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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 12:09:09 GMT -5
How have ten years already passed?
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Post by Stuart? on Jan 4, 2020 15:53:31 GMT -5
Man, I remember being so hyped up for this. All my friends at school were hyped over Bret returning on Raw that night but all I cared about was Jeff's return and Hogan's debut over on iMPACT. I miss those days lol.
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Post by Triple S: POOR on Jan 4, 2020 16:09:38 GMT -5
Not a single guy shown in that opening match is still with the company. Hahaha
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Post by JP on Jan 4, 2020 16:11:02 GMT -5
Consequences Creed > Xavier Woods.
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The Shiniest Wizard
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Bored at work, entertain me.
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Post by The Shiniest Wizard on Jan 4, 2020 16:19:39 GMT -5
It's crazy, the ups and downs that TNA has had and STILL been able to come out from them. Been watching since around 2004 late nights on Saturdays until they lost their Spike TV deal where I just couldn't anymore. I just started rewatching around WrestleMania of 2018 and I'm very glad they have finally bounced back with a solid roster and direction. Here's to a good 10 more years.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 16:29:42 GMT -5
Not a single guy shown in that opening match is still with the company. Hahaha In fairness, it has been ten years.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 16:31:44 GMT -5
Personally, I think the biggest mistake this company made was not coming out of the Impact Zone until the mid-2010s. If they had taped even one episode a month outside of the Impact Zone from 2006 onwards that could have really helped.
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Post by Triple S: POOR on Jan 4, 2020 16:37:02 GMT -5
Not a single guy shown in that opening match is still with the company. Hahaha In fairness, it has been ten years. After reading the results, not a single wrestler on that card is still with TNA/Impact Wrestling 10 years or not, that shows that guys either left for better opportunities or fell into the category of being forgotten.
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Post by LA Times on Jan 4, 2020 17:11:57 GMT -5
It's crazy, the ups and downs that TNA has had and STILL been able to come out from them. Been watching since around 2004 late nights on Saturdays until they lost their Spike TV deal where I just couldn't anymore. I just started rewatching around WrestleMania of 2018 and I'm very glad they have finally bounced back with a solid roster and direction. Here's to a good 10 more years. TNA was a hot property from 2010-2013 but Dixie Carter's infatuation with Vince Russo ruined everything. Hulk Hogan, AJ Styles and Sting left in one fell swoop and the 1-2 punch of Magnus and Eric Young won the World Championship. They went through 5 different networks the last 5 years of the decade.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jan 4, 2020 17:17:34 GMT -5
Impact Wrestling has no connection to this era of TNA, and that's kind of sad. They both look like two separate wrestling organizations now.
I blame Scott D'Amore bringing in every local Canadian indy guy he can find to wrestle in Impact now.
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Post by LA Times on Jan 4, 2020 17:35:41 GMT -5
Impact Wrestling has no connection to this era of TNA, and that's kind of sad. They both look like two separate wrestling organizations now. I blame Scott D'Amore bringing in every local Canadian indy guy he can find to wrestle in Impact now. Impact is basically a glorified Canadian independent show now. Who the hell is ace Austin?
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Jan 4, 2020 17:59:36 GMT -5
Impact Wrestling has no connection to this era of TNA, and that's kind of sad. They both look like two separate wrestling organizations now. I blame Scott D'Amore bringing in every local Canadian indy guy he can find to wrestle in Impact now. Impact is basically a glorified Canadian independent show now. Who the hell is ace Austin?
I'm Canadian, and I don't even know!!
Scott D'Amore just took his Border City Wrestling he runs out of Windsor and slapped the Impact Wrestling name on it, and does TV out of Windsor every few months, and going to the USA once in a while.
It's just not an enjoyable wrestling program to watch anymore. I've tried every few often. They have the talent, but nobody knows who they are because they aren't well established in other places.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2020 18:22:48 GMT -5
Impact is basically a glorified Canadian independent show now. Who the hell is ace Austin? I'm Canadian, and I don't even know!! Scott D'Amore just took his Border City Wrestling he runs out of Windsor and slapped the Impact Wrestling name on it, and does TV out of Windsor every few months, and going to the USA once in a while. It's just not an enjoyable wrestling program to watch anymore. I've tried every few often. They have the talent, but nobody knows who they are because they aren't well established in other places. Not to mention the tiny dark venues they film out of, plus the Z class TV production.
