SO BAD YOU QUIT WATCHING TNA! NICK ALDIS TNA CHAMPION

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Alright it’s another episode of Was It Any Good. Nowadays Nick Aldis has finally made it to the WWE. Great news for him it took a long difficult journey. But did you know he had a brief TNA push where he was the heavyweight champion alongside Dixie carter! And let me tell you it was terrible!
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[@Sh0tgunJust1ce]

Magnus wasn't the problem. It was heel Dixie Carter. If they just let Magnus be his own guy, it would have worked much better.

[@TeamTowers1]

The biggest problem with heel Dixie was that nothing she ever did made any sense. All her actions served no in story function other than being evil, despite Dixie not being portrayed as an evil for evil's sake character.

[@kshinokevin]

I thought that Dixie Carter wanted to be more like Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley

[@GCAbleism158]

Yeah, the reign felt like an excuse to give Dixie more heat going into her feud with Bully Ray which was one of the better things of the year.

[@anjetto1]

Or have Dixie be a big factor to his success and then magnus hates her and breaks away and turns face and then makes a promo about how he has to prove himself to hid fans because he got there due to Dixie

[@satan3959]

He WAS part of the problem, but not really his fault. At the time Nick was still pretty green, putting the main belt on a guy that was green as grass is never a good idea. Yes there are times that it does work (Goldberg comes to my mind) but Nick was booked as primarily a midcarder for most of his time with TNA, he wasn't pushed to the moon from the start, and never really had a metoric rise in the company.

[@BrolyLSSJ01]

That Styles/Magnus match had so many run-ins, even Slapnuts and Vince Russo thought there were too many.

[@ricardonb6375]

Dixie is a bigger idiot than Vince Russo and Jeff Jarrett

[@TopFloorTy]

They sent the entire advengers against aj😂😂💀

[@a.t.smayda]

AJ got a WWE spot out of it!

[@abarasch523]

Being a horrible wrestler is one thing, but being a good wrestler and be badly booked is criminal

[@alonelypotato2788]

A smooth criminal jeng jeng jege jeng jeng..je je jeng jeng...je je jeng jeng AUUUUH!!! (MJ'S shout)

[@abarasch523]

@@alonelypotato2788 Annie, are you ok?

[@WolfManStillPlays]

A good example is Dolph Ziggler

[@alonelypotato2788]

@@abarasch523 Are u ok Annie?

[@tafua_a]

@@alonelypotato2788You've been booked by, you've been buried by a smooth criminal.

[@jonedepth9164]

The booking was very weird. Suddenly Magnus turns heel and at the same time loses the ability to win a match without 8 other wrestlers. But I've honestly always loved Magnus/Nick Aldis promos. Very concise and to the point with elements of my personal fav mic worker of all-time, Nick Bockwinkel.

[@TeamTowers1]

Honestly it's never made any sense how wrestlers who were previously portrayed as tough magically lose all their fighting ability when they turn heel.

[@gerrymcwilliam]

Yeah like even when the heel face dynamic was swapped between two rivals then the guy who was the original face resorts to cheating or numbers game. I guess if the right story telling makes sense but I guess it's just a wrestling thing.

[@GCAbleism158]

It was literally to give Dixie more heat and you can't tell me otherwise.

[@ryanjenki7948]

That's most heel turns tbh

[@jonedepth9164]

I know that's common heel practice, but this is like that on steroids. Guy was able to compete with Sting and Kurt Angle then suddenly can barely lay a hand on AJ.

[@babayaga1988]

having him beat aj styles in his last tna match was a slap on the face

[@TeamTowers1]

I think the most overlooked problem with this story is how dumb it makes the Dixie character look. She 's gloating about all her biggest stars are leaving. Granted I recall everything heel Dixie did made no sense, so I guess this was par for the course.

