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NWA: Powerrr (10.08.19)
NWA: Powerrr
October 8, 2019
Atlanta, GA
Georgia Public Broadcasting Studios
Your current NWA champions are as follows:
NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Nick Aldis (10/21/2018)
NWA National Heavyweight Champion: James Storm (7/12/2019)
NWA World Tag Team Champions: The Wild Cards (9/7/2019)
NWA World Women’s Champion: Allysin Kay (4/27/2019)
NOTE: So I’m sure you’re wondering why Matt is recapping a show from 2019 because he hasn’t watched much of modern wrestling in YEARS. Well, I watched Nick Aldis defeat Cody Rhodes for the NWA world title back last October and I attended the Crockett Cup show in Concord NC back in April, and I realized that these guys were doing wrestling the OLD SCHOOL way. They had men who wanted to beat each other up again. Not only that, but they wanted to take their time in the ring for the big matches. I thoroughly enjoyed the Nick Aldis title victory and the Crockett Cup match and was pumped to hear that the NWA owner Billy Corgan was going to start doing a one hour show starting in October.
Billy Corgan has returned the NWA action to a TV studio atmosphere that was the norm for TV wrestling for most territories. The TV studio atmosphere makes the show look old and fresh at the same time. The NWA ring apron looks old yet fresh. There’s a 1980s theme song (“Into the Fire” by the band Dokken) to go with the show as well. Everything about it just warms my wrestling heart.
Should I give my opinion of AEW? Nah. Not right now.
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ROH: Round Robin Challenge (03.2002)
ROH: Round Robin Challenge
March 30, 2002
Philadelphia, PA
Murphy Rec Center
In the locker room, Christopher Daniels says he considers Ring of Honor as just another independent promotion. He says he should know – he’s been in every independent promotion in America. He also disses the code of honor and tells us he’s here to pin shoulders to the mat, not shake hands. Tonight, Christopher Daniels will prove to Bryan Danielson and Low-Ki that he is the best independent wrestler in the USA today. The only thing you can do about it is say your prayers.
Gotta love all the faggy dance music used here in the promos. That’s SOOO Rob Feinstein. Then everything changes to some crappy hardcore music. Riiiight.
We see Da Hit Squad again ready to hype the fans standing outside the Murphy Rec Center on Shunk Street – a couple blocks away from the ECW Arena. Yeah, the ROH fans are SO HYPE now.
Just so there’s no mistaking, here is the Code of Honor. I feel like Gary Michael Capetta should be reading this like he does the Wargames rules in WCW.
Elsewhere in the back, Quiet Storm wants to show Chris Divine how to do a crossface chickenwing. If he hurts Divine, Divine will have to take him outside and show him what it’s like. Well, Quiet Storm puts the hold nice and loose on Divine when Bryan Danielson comes walking by and REALLY shows Chris Divine how a crossface chickenwing feels. BEST IN THE WORLD~!
Your hosts are Donnie B and Steve Corino.
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ROH: The Era of Honor Begins (02.2002)
ROH: The Era of Honor Begins
February 23, 2002
Philadelphia, PA
Murphy Rec Center
If the name didn’t give it away, this is the first-ever Ring of Honor show. The original idea was that ROH would take the best of the American independent wrestling scene and put them all onto a mega huge super show once a month. But it’s not going to be like all the other sportz entertainment bullcrap promotions that the mainstream companies have jammed down your throats for the past five years. ROH also refuses to give our fans the outdated insulting gimmicks that we saw from a decade ago. In fact, the wrestlers here must abide by a code of honor in order to remain in this promotion. What could go wrong, AMIRITE?
Before anything gets started, we see Da Hit Squad hyping ROH to the tour buses coming in from NYC and Boston.
Your hosts are Donnie B and Steve Corino.
