Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 397: Make TNA Great Again

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Josh Matthews is legitimately the reason I stopped watching Impact. I would legitimately rather deal with Michael Cole.
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Legitimately is the new literally?
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UItimaterializer posted...

Josh Matthews is legitimately the reason I stopped watching Impact. I would legitimately rather deal with Michael Cole.

Well if you tune in now you can get total heel Josh playing a more annoying version of 2011 Cole while he and Borash argue about Jim Ross and Mike Tenay and ignore the matches
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Yeah I'll pass. Josh is the worst announcer I've ever heard.
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Jakyl25 posted...

more annoying version of 2011 Cole

Dear god how is this even possible
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Panthera posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

more annoying version of 2011 Cole

Dear god how is this even possible

Do you want a taste???

https://youtu.be/fLA19TysBNc


30 seconds in this goes off the rails

Imagine two hours of THAT
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...Okay, I didn't realize Josh was THAT bad.

Like I know everyone says he's terrible and the worst. And I've seen his Twitter posts where he's actually the most insufferable person.

But my god. Actually listening to that video. How do people say Matt Striker might be worse? I cannot imagine anyone on this planet who would say "Josh, you're doing a great job and not alienating anyone. Keep on doing you dude." My goodness. What a piece of s***. What is his actual problem?
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He's playing up a character. He wasn't THIS bad before. I can agree that this is finally worse than Striker.

The problem is that THEY THINK THIS IS GOOD TELEVISION.

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2017/03/09/impact-wrestling-pop-tv-results-review-march-9/
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For real, this show was taped, with live commentary, SEVEN DAYS AGO.

They watched this, had days to refine it if they wanted, and chose not to.
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https://twitter.com/matthardybrand/status/840023107989463040

#AnthemOwlMen
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Jakyl25 posted...

Panthera posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

more annoying version of 2011 Cole

Dear god how is this even possible

Do you want a taste???

https://youtu.be/fLA19TysBNc


30 seconds in this goes off the rails

Imagine two hours of THAT

I like how that was fine, then there was that slight pause after the other guy calls the move for him and you can just feel the impending disaster and then it happens
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Jakyl25 posted...

He's playing up a character. He wasn't THIS bad before. I can agree that this is finally worse than Striker.

I'm sorry, how is this a character that they can approve? This f***ing loser is screaming his head off about nonsense that is clearly not just in-character stuff. It's all about how he's so much better on commentary and understands how to do it and that the new guy is the worst.

I cannot even begin to understand how they think he's a good announcer, at all.
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Well, if you can't understand that, then watch the rest of Impact, which is now a detective show, the mystery of this week being, "how did anyone think this was a good idea?"
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dixie carter was so incompetent, so corrupt, so shady, that she was the only thing holding up TNA.
this is poetic.
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VOW revealed the top 25 for the ROH project on their podcast today if anyone's curious.

25. Eddie Edwards
24. Kyle O'Reilly
23. Takeshi Morishima
22. Jimmy Jacobs
21. Adam Cole
20. Davey Richards
19. Tyler Black
18. KENTA
17. Claudio Castagnoli
16. Chris Hero
15. Jay Lethal
14. Mark Briscoe
13. Homicide
12. AJ Styles
11. Low Ki
10. El Generico
9. Christopher Daniels
8. Roderick Strong
7. Kevin Steen
6. Jay Briscoe
5. Austin Aries
4. Nigel McGuinness
3. CM Punk
2. Samoa Joe
1. Bryan Danielson

Only three men were on all 111 ballots: Danielson, Punk, and Strong. I don't know how you can possibly justify leaving off any of that top ~20 at all and especially any of the top 10, but some people did it.

But then there were some people that, for example, voted for Cheech and not Cloudy, so I'm not sure how much thought went into some of these. Probably the most hilarious part of the whole list was that Dunn and Marcos, the Ring Crew Express, tied at #122, but Dunn was on two ballots and Marcos was only on one.

I don't want to complain too much about placing overall, but Lethal being above KENTA and Black makes me physically ill.
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I feel like maybe swapping Cole and Lethal there
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That would certainly make it better. As is, Cole's one spot above where I ranked him and Lethal is 18 above.

Curious to look at all of them tomorrow to see how far removed I was.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Panthera posted...

Jakyl25 posted...

more annoying version of 2011 Cole

Dear god how is this even possible

Do you want a taste???

https://youtu.be/fLA19TysBNc


30 seconds in this goes off the rails

Imagine two hours of THAT

Holy s***, that might be worse than Mark Madden
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I can't wait to watch this tomorrow. It sounds fantastic.
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Csonka's final thoughts on his review at 411mania...

I firmly believe that there is enough room for Impact Wrestling in the grand scheme of things; I believe that some guys need the company and that they can serve an important purpose. I was 100% behind them and I was rooting for them on their latest reboot, I wanted it to work out, I wanted something fresh and entertaining; but they seemingly did everything in their power to make me want to turn off the show. In my 36-years of watching wrestling, this may very well have been the most damning and damaging broadcasts I have ever seen.

I once read somewhere that, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” No one that has ever been associated with the upper management in TNA/Impact Wrestling has ever heard that I’d wager to say because “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” was the latest attempt at rebooting “TNA.”