[@tafua_a]

Like, at least while Vince McMahon hated Austin, it took him a year of hostility and battles to actually try to get him fired. At least the Authority had some legit stars on their ranks and thought Daniel Bryan couldn't be a star, and as far as Cena goes, they never tried to fire him (as a matter of fact, he was the only person in the babyface team at the 2014 Survivor Series to not risk termination). The only time they gloated about a big star being gone was with CM Punk, and they only did it when his failures were evident for all to see ("If you keep this up for a couple more minutes you'll last longer than CM Punk has in the octagon").

[@QueenNagaJacie]

Jesus, with all the Interference in his TNA World Title Matches, He’s like Jeff Jarrett 2.0. God, no wonder why didn’t like this Title reign and I barely even watched it, honestly it’s good to know that NWA managed to make him a Legit Wrestler despite the issues they would later have and it’s nice to know that Nick Aldis has finally made it to WWE, here’s hoping a better run for him in WWE

[@justdirt]

The fact Magnus beat Sting, Joe, and Angle clean only for a month later needing 8 different guys to help him beat Sting is insane. How would that ever have helped his image as champion. AJ isn't a dick, I'm sure he would've been fine letting Aldis get a clean win. But no, Dixie had to be the star. Aldis just being a cocky champion who beat a bunch of legends wasn't enough. He needed a faction, an evil boss character, interferences, and bad wins. Isn't this why so many people turned on Jarret a decade before this story.

[@GoldenChed]

Aldis is a class act. Loved his pre-pandemic NWA run. Superb stuff

[@unholyperiodza5442]

When Nick Aldis was booked the Jinder Mahal of TNA

[@kerv7711]

Roman Reigns*

[@studentNEET319]

If Nick then became a good wrestler in NWA, let Jinder in NWA maybe he'll be good to

[@unholyperiodza5442]

@@kerv7711 Like he summoned the Great Khali as his Bobby Roode.

[@deepvoicedude4749]

Except watching Randy Orton destroy The Bollywood Boys was more entertaining than anything about Magnus's TNA Championship run.

[@volodymyrbilyk555]

@@kerv7711 Jinder pioneered the Roman reigns formula. He walked so that Roman could run

[@brianban110]

I never hated or blamed him i blame Dixie, Bischoff, Hogan and Russo for the down fall of TNA/Impact

[@nu-metalfan2654]

@brianban. Dixie was the 100% problem with TNA. Bischoff said he had nothing to do with TNA other than being an on air character and Hogan wanted him by his side just in case TNA wanted to bury him (Hogan). Russo was booking TNA for most of their height, the only time Russo wasn’t booking TNA was from 2005 to 2007, Russo returned in 2007 and was fully let go in 2012/2013 ish time. Spike TV blamed everything on Russo though, so much so that they cut ties with TNA in 2013 after hearing Russo was still not fully let go, after Spike TV cut ties that was when Russo fully got let go. Dixie just didn’t know who to trust, she was hearing good things from everyone that she didn’t know who to trust and put faith into. Pritchard also for me has to take some blame, as they hired him in 2010. I mostly blame Dixie and Pritchard.

[@staticJ7]

​@@nu-metalfan2654 nah, Hogan and Bischoff are 70% to blame. TNA was making profit before they came in. They took away everything that made TNA standout. Had Dixie hire a bunch of their old friends and family. And made everything about themselves on screen. Now while Dixie is the reason for TNA lasting as long as it did, she is also apart of the reason for its downfall. Specifically when it came to TNA losing their Spike network deal. So she is the other 30%.

[@jamespaul6315]

Hes not very good though

[@Whitemike63]

Russo was giving TNA its best ratings ever with his storylines like Main Event Mafia which drew TNA its biggest ratings. That was all Russo. Once Hogan, Eric, Flair came in they changed everything, killed MEM and constantly buried Russo. Look at how the ratings plummeted. Russo is a genius who is able to bring in casuals and has a track record of highest ratings in history. Example WWE and TNA. His WCW run was sandbagged with old wrestlers with big contracts not wanting to do any team work or lose fake fights. Russo was handcuffed and still got ratings up from 2.5 to 2.9. Meltzer is a fucking idiot attacking that man and cheering the lowest ratings in history. AEW is stupid not hiring Russo and listening to that idiot Meltzer. The wrestlers are now video gamers with flips. Kurt Angle is 5 star, bret vs austin WM 13 is what a good, realistic wrestling match looks like. Russo is a hero and cuts good promos.

