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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 1, 2024 1:06:44 GMT -5
I sort of wished when Balls was employed by WWE during WWECW they would get Balls to bring back Xanta Clause for one off during a Christmas episode of one of the shows.. Maybe a one of those gimmick Christmas hardcore matches with Kane or something
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Post by 4real on Jan 1, 2024 8:41:10 GMT -5
getting a podcast tattoo and telling them you love Joey Ryan, solid use of your own time and sense That must be the worst boy stable I’ve ever seen. Wolfpac Sting as well?!?!
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jan 1, 2024 8:54:37 GMT -5
Kind of surprised they didn't mention the backstage rib Bulldog and Owen pulled on Vince when they sent the pigs from the hog pen match to Vince's office at the arena. (I know Brian Zane brought it up when he reviewed the same show a couple of weeks ago.)
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Post by thirteen3 on Jan 1, 2024 9:12:34 GMT -5
Up now: In Your House 5: Season's Beatings. Xanta Claus! I can't stress enough that this was the only PPV I attended. Did the hog pen stink out the arena?
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Post by 4real on Jan 1, 2024 11:08:43 GMT -5
Mo beating The Undertaker & the Boyzone stuff was the highlight of this episode for me.
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Post by thirteen3 on Jan 1, 2024 11:16:30 GMT -5
Honestly, these episodes have been a return to form. I want them to do more 1995 WWF but they seem dead set against it.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jan 1, 2024 20:35:45 GMT -5
I can't stress enough that this was the only PPV I attended. Did the hog pen stink out the arena? 1) I have a very weak sense of smell. 2) we were like halfway up the opposite end of the arena.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jan 1, 2024 20:37:07 GMT -5
I sort of wished when Balls was employed by WWE during WWECW they would get Balls to bring back Xanta Clause for one off during a Christmas episode of one of the shows.. Maybe a one of those gimmick Christmas hardcore matches with Kane or something ECW had a Halloween show where various wrestlers came out with their WWF gimmicks. I'm shocked they didn't do this with Balls.
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Post by theironyuppie on Jan 2, 2024 7:14:08 GMT -5
Mo beating The Undertaker & the Boyzone stuff was the highlight of this episode for me. Ragdolling him!
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Post by discoelysium on Jan 2, 2024 7:36:02 GMT -5
getting a podcast tattoo and telling them you love Joey Ryan, solid use of your own time and sense The clear awkwardness and unease they had discussing him as painful
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jan 2, 2024 15:59:52 GMT -5
So I pretty much watched the IYH5/SB review...so many memories...
I recall the drive to Hersheypark, at least that we were listening to Slam Jam I (changing the Natural lyrics to "Well they call him Goldust...") and Adam Sandler's They're All Gonna Laugh At You! I remember being home late enough to watch ECW and not record it...it was the one with Bad Crew vs. Dudleys.
My section was facing the hard camera, it was opposite the entrance/hog pen. I may have been too high up, but I did attempt to bring signs.
I remember the tag match being really good, the hog pen not being THAT bad given the gimmick, and the main being tops. Of course, I've not seen the whole show since, well, I attended it live, so dunno if that holds up today or it was indeed as lackluster as the lads presented it. Then again they did admit to comparing it to 2023 spotfests.
The guys with me were happy to see Jeff Jarrett, and we knew it was going to happen because before the pre-show, they were testing out the slides they flash on the canvas, and the musical note was one of them. We were paying close attention, as this was the weekend that the syndicated shows were teasing the Ultimate Warrior for the first time and we were looking for clues...yeah, remember that time they randomly said at the end of the show that there were Warrior rumors, then they dropped it till he came back for real for Mania 12?
The ECW chant breaking out in the world title match was indeed because someone got their signs confiscated. Forget if it was the ECW/Gangstas/Mikey guy or not.
Was that a plastic knife near Bret when he juiced?
Savio/Backlund was just stalling until Savio got the lucky pin. Goldust beat Droese (I think OSW accidentally said the opposite) and the eight man was actually the first time we see Tom Pritchard as a Bodydonna (and he was still using the "Flip" name). One of the other guys convinced me that it was Ricky Morton with a shaved head, as if.
I actually did a write up for the Figure Four Weekly, yes, I did write for them up to 1997 or so. The issue is long lost unless someone can find it online...
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Post by Pipe_Bomb2k13 on Feb 29, 2024 17:10:43 GMT -5
TNA Empty Arena iMPACT! - OSW 128
Now up.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Feb 29, 2024 17:33:36 GMT -5
I remember watching this Impact for the brief time we had a pay TV service..
And I remember getting annoyed the way Empty Arena Match ended.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Mar 1, 2024 5:57:15 GMT -5
For once, they missed a trick!
I was sure during the Sojo Bolt bit they'd have splicied in a clip of Dinosaurs "Not da mama!"
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Post by Fundertaker on Mar 1, 2024 6:11:05 GMT -5
On a less humorous, but episode related note: Jay splurging all over Terry Funk? Aces.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 1, 2024 8:39:17 GMT -5
Much better episode than the recent average, but the last few episodes have just been awash with 'lol fat fat fat people fat people are inherently funny because they're fat LOLOLOLOL' and I am getting quite sick of it
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Post by Sigma: Current SRW Champ! on Mar 2, 2024 13:08:37 GMT -5
I will be happy when they stop reviewing Impacts. They are truly terrible around this time period. 2009 might be the worst year for American professional wrestling history. WWE would have a banner year in awful storytelling and booking, TNA would be worse, ROH was going through its first rough patch and couldn't figure that out. No wonder many people stopped watching after this year and focused either on MMA or something else entirely.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Mar 24, 2024 15:08:19 GMT -5
Destination X 2009 up now
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 25, 2024 4:57:25 GMT -5
Man that was just... not that good of an episode really. I have higher hopes for the Lockdown episode, but I am starting to think they just aren't as good as they used to be
If this Morgan/Abyss match was so bad, why did we get no comedy out of it and discuss exactly one spot?
These TNA episodes have mostly been pretty mediocre, and I think they have accidentally picked an arc which involves surprisingly little fun bollocks and is mostly just boring when it isn't good, and that makes it hard to riff on
I know it has been done to death but some amount of the Hogan/Bischoff run (my vote has always been the new Monday Night War) would have been a lot easier to make funny, I think
And the amount of fat jokes they're making and even calling back to is starting to get not just irritating but boring and depressing
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Mar 25, 2024 5:27:01 GMT -5
I feel like they are only doing this arc because they found a couple of things Booker T did during it really funny.
This arc has not grabbed me at all, maybe I continued with the arc out of habit or hoping it gets better, I was even talking to a friend online last night while I had it on and said "when you suddenly realise you haven't been paying attention for the last half hour" is telling
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