H-Virus
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Post by H-Virus on Nov 17, 2017 22:59:31 GMT -5
Some point in 2011. I don't remember the exact point, all I know is that everything in 2010 was terrible, and it wasn't getting any better.
Six years later, I still don't regret leaving the show behind and have never once felt tempted to watch again.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 18, 2017 2:20:11 GMT -5
I cant' remember when I completely gave up on them... it was a gradual thing...
first it was giving up on them ever actually being a competitor to WWE (which happened pretty quickly honestly...) followed by giving up that they'd ever be an alternative to WWE... then giving up that i'd find them consistently entertaining... then giving up on them having any dignity... etc.
My brother gave up on a random smart TNA idea... where Raw was preempted for something like a dog show or something they had a special that showed off some of the best of TNA, so they'd catch anyone surfing channels looking for wrestling.
He was watching with it as background noise and then almost immediately the commentators mocked anyone that watched the WWE... which you know was literally the crowd they were trying to attract with the Monday special stunt...
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Post by Aya Reiko on Nov 18, 2017 2:25:48 GMT -5
I cant' remember when I completely gave up on them... it was a gradual thing... first it was giving up on them ever actually being a competitor to WWE (which happened pretty quickly honestly...) followed by giving up that they'd ever be an alternative to WWE... then giving up that i'd find them consistently entertaining... then giving up on them having any dignity... etc. Same here. The point I knew they'd never be a competitor to WWE was during the mEm storyline which was another nWo re-hash. At that point, I knew TNA had neither any originality nor would ever be competition to the WWE. I knew there was no hope of ever being the alternative was when Hogan showed up. Once AJ left, I knew it was over.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Nov 18, 2017 3:08:42 GMT -5
BFG 2012-ish and its trail-off. The actual show was consistent with a lot of mid-2012 TNA in being really solid with a good few bright sparks, Roode/Storm being a highlight. You'd Angle/Styles killing it as a tag unit and Samoa Joe undoing a lot of damage as a good midcard babyface. However, Aries' inexplicable heel turn and ensuing CM Punk-lite shtick for a pointless and redundant Jeff Hardy redemption arc, coupled with A&8's sharp pivot into nonsense put the writing on the wall that the 2012 hot streak was about to halt something major.
There were echoes of 2012's consistency throughout 2013, but the drawn-out A&8s gig and AJ Styles' grand, sweeping arc being another god damn CM Punk-lite act, not to mention whatever the f*** Dixieland was, made it apparent that a certain Brooklynite was back at the helm.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2017 4:50:10 GMT -5
I was still following TNA during the Magnus reign because I liked the guy and wanted to see what the payoff would be even if most of it (especially the Sting/AJ feuds) sucked. But when he just lost the title to EY...I gave up. It just felt too forced. Nothing against EY but he had no business being at that level at that time. The Young push was just awkward. He had a decent thing going having kind of subtly grown into being treated as an actual threat and straightforward face and there might have been something in the idea of an underdog shot at the gold if they'd built him up for a few more months and made an actual feud of it but nope, he leapfrogs from feuding with Abyss and coming up on the losing end of a four way title shot in kind of the beginnings of a rise to the top straight to winning a battle royal for a title shot and the belt itself in the same night.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Nov 18, 2017 4:57:21 GMT -5
I was still following TNA during the Magnus reign because I liked the guy and wanted to see what the payoff would be even if most of it (especially the Sting/AJ feuds) sucked. But when he just lost the title to EY...I gave up. It just felt too forced. Nothing against EY but he had no business being at that level at that time. The Young push was just awkward. He had a decent thing going having kind of subtly grown into being treated as an actual threat and straightforward face and there might have been something in the idea of an underdog shot at the gold if they'd built him up for a few more months and made an actual feud of it but nope, he leapfrogs from feuding with Abyss and coming up on the losing end of a four way title shot in kind of the beginnings of a rise to the top straight to winning a battle royal for a title shot and the belt itself in the same night. That's not even getting into the rather...familiar fashion he won the belt in.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2017 5:20:41 GMT -5
I think I stopped considering TNA a legitimate company when they did the angle where Abyss got Hogan’s Hall of Fame superpowered ring. Just the whole deal with everyone falling into a hole in the ring... that’s when I realized I didn’t have to take TNA seriously anymore.