[@user-qr9dn5ge1q]

​@@nu-metalfan2654 Hogan and Bischoff killed TNA stop lying to yourself they had control over the show Dixie Carter own the show but let Hogan and Eric bischoff do whatever they want Eric the same person that doesn't recall what happened in starrcade 97 or the fingerpoke of doom is lying.80% Hogan and Eric bischoff and 20% Dixie Carter those 3 destroyed TNA

[@Justin-Thyme]

I remember this run. I stopped watching the show when the Aces went downhill, but at this point I was still reading show transcripts. I remember thinking that it was an interesting take on a heel champion: someone who didn't just need a henchman or two to keep the belt (a la HHH), but an entire army. It made sense, considering they were out of top guys (Sting and Styles being out of the door) and the new generation was still too green to take the torch. Having a transitional champion like that would keep the belt warm, and at the same time was bound to make the next champion a real badass, someone capable of defeating an entire army. Not to mention that a paper champion like that needn't be a big name, or a great wrestler: you could have a midcarder in that position. But yeah, seeing the footage makes it clear that in my head it worked a lot better than it actually did in reality.

[@Guyincognito28282]

Shit, this actually WAS the time I stopped watching TNA regularly. Lol. I dipped back in for the Decay vs Hardys stuff in 2016along with a few other things but other than that, yeah. I was done watching weekly around this era. I also remember this being around the time that the internet as a whole lost interest in TNA and NJPW became the most talked about thing outside of WWE for a while there during AJ's run.

[@EplusNis4ever]

magnus is the ultimate proof that you can win the belt, beat all the established stars and still be misused

[@MarkEstratocaster]

The title is true. I started watching TNA on 2007 and sticked though every change the company went until these awful matches. My heart broke with the way they fired AJ and Sting and how the matches went.

[@Venemofthe888]

Honestly i think what killed Magnus' run as world champion in TNA was the matches with Styles and Sting having so much help was absolutely ridiculous and made him super weak. They should have had him beat them both clean to establish himself as heel who can handle himself and only aligned with Dixie to get ahead or at least make it more evident earlier. His run could have been so much better than it was but the term paper champion was really bad for him and yes it couldnt be shed since the amount of help would make Tribal Chief blush. He lost the title to Eric Young which was a bit weird in itself since Eric Young was nowhere near ready for that role either. Magnus deserved better in his World Title run cause he really could have established himself but they just decided not to

[@jamespaul6315]

He also wasnt main event level

[@thehorrorhound6575]

Eric young unlike Daniel Bryan ended up being an actual good world champion. Daniel was and still is injury prone and retired not soon after wining the belt at mania. Eric young however would have a decent length reign and pretty good feuds with magnus, abyss, EC3, MVP, Samoa Joe, and Kurt angle. And would lead to lashley FINALLY turning heel, and becoming the bad ass destroyer we all knew he could be and beating young for the belt. Was young a Daniel Bryan rip off? Yes. Was he a better champion? Also yes. Two things can be true at the same time.

[@CriticalMrs]

I doubt AJ demanded that he look that strong going out. There’s showing respect to your former champ and then there’s sandbagging your next champ. This was the latter.

[@rearviewracing4789]

I've started to notice that Abyss is kind of a run killer on the Big Show level. Not that Magnus' main event run needed any help in being killed when he appeared, but still

[@Markyd123]

Yea whenever a random bodyguard/backer was needed it was always abyss.

[@jubeaumont6305]

Am I the only person that actually likes abyss ?

