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What got you into TNA / Why did you stop?

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#1 · (Edited)
I use to be a huge TNA fan, way back I actually remember watching it on FSN, when it was only an hour long, and funny enough the wrestler who got me into TNA was Petey Williams. And it was his Canadian Destroyer that did it. I remember tuning in week after week to see him hit that move, looking at it now being older, its pretty awkward move, but I still love it nonetheless.

I also loved the X-Division, and outside of that really liking Monty Brown.. But it was Petey Williams hitting his Canadian Destroyer for the first time and I was just hooked.

The 3 Live Kru were amazing to me as well.


What got me off TNA was something so small, and it was stupid looking back on it. I don't remember the year, but I remember TNA had this poll where fans got to decide who would face RVD for the title. And I remember clear as day, Desmond Wolfe won the poll and I was stoked. And then I remember somehow Sting getting the match instead, and TNA giving us Desmond Vs RVD for like a few mins on impact.

It was that one thing that made me stop watching, because I watched TNA cause I felt they cared and valued its audience, and I just felt totally shat on when they did that.

Something small, though I did watch a few matches here or there (Though I haven't watched since 2012) I just couldn't look at TNA the same after that.


What about you? And for the people still watching you can still question, and just replace "why you stopped" with why you're still watching.
 
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#4 ·
Around about 2006, brother told me about a show with the old wrestlers on Spike - checked it out and been hooked since. I did stop watching towards the end of last year; that was just painful and horrible to watch. Right now, I am quite excited in the way they are going, being very shrewd and intelligent for a change.
 
#5 · (Edited)
I wanted to see former WCW and WWF stars (mainly WCW). I didn't get the chance to watch it until they got a tv deal in 2004. AJ instantly became my favorite. I started losing interest when Kurt came over as I didn't like the way he was accomplishing everything so fast and we were seeing too much of the guy. Within a year in the company, he had every belt.

It got better when the show was given a second hour. Then the Main Event Mafia formed. I didn't care about them at all. The Knockouts were the only reason I was still watching TNA. I loved TBP. When Angelina left due to visa issues and was replaced by Lacey Von Erich I stopped watching. Well I did look at the Jarrett MMA stuff and Claire Lynch online after hearing about it, and I tuned in for the Jan 4, 2010 ep.
 
#6 ·
I got Sky (cable) in 2009 and TNA was on a TV station called Bravo. I pretty much loved all of it. I'd never seen high flying like Amazing Red or AJ Styles before. I loved the hectic Frontline Vs MEM feud and people like Motor City Machine Guns, Beer Money, AJ etc. were great mixed in with familiar faces. Kurt Angle was probably the best wrestler in the world even then too.

I'd watched WWF up until 2003 so outside of old matches like Punk Vs Joe in ROH on a short lived channel called Fight Network, TNA was the only pro wrestling I was exposed too.

About 2010 or 2011 I got Sky Sports back and was watching WWE again. TNA was much better. Then the shit with Hogan came about and it was like "Are you fucking kidding me? Jeff Hardy, Rob Van Dam, this shit's amazing". Unfortunately I had no idea what the future was going to hold.

They stopped focusing on all the aspects I liked and became just a small WWE clone. In 2014 I think I essentially stopped watching it all together. The product was too different. I hear it's better now but I find myself not connecting with anyone. The guys in NXT now were so lazy in TNA towards the end. Like the Bobby Roode that faced MCMG with Storm in that classic series couldn't be any more different than the Bobby Roode who just left TNA. The promos, energy, wrestling, the old guard like Joe, AJ and Roode just seemed to be coasting towards the end. Now they are gone which is good, but who should I be into? Outside of EC3 and Grado I'm not big on any of them anymore.

I'd say my TNA highlight was AJ Vs Angle Vs Hernandez Vs Morgan. This is weird, but I was a really big Hernandez fan in LAX. Not sure why. And Matt Morgan was awesome at everything. Being big on both, I loved the whole 'Morgan doing the dirty work to get into MEM' angle, and Hernandez getting the briefcase for the title shot was really my first experience with a tag team guy getting a world title push (I missed Edge and Hardy as WWE #1s ). Unfortunately Eric Young piledrove Hernandez to ruin the match though and Morgan never won the big one either :(

Taylor Wilde also needs a shoutout here. I haven't really been into woman's wrestling since she retired and since Awesome Kong's release around those times.
 
#8 ·
The first time: The X-Division, new guys I've never seen before like Monty Brown, Abyss, AJ Styles, Chris Daniels, Samoa Joe etc. K-Kwik's main event push as Ron Killings and other ex-WWE guys like Christian, Raven & Rhino doing better and having more freedom in TNA.

I tuned out at some point in 2010 or 2011 during the Hogan/Bischoff Era. Surprise suprise.

The second time: Bobby Roode's TNA title reign. I heard from others about how awesome he was as heel champ, I read about the guys he defended and retained the belt against and it got me curious to check it out since it seemed like a fantastic main event push. When I did check it out, I loved it. I loved heel champ Roode, his reign and his rivalry with James Storm. I was hooked on TNA again.

