Reflecto
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Post by Reflecto on Nov 20, 2017 0:47:13 GMT -5
When Dixie Carter cost TNA their Spike TV deal.
That was pretty much the moment it became clear "this company is so totally broken I'm actually rooting for them to die, because the replacements couldn't possibly treat their employees this badly."
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Post by toodarkmark on Nov 20, 2017 13:33:25 GMT -5
When Daniels jobbed to Morley, on the first Hogan show? First live Hogan show? That's when the fandom died.
I kept coming back occasionally and enjoying shows here and there, and got back into during the NYC tapings in 14 which I went to.
The final straw was how they treated Corigan and the Hardys. Here was a chance to do good, to make a dent, to fix the Dixie shadow, but they blew it out of greed and arrogance.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Nov 20, 2017 13:36:57 GMT -5
I hate to say this, but: I've never really watched TNA in the first place. I watched Impact sometimes, but only sporadically. Over the years, I've spent a lot more time following its backstage/business drama on here or by reading LOLTNA, because watching that train wreck is vastly more entertaining to me.
It's wrong on so many levels, and I feel dirty.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 21, 2017 5:02:33 GMT -5
There was one episode of Impact in early 2007 (I think) where Jeff Jarrett came out to the ring five or six times and I was so sick of that siren guitar that started off his music that I had it and stopped taping it from there on in. I remember Karen Jarrett being especially grating that episode too.
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Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Nov 21, 2017 7:03:30 GMT -5
I'd say Victory Road 2011 was an event that really sold how bad they were getting...
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Ben Wyatt
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 21, 2017 8:30:21 GMT -5
The Monday night fiasco. It showed me that they weren't ready to be an actual alternative and clearly never would be
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King Devitt
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Post by King Devitt on Nov 21, 2017 9:51:21 GMT -5
Anyone else who watched from the beginning like me....we suffered through so much...
But it was sorta recently-ish, when Decay stopped being a thing and Aron Rex was making Rockstar Spud into a f***ing joke, and then he just disappeared off of TV.
So when both of the acts I stuck around for were gone, I gave up.
I'd tune back in for Rosemary, but we all see how that went down.
And BFG this year shows me that I really haven't been missing much.
Even now while people still call for its death I want it to succeed and have actual competent management so people have a place to make a living. I hate that it's been cursed with f***ing idiots at the helm.
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Post by celtics543 on Nov 21, 2017 10:01:33 GMT -5
I would buy the dvd's back in 2005/2006/2007. My interest peaked when Christian went there but then it started to wane and completely died when they stopped pushing the younger guys. I'm a fan of the older guys but not being pushed at the expense of Styles, Joe, Daniels etc. Those guys were the reason I bought the dvd's in the first place, so when they were pushed to the side my interest went down. Basically when they started being WWE-lite instead of a true alternative with something different.
Honestly, the best alternative right now would be an ECW type brand (Definitely not called ECW though), because those early ECW shows are everything WWE isn't now. Something that had blood and guts mixed with technical wrestler would find a niche now that it couldn't during the Attitude Era. I think it's been long enough that a company like that could find success again.
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Post by JTG Fan on Nov 21, 2017 10:37:58 GMT -5
A few months before they got kicked off Spike, around the time Honky Tonk Magnus lost the World Title to then-comedy jobber Eric Young. The show had just become completely unwatchable to me. Even before then I had always felt there was something worth watching but by this point AJ had left and Sting had left and it just felt like it was dying.
I feel TNA had three really good period: 05/06, 2009, and 2012. And they managed to ruin all three of them. The first by Russo-izing the product, the second by Hogan/Bischoff-izing the product, and the third by whatever the hell Aces n Eights was supposed to be and generally poor booking.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 21, 2017 18:53:40 GMT -5
I lost interest around 2007 when boring Russo shit started taking up the show. Then I kind of went in and out a little after before completely giving up once Hogan arrived and shat on everything TNA used to be.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Nov 21, 2017 19:25:07 GMT -5
1. The big red cage. 2. Venis defeating Daniels 3. Coked-out Jeff Hardy vs. Sting was the final nail in the coffin...
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Post by Famous Rocking Chimes on Nov 21, 2017 19:43:11 GMT -5
I lost interest around the time Dixie Carter turned heel and they ended up booting out AJ Styles.
