So, 10/14/10...

[Yami Daimao]

I wasn't really watching TNA weekly around that time, and I've always noticed some people have "I survived 10/14/10 Impact" in their sigs and still do.

So, what exactly happened at this specific Impact that made it gain such notoriety/infamy?

[Fiddleford H. McGucket]

Nothing "happened"

there were 2 matches (A Fingerpoke and something else) and the rest was promo....including a 42 Minute Circle-jerk with Immortal and Fourtune.

[Andrew is Good]

-There was no wrestling for the first 30-45 minutes.
-They put 6 weeks worth of booking in one half hour of television.
-The show was highly rated, but the shows after that took an epic nosedive due to lack of follow up.

[Efren]

maaaaaaaaan that was a bad show, not only was it all promos about immortal which kind of made sense as it was both a big deal and due their f***ed up booking something that needed a lot of explanations, but they decided to have the lame Jwoww appearance that day instead of having a 2nd match.

[The Ichi]

Not to mention the biggest selling point was some Jersey Shore star getting into a hair-pulling contest with Cookie. Admitedly it spiked TNA's ratings, but it was pure misery to watch.

[Andrew is Good]

To bring the ratings up, I just remembered. The ratings took a nose dive during the show. They went from a very high rated segment and fell off the cliff in the end during that particular show. They couldn't sustain the ratings and lost interest very quickly, and could never get it back. I think they started to get some of that audience back recently, but that show seems to have turned people off to the product.

[golding]

It was an episode that had more promo time than wrestling time. Per the standard approach of making mountains out of molehills, some people acted like it was some sort of atrocity that glorified survival.

The rating of the show was 1.41.

[xxshoyuweeniexx]

42 minutes of talking.

Not every single itty bitty piece of that plan needed to be put out piece by piece. Not every single fan would even care about every single itty bitty piece of that plan. No one cares about EVERY, and I mean every, single itty bitty piece of that plan. We didn't need Nexus cutting a promo taking apart every single week of NXT, and how their plan came to be, and we didn't need that 42 minutes of Immortal crap.

Oh yeah, how much wrestling was on that show?

[Sajoa Moe]

The most gut-wrenching thing for me (which everyone seems to forget) is Hogan's callback to the Dungeon of Doom, when he calls Abyss "MY SON, MY SON".

I remember I skipped Impact for the following two weeks.

[Raging_Demons]

Don't forget it's the show where after the Immortal/Fourtune "circle jerk" is where Madison Rayne won the Knockout's Title when former champ Tara just laid there allowing her to get the easiest pin known to mankind, or to Mick Foley as well.

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Feb 24, 2011 17:07:11 GMT -5 golding said:

It was an episode that had more promo time than wrestling time. Per the standard approach of making mountains out of molehills, some people acted like it was some sort of atrocity that glorified survival.

The rating of the show was 1.41.

At the point where there's over an hour without wrestling on a two hour show, there is no defending it whatsoever.

[dav]

Feb 24, 2011 17:07:58 GMT -5 xxshoyuweeniexx said:

42 minutes of talking.

Not every single itty bitty piece of that plan needed to be put out piece by piece. Not every single fan would even care about every single itty bitty piece of that plan. No one cares about EVERY, and I mean every, single itty bitty piece of that plan. We didn't need Nexus cutting a promo taking apart every single week of NXT, and how their plan came to be, and we didn't need that 42 minutes of Immortal crap.

Oh yeah, how much wrestling was on that show?

Five minutes. One was a FPOD match, one was Pope getting obliterated and the rest of was RVD making the way to his match.

[Perpetual Nirvana]

Feb 24, 2011 17:18:51 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Feb 24, 2011 17:07:11 GMT -5 golding said:

It was an episode that had more promo time than wrestling time. Per the standard approach of making mountains out of molehills, some people acted like it was some sort of atrocity that glorified survival.

The rating of the show was 1.41.

At the point where there's over an hour without wrestling on a two hour show, there is no defending it whatsoever.

Don't forget, exaggeration for comic effect is fine when you do it with WWE. If you do it to TNA then it's part of an anti-TNA conspiracy that the entire IWC is in on apart from a few brave souls who take it upon themselves to stand up for poor old TNA.

[comahan]

Ive never been one who cares about amount of wrestling on TV, so I didnt dislike the show at all. But people like their wrestling, and there was a very, very minimal amount of it on this show, so it is what it is.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

I remember I started doing Spoilers To The Rescue for Ring The Bell on the Angry Marks Podcast Network and this was the debut show. That one opening segment took longer than it took for me to read out the entire spoilers. Also, I remember reading the spoilers to the opening segment and realizing this opening segment was going to be hell.

I actually watched and timed how long that segment took, it took an unfathomable 42 minutes and I said that anyone who trashes Triple H for his twenty-somthing minutes promos needs to absolutely criticize this promo. And oddly enough, there were people who trashed the said HHH promos and was very positive about this 42 minute pain.

[Michael Coello]

Feb 24, 2011 17:21:09 GMT -5 Perpetual Nirvana said:

Feb 24, 2011 17:18:51 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

At the point where there's over an hour without wrestling on a two hour show, there is no defending it whatsoever.

Don't forget, exaggeration for comic effect is fine when you do it with WWE. If you do it to TNA then it's part of an anti-TNA conspiracy that the entire IWC is in on apart from a few brave souls who take it upon themselves to stand up for poor old TNA.

Though, let's be honest, this wasn't exaggeration for comedic effect, cause you would have to admit exaggeration first.

[Michael Coello]

Feb 24, 2011 17:29:09 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

I remember I started doing Spoilers To The Rescue for Ring The Bell on the Angry Marks Podcast Network and this was the debut show. That one opening segment took longer than it took for me to read out the entire spoilers. Also, I remember reading the spoilers to the opening segment and realizing this opening segment was going to be hell.

I actually watched and timed how long that segment took, it took an unfathomable 42 minutes and I said that anyone who trashes Triple H for his twenty-somthing minutes promos needs to absolutely criticize this promo. And oddly enough, there were people who trashed the said HHH promos and was very positive about this 42 minute pain.

Probably cause the 42 minute promo was only on that 1 show. Triple H and his long promos weren't just on one week or in sparse quantities, it was a frequent occurrence.

[turkeysandwich]

I'm probably misremembering, but wasn't that the first of the soon to be weekly main event overruns into Reaction.

[Kevin Hamilton]

It was hilarious watching and posting during that show. And it was bad, painfully so, but I got to where I was rooting for them to keep going with the promo/no matches thing just for the reactions. They didn't disappoint.

[Efren]

Feb 24, 2011 17:57:51 GMT -5 turkeysandwich said:

I'm probably misremembering, but wasn't that the first of the soon to be weekly main event overruns into Reaction.

I believe the overruns started a little bit earlier during the tournament for the two top contenders that would face each other for the title or maybe even sooner, they started from the very fisrst reaction.