Johnny Flamingo
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Dec 30, 2015 13:42:29 GMT -5
Went to a house show in Baton Rouge. One of the worst wrestling shows I've ever been to. Really small crowd that never got into the show and the best match of the night was on first and didn't go very long. LONG pauses between matches and horrible pacing. None of the matches ever got out of first gear aside from the short AJ-Lethal match.
Jay Lethal defeated AJ Styles. Madison Rayne def Taylor Wilde Jeff Jarrett def Kevin Nash Team 3D def Ink Inc D'Angelo Dinero def Matt Morgan Jeff Hardy def Abyss (Mick Foley Ref)
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The Ichi
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Post by The Ichi on Dec 30, 2015 14:11:18 GMT -5
Just one of the Impact tapings at Universal when I was on vacation back in 2008. The most over guy was the guy sweeping the floors before the show. I'm not even joking, this guy was being treated like Hogan in the 80s.
I can't remember much of the actual show. I know Sting and AJ did a segment that went on forever and Kurt Angle wrestled Morgan in the main event.
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 30, 2015 14:30:56 GMT -5
I forgot, the one I went to, someone stole my Pepsi after I paid for it CM Punk returning to TNA CONFIRMED~!
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 30, 2015 14:31:34 GMT -5
House show in I believe 2011 in Sacramento. It was very low budget, but it was still a good time. Only thing off setting is the constant carny stuff they're yelling over the mic about "vip passes" and "backstage passes" ect Did you get Don West doing said shilling? We did at the Rahway house show...there was that, plus the mystery grab bags.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Dec 30, 2015 15:04:23 GMT -5
Slammiversary 2009 at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
The crowd was so laughably undersized for an arena that big. I remember literally nothing else about the show. I know I was there, but it is a COMPLETE blank.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2015 15:33:40 GMT -5
I was at Hardcore Justice 2013 and it was the saddest most depressing experience I've ever had at a wrestling show.
It was at the smallest actual arena in the area, part of a college and about the size of Full Sail's arena. I arrived about a half hour before bell time. There was no traffic, no trouble finding a good parking spot, and the only fans out front were smokers. No one was waiting to get in or scalping tickets. When I got inside, the show had started early even though it was taped, and there was a freaking unadvertised Christopher Daniels match happening (I forget who his opponent was). So I missed seeing him wrestle even though he was one of the people I wanted to see.
The arena was about a quarter full, so people were just sort of sitting wherever. Most people didn't know who any of the wrestler were that weren't former WWE guys.
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 31, 2015 0:36:15 GMT -5
I went to the impact on the road show in Chicago, well, Hoffman Estates in March 2013. It was...hmm. Someone in the seat next to me got mad at me for going to the bathroom, and she dropped her phone when I did. She could barely fit in the seat. There were also guys in their mid 30/s talking about a backyard fed they do and analyazing matches the way the would do them. Furthermore, there was a guy getting ridiculed for wearing a Cena shirt (somone said only guys with workrate deserve shirts), and a morbidly obese man asking if anyone knew ms tessmachers hotel room.
It was pretty much YouTube comments in real life.
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Post by Captain & Diet on Dec 31, 2015 1:00:36 GMT -5
Yep. Had a great time. So did my kids. Angle vs Joe main event was awesome.
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Post by Impact Zone's #1 DUMMY...YEAH on Dec 31, 2015 1:59:49 GMT -5
Went to BFG 2013 in San Diego where the arena was 1/3 full (terrible show) I agree for the most part about this show, as I too was in attendance (in fact, in the pic most everyone has seen, of AJ in the audience after beating Bully for the title, I'm about 2 feet behind AJ as he's celebrating with the people). I thought it had its moments, as I recall they teased an Aces & 8s reunion of guys to help Bully in the main event. This was right after EC3 debuted and the night that Lei'D Tapa (or however you spell her name) aligned with Gail. The other moment I remember was Kurt Angle refusing to accept the induction into the TNA HOF, soon after his brush with the law (for DUI or something?).
