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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 02:54:29 No.15358581 View View Reply Original Report

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I wasn't active online when TNA was getting hot and 'competing' with WWE. Did they deal with the same hostility from WWE fans that AEW does? I remember LOLTNA was a thing and it was used so willy nilly it lost all meaning, but that's about as much as I remember. I recall ROH fans really hating TNA, but what about the turbo drones?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 02:58:09 No.15358592 Report

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the people who hated tna the most are the ones who became nxt fans, then njpw fans, then aew fans

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 02:59:31 No.15358597 Report

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>>15358592
But I liked TNA more than WWE, didn't like NXT and didn't get chance to check out NJPW until TNA was on its deathbed

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:00:11 No.15358600 Report

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>>15358597
ok but im talking about the people who hated tna

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:01:59 No.15358616 Report

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>>15358592
I was around for that time and can confirm (also KWAB)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:02:32 No.15358623 Report

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>>15358581
Most vitriol TNA got in the Hogan-Bischoff era was from older TNA fans who hated what they did to their favorite company. E-drones occasionally made jokes about TNA’s roster being filled with WWE dropouts but as a whole they really weren’t bothered by Impact.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:02:48 No.15358624 Report

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>>15358581
LOLTNA became a thing well after TNA was remotely close to competing with WWE. It was like people missed out on when TNA tried to go head to head with WWE and wanted to make up for lost time. People would "LOLTNA" over the most minute bullshit. I remember once someone got injured and they had to vacate a belt (something that happens in basically EVERY wrestling promotion) and there were floods of LOLTNA bullshit over it. It was 99% from people that never watched TNA in the first place and just needed something to dunk on. Most of them were NXT diehards that went on to become total AEW marks. In other words, autistic creeps.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:03:06 No.15358626 Report

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>>15358581
Not even close. The loltna people were mostly ROH fans who were eternally pissed that TNA took the spot they thought ROH deserved.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:03:09 No.15358627 Report

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>>15358581
I used to go on /wooo/ and make threads or memes. No one would ever respond. It was all randy orton and shawn michaels threads. Im not joking. even the night flair debuted , it was crickets

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:04:03 No.15358634 Report

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>>15358592
Exactly. They're the same terminally online weirdos that sent Triple H a fruit basket that one time.

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:06:51 No.15358649 Report

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>>15358581
>Did they deal with the same hostility from WWE fans that AEW does?
Yes. E-drones are literally cultists that perceive any threat to WWE as a threat to their own existential being. It's their whole personality, it's really sad to see.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:06:58 No.15358650 Report

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>>15358627
I'm still convinced the majority of /wooo/ were lapsed fans that didn't even watch wrestling. Nobody watching in the late 2000s-early 2010s would have wanted to make boring ass Randy Orton the logo for their image board. They were thinking of when Orton was actually good in like 2003-2004 as the anti-Cena.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:09:03 No.15358664 Report

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>>15358649
All I'm seeing here are 3 ex-WWE guys that should be AEW main eventers, but Tony completely fucked up their booking so bad that they're just another guy on the roster wrestling nobodies, but Meltzer gives all of their matches at least 4 stars, so Tony thinks that's a win somehow. Bryan especially has completely tanked his reputation with his AEW run. Most WWE marks probably have no clue he's even in AEW because Tony completely failed to capitalize on him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:10:29 No.15358673 Report

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E-drones were much less insecure back then. Probably because there were still people watching who could remember when WCW and ECW existed. Todays crop of fans can really only remember WWE.

TNA was also never that big of a deal. They always felt low rent and like they were struggling just to survive. The Impact Zone was dingey as fuck and no one wanted to work there because it was the same small group of fans every single week.

