TNA Slammiversary June 2nd in Boston MA

[StoneColdWWE316]

Thought since there is no thread for this here might as well make one.

TNA World Heavyweight Title (If Sting loses he can never challenge for the Title again)

Bully Ray (c) vs Sting

Kurt Angle vs AJ Styles

TNA Tag Team Titles (4-Way Match)

Chavo Guerrero/Hernandez (c) vs Bobby Roode/Austin Aries vs Christopher Daniels/Kaz vs James Storm/Gunner

TNA X-Division Title (Utimate X Match)

Kenny King (c) vs Chris Sabin vs Suicide

TNA Television Title

Devon (c) vs Joseph Park

Gail Kim vs Terryn Terell

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Not a bad card.

Amazing to me that the least interesting tag team in the company (Chavo/Hernandez) hold the belts. Probably by design (to keep them with jobs), but Joe/Magnus should be in that tag match.

Can't believe they're still rolling out Suicide. I don't mind 3 way matches, but not sure that having every X match a 3 way is the way to go. Suicide just feels like a 3 wheel here.

Interested to see Angle/AJ and the 4 way tag match.

[Cewsh]

That may be the worst card in TNA PPV history. I'm not even kidding.

[Rip]

Harsh Cewsh mate, they've managed worse, Kurt/AJ should be okay.

[Cewsh]

I don't mean in terms of matches that should be fine. I mean in terms of constructing a card from a booking perspective. Every single match on the card is a disaster.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

I think the much anticipated encounter between Jay Bradley and Sam Shaw is scheduled for the show too.

I can't even remember the last time I recall the TV title being defended on actual television.

[JRSlim21]

Also scheduled:


Brisco, Garrett & Doc vs Joe, Magnus and a returning Jeff Hardy

[Dee4Ness]

I love TNA I feel they could do great things.
Here's the steps they need to take IMO.
In no particular order.
1) Keep using the knockouts. I feel the knockouts are better than the divas.
2) Put the X back in the X division. I feel like I'm watching the same match every week.
3) Use the young guys. Sorry Sting but you gotta go.
4) Get rid of Hogan I think that speaks for itself.
5) Bring in Heyman. Look at what he did with ECW, with money and this talent pool he'd be set.

Anyone have something else to ad?

[StoneColdWWE316]

Um Heyman is with WWE so that last thing isn't going to happen. Seeing as how he is managing Brock Lesnar,CM Punk,and Curtis Axel I don't see him dropping everything to run to TNA.

[Cewsh]

Well he was going to at one point, but Dixie refused to give him total control over the product.

[Sinner]

i think i gotta be done with TNA.

Chavo and Hernandez need to get AIDS and die. Worst Tag Team Ever.
Sick of the same 3 Teams being in EVERY match since OCTOBER

Buh Buh Dudley vs Sting. Gay.

Dixie, if you read this...this is why women don't get put in charge of things.

the only thing worse could be Robbie E vs. Robbie T vs. Devon

[Dee4Ness]

Um Heyman is with WWE so that last thing isn't going to happen. Seeing as how he is managing Brock Lesnar,CM Punk,and Curtis Axel I don't see him dropping everything to run to TNA.
Did I say that it was going to happen? I was being theoretical.

[Cewsh]

i think i gotta be done with TNA.

Chavo and Hernandez need to get AIDS and die. Worst Tag Team Ever.
Sick of the same 3 Teams being in EVERY match since OCTOBER

Buh Buh Dudley vs Sting. Gay.

Dixie, if you read this...this is why women don't get put in charge of things.

3 strikes. Fuck this, man.

[JRSlim21]

i think i gotta be done with TNA.

Chavo and Hernandez need to get AIDS and die. Worst Tag Team Ever.
Sick of the same 3 Teams being in EVERY match since OCTOBER


It hurts that they only have 3 teams. If I were to play fantasy booker, DOC & Knux would be the tag champs so people can care more about Aces & 8s. However, the vanilla Mexican team has 2 of the best heel acts in sports entertainment right now to work with at least.



