10 Things You Didn't Know About TNA/IMPACT Wrestling

[@nathanpellow4428]

TBH I wish Cultaholic and Whatculture would give TNA/Impact more attention.

[@edgymcedgelord5297]

The problem there is there isnt enough people to cover everything. They already have those bigger NJPW shows, weekly Raw, SD, NXT and NXT Uk with AEW weekly show starting soon. Thats around 10 hours of wrestling in a week, not counting possible takeovers of ppv. Aka too fucking much

[@alfonsoadiletta2999]

At least for Slammyversary and BFG

[@erisi236]

I like to live in a world where Rhino is an 18 year ECW champion

[@Danton1990]

It's so crazy to me how chill Sam is regularly when he speaks, but when he's doing these voice overs it's like he's a seasoned veteran BBC announcer. Sam is great.

[@gingergreek]

Scoff all you want but TNA 2005-2010 (just before hogan and bischoff ruined it) Was awesome TV. And yeah TNA was bigger in the UK than it was back home, with their TV show being digital's highest rated show consistently. At times beating even shows on the main 5 channels. I loved TNA, and had stopped watching WWE after 2003. So a while later TNA filled that void nicely. It was only the Summer of Punk that bought me back to WWE with 2011 being arguably WWE's only good year post attitude era. Now all I watch is NXT, so I can't wait for AEW.

[@HeelCorner]

@@Dave_ja_vu Yeah i remember when it was on challenge 😅 those were the days

[@faeriegraver]

@@Dave_ja_vu it was massive when it was on Challenge

[@supermanrulesbatmansucks6498]

"2011 being the only good wwe year post attitude era" lol what a fucking lie, 2011 was fucking dog shit, the ruthless aggression era was far better than the dog shit year 2011

[@thehorrorhound6575]

SUPERMAN RULES BATMAN SUCKS honestly being born in 94 and therefore missing the attitude era for the most part because I can’t remember that stuff first hand, my favorite era of wwe was when smackdown was on the CW on Friday nights. Batista, Edge, and Undertaker world heavy weight champion we’re great times

[@franklingoodwin]

I used to watch it on Virgin One (remember that short lived Virgin version of Sky 1?) and then on Challenge TV. I Stopped when it changed to GFW and started airing on 5*. TNA pre Bischoff and Hogan was great. It was also great around 2013 when it had EC3, Rockstar Spud and Austin Aries. It never really recovered from the Hogan stench though and was never the same after AJ Styles went to New Japan.

[@rise8604]

It's amazing how TNA has been around nearly 2 decades despite people saying they were doomed for quite a large portion of it

[@welshwrestlinggeeks7579]

I personally think impact is pretty great at the moment

[@frankgeez6584]

No question. I love wrestling in general. I love the story, the gimmicks, the showmanship, the grapps, and sometimes the music because wrestling is a show. Impact has its moments and as a show, it keeps a good rhythm of leaving a nice layer of fresh talent to develop. Although, I do feel they need a legend to stir things up. I would say someone like Mark Henry to build a faction. Right now, I see Impact as the better development for talent than NXT. Nxt is great but one that is completely thrown away because of that ass Vincent.

[@troyschulz2318]

Yeah, it's pretty alright.

[@phantomechelon3628]

How long have you been watching though? IMO its a pale shadow of what it used to be. I started watching around 2007 but gave up on it a couple of years ago. Partly because it got shunted to ever later TV slots, but also because it stopped feeling like a legit wrestling show once all the established / recognisable talent had gone. The quality of the wrestling was rarely an issue, but its not entertaining if you've never heard of the people in the ring and they're playing to near-empty venues. Talent used to stick around for a good few years, but towards the end it felt like they had a different roster every year. Storylines (or lack thereof) was also a constant issue, but when they were hiring big names from WWE and had really good talent of their own, it partly made up for that shortfall. When you've got the likes of Hogan, Sting, Angle, Team 3D, The Hardys, AJ Styles, Austin Aries & Beer Money (and to give him his due, Eric Bischoff), those characters make you want to watch regardless.

[@troyschulz2318]

@Micheal Carney Yeah, and? They're both pretty rad.

