forgot he even existed until this thread.

[B'Cup x]

I honestly didnt know rhyno ever had the belt.

[metylerca]

Sad part is, I can't remember Shamrock either. I had to really think about it and search youtube and other sites; then I remembered.. but it's just a footnote.

TNA's first champ was a former WWE guy. Sad.
Bet none of you know who the guy Shamrock beat in the guantlet was

[eJm]

metylerca said:

Sad part is, I can't remember Shamrock either. I had to really think about it and search youtube and other sites; then I remembered.. but it's just a footnote.

TNA's first champ was a former WWE guy. Sad.
Bet none of you know who the guy Shamrock beat in the guantlet was

Crap, I watched this one....

Huge guy...eliminated almost everyone in the match....horrid big man....GAWD!