Buh Buh Dudley vs Sting. Gay.


Sting is an old fart. I say that as a life long mark for the guy. Like Horseman/Robocop days mark. Dudley is solid in his role and now they are doing something where they actually take 1 of the old guys out of the title picture. For good. That's actually good for business as they transition away to someone younger or newer (even though it's obvious where they're going.

I'm curious as to why this is "gay" in your eyes, though.



Dixie, if you read this...this is why women don't get put in charge of things.


So many things wrong with this. I will mention though. Dixie has as much vocal control over the product as the Queen of England has over government at this point.



the only thing worse could be Robbie E vs. Robbie T vs. Devon

Hasn't this actually been done before? Yep, I think it has. Probably the 1 thing you got right.

[MikeHunt]

3 strikes. Fuck this, man.

Being a bitch again

[Sinner]

OMG a guy named Sinner said offensive things. Write a review, Cewsh

[Cewsh]

Wouldn't require more than two words, mate. And the first one is "Fuck".

[Sinner]

You take this shit way too seriously

[Cewsh]

Matter of perspective, really.

[Sinner]

agreed, cheers

[The Rick]

I'm going to watch the Thursday show and hope they give me a reason to watch. Last Thursday's show was kinda crap imo. Slammiversary is usually an entertaining ppv. I just want a reason to care, and Angle A.J. isn't it.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Wow I think Sabin got clocked with the belt falling on him when he came down from the X and got busted wide open. Gonna need some stitches there.

Really thought they did away with Destination X PPV. (Maybe one of their taped PPV 'specials'?)

[mr sabu]

haven't seen tna in ages.. watching this ppv... i hate hogan

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

This Hogan promo is brutal. Steals Sabin's thunder.

Now this awful in ring promo full of curse words. Bringing up the terrorist. And Hogan saying "We" ....Hogan claiming to be from Boston now. lol

[mr sabu]

that was a bit longer then 5 there earl

[Ryse]

Man, Wes just can't take the Twist of Fate can he? Fucked that up twice.

[JT4104]

So....Abyss wins the TV title tonight?

[Ryse]

Wow, it' like Create A Wrestler template A vs Create A Wrestler template B

[mr sabu]

im over this ppv already

[Ryse]

Let's hear it for the Bound For Glory Series Jobber everyone! Woooooo.

[mr sabu]

come on jay... i just watched your match your kahli bad

[Rajah]

Is there anyone watching this PPV tonight who could recap some quick results in this thread? There is no live coverage on the main site so I've directed people here instead. Thanks.

[Ryse]

Chris Sabin won the X Division Title
Samoa Joe, Magnus, and Hardy beat Wes Briscoe, Garrett, and Mr Anderson, and Wes fucked up taking the twist of fate twice.
And Gut Check Jobber A beat Gut Check Jobber B.

[Rajah]

Chris Sabin won the X Division Title
Samoa Joe, Magnus, and Hardy beat Wes Briscoe, Garrett, and Mr Anderson, and Wes fucked up taking the twist of fate twice.
And Gut Check Jobber A beat Gut Check Jobber B.

Thanks buddy. If it at all possible, if you could do the same after each match, I will owe you one.

[mr sabu]

well im over this ppv..... i got up for nothing

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Missed the Gut Check jobber match. Guess didn't miss much.

Abyss defeats Devon for the TV title that's never defended on TV.

[Ryse]

And Abyss just became the new TV champ after Joseph no showed after a backstage attack. So Devon bragged and said that he'd even defend his title against Abyss but Abyss isn't here. But then, of course, Abyss showed up.

[JT4104]

So....Abyss wins the TV title tonight?
:::: Self High Five:::::::cheers::cheers:

[Ryse]

God does Dixie Carter have abysmal entrance music.