[@RyanFire92]

Turned around starting 2017 it’s back on the right track

[@jordandalton1575]

I was at the London live event from entry #1. At that point I had started to watch TNA/Impact more than WWE. I always remember the Dudley Boys at the event as they signed a table and gave it to a young fan in the crowd

[@nicholaschristie8699]

Actually I think Impact has dug themselves out of that hole now; minus the bad tv deal. For example, one thing they have going for them is they have one of the best female wrestlers of this generation, Tessa Blanchard, having great matches with Taya Valkyrie, Gail Kim, and Su Yung.

[@rogregg29445]

Nicholas Christie Tessa is why I watch

[@nicholaschristie8699]

@@rogregg29445 Cool. Plus, we also have Sami Callihan, Jordynne Grace, Johnny Impact, Moose, etc.

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Nicholas Christie Sami and Tessa are why I started watching again and I’m so glad I did, but I started watching again around late 2016 early 2017 it wasn’t because of the Tessa Sami feud right now

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Dregs i do love me some havok lol and Jordan grace seems to have a bright future

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Dregs why was she blackballed?

[@Filmation77]

Still calling Impact "TNA" is a total disrespect to the Work they have done to Creatively and most recently financially dig themselves out of Thier hole.TBH,Impact will never set the world on fire as it had the chance to in the early 2000's but they've become a solid smaller company.And the way wrestling is now,Impact is essentially the millennia version of The AWA..you can find great talent and good matches and solid angles on impact now.

[@TheParkerThirteen]

It will always be TNA. When a company changes its name more times then i change clothes, i stop giving a shit about what they want to be called.

[@TheParkerThirteen]

@@KillSteelVol3 guess someone doesnt understand hyperbole 🤦‍♂️ also wwe has been around for 50+ years, TNA for under 20, its not the same thing.

[@TheParkerThirteen]

@@KillSteelVol3 it really does though. Wwe is big enough and has been around long enough that a slight name change doesnt change their brand. Wwe and wwf were basically the same logo, the same colours, same stages, same stars etc. Tna has had 5 name changes in 20 years, and nearly everytime theyve also changed the colour scheme, shape of the ring, main stars, logo etc. That makes for a muddled, undefined and uniteresting brand.

[@Emmet-do4jq]

Impact is actually really really good now atm!

[@peacebwilly]

Shark Boy’s Stone Cold gimmick was solid gold

[@brandonpage7087]

Shell Yeah!!!

[@conorpage6657]

Impact is going to outlive the human race

[@outlawrip-offartist4161]

You know what that’s going to happen they can not die.

[@troyschulz2318]

Impact's actually pretty great right now under D'Amore and Kallis. It'd be pretty cool if they could maybe possibly work out a talent-sharing agreement with AEW, considering they already have considerable overlap.

[@bengwenken]

TNA's biggest mistake was bringing Eric and Hulk Hogan in. I still believe that Vince sent them to mess up TNA.

[@Ratt2004]

Fact: As of today, Taya Valkyrie is now the longest-reigning Knockouts Champion, surpassing Taryn Terrell's reign with the belt....

[@InkedupT-raw]

I think 2011 to 2012 were my favorite years of TNA for me

[@michaelkunkel3975]

TNA's main attraction was the 6 sided ring. It was different and more exciting. The x division was awesome too. I liked to watch AJ and Christopher Daniels. It was a very fast paced product, in comparison to WWE. I think when they moved to a 4 sided ring and an entrance platform/catwalk, it watered down the excitement for me.

[@McElectronz]

Impact today is probably the best it has EVER been

[@HM4Hill]

you're not wrong. But it wont shake off the bad rep it got anytime soon

[@masterstepz9800]

I still feel that 2005-2008 was the best years for the company.

[@jerryg7391]

😆😅😂🤣

[@raspymorten]

Ever? No Really good? Yes

[@richborn6700]

I remember when I first started watching TNA in 2007. My Dad asked what I was watching and found his reaction rather odd. "Dad it means Total Nonstop Action." I was like 13 and had no clue about good ol T & A

[@thomasdamager]

Did TNA use WCW's ring in it's first years? And I also noticed that they used WCW Nitro's flame mats around their ring in 2011 or something (when someone flipped them over to expose the concrete underneath you could see the Nitro mats were just upside down). How did they manage to get these?

