***2016 Impact Wrestling on Pop Thread***

there were a ton of quick camera cuts.

it would've driven Chip insane

I watched Final Deletion this morning. Hysterical, cheesy, ridiculous. I don't even know how to describe it. I laughed out loud more than once, though, so, I suppose that's a good thing? It's as though TNA said " it, let's become the Hardy playground."

TNA trended worldwide on Twitter because of this thing, so, I'd say it was a raging success.

I dunno about a success they're still having a hard time paying the bills...

That was without he most awful thing I've seen.

I meant i skipped the other Hardy segments. Ill watch the full show tonight. Since i read the spoilers, i pretty knew what went on. I did see the Eddie Edwards Lashley segment on YouTube. I like that this year its title for title. The whole "Lets vacate the title every thing" thing got old fast. I will be surprised if this episode does not get higher ratings than usual after all the hype it got

Considering the amount of buzz it's caused, I'd say they know what they're doing.

People can say they hate it all they want, but they're watching and talking about TNA... and for once, not about how they'll be out of business in a week.

Hell, the Impact thread on Wreddit that usually gets 200-300 comments had over 3,600 last night.

Final Deletion was pure Wrestlecrap. I just watched a match where Matt killed his own brother or whatever.

People are talking about it in the same way you talk about a bad movie.

I'm sure a lot of work went into that but it's something only Russo could love.

... how much worse can it get for TNA? Seriously. Everybody laughs and says how awful they are anyways, and have for years. They're the butt of every joke. I think it's impossible for them to garner more bad publicity than they've already had for years.

I've also seen a lot of people praising the segment and saying it was hilarious, they loved it, etc. Including guys like Jericho, Kenny Omega and The Bucks.

In the end, I'll take something like this crazy, corny, over-the-top stuff rather than the same goddamn pointless rematch that WWE pumps out week-after-week. At least it's not boring and predictable.

That's cool. It reminds me of WCW 2000. They paid lot of money to shoot out of the ring matches like this too. Vampiro and KISS Demon wrestled in a graveyard. It was just as goofy. I guess TNA really wants to follow in their footsteps.

It gets more fans in the arena because WWE is the biggest, most well-known wrestling promotion in the world. That's like saying a Yankees game draws more people than a minor league game - of course it does. They also draw bigger crowds than Lucha Underground, which is pretty much unanimously praised. And while we're at it, WWE is also on a major cable network. Attendance and ratings don't flat out mean that the quality is better.

But, if you really want to go that route... WWE's ratings are nearing record lows, and house show attendance is at an all-time low. So, I'd say that they really aren't putting butts in the seats. If anything, they're driving them away.