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TNA LIVE on Monday Night ! Week 3 Great classic Spanish guitar piece by Uncle Eric. As fake as Jarrett's signing, but hell, it is kinda smart, actually... Bischoff is a lot of things, but he's always a really good character and game performer. Well, that angle worked, with Eric taking a perfect guitar shot to a molten Impact Zone. What an odd promotion, really... The whole Daffney stealing Tara's spider is ok. Tayor Wilde is a forgotten worker of the era. Ric Flair on a wheelchair acting batshit crazy and rolled around by Chelsea (she had to be a model or something, she's that hot) is both completely ridiculous and oddly compelling in a completely over-the-top awful way. Abyssamania, on the other hand, is WCW 1995 level of dumbfuckery. Also, Abyss was nowhere near as carryable in 2010 as he was five years before apparently, as AJ Styles really had a match with himself at the PPV, while they had a legit great match in TNA's first years. But yeah, this Abyss as Evad Sullivan push is insufferable. I'm waiting for the Zodiac to show up any moment, as they are going straight into a Wargames Lethal Lockdown match, with heel Sting as a captain, mind you. Mix of Fall of 95 with Summer of 00 level booking. Ok, the crowd is molten too for the complete clusterfuck that is this angle (Hogan handcuffed, Pope run-in). This people were drugged up on coke. Flair takes a clothesline bump from his chair. Hey, I bagged on Flair quite a bit, but he's going insane and it's ok. Rob Terry was a complete waste of roids. Hey, this show is more and more fast-forwadable, so good for me. Jarrett vs Foley, loser gets fired. Beer Money (both of them) special refs. Maybe not enough stips. This match in 1996 would have been awesome. Considering how limited Foley is, it's OK because Jarrett is still super solid, although is finisher still is the drizzling shizzit. So, Foley is gone. Because much like Luger in 1991, he had exceeded the number of his requisite contractual appearances already or something. So WCW. So apparently he's gonna be back for the ECW tribute angle. And now Beer Money attacks Jeffrey. This show is so tiring. And now Jeff Hardy & RVD run in. Just like I said... And I like most of those guys apart from Hardy. I can't wait to go back watching current IMPACT to enjoy old-ass RVD shitting on millenials instead. Bubba the Racist Sponge has not been fired already ? He's not even worthy to bump for Foley. Fuck Hogan and his racist wife pimping friend for fucking up TNA even more. The only compelling storytelling of this whole era is Hogan being the straight boss and Bischoff working him as he's really the old abusive asshole he was in WCW pretending he's here doing business. I think I'm throwing way too much compliment toward Uncle Eric on this show, but he really was a good performer no matter what shit he was working with. Well, not in WCW in 2000, but here his segments are usually pretty decent at least. Hey, tag team champs partner against each other. Funny to think Matt Morgan was someone Corny was having a hard on for. Because he was big. Yeah, Matt Morgan surely was the prototype of the pro-wrestling of the future... Wait, no, that would be the Young Bucks, who aren't featured on this show after stealing the PPV (well, none of the X-division guys are on this show despite ALL OF THEM having the best matches on the PPV). Hernandez never developed much beyond "big guy who does cool spots" either. He was never better than in LAX. Anyway, I'm not even paying attention. Morgan as a heel had potential though. Hey, dramatic injury angle with Taz selling it as it's "real". Shoot-angle, bro. So, I guess they are tag team champs no more. Can I guess ? TOURNAMENT !!!! Because we haven't had a TOURNAMENT in what, two weeks ? Beer Money vs the WWE Rejects Express. Can't lie, RVD and Jeff Hardy do come off like stars, but this crowd has been popping for any kind of shit all night long, so I dunno... Beer Money is SO holding this together. People shitting on Roode in WWE have no idea. It's actually quite a good TV match, easily the best in weeks, so no complaint. Although it's obvious the former WWE guys are just propelled at the top of the promotion and the TNA guys are used to put them over. Fuck, serious Eric Young calling out the Wolfpack is lame. And he's getting the rub of the two WWE guys ? Da fuck ? Probably the less worse show since they got on Monday, although the World title feud is rotten and pathetic.