[JT4104]

I still can't believe this TNA "Hall of Fame" thing is real.

So...trying to get guys before WWE does huh. Ok sure, why not.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Gotta be Jarrett I think (with them bringing everyone out).

Edit: Angle was my original pick (with Jarrett being completely off the map right now). Thought they brought everyone out to appreciate Jarrett for helping TNA to get to this point. Good pick with Angle. I would have given Jarrett his props for a longer history with the company (even if I don't believe Jarrett the performer ever drew a dime)

[Ryse]

Kurt Angle won gold in the Atlanta Olympics, and then skip ahead to when he shows up in TNA. Nothing at all happened in between. Move along folks.

[JT4104]

gosh...Dixie really bothers me. Just seems like she doesn't even live in reality.

[Ryse]

"If we could scoop up a broken down, mental wreck of a wrestler that WWE didn't want to associate with anymore due to his liability, we knew we could make it." I might be taking liberties there with Dixie Carter's speech.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Thanks Dixie for inducting me into the TNA Hall of Fame. Such a long list of great guys from the past to be inducted along with...

Oh.

Angle "All the great young talent in the company, the Samoe Joes, the Bobby Roodes, the James Storms, and... (can't think of anyone else) ...I could go on and on (if I could think of anyone else worth a piss)"

[JT4104]

So.....who is the next big name to be inducted that hasn't been to Mcmahon land yet? Savage? Luger? Hardy?

[Ryse]

Oh the 4 team tag title match is next. This should be good.

Kazarian "And Gunner, you have tattoos of Dragons, and Skulls, and Dragons eating Skulls." :lol:

Bad Influence, always good for a laugh.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

And Chavo/Hernandez come out to their usual crickets from the audience.

[JT4104]

I think I figured it all out...the WWE HOF is like your legit NFL HOF...while the TNA version is like your local state HOF or the small high school HOF.

[virms]

There are 175 people viewing this thread due to the main site linking the ppv play by play here :lol:

[Ryse]

Bad Influence has been eliminated due to DQ, but then quickly Chavo and Hernandez were eliminated.

[JT4104]

so...can we finally break up Chave/Hernandez

[virms]

I turned on the PPV as I was going to be nice and do a bit of result telling but holy shit the sequence of Bad Influence and Chavo being eliminated was fucking horrible.

[Zacharie]

Roode/Aries is a pretty cool tag team. Donno why they aren't main eventing though.

[Ryse]

so...can we finally break up Chave/Hernandez
They can, but who will care?

[JT4104]

They can, but who will care?I still think there is a future for Hernandez, but Chavo is just the bottom of the barrel.

[virms]

Not sure who this 3rd announcer is but he reminds me a bit of Joey Styles

[Ryse]

Your new Tag Team Champions, James Storm and..............Gunner....:blah:

[virms]

Gunner and Storm look like inbred hillbilly cousins. Works.

Inbred Hillbillies win with a superkick into a gun rack

Let's go JB

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Audio problems while Brooke was talking?

Works for me.

[Ryse]

Taryn Terrel, preparing to destroy Gail Kim just like she did Drew McIntyre's career!

[Ryse]

Audio problems while Brooke was talking?

Works for me.

There were audio problems? My mute button must have special powers.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

There are 175 people viewing this thread due to the main site linking the ppv play by play here :lol:

LOL. "We're not going to watch this crap to do play-by-play. Let's hope one of the guys on the board will"

[virms]

The thread keeps growing as well. Almost at 200 ffs.

STOP LAUGHING! :lol:

[Ryse]

Yeah, that pretty good spot with the cross body from the top with the chair between them was ruined a bit by Taryn looking like she was laughing. It's how she looks tired. She's trying to look tired and gassed, but she just has her mouth wide open like a hurr durr smile.

[JT4104]

Terrell's airbags might have saved her on that dive.

[virms]

This would be so much better if ODB just counted random numbers until she got to 10. 1, 5, 7, 3, 6.....

