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1) Jeff Hardy suffers burns to his ass while performing some stunt for his Internet show.
2) TNA Genesis – Matt Hardy’s appearance.  Not that he showed up, but his physical appearance. TNA doesn’t advertise him and he debuts as a very cheered heel.  He also has a terrible match. Also his entrance video is laughably bad, including an “Add as Friend” graphic which is then “DENIED!”  Link to video.
3) 1/6 Impact – Mike Tenay’s sit-down interview with Anderson and Morgan.  Fakest Tenay ever. “I’ve sat down with the biggest names in the wrestling business.  Ken, you’re the one guy that I just … can’t get a read on.  Are you working me?  Are you working … the fans?”  Morgan capped the segment off by actually saying “You can look forward to two things this Sunday, Ken.  Right cross – hospital, carbon footprint – grave yard.”  Mirko Cro Cop just shuddered somewhere in Croatia.
4) Genesis – Kurt Angle’s drug-addled promo.
5) 1/13 Impact – First Hardy Boyz match in three years given 90 minutes of build.  The match is terrible and does the lowest rating of the night.
6) 1/13 Impact – Another THEY angle, this time with Crimson prophesizing.
7) January 2011: The beginning of the Joe/Pope feud with cameras, dogs, and pigs fucking.  Impossible to understand or care about.
8 ) Ric Flair’s behavior on the European tour in January.  Screws the fans, loses some respect of the locker room.
9) TNA book new “They” angle to be revealed as the reunited Main Event Mafia before getting their top picks of Nash and Booker T signed.  Nash and Book then sign with WWE leaving TNA in the lurch.
10) So Cal Val’s “Pillow Talk” series on www.tnawrestling.com and Youtube.  Link to one episode.
11) Velvet Sky’s screechy losing streak.
12) Xplosion’s brief foray into nauseating “Reaction-style” camera work.  Zooming randomly in and out, intentionally mis-framed shots, shaking, etc.  As if the camera crew “snuck in” to the Impact Zone and secretly filmed these matches that are on the TV show.
13) Kurt Angle missing the birth of his daughter because TNA waited until after the first show on their European Tour to give him clearance to go home.
14) TNA sends Hernandez to Mexico for over six months to become a big star for the Latino audience and to learn Spanish well enough to trick Mexicans into thinking he’s a Mexican.  He does get over, although AAA doesn’t even bother trying to pretend he’s Mexican.  TNA pays his downside the whole time he’s down there, and he grows reluctant to return because he prefers working in Arena Mexico (where the toilets don’t work).  Finally, after all this, his big return to TNA comes in a 30-second throwaway backstage segment, as a heel.
15) 1/10 Impact – Unbearable Shannon Moore repeats word-for-word the exact same awful “we represent the 1% of people who get tattoos and dye their hair” promo he cut two months ago.
16) The self-booked Bully Ray vs Devon feud flies off the logic track leading up to Against All Odds.  Includes Devon’s sons Terence and Tyrell.
17) 2/17 Impact – Hernandez’ Border Toss results in horrific bump by Doug Williams.  GIF link.
18) 2/17 Impact – Hernandez, Sarita and Rosita talking in terrible conversational Spanish.
18) Jeff Jarrett tweets “The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. – Albert Einstein.”

19) 2/17 Impact – Jeff Jarrett is fucking Kurt Angle’s ex-wife, has stolen his children, and has beaten him in the ring.  Angle’s revenge on the Jarretts is to sneak into a restaurant’s kitchen and personally cook them an unsatisfactory dinner.

