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Post by dlg3000 on Dec 10, 2010 13:24:54 GMT -5
I only started to watch TNA in the last 4 or 5 years, so I don't know of the first few years or how bad things were. Anyways, my question is, was this in your opinion, the worst episode of TNA impact ever or was there another episode worse?
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Post by Hawk Hart on Dec 10, 2010 13:34:48 GMT -5
It was like, painfully bad, easily in the top five worst televised "wrestling" programs.
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Post by Steveweiser on Dec 10, 2010 13:39:45 GMT -5
There was a lot of trumpeting that it got a good rating (for their standards), but they bled viewers throughout the show. The only wrestling in the first hour, as far as I remember, was Tara laying down for Madison Rayne.
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Post by bob on Dec 10, 2010 13:44:03 GMT -5
it was hands down the worst wrestling show I've ever seen counting indy shows in my area, however I never saw the early TNA weekly PPVs
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Dec 10, 2010 14:08:56 GMT -5
Simple answer..........yes
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Post by Michael Coello on Dec 10, 2010 14:16:21 GMT -5
The people who usually hate iMPACT hated this, and people who usually like iMPACT liked it.
So, just another day on the forum......
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Dec 10, 2010 22:24:40 GMT -5
The people who usually hate iMPACT hated this, and people who usually like iMPACT liked it. So, just another day on the forum...... Even people who usually liked Impact hated this show. It was that bad............ |
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Post by flatsdomino on Dec 10, 2010 22:37:37 GMT -5
You know how people joke about "Man, TNA is like WCW, what's next? Psssh next week they'll just open with 45 minutes of promos between Hogan and Bischoff and 7 guys will join the NWO"
And the natural response is always "Oh come on that's not true at all"
October 14th: 42 minues of promos to open the show, mostly between Hogan and Bischoff, and 6 guys joining an already huge NWO ripoff stable.
It gets harder and harder to defend....
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Post by MrBRulzOK on Dec 10, 2010 22:40:19 GMT -5
Any show that goes from a 1.4 to a 1.1 is indeed not a good show. The last time that happened was the show where Hardy, Flair, and Hulk all debuted in the same night. At least that was one was going to head to head with RAW.
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Post by darthobiwan on Dec 11, 2010 4:53:10 GMT -5
I believe there was just 5 minutes total of wrestling the whole 2 hours, and the rvd/anderson overrun on reaction had more than that only!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2010 5:23:45 GMT -5
Yeah. I'm pretty sure ReAction actually had more wrestling on it that night.
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Post by Bram wants to 'urt you on Dec 11, 2010 5:45:02 GMT -5
The people who hate TNA hated this, and the people who like TNA really, really had their work cut out in finding reasons to defend the show. I know it's an easy get out, but for a show called "Total Non-stop Action" this really was a nadir.
The biggest complaint from people who actually love and believe in the product or its potential was that while having lots of promos on a show doesn't HAVE to make the show bad, the promos we had (especially those by Bischoff, Hogan et al) simply took far longer than necessary while achieving what could essentially have been done in a single sentence "WE are THEY, and we're immensely proud and smug about how 'clever' we have been in wrestling (pun intended) control of the company from Dixie".
Plus we also had the debut of The Shore, something that could have been a major event, but ended up as a damp squib due to the writers bizarrely forgetting that they were actually supposed to be writing a wrestling show.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Dec 11, 2010 10:58:54 GMT -5
The people who hate TNA hated this, and the people who like TNA really, really had their work cut out in finding reasons to defend the show. I know it's an easy get out, but for a show called "Total Non-stop Action" this really was a nadir. The biggest complaint from people who actually love and believe in the product or its potential was that while having lots of promos on a show doesn't HAVE to make the show bad, the promos we had (especially those by Bischoff, Hogan et al) simply took far longer than necessary while achieving what could essentially have been done in a single sentence "WE are THEY, and we're immensely proud and smug about how 'clever' we have been in wrestling (pun intended) control of the company from Dixie". Plus we also had the debut of The Shore, something that could have been a major event, but ended up as a damp squib due to the writers bizarrely forgetting that they were actually supposed to be writing a wrestling show. I think the Shore debuted the week before, this was the week where the Shore fought J-Woww. |
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Post by Shameful_Lobsterhead on Dec 11, 2010 14:51:11 GMT -5
1 / 4 / 10 -Impact imo was just a tad worse
This was the debut of Hogan which lead to us seeing a clip of a limo w/ police es-quart to the building.