[@oscarsanz4434]

Well they used to tape the tna shows at the old wcw saturday world wide venue in Orlando Florida. I think at universal

[@joebiskner9282]

I would love for impact to get a better tv deal

[@chachisadventures3378]

Impact is actually getting pretty good again

[@gwayne4362]

Before everyone talks crap on them, watch the recent product over the past year, it's a vast improvement from the earlier product in 2011-2016

[@thenotoriousdig610]

They were good until Aries left, it all went downhill from there

[@TheBlackNostalgiaNerd]

@@thenotoriousdig610 that a lie

[@gwayne4362]

@@PaxBisonica89 it's a shame how much ROH has fallen off too, they lost alot of big names this year after AEW launched. 2 years ago they were my favorite product to watch too. I just hope they turn things around soon. Itd be a shame to watch them go out of buisness.

[@luidi9026]

@@gwayne4362 ROH was killed by NXT and AEW more recently. That's... So weird. I was not a fan of ROH, especially because of the toxic fanbase, but seeing them right now... Man, that's hurt.

[@mynameisjeff830]

@@PaxBisonica89 that's a fact. I try to watch ROH and it's so hard to do now.

[@Elohimless]

I f***ing miss the good old TNA iMPACT! days on Spike (before Hulkamania ran wild in the iMPACT Zone!)

[@brandonpage7087]

Me too man, me too, & screw Hogan for messing it all up!

[@christiansanchez2088]

Anyone else remember TMCMG vs Team 3D?

[@brandonpage7087]

I do!! They put on some great matches!!

[@lawnboy1898]

T I T S A N D A S S

[@katys.7767]

TNA gave me some of my fav womens wrestlers like Velvet Sky and Angelina Love - don't forget about the Beautiful people, they've been there even before LayCool as a female wrestling staple.

[@hankmisson467]

TNA in 2004-2009 were some of the best things to watch...even sometimes in 2010-2012 but the primes years were 2004-2009 i really enjoyed watching it

[@musicfanforlife5280]

Considering when I watched Impact regularly, it aired on Thursdays, which could have still fit in the TNA name as "Thursday Night All-Stars", it's a shame they didn't just go with this instead of that corny and random-sounding "Total Nonstop Action" name.

[@jerryg7391]

I started watching TNA which is now going by just Impact from day one. To me it's not the same anymore, they're like the WWE now. There's not much of wow moments in Impact as there used to be. That's why I can't wait to see what AEW and NWA can do once they both get on TV soon.

[@HiPHOPx87]

#1 TNA Supporter since Day 1 circa 6/19/02

[@thehorrorhound6575]

7th Vigilante 07 to present but I’ve gone back and am rewatching all the episodes from episode 1 on the impact plus app

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Dregs honestly no matter what happens TNA/ Impact will always have my support, they treated Raven and Christian like absolute friggin stars and they are my two all time favorites. They made Kurt angle the second ever triple crown champion in their company with AJ being the first, they gave people like me who didn’t get to experience the attitude era a chance to see guys like Sting and Jeff Jarrett and Angle tear the friggin house down, and guys like Drew Galloway, Matt and Jeff hardy, Samoa Joe Robert roode, and a few others had vastly better runs there than they have in WWE and even Angle in an interview said his career in TNA was probably better than WWE and that they gave him a reduced schedule when his body started to break down that WWE never would’ve. And that still doesn’t even touch on the consistently great tag team and x division they’ve always had and guys like EC3 and Christopher Daniels and Sami Callahan

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Dregs i was born in 94 so I can remember the attitude era but I grew up with WCW. There is a picture of me when I was 4 and we went to get family pictures and I’m wearing a Goldberg shirt

[@mynameisjeff830]

Been a fan since 2003 and I haven't stopped watching

[@thehorrorhound6575]

My name is Jeff I’ll confess that I couldn’t keep watching when impact kept changing their channel. I followed them the entire time they were on spike from the moment I found out about them in 07 to the last episode, I followed them their entire time on destination America, I didn’t have pop up until 6 months before they left the channel so I couldn’t watch them there for most the time and now they are on a channel I again don’t have so I just bit the bullet and got their streaming app

[@robsenzig5720]

Technically speaking, I think that the only reason why that TNA had went down to the current level is due to when they had Hogan, Bischoff, Nash, Hall, Waltman and Flair join TNA. After they had joined the company, it just went downhill from there.

