kidkamikaze10
Dennis Stamp
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Oct 17, 2011 23:55:14 GMT -5
Absolutely.
I follow a ton of promotions right now, and all of them have something about them that I want to see. That includes the E.
TNA has nothing, so I'm done.
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Post by jadison on Oct 18, 2011 0:14:44 GMT -5
rabid wrestling fan from the late 80s/early 90s until 2002 or so, when I pretty much stopped and started following it loosely over the next seven years until 09, when I began watching Raw, again, pretty regularly. Was extremely disappointed by Jan 4 2010's Impact and pretty much the entire year that followed. This year hasn't been as bad as 10, but this BFG has been a real slap in the face, sign that they still don't get it and never will. I also followed TNA loosely over the decade of the 00s. Catching random Impacts, here and there, and even when it was better around 06 or so, it still gave me no real reason to love wrestling like i used to. They've never been any kind of alternative. ROH is too hard to try and find and follow. They're supposed to be on MYNetwork tv in my area, but i can never find the time they're on, or they're just not on in my town. Replaced by reruns of Always Sunny, or Seinfield, or Cheaters, or Maury, or some movie. who knows. WWE kept my interest pretty well with a love/hate thing for a couple years now upon my return to being a wrestling fan. Coming back and hating new DXs parody of the once great old DX, and my venom for the overload of Hornswoggle and Super Cena, at the time. Marked out like hell during the Summers of Nexus and Punk. Really let down by the collapse of those in the Fall of both this year and last. This conspiracy angle could keep me around, but I'm finding that I've been watching Raw less and less. Forgetting that it's even on. Just like I did with BFG, last night. Should have realized it was. And didn't. I remember anticipating Hogan/Sting Starrcade 97 with such a passion. Now it's just sad to think of them hobbling around the ring. Luckily, I must have not given enough of a s*** to let it bother me this year. Which is a bad sign. I seriously might disappear as a wrestling fan for even longer than my seven year absence. It might become a relic of my past that I look back on and think of how young I was and get a good chuckle or misty eyed remembering. The good ole days. Sting and Flair at Clash of the Champions. The Road Warriors squash matches. Steiners throwing chumps around the ring. WWF Superstars jobbers getting put in bodybags by Taker. All the interview sets. Survivor Series and other ppvs up to the screw job beginning of the Attitude Era. All the wild arenas and tv episodes during that time. Austin McMahon. The Outsiders invading WCW.... on and on wrestling doesn't want to evolve. it wants to stay static. complacent. keeps shooting itself in the foot before anything can happen. even if it could. maybe time has passed it, us, the sport by. or maybe i'm just old and this isn't for me anymore. Man, this sounds like a guy at an AA meeting or some kind of group rehab. Wrestling addiction is a real thing.
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Post by Djm Doesn't Find You Funny on Oct 18, 2011 0:16:32 GMT -5
I haven't watched TNA since Anderson's first World Title win.
That was...Genesis, I think?
And I'm done with Raw & Smackdown, too. The Almighty Son-In-Law ruling over the Universe is what did it for me.
Yeah, I'm REALLY done. Right now, it's CHIKARA, PWG, Japan, and ROH.
Honestly, if you "just keep watching because you can't help it" or make excuses about habits and what have you, my honest opinion is that you're part of the problem of bad wrestling TV, just as much as the writers.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2011 0:27:33 GMT -5
I have quit watching TNA tons of times. I don't watch tv shows I don't like. I'd rather spend my time doing something I enjoy.
I was actually pretty much done several months ago, but when I heard about Destination X it piqued my interest, as I've always been a huge cruiserweight/X Division fan. I stuck around for the BFG build, because it was well done (at least by TNA standards).
I'm pretty sure I'm done, but I never say never to stuff like that. In a year, they might have an angle I hear about that interests me and I might start watching again. But for the forseeable future, yeah I'm done with it.
And for all you people who think I'm just "attacking TNA" I'm very close to taking a hiatus from WWE too. They have also recently built up something cool and then royally dropped the ball.
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Post by kyromax on Oct 18, 2011 1:37:18 GMT -5
I'll continue to read spoilers till I read something I like.
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comahan
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by comahan on Oct 18, 2011 1:48:17 GMT -5
Done until Thursday, probably.
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husti
Team Rocket
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Post by husti on Oct 18, 2011 1:54:12 GMT -5
I haven't seen any wrestling in months. I just follow F4W radio shows
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Oct 18, 2011 2:12:27 GMT -5
I've been done for about 2 years to be honest.