The quota of propaganda show was already reached with the two MBSManias. Can't have any more. Fuck the troops, WWE need to support an islamic dictature. Hopefully no one gets raped again since this show will really flew under the radar this time.

Yeah, Ask Arn 4, from last week.

They already are inducting Hogan (again). That would makes too many of those people, ya know...

I laughed.

No shit. Joey Janela taking a bump from the Moon down to Earth wouldn't make Big Casxcsc (whatever consonants the guy added to his stupid name tonight) even remotely entertaining.

To me Naito already has been Kawada-ed. It's already passed the point he should have gotten the big one from Okada. So, it needs to be done now, because anytime later will feel like really the biggest missed opportunity. Not to mention the guy is breaking down already.

This guy needs serious help. And no, he's not getting any sympathy for me, "mental health issue" or not. The fact he's the only guy ever whose motivational video was *pulled off* from DDPY's app tells me something. (unless his desperate no-talent ass is trying to work-shoot his way into some booking, in which case it at least make sense in a carny way)

I guess I'll have to avoid spoilers for a few days, as I won't be able to watch these as it happens nor even with one day delay. No idea how this thing can turn out. Like the most impressive event ever or a complete burn out. I'm on the fence with this. Phantasmo & Ishimori vs R3K, Archer vs Mox, Ospreay vs Hiromu, White vs Naito, Okada vs Ibushi, Tanahashi vs Jericho and hopefully Okada vs Naito still looks like an insane line-up. All the Liger stuff should be great.

Basically, if you've watched and been a fan of his Spring Break shows, you can't unlike Janela and you don't give a flying fuck about his fundamentals.

I love you for that. Loved all of those. Thanks for the list. I wish I had kept track a bit. Those two AAA matches kinda flew under the radar because AAA, but yeah, these were two awesome matches. Also, obviously : Tessa Blanchard vs Sami Callihan from Slammiversary. Hell yeah.

Hey, good for him. That's smart. totall off topic : there's this misanthropic French hip-hop artist with only one Tweet on his Twitter since 2010 : "Read books instead".

Yeah. Super fun match too. I don't remember the rest of the show TBH (nor if I actually watched the entire thing actually).

So they are gonna induct Hulk "I guess we're all a bit racist" Hogan, again ? Really ? MBS in the celebrity wing when ?

This. Doesn't surprise me from known bully and stooge JBL though. The more I know about Taker IRL, the less I care about this guy. That's the issue with knowing too much about performers. Then again, maybe if performers were less of bullies and assholes in general, everything would flow better for everybody involved. I sure hope the younger generation is aware of this and things are only get more mature in the future. Funny how you can't win anyway. If you're not a pro-wrestling fan, then you're just in for the money and you don't respect da business and da boys and shit. If you're a huge wrestling fan, you're a mark and a geek. Ok.

Thanks. Agreed. The Wild Cards stuff looks just thrown together and Eddie did cut a promo about the Rock'n'Roll, so maybe infact he's just not working there anymore, because it seemed logical for them to challenge for the tag titles. The Wild Cards seem quite ok now that I've seen a bit more of them. I've also seen Royce Isaac on a Bar Wrestling show, and he looked like a decent worker in that context.

Not keeping track at all anymore. So much greatness in pro-wrestling in 2019, I mean the G1 Climax only was ridiculous. From the top of my head, for how big it came off and because of which show it was on and how unique it was, Cody vs Dustin strikes me as a good candidate, although obviously some of the NJPW stuff was out of this world great again this year. Young Bucks vs Lucha Brothers ladder match was insane and maybe the greatest car crash match ever too.

Well, like @Alucard is saying, there's a thing about finding the little gems in the pile of dogshit. Plus I find TNA to be a fascinating case. I mean, the fucking Young Bucks stealing the show ten years ago on PPV. How crazy is that ? Also, this won't last, since there's only a bunch of Monday Night shows. Plus, I'm not doing it because I'm legit depressed like I was when I actively dove into TNA some years ago. So, it's just for the heck of it.