[@HM4Hill]

Y'know...seeing the knockouts plate without the belt makes it look like a sideplate. It's weird

[@BrodieD]

I used to love watching TNA back when I first got pay TV back in like 2008 up until like 2012ish. Also really enjoyed wwe the most in that time when the split brands was pretty good

[@jodystrickland9150]

#1 the McMahons once funded TNA. How crazy would that be lol

[@paullangley3471]

Vince rusos best instincts made me laugh 😂

[@emilianocarbajal1859]

The ref at 11:02 works for WWE now.I never knew he worked for TNA.

[@redzombie9287]

These videos remind me of when What culture wrestling was good :) I can't stand those new guys they try too hard to he funny its annoying so happy that you guys have a new channel and that i could watch these videos and enjoy them

[@tharunna1786]

Aew feels like tna 2007 08 bc of the venues tna used to go to tunnel pyro atmosphere full screen video wall entrances

[@RandoChrisYT]

Did you know that Double J Double M A was a great gimmick because it gave Jeff Jarrett a kayfabe excuse to beat up children?

[@tempestfennac9687]

That was amusing (I hope the children got paid decently; I know I'd have wanted at least $100 to tap out to someone who usually won matches by smacking people with a guitar).

[@Dubyahh]

I just wish AEW had the last few good years of Kurt Angle that TNA had and AJ in his prime

[@Dubyahh]

@@0fficialdregs fair enough Im just a big fan of Kurt, and you gotta admit aj would fit right in flipping into the barricades and shit lol

[@noonereally4290]

"It's best years may be behind it." Spoken like a man who doesn't watch the product

[@Willpowerbomb]

...or follow the news.

[@kennedycalderone9608]

I can honestly say their was about a solid year or 2 when TNA had the six sided ring and Christian Cage was the face of the brand where I enjoyed it 10x more than WWE. It was just so good.

[@KGV1374]

I believe Impact is still relevant in a minor way and has shown they can put on quality shows with superb talent. They will never be huge like WWE and that is no big deal. Anthem is doing well with the brand and they have had excellent cross promotion events with major players like AAA, ROH and many others.

[@americanbadger6986]

TNA has “The Chin” Tessa Blanchard the best Women’s wrestler in the world today

[@muhammadsmith5792]

"Women", you do realise shes a man?

[@americanbadger6986]

Muhammad Smith stay mad Virgin

[@TheOne33.]

NC Ridd what type of reply was “stay mad vIrGiN” gtfo of here

[@marcocapo0076]

Times change, he said impacts best days may be behind them but i think they’re doing pretty well right now 🔥

[@jdoggydog196]

I can’t handle how you said Dan Severn

[@watchmy666]

Not just maintaining .. For about as long it's been Impact, they've been incredible

[@daveyleeriot]

The last great things TNA/impact had was Broken Matt and Decay

[@Frohock]

I came here to see what yall said about healthsouth since im from birmingham

[@elzero3455]

Just with the fact that styles had so many years on TNA make me feel bad that in Latinoamérica we don't had way to see TNA. Other are amazing things on top of a phenomenal one.

[@nishitgautam5524]

It was also massive in India, which is where I live. It is still watched a lot here. Sony ESPN which airs impact in india does a reruns of every show everyday for whole week. TNA got me into pro wrestling. It was back in 2010 when i first time watched a wrestling show for ita entirety and that show was an impact but i soon stoped watching in 2011 cause even then 10 year old me could understand that it was trash. I didn't knew any of tgose old wcw guys. I wanted more aj styles and joe and being an indian and a kid that time i was a die hard sonjay dutt. All of those guys were just put in the background. Me and my friends would literally play with TNA trump cards all day long on holidays. Me and my cousin used watch TNA together every week and had tons of fun. But as I grew older i just stopped watching cause it was just bad. But then came the shield in 2013 and i watched a rsw for the first time in years.

