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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 14, 2019 12:05:14 GMT -5
What the hell were they thinking??
Midgets in traschans jerking off and then pulling a gun, the Harris twins wearing SS shirts, a tag team of guys dressed like a penis, a tag team being heels just because they were gay, dancers in cages, Brian Christopher implying that his dad Jerry Lawler liked underage girls, Cheex, flying elvises, the Dupps, an offensive stereotype of cross dressing...
Did they legit thought this would work or were they trying to book the worst wrestling shows of all time?
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Post by realist on Jan 14, 2019 12:16:23 GMT -5
Bro, you just don't understand, bro....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 12:20:25 GMT -5
One word. Russo.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 12:32:27 GMT -5
throwing everything at the wall and hoping something got mainstream publicity
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 14, 2019 12:36:53 GMT -5
throwing everything at the wall and hoping something got mainstream publicity With a guy dressed as a penis or another guy jerking off in a trashcan? What publicity except bad publicity can come off from that? |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 14, 2019 12:38:56 GMT -5
Jerry Jarrett recently said the following,
“The problem with tna was that my son Jeff hired people from wcw who only had failure to their name”.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 14, 2019 13:12:02 GMT -5
They were thinking that the pro wrestling industry wasn't that far removed from the Attitude Era, if at all removed from the Attitude Era.
Yes, it shows an amazing lack of forethought on their parts by going all in with this stuff and not seeing that the industry was slowly moving away from things like this, but it's not like it was all that out of place at a time when the WWE was still doing stuff like Katie Vick.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 14, 2019 14:04:24 GMT -5
They were thinking that the pro wrestling industry wasn't that far removed from the Attitude Era, if at all removed from the Attitude Era. Yes, it shows an amazing lack of forethought on their parts by going all in with this stuff and not seeing that the industry was slowly moving away from things like this, but it's not like it was all that out of place at a time when the WWE was still doing stuff like Katie Vick. The world was evolving and they went backwards. I still believe they took the name tna so people would buy the weekly ppvs thinking they were porn. |
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Post by cabbageboy on Jan 14, 2019 14:29:20 GMT -5
What's odd is that there was some amazing action on some of those shows. All of that early X Division stuff was brilliant. AJ Styles, Jerry Lynn, Lo-Ki, etc.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Jan 14, 2019 15:21:12 GMT -5
What's odd is that there was some amazing action on some of those shows. All of that early X Division stuff was brilliant. AJ Styles, Jerry Lynn, Lo-Ki, etc. It was one of the strangest mixes of legit great matches and post-Attitude era Russo garbage I've ever seen. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 14, 2019 18:05:19 GMT -5
What's odd is that there was some amazing action on some of those shows. All of that early X Division stuff was brilliant. AJ Styles, Jerry Lynn, Lo-Ki, etc. It was one of the strangest mixes of legit great matches and post-Attitude era Russo garbage I've ever seen. But to be fair, even TNA's best shows are really exactly this. Shit that's either fantastic, or so bad that it's great to watch anyway. |
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Post by arrogantmodel on Jan 17, 2019 21:49:10 GMT -5
Lawler doesn't/didn't like underage girls? Or at least got in trouble because of one or a few?
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Post by chazraps on Jan 17, 2019 22:39:30 GMT -5
throwing everything at the wall and hoping something got mainstream publicity With a guy dressed as a penis or another guy jerking off in a trashcan? What publicity except bad publicity can come off from that? I mean, this is the same year 'Goldmember,' Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" makeover, "The Osbournes" and "The Anna Nicole Show" were all given multi-million-dollar mainstream media platforms. 2002 was a strange time. |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 17, 2019 23:21:24 GMT -5
With a guy dressed as a penis or another guy jerking off in a trashcan? What publicity except bad publicity can come off from that? I mean, this is the same year 'Goldmember,' Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" makeover, "The Osbournes" and "The Anna Nicole Show" were all given multi-million-dollar mainstream media platforms. 2002 was a strange time. And they never went that far. A man was masturbating inside a trash can... |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 17, 2019 23:22:30 GMT -5
Lawler doesn't/didn't like underage girls? Or at least got in trouble because of one or a few? Yes. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jan 18, 2019 0:06:26 GMT -5
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Post by Yamashita Enforcement Division on Jan 18, 2019 1:04:28 GMT -5
A man was masturbating inside a trash can... But that is kind of the point, the zeitgeist of the immediate post-9/11 American psyche was a very weird place. Add the carnie sensibilities of Jeff Jarrett and his sycophants, and you have a recicpe for an overall 1000 percent more sleazy product than would get over with any audience. A combination of inertia, the most money mark to ever have money or be a mark, and having a a bunch of very talented rubes allowed them to survive too a more reasonable product once the dust settled. |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 18, 2019 1:24:09 GMT -5
A man was masturbating inside a trash can... But that is kind of the point, the zeitgeist of the immediate post-9/11 American psyche was a very weird place. Add the carnie sensibilities of Jeff Jarrett and his sycophants, and you have a recicpe for an overall 1000 percent more sleazy product than would get over with any audience. A combination of inertia, the most money mark to ever have money or be a mark, and having a a bunch of very talented rubes allowed them to survive too a more reasonable product once the dust settled. That product maybe would’ve worked in 98, but that Howard Stern/Jerry Springer mentality that Russo worshipped, was becoming obsolete. In my opinion the early 2000s was the era of the reality show genre, the shock jock comedy was over by that point. Now if we’re talking wrestling fans, myself personally, I became jaded to Russo’s crash tv after that Val Venis and Kaientai segment, nothing would ever top that bullshit. In 02 it was time to move on. |
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