They spent the show building to a feud between two announcers.

They spent the show mentioning the name “WWE” more than “Impact Wrestling.”

They spent the show disusing how “great” the company used to be

They spent the show talking about how the company used to have cool wrestlers, and that those guys left because the company was completely inept at producing a proper wrestling company.

Those performers left because the company sucked, lacked leadership, and pissed off all of the fans.

They gave Reno Scum & Rachel Ellering about 6-total minutes, with none of the commentary time actually dedicated to them. The company acted as if they didn’t care about them so why should I?

They went right back to a new authority figure that spent more time shilling his podcast and name dropping WWE stars than putting over Impact wrestling.

The main event was a complete joke, a slap in the face to anyone that cared or invested time in the company; ending Lashley’s run in a clusterf*** match just to give Patron the title on night one just comes off so poorly. GIVE US ATTENTION PLEASE. Well you got it, you got my attention by putting on 120 of the worst minutes of weekly wrestling I have ever reviewed.

To truly start over, to eradicate the past and to not be bound by its sins, sometimes you need to completely burn it down and start over; instead Anthem got hoodwinked by a group of people that on various occasions almost ruined and closed down the company.

His score: 0 out of 10
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So you know all those segment where they made Sami Zayn a moron?

The new Ride Along pretty much demonstrates that Sami Zayn is an idiot in all aspects of life.
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That commentary is something else. That actually is worse than Mark Madden. I never had a huge problem with Josh Matthews but anyone capable of doing that and choosing to do so, no matter what the back tells you, loses a ton of points as an announcer from me.
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I got through a minute of that video and couldn't listed to any more.

That was horrible.
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Under talked about factor of that video "Rachel Ellering" and "Sienna" are pretty awful too. I'm not even sure if Sienna's selling was terrible or she was simply giving those strikes the selling they deserved.

Maybe that was the point for Josh Matthews to distract from how bad the wrestling was. (by getting everyone to change the channel...?)
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Was the winners finisher just a running shoulder charge? I would have thought it a complete normal move if JB hadn't shouted out that it had a name.

It didn't even look like a super strong/hard shoulder charge.
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Lopen posted...

Under talked about factor of that video "Rachel Ellering" and "Sienna" are pretty awful too. I'm not even sure if Sienna's selling was terrible or she was simply giving those strikes the selling they deserved.

Maybe that was the point for Josh Matthews to distract from how bad the wrestling was. (by getting everyone to change the channel...?)

I can give Ellering some slack, she's not even two years out of training.

Sienna should be better.
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there was wrestling going on during that yelling?
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Sienna even cut a promo after that was completely inaudible because of Josh.

Way to push your wrestlers
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In fairness, Sienna IS totally irrelevant to anything that matters.
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Some backstage notes from PWInsider:

Eli Drake stood up as a locker room leader and had a heated conversation with Jarrett about how badly they were burying all the work they've done recently as being awful.

TNA's reasoning as to why you didn't hear a huge pop for Alberto was because they were having technical difficulties recording crowd audio <___<
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Jakyl25 posted...

Some backstage notes from PWInsider:

Eli Drake stood up as a locker room leader and had a heated conversation with Jarrett about how badly they were burying all the work they've done recently as being awful.

TNA's reasoning as to why you didn't hear a huge pop for Alberto was because they were having technical difficulties recording crowd audio <___<

Eli mutha f***in drake

Go get em man
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Oh god Josh Matthews! lol

Now is this an on screen feud or do the two just not like each other? lol
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eaedwards6400 posted...

Oh god Josh Matthews! lol

Now is this an on screen feud or do the two just not like each other? lol

Probably both.

Also, did Eli Drake hit the "Hello Dummy" button on Jarrett?
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I mean that seriously. As a person who thought impact was really coming around in the corgan era and since that this really was kinda terrible.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

eaedwards6400 posted...

Oh god Josh Matthews! lol

Now is this an on screen feud or do the two just not like each other? lol

Probably both.

Also, did Eli Drake hit the "Hello Dummy" button on Jarrett?

I think the reports would have included a detail like "Eli Drake broke a guitar over Double Js head"
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The next WWE UK division shows are May 6th and 7th.

Interesting to see how those go
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I am still kind of in awe that they'd pay for Alberto instead of Galloway
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Jakyl25 posted...

I am still kind of in awe that they'd pay for Alberto instead of Galloway

alberto is a proper wwe champ
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True. That does seem to be what they value now
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"Josh Matthews is the DarkSydePhil of wrestling commentary."

Ow.
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Was he that bad announcing Smackdown?
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No, he was just discount Michael Cole then.
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http://botchedspot.com/blog/comic/make-impact-great/

Okay, I'm going to watch this episode of Impact now. I need to see this.
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The best thing is that, next week, they do a delayed Dusty Finish and give the belt back to Lashley
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6k3_6pWwAAI7S3?format=jpg&name=large

What should we name the Anthem Owl?

Dixie?

Chris Regal?
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t*** N Ass
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how about Kaebora Gaepora
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Ethan Carter IV
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Filthy Tom was already declared the front runner by the TNA twitter for his entry of "Thornton Owl III"
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BONESAW is ready
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