[Ryse]

Holy Shit! A running RKO off the ramp to the floor by Terrell on Gail. And that gives Terrell the win.

[JT4104]

well that was actually impressive...never thought Terrell had it in her.

[virms]

And yet they had the worst camera shot you could possibly have to end the match. God dammit TNA. :(

[JT4104]

And yet they had the worst camera shot you could possibly have to end the match. God dammit TNA. :(Gonna take a guess it literally looked like two people jumping off the ramp and that is about it. can't imagine it looked great when they landed.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Holy shit!! New AJ Styles music!!

Finally.

[Ryse]

Styles and Angle, this should be good.

[mr sabu]

i stopped watching when abyss showed up did it get better or is it still mehh

[virms]

Holy shit!! New AJ Styles music!!

Finally.

Good music at that to. They just need to create a big time atmosphere to go along with it. Should have killed the lights and had some footage in old timey film look to go on the screen instead of just the graphic.

[Ryse]

i stopped watching when abyss showed up did it get better or is it still mehh
It's gotten better. The tag match was good for the most part, and Gail vs Taryn was better than it had any right to be.

[JT4104]

i stopped watching when abyss showed up did it get better or is it still mehhit's watchable....not sure how high your expectations are though.

[mr sabu]

i don't watch tna so expections are fairly low.. probly why i didn't njoy it as much as you guys.. ill catch the replay later to give it a change but that gut check match was just shit

[Ryse]

Yeah the Gut Check match was pretty terrible. But thankfully that looks to be the low point of this PPV.

[virms]

Some of you guests need to sign up on the board and help discuss TNA. :yes:

We would welcome all of you with open arms.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Please get Taz out of the booth. The guy is just a rambling mess all over the place.

He's gotten even worse since his A&8's character came about.

[virms]

Please get Taz out of the booth. The guy is just a rambling mess all over the place.

He's gotten even worse since his A&8's character came about.

Loving the 3rd guy who sounds just like Joey Styles.

[Ryse]

But Taz right now describing how Angle does his German Suplex is pretty good. When he is just there to tell how moves work, why they hurt, and how tough you have to be, he's pretty damn good. But then he has to do his whole heel schtick and it just ruins it.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Agree. Todd Keneley (3rd guy) been a great boost to the announce booth IMO.

[mr sabu]

look at that lovely german suplex by angle that move takes a devastating toll on the next like the jews in ww2

[Ryse]

Angle wins.....why? Doesn't that kind of ruin AJ's momentum being the whole lone dark savior?

[FaSho34]

Angle wins.....why? Doesn't that kind of ruin AJ's momentum being the whole lone dark savior?

But Angle is a hall of famer...

Figured they'd mess that up somehow

[The Rick]

Good match, bad finish. It looked clumsy instead of technical.

[mr sabu]

he's a hall of famer and styles is just styles

[Ryse]

I hope that doesn't mean Sting is winning so they don't need AJ as the savior.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Didn't see Angle going over at all. Guess they didn't want him to lose on 'his night'. (Kinda what I worried about when I saw he was the induction to the HOF)

Not sure what him winning exactly accomplishes. Nor why they'd have AJ lose.

Kinda a messy finish to a good match.

[JT4104]

Wow...I might be the only one, but I just couldn't get into that match. Felt like to me it never got out of 3rd gear. Nice match, but I guess my expectations for those 2 are a little higher. Also, agree with the whole AJ losing thing, not sure what the point of it was.

While it doesn't completely ruin the whole AJ thing, it puts a huge dent into it.

[Ryse]

Oh no, the dreaded piledriver. You know when you call it Bully, it kind of loses some of its impact. It has to come out of nowhere, like in a match from not too long ago.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1uS9n-Eceo

[The Rick]

Well I haven't been watching Impact for a while. I just popped back in a couple of weeks ago. I want to like this product more than I do. camera work is infuriating at times though. Especially on the entrance. They miss moves, and take mind-boggling angles many times. The tight shots at the ramp linger too much. The diagonal cam angles are way annoying, and they go from leaving the camera stale to cutting 5 angles in just a split second. It just takes you out of the emersion. Wrestling doesn't have to make you think its real. They just have to help you forget that it isn't real.