[@kashtan1523]

@@jubeaumont6305 Abyss is my favorite TNA wrestler ever, but you can't argue with tons of dumb booking he endured and repetitve hardcore matches that stopped being something extraordinary in 2009

[@jubeaumont6305]

@@kashtan1523 True. But that's not his fault ! 👍

[@shawnhand9531]

​@Markyd123 hey ever heard of motor madness?? It was a destruction derby tv show they tried to turn into wrestling. Dusty Rhodes was one of the hosts. I loved it when I was younger not sure if it's worth a video but interesting still

[@Superman5000The]

Oh God, it’s worse than I remembered. They booked him under at every turn.

[@anonluxor470]

Funny story when I was watching TNA around 2010-2014 i thought magnus and matt Morgan were twins for someone reason 🤣

[@ChrisManley1994]

This reign was exactly why I initially scoffed at the idea of Nick Aldis being the NWA World’s Heavyweight Champion

[@Joecbg100]

It's funny how both he and EC3 being stable friends represent Corgen's NWA as world champions at very different aspects. Magnus in this run was horrible and i blame Russo/Carter, while EC3 was very entertaining and commanded the screen as a hungry guy. You couldn't find more diametrically champions

[@gpmradirgy8953]

Oh my word that title is perfect. I was disgusted when TNA allowed AJ Styles to leave (and the way they booked it) and I lasted less than a month after.

[@connorledwith98]

Looking back, I will never know how I got through this unbearable TNA era. I’m so happy I did though, the reward for that at the end was The Broken Universe. I dipped from TNA after that, haven’t tuned in full time since

[@ReinEngel]

Watching Dixie makes me realize that we're on the brink of a Tony Kahn on-screen heel run.

[@TophDaGreat]

Yup. Around the same time NXT started blowing up and Lucha Underground some time after. AJ left and went to NJPW/ROH which lead to the exposure of NJPW interest in the states which then lead to the Elite and BTE blowing up by the later 2010s which ultimately lead to AEW. A lot of dominos began to fall but if you trace it back it goes back to his awful Aldis run. TNA was NEVER the same when AJ left. TNA was not the "alternative" anymore.

[@Evs78101]

AJ Styles last TNA match being one with 38 run ins/pin break ups…explains why they failed so colossally afterwards… 😂 There’s pushing a wrestler then just stuffing him down your neck just because Dixie Carter thought she knew about wrestling

[@larrytod9790]

Here's hoping we get a proper Magnus vs AJ styles match now that both men are in the WWE but I doubt it'll ever happen

[@bigfloridapimp]

It would have helped a lot I think if he started as a Babyface. Maybe both him and Jeff rejected Dixie, Jeff wins the cage/ladder match, then a month down the road after not winning be decided to take the easy route. OR just leave Aldis a Babyface and win it on his own, saying fuck the authority. He didn't have to be stone cold. His proper gentleman could have still be a good foil to Dixie and her group

[@davidcurry332]

Yep 👍

[@GCAbleism158]

The world title run benefitted Dixie more than Magnus.

[@jaredstearns3316]

The Broken Hardy's made me watch it again and then when Matt and Jeff were gone from TNA or whatever, really good stuff

[@lo516]

Once EC3 and Spud came in to the picture i felt like TNA started going downhill but they definitely bounced back since then

[@Markyd123]

Which is weird cuz neither of them were bad. It was all the other jabrobis getting tv time.

[@beaulynskey8470]

The title unification match was an overbooked mess of a downright ugly main event on free TV, seriously how did I manage to stick up with the TNA shenanigans both on and off camera for 5 more years before I ultimately stopped watching?

[@slayer21121]

I actually did stop watching around this time but not because of Magnus (poor guy due to terrible booking) but because both AJ and Sting left and those two were my boys, it's like the equivalent of 2002 when both Austin and Rock left and a lot of ppl stopped watching

[@alareiks742]

The problem was not Magnus. I was actually glad he became a champion. Thd problem was Dixie and disappointment about departure of AJ Styles and Sting.

[@dizzle1119]

I always liked Aldis. I guess I may be "biased", because I did follow his entire run w/ Billy Corgan's NWA. I very much wanted to see them succeed. Hell, I still want them all to succeed. I hope Corgan's NWA does well with it's new tv show/s and I hope Aldis has a noteworthy stay in WWE. He's off to a pretty good start...

