“I just did the TNA roundtable. I’ve come to the conclusion, I just want them to die.” – Brad Curran.
I hit that point months ago. Every time I try to watch 5 minutes of TNA television, they frustrate me, whether its Joe carrying a butcher knife, Sting and Angle’s circle jerk with the Main Event Mafia, or the big mystery around Suicide that no one but Don West seems to care about, yet still manages to take up the X-Title scene, pretty much everything TNA does lacks internal logic. I could literally write a column bashing everything on the show… and have 90% of fans agree with me. Occasionally, I do like some stuff, like the Machine Guns or, generally, the tag division. Awesome Kong and The Beautiful People can generally do no wrong either, regardless of the crap they put around them, and Foley is even putting out some great promos, but until these acts get the same segments every week, it simply isn’t worth it to wade through the crap.
Let’s finish with some Pulse contributors thoughts on TNA (all they were asked is to one sentence their thoughts on the company, leave your thoughts below in the comments):
“Haven’t watched in a year.” – Kace Evers
“A very casual product which borders between being exciting and being retarded.” – Derek Kelley
“Don’t watch.” – Bones Barkley
“Fire Russo.” – Anthony Delebreau
“I don’t watch TNA because I already watched it somewhere between 8 and 20 years ago.” – Rob Blatt
“A terrible idea with terrible delivery cloaked in the mistaken notion that there needs to be a viable option.” – Andy Wheeler
There are a lot more, but you get the idea. When solicited for thoughts on TNA, no one had anything positive to say. These are all wrestling fans of various lengths with varying tastes… and not one of the 20 people I asked had anything positive to say. Think that might be a problem? Leave your comments below.
Saturday, March 13
Live Events
Combat Zone Wrestling
The Arena
Philadelphia, PA – 7:00 pm
Matches include Jon Moxley vs. Nick Gage and Thumbtack Jack vs. JC Bailey
EVOLVE
Rahway Rec Center
Rahway, NJ – 8:00 pm
Matches include Chris Hero vs. Ikuto Hidaka and Jimmy Jacobs vs. Johnny Gargano
Florida Championship Wrestling
Crystal River Armory
Crystal River, FL – 7:30 pm
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Leavenworth Elementary School
Leavenworth, IN – 8:00 pm
This event is a fundraiser for the Crusade for Children.
TNA Wrestling
Ches-a-rena Entertainment Complex
Pittsburgh, PA – 7:30 pm
Westside Xtreme Wrestling
The Arena
Philadelphia, PA – 2:00 pm
Matches include a “Pain in the Glass” death match between Drake Younger and Thumbtack Jack and B-Boy vs. Chris Hero
World League Wrestling
Summersville, MO – 7:00 pm
Trevor Murdoch will compete in the main event
World Xtreme Wrestling
Boys and Girls Club of Lake and Sumter Counties
Leesburg, FL – 8:30 pm
WWE Raw
Save Mart Center
Fresno, CA – 7:30 pm
WWE Smackdown
Stockton Arena
Stockton, CA – 7:30 pm
Television Broadcasts
AAA Lucha Libre
Television Broadcast on Galavision – 4:30 pm eastern
NWA Anarchy
Television Broadcast on AMG-TV Network – 7:30 pm eastern
Ohio Valley Wrestling
Television Broadcast – WOBZ-TV9 – 9:00 pm
Television Broadcast – WKYT-TV – 11:00 pm
Sunday, March 14
Live Events
AAA Lucha Libre
Valle de Chalco, Estado de Mexico, Mexico – 5:00 pm
Matches include Cibernetico/Marco Corleone vs. Konnan/Chessman
CMLL Lucha Libre
Television Taping
Arena Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico – 5:00 pm
Matches include Volador Jr./ Hijo del Fantasma/ La Sombra vs. Averno/ Mephisto/ Ephesto and Rush/ Metro/ Maximo vs. Ray Mendoza Jr./ Sangre Azteca/ Vangellys
TNA Wrestling
John Marshall Fieldhouse
Wheeling, WV – 4 pm
WWE Raw
Rabobank Arena
Bakersfield, CA – 5:00 pm
WWE Smackdown
Cow Palace
San Francisco, CA – 5:00 pm
Television Broadcasts
Florida Championship Wrestling
Television Broadcast on Bright House Sports Network – 6:00 pm
WWE AM Raw
Television Broadcast on USA Network – 2:00 AM
If you would like your promotion to be included on the weekly calendar, please send an email to davidb@insidepulse.com with either your upcoming schedule or a link to your upcoming events on your website.
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At least TNA has blood though…
I have never watched a TNA Wednesday PPV (two of them), monthly PPV (two of them) or episode of Impact (two of them) that did not disappoint and frustrate me.
I hate it, plain and simple.
I don’t know, I watched TNA last night for a bit, and while watching Daffney give a pretty good and disturbingly sexy promo and Raven managing to make ANOTHER match with Abyss sound decent, I thought to myself: Hey, this is pretty good. And Daniels and Amazing Red had a really good fast paced match.
The worst thing in the world is wasted talent.
I used to do a Total Nonstop Weekly column for the Pulse, but I haven’t posted an episode in three weeks. The major problems TNA has does not lie with Vince Russo. Sure, he needs to go…but that’s not the main reason I practically gave up.
The thing with TNA is that they tape a month’s worth of shows in one week and it seems that there is nothing that goes on that is interesting to report on. The column I do was mainly a weekly news recap, much like Mark Allen’s weekly WWE report.
The show itself, some things I do enjoy…but last night’s broadcast took me 30 minutes to watch a 2 hour show. No fault on the superstars because I’m sure they would do the same. I don’t care to see Jeremy Borash being goofy one minute with Foley; and him being serious the next with Jarrett. I don’t need to see Jethro Holiday being delegated to the JTTS classification.
Last night featured a Raven’s Clockwork Orange House of Fun match…and that match sucked everything dry.
I used to be TNA’s cheerleader…through thick and thin…but not anymore. Give me a reason to care, TNA…and I might bring the column back.
I thought for while that it might be interesting to catch it, but much like back in the day with WCW, I just never got around to watching it when it was on.
All I know is that I laugh whenever I hear about the stipulations. What is the facination with “It’s like an X match … only backwards!” anyway?
I’ve been a wrestling fan for about 25 years, and I have seen it all. I’ve been to plenty of WWE live events, I’ve been to many live old school ECW events (including the first pay per view), and have followed ROH (not as much as I would have liked though) and a little of the smaller independents. I have to say, TNA really isn’t that much worse than WWE. The wrestling (in general) is more entertaining than the WWE. Its sad, but for half of RAW/Smackdown, I find myself fast forwarding through 2/3 of the match, to get to the “intersting” parts (because most of the time, I know exactly where they are going to be). The storylines are much better in WWE than TNA, but I don’t watch wrestilng for the soap opera part. Granted, many of the TNA wrestlers are over the hill and suck, but the young stars of TNA (who do get decent screen time usually) are far better than the most of the young guys in the WWE. I see the internet community bitch about TNA, but from this long time wrestling fan who watches all wrestlings on Tivo, I find that I fast forward less through TNA, than WWE programing. Take that for what its worth.