I started watching at the first Slammiversary. I actually did some write-ups for the front page shortly after that. Then I had some issues with the roommate at that time. Problems on both sides, and I left the house. Thus ending my watching TNA, and internet in general. I was really impressed by the action of those matches around then.

[Ryse]

Well the Jobber vs Jobber is no longer the low point, we have Brooke Hogan wandering out before being sent to the back by Sting. Gee, I wonder what will happen.

[JT4104]

Well the Jobber vs Jobber is no longer the low point, we have Brooke Hogan wandering out before being sent to the back by Sting. Gee, I wonder what will happen.
I pray that is it for her...way to obvious. Though another Hogan turning is not out of the realm of possibility.

[FaSho34]

Nick?

[The Rick]

Okay exposing the wood in the ring was an excellent touch. One of the resident Japanese wrestling fans will tell me otherwise, but that is the first time I've seen that.

[Ryse]

Bully wins, and thankfully Brooke didn't get involved. Though he needed all of A&E to beat Sting, and even then Sting pretty much fought off most of them, after being piledrived onto the exposed wood under the ring mat.

[JT4104]

gee...another over thought TNA title match, why am I not shocked.

[The Rick]

Bully wins, and thankfully Brooke didn't get involved. Though he needed all of A&E to beat Sting, and even then Sting pretty much fought off most of them, after being piledrived onto the exposed wood under the ring mat.

yea. kinda like the Fast and the Furious way of booking. Throw MORE ACTION. That match could have ended at the bare wood section, and I think it would have been a better match.

[Ryse]

All it was missing was a 50 mile runway.

[virms]

This thread had a legitimate 228 users browsing it at one point. I expect that will be close to the buyrate of the PPV.

[The Rick]

I figured that we would have had some of those Korean advertisements of last fall



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[Vice]

That's a damn good deal.

[takerson]

Haven't read anything in the thread, or any results. Haven't followed TNA regularly since BFG in October, have only since seen maybe 3 or 4 odd Impact's, most (but not all) of the Lockdown PPV, and have read results here and there. Now, on paper this card looks pretty meh, with Angle vs. Styles sure to be a great match but screaming of "we don't know what to do, so let's let them steal the show". ANYWAY, because it's a big show and I'm off tomorrow I'm considering watching it. To anyone who watched it, tell me in a PM please, is it worth burning 3 hours on? Whether actually good, or comically bad? Or is it a snoozefest (Like Lockdown pretty much was before the final 5 minutes.)? Thanks in advance.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Main event really felt like an ending straight out of the end of the WCW era.

Liked the exposed ring, but really, no one in TNA would come down to help their beloved Hall of Famer Sting? They all leave the arena for the night?

JMO The last 2 matches were good, but the endings left much to be desired.

[Vice]

In regards to Sting..

"The bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer help to a victim. The probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. In other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help. Several variables help to explain why the bystander effect occurs. These variables include: ambiguity, cohesiveness and diffusion of responsibility."

Realistic. :cool:

[Kev]

And he looks bloody ridiculous in a T-Shirt!

[JP]

It annoyed me that Sting was given the first spot and not Jarrett, forget being looked over for the second.

There wouldn't be a TNA without Jarrett, I do not get it.

[virms]

More than likely trying to keep Angle happy so he sticks around. His contract is up soon and all he seemingly talks about is going back to wwe.

[The Rick]

It annoyed me that Sting was given the first spot and not Jarrett, forget being looked over for the second.

There wouldn't be a TNA without Jarrett, I do not get it.

Nah. That would make Jarrett look like an egomaniac. I agree that Jarrett(both of them) should go in though. So should Mike Tenay for that matter.

