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

[garynysmon]

5 hours ago, simonworden said:

Would Impact be able to fill it these days to make it a viable venue?

2016 called and wants its jokes back.

[simonworden]

5 hours ago, garynysmon said:

2016 called and wants its jokes back.

Surely we need to consult 2002 through 18 to decide who owns that TNA joke? 

[d-d-d-dAz]

Another fun, well-booked wrestling show. My only gripe was them not making the Swann/Moose match a unification. Like, you've literally just sanctioned the title... surely the endgoal is to have them unified and the TNA title slowly phased out.

Never mind.

The main event was fun. Two big ol' boys beating each other up.

[RIDDUM_N_STYLE]

I saw on Twitter that they took a jab at WWE again during the show, specifically the eye for an eye match between Rollins and Mysterio from last year

[d-d-d-dAz]

Yeah, I didn’t care for that segment. All wrestling is silly really, so no point taking shots at the angles that don’t work. 

[Tsurutagun]

If you had said to me two years ago that Fulham FC's sporting director would cut a better promo than Dolph Ziggler's brother I'd thought you were crazy. 

[RedRooster]

3 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

Another fun, well-booked wrestling show. My only gripe was them not making the Swann/Moose match a unification. Like, you've literally just sanctioned the title... surely the endgoal is to have them unified and the TNA title slowly phased out.

I'm not quite following what's going on here. Did they, at one point, sanction a new "Impact" world title that replaced the TNA title? Why are there two belts right now? I'm sure this all makes sense if you're a long time viewer, but I'm not. 

The show was fun to watch, although I bloody hate Jake Something's name, and I don't see it growing on me. The Tony Khan ads are getting a bit long in the tooth. It's starting to feel a little like when a comedy sketch show runs an ongoing joke into the ground. 

[d-d-d-dAz]

17 minutes ago, RedRooster said:

I'm not quite following what's going on here. Did they, at one point, sanction a new "Impact" world title that replaced the TNA title? Why are there two belts right now? I'm sure this all makes sense if you're a long time viewer, but I'm not. 

The show was fun to watch, although I bloody hate Jake Something's name, and I don't see it growing on me. The Tony Khan ads are getting a bit long in the tooth. It's starting to feel a little like when a comedy sketch show runs an ongoing joke into the ground. 

I think Scott D’Amore was being a clever cunt, and got one over Moose by granting him what he wanted... a world title match. Only he quickly sanctioned Moose’s title and gave the shot to Jake Something, who had a new score to settle with Moose.

I thought it made sense.

Moose is a deluded prick who’s been carrying round a pretend title to validate himself. I don’t know the origins of the pretend title but presume they replaced the TNA title with the Impact one when they rebranded.

Considering he’s definitely going to win, I’d have thought, a nice bow to put on the show would have been to make the match at Sacrifice a unification and bring an end to the fake title stuff.

I really like Moose, FWIW. I think he’s great. I wish he wouldn’t do a flip when he hit the spear, but besides that he’s top draw.

Edited February 24, 2021 by d-d-d-dAz

[I Bent My Wookie]

From my memory, he seemed to be claiming to be the real World Champion after he lost another title match, using an old TNA belt that randomly was now on white leather after they replaced that belt during their initial Impact rebranding, so like if when Lance Storm changed the US belt in WCW to the Canadian one, someone started carrying around the old US belt and claiming it was more important.

 

[Cod Eye]

I've not watched Impact since it was on The Wrestling Channel, but decided to drop in this thread to see what was going on with their little AEW thing they have going on. I'd seen the name Jake Something mentioned and honestly thought he had a mega-long, hard to pronounce name. Never imagined someone would think to call themselves Jake Something. Is there a story behind it or anything, because it's shit!

[d-d-d-dAz]

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. So I choose to stand for something... Jake Something.”

Something like that.

Edited February 24, 2021 by d-d-d-dAz

[Cod Eye]

16 minutes ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. So I choose to stand for something... Jake Something.”

Something like that.

Fuck me, that's ...Genesis of McGillicutty levels of bad(the words, not how it was delivered)...

[reychampion]

Really enjoyed this week's eposide. Solid storytelling throughout leading somewhere.

I really like moose as the headline talent. Good brothers haven't impressed me, just blah. Jake something has something. Rohit Raju is a top talent, at least in the next few years. 

[PowerButchi]

Jake Something is a right hoss. I'd have no problems with Moose beating Swann for the title leading to a Moose vs Something feud.

[uklaw]

It was reported on PWInsider that the idea last year was to spin off this TNA stuff into a separate, revived brand and TV show.

The speculation within that article is that it may be happening this year.