Loki Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 I'd have to go with Jeff-on-drugs being sent out for the main event. That was a proper all-time low. Â Another bizarre one was Jeff Jarrett beating Raven for the heavyweight championship, on a house show. Wasn't even televised or PPV. I'm no fan of Raven, but they never used his popularity properly at all. Â And there was also a ballgown match involving Booker T's wife that was pure wrestlecrap. Â My personal least favourite stuff was definitely the Pacman Jones incident, culminating in a "match" where he wasn't legally able to fight or throw fists, and so the finish IIRC involved him pushing someone into someone else. An abomination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted August 7, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted August 7, 2013 Anybody mentioned the time they spent ages building up the return of the original MEM to battle Immortal/Fortune, only to let Nash go back to the WWE and sabotaging their big angle, which led to Fortune turning face which didn't really make much sense if you had watched TNA for a couple of months previously. Dixie Carter at her finest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bully Busick Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 More recent was the "Kato" they used (or mis-used,depends on how you view it) losing CM Punk  Hindsight's a wonderful thing. I think it's absolutely mental that people want to criticize the use of Okada at the time considering he was a complete nobody in Japanese terms before he went home. Utter no name and not really a proven commodity in terms of match quality. What are you supposed to do with limited access to a foreign guy who has no buzz but some talent that precisely NOBODY would sit up and go "fuck me!" if he showed up on Impact? Put him in the ring with the Doug Williams and Alex Shelleys of the world and see if you get some good matches, which is what they did.  As for Punk, he and Dinero were completely marginal guys in TNA at the time he was let go. Yes, he was making some noise having a good character-driven feud with Raven across the indies, but losing CM Punk in early 2004 meant fuck all to TNA. I don't particularly care for the forthcoming "yeah but look how good and what a big name he became" argument either, because had he remained in TNA, he wouldn't have become that guy. Sorry.  All the good shit has been taken so I'm going to go with Jim "show me the money" Cornette trying to strip LAX of the tag team Title's for saying mean things about America (or something equally stupid the exact reason escapes me right now) which was really fucking lame.    Edit: beer money lose to the British Invasion in a cage match by disqualification.    ^ This 100%  Was Russo booking around that time by chance?  I guess I meant putting him in that god awful Kato outfit rather than how they used him in ring wise  I make you right on the Punk thing though  But losing him is just One of many talents they have let slip through their hands regardless of how they would have treated them once signed  That's a whole other story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Having Team 3D drop the IWGP Tag Titles to a TNA team without permission from New Japan was pretty shocking at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 7, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted August 7, 2013 Another bizarre one was Jeff Jarrett beating Raven for the heavyweight championship, on a house show. Wasn't even televised or PPV. Â Wasn't that for Border City Wrestling or whatever that promotion was that Scott D'Amore was running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golga Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Not sure if it's been mentioned but I would like to put forward the REVERSE BATTLE ROYAL from Bound for Glory 2007.  One of the dumbest match concepts I've ever seen. The rules were as follows..  16 Wrestlers start outside the ring The first 8 to enter the ring advance to an over the top rope Battle Royal Final 2 appear in a one fall match  It's on the tube...the 'reverse' portion is absolutely woeful  P1 http://youtu.be/rKlNp7frkGc P2 http://youtu.be/UlcaPrZH_lY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSF Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Not sure if it's been mentioned but I would like to put forward the REVERSE BATTLE ROYAL from Bound for Glory 2007.  One of the dumbest match concepts I've ever seen. The rules were as follows..  16 Wrestlers start outside the ring The first 8 to enter the ring advance to an over the top rope Battle Royal Final 2 appear in a one fall match  It's on the tube...the 'reverse' portion is absolutely woeful  P1 http://youtu.be/rKlNp7frkGc P2 http://youtu.be/UlcaPrZH_lY  First time I've seen that. The reverse bit is bloody stupid. Why would two guys be fighting on the apron to get in when there's only one man in there already, both just go in.  Not a bad little match apart from that. Kaz's elimination was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWWYKI Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Â That's how you close a go-home show for a PPV. Â Â I was at that impact taping, and had a sign that said 'Foley is a joke' which got took off me by TNA security just before that segment was taped and after the show Mick came out and asked me why I thought that. After I told him how could I think he's anything but a joke after seeing that he just held his head down and walked off. True story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Did any good ever come from Foley's TNA run? It seemed to do nothing but damage his reputation from what I can make you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killjoy_Gee Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Â That's how you close a go-home show for a PPV. Â It just goes to show how 'bad' TNA is... when these youtube videos (Along with Dixie's meeting) come from the official Impact Wrestling YouTube account Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSF Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Did any good ever come from Foley's TNA run? It seemed to do nothing but damage his reputation from what I can make you. Â I enjoyed his title run. I thought the way he won it and subsequently refused to defend it was quite good. There was a decent interview segment with JB asking when he would be defending the belt and he said "BFG" when Borash stated that was 3 months away, Foley replied "No, BFG 2010". I thought that could have played out well, but then he ended up losing it in the King of the Mountain match which was a waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted August 7, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted August 7, 2013 I watched a Foley vs Abyss match on Youtube a few weeks ago. Don't know what PPV it was from (if it was from a PPV). Quite good really IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_2k16 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 No mention of EV 2.0? Â Jeff Hardy Heel Turn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted August 7, 2013 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 7, 2013 If it was from Bound For Glory, I think that was the match where lost all of his previous storytelling ability for some reason. Maybe Abyss is really convincing. I believe the first spot in the match was one of them fell from the scaffold and they worked down from that. Â Then Daffney smashed her head off the floor falling through a barbed wire board and the production team ... well take a look for yourself: Â EVERY CAMERA MISSED IT! There is no footage of Daffney almost killing herself for the drama of the match. Pointless endangerment of a wrestlers health right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShowOff Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Reminds me of Dynamite Kid at Wrestlemania 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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