Category: TNA Impact PPVs

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I didn’t watch the AEW PPV yet. Didn’t watch it live because I attended a WWE house show that night; the experience having been recounted on this here program. As for today’s PPV musings, I was going to hold off until a couple weeks later, but with Jeff Hardy having made his AEW debut last night, I might as well get this out of the way. What timing, I guess.

So, for those who don’t know, Jeff Hardy was signed with WWE and his last appearance had him walking out during a live event. He was then released after taking a drug test, although Jeff’s brother Matt had assured people that the release was pre-mature and Jeff passed his drug test, but never got the results. This whole thing sounds like really skeevy and swarmy. And look, if Jeff is fine and dandy, good for him and I hope he does well in AEW… but this whole scenario reminds me of a show that took place a little over a decade ago, in a little promotion called TNA.

Hence, our PPV musings for today will cover TNA Victory Road 2011. This is the infamous TNA PPV show where Jeff Hardy showed up in no condition to perform, was sent out before a live PPV audience to get embarrassed and killed in quick fashion by Sting in the main event. I’ve already vented my thoughts on the matter way back when and suffice it to say, I have no real further thoughts on the matter… or at least, not until I watch the match again.

That having been said, I only vented on the main event because that’s all I’ve really seen; I had not seen the entire show and reviews at the time weren’t exactly beaming, either. Thanks to the cheap tier on Impact’s Youtube page, I can watch the rest of this PPV. All I can say is that TNA should be thankful that something like the Jeff Hardy fiasco happened because otherwise, this would’ve been another shitty TNA PPV in a series of shitty TNA PPVs.

And I’ll get this out of the way; I’m not covering this show to shame anyone. This was a really ugly situation and thankfully, Jeff is fine nowadays, for the most part. Hell, I’m not even using this to remind people of how shitty of a promotion TNA was at the time, because that’s been documented. The timing, if nothing else, was purely coincidental and really, I was curious about how bad this show could have been. Besides, if I can sit through a shitty Fiend match from 2019, then you can sit through my musings on what people have considered to be a vile PPV. And if nothing else, you can use this as a lookback at Jeff’s lowest point and see how far he’s come since.

With that in mind, let’s get this shitshow started.

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Did you folks know that to this day, I have yet to see that Evolution show that WWE put out a couple years ago? The all-female show that was headlined by Cold Ronda defending against one of the Bella twins was apparently a big success, but not enough to warrant another show… probably because they are waiting for Cold Ronda to come back so she can main event it. I never got around to seeing it and it was just a complete afterthought. People tell me it was a good show and I try to make a point to watch it, but never do… probably because I come across something on the network that intrigues me a hell of a lot more.

However, I did see TNA’s fourth Knockouts Knockdown One night only PPV from 2016… a concept that makes no sense since a lot of these so-called One Night Only shows are annual traditions. The Knockouts Knockdown is the series of women-only PPV and today’s show – the fourth in the series – isn’t as good as Evolution is supposed to be. How do I know this? Because this is the show with Shelly and Rebel.

Yes, that match.

I guess I’ll make a point to watch Evolution for next week, then.

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Yeah, so I watched another TNA PPV. Actually had a couple of these on old DVD-Rs, which is funny because I don’t seem to recall actually watching the show at the time. I did see the big announcement that was hyped up, but I’ll save that for the end… assuming the custom banner doesn’t spoil it when I get around to doing it.

(Oops, too late.)

In any event, I’ve got this and a couple PPVs on DVD-R that I gave a watch and wrote musings on… maybe I’ll get around to doing those TNA DVDs that I got stashed away somewhere.

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You know… I ought to be talking about Blood & Guts. But… tomorrow.

In the meantime, we’ve got Rebellion from two weeks ago; the biggest show of the year for Impact Wrestling featuring the biggest match in the history of the wrestling business, a once-in-a-lifetime moment that seldom gets witnessed by wrestling fans around the world and of all ages. I am, of course, referring to the highly anticipated match-up between Brian Myers and Matt Cardonas.

Oh… and Kenny Omega defends his title against some jobber who is also TNA World Champion or something.

So, for the second time this year, I’m taking time to watch an Impact Wrestling PPV and with a big time hook like Myers vs. Cardonas (or, you know, the other thing) as a big hook, I’m fairly certain this show is going to do big PPV numbers… by TNA standards, at least.

Aw, let’s forget that noise and revisit the show, which I will admit only saw the replay this past weekend as I had better things to do on the night of the show. No doubt Don Callis is losing no sleep over this revelation. Also, not much to say in general, so forgive the somewhat skimmy nature of these musings.

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So Impact Wrestling… is still alive.

Now that we got that out of the way, seems that in addition to WWE and AEW, Impact Wrestling is also still producing wrestling shows. Unlike WWE and AEW, Impact is still running empty arena shows, otherwise known as TNA House Shows… hence the above Mick Foley quote that was posted ages ago. Just goes to show that even with nobody watching, Impact is still in business doing shows. That promotion will last longer than anyone else worth a damn.

But I digress… we’re taking a look at their Slammiversary show from July of this month. This was apparently a big deal as it was pushed around the idea of some future endeavored WWE guys potentially showing up on this PPV. Fun fact: this ran on a Saturday, allowing WWE to run their Extreme Rules PPV the next night which promised an eyeball popping (that didn’t happen) and a swamp fight (which also didn’t happened and we got another “wacky” Wyatt skit). We’re not touching that show because I haven’t seen it.

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WWE names one of their PPVs after an classic old song. Why not have a PPV named after a Steven Seagal movie?

And how apropos is Hard To Kill for a title of an Impact PPV, because it perfectly fits with the company’s identity. No matter how many fuck-ups have occurred, the company continues to survive to see another decade. Yes, it has produced countless hours of horrendous television and PPVs. Yes, it has made some questionable decisions for the sake of cheap publicity that fizzled out quickly, but no matter how bad the mess-up, the former TNA somehow finds a way to survive another year and for that alone, it deserves a modicum of respect.

Which is why I’m doing a very quick write-up on this show.

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So we started May with a lookback at One Night Stand from 2005, the ECW reunion show that WWE held. Then we did the following year’s iteration that kickstarted the much-maligned WWECW brand. And then we looked at Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee… but we all knew that it was only a matter of time before I got around to writing a musing on TNA’s own reunion dubbed Hardcore Justice. And so here we are… again.

Back in the day, I did write about the event and only managed to see bits and pieces of the show… but beyond that, I’ve never seen the full show in question. Everyone thought it was a bad idea – well, the TNA fans who will cheer anything thought it was a great idea because they’re sheep – and when the show came and went, it was either the greatest thing ever made or it was the worst. Even without seeing the whole show – it’s possible I might’ve, but just forgot about it – I thought it was a bad idea and the few clips I’ve seen (along with a video montage featuring running commentary from a Bryan & Vinny audio show) convinced me that my missing this shoe was a fantastic idea.

And so, here we are in 2019. I’m about to watch this Hardcore Justice show in its entirety and after having seen the previous two shows from WWE, we’ll see if this show gave the ECW brand the final chapter that it deserved.

Spoiler alert: it didn’t.

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A bit of a change of pace in this TNA marathon of sorts, as I diverge from the Global network thing and dive into my DVD collection, where I pull out a 2-disc DVD set of TNA Against All Odds 2005. Don’t get excited; they just split the PPV into two discs and so you have to swap discs halfway through because… sure, why not?

On a related note, I’ve yet to watch the Bound For Glory PPV… I’ve heard good things about it, though. Maybe when it’s on the Global Network thing, I’ll give it a watch. Who knows?

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