21 Years Ago In TNA – Page 3

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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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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