Category: TNA Impact PPVs

21 Years Ago In TNA #04 – Testing My Patience (July 10th, 2002)

The fourth of five NWA-TNA Weekly PPVs available for free on Youtube is where I’m starting to feel a bit bored. It seems like they were dead set on selling someone the rights to a television show of sorts and when there were no offers, they opted to put the shows on PPV instead. The problem is that four “episodes” into this venture, this already feels like a bit of a sloth to get through; so much so that when it came time to sit down and do my weekly write-up for this blog, my mind drew a blank.

It’s actually pretty amazing that my only, real big takeaway is that The New Church – the new heel group headed by the Sinister Minister James Mitchell – has engaged in a feud with Jeff Jarrett – who is also a heel who keeps demanding a title shot that nobody in the NWA would grant him because they would rather have their reigning NWA World Champion defend the title against some Japanese wrestler nobody on this particular side of the globe has heard of. And for the people who are reading this expecting a full-blown recap, I hate to disappoint you folks, but I’m not really inclined to offer that.

Here’s the thing, right? These are not TV reports, reviews, recaps, or whatever the case may be. These are just quick things where I gather my thoughts on things that happen on the show that are worth mentioning. I mean I could go into great detail on the big X-Division eliminator match that saw Low-Ki earn himself a shot at AJ Styles’ title… but what can I say besides “it’s a great match with a lot of moves?” Because that’s all I’ve got.

So here are the notable bits… for whatever it’s worth…

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21 Years Ago In TNA #02 – Improvement On The Second Show (June 26th, 2002)

So last week, I revisited the very first NWA-TNA PPV and it was a thing that happened. The show may have opened with a recap of prior events, but I will not. You’ll just have to read my previously posted post from last week to catch yourselves up.

Anyway, we’re continuing onwards with the second-ever NWA-TNA weekly PPV, which you can watch on Youtube for free because Impact is such a loving company that’s willing to give stuff for free and hope it’s enough of a selling point to subscribe to their Impact Plus service. We’ll see if this, as well as the next three shows that are also available for us freeloaders, will do just that.

For the record, I have not seen this show in decades… as in, the last time I saw this show was when it first aired. So this is definitely going to be revisiting some forgotten realms… please don’t sue.

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21 Years Ago In TNA: The First NWA-TNA PPV (June 19th, 2002)

Hello, kids.

This week, famed wrestling journalist Bryan Alvarez and his long-suffering co-host, Big Vinny V, will begin their revisiting the early days of NWA-TNA for some reason or another. And to celebrate the occasion, I will also revisit the early days of NWA-TNA… because the first five PPVs are available on Youtube at no cost for all to see. Yes, the first five weekly PPVs are made available for masses to watch and entice them to subscribe to their Impact Plus subscription service.

Indeed.

So I have already written about this show years ago. In fact, the great majority of this post is just a copy-and-paste of that old post (originally posted March 27th, 2016). I’ve rewatched the show and decided that the post as it was originally written still holds up for the most part, though I had changed a couple things around and even expanded on some stuff here and there, so don’t think you’re just getting a lazy copy-and-paste. You’re getting lazy additions to go along with it.

This is going to be a weakly weekly thing for about a month or so and we’ll see if I’m enticed enough to continue this journey onwards or if I decide to throw in the towel. At worst, the five freebies are all I touch. At best, I might keep going until “Oh shit! It’s Vince Russo!” is a thing and that’s when I’ll drop out. Unlike Bryan and Vinny, I ain’t suffering this shit for the long haul… but is it really as bad as I remember it or as others have claimed?

Well, let’s find out…

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IMPACT Wrestling Hard To Kill 2023

Yes, we’ve used this banner three times before. And yes, if I watch next year’s Hard To Kill PPV, I will be using it again. Now that we got that out of the way… yes, I got around to watching Impact’s first 2023 PPV recently. It seemed like a bit of a tradition that we’re doing here, so may as well continue it for all it’s worth. I had heard some good things about the show and figured, “Why not?”

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TNA Destination X 2005

Well, we did Against All Odds 2005, which is a show that I have on commercial DVD… and coincidentally enough, I also have Destination X, which was the following month’s PPV offering from Total NonStop Action TNA Impact Zone Wrestling. So, it seems only fair that we give that one a shot and then maybe next week, we’ll go watch some random WWE show from the same year because sure, why not?
Much like the previous show, this is a 2-disc set where they basically split the PPV into two discs and there’s very little in terms of worthwhile special features.

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TNA Against All Odds 2005

So, we’re doing something different… or at least, something that could’ve been done ages ago if there was any sense. We’re looking at a TNA PPV from 2005, but rather than look at a show from the Impact PLUS service, it’s a VINTAGE TNA Home Video on DVD release from around that time.

It’s Against All Odds 2005 – featuring the main event of NWA World Champion Jeff Jarrett defending the title against Kevin Nash of all people. Oh boy, I’m excited.
(Turns out that I already did this show three years ago… fuck it, we’re going to do it again today, but if you want the original rant for comparison, there you go.)

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TNA Turning Point 2004

The second ever monthly TNA PPV is known for two things; it’s the last TNA appearance of Macho Man Randy Savage, who would fuck off soon afterwards… and I really can’t blame him, really. And the other thing is for showing footage of that one time TNA wrestlers went over to visit some WWE guys who were shooting a commercial for an upcoming PPV at Universal Studios, which is where TNA was holding all their shows at that point.

Just to get it out of the way, they teased the airing of the footage by having a couple guys do bad impersonations of Vince McMahon and Triple H trying to stop TNA from airing said footage and being total fools of. This was making light of the fact that WWE actually did have a problem with TNA possibly showing this footage on their programming. And once they showed the footage, almost all the WWE guys’ faces were blurred out so you couldn’t tell them apart unless you paid attention to their tattoos. It all came across as really lame – about as lame as any time you saw AEW take a cheap shot at WWE these days.

Now that we got that out of the way, let’s check out the rest of this Turning Point PPV.

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TNA Victory Road 2004

We’re going to be sampling some TNA shows for the next few weeks and what better way to kick this run off than by going back to their very first monthly PPV?
TNA’s new Impact television show had just debuted on FOX Sports channel as a weekly late-night television show; not exactly prime time but a step in the right direction for the promotion. And with that in place, TNA stepped away from the weekly PPV experiment that had been a money loser for the most part to transition to the traditional monthly PPV formula, beginning with this Victory Road show.
I’m going into this blind, as I am largely unfamiliar with this period in TNA history. I’m assuming Jeff Jarrett is the champion here because he almost always was… anyway, I’ll try to keep an open mind and watch the show as it happens.

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