[@lbdjthethird1240]

The only Nick Aldis I have known in NWA champ -> forward. The way the man talked about that belt during a promo had me sold from pretty close to minute one. Had never seen him wrestle, was strictly hooked on the character work right from the jump.

[@TheRealAhoy]

Aldis earned his stripes as nwa champ, he looked the part and everyone considered him credible

[@jamespaul6315]

@@TheRealAhoylol small fish, smaller pond

[@jamespaul6315]

Hes a gm in wwe, nothing really noteworthy

[@TheRealAhoy]

@@jamespaul6315 It's called respect for people in the industry 👍

[@achimsinn6189]

So they basically did the same booking with Magnus they did in the first half of EC3's run. The diference is that at some point EC3 turned it around and proved that he can win without all that help while in case of Magnus they forgot about that part.

[@zell2626]

When AJ lost like that, I quit TNA

[@kevinramsey417]

I'm very pissed that Nick Aldis is in WWE. Not that he's in WWE, he more than deserves to be in WWE, but that he's not there as an active wrestler. The guy has It. Charismatic, great look, can talk and wrestle. He had the tools, he just didn't get the opportunities. But he did pull Mickie, which isn't bad for a Welsh lad.

[@DevilSurvivor69]

I really agree with this sentiment. I hope he gets to wrestle at some point in WWE.

[@vickrunalza8057]

It shouldn’t SURPRISE YOU, wwe DESPISES TALENTED WRESTLERS that made their name somewhere else (NWA in this case) and wwe UNcreative gives these Talent Coaches/Producers/Trainers/etc. roles.

[@PahadiSher]

​@@vickrunalza8057 because Seth Rollins, Gunther, Dragunov, Iyo, multiple people in title scenes & hell, even Rhea never wrestled outside EVIL FED.😂

[@WarGhoulKharas]

He's not Welsh, you donut. He's from Norfolk. Hell, his cloverleaf finisher was called "Kings Lynn Cross," which is a reference to where he's from.

[@WarGhoulKharas]

​@@vickrunalza8057 Uh, what? Seth Rollins, LA Knight, Gunther, Lashley, Chelsea Green, JADE FUCKING CARGILL, Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, Kevin Steen, Sami Zayn, Finn Balor, Damien Priest, Bronson Reed, Cody Rhodes, et cetera were all champions somewhere else, including two on this list being former TNA champions. Stop smoking crack. You're already making wrestling fans look dumber.

[@bleedorange1998]

That title match with AJ was the point of no return for TNA as we knew it then. Sure, AJ was leaving but for Christ sake they could have let him do a match that could saved some grace between him and the company. Everyone knows he would have been happy putting Magnus super over in that match. Instead they reinforced every reason why he was leaving. And AJ *never* came back. Not even for a one off. And that was how TNA’s biggest homegrown star finished his run. Incompetence by the complete definition.

[@Rise2Resist]

Aldis glowed up at one of the worst times in TNA. The company was leaking money and they were trying to lowball the hell out of Sting and AJ on contract negotiations; Hogan & his pals already killed a lot of interest, Aces & 8's story ate up the whole show at times and went on way way too long and this Aldis run was right before SpikeTV gave them the boot when they found out Russo was back with TNA after specifically telling Dixie not to EVER bring him back.

[@kingofkings69ner]

I remember the like vs dislike ratio on the AJ Styles match on KZbin

[@Turdtowns]

What was it 😂😂😂

[@keironhiggspoet]

Still remember him as "Oblivion" in the ill fated UK gladiators reboot. what a career this guy has had.

[@user-nd5ud7bh3j]

Tna has aged well. It's weird how perception changes things.

[@trueSconox]

What? it went from a srsly proper show, to a glorified Bingohall.

