Impact wrestling thread - It's a Don West tribute thread now!

[King Pitcos]

Or, depending on how shady the promoter is, "friends over for a holiday."

[PunkStep]

PN News loves a UK holiday.

[Your Fight Site]

“Do you have a visa?”
“Nope, just a MasterCard.”

[Craig_Jarrett]

Fuck I only said I enjoyed watching TNA of late. Shit can you imagine if I said that I think NXT is overrated and British wrestling is just all spotfest GIFs!?

[Carbomb]

No, you didn't. You said you enjoyed TNA and then proceeded to have a go at people who criticised it. All of whom, by the way, have watched TNA regularly (including myself), and have been eventually put off by a shit product, so don't make out like this is a case of people just shitting on TNA for the sake of it.

[DavidB6937]

There was a point in time where I was enjoying TNA's output far more than WWE's.. but that's long gone.

[Merzbow]

I haven't been as hyped for a single weekly wrestling show as I was for the infamous Jan 4th show, TNA was easily the brand I was enjoying most at that time. I'm actually gonna go watch it again.

 

"Vince McMahon, you have no idea what's comin' at ya"

Edited June 26, 2016 by Merzbow

[Guest]

Where to watch it? I was completely ignoring wrestling during that whole time period

[PunkStep]

Oh man, that got me interested in watching wrestling again. I'd started watching TNA casually a few months before purely for the Desmond Wolfe/Kurt Angle feud, but hadn't watched WWE properly in years. The January 4th TNA show was a wonderful spectacle. RAW wasn't all that, just a forced hug between Michaels and Bret.

 

Still, I was sort of back into WWE after that night and then back in proper after the Nexus invasion.

[Merzbow]

Where to watch it? I was completely ignoring wrestling during that whole time period

 

It's crazy to see how hot that crowd is compared to now.

[Carbomb]

I really liked Desmond Wolfe, was the first time I enjoyed anything Nigel McGuinness did. He had a unique style without being ridiculously spotty, made all the more impressive by actually coming across like how a yob might wrestle if he was a technician. Good promo, too.

 

A shame the Hogoff regime had no real interest in him, and he ended up just being a Fourtune grunt before disappearing through injury. Had high hopes for London Brawling, but obviously TNA didn't.

[Statto]

I really liked Desmond Wolfe, was the first time I enjoyed anything Nigel McGuinness did. 

 

Likewise. Admittedly, I hadn't seen a huge amount of McGuinness, but I took against him due to his hair and that headstand in the corner. Seem to recall I boo'd him mercilessly at one of the Coventry Skydome shows.

 

LOVED Wolfe, though. I think you've nailed it on the "technical yob" call.

 

His little run as commissioner/commentator of Xplosion was great fun, too. "I've got a couple of wankers in the back who are going to come out and have a match." He called someone (Robbie E, I think) a "Helen Hunt" on commentary too.

 

Oh, and Chelsea 

[pryko]

The image on that youtube video just reminded me that TNA had Jay Lethal, arguably one of the best wrestlers on the planet right now who has held the RoH title for over 12 months, and Xavier Woods (Consequences Creed) one of the most popular wrestlers in the world right now

 

 

I really liked Desmond Wolfe, was the first time I enjoyed anything Nigel McGuinness did. 

 

Likewise. Admittedly, I hadn't seen a huge amount of McGuinness, but I took against him due to his hair and that headstand in the corner. Seem to recall I boo'd him mercilessly at one of the Coventry Skydome shows.

 

LOVED Wolfe, though. I think you've nailed it on the "technical yob" call.

 

His little run as commissioner/commentator of Xplosion was great fun, too. "I've got a couple of wankers in the back who are going to come out and have a match." He called someone (Robbie E, I think) a "Helen Hunt" on commentary too.

 

Oh, and Chelsea 

 

He came in like a wrecking ball in TNA, looking like TNA were going to make a bit of a star out of him...and then nothing. Obviously he had issues later on in his career there too, but another missed opportunity from TNA to make a bit of a homegrown star

[Carbomb]

The image on that youtube video just reminded me that TNA had Jay Lethal, arguably one of the best wrestlers on the planet right now who has held the RoH title for over 12 months, and Xavier Woods (Consequences Creed) one of the most popular wrestlers in the world right now

 

Yeah, but Lethal outside the Black Machismo or Ripoff Flair gimmick was bland as hell. That "Living The Dream" gimmick was just crap, nothing interesting about him at all.

 

I loved Consequences Creed doing the Apollo Creed thing, but he was green as grass, and TNA wasn't really the best place for him to get good. Overall, it seems WWE's been the best place for him.

Edited June 27, 2016 by Carbomb

[Ambulance Chaser]

and Xavier Woods (Consequences Creed) one of the most popular wrestlers in the world right now

 

 

Whoaaaaa, whoa now, steady on ay!!!!