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Post by MC Blowfish on Dec 31, 2015 15:38:43 GMT -5
I was going to go to their show in Des Moines, but they cancelled it. They used to have shows in a town in the Northern part of the state, but I was really not motivated to drive 2 and a half hours.
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Post by thegame415 on Jan 1, 2016 1:27:03 GMT -5
So, judging from these posts, the total attendance at bfg 2013 replied to this post.
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Post by MichaelMartini on Jan 1, 2016 14:33:52 GMT -5
I was at this show - linkHad a lot of fun
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2016 15:22:41 GMT -5
I went to a TNA house show in October of 2009. Villa Park, IL. It was a bad one. They changed the venue a bunch of times and there were only six matches. I was so excited to see the AJ/Joe main event which was good for a 9 minute match...FAIL. The show didn't even crack two hours.
The two highlights of the show were Scott Steiner flipping off my friend and me yelling at some guy a few rows ahead who kept standing up and taking a ton of pictures. My "I hate you Green Shirt, your mother should've aborted you!" line won some people over.
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Post by Super Duper Dragunov on Jan 1, 2016 22:04:49 GMT -5
Victory Road 2008 - Houston, TX
It was a fun event. Got to see the World X Cup and Alex Koslov in person (/swoon).
Marked out when Abyss's music hit and then forgot about Sting being there in some form and really marked out when that hit. Styles didn't win and by that time I was just sick of Angle so that annoyed me. The main event having a screwy finish in front of Booker T's home crowd (I was rooting for Joe) also left the show on a flat note. Even if Sting did appear, it was still a bizarre way to end a hyped up title match.
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jagilki
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Post by jagilki on Jan 1, 2016 22:23:05 GMT -5
LOL no one has been to a TNA event, EVER.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 1, 2016 22:43:53 GMT -5
I actually went to Hogan's last appearance for em.
The main reason I went is that I'd never actually seen Hulk live before, and I knew I could check that off the list for as big a Hulkamaniac as I was as a kid; even if he could no longer do anything besides talk.
And then then the show ended with Dixie clinging to his leg.
And then their slow, inexorable slide to the shambling, lifeless zombie of a company began.
I feel like I played a part of that.
Sorry bout that.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jan 1, 2016 22:51:09 GMT -5
No joke, just remembered that I went to a double TV taping when they came to the Nasty Nati in November 2013. In a sense, it was cool because I got to see some guys live for the first time (Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, Austin Aries, Sting apparently even though I don't remember seeing him but the results say he was there) but as an actual show? Not really a good experience. By the time the second taping was half-way done, I was constantly looking at my phone to see what time it was. There was also some super annoying kid a few seats away from me which didn't help. They also wouldn't show the action on the big screen for some stupid ass reason so any time people fought on the side of the ring where the ramp was, I couldn't see anything. The show was in the Cincinnati Gardens which is a real dump of a venue. The highlight of the night was seeing some kid in full Hulk Hogan attire, stache and all. Poor kid, this was after Hogan left the company. Easily the worst live wrestling experience I've ever had.
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Post by Fauxnaki on Jan 7, 2016 6:30:42 GMT -5
when i was on holiday in the florida i went to the impact zone. I can't remember if it was a PPV or not but i think it had kevin nash vs mick foley and abyss vs trevor murdoch. I also got to shake dixie carters hand
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Post by Doogie Bowser, MD on Jan 7, 2016 21:20:19 GMT -5
The Impact taping in SLC in late 2013 right after the PPV in San Diego that drew about 300 people. 10,000 seat hockey arena cut in half, with all of the non-floor seats from about 6 o'clock to 9 o'clock (behind the hard camera) unsold. They pushed the hell out of a $150 offer to buy a Jeff Jarrett guitar that included meeting him backstage and having him sign said guitar.
EDIT: It was the show where A.J. Styles got in a car and left Dixie standing in the ring.
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