Official lolTNA Impact thread for March whatever 20whatever...
 

I enjoyed the PPV last Sunday. Seemed like there were stories and not just dudes wrestling and then attacking. So I'm giving Impact some attention live for the first time in a long time.

I will be live TPWWing my thoughts.

Oh Jesus, that is an outdated signature I've got. Ah well.

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When is the show on?

Started 20 minutes ago. The people of TPWW taking their sweet ass time starting the OFFICIAL TNA IMPACT thread so I had to take matters into my own hands.

New look Abyss. I like it. Mankind with a dash of Kane mask.

Magnus with a good, non-generic promo too. Came off as a legit champion. Abyss vs Joe now in an impromptu match. I feel like they could have built this up a little more.

I can't wait until Magnus gets to NXT.

See that, that was a shitty thing to say. TNA's been decent the last few times I watched it. They don't deserve that kind of abuse.

I feel like it's probably how Cena haters feel. It's just become so natural that even when it doesn't deserve the hate, you give it without thinking.

I really want to get into TNA again. I just don't have the desire.

LOL Willow! As shitty of an idea it was to think of TNA taking one of their most recognizable stars and having him put on a mask and have a crazy gimmick, as someone who doesn't desperately need to see Jeff Hardy's face and doesn't really care for his personality as "Jeff Hardy", Willow is... just bizarre enough to work. lol

I feel like if CM Punk leaves WWE he's going to live with Samoa Joe.

I'm trying. I've seriously watched it enough and thought "Why does WWE have a shitload more TV and like... half as many storylines going on!?" to warrant TNA getting more of my attention. I think I just need to get into the habit. The poor atmosphere of some of the shows I've seen hasn't helped.

Oh shit! Tamina and AJ Lee splitting up!

Bully Ray facing it up backstage

Bully Ray getting beaten down by a group of guys led by Derrick Bateman. lol

Bully Ray as a face could be awesome. I just hope they don't get in the habit of having him getting beaten down every week. Once in a great while to make it an "Oh damn" moment is fine. He should come off as a badass that the heels should worry about though. Not every face is meant to get over on sympathy. WWE gets into that habit. See: Big Show.

Rockstar Spud looks more human with that cut, nice

Trying to watch WWE network but of course, it keeps freezing up.

ITS TAJIRI AND SUPER CRAZY

People speaking Japanese always makes a rasslin' show feel like a bigger deal.

They want Japan to be super serial here in the states

Nice dichotomy. Super serial Japanese rasslers vs The Bromance.

Missile dropkickin, rice consuming warriors

Went all Pearl Harbor on those Jersey Shore fucks.

Had to decide between shovelling the driveway and watching TNA. The driveway won.

LOL telling Bully Ray to "Relax!" while he's beating them with a chair. Awesome.

lol Canadians

I could get into TNA if it was just Gunner and Storm beating the shit out of each other, with the rest of the time dedicated to ECIII

So about an hour and 45 minutes per week of ECIII

I decided to give this a shot

Lota of trash but this rockstar spud is good

Lol TNA and lol snow

lol. Dixie Carter tribute video/poem.

This is great.

Lol mvps theme is a rip off of his wwe theme

What was the trash? I don't think there's been any "downtime" so far.

Are you also #1-TNA-fan?

The first time I heard the ticking clock I literally laughed out loud.

Currently #934. Might move up a little after this show though.

Or down. We'll see.

I wonder if WWE leaves USA for Spike if USA would take TNA..

lol C3P0

Aww shit. Lashley gonna kick that bathturd's ass.

No

The backstage montage. Was too much too fast

Remember when Lashley came into TNA, squashed Samoa Joe, then left?

Peppridge Farm does.

This Samuel Shaw fucker pulls off the creepy stalker character pretty well. He's just got the look for it.

I am not saying he is bad at the character. But the character is stupid and an obvious rip off

did you have a bigger audience than they did at Lockdown?

of who?

They couldn't afford the bottom half of the mannequin.

Budget cuts.

Hes a madman with a twitter account?

His theme is a rip off of the theme from the movie drive

Hes a dexter rip off

Now hes doing a head gimmick

Dexter.

Why would Anderson do his stupid entrance FOR A STREET FIGHT

Literally they dress him up like dexter in gloves and a hemlock shirt.

Hanso beat me to it.

Henley shirt

I hate this phobe

The tna set and arena is so much better than i remember it looks great

Meh. There have been plenty of wrestling characters who are "rip offs" of TV/movie characters. As long as they do it well.

Angelina! She isn't a drug induced lesbian time traveler anymore?

No she just looks like an old tranny now

...so she's back to her old gimmick?

She sounded so positive about not hearing that music again

So she thought she'd never hear that music again...even though Velvet has the same music and she's on almost every week?

I look up and GOOD LORD what happened to Angelina's face?

Angelina Love has always looked quite unappealing to me.

SHE'S ALWAYS looked like that no botched surgery or anything?

I feel like I'm judging but damn

lol What a lame chant.

"You are great!"

Well that was a segment on a wrestling show...

Lets try to stay positive about TNA in this thread

I made it through 3/4 of the show without ragging on anything at all.

Baby steps.

I know its hard its such an easy target but we can do this.

The Penguin?

What the hell is that

This is what happens when you let Jeff Hardy do what he wants

Jeff Hardy? in a stupid......I mean in a mask how unexpected

It's like Medellin for Vinny Chase

lol Jeff Hardy just being fucking weird. I like it.

Like I said, as someone who was pretty bored with serious look, personality-lacking Jeff Hardy years ago, I welcome this weird as shit gimmick/look.

lol. This is all incredibly heel-ish.

Well anyone taking steps to injure Rockstar spud can't be all bad I like this Willow person

Goddamn...

I do not condone what is happening to Rockstar Spud right now.

I fully endorse it

Maybe this will force a personality out of Hardy without him needing to be high or jump off shit to be interesting.

I don't know. The highlight of that was him jumping off of something.

as you said baby steps

Jesus, every segment has had a story behind it. There hasn't been a meaningless match or segment. I miss this in my rasslin'.

I know I'm impressed!

Can't believe how good TNA was tonight. Maybe there's hope yet.

Grammar. Heh.

i think sam shaw is more of an al snow then dexter, wonder if al snow wrote for him, all he needs is a help me on the dummys head.

on jeff hardy is he a heel now, i would like to see where they are going with him, if they are able to get punk he and willow would have one hell of a fued

Fucking Muties

lol. I've never seen Dexter but is it really that big of a deal? Like there's never been a wrestling character taken from TV/movies before.

Serial Killer wrestler?

No. He's stalking Christy Hemme and is kinda fucked in the head. Brought out a mannequin and pretended it was her. I'm not sure why it's a "complete rip off of Dexter".

So he is ripping off Austin Aries?

Wasn't Steve Austin a serial killer gimmick?

The idea of being "stone cold" and emotionless and showing no emotion or sympathy was based off of a serial killer. Somehow that morphed into DTA BAMF Walk Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Austin looked perpetually angry.

Triple H has a great "scowl" also (see below):