Random TNA Bullshit Vol. 2

[Valeyard]

I can't remember if it was last night or the night before but I had their Twitch stream on the background and they were showing the best of the X-Division special from September 2002 (they took 9/11 off out of respect). Low Ki was so good and any multi-man match with him is worth a look. Ki vs Red vs SAT even clipped is still one of my favorite TNA matches, just for Red being a star.

Jerry Lynn is one of the best ever, too. He deserves ten times the praise he gets.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Lynn is one of the only workers from that late 90s/early 00s period whose work still holds up as being something totally worth watching. He got the best out of so, so many workers, and one of the two best talents of that generation (AJ Styles) became the great worker he is starting with the Lynn program.

He also got me into so much of the music I'm into via interviews in magazines. Dude is just a total class act with an incredible track record in the ring and an absolutely brutal taste in music.

 

[Valeyard]

What's funny is it didn't feel like the matches with AJ hold up as well, which isn't to say they're bad but AJ got SO good that he's almost unrecognizable.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

An Update from Don West

Here's a letter written by Don West to provide an update on his condition: Hello everybody, Don West here to tell you about how disappointed I am not to

www.kpq.com

Don West announced he has brain lymphoma.

I JUST KNOW HE'S GONNA FIND SOME INSANE DEALS ON BEATING CANCER! YOU GOT THIS, BROTHER!

 

[Valeyard]

1.) Put him in the HOF right now.
2.) Get an instagram story with Red jumping on the bed next to him shouting GO DON GO

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1405039142053023744

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1405655162811817986

 

[Valeyard]

But that's what his cousin would do.

The belt took the worst bumps that match though.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1406255068437962760

 

[Valeyard]

The most inconsequential member of the TNA roster is Edward "Iceberg" Chastain.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Donate to Join The Don West Tag Team Against Lymphoma, organized by Lisa Morley

This fund is created for my brother-in-law Don West who was recently diagnosed… Lisa Morley needs your support for Join The Don West Tag Team Against Lymphoma

www.gofundme.com

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1407341787023351816

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1408074901882298370

No wonder why @Laz and @The Valeyard loved them so much. #IllegalDownloads

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I will have you know that I paid for every weekly show I ordered because I, at the time, cared enough to spend my money on wrestling.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1407886477325914116

Honestly just as gross if not grosser than I remembered this being.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Again, those were sheep shears, and not regular clippers. They wanted to make sure it wouldn't get jammed on Raven's soaking wet hair.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Wrong thread. This is what happens when we have multiple TNA threads.

(it's my own damn fault)

 

[Valeyard]

I always bought the weekly shows when I ordered them. I wasn't about fighting the dialup at home for pixelized Harris Brothers matches.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Why am I just now finding out that Chris Harris used a "More Human Than Human" knockoff for his theme?

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

...I think we all are

 

[BruiserBrody]

Hennig looks really bloated here

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1409248287291551745

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Hennig's TNA run was like the wrestling equivalent of Steve Nash on the Lakers or Willie Mays on the Mets except worse cause neither of those guys died during those runs.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1410022894835535872

@Laz when he sees me tagging him in some lame BS post.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1410277735914774531

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Listening to VOW's new retro TNA podcast and they brought up a super fascinating point that I never thought of before. Impact's plummet in popularity when AJ Styles, Sting, and Samoa Joe all left in a short timespan (I think Styles and Sting literally left within a week or two of each other) in 2014-15 neatly coincided with NJPW becoming more widely available with English commentary, ROH becoming available on terrestial television, WWE improving marginally.

I know TNA/Impact's history has been filled with moments where a lot of stuff went wrong but that period in 2013-15, it felt like almost everything went wrong for them. In retrospect, seeing how his career has turned out almost a decade (and runs in multiple promotions) down the line, it's a bad sign that Impact stans were getting really wound up for EC3!

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1410437446249107457

Damn...also honestly had no idea that the baby Briscoes popped up in early TNA.

 

[Valeyard]

The dark period between Impact leaving Fox Sports and getting on Spike goes so unrecognized. Raven's whole title run pretty much never saw proper television, then they hit the reboot button. Dropped the belt at a BCW show like nothing. Still feels bullshit.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Fact that a lot of TNA fans say that Summer of '05 period is one of the best periods in company history is the pro wrestling equivalent of "My girlfriend lives in Canada." Yeah, sure, pal.

 

[Valeyard]

I can only be very biased and say that it was never as good when they left Nashville. The great is really great, yeah, but I liked how grimy and bizarre the Asylum was compared to the clean Impact Zone. It just never felt the same.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Summer of '05 shows were fire. Everything was clicking, everybody was over, the seeds for future greatness were being planted with Joe rising through the ranks, we had AJ/Daniels delivering at every opportunity, Sabin was really coming into his own...