Tag: 21 Years Ago In TNA

21 Years Ago In TNA… Vince Russo made his return to television.

And this is where I dropped the show.

When I started this project back in June, there were three possible exit points that I had considered ending this on. The first being after sampling the first five episodes on YouTube, which were free. The second exit point would’ve been right around the two-week period where I could’ve found something else to do instead, but opted to continue this TNA journey for better or worse. However, this third and final exit point is a sure thing; the debut of Vince Russo on TNA was the last stop. Whether the show is good or not – and spoiler: the show wasn’t very good – this is the last edition of my journey to NWA-TNA from 21 years ago. I’m done.

And so I invite you to join me with on this final edition of 21 Years Ago In TNA… because there isn’t going to be another one… ever. The next TNA show I’m doing is probably gonna be the new one in January, which means I’m gonna need a new banner.

Let’s blow this thing and go home.

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #22 – Aw, Shit… It’s Vince Russo… (a.k.a. THE END FOR ME… November 20th, 2002)”

Hey, did you hear? Bryan Alvarez threw in the towel on NWA-TNA.

Maybe I should have done the same… but fuck me, we’re in this for another week… but next week? That’s when this ride comes to an end. One more week and this journey will be over. I’m jumping off this bandwagon and moving on to greener pastures.

This show had no chance of convincing me to keep going. No matter how good it got, no matter how much promise it bore, it was never going to sell me on further shows beyond this point. It simply isn’t going to happen. I remember some of those shows being really, really bad and quite frankly, I have no desire to revisit those shows any time soon.

This show has no chance of changing my mind. After next week’s show, this experiment comes to an end. There’s plenty of other decent TNA shows that I could have been watching with this Impact Plus subscription; why am I wasting it on this crap? Hell, there are some good TNA PPVs being uploaded onto their YouTube channel that I could watch FOR FREE… and yet instead of watching those shows, I’m watching this shitpile. After next week’s show, no more.

With that having been said, this week’s edition of NWA-TNA isn’t terrible. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it good, but it wasn’t completely awful. For the most part, it was largely boring and forgettable.

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #21 – What’s That Tingling Sensation? (November 13th, 2002)”

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #20 – It’s Panda-Monium In The Asylum (November 6th, 2002)”

Another edition of NWA-TNA… yay?

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #19 – It Ended On A High Note, At Least (October 30th, 2002)”

Tonight on NWA-TNA, Curt Hennig challenges Ron Killings for the NWA World’s Heavyweight Championship… again. Syxx-Pac challenges AJ Styles for the X-Division Championship… again. Jeff Jarrett takes on Scott Hall… again.

Well, if you didn’t buy those other PPVs, you got all the major matches here. Not sure if that’s a net positive, but to this show’s credit, I didn’t completely hate this.

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #18 – I’ve Seen This Before (October 23rd, 2002)”

The former Mr. Perfect challenges THE TRUTH for the NWA Worlds’ Heavyweight Championship… and also the former Road Dogg teams with that NASCAR guy to take on Jeff Jarrett and… one of the Rainbow guys… take a guess as to which of these is the main event.

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #17 – Blankity Blank Blank Blank (October 16th, 2002)”

This week’s show isn’t a terrible one… but is such a nothing happening show that I’m amazed people stuck around to fork another ten bucks for next week’s show. Only the opener and the main event is going to get extensive (not by much) coverage while everything else is glossed over. Sorry, but nothing happened to keep my attention beyond “yeah, that was a thing.”

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #16 – Devoid Of Merit (October 9th, 2002)”

So this show is a considerable improvement… which isn’t saying a whole lot because it’s still pretty much trash… but I didn’t hate this as much as previous shows.

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #15 – Brawls For All (October 2nd, 2002)”

This one’s going to be brief because the show didn’t do much for me. It wasn’t a bad show so much that it was rather unmemorable. Some stuff happened, but that’s about it. Please do me the courtesy of not adding the letter P at the beginning of the word “Elvises” and let’s maintain a bare moticum of maturtity here.

Says the guy who is moaning about watching horrible programming from a wrestling promotion calling itself TNA.

Anyway, some important bits.

Continue reading “21 Years Ago In TNA #14 – The Flying Elvises Explode (September 25th, 2002)”

TNA didn’t have a proper PPV event today; they’re aired a best of X-Division show instead. I didn’t watch it, but I’d thought that I would mention it here to keep the ball rolling, so to speak.

Anyway, the next “actual” PPV show would take place in a couple weeks because TNA didn’t do a show on 9/11. Don’t recall if it’s out of respect for those who lost their lives or because they just didn’t have money to do another one. Either way, there’s no weekly PPV and we’re given a brief respite.

With that said, I do have a PPV Musings for a couple TNA PPVs from later down the road. The good news is that both shows are pretty damned good.