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TNA: iMPACT! (12.31.05)
TNA: iMPACT
December 31, 2005
Orlando, FL
Universal Studios
The current TNA champs are as follows:
NWA World Champion: Jeff Jarrett (11/3/2005)
NWA World Tag Team Champions: America’s Most Wanted (10/22/2005)
TNA X-Division Champion: Samoa Joe (12/11/2005)
Your hosts are Mike Tenay and Don West.
TNA Impact 1/4/2010
Total Non-Stop Action presents Impact
Date: January 4th, 2010
From: Orlando, Florida
Announcers: Mike Tenay and Tazz
Reporting: Bob Colling
Before I start with the review of TNA Impact, I thought I’d share some thoughts on TNA at this time. I will be honest, I have not been watching present day TNA as of late. I do read the spoilers to see what is going on. However, now that I am covering TNA I will have to refrain from doing so. So, for future reference, I will not know what has happened prior to the television tapings. Here are some thoughts before the show. Read the rest of this entry
Kyle’s recap of January, 4th, 2010,TNA Impact
Almost 10 years ago, WWE bought ECW and WCW—which ended the wars officially. But on this night, January, 4th, 2010, there is a new “threat” on the block—TNA lead by the arguably the biggest star ever in wrestling—Hulk Hogan. With this big acquisition, TNA thought they were ready to compete with Raw on Monday nights. Tonight marks an era of a change in wrestling, tonight marks an era where one company could make or break their legacy, tonight marks the night where history shall be made. Join Matt and I as we take individual looks at Impact and Raw! Read the rest of this entry
Kyle’s TNA Final Resolution 2009 Review
Live From Orlando Florida
Your Hosts: Mike Tenay and Taz.
The TNA PPV started with a Christmas-themed video package with clips from recent Read the rest of this entry
Kyle’s Turning Point 2009 Recap
Live from: Orlando, Florida
November 15, 2009
Your Host: Mike Tenay and Taz
- The show opens up with a well put together video package of the build up over the month. It is mostly clips of the feuds and matches; and also Hulk Hogan’s signing. There is some “epic” music playing in the background blended in Dixie Carter’s shoot motivation speech for the wrestlers on Impact. Read the rest of this entry
TNA World Tag Team Titles History
| Champion | Won From | Date | City/Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team 3D | – | 5/13/2007 | Sacrifice[1] |
| Samoa Joe | Team 3D | 7/15/2007 | Victory Road[2] |
| Kurt Angle & Sting | Samoa Joe | 8/12/2007 | Hard Justice[3] |
| “Pacman” Jones & Ron Killings |
– | 9/9/2007 | No Surrender |
| AJ Styles & Tomko | Ron Killings & Consequences Creed |
10/14/2007 | Bound for Glory[4] |
| The LAX | Team 3D | 5/11/2008 | Sacrifice[5] |
| Beer Money Inc. | The LAX | 8/10/2008 | Hard Justice |
| Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed |
Beer Money Inc. | 1/8/2009 | iMPACT! |
| Beer Money Inc. (2) | Abyss & Matt Morgan |
1/11/2009 | Genesis[6] |
| Team 3D (2) | Beer Money Inc. | 4/19/2009 | Lockdown[7] |
| Beer Money Inc. (3) | Team 3D | 6/21/2009 | Slammiversary |
| Booker T & Scott Steiner |
Beer Money Inc. | 7/19/2009 | Victory Road |
| The British Invasion | – | 10/18/2009 | Bound For Glory[8] |
Footnotes:
[1]: After being stripped of the belts prior to Sacrifice, Team 3D are awarded the belts right back.
[2]: Angle and Joe defeated Team 3D for the belts. Since they can’t get along and Joe scored the pinfall, he won both straps.
[3]: Initially, Kurt Angle beat Joe for the TNA tag belts by himself and added Sting as his tag team partner when he won a four-way dance by defeating Samoa Joe, Christian Cage and AJ Styles on the 8/30/07 edition of iMPACT!.
[4]: Consequences Creed subbed for Adam “Pacman” Jones who no-showed. On the 4/17/08 edition of iMPACT!, Kaz and Super Eric defeated Tomko and Styles for the belts in a three-way dance also including the LAX, but were stripped of the titles when Super Eric would not reveal to the world that he was in fact Eric Young.