[@FreeSpeechArtandWrestling]

It was a combination of a bunch of different things. I think, pushing Magnus was a good idea because total nonstop action was horrible with pushing the stars, basically, if you were former WWE, WCW or ECW person you got preferential treatment. People mostly stop watching because they were removed from spy TV, and most importantly, bad management: giving AJ styles, a contract with a 60% pay cut, budget cutting major stars, pushing bully ray, and having a lot of double standards with like paying Hulk Hogan all the time and missing pay dates for a lot of wrestlers. And bringing back Vince Russo, which led to bad booking decisions and spike TV dropping the company after a promise was broken not to bring him back. The other issue was very poor booking because obviously if you have your champion never win a match without a lot of interference. It looks bad. But the repetitive interference or unexpected interference was bad. And really when you watch a bunch of TNA matches, you always get that feeling of you look at a wrestler that you like, as Samoa, Joe, and AJ styles and you know they have a high probability of losing because of a screw job or because they’re going against a star that was established in WWE or WCW. Also, a lot of people did not like Dixie Carter as a onscreen talent. And the mentality was that if people are booing, that’s a reaction, negative attention is good attention, but sometimes there’s a difference people booing rowdy Roddy Piper because he was a great heel and booing Dixie Carter, or Vince Russo, because they are hurting the business And I also feel with some professional wrestling companies they understand that the genre is supposed to be absurd, however, it doesn’t mean that you insult your fans intelligence to appoint that you’re like they’re going to digest any type of bullshit because it’s supposed to be fake, which is the Vince Russo and Dixie Carter philosophy.

[@HeelBusiness]

You always do a great job with these videos! I remember living thru all this & it’s honestly even more horrendous now.

[@Mr.Majestic77]

These screw ups from TNA Wrestling management from 2016 to rebranding to Impact Wrestling and being purchased by Anthem Sports and Entertainment and Anthem Sports re-rebrandig Impact Wrestling back to TNA Wrestling in 2024 will ultimately make this promotion better. Why? Because the promotion has been through the high points and low points.

[@justinsane5590]

I was gonna finish this comment....but all the TNA heels rushed me and Magnus went over

[@maelhadj3588]

The match with AJ is the equivalence of The Fiend vs Seth Rollins at HIAC 2019

[@01superchunk66]

I was just about tuning out of tna about that time, but honestly, I liked magnus as British invasion and as main event wrestler

[@user-mu2mp8ll6c]

That magnus vs styles match..... holy sheet....i must of burned it from my memory

[@coreypayne1208]

This makes JBL's title run look like gold on paper

[@FreeSpeechArtandWrestling]

The booking was very terrible for Magnus. And TNA wrestling over, relied on what I called Vince Russo finishes, where there was a bunch of interference or things that you would not expect, just to throw you off. And the other part of these Vince Russo finishes was a poor attempt to get other people over and create heels, because sometimes we can be mad when somebody messes up a match but it’s all about execution, and if it feels like a cluster fuck or a situation, where the champion never wins, cleanly, it also hurts the champion.

[@6Gemini]

Imagine the GM Aldis and Pearce feuding and a match happens lmao

[@dennett316]

Nothing wrong with a weaselly, undeserving heel taking shortcuts to win matches they don't deserve to...but TNA really overdid it with the sheer amount of help he needed. It'd have been more effective to get heat if he was a capable wrestler who could win matches properly if he wanted to, but chose to take shortcuts and cheat instead, the crowd would hate him more instead of being bored. As it was he was presented as useless without help and that's just a recipe for go away heat. Also, contrast the TNA exits of Sting and AJ Styles with Hogan. Dixie involved in all 3, but only Hogan managed to book it so the boss was clinging to his leg and begging him to stay, while Sting and AJ were unceremoniously dropped. Don't know if Hogan is really smart or Dixie is really dumb.

[@Eltnum421C]

This was the angle that made me almost quit TNA. It wasn't the Aces & Eights storyline, but Dixieland and the ridiculous way Magnus was booked.

