Dear lord, are we actually diving into the dreaded period of TNA from the year 2010… again?
But yeah, see, they tell me this is a good show… and there’s a really good Kurt Angle match on this show… which is where we’re doing this show as part of Kurt Angle Appreciation week. Let’s dive in and check this show out.
We kick off this week of Kurt Angle appreciation with his TNA in-ring debut at TNA Genesis 2006, which saw Angle go up against the unstoppable Samoa Joe after their fateful encounter during Angle’s first night with the company.
A TNA PPV Musings? From 2010, you say? The Hogan era?
Yeah, didn’t I hate that era?
Sure, because I mostly stuck with the television show… whenever I could be bothered to watch the television show, that is. And yes, the week-to-week television was largely atrocious. However, sometimes you buy one of their PPVs and you luck out on a good show… clearly back in the day, that didn’t happen. And when it comes to Against All Odds 2010 – the second PPV in the Hogan era – I’m not sure if I’d go that far, BUT this wasn’t too bad.
A large part of the show is built around a single-night eight man tournament to crown a new No. 1 contender for the World Title at the upcoming Lockdown PPV (not the next one, the next one is shit) as well as AJ Styles defending his TNA World title against Samoa Joe… with Eric Bischoff as the special referee… for some reason. Let’s see if he can call this down the middle and not suddenly complain about Dave Meltzer for half an hour like he does on his podcast… but I digress.
So, just for the sake of full disclosure, this is largely a repost of an old PPV musings I did on this show back in 2018 and you can read that original post here. However, in light of the recent passing of “Sycho” Sid “Vicious” “Justice” Eudy, I’d figure that it’d be appropriate to revisit that one show where the Master and Ruler of the World became WWF World Champion for the very first time… and in Madison Square Garden, no less. There are plenty of Sid moments worthy of revisiting, but let’s give this show another spotlight and perhaps some updated thoughts and annotations for good measure.
Anyway, I had originally seen this show back in 2018 due to someone bringing it up due to it being the show that featured the first PPV encounter between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Bret “Hitman” Hart. At that point, I don’t recall ever actually seeing the match in full unless it’s on some DVD set somewhere that I don’t recall. However, the main event also saw reigning WWF Champion Shawn Michaels defend his title against challenger Sycho Sid, who was supposed to be the heel in this match and… well… let’s dive into this mostly-2018-written post and give this another whirl.
Last count, I only have this one WCW show left to go from the year 2000… and well, if the banner doesn’t give clear indication as to what I think about this show, then I don’t know what to tell you.
For the record, this is not the PPV headlined by WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette – that is the Slamboree PPV from the month prior and I’ve written my thoughts on that show a long ass time ago. And for what it’s worth, I didn’t totally hate that show. I do, however, hate this show.
It says so on the banner… so it must be true.
In light of the fact that there was a Who Killed WCW documentary series – yes, another one – I figured that it would only be appropriate that I revisit that lovely period of World Championship Wrestling in the year 2000. Specifically, the first PPV of the Bischoff/Russo reboot era… which took place a week after said era began on Nitro where they stripped everyone of all the titles and divided the roster between the Millionaire Club of old guys and the New Blood group of young guys… and of course, hilarity ensues as a result.
For the sake of prosperity, I went back and re-read all my old musings on the WCW 2000 shows that took place prior to this. I then went ahead and RE-WATCHED the aforementioned shows. Hell, I even went back and sampled a few Nitros… what I witnessed was fucking horrible and I never want to watch that shit again.
With that in mind… is this new collaboration between Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff the shot in the arm that WCW needed? Well, of course not, we wouldn’t be talking about Who Killed WCW TWO FUCKING DECADES LATER if it did… so right now, my only concern would be whether this tried to usher in that new era of WCW that was promised… or was it just the same old shit with a new coat of paint?
Well, let’s find it’s the same old shite. There, the bandage is off. Let’s get this over with.
April 21st, 2024 saw another AEW Pay-Per-View event added to the annual AEW PPV cycle and naturally, I didn’t get the show.
Yeah… sorry, folks. I was fine with four a month and while it was a total pipe dream for them to keep at like that until the end of time, I kinda held out hope. Now I don’t bother getting them live and I wait for a friend to loan me his recordings of the shows months after the fact… because we still record stuff to DVD-R to this day and will undoubtedly continue to do this until our DVD recorders eventually die out… I may have jinxed this entire operation, haven’t I?
Anyway, as of this moment, there’s only two other shows I’ve not seen; the Double Or Nothing show and Forbidden Door, but we’ll be doing something else next week. In the meantime, here’s the Dynasty musings… maybe next year, they can do Dallas as a PPV name… no?
It’s the Summerfest, kids! Let’s get into it… or not. I don’t know.
I’ll be frank; I didn’t watch the live show because I forgot about it. Yes, act shocked as I completely forgot about the riveting main event of Cody Rhodes vs. Solo Sikoa. However, I did end up watching the replay, which means that I get to fast forward through the extraneous nonsense like concerts, video packages, and comedy bits. Otherwise, I’d be much harsher on this show than I ended up being.
I’m not going to say that this was a bad show because it wasn’t. Nor am I saying that this was uneventful because stuff did happen with some title changes and some pivotal angles pushing stuff forward, but man, this was a slog to get through even in its cut down state… but I am jumping ahead here. Let’s actually get through this quickly.
Note: This was supposed to go up this past Wednesday, but then I saw Slammiversary and that takes presedence.
The final AEW PPV of 2023 took place a day before New Year’s Eve and featured World Champion MJF defending his title against Samoa Joe… also a bunch of other stuff happened too.
So I watched Slammiversary this past weekend… no, I didn’t attend the show – it took place in Montreal in front of a packed 5000+ at the Verdun Auditorium, which was probably the biggest crowd TNA has done in a long, LONG time, so good for them – but I did catch the PPV and to say that stuff happened on this show would be an understatement.
Though, yes, let’s the big lemon out of the way; Joe Hendry didn’t win the TNA title in the main event six-man elimination match. Honestly, I didn’t really expect him to despite the massive pop he got in the arena, but this was all about Nic Nemeth proving that he’s still got it and while I’m sure people are upset and going “TNA DOESN’T BELIEVE” or something like that, I have a feeling Joe Hendry is going to get a big run somewhere down the line… so long as he isn’t poached by WWE once his contract expires, of course.
In any event, there was a PPV. I have some quick thoughts and here we go…
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