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Post by SodaGuy on Jul 12, 2010 12:31:08 GMT -5
I don't think it was Tara, to be honest. Look at some of her Tweets from yesterday: Oh no I got too much sun again. SPF didn't work. Ouchie! Just chilling with my babies watching...Twilight again. bit.ly/9xclZ1And then she posted this picture: twitpic.com/24k0mjThat was around 10 something another and there is no way she could have gotten from Orlando back to KY that quickly. Plus, it came from a computer (TweetDeck) while the latest ones came from an application on her blackberry. She could have had the photos of her dog on her laptop, which she took to Orlando with her. Eh, I dunno. It sounds like a lot of work.. just for a picture of a dog, tbh. Possible? Sure. But, I'm not sold on it.
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Post by *Ye@h B@by* on Jul 12, 2010 12:50:28 GMT -5
It's about damn time Shelley and Sabin are tag champs! Please, TNA, don't up their reign. I'm disappointed that Tara's back. Was her first TNA run not lame enough? Yeah, that match was amazing. I'm glad they're tag team champs as well. I wonder who they might feud against, are they going to keep going against Beer Money, or Ink Inc? I'm hoping it's not Tara, but who knows. I'm hoping it's a new diva Knockout to change things up a bit. Maybe it was that WWE chick that everyone wants it to be? And are you talking about Mickie James[Alexis Laree]? That's the only WWE 'chick' that I know of that people want, including me
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Post by Joey Cush on Jul 12, 2010 12:51:34 GMT -5
So after a nights sleep, the PPV was very forgettable. Mainly the first 2/3 of the night. I was basically bored until the MCMG/BM match. I still cant believe the 'mystery opponents' were Joe and Terry. I'm totally shocked.
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Post by Yeezy's Mullet: Team X Blades on Jul 12, 2010 15:51:49 GMT -5
Just watched this PPV and I must say that it wasn't anything special. It wasn't terrible, but like others have said, I'm glad I didn't pay for it. The Guns finally getting gold is awesome though. Such a shame that it took so long.
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Post by American Phenom on Jul 12, 2010 16:43:55 GMT -5
I'm usually really critical over TNA but this pay-per-view was the TNA pay-per-view of the year for sure.
Ultimate X was solid, The AJ/Kaz match was really good, the Pope/Angle match was great, the MCMG match was amazing and a MOTY candidate for TNA, the Jesse match while bad was better than expected.
But definitely pay-per-view of the year with Lockdown coming in a close second.
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Post by Joey Cush on Jul 12, 2010 16:50:39 GMT -5
Personally, I thought the Ultimate X was horrible. If Kendrick kept wanting to go for Submissions and not go for the belt, same with Williams, why was it an Ultimate X match at all? The title hanging was secondary to the submissions.
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Post by No Brokeback on Jul 12, 2010 16:54:55 GMT -5
Personally, I thought the Ultimate X was horrible. If Kendrick kept wanting to go for Submissions and not go for the belt, same with Williams, why was it an Ultimate X match at all? The title hanging was secondary to the submissions. I think the finish may have been botched. I thought Kendrick was supposed to put the submission on while on the X, having the other dude land on him, knocking him out for the win. Although, that's just me assuming, I enjoyed it quite a lot. It wasn't as long as I wanted it to be. but still entertaining.
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Post by American Phenom on Jul 12, 2010 16:55:35 GMT -5
Personally, I thought the Ultimate X was horrible. If Kendrick kept wanting to go for Submissions and not go for the belt, same with Williams, why was it an Ultimate X match at all? The title hanging was secondary to the submissions. I didn't think the stipulation was great but it was still a solid *** match. I think spam worded it perfectly "Good fun, some nice bumps and a good story of Williams scouting the Clutch, then winning with it." I'd rate the matches... (in order from best to worst) MCMG/BM - **** 1/2 Flair/Lethal - *** 1/2 (Sleeper hit of the night. Didn't expect it to be that good) Angle/Pope - *** 1/2 RVD/Hardy/Anderson/Abyss - *** 1/2 UX - *** Cage - ** 3/4 Jesse/Bubba - ** Knockouts - * 1/2
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Post by "Living Legend" Duttanized on Jul 13, 2010 0:01:47 GMT -5
I would give Angle/Pope at least 4/5.....extremely good match considering it's Pope's first since coming back...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2010 6:17:48 GMT -5
If that was an awful PPV, I'm very curious to know what a 'decent' PPV is to you. And if you say anything WWE in the past few years, then...*sigh* Well the last ROH PPV was a lot more than decent, it was amazing! ;D I'd probably say that Slammiversary '10 was decent, I said it was a 7/10 I think when I watched it live. And the last two TNA PPV's of 2009 were awesome.
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Post by No Brokeback on Jul 13, 2010 8:34:34 GMT -5
If that was an awful PPV, I'm very curious to know what a 'decent' PPV is to you. And if you say anything WWE in the past few years, then...*sigh* Well the last ROH PPV was a lot more than decent, it was amazing! ;D I'd probably say that Slammiversary '10 was decent, I said it was a 7/10 I think when I watched it live. And the last two TNA PPV's of 2009 were awesome. I tried to get into ROH, I just can't do it. At all. They probably have great shows for the crowd it goes after, but it just doesn't appeal to me. That, and I have always hated Jim Cornette. Something about him just makes me want to slap him with a tennis racket.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2010 13:26:43 GMT -5
Looking back on it now, the pay per view wasn't very bad at all. I was a little over-critical the night of because it got off to a rocky start, but there really was more good than bad on that show. The last 4 matches alone were very good.
