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Post by romanstylesiii on Jan 5, 2019 17:43:00 GMT -5
To 2007 till right before Hogan arrived, TNA was far from perfect, but it was highly entertaining.
Bound for Glory 2008 drew over 5,000 people and had decent PPV numbers. They were drawing over a million people on Spike every week.
The Knockouts division was the Women's Revolution 10 years before it happened and the highest rated. X-division was killing it, and saw great character development with the Nash/Shelley skits, which added to the great matches.
What do you think were TNA's best years, this is all just my opinion and I like to look at this era pretty fondly
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2019 19:14:06 GMT -5
05-06. Russo's return was the beginning of the end of the promotion TNA should have been.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 5, 2019 20:03:00 GMT -5
2005-2006 was when I most regularly watched TNA. It wasn't perfect but it was more often than not entertaining. The X Division was also at its best in terms of putting on exciting matches with great talents. The Knockouts Division was also the first real mainstream promotion from around uh... 2007-2008 or so? where the women were booked with some sort of respect. Granted 2007-2009 was also tainted by Russo coming back, but the time period between where he was fired (again) and Hogan's signing had the potential to be a second golden age for TNA.
Then the Hogan debacle happened and they've never come close to recovering since. It's just been dying a slow, prolonged death. Just that no one has the good sense to put it out of its misery because sometimes a finger twitches.
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Post by Aya Reiko on Jan 6, 2019 2:18:00 GMT -5
05-06
The years without Jarrett being the focus until Angle came in and TNA started on the path of becoming WWE-lite.
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Post by chazraps on Jan 6, 2019 2:40:56 GMT -5
May-November 2012 is the best week-to-week TNA ever was to me. The way Prichard turned that company around and played to everyone's strengths was really special.
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on Jan 6, 2019 6:16:03 GMT -5
To 2007 till right before Hogan arrived, TNA was far from perfect, but it was highly entertaining. Bound for Glory 2008 drew over 5,000 people and had decent PPV numbers. They were drawing over a million people on Spike every week. The Knockouts division was the Women's Revolution 10 years before it happened and the highest rated. X-division was killing it, and saw great character development with the Nash/Shelley skits, which added to the great matches. What do you think were TNA's best years, this is all just my opinion and I like to look at this era pretty fondly Yeah, this was my favorite era as well. Granted, there was stupid stuff here and there, but the product as a whole was pretty damn entertaining. Waaayyyyy more entertaining than what WWE was putting out around that time (or since). I know a lot of people would disagree and say 2005/6, and granted, TNA's mid card was probably at its best during that period, but the main event scene? Ugh. Jeff Jarrett being the smartest, toughest, greatest heel ever was old in 2004. By 2005/6, it was killing TNA's chances of being seen as a major deal. "Total Nonstop Angle" was the thing that actually made TNA into a potential player....and then they flushed it down the toilet by bringing the Orange Goblin and his pals in.
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Post by Instant Classic on Jan 6, 2019 9:14:58 GMT -5
I started watching in 2005-2006 so I’ll say 2006-2009 for me.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 6, 2019 12:52:38 GMT -5
05-06
Then after the Russo disease they were never the same.
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Post by CeilingFan on Jan 6, 2019 13:14:13 GMT -5
2006 to 2009.
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Post by 06vwgti on Jan 6, 2019 16:48:17 GMT -5
05 to 09 for me, russo wrote a lot of crap when he came back, but for some reason I was still enjoying TNA from that period. I stopped watching after they kept switching channels.
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Post by One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel on Jan 6, 2019 17:01:34 GMT -5
05-09 I'd say
Like, yeah, Impact was absolute bullshit for the last 3 years of that and the PPVs nosedived pretty hard in 09 too, but it's still the time period that I'll always think of when someone mentions TNA.
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Post by Burst on Jan 6, 2019 17:11:04 GMT -5
Pretty much up until Hogan arrived it was still a reliably entertaining wrestling show. I say that as someone who was at the Impact Zone for Hogan's debut. Oh, if only we'd known.
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Post by Chiral on Jan 6, 2019 17:39:25 GMT -5
When Sting and Christian joined I enjoyed TNA more than WWE, it definitely had its ups and downs 05-07/8ish (Jarrett) but it was mostly fun and actually felt like it had an identity.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Jan 6, 2019 17:52:22 GMT -5
I'll go for 05-06 as well. I think one video that encapsulates that era was Jericho's Enemy hype video for Bound for Glory. LAX vs Styles and Daniels, Christian vs Rhyno, Sabin, Angle coming in. A lot of great matches and moments during that time. Probably one of my favorite periods of wrestling ever honestly. Really felt like they were on the right track. Sure there were still stupid parts but the Attitude era had its share as well.
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Post by 4real on Jan 13, 2019 14:53:47 GMT -5
For me it's 2005-2006. Angle beating Joe in his first match really pissed me off and massively turned me off for a while.
2011- early 2013 was also pretty decent. Aries winning the title was a huge moment. I think TNA lost a lot of momentum after Bully Ray won the title then losing it to frickin Sabin for a few weeks. By the end of 2013 TNA was in a complete mess and it's never truly recovered.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 19:01:19 GMT -5
Joe's first few years
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Post by Rave on Jan 13, 2019 19:35:27 GMT -5
'05-October '06 when Russo came back and promptly started in with the junk again. Granted, we still ended up with some stupid shit before Russo showed back up (the X-Division Jackass group, AJ/Tanahashi being spoiled by Shannon Moore, and the horrifying Eric Young vs. Bobby Roode feud that included the infamous bikini contest, among a few others), but compared to stuff like Pacman Jones, the even more horrifying Sting vs. Abyss feud, and the sudden reintroduction of bad gimmick matches like the reverse battle royal...
One time before when we talked about this, I mentioned that I believed the '07 section for LOLTNA might be longer than '05 and '06 put together, since '05 and '06 have pretty short sections. Someone counted it, it's just a few hundred words short. If Taimapedia ever comes back (and I'm doubtful it will), I'm going to see if I can rectify that.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 13, 2019 22:03:33 GMT -5
2005-2006.
2009 looked like it was picking up steam at the end of the year.....then Hogan and Bischoff showed up.
Summer 2012 was promising, then Aces & Eights happened.
2016 had Final Deletion and the Broken Universe in general getting a lot of buzz online, but not so much with everything else.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 14, 2019 18:06:19 GMT -5
May-November 2012 is the best week-to-week TNA ever was to me. The way Prichard turned that company around and played to everyone's strengths was really special. The BFG series that year was excellent, wasn't it? I feel like I remember it keeping me genuinely excited for each week of television, which had never happened in TNA even when I was watching every week years earlier.
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Post by Muskrat on Jan 14, 2019 19:02:11 GMT -5
When Sting and Christian joined I enjoyed TNA more than WWE, it definitely had its ups and downs 05-07/8ish (Jarrett) but it was mostly fun and actually felt like it had an identity. Yeah, that was around the time I was consistently watching TNA more then WWE. Granted, part of that was due to Raw moving from TSN to the Score which I didn’t have at the time but I genuinely enjoyed TNA Hell, I used to do a drunk watching of TNA and Tweet my reactions every week but I think that was more 2009/2010
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