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TNA wrestling is dead, it is now Global Force Wrestling
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There's still too much continuity in terms of the personnel working for & running the promotion for me to actually consider it a different company.
RiggityRice
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Same here...Sick Nick Mondo, Ruckus (fat version), The Amazing Red were my favorites...ahh the marky mark ass jr high/high school days.
TunaMarshmallow
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As someone who has never watched a moment of this stuff... does this mean that TNA, Impact, and GFW are now all a single entity?
The Faceless Master
Member
How does Double J keep catching these W's?
Is this guy still associated with NWA?
Nope. That's who Corgan bought it from.
At least it will go out with this 5 star classic.
I did not know they had Steiner back with them. That is interesting.
Godzilla's Left Toe
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Yes well tna and impact were always a single entity.
Mr. Luchador
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Jeff Jarrett is one master schemer.
Let Dixie Carter prop up TNA while he was owner. Then sold it to her. Then he left and started GFW. Then he returned as a paid member of staff... now has somehow managed to rebrand TNA into GFW. How is this even possible. Guy is amazing.
Let Dixie Carter prop up TNA while he was owner. Then sold it to her. Then he left and started GFW. Then he returned as a paid member of staff... now has somehow managed to rebrand TNA into GFW. How is this even possible. Guy is amazing.
Mechanized
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Abyss is still doing that bullshit that's not his gimmick? Fuck. Hearing people talk about how he has fucked up his own image over the years in shoot interviews is depressing.
The fuck? Kurt is GM on Raw and has been for.months.
PartTimeWarrior
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Ch-ch-ch-ch chosen one does it again
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Dude is basically Kane without that weird x-factor that allows him to retain his heat no matter how bad the booking is.
AudioEppa
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Goddamn this got me the feels
Cut my life into pieces, this is my last resort..
Gargiulo! Gargiulo! Gargiulo!
NeOak
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I thought this was about RAW ratings 🤔
RedHoodedOwl
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Are Josh Matthews and Jeremy Borash still continuing their awful feud?
Mechanized
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Yup. lol
And the worst part is, he had the chance to face Taker at WM, and be remembered, but he turned down WWE's offer and stuck with TNA. Taker retired and is way past his prime. That opportunity is gone forever now. JFC.
(Took me a while to find a good gif.)
Yeah, dude definitely played the long con on that one and lucked out.
TNA still lives on like the cockroach it is.
Mr. Luchador
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Abyss was really offered a change of a story against Taker leading into WM? No way. I refuse to believe.
Fast Forward
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Just a rebrand same as TNA rebranded to Impact Wrestling some years ago.
Either way, same company. Same crew.
Either way, same company. Same crew.
Mechanized
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngFGbGq9LxE
Edit: Better URL with the actual interview with Jim Ross
excelsiorlef
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Which is kinda ingenious
Yautja_Warrior
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RIP TNA.
Sad to see TNA go from being great back in the day, to it's major decline and now death.
Doubt it will get much better with a new name, but who knows.....
Sad to see TNA go from being great back in the day, to it's major decline and now death.
Doubt it will get much better with a new name, but who knows.....
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Dark Ninja
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At least it will go out with this 5 star classic.
What the hell happened to Josh Mathews face
TarpitCarnivore
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You could also technically argue WCW was an extension of NWA. Either way WCW would have stuck around longer had the Time Warner deal not gone through. In Death of WCW Alvarez talks about how Turner was content to pay for WCW even when it was failing, he wanted to keep paying for it but Time Warner shut it down. They wanted nothing more to do with wrestling.
Duckhuntdog
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Well... without the Hardy's I have little to no interest in this. With Lucha Underground's second half of the third season getting much better, and NJPW on Axis, I think I have good alternatives to Impact.
Sides, Impact/GFW is on Disco Inferno's shit list.
Sides, Impact/GFW is on Disco Inferno's shit list.
Strangelove77
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Fuck, I love this video.
Majukun
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used to watch tna until everything started going to shit and all the talent jumped ship
I remember when people on the internet were convinced that the right move for them was to leave the "impact zone" and start traveling like WWE, to new ,live arenas...with the only result that they wasted a shitton of money moving everything from town to town meanwhile the rates stayed the same.
They tried to be wwe lite instead of their own thing.
I remember when people on the internet were convinced that the right move for them was to leave the "impact zone" and start traveling like WWE, to new ,live arenas...with the only result that they wasted a shitton of money moving everything from town to town meanwhile the rates stayed the same.
They tried to be wwe lite instead of their own thing.
FallingEdge
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He is unbeatable. He strong armed Vince for a 6 figure contact back in the day. He's like Teflon.
Sibersk Esto
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Dude was legit awesome for awhile but creative decisions and garbage wrestling killed him.
Like, think of all the bullshit Kane's been involved with, and yet he's stayed marginally over.
funkystudent
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Jeff Jarrett is the TNA / Impact Wrestling in physical form.
Is utterly unremarkable and at times bad and has been a overall net negative for the industry but somehow, someway always makes a deal to survive and keep their face around.
I hope he didnt get paid much for GFW. It was nothing but a name.
Is utterly unremarkable and at times bad and has been a overall net negative for the industry but somehow, someway always makes a deal to survive and keep their face around.
I hope he didnt get paid much for GFW. It was nothing but a name.
What's up with Abyss though? Why's he just a guy now
I wish Jeff stayed away from crappy Dixie Carter. She doomed it. I remember TNA was the place I went to when WWE went PG. It was Soooo much better than anything WWE was doing.
Now I have no wrestling to watch
Hopefully Jeff can bring everything back up
I wish Jeff stayed away from crappy Dixie Carter. She doomed it. I remember TNA was the place I went to when WWE went PG. It was Soooo much better than anything WWE was doing.
Now I have no wrestling to watch
Hopefully Jeff can bring everything back up
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Dixie has been involved in TNA since 2002, while WWE only went PG around 2008/2009.
He has done that before in 2012, going by Joseph Park
mariachi507
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The only reason TNA outlived WCW is because the competition isn't as good.
I wrestled with a few guys that went on to work with Jarrett and Global Force. From what I remembered they weren't even a promotion at the time, Jarrett would just go to Indy shows and slap the GFW logo beside the Indy company's name and have people who Jarrett contracted with GFW show up and work that show with Indy workers. I guess he just did the same with TNA and said he owns it now, (again...).
He's still wrestling in the mask and by abyss on the Indy scene. He's been working for a show, WWA in Kentucky, for a while and carrying their heavyweight title some.
That's what blew my mind.
haven't watched TNA in about 5 years as it went to complete shit starting for me when people like Jay Lethal were pushed out.
Never understood why they destroyed Abyss like that, so my mind boggles that it's still going. :-/
Absolutely loved TNA from 2008 or so till 2011, maybe 2012.