20) 2/24 Impact – In a turn from their regular modus operandi, TNA promotes on their website a shocking surprise in the final few moments of Impact.  Said surprise is not hyped at all during the show.  In the closing moments, Taz is told that the production truck just got a new video, implying that TNA didn’t know about this beforehand and contradicting the promotion of the surprise on their website.  The video is an almost exact rip-off of WWE’s 2/21/11 Undertaker vignettes but it’s for Sting’s return on 3/3/11.
21) 3/3 Impact – TNA rips off The Rock’s electrifying entrance for Sting’s return.
22) 3/3 Impact – Hogan to Dixie: “We didn’t believe in you, we used you.  Eric and I used you to get right back on top of the wrestling business.  Somewhere along the way you forgot what your place in TNA is and always will be.  You supply the money, PERIOD.  Understand?  This wasn’t about you and me being partners.  This is about me and my real partner, Eric Bischoff, using you to get back on top of the wrestling business.  We used you because you’re a weak woman. We used you and your whole family.”  A little too on the nose.
23) “The Network” screwing with Immortal angle (including all phone acting).
24) TNA tries to tell the wrestlers that Angelina from Jersey Shore did her apperance for free and just for the publicity rather than the $7,000 widely reported for the one-off.  The reason the wrestlers don’t believe it is because management told them the same thing regarding J-Woww, who TMZ revealed was paid $15,000 for a one-time appearance.
25) 3/3 Impact – Sting’s glittery red sewn-in pads.
26) 3/3 Impact – 52-year-old Sting wins the TNA World Title on his first night back after being gone for six months.
27) Okada is now Okato because someone in TNA saw “The Green Hornet”.
28) 3/3 Impact – The Jarrett’s wedding scene is shot twice as Karen misses the cake on the first try.
29) TNA promoting the next two months as “The Road to Lockdown”, shamelessly ripping off “The Road to Wrestlemania”.
30) Crimson’s push completely forgotten about.
31) 03/10 Impact – Earl Hebner makes the three count in the six-woman tag match from the other side of the ring, a good 10-12 feet from the pin.
32) Victory Road – The ending of the First Blood match.  Hernandez is busted open, but the ref is down.  Instead of doing a regular shitty ref bump, they get “creative” and have a fake fan run in and beat the shit out of Brian Hebner.  Giant babyface Matt Morgan doesn’t lift a finger to help.  Hernandez wipes off the blood and then sprays fake blood on Morgan.  New ref Jackson James awards the match to Hernandez.
33) Victory Road – The 115-second main event where Sting holds Jeff Hardy down for the three count after it’s deemed that Hardy is in no condition to perform.  The show ends 20 minutes early as a result of the changed finish.
34) Victory Road – Rosita and Sarita vs Angelina Love and Winter.
35) Victory Road – Tommy Dreamer vs Bully Ray.  Total paint by numbers hardcore match ending with two faces distracting Bully and another two faces double teaming him for the win.
36) Victory Road – Ken Anderson vs Rob Van Dam.  After many moves are blown, the match ends in a double countout.  Half the Impact Zone chants “RESTART THE MATCH!” while the other half chants: “NO!”
37) Revelation that Daffney’s wages were garnished to pay for the arm broken by Abyss on TNA PPV.
38) Daffney is not used on TV for months on end and is then released.
39) 3/17 Impact – Pope’s faith healer skit with the blind man, the man in a wheelchair and the overweight woman.  TNA has so little faith in their audience to get this is fake that they have a run through skit backstage a few minutes prior.
40) 3/17 Impact – In the first 72 minutes of Impact, the only match on the show is Madison Rayne squashing Alissa Flash in less than 20 seconds.  When we finally do get a match, it’s Gunner vs Murphy vs Big Rob, which goes less than 2 minutes.  The whole show has 9 minutes, 13 seconds of wrestling.
41) 3/17 Impact – Pope tortures Okato in exactly the same manner that Samoa Joe tortured Bashir. Joe has the BALLS to be upset about it.
42) Fortune’s new face theme song.  Link.
43) Mr. Anderson’s tweener character who says “Asshole” A LOT.
44) Every Hogan/Anderson interaction must include Hogan saying “You know, you really are an asshole.”
45) Same contrived set up to Sting vs RVD vs Anderson as we had for Angle vs Hardy vs Anderson. A lot of controversy with double countouts and double pins.
46) The Anderson Remix video, complete with auto-tuned Mike Tenay.

On pace for 92.

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1) The All-Night Express (Kenny King & Rhett Titus) defeated Adam Cole & Kyle O’Reilly. The Express got the victory using their powerbomb/blockbuster combo at the 9:25 mark. Really good opener and an impressive Manhattan Center and PP debut by Cole & O’Reilly.

