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7/1/15 Impact Wrestling Discussion Thread - The Real Slammiversary

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In a match 620 days in the making, EC3 will finally challenge Kurt Angle for The TNA World Championship! Can EC3 finish his quest? Can Kurt Angle retain The Title? Will Tyrus be a factor? Will EC3 be beaten for the first time ever? All these questions and more will be answered this Wednesday on Destination America as we present Bell To Bell at 9PM EST/9PM PST and this night is must see!

Match #5 in The Best of Series between The Wolves and The Dirty Heels will be a 30 minute Ironman Match! Austin Aries defeated Davey Richards in singles competition at Slammiversary and The Dirty Heels were allowed to choose the stipulation and shocked everyone with the choice of an Ironman Match. This contest will test the endurance of our athletes as the rules are this, the team that earns the most pinfalls or submissions in 30 minutes leaves as TNA World Tag Team Champions.

Drew Galloway formed The Rising to stop The BDC and Drew is so motivated to stop MVP and his clan that Drew is willing to disband The Rising if he can’t stop The BDC! It will be The Rising vs. The BDC in a match where the losing team must disband, the losing team will no longer exist in Impact Wrestling. We will witness the end of The Rising or The BDC this Wednesday on Impact Wrestling.

The Knockouts Championship will be defended, as record breaking Champion Taryn Terrell must face her two most worthy opponents, Brooke and Awesome Kong in a Three Way Championship Match. Taryn has done her best to stay away from Brooke and Kong, but has no where to run come Wednesday night!
It may be tempting b/c WE ALL KNOW, but as usual, no spoilers.
 
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So PWIs preview was wrong, eh, still 2/4 matches were short.


- A good but short opener. Eli is impressive and I still cant beleve how big Drew is, he never looked to me that big in the E. Low Ki the man. Hope tna can find a proper replacement, wish they could sign Eddie Kingston.

- Pretty good tag match, as expected.

- Good but short KOs match. TNA better keep Taryn around, she's the beast and the best int the world. And I still want Havok.

- Mickies promo sills are on the highest level. Still would prefer this segment to air next week to give more time for matches.

- So nothing new from JJ? Not surprised

- An epic man event. Just the proper world title match and the winner. Dont care if Meltzer rates it as 3 stars or -5, match was tremendous.

For those who complain about slammy, just ad this show to what you saw at ppv and you will get what TNA originally planed before DA ruined it.
 
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Re: TNA draws their lowest ever Impact rating.

And that is why WWE doesn't have more wrestling on their shows. Sports entertainment needs more entertainment, not wrestling. I look forward to more talking in the July shows (sarcasm).
Wrestling in ring DOES NOT DRAW RATINGS, i bet the wolves vs dirty heels 30 minute match killed the ratings for the rest of the show.

I'm not surprised at the least and hope TNA does more sports entertainment than inring boring wrestling.
 
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Judging by spoiler preview from pwi, some of the matches will be short. (it's tna, duh, so I dont think I spoiled anything anyway)

and since TNA dont have PPVs, I'd prefer this "Bell to Bell" thing fature only 4 big matches with 15+ mins for each but in reality we will get 22+ mins for tags (cause of commercials) and around 13 mins for world title. Less for other matches. sad.
 
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My thoughts on this show.

- It is so weird seeing Hernandez on Lucha Underground and then seeing him in TNA. Odd. Anyways, I could not possibly care any less about BDC Vs. The Rising. I am just happy this is the last match.

- It is so strange to see Magnus, Mickie, and Storm talk about stuff that happened on Sunday but in a segment that was taped before then....my head hurts.

- Wolves Vs. Heels was great, and one of TNA's best matches this year, easily. I really enjoyed it. The tag team strategizing, the action, the tense closing minutes...it was a very exciting match and closer to the series.

- Knockouts Title 3 Way = Goddamn Brooke is hot! I mean damn! Anyways, the match was OK. The signal for Gail's return was kind of cool.