[@abeezysportsxentertainment]

I came across TNA. Looking up TNA... LOL

[@moonshinewizard]

I calling it that AEW (if it works out) will buy TNA/Impact

[@mattsmith2247]

Some of those stats are a bit disapointing. As a TNA fan during the 2009-12 period, I remember hating them for booking old WWE Talent over their own. Are completely changing face of one of the talents in order to highlight in WWE wrestler

[@ryanarmitage872]

AJ Styles has and always will be the best wrestler in the world.

[@pundi2524]

All i can remember is.. Shark boy and his buddy i forgot

[@kevinking757]

Impact needs to sign Kuma Sum Yun Guy, he’s a superstar in the making

[@KayBearYT]

11. They use an anagram renaming generator tool to rename former wwe superstars. What's Sishi Bunks doing in the Impact Zone?

[@TheBlackNostalgiaNerd]

Yeah because names like no way Jose,oney larcon, the viking experience, akem and razar, braun strowman, and buddy Murphy are such awesome names right? RIGHT?

[@edgymcedgelord5297]

@@TheBlackNostalgiaNerd Buddy Murphy and Braun Strowman are good names. Fuck you

[@Maaz2x]

Without Dixie Carter we wouldn't have had that Scott Stiner math promo. Just let that sink in...

[@jelmervanriet790]

Wtf i love Dixie Carter now

[@JDizaster]

God I miss TNA being relevant.

[@bluebagha162]

I did enjoy the overall quality of wrestling in tna. Which for a while was better then wwe. Now looking at their roster of wwe very tna glory days heavy

[@Jbot004]

The Knockouts belt has now achieved a year long reign

[@markarmour119]

TNA from 2011-2016 was enjoyable for me

[@elplebeuchiha1996]

Yup. Same. I mean, kinda. For me it was until 2015. (+)

[@sciencecharity]

El Plebe Uchiha I mean, in hindsight it was shit, but I loved every minute of it

[@hafizsyednomanali6868]

Same

[@jUAN.T]

2018*

[@waynehoxit5566]

Is there a main reason impact wrestling has a hard time staying on a network just asking

[@aRo93]

Since Callis & D'Amore took over last year, it's the best weekly show and every PPV is good/great. Just stop thinking about what was before that and try to watch now.

[@wwenexusfan908]

Honestly, it sounds strange, but the entire thing needs a rebrand. As long as "impact" is in the name, it just, even sub consciously, makes people have to think back to the shit show days of the promotion. just call it something that has no reference to TNA or Impact, hell call it Velocity if you want, but anything that brings people back to the Hogan days is just suicide.

[@quinnhuff5054]

“It’s like saying Rhyno has been ECW champion for 18 years” L O FUCKING L 🤣💀 just spit juice all over my phone

[@moedog]

Tna is good that’s why .

[@850Blasian]

Black Machismo and Ric Flair...thanks TNA

[@OfficalFlameInc]

Why dosen't Jack do the Top 10s? Is he still with the company?

[@plotshift]

I didn't know Justin Bieber got jacked and wrestled for TNA. Looking good in that thumbnail.

[@outlawrip-offartist4161]

For all the hate this company deserves you gave us so many happy memories thank you for the memories I would say hope you never die but I seriously believe they cannot die.

[@brandonpage7087]

Well, that hate seems rather stupid now, as we're all waxing nostalgic about TNA's heyday, now, so, it's looking like, those that were constantly bitching, back then, should all stop & reminisce with the rest of us, about how now, most of us miss those days, lol.

[@lloydlineske2642]

TNA was a great option. Was actually better than WWE for a good stretch of time. Just sucked that it didn't catch on like it really should have

[@mrm.acampbell2722]

It may not be at the heights it was at its peak but is good quality wrestling

[@alpacapines8553]

That's a weird way to pronounce Severn.

[@senorchips8528]

For me, 05-07 of TNA was better than anything WWE had going and the roster TNA was working with was amazing.

[@grungyperry7530]

I would do unmentionable things to Dixie Carter...

[@smhgaming3259]

Same like lock her in a room to starve to death

[@dr.snakes]

She's pretty hot, if you're into the whole Southern soccer mom thing

[@jUAN.T]

She look like tiny ava adam

[@callumhall8992]

Bring back this week in wrestling

[@Basil0wC]

Why'd you spam this m8?