Kelly read a statement regarding ROH’s (kayfabe) disavowing of the Steen-Generico match.

2) Colt Cabana defeated TJ Perkins. As promised, it was a sporting, scientific contest, with Cabana coming out on top via a sunset flip in 7:55. Solid, but nothing special.

The announcers introduced a promo video for the women’s tag match.

3) Sara Del Rey & Serena Deeb defeated Daizee Haze & Amazing Kong. Haze sported a new look to match Kong’s, featuring a black outfit and bands in her hair. She started out and Kong didn’t get in at all until receiving a hot tag. Eventually Del Rey hit a Royal Butterfly and piledriver on Daizee but couldn’t get the win, then Serena hit Kong with a spear and a second piledriver finished off Haze after 8:18. Good match.

4) Eddie Edwards defeated Sonjay Dutt Edwards picked up a rare pinfall win in 10:44 using the 2K1 Bomb. Dutt replaced the injured Kenny Omega and did his usual reliably good job, but the original match likely would have been better and been given more time.

The announcers discussed the first half of the show and sent it to intermission. The iPPV return of Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas (on 2/26/11 in Chicago Ridge) was hyped with a video package and sit-down interview with Jim Cornette. There was no mention of a contract, but they said they will be wrestling regularly in ROH and plan to make a run at the ROH tag titles. Good first half all around, but I’m surprised that they left the top four matches for the second half rather than putting one (namely Homicide-Daniels) in the pre-intermission slot. Technically, everything was good so far with good video and audio quality and no drops in the stream. Apparently some users had trouble getting the stream initially, and ROH tweeted that the GFL servers were at or near capacity.

Before the second half, Kelly introduced a “special” fan-produced video for Steen-Generico which also aired during intermission and was about twice as loud as everything else on the show. Other than that, it was good.

Mike Bennett and “Brutal” Bob Evans came out to start the second half at 9:05. Bennett sat in a chair at ringside to watch the next match and the crowd chanted “Who are you?” at him.

5) Homicide defeated Christopher Daniels (non-title match). Julius Smokes was in Homicide’s corner for (I believe) the first time since his return. After a back-and-forth sequence, ref Paul Turner was knocked into the corner. While he was recovering, Homicide removed his shirt and threw it in Daniels’ face, then hit him with an Ace Crusher for the win at 10:32. Good match but surprisingly short. Afterward, Bennett cut a brief derisive promo on Daniels.

The video package for the Kings-Briscoes match aired again.

6) Jay, Mark, and Mike Briscoe defeated The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero & Claudio Castagnoli) & Shane Hagadorn. The Briscoes won in 15:50 when Mike came off the top for a Doomsday Device on Hagadorn. They mixed Hagadorn and Mike in pretty effectively and while Mike didn’t do a whole lot of wrestling, he did some and certainly didn’t embarrass himself. Good match and an appropriate (presumably) end to the feud.

7) Roderick Strong defeated Davey Richards to retain the ROH World Championship. They worked a lot of holds and technical moves early, and also fought at ringside. Davey hit a die around 13 minutes in, and the action picked up considerably once he got back in the ring. Both men had several convincing near falls late. At one point, Strong gave Richards a powerbomb off the apron through a table, then a Gibson Driver on the floor, and threw him over the barricade to try to get a count out, but Richards got back in just before the 20 count. Richards may have sustained a legitimate concussion; he had an ankle lock on, and just released it for no apparent reason, then ref Todd Sinclair checked on him. From that point on, he kicked out of a few big moves, but didn’t get any more offense. Strong eventually applied a Strong Hold, and Sinclair stopped the match at 30:22 due to Richards apparently passing out. Referees and officials checked on Richards, and Bobby Cruise asked the audience to be patient as they were taking precautions for a possible concussion. Scary finish aside, it was an excellent match, and Strong’s best in quite a while. Probably ****1/2 on the star rating scale.

The announcers and ring announcer explained that the final match was not sanctioned by ROH. Sinclair was in the ring to serve as referee, and the previously agreed stipulations (mask vs. career) were still in effect.

