|
Post by "Dashing" Dr.VonPhoenix on Nov 27, 2017 23:53:43 GMT -5
Basically when Hogan showed up and tried to start a new version of the Monday Night Wars while trying to turn Impact into Smackdown Lite. There's ambition and then there's stupid stuff like that. The every fact that enough people thought that this was a good enough idea to actually book was very telling.
|
|
|
Post by Slingshot Suplay on Nov 29, 2017 9:51:54 GMT -5
This year. I don't even know who's on the actual Impact roster because of the gfw/crash/AAA/lucha underground influence and it seemed with every taping they did, half of those people were gone by the time they aired those episodes.
|
|
|
Post by MrElijah on Nov 29, 2017 12:59:33 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. AJ has to be one of wrestling's ironies. "TNA, we aren't those guys up north!! Cross the line!!" Their best wrestler goes up north: AJ is booked WAY better than the majority of his TNA run. As much as we rag on the WWE, AJ has been booked pretty good.
|
|
|
Post by corndog on Dec 1, 2017 4:37:36 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. AJ has to be one of wrestling's ironies. "TNA, we aren't those guys up north!! Cross the line!!" Their best wrestler goes up north: AJ is booked WAY better than the majority of his TNA run. As much as we rag on the WWE, AJ has been booked pretty good. Pretty crazy that even as badly booked as WWE has been lately, even they realize AJ Styles is something special. As far as when I gave up on TNA, the beginning of the Hogan era took a lot of hope out of me. I loved the second half of 2009 in TNA and at that point actually preferred it to WWE, but 2010 was a huge step backwards. However, I still watched TNA off and on until 2012, the whole Clair Lynch crap was pretty much the last I remember watching, I was completely done only to watch again for the Broken Matt stuff.
|
|
"Magic" Mark Hurr
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Here, have some chili dogs
Not related to Phantasmo
Posts: 15,749
|
Post by "Magic" Mark Hurr on Dec 2, 2017 3:44:28 GMT -5
I would come and go for a while before the Broken Hardy time just to see certain matches here and there. Then I came back during the Broken Brilliance. After that it was here and there and that would be on Youtube. But that is coming from a diehard wrestling fan that would try to keep up with whatever i can just to be in the loop. TNA killed my desire.
|
|
|
Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Dec 2, 2017 4:37:54 GMT -5
AJ has to be one of wrestling's ironies. "TNA, we aren't those guys up north!! Cross the line!!" Their best wrestler goes up north: AJ is booked WAY better than the majority of his TNA run. As much as we rag on the WWE, AJ has been booked pretty good. Pretty crazy that even as badly booked as WWE has been lately, even they realize AJ Styles is something special. And just think that he would have stayed in TNA all of this time if they had prioritized him over just ONE of the many money pits this company fell in. It's mind boggling, because their roster, after four years, still has an AJ Styles-shaped hole they may never fill.
|
|