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Post by bmfjules on Feb 1, 2015 17:27:00 GMT -5
For me I have only watched a few times a year since 2010 and the Hogan era. Only really watch youtube matches and clips if I hear really really good stuff about them. Wish them all the best but their TV show was super frustrating for me at this time. And I haven't felt them gain momentum at all since then.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Feb 1, 2015 17:38:52 GMT -5
As late as the last bit of '13 I would still occasionally check it out. After awhile, I just stopped.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Feb 1, 2015 17:44:17 GMT -5
As far as taking it seriously as any kind of force in the industry? 2014. Just embarrassing all around and showed how rinky-dink the company had become. I'm not just talking about the on-screen stuff either.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2015 17:59:29 GMT -5
2010. I was actually most optimistic about TNA in 2010, I took things like the Nasty Boys, the Band, Sean Morely coming in and immediately beating Daniels, all those things in stride and chalked it up to growing pains. I do think at the time that Bischoff/Hogan improved TNA from a production standpoint in a big way (the "Reaction" TMZ style backstage segments were genuinely well done and added some realism to shows, general pacing of segments were better), inevitably 10-10-10 came and I lost all faith. The spirit of WCW was alive and well in the name of Immortal and no matter how much they improve aesthetically they'll always be overcomplicated creatively.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Feb 1, 2015 18:00:22 GMT -5
last year, I've survived a lot of rubbish thrown at my brain through my eyeballs by t.n.a. but last year was the year my brain finally rebelled against it.
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Post by chronocross on Feb 1, 2015 18:01:46 GMT -5
Right after the "Immortal" storyline started up in late 2010, that's when I just started reading spoilers to keep up with TNA and didn't bother watching the TV show.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Feb 1, 2015 18:06:17 GMT -5
I thought it was 2012 during the Viacom dispute with Directv, but I remember I stopped watching it regularly by then so around 2011.
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Post by Chris Legentil -- Mind Freak on Feb 1, 2015 18:10:37 GMT -5
For the most part, 2011. After that I would watch occasionally if I didn't have anything else to do, but Slammiversary this year pretty much ended that for me.
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Post by Paco on Feb 1, 2015 18:13:25 GMT -5
I gave it up on July '07 (Russo came back in Oct. '06 and I stuck with it for as long as I could)...but I went back in April '09 (they toned down the stupid...pretty good year for TNA actually).
Still watching.
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Post by lionheart21 on Feb 1, 2015 18:16:35 GMT -5
I gave up during the heyday of Hogan and Bischoff.
I've returned recently to help riff on TNA in the Impact threads.
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Feb 1, 2015 18:23:25 GMT -5
Still haven't. Been watching the company since '05. It's pretty amazing really. For all I (and many others) shit on TNA, I've never even taken a break from the company. In fact in the time I've been continously watching TNA, I've taken three breaks from WWE (including one hiatus almost four years in length). I don't know what that says about WWE, TNA or me but I do think it speaks to how bad WWE can be at times, how good TNA can be at times but most of all how high my tolerance for terrible TV is providing it includes wrestling.
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Post by Rave on Feb 1, 2015 18:41:46 GMT -5
I've been despairing of TNA since October of '09, but I actively stopped watching twice and started rooting for their demise in '14, so I'm going with that.
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Post by chrom on Feb 1, 2015 18:55:00 GMT -5
2013 was the year I threw in the towel after watching since 06. After Team Pacman, Ratcage on a pole, Jenna vs Sharmell, January 4th, 10/10/10, Victory Road 2011, Immortal, Aces and Eights, Brooke, and other crap I had to put up with with belief in it getting slimmer each year, the treatment of AJ and other guys for the WWE guy of the month as well as the reveal that it's nothing more than a vanity project for that idiot made me realize it was never going to be a viable alternative.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Feb 1, 2015 19:03:10 GMT -5
2010, not because it was bad or anything like that. Just got tired of hearing how TNA is on the rise and WWE better watch out. Kinda tuned out of wrestling in general at that point just kept up with Tv and PPv results hardly watched.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Feb 1, 2015 20:58:34 GMT -5
I still watch it regularly because it's basically a tradition at this point. It's my one cheat day a week so I get to binge on junk food and my fiancé enjoys the show, so I still watch it weekly.
I was really into the TNA product around the last half of 2009, but since early 2010 I basically gave up and if it wasn't for my stupid amount of wrestling fandom I would have given up ages ago.
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Post by cabbageboy on Feb 1, 2015 23:18:58 GMT -5
I still watch TNA but have long since given up any hope of them ever being a real company or anything. I do think right around the time Immortal formed is when I mentally threw in the towel, since I quite enjoyed TNA during the middle of 2010. TNA was like a Choose Your Own Adventure book at that point. You could either do something logical like keep the title on Rob Van Dam and have Kurt Angle go through guys in the top 10 and build to a huge title match, or you could have RVD almost killed by Abyss, then do a wacky tourney with a 3 way and eventual Jeff Hardy, Bischoff, and Hogan heel turns to form another NWO like faction that takes over the company. If your answer is B, it's very likely you would die in every Choose Your Own Adventure book.
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Post by StuntGranny® on Feb 1, 2015 23:23:36 GMT -5
2013. I stayed with them for as long as I could, but I eventually became tired of their screw ups. It went from "so bad it's good" to just flat-out sad real quick. I don't think I've watched a single minute of their product since then.
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Post by Mochi Lone Wolf on Feb 1, 2015 23:23:56 GMT -5
I'd started losing my interest in about mid to late 2010. Came back around the time the Storm-Roode year-long feud started. Lockdown 2014 and that woeful main event was the breaking point.
Sad because I had high expectations for them around 2005-2006.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Feb 1, 2015 23:30:35 GMT -5
Bound for Glory 2013 is the exact point TNA died to me, as far as being a legitimate wrestling promotion.
Since that day, they have been nothing more than a comedy sideshow to me.
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Post by Chip Chipperson on Feb 2, 2015 0:21:12 GMT -5
2014.
2013 had some shit shows near the end but I held hope that the guys like AJ, Sting, Daniels, Kaz, Sabin etc could turn it around. Then all those guys were released as were many others and early 2014 was the worst year of pro wrestling tv ever (mainstream)
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