8 ) El Generico defeated Kevin Steen (Unsanctioned Fight Without Honor – Steen must leave ROH) Way too much happened to try to describe it in any detail. Lots of blood, lots of sick bumps, lots of props, lots of ridiculous kick-outs. Steve Corino and Colt Cabana both got involved. Ultimately, Generico hit the turnbuckle brainbuster, but Steen kicked out. Generico was ready to finish Steen with a chairshot, but a kneeling Steen held up Generico’s old mask and begged for mercy. Generico threw the mask down and hit him with a brutal chairshot for the win at 31:12. Very good match for what they were trying to do, but certainly not without its flaws.

Excellent show overall. I think they could have laid things out a little better, but that didn’t hurt the end product too much. The replay is now available on gofightlive.tv.

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1. Desmond Wolf jobbed out repeatedly, banished to Xplosion.

2. Pope returns as a face, cries, challenges four other faces to fights.

3. TNA Victory Road advertised as having the 20^th Ultimate X match, is in fact the 21^st.
4. Sarita turns on Taylor after problems on Xplosion. Viewers and Tenay are baffled.

5. Sting-Dixie-Bischoff segment up in the rafters.  Bisch: “No more talking!”  Dixie doesn’t push for Sting explanation.
6. 7/8 Impact – Tenay relentlessly badgers Taz about his connection to Tommy Dreamer & Co., virtually ignoring first-time-ever match between two of TNA’s top stars.
7. Bischoff says in an interview outside TNA that MMA and Pro Wrestling have absolutely nothing in common.
8. Unbelievably bad booking of Angelina Love vs Madison Rayne feud.
9. Flair forms Fourtune.  Then Flair has an idea for a stable.  Forms Fourtune again with same people.
10. Victory Road – Devon locked in his room by a single board.  Cameraman is indifferent plus board is on the outside of an inside swinging door.
11. Dixie infuriates locker room by calling another meeting where she tells everyone to “tighten up” their ring work.  Does not address thousand other problems the company has.
12. 7/15 Impact – The ECW Brawl including Al Snow attacking coworkers.
13. Victory Road – Matt Morgan vs Hernandez with two blown Border Tosses.
14. ECW Invasion launched based on results of a focus group conducted in …Philadelphia.
15. 7/22 Impact – Earl Hebner talks.  Makes up the word “identifee”.

16. 7/22 Impact – Tommy Dreamer’s Up North promo, complete with crying.
17. 7/22 Impact – Taz’ ass-kissing of Dixie culminating with “Our beautiful President’s in the house!”
18. 7/22 Impact – Dixie comes out to her own theme music, makes boring speech.

19. TNA does not provide health insurance.  Hernandez injures neck, TNA pays for surgery, garnishes wages until money is recouped.
20. Matt Morgan, with no health insurance, punished after refusing to take sick bumps in match with Hernandez.
21. Jarrett brags on Twitter that TNA will celebrate its 9th Anniversary at Slamminaversary on July 17, 2011. WWE has reserved the date for a PPV.
22. $40 Hardcore Justice pay-per-view comes four days before pay-per-view-quality free show.
23. July 29 Impact – Flair blesses Frankie Kazarian who takes shots at WWE’s Nexus.  Is then squashed in 30 seconds by Big Rob.
24. 7/29 Impact – On commentary Taz uses cable TV industry term “penetration”.

25. 7/29 Impact – Tommy Dreamer vs Abyss.
26. AJ’s gets tattooed at Shannon Moore’s parlour – http://twitpic.com/2aocy8
27. 8/5 Impact – The Raven/Dreamer rehash.
28. 8/5 Impact – Lacey Von Erich’s ring performance.
29. 8/5 Impact – The Bischoff/Hogan/Nash “backstage politics” promo.
30. Legends Title becomes Global Title becomes TV Title.
31. RVD’s face champ promos during Summer of 2010.
32. Hardcore Justice – Gangstas beating up Team 3D segment.
33. Hardcore Justice – Gangsta’s implied rape on So Cal Val and Jeremy Borash as a comedy bit.
34. Hardcore Justice – Tommy Dreamer vs Raven match, including Foley sinking to new lows by reffing this match and Tommy blading in front of his children.
35. Hardcore Justice – Imposter Lupus.  They brought in a fake Lupus.
36. RVD drops title because he was running out of dates to work due to his contract.
37. Mutants chant “This is Awesome” while heels Fourtune beat down beloved faces EV2.0.