That is until Bound For Glory 2012 later that year. Roode had lost the belt 2 months before and I knew that Aces & Eights storyline would be headed in a shit direction once Devon was the first member revealed. Plus I just wasn't that interested in watching wrestling anymore and felt it was a chore watching both WWE and TNA, so I decided to dump TNA and stick to only WWE. WWE sucks too but I can't help but watch out of habit. BFG 2012 is the last TNA event I watched.
 
#9 ·
AJ. I saw a highlight video of Styles on youtube, and at the time, TWC (The Wrestling Channel) was still a thing here, and amongst other things they had TNA. WWE was so dire back then, and at that point in time TNA was just starting to hit its stride, so it was easy to make the switch.

Stopped watching towards the end of the Hogan/Bischoff era, which is clearly where things started to go so wrong, and although I've checked it out subsequently, it's just nowhere near what they had back in the day.
 
#11 ·
Came across TWC one day and TNA was on, saw AJ and the early X division and couldn't stop watching, combine that with guys like Monty Brown and the older WCW guys and I just loved the show

Samoa Joe then came in and I was hooked, never missed a show, it just felt different to WWE, had characters and great in ring action

With Hogan coming in I started missing more and more shows as it all got ridiculous

Haven't really watched in a long time mainly because all the reasons I used to watch are now gone, keep meaning to give it a go though as hearing good things about the product at the minute
 
#12 · (Edited)
Believe it or not, I started following tna in the middle of 2003. I was even a member of the official "tna forum", that later was scraped from the site and it became the "Impact Community". 2005 and 2008/2009 were my favorite years. To me tna started to get worse when Dixie became a tv character and things got even worse when she became a heel with all the dixieland stupid stuff. When both AJ and Sting left there was nothing interesting or that reminded me of the good old tna anymore. It remains this way to me in these days.
 
#15 · (Edited)
I also like the "backstage" segments that happen away from the arena, or that is at least how they show it.

Over the last few years we have had confrontations in bars, houses, funerals, forests, gyms, and parking lots. It really adds a lot of immersion to the show.

Another thing that separates TNA from WWE, with the latter very rarely having things happen out of the ring. Brock Lesnar attacking Dean was awesome, and I am amazed WWE doesn't follow TNA/WCW/WWF lead in that respect.

EDIT: That Destination America intro video package was the best thing I ever saw. Fucking watching the talent in vans and trains and then they start fighting. Cool as shit. Really good production.
 
#16 ·
I started because I was a big wrestling fan and wwe had not enough shows for me (not sure what would happen now since they have the whole network)

So I tried RoH, TNA and AAA. Also some indies, but since they never had a regular schedule it wasn't really an option

I liked AAA shows back than, but it was difficult to follow due to spanish commentators and non rugular uploads.

And RoH and TNA was in english and were uploaded regulary. Watched RoH till 2012 or so, but eventually iI got bored.

Still with TNA because right now it's a good show, why didn't quit? Dont know, maybe because I'm, still a wrestling fan and I lost my faith in WWE, so I need something to replace it and maybe because TNA fuckery is fun to follow.

TNA not the only promotion I follow, but probably favourite for now. Fuckery is still here, impacts are fun and it's a weekly show with no off season.
 
#17 ·
I think I started TNA around 2012 when the WWE was crap. You had Bobby Roode around those years and man, was he great, totally made me a fan and kept on watching since then because even when something was bad, I was able to find something else that was really good until mid-2014.

Don't know why but it felt bad to me, like if they just didn't cared anymore and I still try to see what happens and interesting stuff happens but it's kind of hard to totally get in TNA again for me even if they have awesome talents and good storylines.
 
#18 ·
What got me in?
realising that they had a chance to help reverse all the damage done by the top dog

What got me out?
realising that its never going to happen because loltna
 
#20 ·
I started getting into TNA at the beginning of the Main Event Mafia stable. It also had a nice theme song that got me excited. Then Hogan and Bischoff came. But it wasn't bad at first, although the first show where Hogan debut they advertised rhyno vs abyss in a full metal mayhem which didn't happen. Then they changed the theme, brought in old washed-up wrestlers like Nasty Boys, Ric Flair, Scott Hall and Syxx Pac(Scott was not in shape at this time) and then it switched to 4 sided ring. It just turned me off of TNA. Just bad.
 
#21 · (Edited)
I heard about them when they were on Fox Sports. I heard they had an awesome cruiser-weight division which they called the X division.

Fell in love with the X division. Then I heard they had guys like Nash & Raven wrestling for them which peaked my interest some more.

They moved to Spike and I was watching that first Saturday night. Thought AJ Styles was awesome, Monty Brown, Petey Williams and of course Samoa Joe were awesome too.

TNA truly felt like an alternative at the time and was offering something that WWE wasn't.

I followed TNA and watched the show every week. Then I began watching that ppvs until that AWFUL, AWFUL, last rights match between Sting and Abyss and it truly was the sign (among a few other things) that the TNA I loved just didn't exist anymore.