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Post by ltcproductions on Nov 18, 2017 8:17:36 GMT -5
I was still following TNA during the Magnus reign because I liked the guy and wanted to see what the payoff would be even if most of it (especially the Sting/AJ feuds) sucked. But when he just lost the title to EY...I gave up. It just felt too forced. Nothing against EY but he had no business being at that level at that time. The Young push was just awkward. He had a decent thing going having kind of subtly grown into being treated as an actual threat and straightforward face and there might have been something in the idea of an underdog shot at the gold if they'd built him up for a few more months and made an actual feud of it but nope, he leapfrogs from feuding with Abyss and coming up on the losing end of a four way title shot in kind of the beginnings of a rise to the top straight to winning a battle royal for a title shot and the belt itself in the same night. Let's not forget that pretty much the only reason Eric won the belt is because he was a bearded gentleman at the height of Daniel Bryan's popularity.
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Post by chrom on Nov 18, 2017 8:22:38 GMT -5
The Young push was just awkward. He had a decent thing going having kind of subtly grown into being treated as an actual threat and straightforward face and there might have been something in the idea of an underdog shot at the gold if they'd built him up for a few more months and made an actual feud of it but nope, he leapfrogs from feuding with Abyss and coming up on the losing end of a four way title shot in kind of the beginnings of a rise to the top straight to winning a battle royal for a title shot and the belt itself in the same night. Let's not forget that pretty much the only reason Eric won the belt is because he was a bearded gentleman at the height of Daniel Bryan's popularity. Not to mention the last time he won was a year and a half ago in a comedy match
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 18, 2017 15:13:11 GMT -5
Let's not forget that pretty much the only reason Eric won the belt is because he was a bearded gentleman at the height of Daniel Bryan's popularity. Not to mention the last time he won was a year and a half ago in a comedy match Not to mention Dixie tried to claim she invented the YES! Chant.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Nov 18, 2017 15:16:40 GMT -5
I pretty much stopped watching when they let Chris Sabin have an awesome title win...then completely farted away his reign into nothingness. Then I swore off even dealing with TNA as an entity after the Eric Young copycat title win.
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Post by agent817 on Nov 18, 2017 23:00:01 GMT -5
I mainly followed TNA from 2005 to 2007 and after that it was VERY seldom that I watched it. However, one of the things that pissed me off were those "Wrestling Matters" ads that showed up while I was watching Raw or Smackdown. I kid you not, that actually happened. Look, I got that they wanted to appeal to the masses and tried this campaign to show what wrestling means to its wrestlers doing these promos. However, when the spots came on during WWE programming, that showed how desperate they were.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2017 23:10:10 GMT -5
Probably when Hogan showed up and brought a bunch of his scrub friends with him
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Post by héad.casé on Nov 19, 2017 9:05:30 GMT -5
Around the time that AJ Styles left. I remember watching the title match with Magnus (and they protected the hell out of AJ in that match), and never watching regularly again. Which was sad because 12 years ago TNA was my promotion of choice and could do no wrong with me. I supported them through thick and thin and when AJ left, that was it. I still keep up to date, read spoilers, have seen youtube clips, but i'm just not interested in watching a whole show anymore.
They had a hardcore supporter in me and let me down.
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Post by cosmo on Nov 19, 2017 12:57:34 GMT -5
Honestly? Around the time Impact jumped from Fox Sports to Spike. I'd watched practically all the weekly PPVs, almost every episode of the Fox Sports version of Impact, and after a while I just kinda realized I wasn't watching TNA because I was a fan, I was watching it because it was decent background noise for whatever else I was doing that I cared more about at the time. I think I've only watched maybe three full episodes of Impact since then.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Nov 19, 2017 13:19:52 GMT -5
2011? Somewhere around there.
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Post by SAJ Forth on Nov 19, 2017 14:58:57 GMT -5
I still watch, but it's one of those death of a thousand cuts that is leading me to see if/when it ends.
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Post by edgestar on Nov 19, 2017 15:00:57 GMT -5
When Christian left
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Post by Woo on Nov 19, 2017 23:11:47 GMT -5
The day Hogan joined.
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Post by Mayonnaise on Nov 19, 2017 23:19:11 GMT -5
I watched on and off during the DA and early Pop days. When Anthem took over and pulled their crap with the Hardys culminating in Decay teleporting through time and arriving at the show with the tag belts I am pretty sure I said "f*** it" and have seen maybe a few minutes since.
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