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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 11, 2014 9:33:37 GMT -5
My brother isn't a wrestling fan. He recognizes some people and enjoys Botchamania on occasion, but he had never seen or heard of TNA a few years back. I was watching the show when they were doing some kind of X-Division cage match, the ring full of people, and Homicide got disqualified, because that's how cage matches work. Then, because f*** everything, people start trying to climb out of the cage, even though they couldn't . I guess I let out an audible sound of disgust, because my brother came into the room after a moment, just in time to see Homicide dangling upside down in the cage, his leg caught.
My brother asked me what I was watching, since he could tell by the 6 sides that it wasn't WWE, and if this was supposed to be played for humor. I told him that no, it wasn't, and just kind of waited for him to leave, with a feeling of mortification for their sake, that this would be the first and only image someone would have of their company, Homicide stuck in the cage bars, looking like a buffoon, flailing like a dog with a bag of popcorn over its head.
WWE, ROH, pretty much every wrestling companies have these, but here, I just am curious what moments you have felt embarrassed for the company's sake, or had a moment of wondering what you were even doing watching the show. Funny, frustrating, outright angering, any really.
As for a much more negative and not funny example, the Joe/Dinero feud was atrocious. You have two guys the crowd cared enough about, and who were certainly capable of having matches that sold themselves. Naturally, you have the black street preacher using donations to acquire hookers, and have him openly state he is trying to buy a pitbull puppy for the purpose of dogfighting it. It would have been pretty scummy even if it wasn't given to him because he was black, but it in every likelihood was due to his race, and it killed my interest in the company for a very long time.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 11, 2014 10:09:52 GMT -5
My brother isn't a wrestling fan. He recognizes some people and enjoys Botchamania on occasion, but he had never seen or heard of TNA a few years back. I was watching the show when they were doing some kind of X-Division cage match, the ring full of people, and Homicide got disqualified, because that's how cage matches work. Then, because f*** everything, people start trying to climb out of the cage, even though they couldn't . I guess I let out an audible sound of disgust, because my brother came into the room after a moment, just in time to see Homicide dangling upside down in the cage, his leg caught. What made it worse was that was their Hogan comes to TNA show... so it was hyped to hell and the first hour got big numbers... Yeah...
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jul 11, 2014 10:28:29 GMT -5
My brother isn't a wrestling fan. He recognizes some people and enjoys Botchamania on occasion, but he had never seen or heard of TNA a few years back. I was watching the show when they were doing some kind of X-Division cage match, the ring full of people, and Homicide got disqualified, because that's how cage matches work. Then, because f*** everything, people start trying to climb out of the cage, even though they couldn't . I guess I let out an audible sound of disgust, because my brother came into the room after a moment, just in time to see Homicide dangling upside down in the cage, his leg caught. My brother asked me what I was watching, since he could tell by the 6 sides that it wasn't WWE, and if this was supposed to be played for humor. I told him that no, it wasn't, and just kind of waited for him to leave, with a feeling of mortification for their sake, that this would be the first and only image someone would have of their company, Homicide stuck in the cage bars, looking like a buffoon, flailing like a dog with a bag of popcorn over its head. This became even better, because while Homicide is dangling impotently there, Jeff Hardy comes out, climbs the cage from the outside, and starts being his weird-ass Jeff Hardy Self sitting atop the cage.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Jul 11, 2014 10:42:53 GMT -5
My brother isn't a wrestling fan. He recognizes some people and enjoys Botchamania on occasion, but he had never seen or heard of TNA a few years back. I was watching the show when they were doing some kind of X-Division cage match, the ring full of people, and Homicide got disqualified, because that's how cage matches work. Then, because f*** everything, people start trying to climb out of the cage, even though they couldn't . I guess I let out an audible sound of disgust, because my brother came into the room after a moment, just in time to see Homicide dangling upside down in the cage, his leg caught. My brother asked me what I was watching, since he could tell by the 6 sides that it wasn't WWE, and if this was supposed to be played for humor. I told him that no, it wasn't, and just kind of waited for him to leave, with a feeling of mortification for their sake, that this would be the first and only image someone would have of their company, Homicide stuck in the cage bars, looking like a buffoon, flailing like a dog with a bag of popcorn over its head. WWE, ROH, pretty much every wrestling companies have these, but here, I just am curious what moments you have felt embarrassed for the company's sake, or had a moment of wondering what you were even doing watching the show. Funny, frustrating, outright angering, any really. As for a much more negative and not funny example, the Joe/Dinero feud was atrocious. You have two guys the crowd cared enough about, and who were certainly capable of having matches that sold themselves. Naturally, you have the black street preacher using donations to acquire hookers, and have him openly state he is trying to buy a pitbull puppy for the purpose of dogfighting it. It would have been pretty scummy even if it wasn't given to him because he was black, but it in every likelihood was due to his race, and it killed my interest in the company for a very long time. The whole Pope deal was really stupid being that the Pope, just came off a ME face run that they should have continued and yet TNA made him look like a fool. With him losing the title match and giving the belt to RVD. The Pope was getting very over and was a bright spot for TNA until they decided to turn him heal and do all of these things making him Michael Vick and Joe became Green Hornet (The movie that came out that time) Joe and Pope didn't need all of this and it was tasteless on top of that. This whole thing killed The Pope who was used less and less after the feud. Then did that whatever it was with Deavon kids which also I think falls under this topic. Now changing subjects on other moments I have to say the show after Bound for Glory 2010 where Jeff Hardy turned heel and I believe it was a 45 min segment of TALKING to open the show. As a wrestling company, I like to know who really thought that was a good idea? Most of TNA 2010 can be considered cringe worthy. Like AJ Styles vs. Abyss with the "Danger Pit". Seeing everyone involved in it all look like idiots just was embarrassing. Anything with the Nasty Boys in 2010 was just like "Really?" WHY?