[@alejandronunez1114]

I thought he was a paper champ and this was the point it hurt to watch TNA. Felt like I watching I loved watching for a decade at that time die

[@arostwocents]

Dixie gang was something i liked, it led to ec3 who is emblematic of TNA and should be back as the main star now and the bully v Dixie and co was great. The storyline actually went somewhere and ended so it was a good thing. I also love that Sting was always willing to put people over clean. He was a guy who was great for TNA, along with Angle. Those two must have been so angry to have the creative control gang turn up. Edit: id forgotten that AJ match and how much Dixie dominated the show. Terrible.

[@smyersfishingadventures]

He is an excellent wrestler, and your score is fair. It is criminal how they booked him. Why even have a champion, if that is how the champion is booked over and over again.

[@Markyd123]

Madness init

[@Stoneman180190]

TNA managed to become an even bigger mess when Hogan and Bischoff left. Losing Aj, Sting and even the founder of the company Jeff Jarrett had enough of Dixie and left.

[@phyroproductions]

I remember his title run in TNA. Those were some challenging and head scratching times. 2013-2014 were weird but good years for TNA

[@AwkwardLoser]

IDKY but whenever I see Jaxon Ryckert I think of Elias and whenever Elias Eziekel. What I’m saying is an “Ezekiel” run would be neat.

[@cathallynch8269]

10:15 Styles leaving after this was so fitting for the state of TNA

[@gerrymcwilliam]

I remember thinking his championship match with Joe was gonna switch things around. Is a shame really because by turning Magnus heel they just made him weak.

[@motherwar_87]

Now do one on Eric Young in WWE! ☝🏾

[@davidburke7777]

Can’t believe how far Aldis has come from Oblivion to the WWE.

[@mockery_finn]

How bad do you have to be on the card where Jaxson Ryker is a capable contender?

[@christaylor1181]

Hated this cos made sting leave too gutted 😢

[@hersheykindly8030]

You should do a ring of the hawk video on his 2023 run with the company

[@exodusoneprime]

Man the TNA crowd in those days has no reaction

[@hezekiahthomas837]

Wasn't the biggest fan of it but hes NWA days really redeemed him for me

[@donzellmccalipp8510]

God they booked him like trash this is back when i was watching tna weekly

[@nu-metalfan2654]

This was the exact time I quit watching TNA. I started watching TNA in June of 2007, 2008 was for me the year of TNA, TNA in 2008 was fantastic. I was still watching TNA in 2009 but I was back and forth with TNA and WWE during 2007 to 2009. 2009 TNA just wasn’t as engaging as 2008 was for me. Then Hogan, Bischoff, Flair, Pritchard all arrived in January of 2010 and completely changed the look of TNA, it was still watchable but nowhere near as good, but WWE in 2010 was fucking awful that I quit watching WWE at the time and just focused on TNA. TNA from January 2010 to December 2013 was watchable but nowhere near as good as it used to be. In December 2013, AJ Styles left and by then everyone knew TNA was a sinking ship, and I quit watching as soon as they gave the title to Magnus/Nick Aldis. My issue with Magnus/Nick Aldis was that he had no charisma, he was very bland, but Dixie was extremely high on him for some reason.

[@SirHubbo92]

Was he a better Ring Ka King champion?

[@Turdtowns]

Yes

[@johnsullivan3069]

It's like tna was being bad on purpose to see if they could get away with it

[@tony_9412]

I liked him better as a main eventer in NWA😅

[@PhenomenalOne1000]

Within a span of 3 months they lost Hogan (good ridance), Sting and Aj Styles

[@TheMC1102]

This reminds me of Jinder Mahal's main event push from 2017. It was just as random and just as jarring.

[@user-mu2mp8ll6c]

At least they made jinder look like a force for the most part

[@Markworth]

Being Dixie's hookup would one of the best gigs a guy could get. She's not bad looking for her age, and she's absolutely terrible at managing her money.

[@Lastrit_JME]

A wild moment in this video was me realizing that I had seen his title reign before. Going into this, I thought I missed this era of TNA. But then you mentioned MVP being the mystery authority, and it hit me like a ton of bricks that I was watching Impact around this time, and I remember a lot of the ongoing feuds around this title picture, but completely blanked on the title reign itself.