Mike Tenay: There he is!
Taz: He is about to arrive
Hogan comes out finally and one of the first thing he says is "I have been sitting in the back all day today with the wrestlers"
Haha, so basically, we seen a generic clip with a limo and police es-quart.
We have a horrible x-division match inside that big red cage, I forget the name and we have a DQ inside a cage match and Homicide trying to escape for no reason since the match already ended by DQ.
Basically one big facepalm for that episode!
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Dec 11, 2010 16:39:21 GMT -5
I think the one that gave birth to Spoony's "WRESTLE! WRESTLE!!!" phrase was worse.
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Post by bob on Dec 12, 2010 0:55:52 GMT -5
The people who hate TNA hated this, and the people who like TNA really, really had their work cut out in finding reasons to defend the show. I know it's an easy get out, but for a show called "Total Non-stop Action" this really was a nadir. The biggest complaint from people who actually love and believe in the product or its potential was that while having lots of promos on a show doesn't HAVE to make the show bad, the promos we had (especially those by Bischoff, Hogan et al) simply took far longer than necessary while achieving what could essentially have been done in a single sentence "WE are THEY, and we're immensely proud and smug about how 'clever' we have been in wrestling (pun intended) control of the company from Dixie". Plus we also had the debut of The Shore, something that could have been a major event, but ended up as a damp squib due to the writers bizarrely forgetting that they were actually supposed to be writing a wrestling show. I think the Shore debuted the week before, this was the week where the Shore fought J-Woww. yup and as I ercall J-Woww completely missed Cookie with punches and the camera zoomed in on it way to for her to earn that $10,000  |
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Dec 12, 2010 1:18:36 GMT -5
It was a 2 hour show with less than 10 minutes of wrestling on it, I'd say it was the worst episode of Impact ever. You know what makes the 10/14 Impact even worse? The fact they spent most of the show talking about Immortal and them bringing it together, and the next week on Reaction the whole show is about how Immortal came together. You shouldn't need virtually 2 shows dedicated to explaining a wrestling angle. I think the Shore debuted the week before, this was the week where the Shore fought J-Woww. yup and as I ercall J-Woww completely missed Cookie with punches and the camera zoomed in on it way to for her to earn that $10,000 I thought it was $15,000. |
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Post by wcw on Dec 12, 2010 2:27:48 GMT -5
1 / 4 / 10 -Impact imo was just a tad worse This was the debut of Hogan which lead to us seeing a clip of a limo w/ police es-quart to the building. Mike Tenay: There he is! Taz: He is about to arrive Hogan comes out finally and one of the first thing he says is "I have been sitting in the back all day today with the wrestlers" Haha, so basically, we seen a generic clip with a limo and police es-quart. We have a horrible x-division match inside that big red cage, I forget the name and we have a DQ inside a cage match and Homicide trying to escape for no reason since the match already ended by DQ. Basically one big facepalm for that episode! The 1/4/10 show had a great match from Desmond Wolfe against the Pope which was much better then anything on the 10/14/10 show. The 1/4 show was a bit of a cluster f*** but it showed some flashes of good things like the Wolfe vs Pope match and an excellent Angle vs AJ main event. The 10/14/10 show was just the epitome of bad in every sense of the word. The 42 minute promo was only one bad part the devaluing of the KO title and more needless promos just kept piling on to what was a horrible show. Both shows bled viewers but 1/4 was more likely due to going up against Raw. The 10/14 show just bled viewers. The 1/4 show spiked the next couple of weeks of viewership with ratings in the 1.4 to 1.3 range the next week after the 10/14 show the weeks following the show resumed Impacts normal ratings trend. |
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Post by Efren on Dec 12, 2010 2:28:57 GMT -5
Im a big TNA mark, I often defend it when I shouldnt, but man did that episode was the suckiest televised wrestling show ive ever seen.
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Post by bob on Jan 2, 2011 22:31:36 GMT -5
Yeah. I'm pretty sure ReAction actually had more wrestling on it that night. it did |
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