38. Whole Effin’ Show – Hardy’s open challenge to anyone in wrestling world answered by …Shannon Moore.
39. Kurt Angle’s only reason for continuing to wrestle is beating everyone in the Top 10.  After beating the #6 person the Top 10 concept is abandoned by TNA.

40. 8/19 Impact – The Dixie/Dreamer/Foley/Flair argument.
41. 8/19 Impact – A.J. Styles needs help from Abyss to beat Tommy Dreamer.
42. “The six-sided ring and the great technical wrestlers – that nobody knew – wasn’t working.  TNA brought in two rock stars, and look at the company now!” — Rob Van Dam
43. Mick Foley equates Tommy Dreamer to Meryl Streep, thinks TNA is the Burger King to WWE’s McDonalds as opposed to the street vendor selling rancid McDonald’s leftovers, and can’t seem to understand why the Internet community started to suck at the exact same moment he became the smuggest, most self involved whore on the planet.
44. The constant on-air thanking of Dixie Carter.
45. AJ Styles will defend his TV title every week with the exception of every week.
46. Tragedy Boy Jesse “Tragedy” Neal’s Tragic Story of Tragic Tragedy.  Two years of shameless exploitation and counting.
47. No Surrender – Angle vs Hardy absolutely demolished by unbelievably stupid booking.

48. 9/2 Impact – Stevie Richards pins Abyss.
49. The Brian Kendrick crazy character and his involvement with EV2.0.
50. Mick Foley constantly being injured off camera to get him out of any physicality.

51. Serge getting beat down with the Owen Hart voice being used by Taz.

52. Jeff Hardy continuing to get pushed despite looking increasingly like someone’s deadbeat stoner uncle.

53. 9/16 Impact – Abyss uses “Bob” to brand “10/10/10″ “01 01 01″ onto the lower abdomen of an anonymous captive.

54. Abyss kills Rob Van Dam with a weapon he named after Dixie Carter’s mother.  Because they need a champion, TNA strips Van Dam of the World Title and holds a tournament to crown a new one.  Van Dam returns with no apparent lasting physical problems two weeks before the tournament ends, and will actually wrestle on the show where his belt is given away.

55. 9/16 Impact – RVD via telephone interview from home says that Abyss’ attack “set his training back a little bit.”

56. This costs $14.99.  Link

57. 9/16 Impact – Tommy Dreamer’s “I luv Fourtune” promo.

58. 9/16 Impact – Bischoff books a 3-way at Bound for Glory because Angle/Hardy went to a time limit draw at No Surrender. Dixie overrules him and books a no time limit rematch for Impact. Ref bump leads to a double pin, so Bischoff re-books the 3-way that Dixie overruled two hours prior. This also includes the father/son Hebner stare down after the double pin and Miss Tessmacher telling Pope that Bischoff would be gone by 10:55 only to have him appear at 11:10 on ReAction.

59. 9/23 Reaction – Mick Foley is so angry about his body failing him that he throws up in his own mouth.

60. New Jeff Jarrett “Skeletons” t-shirt.  Link to Front. Link to Back.

61. 10/7 Impact opening with Abyss handcuffed to distraught hostage Dixie Carter.

62. 10/7 Impact – Bischoff vs Pope promo battle about good and evil.

63. 10/7 Impact – Low-rent royal rumble where Abyss effortlessly eliminates 95% of the TNA roster single-handed, making most of the wrestlers booked for Bound for Glory look like complete jobbers.

64. 10/7 Impact – The debut of Shore, where neither Robbie E. nor Cookie speaks with a Jersey accent nor has a great tan, and the fans greet it with almost immediate “go away” heat.  Robbie E was actually born and raised in Jersey too.

