NWA Into the Fire (December 14, 2019)

I think this year I’m going to just work on clearing out the random hard drive of assorted wrestling crap I’ve accumulated over the years but never actually watched. I don’t plan on watching too much new stuff or using YouTube for wrestling crap. If I feel like watching wrestling I’m going to have to find something on that there hard drive to watch. Today I’m kicking things off with NWA Into the Fire from back in 2019.

When NWA first came back I was honestly pretty high on it. I dug that there was a wrestling promotion that was going for the studio wrestling vibe and focused more on promos than in-ring acumen. I loved the weird, at times almost Adult Swim-esque nature of some of the stuff that happened and I even was into the roster but then COVID happened and they lost a lot of momentum and then most of the folks I liked in the NWA got signed to AEW or IMPACT. They eventually came back but Billy Corgan got up his own ass about stuff and now a barely mobile Brodus Clay is the NWA World Heavyweight Champion for no goddamn reason and Nick Aldis is a free agent. But that’s now. This show…this show is their first PPV from when I still thought they were pretty good so let’s check it out.

TNA The Best Damn Wrestling Event Period – Night 1 (November 10, 2004)

So way back in 2004, TNA called Fox Sports Net home. As a bit of cross-promotion the powers that be allowed TNA to air two nights of special wrestling based installments of another Fox Sports Net program, The Best Damn Sports Show Period. I’ve never seen an episode of that particular program but Wikipedia tells me that it “regularly featured irreverent and opinionated interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and entertainers,” and based on the stuff on this episode that seems to be a fair description of the show. Anyway this had actual matches on it and it was only an hour long so I figured I give it a watch as it’s something I’ve never actually seen before.

NWA:TNA Weekly PPV #53 (July 16, 2003)

I continue to haphazardly make my way through IMPACT Wrestling’s 20 year history with another one of their weekly PPVs, specifically the July 16, 2003 show from the Asylum in Nashville, Tennessee. Don’t know anything about it save for the fact that it’s about a month after the one year anniversary show I watched a few weeks back.

TNA Destination X 2005 (March 13, 2005)

So I continue my foray into being a guy who only watches IMPACT Wrestling today with a look at Destination X 2005 coming to us live from the IMPACT Zone in Orlando, Florida. I think I’m going to go through the random IMPACT shows that are available in full on IMPACT’s YouTube channel along with the random stuff of questionable legality I have on an external hard drive in chronological order and this one seems to be the oldest one that I’ve not reviewed already so it seems as good a place as any to start so let’s get to it.

NWA:TNA Weekly PPV #22 (November 27, 2002)

I think I’m going to go all in on TNA/IMPACT Wrestling being the only wrestling promotion I watch for the foreseeable future. I don’t have any grand designs about watching every episode in chronological order or anything like that. I’m just going to watch whatever shows I have available to me on YouTube or that external hard drive of wrestling shows of questionable legality I got. So let’s get down to it.

NWA:TNA Weekly PPV #49 (June 18, 2003)

I’m thinking about maybe becoming an Impact Wrestling guy this year so I went and watched one of the full length shows they have up on their YouTube channel, specifically the First Anniversary Show from June 18, 2003. Here are some words about it.

TNA Impact! – Open Fight Night (June 21, 2012)

My ongoing effort to replace reviews of stray matches I did with reviews of complete shows continues as we take a gander at this random-ass episode of Impact Wrestling from 2012. So let’s head to the Impact Zone to see what random former WWE wrestler is going to make Professor Iron “Mike” Tenay bellow, “WHAT’S HE DOING IN THE IMPACT ZONE?!”

NWA Super Powerrr (May 12, 2020)

So prior to the coronavirus popping off in the United States, the NWA was on the road to the Crockett Cup with a big Clash of the Champions style show known as Super Powerrr scheduled to serve as the go home show ahead of the PPV. When the PPV was delayed due to bans on mass gatherings, so too was the airing of Super Powerrr. When it became clear that life would not be returning to normal anytime soon, Billy Corgan and the powers that be at the NWA decided to just say fuck it and recut Super Powerrr to be released as a stand alone deal. This is a review of that show.

TNA Impact! (July 5, 2016)

As I move away from doing random one off match reviews to focus more on full show reviews, I’ve been going back and reviewing shows where I might have reviewed a single match in the past and this is one of those shows. This episode of TNA Impact is best known for a the Final Deletion match but there was an entire undercard that also happened on the show. I reviewed the Final Deletion match when the match went down. but today we’re going to take a look at the entire thing.

NWA Powerrr (March 3, 2020)

The march towards the Crockett Cup continues with another episode of NWA Powerrr. Specifically we’re looking at the March 3, 2020 episode so let’s get broken with Pantera or whatever. Damn, that is nowhere near as smooth a transition as jumping into the fire was…