[5]: This was the “Deuces Wild” tournament final to crown new champions.
[6]: This was a three-way dance including the ex-champs Jay Lethal and Consequences Creed, but it was Roode who pinned Morgan to win the tag titles.
[7]: The IWGP tag team titles were also on the line, held by Team 3D. However, the titles are not considered unified.
[8]: In a Full Metal Mayhem match where both the TNA world tag team titles and the IWGP tag team titles (which were then held by the British Invasion and lost during the match to Team 3D) were on the line, World Elite’s muscle Big Rob helped Doug Williams retrieve and win the TNA world tag belts for the British Invasion. This match also included the former TNA world tag team champs Booker T & Scott Steiner and Beer Money Inc.
Credit goes to: PWI Almanac, wrestling-titles.com, and ProWrestlingHistory.com
TNA X-Division Title History
| Champion | Won From | Date | City/Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJ Styles | Jerry Lynn | 6/26/2002 | TNA PPV #2[1] |
| Low Ki | AJ Styles | 8/7/2002 | TNA PPV #8[2] |
| Jerry Lynn | Low Ki | 8/28/2002 | TNA PPV #11[3] |
| Syxx-Pac | – | 10/9/2002 | TNA PPV #15[4] |
| AJ Styles (2) | Syxx-Pac | 10/23/2002 | TNA PPV #17 |
| Jerry Lynn (2) | AJ Styles | 11/6/2002 | TNA PPV #19 |
| Sonny Siaki | Jerry Lynn | 12/11/2002 | TNA PPV #24 |
| Kid Kash | Sonny Siaki | 2/12/2003 | TNA PPV #31 |
| The Amazing Red | Kid Kash | 4/30/2003 | TNA PPV #42 |
| Chris Sabin | The Amazing Red | 5/14/2003 | TNA PPV #44[5] |
| Michael Shane | – | 8/20/2003 | TNA PPV #58[6] |
| Chris Sabin (2) | Michael Shane | 1/7/2004 | TNA PPV #75[7] |
| Kazarian | The Amazing Red | 3/31/2004 | TNA PPV #87[8] |
| AJ Styles (3) | Kazarian | 6/9/2004 | TNA PPV #97 |
| Michael Shane (2) & Kazarian (2) |
AJ Styles | 7/28/2004 | TNA PPV #104[9] |
| Petey Williams | – | 8/11/2004 | TNA PPV #106[10] |
| AJ Styles (4) | – | 1/16/2005 | Final Resolution[11] |
| Christopher Daniels | AJ Styles | 3/13/2005 | Destination X[12] |
| AJ Styles (5) | Christopher Daniels | 9/11/2005 | Unbreakable[13] |
| Samoa Joe | AJ Styles | 12/11/2005 | Turning Point |
| Christopher Daniels (2) |
Samoa Joe | 3/12/2006 | Destination X[14] |
| Samoa Joe (2) | Christopher Daniels | 4/13/2006 | iMPACT! |
| Senshi (2) | Sonjay Dutt | 6/22/2006 | iMPACT![15] |
| Chris Sabin (3) | Senshi | 10/22/2006 | Bound for Glory |
| AJ Styles (6) | Chris Sabin | 11/2/2006 | iMPACT! |
| Christopher Daniels (3) |
AJ Styles | 11/16/2006 | iMPACT! |
| Chris Sabin (4) | Jerry Lynn | 1/14/2007 | Final Resolution[16] |
| Jay Lethal | Chris Sabin | 6/17/2007 | Slammiversary |
| Samoa Joe (3) | Chris Sabin | 6/21/2007 | iMPACT![17] |
| Kurt Angle | Samoa Joe | 8/12/2007 | Hard Justice |
| Jay Lethal (2) | Kurt Angle | 9/9/2007 | No Surrender |
| Johnny Devine | Jay Lethal | 1/24/2008 | iMPACT! |
| Jay Lethal (3) | Johnny Devine | 2/10/2008 | Against All Odds[18] |
| Petey Williams (2) | Jay Lethal | 4/17/2008 | iMPACT![19] |
| Sheik Abdul Bashir | Petey Williams | 9/14/2008 | No Surrender[20] |
| Eric Young | Sheik Abdul Bashir | 12/7/2008 | Final Resolution[21] |
| Alex Shelley | Chris Sabin | 1/11/2009 | Genesis[22] |
| Suicide | – | 3/15/2009 | Destination X[23] |
| Homicide | Suicide | 7/16/2009 | iMPACT! |
| Samoa Joe (4) | Homicide | 8/16/2009 | Hard Justice |
| The Amazing Red (2) | Samoa Joe | 10/8/2009 | iMPACT! |
Footnotes:
[1]: AJ Styles pinned Jerry Lynn in a ‘double-elimination’ match which also included Low Ki and Psicosis to be crowned the first-ever TNA X-Division Champion.