[@balpreetsingh6834]

A -29 final tally sounds absolutely terrible

[@michaelspikes1506]

Excellent video

[@starmanjames119]

This was actually when I quit watching. Dixie was just unwatchable.

[@mikeyman442]

AJ was leaving so why did they book him so strongly going out instead of having Magnus beat AJ clean, they just made him look so incredibly weak specially when there were arguably better people to carry the belt like Angle or Joe.

[@John_aka_Alwayz]

There's a level interference and unclean finishes, but the absurdity at which he beat Styles & Sting back to back, along with the Dixieland title win being a poor maych too, I wasn't even on the IWC then I just watched TNA on Challenge and even my 15 year old mark self could recognize how awful the product was, and that's without the loss of Styles/Sting. I never watched it again after the Sting match.

[@SuperjoeV1]

Nick must've been hurt or something in the Styles match. No other way to describe all the interference and him doing NOTHING. - And I agree with what others are saying, I think it's less to do with Magnus and more on heel Dixie being insufferable. It screamed desperation.

[@Markyd123]

But the Sting match after that was exactly the samez

[@emmanueleferrarotto2986]

The best thing out of the British Invasion was Doug Williams versus spot Wrestling. The WORST thing out of the British Invasion was clearly Rob "The Roider" Terry. Magnus/ Nick Aldis was somewhere in between: Not bad not rly good either. Just about enough not get fired or jobbed away into oblivion. Everything else was similar to VinnieMac trying to pushing Roman Reigns against the fans into the main event. Just meh..... However - once again a great run with the hawk ^^

[@rob27dap26]

I think and you touched on it in the end this was a booking issue overall- As compare Magnus TNA title run with Nick Aldis as the National Treasure with his two NWA World title runs is night and day in those runs Aldis was firing on all cylinders and there wasn't any stupid booking. Id love to see you look at his NWA reigns as most people sadly never saw it but my goodness it was on a whole other level

[@zachdavis6272]

This is the exact time k started watching tna I think I started the episode after he won the belt it was the one where Eric young fought abyss in a monsters ball and kept on watching well into the beat down clan stuff happening and wow some of that stuff was rough but there was so many good wrestlers there like the wolves and Bobby roode and storm and everybody but man nothing was ever done with them

[@anthonylarosa1155]

Not the worst wrestler but my goodness, the booking. I got war flashbacks from the forums lol

[@trscsaeg]

Should really review his nwa run. It was incredibly good

[@GuntanksInSpace]

Man I actually remembered EY becoming champ as a sorta underdog not different from D-Bry/Danielson yeah. And yeah, this run definitely did Magnus no favors. He was a better champ in Ring ka King arguably, and definitely over at NWA.

[@YeTism]

I just quit watching because AJ left. He was the heart and soul of TNA.

[@arostwocents]

Those tournaments used to be good, giving everyone matches with purpose. TNA was so great.

[@user-fe8gx3ie5v]

Abyss with no mask looks kinda cursed, LOL.

[@jamesonecell]

Was a kid and big into TNA being on free tv at the time so remembered this run as better that it was. Least his theme song was a banger during this run

[@GuruAuggie]

This Magnus world title run reminds me of ring ka king world title run

[@dirkjewitt5037]

magnus looks like he paints his beard on with a spray painter.

[@BigMike-mz6ur]

After the way he beat AJ I quit watching TNA that was garbage

[@anonluxor470]

Imagine if AJ won that match

[@donzellmccalipp8510]

I was about 9/10 when i saw the match and even i knew it sucked,jesus so many guy's just to help him win 🤦

[@lbdjthethird1240]

SHUV IT SQUAD.

[@MansMan42069]

Nick Aldis's run as the gladiator Brutus Magnus is funnily appropriate considering he was Oblivion on the reboot for UK Gladiators

[@Sharpshooter828]

His run started fun with the chaos of the run ins but got to much...they kept referring to him as a paper champion so I started to call him a aluminum champion