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 11, 2014 10:46:07 GMT -5
Speaking of Jeff(I like the guy, and even sort of liked his weird fish-man title belt, but still), his... "match" with Sting is one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to a wrestling promotion that I have witnessed. Hope you didn't want to see an actual main event, fans!
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 11, 2014 10:46:59 GMT -5
Speaking of Jeff(I like the guy, and even sort of liked his weird fish-man title belt, but still), his... "match" with Sting is one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to a wrestling promotion that I have witnessed. Hope you didn't want to see an actual main event, fans! STING AGREES!
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Jul 11, 2014 18:37:13 GMT -5
The Lockbox match.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 18:52:18 GMT -5
The 45 minute Immortal promo is cringe enough as it is but during that promo Eric Bischoff used the word "premature epartylation" and should have been pelted with rocks for it.
EDIT: I'll also throw in the "tribute to an unnamed organization whose intellectual property we have no ownership of. Even though we can hardly book a TNA show and we are TNA we're going to try and give you a taste of ECW."
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Post by HMARK Center on Jul 11, 2014 19:10:04 GMT -5
Three words:
Electrified Cage Match.
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Post by Bad Moon on Jul 11, 2014 19:12:15 GMT -5
I'm not a big TNA fan so this will probably not even be a blip on anyone else's radar, but sometime last year I watched a cage match between Angle and Anderson where Anderson went into the match with a key for the door. A key. In a cage. Where the f***ing point of it is that you can not escape the cage until you've beaten your opponent.
This is why cage matches should be banned from wrestling, nobody knows how to book them anymore.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 11, 2014 20:08:08 GMT -5
Three words: Electrified Cage Match. Oh god, I completely forgot that.
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Post by angryfan on Jul 11, 2014 20:16:18 GMT -5
Three words: Electrified Cage Match. Oh god, I completely forgot that. Oh, but what's not to love? "It's electrified! Please ignore the fact that the guys in the ring keep forgetting that part."
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Post by Waffel113 on Jul 11, 2014 20:23:04 GMT -5
The blindfold match between Storm and Harris. Made even more inexplicable when they put on a match of the year contender not a month later.
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Post by phen0m2112 on Jul 11, 2014 22:05:51 GMT -5
Short man self-pleasuring in trash receptacle .
An oldie but goodie.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 11, 2014 22:23:22 GMT -5
It still baffles me they let Hardy a)walk out there for a main event f***ed up outta his gourd and b)hired him back.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 22:41:41 GMT -5
Changing the main event of a house show from a ladder match with AJ Styles and Kurt Angle and a few others to...a standard tag match where non of the participants really had any plans or awareness of why they were in a tag match.
f***ing hell, that Manchester crowd was as pissed/annoyed as I was but stayed out of kindness.
Jerk Company is what a few friends call TNA now due to that. (That still sounds better than TNA n'all.)
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Post by MrBRulzOK on Jul 11, 2014 23:07:20 GMT -5
Calling that debacle a match is beyond an insult.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 11, 2014 23:44:09 GMT -5
Sharmell and Jenny Maracas, where Jenny showed Sharmell that she knew the secret martial arts tradition of slap fu, passed on by awkward penguins for centuries.
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Post by Rave on Jul 12, 2014 0:14:57 GMT -5
Pretty much the whole of that Abyss/Sting/James Mitchell/Judas Mesias/whoever else mess.
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Post by Mama Rhodes Looking @ U Now on Jul 12, 2014 0:54:21 GMT -5
The Cuffed in a Cage match from Lockdown 2008. I genuinely have a hard time believing that a human being came up with such a horrifying concept for a match.
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