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I bought a lot of those early asylum weekly papers. They sucked. Is there any way cheex or whoever is still alive?
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Oh I thought about doing that before embarking on starting at the beginning, skipping ahead to the better years, but honestly it's so fascinating and horrifying to see what they thought was fine to air. At one point, I think it might have been episode 10, Bruce and the whole ms.tna thing, the crowd just being homophobic during his promo and it's bleeped out because it's the fight network versions and I'm just  during the whole thing
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Hellblazer187 posted:I bought a lot of those early asylum weekly papers. They sucked. Is there any way cheex or whoever is still alive? I actually did a deep dive on Cheex for an episode of the Monumental Podcast. He was better known on the indies as Rolling Thunder or his real name Mike Staples and wrestled until 2016. I believe he is still alive.
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They've played two trailers for The Mummy Murders during Impact and it looks like a Neil Breen movie
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Lumbermouth posted:it looks like a Neil Breen movie A completely amazing work of art?
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gently caress yeah good get for TNA
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he is really incredibly underrated. he likely would have gotten a pwg run had he not gotten scooped up for the cruiser classic so early on
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Jan 26, 2024 05:43
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Nic Nemeth doing dates, Mustafa Ali doing dates, and I hope that's it for recent WWE fires.
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if he puts in effort shelton would be a good hire
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STONE COLD 64 posted:if he puts in effort shelton would be a good hire Oh yeah, I forgot Shelton Benjamin got fired!
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https://twitter.com/MustafaAli_X/status/1750915572139774282 Ali is doing the next three tapings at minimum, stoked.
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Meltzer gave Ospreay/Alexander II *****1/2, the highest-rated match in TNA history.
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We might've lost BTI, but gdi Xplosion is back, baby! https://x.com/ThisIsTNA/status/1750913735932223539?s=20
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I'm up to episode #14 watching TNA from the start and something happened that made me immediately have to write it down. So the main event is Jeff Jarrett vs B.G. james(road dogg) And James does the stupidest promo before the match which includes the line "it ain't nothing but a B to the G thing and you're about to feel my B to the G sting. It's B.G. James and the G stands for Get it,got it, good" 
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Jan 28, 2024 17:50
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Miching Mallecho posted:I'm up to episode #14 watching TNA from the start and something happened that made me immediately have to write it down. This isn't even the only company where a bad Jarrett vs Road Dogg match would headline during that period. Post WCW was so dire in the US.
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Jan 28, 2024 17:52
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Miching Mallecho posted:I'm up to episode #14 watching TNA from the start and something happened that made me immediately have to write it down. Sometimes you would see someone fail or suck in WWE, and you would be like "well, that happens with almost everyone there", and then you'd see them elsewhere and decide to watch/give them another chance, see them fail or suck there too, and immediately are like "ah. nobody could have made this guy work, this guy just sucks" A lot of people were like that with Aron Rex/Damien Sandow. I was definitely like that with Road Dogg
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Jan 28, 2024 22:32
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MassRafTer posted:This isn't even the only company where a bad Jarrett vs Road Dogg match would headline during that period. Post WCW was so dire in the US. I have never recovered from the one WWA show I went to see live.
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Raeg posted:I have never recovered from the one WWA show I went to see live. I saw a WWA show where they broadcast the commentary in the arena. It is very strange.
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Well, got to #20 of NWA-TNA, I'm right in the middle of it. I got some thoughts: Brian Lawler and April cuckold story that has hit the "Brian lawler fakes a heart attack after losing to Syxx-pac" was something I didn't know happened.  I loving despise Brian James. I mean I expected the homophobia and casual racism with TNA, so I kinda braced myself with that poo poo and Jeff Jarrett in one of the earlier episodes saying "this is reverse racism" after Truth won the belt,atleast that made me laugh because of the absurdity coming out of Jeff's mouth but Brian James and his bullshit unfunny promos in like 3 episodes have made me have an existential crisis every time. And that he was 33 years old at the time too as he lumbers around Edit: watching #21 and James Mitchell debuts a new member of his evil group, Bella Donna. And man did I get sad. I thought "wow, let me see what she's doing" and she died in 2019, she was 40 years old.  Edit: Jesus christ in #22, they just start using the f slur I was expecting it one of these days because of AJ but I'm still shocked and of course it was road dogg
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Jan 29, 2024 20:12
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Here's the thing about pro wrestling in 2002: it was VERY problematic. This is not to absolve TNA of sins, it's just a matter of fact.
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Edward Mass posted:Here's the thing about pro wrestling in 2002: it was VERY problematic. This is not to absolve TNA of sins, it's just a matter of fact. Society in general. Homophobia was still pretty normalized in a lot of circles.