[takerson]

AJ/Angle was disappointing, the rest of the show was TNA's usual boring & monotonous mess that's become common for the most part. However I will say that Kim vs. Terrell was really really good, and Sting/Ray was actually a great brawl before the run-in ending.

[StoneColdWWE316]

I didn't watch Slammiversary but it sounded like a decent PPV. I was a little surprised Kurt Angle was announced as the HOF inductee. It seems a little awakward for him to be going in and it only tells half of his Career.

[Cold_Hearted_Truth]

Loving the 3rd guy who sounds just like Joey Styles.

Agree, but apparently TNA didn't....

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TNA announcer Todd Kenely has been dropped from the promotion's announce team, according to a report at PWInsider.com.

Starting this Thursday night, the Impact Wrestling broadcast team will be returning to a 2-man format, with Mike Tenay and Tazz calling the action.

Kenely was informed of the decision at Sunday's Slammiversary pay-per-view. He was brought in to the company back in October by Eric Bischoff and was working for TNA without a contract.

The door is reportedly open for Kenely to return one day, if they find a role for him. TNA was not unhappy with his work, however, the decision was made to streamline the announce team and Kenely was the odd man out.

Unquestionably was the best of the 3. If they want to streamline the announce team, show Taz the door. Things will steamline when you have Taz no longer rambling on incoherently. The A&8 schtick he has is god awful.....one minute he's happy go lucky Taz, the next second he'll throw in random A&8 crap.

[Cewsh]

That's a nice way of saying that Tenay was burying him backstage, I imagine.

[JRSlim21]

Tenay < Taz < Borash < Kennely. That's the order. You can call it however you want. Quality or power

[StoneColdWWE316]

I don't see why they don't give JB a shot. He seems like he knows what he is doing and just calls the action. He doesn't go off like Taz or even Tenay does sometimes with stupid jokes or rambling about nothing.

[son_of_foley]

Watched this last night and thought it was a pretty fun show.

Angle AJ for me was a lot of fun. Some of the spots were nice and I thought AJ was doing well trying to work a slightly different style.

Knockouts match was really surprisingly entertaining. Bumps were insane.

Tag match good although not sure what direction they are taking it in (hoping storm injury story -> Crimson + Gunner as champs)

X Division match was the best 3 way they've had so far. I do think that will burn out though. Happy to have the title matches be 3 way but if so the qualifiers shouldn't or vice versa. Worried it will stop feuds building.

Hogans speech was awkward.

Abyss match was urgh but mercifully quick.

Title match was alright and did what was needed. I liked the ring stuff at the end. Made it a bit different.

[son_of_foley]

Angle wins.....why? Doesn't that kind of ruin AJ's momentum being the whole lone dark savior?

I'm not sure AJ is the lone dark savior yet. He's a disillusioned prick who got ahead of himself trying to hit the styles clash. Angle didn't need the flash and went for the win and got it.

I guess it's a further evolution of his in ring style.

[son_of_foley]

And yet they had the worst camera shot you could possibly have to end the match. God dammit TNA. :(

The replay showed a pretty spectacular back bump by Terrell in doing it. Did not hold back at all.

One thing that was particularly jarring. Briscoe and his inability to take a twist of fate. I don't know if he was knocked silly but he fucked it up so bad Jeff went for it again and then fucked it again. He had his arm blocking his neck in both cases. So so shite.

[son_of_foley]

Shit I also sort of like the 2 gut check lads as well. I think that might be me at fanboy level then.

Sam Shaw has no character but he's quite fun. He reminds me of 2002 Orton or whenever he first game in.

The other guy with the Boom Stick has in two matches pretty much got over a decent finisher as a threat. That's not easy

[Peter Griffin]

He was Ryan Braddock in WWE I believe. In the often logic impaired world of TNA, I still cant fathom why bully went running to the back for a steel chair when there were plenty at ringside.