- Vaudevillains Vs. Enzo & Cass in a contenders match next week. I'm cool with that!

- The Jarrett interview was short and he didn't really say much beyond "Yeah I'm here. Isn't that a shock?"

- ECIII Vs. Kurt Angle = Very good match with the right result. ECIII is the best character in TNA by a country mile and he needed to take the title. The ref bump was a little ridiculous, but other than that, good match. I am happy ECIII is the champ.

And yes, a rollup is a good finish to a match. I've already ranted about this time and time again, I support roll up finishes being used.

Overall, much better Impact than usual, but that was because they had a strong main event and a strong tag title match, both of which were culminations of long storylines. That's fine. That's what you're supposed to do, but I'm wondering what they'll do after this week to follow up and if they'll be able too, especially with so many guys leaving. At least we have ECIII as champ though.
 
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Re: TNA draws their lowest ever Impact rating.

That really sucks, this show was brilliant, nobody gives TNA a chance in hell, imagine that show with WWE production and bigger arena/crowd, that would be like show of the year easily, especially with the EC3 winning the title moment.

Wait until the UK numbers come in should be high.
 
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Re: TNA draws their lowest ever Impact rating.

That really sucks, this show was brilliant, nobody gives TNA a chance in hell, imagine that show with WWE production and bigger arena/crowd, that would be like show of the year easily, especially with the EC3 winning the title moment.

Wait until the UK numbers come in should be high.
1. wwe would never give away a first title win on free tv..it would be built to on ppv. aside from mick foley (who was only given the belt to boost ratings during a period both wcw and wwf were hitting their peaks popularity wise in the monday night war)

2. wwe would never build up a heel for 18 months and have them win in triumphant circumstances. the premise itself is completely backwards and makes no sense leaving aside the whole fact that wwe is a face driven company to begin with
 
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Re: TNA draws their lowest ever Impact rating.

ROH did their lowest ever rating too on DA, Raw did a terrible rating too by their standards. If ROH can chuck in syndication, then TNA can chuck in their +3's Fight Network ratings and international ratings too. (There is a world outside of America as you are finding out now with CMLL, NJ, AAA, ICW or whatever.)

Its all tit for tat, people are brand whores.
 
#158 ·
Re: TNA draws their lowest ever Impact rating.

ROH did their lowest ever rating too on DA, Raw did a terrible rating too by their standards. If ROH can chuck in syndication, then TNA can chuck in their +3's Fight Network ratings and international ratings too.
TNA could be watched by 1 person outside of the States or 8 million. If they get kicked off TV in America, they're fucked. They aren't able to pay people because their television rights fees are so low they have no stable business model. TNA's whole existance relies on whether they can get their television ratings on Destination America up by September. If ROH lose TV, they remain on syndication. If TNA loses TV, they die. So its all irrelevant.
 
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15 minutes

MNM defeated Holly/Haas on a Smackdown episode in 2005
Morrison/Miz drew with Yang/Moore on WWECW in 2008

30 minutes

Return of the 187 featuring LAX, Sweet n' Sour, Steenerico, and Age of the Fall for 30 minutes.

1 hour
SMW Tag Team Title 60 Minute Iron Man: The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy del Ray & Tom Prichard) (c) defeat Robert Gibson & Tracy Smothers [3:2] (19.03.1994)
SMW Tag Team Title 60:00 Iron Man: The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy del Ray & Tom Prichard) (c) defeat Robert Gibson & Tim Horner [2:1] (18.03.1994)
SMW Tag Team Title 60:00 Minutes Iron Man: The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy del Ray & Tom Prichard) (c) defeat The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) [3:2] (13.03.1994)
SMW Tag Team Title 60:00 Minutes Iron Man: The Heavenly Bodies (Jimmy del Ray & Tom Prichard) (c) defeat The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) [2:1] (12.03.1994)
 
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