[@callumhall8992]

Because they should bring it back

[@Basil0wC]

U just need to say it once though... Like at least use a different account every time u do it

[@callumhall8992]

I don’t have a another account that’s just easier

[@Basil0wC]

@@callumhall8992 true

[@jasonyoung3070]

Man id love to see Impact back to its former goly agin with AEW id love to see WWE forced to become better the more comp the better these companys need to get iron sharpings iron

[@tharunna1786]

Everything in Impact is good rn the only thing they need to do is get a better tv deal in u.s n do bigger venues

[@jerryg7391]

They also need a little bigger roster as well

[@jamesward8041]

You forgot to mention the impact grand champion

[@lloydgumpallison1825]

I watch it when it started. And it was 2 full hours every week on the pay per view for 9.99$. and I got every single DVD. And poster from the pay per view. From 2004 to 2009. And got a few autograph DVDS. And still watch it today.

[@kevinschmith9379]

Sharkboy was awesome

[@BijjalyGas]

I only watched TNA for AJ styles and Americas most wanted.

[@herylaclub2463]

#1 WWE and ROH have joint custody of TNA(housing their past talent)

[@matthewgreenwood4286]

I wish AEW would buy out TNA so they could pick some of the better workers and integrate the library

[@kashmere7980]

Who else was there for that Wembley show?

[@zilvinaszuravliovas2931]

AJ Styles and Samoa Joe the guys built in TNA cu

[@Lightman741]

I watched TNA from 2006 till 2011 and it was so good at one point I didnt watch WWE. So sad to see what it became

[@andrewsd.r.7180]

you should give it another chance, it has become good again

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Lightman116 it’s been damn good since late 2016 just give it a chance

[@robwasilewski9273]

Early tna was good

[@jacobhamui4963]

Lol I google what tna meant 1 sec before u said

[@Jon_FM]

I loved it from 2007 to 2011... then Hogan came along and basically ruined it.

[@zyshawnmoore551]

I remember watching TNA for the first time in 2007, with a match Involving AJ Styles & Samoa Joe. After that I was hooked during its Golden years

[@elneco4654]

9:54 Who's getting Side Effect'd and why does she got the Full Metal Alchemist Homunculus logo on her outfit?

[@princealigorna7468]

TNA from 2002-2007 was great. Exposed a lot of today's big stars to the world. Had some fantastic brawls. Had some truly unique match concepts. Had some of the most creative and acrobatic wrestling seen in the US at that point. Had arguably the best women's division of the time. And then they stopped being an NWA showcase and became their own thing. And like with WCW, that became the (near) kiss of death. Especially when they hired basically everyone that helped kill WCW (Hogan, Nash, Russo, Bischoff) and shoved them in our faces. They tried to make AJ heel in a time before AJ really understood how to work heel. The real-life drama between Kurt Angle and Jeff Jarrett over Valerie became the main focus storyline. Jarrett himself became less hand's on in running the product and let Dixie and Russo do the heavy lifting. He then left entirely. Then the TV deals fell through. It was 5 years of awesomeness followed by 10 years of perpetual pain. Luckily, since hiring Don Callas, he really seems to have righted the ship. They have a stable platform now in Twitich. They have a stacked talent roster with the likes of Sami Callihan, Tessa Blanchard, TJP, Rich Swann, Moose, Mike Elgin, and Brian Cage. And they really seem to have focused in on the one thing they can offer that WWE has stopped caring about: CONSISTENT, LONG-TERM STORYTELLING! The feuds between Rosemary and Su Yung, Rich and Sami, Sami and Tessa, Moose and EVERYONE, Cage and John Morrison before his recent departure...all of them have been fantastic. Some are more athletic. Some are more brutal and physical. Some are just absolutely bug-fuck insane. But Impact seems to be doing well again.

[@DeltaDW]

I was at that 2009 UK house show! Was a great show. AJ Styles teaming with Samoa Joe was a highlight!

[@djcarameldeviljaycry4831]

Rhino is still ECW champ

[@bigtmac23]

To be fair for as attendance. That's more WWE fault and doing shady business and having the money. They'll buy up the venues months out or even a year out before TNA could even think about buying/renting it. So they was always stuck in smaller arenas.

[@breezy9297]

2:48 WTH????

[@magicalluke3861]

I went to that Wembley show