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Post by Nivro™ on Jan 4, 2020 22:02:20 GMT -5
Not a single guy shown in that opening match is still with the company. Hahaha In fairness, it has been ten years. yea but half those guys are still successfully active on main rosters. Its not like they are all old and washed up.
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Post by RuthlessFigs on Jan 5, 2020 3:58:27 GMT -5
I remember this episode... I was so excited for it, so when i came home from school i ran to the computer to see what happened.
I was hyped as hell to see Jeff Hardy return, and being somewhat disappointed to see he had short hair. At the time, i HATED it... Ric Flair debuting was a cool thing to see, shocked me too. Not sure if it was rumoured or leaked or whatever, i wasn't all over that stuff back then. Scott Hall & X-Pac returning was awesome to see. I loved Hulk Hogan's debut and thought his theme with the pyro, and the pop was so amazing.
After that episode, i thought this was TNA finally hitting it big, and they were gonna skyrocket... Theeeen, nope.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 6:22:34 GMT -5
In fairness, it has been ten years. yea but half those guys are still successfully active on main rosters. Its not like they are all old and washed up. Yeah but the landscape of wrestling changes drastically in ten years. Ten years ago it was WWE vs. TNA with a bit of ROH. Ten years before that it was WWF vs. WCW with ECW. Now, NXT and Japan has taken over what TNA stood for in 2010 + there is the rise of AEW.
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Post by johnnyhanson21 on Jan 11, 2020 17:59:18 GMT -5
Impact is basically a glorified Canadian independent show now. Who the hell is ace Austin?
I'm Canadian, and I don't even know!!
Scott D'Amore just took his Border City Wrestling he runs out of Windsor and slapped the Impact Wrestling name on it, and does TV out of Windsor every few months, and going to the USA once in a while.
It's just not an enjoyable wrestling program to watch anymore. I've tried every few often. They have the talent, but nobody knows who they are because they aren't well established in other places.
That's a big problem under D'Moore & Callis they saved the company and have turned things around a bit but their not really growing the company at all over the last two years,if anything their scaling things down in terms of the venues they run and scale and look of the shows.
Their roster is decent but Tessa,Callihan,Cage,Moose,Edwards and washed up old ECW guys like RVD & Rhyno aren't going to take your promotion to another level at all.They'll keep it afloat but that's it.
Sad to see TNA from a decade ago with Hogan,Flair,Hardy,Sting,Angle,Styles,Joe,Roode,Storm,Young,Abyss...ect all on the roster and they still didn't go anywhere and all of those men are gone now.
Biggest problem always for TNA/Impact has been keeping their own homegrown talent and never being able to or to me seem that interested in marketing the company and promoting it in terms all forums of media to gain some interest in the product and to get eyes on the product.
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Post by wheeljack83 on Jan 14, 2020 7:02:34 GMT -5
Dixie Carter was always an idiot and had no understanding of what a good wrestling product was and thought Russo was a creative genius.
She constantly booked shows around Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, guys who weren't healthy and weren't in shape enough to be top of the card main events at the time. She constantly put the belt on Jeff Jarrett when the fans hated it and rejected it.
They wouldn't put the rocket on Samoa Joe when the fans were demanding it.
Always booked Sting terribly. Torpedo-ed Abyss and his run as champ.
They'd always take five steps back after taking two steps forward. A joke.
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Post by johnnyhanson21 on Apr 14, 2020 18:48:15 GMT -5
Just listing to the new 83 weeks with Eric Bischoff going over Lockdown 2010,crazy the amount of talent that was in TNA at that point,he stated that today he would take the bulk of that talent over the current wrestling landscape i.e. the talents in WWE & AEW.I think he has a point.The roster in 2010 at that point was.
Abyss AJ Styles Alex Shelley Bobby Roode Bubba Ray Dudley Chris Sabin Christopher Daniels D'Von Dudley Elijah Burke Eric Young Franky Kazarian Hernadez Homicide Jay Lethal Jeff Hardy Jeff Jarrett Kazuchika Okada Kevin Nash Kurt Angle Magnus Matt Jackson Matt Morgan Mr.Kennedy Nick Jackson Nigel McGuinness Ric Flair Rob Van Dam Samoa Joe Scott Hall Sting Hulk Hogan X-Pac
Just insane the amount of talent they had and how badly they screwed everything up.
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Post by JC Motors on Apr 17, 2020 14:35:19 GMT -5
They are a shell of their former self
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