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Post by kidtamagotchi on Oct 18, 2011 2:33:38 GMT -5
I don't know if I'm done. In anticipation of BFG this year, I watched 8 TNA DVDs throughout the month of October. It reminded me of how great TNA matches could be, with AJ and Joe being the guys I could depend on for an exciting match. It was also great to see the matches actually be competitive, instead of being bogged down by a storyline(think of that horrible Joe/Angle match for all of the belts, yuck).
After hearing about how they screwed Robert Roode, my interest in TNA is at an all-time low. I don't really care what happens this Thursday, it's going to be the same old, same old. There'll probably be a useless tournament starting too.
At least I have CMLL if I want to see great wrestlers being used right.
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Post by clashofchampains on Oct 18, 2011 2:40:30 GMT -5
I'm basically done with wrestling altogether. I've got some old WWF tapes, as well as a mix of older NWA, AWA, and some puro I can get my hands on, and I'll stick with those now and then. We should form a wrestling anonymous club or something for ex-wrestling fans. Personaly I still have a lot of tapes to buy. If someone has all the Nitros since 95, throw me a line.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Oct 18, 2011 2:42:54 GMT -5
I haven't been watching every show to begin with. A while back I started a policy of only watching if Kendrick or Shelley are on the episode. Otherwise it's just not worth it to sit through it. I'll just continue doing that.
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Post by preferable on Oct 18, 2011 2:44:04 GMT -5
Not watching a single TNA-related thing until Hogan is gone, Bischoff is gone and Dixie Carter hands control of her company over to someone who knows how to run a wrestling company. In response to this, I'd say there's been a huge retrospective 'McMahon-wash' about the history of professional wrestling. As if he has been the only guy to ever run a successful wrestling promotion. Bischoff ran WCW for many years as a highly successful organisation. If McMahon had the ownership structure that WCW had at the time of the WCW/AOL Time Warner merger then there's no chance WWE would be here today either. I'm sorry but I just grow so tired of this cliched nonsense of attacking everything associated with the name Hogan or Bischoff just because it's convenient to do so. It's IWC kool-aid drinking, it really is. Have they made mistakes? Sure. But they've also done some good things that get overlooked. TNA get far more sponsorship revenue now, as a result. They make far more money from tours and they have a far greater overseas television audience. McMahon's domestic audience has been falling and flat-lining ever since 2001. TNA are a young company working within that environment yet every week when ratings don't spike its 'Bischoff is clueless. Hogan is killing TNA' - as if it'd kill people to actually take a balanced view of it. It's just saying something that someone believes everybody wants to hear. A platitude, essentially. Meaningless. Like when people say 'Bless you' after a sneeze but nobody is quite sure why, it's just 'a thing' people say. This isn't to defend all Hogan/Bischoff have done in TNA/Impact - but the way EVERYTHING is just churned into the 'Hogan is killing TNA' regardless of what it is, from entrance music to ring shape to what the third commercial after the second quarter of the first hour is - it all points to 'Hogan killing TNA', apparently. Don't people ever get bored with it? I know where it comes from. It's because Hogan 'destroyed' WCW, right? Well, that isn't actually true, but you know talking about that in a book probably sells more copies to a wrestling audience then talking about the internal management issues that coincided with the Time Warner/AOL buyout. The whitewashing of history to suit, for lack of expression, the anti-Hogan smarks who have hated him ever since the year dot for 'mainstreaming' wrestling. Meltzer, the guy whose never seen a Wrestlemania that didn't want to make him throw up, probably started it all. Subsequent wrestling "journalists" have all been of similar ilk. But on we go. Vince McMahon is the only person with a clue about wrestling and Paul Heyman is a genius despite having a far more disastrous record than any of the aforementioned. On we churn. Cliche repetitions.
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Post by Alex Shelley on Oct 18, 2011 2:46:56 GMT -5
I was actually pretty much done several months ago, but when I heard about Destination X it piqued my interest, as I've always been a huge cruiserweight/X Division fan. I stuck around for the BFG build, because it was well done (at least by TNA standards). Yeah, prior to Destination X I was pretty much done too. I'd quit altogether. Then I heard good stuff was happening and I tuned back in and was thoroughly enjoying myself. But then TNA's interests and my own diverged once again, so I lost interest again.