65. 10/7 Impact – The finish to Flair/Foley.

66. 10/7 Impact – The babyfaces win a match to settle ownership of the Beautiful People name, which is entirely a heel gimmick.

67. Xplosion and one-time Impact angle of OJ and Eric Young being on the PPV instead of the pre-show.

68. Ric Flair bleeding a juicer despite not wrestling, barely gets caught by the camera before fighting backstage with Foley.

69. The idea of Kendrick hitting Sliced Bread #2 on Kazarian off a wobbly ladder through a wobbly table on top of an unstable cage roof. Thankfully Kazarian calls an audible after the ladder falls over before they can climb it.

70. Instead of going with one of two proven heel acts in Angle or Anderson, TNA turns Jeff Hardy heel as the chosen one of THEY.

71. Hilarious Comedy Angle: Eric Young has brain damage as a result of concussions.

72. THEY REVEALED: Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff and Jeff Hardy have a secret plan to turn heel by having Abyss beat them up over and over again for seven months. As part of the plan, the heel Abyss will secretly do everything Hulk Hogan says, as opposed to openly doing everything Hulk Hogan says, which is what he was doing before he turned heel. Also, Kevin Nash and The Pope both fucked Ms. Tessmacher, who apparently told them that Jeff Hardy was going to turn heel, which is a piece of information they decided not to share with Kurt Angle, Mr. Anderson or the fans. Sting has known the whole plan since March, without even having to fuck Ms. Tessmacher. Other parts of the plan include Abyss eliminating his co-conspirators Jeff Hardy and Jeff Jarrett from a battle royal where they could have won $100,000 of Dixie Carter’s money. Another part of the plan was Jeff Jarrett tricking Samoa Joe into being his tag team partner for no apparent reason, and then turning on him for also no reason. Despite realizing he’d been duped, Joe still tried to beat up Nash, Sting and The Pope by himself, but the three faces ganged up on the other face and beat him down. Jeff Hardy, the top merch seller in the company by a wide margin, is now the heel champion. Hogan and Bischoff, who were already in charge, are now less in charge because Dixie is now their enemy, but apparently it was all worth it to achieve the fiendish goal of moving the world title from their hand-picked champion RVD onto their hand-picked champion Jeff Hardy.

73. DirectTV customers get the first 16 minutes of Bound for Glory with the German-language feed.

74. 10/14 Impact – Jeff Jarrett terrified of Taz.

75. 10/14 Impact – The J-Woww/Shore segment happening during Jersey Shore’s MTV time slot, losing any potential cross-over viewers.  Also, that they explicitly mentioned that Jersey Shore was on at that moment.  And the guy whose gimmick is based on the show thinks it’s called “The Jersey Shore”.  And they say things that they think are catchphrases but no one has ever actually said.

76. ReAction having just as much wrestling as Impact.

77. Clip of heels posing with misspelled “THERRRE HERRRRE” sign used over and over, incorporated into opening credits.

78. 10/21 Impact – Mike Tenay complains about Abyss interfering in the AJ Styles-Pope street fight in a way that someone with his demonstrated level of acting ability couldn’t possibly be faking.

79. 10/21 Impact – Sarita heelishly tries to menace Mickie James by doing an “intimidating” downward dog yoga pose.

80. 10/21 Impact – Execution of the Guns’ football game interrupted by Gen Me skit.  Also Velvet is suddenly Chris Sabin’s girlfriend.

81. 10/21 Impact – Jeff Hardy fails to properly hit Mr Anderson in the back with a chair, instead cutting the back of his head open, giving Anderson a concussion and forcing the main event of Turning Point to be changed.

82. 10/28 Impact – Flair publicly proclaims he will rape and/or kill any Knockout who slaps him.

83. 10/28 Impact – Flair and Bischoff make fun of the NFL’s crackdown on concussions.  Flair asks the Head Trainer if he’s Roger Goodell and says the NFL’s ratings are going down while Impact’s are going up.

84. 10/28 Impact – Matt Morgan turns face, immediately jobs.