I still don't get to this day why you would screw around with your best home grown star and have him involved in awful storylines like doing a Ric Flair impression and the Claire Lynch angle.
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Post by psychokiller on Nov 21, 2017 20:58:41 GMT -5
I was probably done watching full time once Sting left. I remember after he left I barely watched much anymore. So early 2014 I'd say. I watched periodically since then on & off especially when Matt became Broken. But I haven't watched TNA regularly in a long time now.
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Post by benstudd on Nov 23, 2017 0:56:34 GMT -5
I must be a diehard. I gave up before this year's BFG.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Nov 23, 2017 2:45:28 GMT -5
First show they had. I was as excited for anyone that we were getting another contender to the throne and could see guys I was a fan of that weren't in WWF at the time. But then I watched Flying Elvises, the Johnsons and a backstage catfight with ECW valets over a lingerie match, and I was done.
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Post by Dub H on Nov 23, 2017 6:39:42 GMT -5
Hogan.
If that wasn't a sign that things were only going for worse,i don't know what was.
And I was absolutely correct in giving up for that sole reason
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 23, 2017 10:54:57 GMT -5
I haven't officially given up following Impact here and there, because I find their screwups fascinating. But I gave up on them becoming a strong major promotion a few months into the Hogan era. October 2010. The Impact after Bound for Glory. In my opinion, the single worst wrestling show ever. I briefly came back in 2012 when Austin Ares won the belt. Then quit soon after when he dropped the belt to Jeff Hardy. Only watched the odd youtube clip since. It's definitely in the conversation for "worst wrestling shows". Heroes of Wrestling was shitty, but it was also kind of a fun mess, and at least most of that show actually featured wrestling matches. That 10/14/10 show had like ten minutes of ring action in like two hours. The first 50 minutes was just a long bullshit promo with like 2/3rds of the roster forming nWo Decaf, and Dixie Carter attempting to act. I can barely put into words how abysmal that Impact was.
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Post by The Tank on Nov 23, 2017 11:38:59 GMT -5
The moment it became clear to me that no one from TNA could ever matter more than anyone from elsewhere that no one's mentioned yet:
Rob Van Dam.
AKA let's cut the legs out from under A.J. Styles AGAIN because this ex-WWE guy has a guaranteed title run in his contract and also has limited days so we don't have to worry about things like, oh, I don't know, booking him to LOSE THE TITLE.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Nov 23, 2017 12:09:17 GMT -5
October 14th 2010 Impact. The infamous show with six minutes of wrestlers in two hours, where they ran through about two months' worth of angles and which spent the combined runtime of what could be a whole movie purely on exposition explaining their awful plot twists. I have very fond memories of it because it was my 20th birthday and I happily sat around drinking and watching some shitty TV, but as much as I love it, it represented the absolute f***ing worst of what TNA was and could be, and I knew watching it that they could never sustain being good again. I knew in that moment that the people in charge had no goddamn hope of ever putting on a good product or knowing what a good product even was, and save for little glimpses here and there, it wasn't good again anyway, so there you go.
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Post by eJm on Nov 23, 2017 14:43:31 GMT -5
The moment it became clear to me that no one from TNA could ever matter more than anyone from elsewhere that no one's mentioned yet: Rob Van Dam. AKA let's cut the legs out from under A.J. Styles AGAIN because this ex-WWE guy has a guaranteed title run in his contract and also has limited days so we don't have to worry about things like, oh, I don't know, booking him to LOSE THE TITLE. Hell, before they did that, they dropped the ball on him by having him fluke a debut win on Sting and then Sting responds by no selling it, killing him and nobody stopped him. There was more security around Hogan trying to STOP Sting.
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