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I really need a summary of Aron Rex, because the out of context gifs I've seen do not explain anything and just leave me confused
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The D in Detroit posted:I really need a summary of Aron Rex, because the out of context gifs I've seen do not explain anything and just leave me confused Do you remember Damien Sandow? Okay, so that guy got fired and then went to TNA and became a generic ex-WWE guy. But then half a year later, new calendar year comes around and they're like "well, what do you wanna do, keep going with this or pitch your own stuff?" And he wanted to pitch his own thing, something WWE said no to quote:Rex returned on the January 12, 2017 episode of Impact Wrestling debuting a Liberace-inspired character, with a new clean shaven look and sporting plucked eyebrows, lip gloss, a fur coat, naked trunks and oversized rings on all fingers, along with Rockstar Spud as his new manager.[189] This was his idea. In the year 2017 It lasted one more week and then he was done in the company, announcing as much months later
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He's been slumming around NWA since 2019 He's a manager now which should work for him because he has a ton of charisma. He's just low rent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYJfHiY_ro Moderate sized fish. iiiity biiiity pond.
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Jonny Nox posted:He's been slumming around NWA since 2019 He's so boring in the NWA. Which is true for everyone but his character work really sucks. Very generic.
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It's really incredible how he's one guy who actually got significantly worse the moment he left WWE. Like...yeah that's happened plenty of times, but the drop in quality was instant and stark.
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:It's really incredible how he's one guy who actually got significantly worse the moment he left WWE. Like...yeah that's happened plenty of times, but the drop in quality was instant and stark. While I thought Sandow was a fun gimmick and he was the one guy who managed to get the Miz super over when he was floundering, Macho Mandow is actually worse than his current NWA run.
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MassRafTer posted:While I thought Sandow was a fun gimmick and he was the one guy who managed to get the Miz super over when he was floundering, Macho Mandow is actually worse than his current NWA run. I think that happened long after I had given up on WWE and I was mostly watching Britwres at the time so I'll take your word for it. I thought Sandow and Mizdow were both fun and he carried himself well, so I was pretty interested in his TNA debut at the time and then he cut the blandest "I just wanna be me" promo and buried a gimmick people actually liked. Shockingly tone deaf.
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 Well got to the "Vince Russo makes his on-screen debut" of NWA-TNA First of all, I don't get why his stupid first promo, in episode #23, is saying that the company is poo poo, it's like in the first episode with everyone saying how lovely it is to win the title in a gauntlet for the gold match. The terrorizing of Athena, I had already watched this infamous segment clipped but I didn't know that literally on the debut of TNA there were Athena signs and since then I was dreading this episode because now I know just how over she was with the crowd. Horrid treatment for her that got worst when you get the full context Then you got the infamous Piper promo in episode 24,I've seen the promo before but in the context of a weekly wrestling show, it's so random...and he's advertising his book while yelling at Russo about killing Owen And then in episode 25, which I'm in the middle of, Slash and Brian Lee lose the tag titles to the loving Harris idiots and then it gets reversed by Percy Pringle and the NWA  You can literally tell when Russo started influencing the loving finishes even more and thank god for the X division because without that, this place would've closed down by episode 3. Now I'm not saying Slash and Brian are a great pair of wrestlers but drat it; Them,James Mitchell, and BellaDonna got over with me  https://streamable.com/19vwyw?src=player-page-share One sad quote from Curt Henning when he sat down with Tenay before the title match with Jeff,hit me hard "I know right now at the age of 35 ,that I can go out right now and perform the same as twenty years ago" You can hear him have trouble breathing and he was actually 44 at the time, so he was already completely messed up and we'd lose him in feb, two months after this show Edit: #26, the last show for 2002. I'm literally shocked when Animal and Hawk come out of nowhere. I didn't know they were in TNA Then I'm shocked again at the end when David flair comes out of nowhere holding a loving AX, a literal AX upside down to attack Curt Henning. And then Elix skipper pushes it out of the ring when it's on the mat Edit 2: first TNA episode of 2003, #27. It finally happened. We got a loving Ax handle on a pole match with henning and David flair.  No wonder Jerry Jarrett hated Russo Edit 3: the end of #28 the crowd just dead silent as Mr.wrestling 4 unmasks and it's Nikita Koloff,nobody cares and neither do I. Edit 4: Schiavone is here on episode #30, and this sucks. Tony shouldn't be doing this stupid worked shoot Vince Russo bullshit. Tony and Tenay "shooting" on each other 
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RIP TNA Legend Toby Keith, break out the 50 Greatest Moments in TNA history and watch all of his moments to celebrate.
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MassRafTer posted:RIP TNA Legend Toby Keith, break out the 50 Greatest Moments in TNA history and watch all of his moments to celebrate. So this is how I find out. Wild.
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same same. Thinking a bout him doing a suplex
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Jeff said that Toby turned down a White House trip to sing at TNA
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Suplex Liberace posted:same same. Thinking a bout him doing a suplex That suplex was perfect
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he was one of the best platninum seeling wrestlers ever
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apophenium posted:That suplex was perfect For the record you do not under any circumstances "gotta hand it" to Tony Keith, even if he did a perfect vertical suplex on Jeff Jarrett that one time
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apophenium posted:For the record you do not under any circumstances "gotta hand it" to Tony Keith, even if he did a perfect vertical suplex on Jeff Jarrett that one time Well I just looked it up and I didn't know he did a song literally about lynching  Unless there's something else more too....
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