Then a bunch of WWE guys came in and beat every TNA original I loved and I couldn't take it anymore. Joe should have been their Goldberg, AJ should have been their Sting. I loved the introduction of Angle, but I couldn't stand the fact that he just came in and beat Joe.

I watched again on Jan 4, 2010 and as much as I loved WCW and the NWO and had prayed for an awesome NWO revival throughout the 2000's, it was so overplayed by 2010 and I couldn't believe that a company which featured talents like Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Bobby Roode, Jeff Hardy and many more decided that a fucking NWO revival would be the best way to go. I was done.

They had clearly made up their minds about what they thought was best and I realized that Joe/AJ would never get the chance they deserved.

And look where we are today, AJ is the biggest babyface in the WWE and Samoa Joe is the NXT champion and people are clamoring for him to join the main roster. If you count NXT as a seperate brand, you could make the argument that AJ Styles and Samoa Joe are the two biggest face/heel in the two biggest promotions in The United States

WAY TO GO TNA
 
#22 ·
One day I was flipping through channels, flipped right past "some wrestling show" (I wasn't watching any wrestling anymore at that time) and did a double take. "What the fuck was that?" Turned it back. "A 6 sided ring? Strange." The in ring action was great, must have been an X Division match. Then I saw a few familiar faces. Jeff Hardy, Sting, Christian. I slowly started watching it more and more consistently on a weekly basis. Incidentally, Christian leaving for the WWE got me tuning in to WWE again.

I stopped watching TNA because of Hulk fucking Hogan, the Aces and Eights storyline and.....ugh......Joker Sting. Maybe I should give TNA another shot since they are no longer around and I no longer watch WWE, I just don't know when or where it's on now.
 
#27 ·
One day I was flipping through channels, flipped right past "some wrestling show" (I wasn't watching any wrestling anymore at that time) and did a double take. "What the fuck was that?" Turned it back. "A 6 sided ring? Strange." The in ring action was great, must have been an X Division match. Then I saw a few familiar faces. Jeff Hardy, Sting, Christian. I slowly started watching it more and more consistently on a weekly basis. Incidentally, Christian leaving for the WWE got me tuning in to WWE again.



I stopped watching TNA because of Hulk fucking Hogan, the Aces and Eights storyline and.....ugh......Joker Sting. Maybe I should give TNA another shot since they are no longer around and I no longer watch WWE, I just don't know when or where it's on now.

Pop on tuesdays, but you should watch a episode online.


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#23 ·
Initially it was Diamond Dallas Page, Shawn Michaels' cousin Michael Shane and AJ Styles that got me into TNA. To be honest, I was shocked that actual wrestling that wasn't WWE existed on TV.

Stopped watching at several points (lost interest in 2008, got completely disgusted in early 2011 and completely gave up when AJ left in 2014) but the same reason each time was just the company itself not having faith in what brought them to the dance like the X-Division and the overall great young roster they had at the time. TNA had the potential to be something great and unique but couldn't resist being WWE-lite time and time again.
 
#24 ·
One of my friends in school kept telling me how it was better than WWE, clicked with AJ Styles upon watching. I stopped watching when they moved to Mondays, not because they were trying to compete with Raw but the shows were pretty bad imo. I got back into it upon the signing of Mike Bennett as he was in the Kingdom with Cole so I became a fan of his.
 
#25 ·
On and off since late 2002 used to download the PPVs off Kazaa, eMule or the Sledgehammer forums.

Stopped watching for a while when the Jeff Hardy/Sting thing happened. Watched through 2012 during the Bobby Roode era after that I stopped completely. Just started watching from January and the move to Pop, glad I did.
 
#26 ·
Became a fan in mid 2005 due to me being a fan of Jeff Jarrett,Raven and Rhino who were all main eventing in 2005. The X Division hooked me and guys like AJ and Joe quickly became entertaining to me.

Left about ten years later, all my favourites were gone and guys like EY were top guys with ECW reunions, old guys or talent who didn't deserve to be on TV taking precedent.

Follow TNA on this board mainly due to my fondness of EC3 and my hope of TNA returning to it's former glory.
 
#28 · (Edited)
I had heard the company name thrown around and I saw it on TV and decided to watch it, saw a lot of wrestlers I recognized and enjoyed it, I stopped because they kept network hopping and it became too much of a hassle to follow and I quickly just lost all interest, though Slammiversary 2013 was an incredible PPV, one of the best I ever watched
 
#29 ·
I got into TNA simply because WWE fumbled the ball after they bought ECW and WCW.

I followed it from the end of the weekly PPV era all the way until Brooke Hogan began to feature prominently. I stopped watching at that point, then came back when they moved to Destination America. I've not followed as closely as I used to, though. The wrestling landscape is a lot different from when I started watching TNA. Now there are multiple promotions available on my cable package (ROH, Lucha Underground, Paragon, NJPW on AXS, CMLL, WWE, TNA) on a weekly basis and there's tons more online.

I still like TNA's roster but while the creative is indeed improved from a few years ago, I still think it's very week.
 
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