[2]: This match also included Jerry Lynn.
[3]: This was a three-way ladder match which also included AJ Styles.
[4]: At the same show, Jerry Lynn was stripped of the X-Division title due to injury. Syxx-Pac won an invitational ladder match which also included Kid Kash, Tony Mamaluke, The S.A.T., Ace Steele and AJ Styles to win the title.
[5]: This match also included Jerry Lynn.
[6]: Michael Shane captured the belt to win the first-ever ‘Ultimate X’ Match which also included Frankie Kazarian to become the new X-Division champion.
[7]: Sabin regained the X-Division title in an ‘Ultimate X’ match which also included ex-champ Michael Shane, Low Ki and Christopher Daniels.
[8]: On the same show, Chris Sabin was stripped of the X-Division title due to injury. As the two top challengers, Frankie Kazarian pinned Amazing Red to win the vacant title.
[9]: During this ‘Ultimate X’ match, Kazarian and Shane pulled down the title together to become co-champions.
[10]: Since the co-champion thing doesn’t work, the title became vacant. Petey Williams won a 22-man X-Division gauntlet match to be crowned the new X-Division champion.
[11]: This was an ‘Ultimate X match which also included the ex-champ Petey Williams and Chris Sabin.
[12]: This was an ‘elimination’ match which included ex-champ AJ Styles, Ron Killings and Elix Skipper. The first elimination was a tag match – the loser of the fall was eliminated. The second elimination was a three-way match – the loser of the fall was elimination. The third elimination was an ‘Ultimate X’ match where the winner would retrieve the belt.
[13]: This match also included Samoa Joe.
[14]: This was an ‘Ultimate X’ match which also included AJ Styles.
[15]: This match also included the ex-champ Samoa Joe, but Sonjay Dutt was the one pinned. The reason Senshi is listed as a two-time champion is because he has also won the belt wrestling as Low Ki.
[16]: This match also included the ex-champ Christopher Daniels, but Jerry Lynn was the one pinned.
[17]: This match also included the ex-champ Jay Lethal, but Chris Sabin was pinned.
[18]: This was a six-man street fight where the one who earns the pin wins the X-Division title which included Jay Lethal and the Motor City Machine Guns against Johnny Devine and Team 3D. Lethal scored the pinfall on Devine.
[19]: Petey Williams cashes in his ‘Feast or Fired’ contract on Jay Lethal and pinned him quickly with the Canadian Destroyer.
[20]: This match also included Consequences Creed.
[21]: Right after Eric Young won the belt, TNA official Jim Cornette stripped him of the belt after he won it in a controversial fashion because of the crazy referee Shane Sewell. The title becomes vacant.
[22]: This was a tournament final.
[23]: This was an ‘Ultimate X’ match which also included the ex-champ Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Consequences Creed and Jay Lethal.
Credit goes to: PWI Almanac, wrestling-titles.com, and ProWrestlingHistory.com
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