They were never a threat to WWE either and WWE never really even acknowledged them. They absolutely never would have been able to land free agents like Jon Moxley, Edge, CM Punk, or Bryan Danielson. Kurt Angle was the exception because they looked past his addiction issues.

and if you think the current stories about AEW tickets are bad, you should have seen the shit from back then about TNA. They were infamous for having to literally give away tickets.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:11:40 No.15358679 Report

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>>15358650
Everyone wanted to change it to Daniel Bryan doing the YES but Kirt refused to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:11:51 No.15358680 Report

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>>15358592
HEH. I mean folks, where's the lie

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:12:04 No.15358681 Report

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>>15358581
Most of the hate TNA got was from Meltzerdrones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:12:11 No.15358682 Report

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>>15358673
Punk was with Raven in TNA

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:12:54 No.15358688 Report

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>>15358673
>They were infamous for having to literally give away tickets.
IIRC if they were filming at Universal Studios, part of the production agreement was they weren't allowed to charge money for tickets because it was supposed to be a perk of visiting the theme park.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:15:08 No.15358705 Report

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>>15358682
That's different than signing Punk after he was huge like AEW did. He was pretty much a nobody when TNA had him.
>>15358688
they were having to give away tickets to ppvs that were on the road too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:15:54 No.15358713 Report

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>>15358673
Didn't Edge nearly go to TNA? Jericho too

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:16:41 No.15358717 Report

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>>15358682
Punk was only in TNA for a handful of months, plus he was also working with Raven in ROH, MLW, and IWA-MS at the same time.

Punk said himself he'd never sign with TNA full time and prioritized ROH bookings over TNA because both paid the same, and he was treated as a main eventer in ROH, but was just a midcarder tag team guy in TNA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:18:02 No.15358726 Report

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>>15358600
I didn’t hate TNA but it was pretty fucking easy to laugh at, I always wanted to see TNA turn the corner and stop pandering so much to retards but it had its charm and gave Kurt an extended run when he was my favorite wrestler

to answer op, I think the difference between TNA hate and AEW hate is that TNA was just a pretty garbage show at times that pandering to mouth breathing rednecks whereas AEW is a pretty garbage show that panders to pretentious self absorbed smark manbabies, TNA was trying to arrive and AEW has acted from day 1 as if they already have

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Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:18:42 No.15358731 Report

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>>15358713
Edge? Hell no. He was a mainventer in WWE her had no reason to leave. I think Jericho talked with them and considered it before he went back to WWE in 2007.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:20:12 No.15358737 Report

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>>15358705
>they were having to give away tickets to ppvs that were on the road too.
I know. I'm just saying one of the big LOLTNAs back in the day was "They don't even charge money for Impact taping tickets!!1" when that was always part of the production agreement in the first place. Even as TNA got bigger and had guys like Kurt Angle and Hulk Hogan, they couldn't just start charging for tickets unless they went on the road.

Fast forward a few years later and NXT would tape at Full Sail each week giving out free tickets as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:20:24 No.15358740 Report

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>>15358726
TNA's constant defeatest attitude was annoying as fuck. Tony is cringe but his forced positivity is much better for moral. The way people talked about TNA back then always sounded like they were ready to commit suicide.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:21:40 No.15358751 Report

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>>15358592
This. The obese smarks think what meltzer tells them to and he fucking hated TNA for some reason

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:22:53 No.15358759 Report

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>>15358713
Jericho hinted at it after he left WWE in 2005, but I think he was just trolling. He fully intended to take time off and tour with his band.

Paul Heyman apparently was offered a ton of money to come book TNA after he left WWE in late 2006, but he wanted to take time away from wrestling in general.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:22:56 No.15358760 Report

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>>15358679
/wooo/'s community thrived not because of its administrators and moderators but rather in spite of them

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:23:10 No.15358762 Report

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ROHbots were the ones who REALLY hated TNA because TNA stole Daniels, AJ, and Joe and because TNA had Russo on staff. Meltzer and Alvarez were the conductors on the TNA hate train.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 03:25:01 No.15358770 Report

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>>15358759
They were very close to hiring Heyman to run the show but he wanted to fire all of the washed up guys like Kevin Nash and Booker T and completely focus on the young guys, and that made Dixie say no.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 06:51:53 No.15359637 Report

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>>15358581
The worst thing about the loltna page was that among the genuinely stupid and lolworthy things TNA did were lots of people just crying about their favourite guy not getting pushed or coming off well in a storyline

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 11:49:46 No.15360448 Report

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>>15358581
They never competed with the WWE lol. There's a reason why the first All In was such a big deal. TNA couldn't even get 10k people to show up in its entire history

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 12:05:07 No.15360522 Report

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>>15358581
TNA in 2005-2010 was way better than AEW
it's a shame what has happened to them, because TNA should be much more than just another wrestling promotion

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2024 12:05:45 No.15360524 Report

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>>15359637
And it still Continental today considering how slammiversary went down

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