Is Impact* the best wrestling promotion in history? *(Now TNA again, 2024)

[sek69]

It is wild to me that NXT barely was able to sell out tiny ass Center Stage and TNA is having their biggest house in ten tears tonight. That's not how I expected this partnership to work.

[El-P]

Wait until TNA gets a little *too much* hype and WWE puts the kibosh on that collaboration. 😅

At the point they are now, they will probably reach if not beat their biggest attendance ever. Like I said, the booking and product overall is not exactly setting the world on fire to me overall (despite some legit highlights), but this is fascinating to watch (and for the talent in the company, especially those who have been there for a while, it must be awesome). AJ Styles showing up in TNA again will be something though, for sure. 

[El-P]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

LOLTNA indeed.

Like I said, the CUCK ERA. 

[The Thread Killer]

I can’t believe they are booking The Hardys vs The Dudleys in 2025. Matt Hardy can barely walk, and D-Von hasn’t wrestled in years, because he had a stroke, ffs.

Apparently D-Von has been doing DDP Yoga, lost almost 100 lbs, and is doing much better…but still. Does anybody honestly want to see these two teams face off at this point?

[El-P]

I'm all for that stupid shithead grifter totally embarrassing himself (in a match I mean, he's already embarrassing on a daily basis otherwise).

And if you thought the results were stupid, it's even *stupider* watching the actual stuff. I swear, in my wildest hater shitposting twisted mind's imagination I could not have created such a dumb fucking fuck booking. 

Leon Slater winning the X-div title after a great match and performance (he's an exceptional worker, as anyone who has watched him in RevPro before knows) and being put over by a "returning" AJ Styles was the sole highlight of this idiotic showing. Well Ali vs Cedric was very good but really now, I couldn't care less about a two weeks built feud based on a Mania pre-show from 8 years ago (and really, Cedric Alexander seems to have zero charisma nor promo ability). Ali is just too good for TNA at this stage of his career. Leon I wish would work *elsewhere* (wink wink nudge nudge).

The ladder match was a kinda fun clusterfuck, at least it was not as ridiculously slow and cluttered and awkward as the Full metal Mayhem from BGF. Still, when AJ Francis is the one taking the dumbest bump, you know you're not watching a classic or anything (although AJ Francis and dumbest kinda is classic). Wentz was like "fuck this shit, when am I back on NXT" and Ryan Nemeth highspot was arguing with some celebrity (I guess) at ringside. The finish was creative (unsafe, but creative, so probably a Jeff Hardy idea). If Myron Reed isn't signed (and I don't think he is), AEW needs to throw him money. He's been killing it on indies for way too long. 

Rest of the show ? Well, you got TNA hard workers (Maclin, Young) and fun performers (Ash and her crew) sent to the pre-show. Poor Jake Something having to do a job to that piece of trash Enzo, who is still doing the same mic work he was doing ten years ago. First thing Something did after that was post a picture of him and Beast Mortos on X (from when he was in IMPACT). Ya know that guy is a goner. He's really, well, something ! Sign him yesterday Coach TK !

You got Tessa Blanchard trying to get a good match out of Indi Hartwell. And failing. Holy shit Hartwell is *not good* (I never want to hear again about how the Performance Center is producing great talent, especially female ones, the best stuff NXT had lately was Jordynne Grace, Stephanie Vaquer and Giulia). But she's gonna get pushed because she's an NXT reject. Tessa, oh well. This ain't working. You can put Victoria Crawford with her, she still gets mostly a mix of apathy and "she's a racist" chant. Her beating the fuck out of Gia Miller was glorious though. Poor Gia. Get out of here too.

You got the System, you apparently turned babyface from absolutely nowhere after two years of being the biggest (and dullest) heel faction in the company. But since they were facing Dark State aka a bunch of NXT no names, I guess they *needed* to act like ones. Only win you gonna get TNA fans. That'll teach ya. Oh yeah, Cardona was there too (where isn't he, apart from where he begs to be ?), teaming with his old pal Bryan "resthold" Myers. Kinda the speedrun Temu version of the Cope/Christian angle I guess (since last week the System was still a heel faction).

And then yes, Jacy Jane vs Masha. Gaaawd. They made a point of saying Masha was trained and lived in NYC. They even dragged her teacher Johnny Rodz to sit at ringside. And they jobbed her out. I guess at *this* point people thought at least it was the garantee Santana was winning. Oh, sweet summer childs. Match was pretty good though. Jacy Jane and her faction's gimmick seems to be reduced to "We're slutty", but hey, I guess you gotta feed content for Booker T on NXT television, but she had a good showing against Masha. Still, she took most of the match and won. There you go. Carlos Silvia, the new president, was even there to hand the WWE talent their belts. The guy was on the pre-show talking about TNA could become the #2 company. Bwahahahaha. Sit in your cuck chair and shut the fuck up. He seems to be the dumbest TNA president this side of Dixie yet.

And then the main event. Joe Hendry has lost quite a bit of luster. Who could have predicted, uh ? Match was ok all things considered, although really Williams is a green-ass overpushed rookie who tries to be Booker T. Yuck. And then, the genius spot of the match had Williams act like he was legit injured, and everybody around selling it like it was actually *legit*. So of course that mostly killed the crowd because they thought something unplanned had happened. That's not called "heat", that's called "killing a match on purpose". And then when the finish happened with Williams stealing the pin, you could hear the crowd dying. You can see the people leaving immediately. The build of Santana following the great Ali feud had been the best thing easily in the last 18 months of TNA. Great promos, great vignettes. They got the biggest crowd (ever ? or not. You could see tons of empty seats too, so maybe the number is fake, which would not be surprising) in forever in fucking NYC ready to see Mike fucking Santana become TNA champ. And they, well, fumbled it, as the NXT-pilled crowd like to chant. They jobbed the child of NYC Mike Santana at the peak of his overness on the same show they jobbed NYC adopted Masha Slamovich earlier.

I bet even Vince Russo thinks it's dumb as fuck.

TNA be like TNA.

[Tenese Sarwieh]

They repeated the same mistake they made with the AEW partnership, failing to showcase their best talent and not delivering standout shows when they had the most eyes on them. Only this time, instead of working with someone like Omega, one of AEW’s biggest stars, they’re bending over backward for WWE developmental names like Trick and Jacy.

Hardys vs. Dudleys again? In 2025? Sinner & Saint should’ve had that spot at Bound for Glory. This was the perfect chance to cement them as TNA’s top tag team, not relive a rivalry from two decades ago.