85. 10/21 Reaction – Jeff Hardy explains that he is pissed at Rob Van Dam because when they wrestled on Raw in 1997 during the short-lived ECW invasion angle when Jeff was a job guy, Van Dam didn’t let Hardy get any offense in during the squash.  Youtube Link.

86. 10/28 Reaction – Bischoff blurs the lines by saying that anyone who thinks Hardy meant to injure Anderson with his errant chair shot is wrong and just looking for conspiracy theories.  “Sometimes mistakes happen.”  He does not go into what the purpose of the chair shot was supposed to have been.

87. 11/4 Impact – Abyss pulling plants from the audience and beating them up.

88. Matt Morgan turns face when, just months after crushing the skulls of Hernandez and Homicide against the ring post, decides that concussions aren’t cool any more.  Fresh off losses to Jarrett, Lethal, Kendrick, Pope and Kennedy he becomes the number one contender by attacking a 55 year old man from behind and signing his name to a contract that’s been typed up with Andersons name all over it.  This happens less than 72 hours before the PPV when all the advertising is for Anderson/Hardy.

89. Booking of EV2 vs Fourtune stip match at Turning Point: 1) Fourtune is booked in a match vs EV2 at Turning Point. The winning team will get to fire a member of the losing team. 2) It’s never announced who is in the match. We find out at the ppv that it’s AJ, Kazarian, Williams & Beer Money vs. Sabu, Richards, Rhino, Raven & Kendrick. 3) A week before the PPV, word leaks that Sabu is the guy getting fired. 4) At some point, the stips are changed so that if EV2 loses, someone on their team will be fired, but if Fourtune loses, nothing will happen. I honestly have no idea when this change was made. 5) Fourtune wins anyway, so Step 4 was completely unnecessary. 6) The announcers feel that whoever loses the pinfall is in fact the person who gets fired. When Sabu gets pinned, Tenay shrieks “Sabu is gone!” 7) Ric Flair comes out and makes a big point of choosing who will be fired from the losing team, even though the announcers told us it was Sabu, who lost the pinfall. Apparently, nobody explained the stip changes to Flair. 8 ) Flair chooses Sabu to be fired. 9) Tommy Dreamer cries again. So far in TNA he has had to watch his friends Sandman, Guido, Tony Maritato, and Sabu all get fired, which is exactly what he said broke his heart while working for WWE.

90. Eric Young finally let go but immediately rehired.

91. 11/11 Impact – Robbie E & Cookie vs Jay Lethal & Taylor Wilde.

92. Reaction 11/11 – During an interview segment, Kazarian and Rob Van Dam are visible in the background, clearly going over the details of their match.  Youtube Link.

93. 11/11 Impact – Hogan says “If they want a war we’ll give them one” eight times in the span of three minutes.

94. 11/25 Impact – “Matty, Matty chicken patty” as uttered by Kazarian as an insult to Matt Morgan, then REPEATED at the also nominated Thanksgiving dinner that made the dinner scene in Rocky Horror look normal.

95. 11/25 Impact – Douglas Williams gives a terrible first babyface promo trying to be a comedian while stumbling over his words. Then he jobs clean in the main event to Roode’s spinebuster, which usually is a transition move.

96. November-December angle where AJ Styles has “shot on” Stevie Richards with a Styles Clash which he deliberately failed to “protect” Stevie on, in what was “supposed” to be a “fake” match like all the other “fake” matches on the show.  All the while Hogan talks about TNA being all real and other wrestling promotions being fake.

97. October-November angle where Mike Tenay hates Taz being with Immortal, although there is no evidence to support this assertion.

98. The glut of no-contest main events.

99. The new Jeff Hardy custom championship belt.

100. The Knockouts title not defended in at least 56 days (October 14 was the last defense.  It’ll probably be more than 56 in the end).

But it couldn’t be denied.

Featuring maybe the best Tenay Reads Lyrics ever, Flair and Hogan greatness, SERGE, the start of a new themed Classic Clip series, Ask Burnside questions, ReAction, Faction Warfare, You’re Not Helping and much more!

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Dixie’s theme song – The Man In Me