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Krazee
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Post by Krazee on Oct 18, 2011 2:49:01 GMT -5
i will never be done, cause i'm hardcore like that
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Post by clashofchampains on Oct 18, 2011 2:50:06 GMT -5
I think the current "funk" so to speak in this company or beginning of the end to me can be traced back to Desmond Wolfe. For whatever reason his demise represents something. I don't know what, maybe the premise of something fantastic that could never reach its potential? But what happened to him happened like a heartbreak to me. Like someone you admire that was maybe the last hope I had for this medium.
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Dat Dude
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Post by Dat Dude on Oct 18, 2011 2:54:43 GMT -5
When it comes to viewing TNA, for the past year, I've only watched Knockouts matches via Diva-Dirt (which edits out the rest of the show). So I get to have a cake and eat it too.
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Post by clashofchampains on Oct 18, 2011 2:57:26 GMT -5
When it comes to viewing TNA, for the past year, I've only watched Knockouts matches via Diva-Dirt (which edits out the rest of the show). So I get to have a cake and eat it too. You have the perfect name for this thread. Say no to bad wrestling!
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Dat Dude
Dennis Stamp
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Post by Dat Dude on Oct 18, 2011 3:03:27 GMT -5
When it comes to viewing TNA, for the past year, I've only watched Knockouts matches via Diva-Dirt (which edits out the rest of the show). So I get to have a cake and eat it too. You have the perfect name for this thread. Say no to bad wrestling! I say when it's come to TNA and fans, its less of an addiction and more of Stockholm Syndrome.
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Post by clashofchampains on Oct 18, 2011 3:08:40 GMT -5
You have the perfect name for this thread. Say no to bad wrestling! I say when it's come to TNA and fans, its less of an addiction and more of Stockholm Syndrome. And the ones responsible have mad cow disease.
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The Ichi
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 18, 2011 3:20:21 GMT -5
Not watching a single TNA-related thing until Hogan is gone, Bischoff is gone and Dixie Carter hands control of her company over to someone who knows how to run a wrestling company. In response to this, I'd say there's been a huge retrospective 'McMahon-wash' about the history of professional wrestling. As if he has been the only guy to ever run a successful wrestling promotion. Bischoff ran WCW for many years as a highly successful organisation. If McMahon had the ownership structure that WCW had at the time of the WCW/AOL Time Warner merger then there's no chance WWE would be here today either. I'm sorry but I just grow so tired of this cliched nonsense of attacking everything associated with the name Hogan or Bischoff just because it's convenient to do so. It's IWC kool-aid drinking, it really is. Have they made mistakes? Sure. But they've also done some good things that get overlooked. TNA get far more sponsorship revenue now, as a result. They make far more money from tours and they have a far greater overseas television audience. McMahon's domestic audience has been falling and flat-lining ever since 2001. TNA are a young company working within that environment yet every week when ratings don't spike its 'Bischoff is clueless. Hogan is killing TNA' - as if it'd kill people to actually take a balanced view of it. It's just saying something that someone believes everybody wants to hear. A platitude, essentially. Meaningless. Like when people say 'Bless you' after a sneeze but nobody is quite sure why, it's just 'a thing' people say. This isn't to defend all Hogan/Bischoff have done in TNA/Impact - but the way EVERYTHING is just churned into the 'Hogan is killing TNA' regardless of what it is, from entrance music to ring shape to what the third commercial after the second quarter of the first hour is - it all points to 'Hogan killing TNA', apparently. Don't people ever get bored with it? I know where it comes from. It's because Hogan 'destroyed' WCW, right? Well, that isn't actually true, but you know talking about that in a book probably sells more copies to a wrestling audience then talking about the internal management issues that coincided with the Time Warner/AOL buyout. The whitewashing of history to suit, for lack of expression, the anti-Hogan smarks who have hated him ever since the year dot for 'mainstreaming' wrestling. Meltzer, the guy whose never seen a Wrestlemania that didn't want to make him throw up, probably started it all. Subsequent wrestling "journalists" have all been of similar ilk. But on we go. Vince McMahon is the only person with a clue about wrestling and Paul Heyman is a genius despite having a far more disastrous record than any of the aforementioned. On we churn. Cliche repetitions. Cool story bro. I gave Hogan/Bischoff in TNA a chance, I found them completely horrible anytime they were on tv, that's it. It has nothing to do with "IWC kool-aid drinking" or being brainwashed by others opinions, this is one man's very much independent opinion. These hive mind arguments, really sick of them. They only come at the most desperate moments too I'm noticing.
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