Crappy Things TNA Teased Then Didn't Even Deliver

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Matt Hardy vs. Tyrus: Main Event Feud for the TNA World Title

Tito Ortiz wrestling an actual match (IIRC In a 4 vs. 4 also with Rampage Jackson)

[Alice Syndrome]

Scaffold match with Al Snow, which I'm convinced was just them screwing with people who were reporting taping spoilers.

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

BIGFOOT!!!

[MiLB Fan]

The "Name the Owl" contest. Extended "by popular demand" and then never mentioned again.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Sept 11, 2017 19:10:12 GMT -5 MiLB Fan said:

The "Name the Owl" contest. Extended "by popular demand" and then never mentioned again.

And f*** that owl!

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Bobby Knight as an authority figure lol.

[Push R Truth]

That one time they teased a Special Big Announcement

[A Platypus Rave]

that first night of Fake spoilers TO STICK IT TO THE INTERNET!

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

NINJAS!

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Sept 11, 2017 22:02:32 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

that first night of Fake spoilers TO STICK IT TO THE INTERNET!

The really stupid thing about all of that - they clearly taped all of this with the intention of faking people out and trying to hide what they were doing, fine. But it accomplished absolutely nothing because the second it was revealed they were doing a tournament people were immediately able to piece together the entire thing, including the finals they taped then didn't actually use.

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

Still mad those August 1 Warnings didn't turn out to be Bob Holly.

[One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel]

I remember in 2009 they teased the arrival of some dude named Andromeda and he just never showed up at all. Like, not a trace of this dude.

[chazraps]

Sept 12, 2017 0:20:40 GMT -5 One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel said:

I remember in 2009 they teased the arrival of some dude named Andromeda and he just never showed up at all. Like, not a trace of this dude.

I have to see this.

[A Platypus Rave]

Sept 12, 2017 0:38:31 GMT -5 chazraps said:

Sept 12, 2017 0:20:40 GMT -5 One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel said:

I remember in 2009 they teased the arrival of some dude named Andromeda and he just never showed up at all. Like, not a trace of this dude.

I have to see this.

Went looking through dirt shits... all I can find are.

It was going to be played by the Luchadore Cassandro, and was potentially a Trans gimmick... then per Wikipedia "after several months of inactivity with the promotion, it was reported in August that Armendáriz and TNA had parted ways. Armendáriz publicly blamed his departure on homophobia."

[One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel]

Sept 12, 2017 0:46:40 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Sept 12, 2017 0:38:31 GMT -5 chazraps said:

I have to see this.

Went looking through dirt shits... all I can find are.

It was going to be played by the Luchadore Cassandro, and was potentially a Trans gimmick... then per Wikipedia "after several months of inactivity with the promotion, it was reported in August that Armendáriz and TNA had parted ways. Armendáriz publicly blamed his departure on homophobia."

[jimmyjames]

The Pope's dogfighting angle.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Sept 11, 2017 22:25:47 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Sept 11, 2017 22:02:32 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

that first night of Fake spoilers TO STICK IT TO THE INTERNET!

The really stupid thing about all of that - they clearly taped all of this with the intention of faking people out and trying to hide what they were doing, fine. But it accomplished absolutely nothing because the second it was revealed they were doing a tournament people were immediately able to piece together the entire thing, including the finals they taped then didn't actually use.

They even taped matches with multiple results (like having two guys do a time limit draw, and then restarting the match with a finish, but then airing the match as a time limit draw), but people still saw through everything they did.

[Heartbreaker]

In 2009 TNA announced they were touring Australia. Then Hogan and co. took over so it never happened. I believe they were advertised to have the Melbourne show at Rod Laver Arena (where WWE usually holds it's Melbourne events) which is a 16,200 seated arena. I get the feeling if it actually happened, it would have been a trainwreck.

[Mozenrath]

I still really don't get the point of them having Daffney get a suitcase requiring her to strip to her underwear, with her visibly seeming annoyed and uncomfortable, and only like showing a bra strap before Lacey Von Erich attacked her for reasons that escaped me, who then stripped for funsies, I guess.

I guess the company has been weird about that kind of thing from the beginning, like their trashy lingerie battle royal on an early show where everyone was in pajamas that made it look like they escaped a sanitarium, and most of the stripping was off-camera because of out of ring hijinks. It would have been trashy, anyway, but they didn't even commit to their stupid idea, making me wonder what the point was, or if many of the wrestlers refused to be on camera in underwear and they shot around it or something.

[Rave]

Sept 11, 2017 18:57:31 GMT -5 Alice Syndrome said:

Scaffold match with Al Snow, which I'm convinced was just them screwing with people who were reporting taping spoilers.

Came out not long after that taping that they indeed were screwing with people.

Bastards. An Al Snow scaffold match sounds like prime LOLTNA.