And I love Ricky Morton and consider him as one of the greatest worker ever. But yeah...

So against whom are the Rock'n'Roll Express working then ? Yeah, either way that's odd. Although Homicide looked bored as hell. Man, AEW should jump on Kingston and pair him with Ortiz & Santana. They worked against each other in IMPACT so they are familiar, it would be the perfect act with Kingston on the mic working a match once in a while (since he wanted to retire).

Yeah, it's interesting to hear him say that despite spending 18 years in the E, he never really thought he found his place, or even that they made a place for him, often demining his opinions and experience. Also interesting to hear basically what Meltz says often, is that they basically are doing the shows for an audience of one. Yeah, love the show, Arn is a pleasure to listen to.

It's been that way about AEW since the very beginning. People are irrationnal. I dont remember that kind of reaction about any other promotion ever. It's like all of a sudden AEW threatens what people are used to and they fear it will ruins pro-wrestling "as it should be" forever if they become a successful promotion. For the very first time, I kinda feel a real generation gap. I get a feeling of "that techno shit is not music, these guys don't even know how to play real instrument" at times. It's been brewing for a while now, but we are reaching a point where most of the workers are from a completely different generation from the "old-schoolers" from the 80's and 90's. AJ Style is a 40 something year old. That's the guy who was pro-wrestling in the future in the mid 00's. 15 years ago. We're past that generation too. For someone discovering pro-wrestling now, a Canadian Destroyer is a super cool spot but not a finisher. Like, a big vertical suplex 30 years ago. And it's fine. Superkicks are like clotheslines. You can do intergender wrestling. So ? They know what's up. I truly feel something happening like never before, as the last remains of the 80's and 90's are slowly disappearing, and guys like Jericho & Dustin embracing the futur like Terry Funk did in the mid 90's. Up until, let's say the early to mid 10's, you could still feel the presence of this entire previous generation, people from the 90's were the big legends. As we're turning into the 20's, the landscape is washing itself clean of this era, much like there was barely anything left form the 60's and 70's in the 90's (yeah, you had Backlund tearing it up in WWF in a style that looked alien and was cool because of it, but no one then talked about the good old days of 70's wrestling, because the fans were younger then and brought up in the 80's). Because most of what constitutes the pro-wrestling fans of today still are an heritage of the "glory days" of the 80's and late 90's, tons of these people seem to be scared shitless of what's coming up. Those damn millenials and their movez and looking like geeks and not understanding selling and heat and such. At one point, if AEW catches up, after a while most replies to the critics will end up being : ok boomers.

Next NWA tag team champions. Hopefully Scurll and Harper end up in AEW doing Villain Enterprise, so people can bitch about the finger breaking spot and yet another cult-like stable and whatnot.

You mean, pro-wrestling is not about promoting yourself to get people see you work at a show ? Damn... I must have misunderstood something then... No but, seriously, we get your point. But your are trying way too hard to rationalize your distaste for Janela. I understand why he's not your type of wrestler, and like I said I'm not sure if he's gonna successfully translate well in the long run, but he's not nearly as bad as you make him to be (I find him actually quite good in his own way).

Destination X was kinda crazy in that it painted a perfect picture of TNA. On one side, they had the Motor City Machine Guns vs Generation Me totally stealing the show in an Ultimate X match. Awesome stuff that totally precedes the style of the 2010's by a few years. Throw this shit on Dynamite, and it's still an amazing match. And also, the fact TNA signed the Young Bucks and showcased them in their signature match on a PPV in 2010 shows how progressive this company could be. Much like they were in the 00's when they were running AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe vs Chris Daniels, which was the state of the art pro-wrestling emerged from the most advanced indies like ROH at the time. Much like when they were putting women in position to have strong serious match and draw viewers as early as 2007. This match is the same, it's basically the wrestling of the future. But then, the main event concluded with this infamous sequence : Which is funny as fuck, but also tragic in the grand scheme of things, because it sums up what TNA really was instead of what it could have been.