Do you guys have a video of the promo Anderson cut? I completely missed it, but I hear it was very good and Rock-esque.
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Post by deskjet on Jul 13, 2010 16:39:39 GMT -5
It's about damn time Shelley and Sabin are tag champs! Please, TNA, don't up their reign. I'm disappointed that Tara's back. Was her first TNA run not lame enough? I don't think it was Tara, to be honest. Look at some of her Tweets from yesterday: Oh no I got too much sun again. SPF didn't work. Ouchie! Just chilling with my babies watching...Twilight again. bit.ly/9xclZ1And then she posted this picture: twitpic.com/24k0mjThat was around 10 something another and there is no way she could have gotten from Orlando back to KY that quickly. Plus, it came from a computer (TweetDeck) while the latest ones came from an application on her blackberry. Stalk much? lol
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Post by American Phenom on Jul 13, 2010 17:40:14 GMT -5
I didn't think the stipulation was great but it was still a solid *** match. I think spam worded it perfectly "Good fun, some nice bumps and a good story of Williams scouting the Clutch, then winning with it." I'd rate the matches... (in order from best to worst) MCMG/BM - **** 1/2 Flair/Lethal - *** 1/2 (Sleeper hit of the night. Didn't expect it to be that good) Angle/Pope - *** 1/2 RVD/Hardy/Anderson/Abyss - *** 1/2 UX - *** Cage - ** 3/4 Jesse/Bubba - ** Knockouts - * 1/2 I feel bad for you as this ppv was poop if you wanna watch a great ppv watch Death before dishonor 8. If you wanna see a 5 star wrestling match thats where your gonna get it and that ppv has MOTY and ppv of the year candidate written all over it. Please never talk to me about what defines a great pay-per-view. I never said this pay-per-view was anything extraordinary, but it was the best of 2010 in my opinion for TNA. If you can argue that point and back it up, I'd like to see you do it. I watched Death Before Dishonor 8. Was it amazing? You bet your ass it was. But this is the TNA forum. If I want to discuss that pay-per-view, I'd take it elsewhere. Best TNA pay-per-view of 2010? Victory Road. End of story. My opinion, but end of story. I've attended a strong 75% of the pay-per-views at the iMPACT Zone and while this doesn't rank as my favorites (I missed the internet era shows. But I'd put Turning Point 2009 and Sacrifice 2007 as two of TNA's best pay-per-views of all time anyway, with Sacrifice 2005 and No Surrender 2005), it was still solid. And since this entire year for TNA pay-per-views has been horrendous, my opinion stands.
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Post by Jord on Jul 13, 2010 17:47:50 GMT -5
The reception the AJ Styles and Kazarian vs. Rob Terry and Samoa Joe match seemed to get quite a bad response around here. But after just watching it on YouTube, I actually really enjoyed the match. I especially loved the ending with the series of springboard attacks from Styles and Kazarian.
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Post by 1992 on Jul 13, 2010 19:07:39 GMT -5
Well in the UK, there's no way for me to pay for the PPV, and I'm glad of that. So everyone in the UK should never ever complain about a TNA PPV? Even if it's awful and they have to stay up till 4am to watch it? If that was an awful PPV, I'm very curious to know what a 'decent' PPV is to you. And if you say anything WWE in the past few years, then...*sigh* You know, for someone who's ALWAYS whining about "WWE fans dragging poor TNA into it" everytime your over in the WWE board, I see you do the same here in the TNA section if not more. And yes, there are several WWE PPV's that have been vastly superior to Victory Road. 'sigh'
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2010 19:21:56 GMT -5
And yes, there are several WWE PPV's that have been vastly superior to Victory Road. 'sigh' This year? Besides WrestleMania, every PPV I've watched from WWE this year has been awful. At least this show had 4 good matches, I can't remember the last time i could say the same for a WWE PPV.
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Post by No Brokeback on Jul 13, 2010 19:23:41 GMT -5
If that was an awful PPV, I'm very curious to know what a 'decent' PPV is to you. And if you say anything WWE in the past few years, then...*sigh* You know, for someone who's ALWAYS whining about "WWE fans dragging poor TNA into it" everytime your over in the WWE board, I see you do the same here in the TNA section if not more. And yes, there are several WWE PPV's that have been vastly superior to Victory Road. 'sigh' The last post I had in the WWE board was saying how awesome Randy Ortons RKO was. And when I was posting in the WWE board, when my name was "9Tech TNA", they would read that and just post the dumbest crap I could ever read because 'TNA' was in my name. So I would compare the two companies on decisions they've made..and everything WWE fans said was stupid about TNA..WWE or WCW had done something slightly similar. But of course, they enjoyed it then, but not now. Not in TNA, just because it's TNA. And sure, I can't say i've seen all the PPV's that WWE has put on the in the last 2 years. But they were pretty damn terrible with the ones I did see. And , no..they weren't terrible because I was a 'TNA fan' that would just hate on WWE either..because I thought TNA sucked as well until they changed everything around Jan 4, but it really wasn't really watchable until after the live monday nights stopped.
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Post by 1992 on Jul 13, 2010 19:31:23 GMT -5
And yes, there are several WWE PPV's that have been vastly superior to Victory Road. 'sigh' This year? Besides WrestleMania, every PPV I've watched from WWE this year has been awful. At least this show had 4 good matches, I can't remember the last time i could say the same for a WWE PPV. "And if you say anything WWE in the past few years, then" 'Few' can mean up to 3 or 4 Inbetween the last 3-4 years of WWE PPVs and Victory Road....VR is the best one? Give me a break...
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