RiggityRice
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Well CZW outlived TNA. So how about that...
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TNA wrestling is dead, it is now Global Force Wrestling
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I don't think TNA will survive being re-branded by their parent company and founder.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
You want to make is worse. Most of the big stars from TNA were in WCW.
I chuckled.
When it started TNA was kind of like a low budget continuation of WCW.
Well, TNA was basically the spiritual successor of 2000-2001 WCW.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
They already rebranded as Impact Wrassling not too long back, they can call themselves whatever they like, it won't make much of a difference. At least Dixie isn't involved anymore though I wonder how much longer until Jarrett brings Russo back.
Yeah... The NWA in 2017... Hell, NWA in 2007, 1997, you have to go back 30 years to 1987 and still the NWA was already falling out of relevancy then. Better yet, WWE apparently has had full rights to use NWA trademarks since 1998.
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Yeah... The NWA in 2017... Hell, NWA in 2007, 1997, you have to go back 30 years to 1987 and still the NWA was already falling out of relevancy then. Better yet, WWE apparently has had full rights to use NWA trademarks since 1998.
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Knuckle Sandwich
Member
So they are still alive then. Shit on them all you want but they had some GOAT matches.
They also had a tag team called the Johnsons in full body flesh color suits, a little person jacking it in a trash can and a gun in a match.
lol
They also had a tag team called the Johnsons in full body flesh color suits, a little person jacking it in a trash can and a gun in a match.
lol
AudioEppa
Member
The Albatross
Member
Seems crazy to me that TNA officially had a longer run than WCW.
Yung Dolphin
Banned
Well, he got his wish I guess.
Marvel
could never
Jeeeezus.
JEEEEEZUS.
Poor TNA. I saw them in Bournemouth the week after Hogan came in so they still had six sides, none of Hogan's buddies were there. It was literally peak TNA and I'm so happy I saw it live.
RIP in peace.
Jay Shadow
Member
Fuck that Owl
Right before Hogan came in was the best because we got the Daniels vs Joe vs Styles rematch and Nigel McGuinness vs Kurt Angle.
They were kind of booking on the fly to please the fans because they knew Hogan would come in and change everything.
Demoskinos
Member
Yeah, for real there was a point where I was tuning into TNA over WWE on a weekly basis. They had a lot of momentum and a lot of stars on the roster. And the entire thing collapsed because Dixie Carter is an insufferable idiot who does not know how to run a wrestling promotion.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm baffled how Jeff Jarrett has had such a long run in the business.
reptilescorpio
Member
He's extremely good at getting himself over behind the scenes.
Well.... if you mean the name "TNA" lasted longer than the name "WCW".
WCW was Jim Crockett Promotions, it just needed a name change when Crockett sold to Turner. It was clearly the same promotion before and after otherwise.
Yup. The card that night had McGuinness vs. Styles for the title, Joe vs. Daniels, Angle + Pope vs. Dudleys vs. British Invasion vs. Morgan + Hernandez, Beer Money vs Motor City Machine Guns and loads more I've forgotten. Sabin, Amazing Red, Suicide were part of some mad X division ladder thing. They had signs up saying that Lashley had cancelled and they announced it over the PA to a massive pop.
Such a great night.
Violence Jack
Member
RIP TNA. You were good for a little while in the mid-to-late 2000s. That is until Hogan and Bischoff came in and brought it down.
Aj, Joe, and Daniels triple threat first time around was one of the greatest matches ever.
Aj, Joe, and Daniels triple threat first time around was one of the greatest matches ever.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
Vince Russo, dude.
sf2fanatic
Member
RIP Sweeney Tom.
There's always that other company to watch, friend
There's always that other company to watch, friend
No apparently, he shows up, gets his buddies in, when it goes to shit he leaves and does it somewhere else
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Looks like this book needs a sequel
You'll probably get a reverse invasion angle with TNA invading the new GFW show trying to get their company back.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
I still need to get that book someday. On my Amazon wishlist for years, yet always forget to buy it when I should.
The names already taken!
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
I don't see why people are acting like TNA is dead now. It's still the same shitty company, just under a new brand and with a different dumb owner.
The writers have said before that a "Death of TNA" book would just be the exact same book as Death of WCW word-for-word.
Besides, why waste your time with something like that when they can start preparing for the Death of WWE book in #FiveYears...
The writers have said before that a "Death of TNA" book would just be the exact same book as Death of WCW word-for-word.
Besides, why waste your time with something like that when they can start preparing for the Death of WWE book in #FiveYears...
New brand and new owner is pretty much a different company.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
NoRéN;242293899 said:
Hella Lugosi
Member
Does this change anything for the Hardys and their ability to be Broken in WWE?
Kid Kamikaze10
Member
This is some Kane/Brotherhood of Nod shit
Isaac Otherworld
Member
Illuminati and the Globalists strike again.
Godzilla's Left Toe
Member
3 more than WCW
Alex Anderson
Member
No one new owns it. It's still Anthem.
Anthem is the new owner I was referring to. They haven't had it long.