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December Wrasslin' |OT| This title has been held by all the greats...and Triple H
Lol. Jarrett's runs as NWA Champion were worse than HHH's vanity runs. Being the IC Champion in 1999 was a bigger deal than being the NWA Champion at any point after WCW pulled out of the NWA.
A mid/upper mid carder in WWE is always better than a main eventer in TNA.
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Has Derrick Bateman been taking PEDs since leaving WWE for TNA?
He didn't even win the WCW Championship until April of 2000, which about 6 months into his run. He was pretty much in the same spot in WCW as he was in the WWF.
I remember one Impact where they built up Jay Lethal as a serious challenger to Jarrett's title....gave him a decent match with Jarrett and then LOLTNA'd a Jarrett win that killed any chance of Lethal being taken seriously for the belt ever again.
Double J rivaled Triple H at burials during part of his run.
At least in TNA you can say you have highlights in Daniels, Kazarian, Sabin, Roode, and Aries.
In WCW's dying days, what were the highlights? Norman Smiley?
Also Nash said Jarrett used to ride with them when there was a free spot and was considered a 'good worker', so I imagine that helped. Though the way Nash worded it made Jarrett sound like a mark for the Kliq which is pretty funny
In WCW's dying days, what were the highlights? Norman Smiley?
Also Nash said Jarrett used to ride with them when there was a free spot and was considered a 'good worker', so I imagine that helped. Though the way Nash worded it made Jarrett sound like a mark for the Kliq which is pretty funny
Norman, Disco/Disco Duck, Lance Storm, Positively Kanyon. Shane Helms toward the end. Scott Steiner being fucking crazy. That's about it. TNA at its worst is significantly worse than WCW at its worst, and TNA at its best isn't near WCW at its best.
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Someone say Roman regins
Serpentine
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Think I'm gonna give TNA another go. Sure, it's probably gonna lead to disappointment, but it can't be any worse than Raw, can it? And at least Aces & 8s and MEM are gone, which were some of the biggest funsuckers from when i watched before. just garbage. But now they have, like, serial killers and shit. Cool by me.
slightconfuse
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So is there a reason Sandow betraying Cody is not up for double cross of the year??
edit Kota ibushi pentagon shirt is pretty awesome
edit Kota ibushi pentagon shirt is pretty awesome
TNA is king of the stupid ass gimmick matches. Absolute king. They've probably come up with/revived/tweaked more stupid gimmick matches than Memphis and WCCW combined.
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According to Jerry Jarrett's book, they were already out of money six weeks into TNA and about to file bankruptcy until the Carter family stepped in and bought TNA under the Panda Energy banner.
Three words: Reverse Battle Royal.
Good point. ECW on TNN was the only project I couldn't get even half way through.
No just on the basis of I don't want to do any years worth of shows for quite a while. If there are specific Shotgun shows, I can do those. But I'm not doing a full year of shows for at least a few months. And it definitely isn't ever going to be the New Generation era.
Mr. Enigma
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You don't want to experience Vince's weird pop culture faze where almost every one of his lines has some kind of at-the-time pop culture reference?
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Wait, whoa, what does that even mean?
Mr. Enigma
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Everyone starts outside the ring. It's a scramble for the wrestlers to get into the ring and once half of them are in, it becomes a standard battle royal.
Nope. Sure don't. I've seen enough to know its awful. I may do the first 2 years of Raw DVD set sometime in the next few months, though. That's only because my library has it. But I lost my library card. We'll see. That's the closest I'll get to the New Generation set.
Everyone starts outside the ring. It's a scramble for the wrestlers to get into the ring and once half of them are in, it becomes a standard battle royal.
The electrified cage match was also pretty awful, as was feast or fired
Jarrett was a good worker. Not great, but good to sometimes very good.
He produced solid matches when booking didn't completely sabotage it.
Jeff Jarrett was a perfect mid/upper mid carder wrestler. He never should have been a main eventer and definitely shouldn't have been the anchor of a promotion. Even WCW realized that as he really only spent about 3 months as the top heel. He was A top heel for his entire second WCW run, but he was only the top heel for about 3 months if that.
He was very enjoyable in WWF/WCW/TNA when he wasn't the main focus of the promotion. In fact, his Southern babyface-Double J Double M A- King of Mexico run in TNA were some of the most enjoyable things to me in the past 5 years of wrestling.
He was very enjoyable in WWF/WCW/TNA when he wasn't the main focus of the promotion. In fact, his Southern babyface-Double J Double M A- King of Mexico run in TNA were some of the most enjoyable things to me in the past 5 years of wrestling.
Mr. Enigma
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Jeff Jarrett was a good heel to occasionally feed to the World Champion babyface. That's about it.
While I enjoyed that, I really....really hate Karen Jarrett. She annoys the fuck out of me. Especially when I sat ringside for that one TNA taping and she stood right in front of me. Glad she's gone.
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I'd tell a story, but Chriswok may appear out of nowhere and get mad.
We have these private message things. I remembered you worked that taping though.
It was a fun night except for that at least.
I hated that because AJ looked like a complete chump
I thought AJ was at his best during that period. I really enjoyed AJ, Karren, and Double J during that period.
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My first man crush. lol
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Genichiro Tenryu vs Tatsumi Fujinami - (WAR 12/15/93)
Big inter-promotional match-up between two of the biggest wrestling stars of their generation, as New Japan's Tatsumi Fujinami invades WAR to take on Genichiro Tenryu. Doesn't quite reach Tenryu vs Fujiwara levels of grumpiness, but both guys are still pretty grumpy and dish out a fair bit of punishment to excite the 10,000 strong Sumo Hall crowd. Fujinami's more of a technician, but when pushed Fujinami is also more than capable of going toe to toe with Tenryu and the result is an enjoyable match-up, highlighted by Fujinami's hot comebacks and Tenryu being an utter bastard.
Big inter-promotional match-up between two of the biggest wrestling stars of their generation, as New Japan's Tatsumi Fujinami invades WAR to take on Genichiro Tenryu. Doesn't quite reach Tenryu vs Fujiwara levels of grumpiness, but both guys are still pretty grumpy and dish out a fair bit of punishment to excite the 10,000 strong Sumo Hall crowd. Fujinami's more of a technician, but when pushed Fujinami is also more than capable of going toe to toe with Tenryu and the result is an enjoyable match-up, highlighted by Fujinami's hot comebacks and Tenryu being an utter bastard.
Puro is absolutely unmatched for grumpy dudes. That is my favorite aspect of puro. Grumpy old dudes smacking each other/young dudes around is just the best. I really wish that was more of a thing in American wrestling. Someone like Ric Flair just being an absolute dick to a younger dude. But the vets in WWE are guys like Cena/Orton/Big Show. I want older guys around knocking the shit out of someone like Kofi or Ryder. In 2013, Disco Inferno and Norman Smiley should still be around to be dick heads to younger talent on TV. A Big Wiggle followed by a stiff punch in the face would be excellent. Imagine Disco stiffing the fuck out of CJ Parker on NXT.
Also, December to Dismember 2006 would be a decent enough show it had been shown on Sci-Fi as a 2 hour special broadcast. But as a 3 hour full priced PPV, it's garbage.
Also, December to Dismember 2006 would be a decent enough show it had been shown on Sci-Fi as a 2 hour special broadcast. But as a 3 hour full priced PPV, it's garbage.
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In WWE, all you really have is Mark Henry, and they're not really using him as such. I suppose you could do a whole "mean vet" thing with Christian, but he's not nearly as mean looking.
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Prince AJ is still one of the times I most enjoyed watching AJ Styles.
Serpentine
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HACK THE PLANET!!!!!