TNA Bound for Glory 2025 Discussion

[Supremo]

Lord, give me the confidence of Bully Ray, who’ll continue to (badly) critique everyone else, despite his own, “emotional send off,” amounting to him looking like a toddler shitting himself.

[DavidB6937]

Wouldn't have minded quite so much if it had been a flaming table with thumbtacks or something but selling a regular table like you're about to get thrown off the Grand Canyon? He's hardcore indeed.

[Carbomb]

I regularly enjoyed TNA around the late 2000s/early 2010s period - Beer Money, Desmond Wolfe (probably the only time I've really enjoyed Nigel McGuinness' work), World Elite, Samoa Joe, Kevin Nash, Kurt Angle, all having some combination of great match, and then the brief period when the Hogoff takeover wasn't quite shit - Jeff Jarrett being the most interesting I've ever found him, first as a superb fiery babyface (which he reflected in having longer, Noel Edmonds-style hair), then as heel Double M-A Jeff (when he cut his hair short). Mick Foley even had a decent mini-run. And, much as it's all been tainted, the "Flair-Off" between Ric and Jay Lethal was one of the genuinely funniest things I've seen in wrestling.

I ended up tapping out halfway through the Aces & Eights debacle. It started off not bad, but then just degenerated, proving once and for all that Bischoff still hadn't learned his fucking lesson from the nWo bullshit.

[gmoney]

9 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

It's a very tabloidy style. He's obviously picked it up and run with it. He'd never just use "Hogan" throughout his reviews, it would be "Hogan", then "Hulk", then "the Hulkster", then "the MAGA Power", etc. It's quite jarring at times. I still much prefer Fin's writing to Meltzer though. I struggle to read his stuff, however knowledgeable his obits and stuff are. they make me feel like I'm reading with a migraine.

I thought the writing of Fin and most of the contributors to PS was excellent, generally. Much preferred their house style over any other wrestling mag or newsletter I can think of. Meltzer's writing is absolutely atrocious. You think you'd get better at it after nearly 50 fucking years. 

Edited October 14, 2025 by gmoney

[gmoney]

6 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

 

Whoops 

Edited October 14, 2025 by gmoney
Accidental double post

[NeverYield]

21 minutes ago, gmoney said:

I thought the writing of Fin and most of the contributors to PS were excellent, generally. Much preferred their house style over any other wrestling mag or newsletter I can think of. Meltzer's writing is absolutely atrocious. You think you'd get better at it after nearly 50 fucking years. 

Ive been buying the Inside the Ropes magazine recently, it's not quite PS but it will do, lots of the same writers and style.

[gmoney]

2 minutes ago, NeverYield said:

Ive been buying the Inside the Ropes magazine recently, it's not quite PS but it will do, lots of the same writers and style.

I've read it and it's not bad. Though, ironically as I spend most of my time on a wrestling message board, I can't really be arsed to read about wrestling much these days. 

[SuperBacon]

32 minutes ago, NeverYield said:

Ive been buying the Inside the Ropes magazine recently, it's not quite PS but it will do, lots of the same writers and style.

I wanted to pick up the latest Bret issue, and look I love a magazine and don't mind paying a bit more these days, but I picked it up in Smiths and it felt really flimsy, not many pages at all and was nearly 7 quid. 

 

[NeverYield]

21 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

I wanted to pick up the latest Bret issue, and look I love a magazine and don't mind paying a bit more these days, but I picked it up in Smiths and it felt really flimsy, not many pages at all and was nearly 7 quid. 

 

Yeah i know what you mean gmoney, and also we all get our news as it happens nowadays don't we.

Yeah I did think that aswell about how flimsy it was to be fair ? They have crammed a fair bit in there for the size but you definitely wouldlnt want to read it on a park bench on a breezy day haha, price is a bit steep, I really did love power slam though, I bought a Pro wrestling illustrated a while back and that was even steeper, I do like their top 50 lists though.

[The Gaffer]

19 hours ago, Carbomb said:

I regularly enjoyed TNA around the late 2000s/early 2010s period - Beer Money, Desmond Wolfe (probably the only time I've really enjoyed Nigel McGuinness' work), World Elite, Samoa Joe, Kevin Nash, Kurt Angle, all having some combination of great match, and then the brief period when the Hogoff takeover wasn't quite shit - Jeff Jarrett being the most interesting I've ever found him, first as a superb fiery babyface (which he reflected in having longer, Noel Edmonds-style hair), then as heel Double M-A Jeff (when he cut his hair short). Mick Foley even had a decent mini-run. And, much as it's all been tainted, the "Flair-Off" between Ric and Jay Lethal was one of the genuinely funniest things I've seen in wrestling.

I ended up tapping out halfway through the Aces & Eights debacle. It started off not bad, but then just degenerated, proving once and for all that Bischoff still hadn't learned his fucking lesson from the nWo bullshit.

My favourite era of TNA. 

I know the 2005-2006 era is generally held in the highest regard but give me the Main Event Mafia/early Hogoff era. 

Two hours on Challenge, loads of rubbish, but basically directly aimed at people like me at the time who craved something that felt like a weird mix of late-stage Nitro and classic/legacy acts. 

[simonworden]

41 minutes ago, The Gaffer said:

My favourite era of TNA. 

I know the 2005-2006 era is generally held in the highest regard but give me the Main Event Mafia/early Hogoff era. 

Two hours on Challenge, loads of rubbish, but basically directly aimed at people like me at the time who craved something that felt like a weird mix of late-stage Nitro and classic/legacy acts. 

2009 is one of my favorite eras in TNA. There was a decent threaded storyline going on with the Main Event Mafia, a lot of the Russo rubbish was toned down from 2007-08 as well if you exclude willy faced Joe and Foley being booked as champion. Actually I probably just like the first couple of months and then the last four with AJ back as champion, finishing off the MIM and then those two great holding PPV's with the Wolfe / Angle feud.

14 hours ago, SuperBacon said:

I wanted to pick up the latest Bret issue, and look I love a magazine and don't mind paying a bit more these days, but I picked it up in Smiths and it felt really flimsy, not many pages at all and was nearly 7 quid. 

 

I tried to buy a few of their mags when I was back in the UK a while ago, but it really did just feel like a Power Slam clone. Same paper and style but the articles/ writing just wasn't there. Might have been my age as well as I've been skimming old copies of Power Slam and didn't realize how short a lot of the articles were compared to my memory. 

[theringmaster]

16 hours ago, gmoney said:

. Meltzer's writing is absolutely atrocious. You think you'd get better at it after nearly 50 fucking years. 

I disagree here, it's his style, he writes how he speaks. He has a distinct voice where so many modern journalists (in any type of entertainment field) do all sound the same. I personally love reading through his weekly newsletter, there is always so many interesting little tidbits.

[gmoney]

Yeah, but he speaks atrociously. His obituaries read like they been written, cut up into and then glued together randomly. Good when William S. Burroughs does it, not so good when you're trying to read about Brian Pillman or whatever and he's suddenly talking about Rollerball in the 70s. 

[tiger_rick]

59 minutes ago, theringmaster said:

he writes how he speaks. 

"Someone told me that Cena, errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, sort of, you know, tried to, errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, do that thing where they, you know, sort of, work to, errrrrrrrrrrrrr, do the thing. You know."

[Devon Malcolm]

He's never been a good journalist or writer. It's just that standards are so low in wrestling that he's embraced as the best in that field.

He is an outstanding and important historian, and that's where his worth is.