Official NWA:TNA Discussion Thread

[Nick]

The commentary was nothing to write home about. Tenay is annoying and the other two were almost non-entities. Where's Dusty Rhodes?

By the way, I heard that Minister guy used to be known as the Sinister Minister in ECW. Does anyone know if that is the same Sinister Minister that used to be on Dick the Bruiser's "Bruiser Bedlam" show out of Indianapolis? That show featured the Great Wojo, Calypso Jim, and a very young Scott Steiner. Veteran promoter Bob Luce would host the in-studio bumpers.

That was some of the funniest local television ever seen.

[Ashod]

Originally posted by Nick
Was anyone else suprised at just how good that lightweights match was? Some of those moves were brutal.

I might order next week's to see the X champion crowned. I bet there will be some memorable moments.

(Funny, it used to be the only television I watched was the occasional Simpsons episode with Star Trek: TNG here and there. Now I am watching wrestling again. It is just so much fun to watch with the right group.)

I think a pretty unique thing about the X Title is that there is no weight restriction. If say, Jeff Jarrett decides one day he he wants to go all flippity floppity in his matches and do 450 splashes on his opponents, he very well could challenge for the X belt.

[Nick]

Originally posted by Korly
Well, back in the day in WCW, matches like that happened nearly every week, and NO ONE cared, and the announcers, instead of calling the match, would go on about what dastardly deed Hulk Hogan had recently commited. Even in the WWE, when we had the amazing Essa Rios, no one seemed to care about him either.

I thought the lightweight division was responsible for much of the success of WCW during that period.

I know Essa Rios from his appearance in some N64 or PSX game. He looked like a dumbass. I never actually saw him wrestle, but he would be hard pressed to come anywhere near the Flying Elvii (as Gorilla Monsoon would have called them). ^_^

[Korly]

Regardless of what he "looked like" in WWF No mercy for the N64, he was an amazing athlete and don't you think saying "he would be hard pressed to come anywhere near the Flying Elvii" is a bit foolish seeing as how you just admitted you've never seen him wrestle?

Which is not to diminish the excellent 6 man match and it's participants, in fact, that match was better than any match Essa Rios ever put on in the WWE, BUT, he had to wrestle people like Crash Holly, Brian Christopher, and Funaki all the time which were not quite the caliber of a Jerry Lynn or Low-Ki.

I saw Essa Rios on an independant show once (MCW) taking own Christian York, and that match was AWESOME.

[Ashod]

Originally posted by Korly
Regardless of what he "looked like" in WWF No mercy for the N64, he was an amazing athlete and don't you think saying "he would be hard pressed to come anywhere near the Flying Elvii" is a bit foolish seeing as how you just admitted you've never seen him wrestle?

Which is not to diminish the excellent 6 man match and it's participants, in fact, that match was better than any match Essa Rios ever put on in the WWE, BUT, he had to wrestle people like Crash Holly, Brian Christopher, and Funaki all the time which were not quite the caliber of a Jerry Lynn or Low-Ki.

I saw Essa Rios on an independant show once (MCW) taking own Christian York, and that match was AWESOME.

Not to turn this into a WWE thread or anything like that (), but I just had to chime in about Essa Rios. He was pretty darn impressive. And I thought his little gimmick where Lita would copy his moves was just so...original. They should have kept Lita with him. She could have done the talking for the duo and having her around would have opened up many more storyline possibilites for Essa.

Well anyways, back to our regularly scheduled program.

[Kidnemo]

I thought Essa Rios was pretty sweet also.

Admittidly I've only seen him on the WWF, but it was nice to see an actual "high flying" cruiser weight as opposed to somebody like broke-ass x-pac...

[Korly]

Essa Rios appreciates your support everyone.

Now, back to NWA:TNA...

[Nick]

Hey, little dude, when I said Rios was hard-pressed to come near the Elvises,

1. I was making a light-hearted comment, not a hard and fast value judgement, and

2. It was in the vein of "The Spider-man movie was so great, the producers will be hard-pressed to top it."

The point is that I haven't seen Rios wrestle, but I have seen the Elvises. I liked their performance so much that I say Rios or any unknown quantity would have to be pretty good to be of that caliber.

Please explain how that is a foolish statement.

I stand by my remark about his looks.

[Ashod]

I stand by my remark about his looks.

What exactly don't you like about his look, if you don't mind me asking. I mean, it can't be worse than a bunch of Elvises, right?

[Timber]

I didn't get to watch the first ppv (actully I had no idea it was going to be on). But I just have to wonder why they didn't pick up Joey Styles. I mean come on, he's the only wrestling anouncer I've ever seen who dosen't need a color guy at his side. I can (and have!) recorded matches he's called onto mini-disc and listen to them in my car and invision everything that's going on in the ring perfectly. He's the only great play-by-play anouncer in pro wrestling history. He deserves whatever ammount of money they're paying their current anouncers collectivly.

No respect,
-Gigas