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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 19:03:09 No.19319604 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>19319615 >>19320374 >>19320385

>TNA and ROH were both fucking awesome in the 2000s
>both fanbases hated the other
People like to talk about console wars now but holy shit TNA and ROH fans were a different breed in the 2000s. What made them so pissy?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 19:04:47 No.19319615 Report

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>>19319604
>TNA and ROH were both fucking awesome in the 2000s
If they were good, they wouldn't have imploded. No contrarian, they were never big enough draws.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 19:08:16 No.19319628 Report

Quoted By: >>19319638 >>19319779 >>19320401

ROHfags were the original group of fags that you commonly see today who like flippy shit and carry signs that say shit like “happy to be here” “I love wrestling” “enjoy wrestling” “trans rights”
TNAfags liked edgy retarded shit with occasional good wrestling

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 19:10:45 No.19319638 Report

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>>19319628
This. It all goes back to there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 19:41:10 No.19319779 Report

Quoted By: >>19319787

>>19319628
There was none of that shit in the ROH I watched son. No one really liked TNA because they kept doing dumb stuff and taking talent from other promotions. They would screw over ROH a few times and did greasy shit like firing the kid who got paralysed. I don't really remember WWE fans really caring that much about TNA back then. You could argue WWE cared because they brought back ECW, but I don't really recall much console war shit from the fans.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 19:43:00 No.19319787 Report

Quoted By: >>19319805 >>19320184

>>19319779
>flippy shit
>There was none of that shit in the ROH I watched son.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 19:47:01 No.19319805 Report

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>>19319787
I misread your post dawg. I thought you said people took faggy signs like that to ROH shows back then. If what you say is true and they are the same people then wrestling will be pretty much dead once these dudes start dropping off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:02:43 No.19320171 Report

Quoted By: >>19320201

TNA was the AEW of its day. A lot of people clinging to an inferior product for inferior minds just desperate for wwe to have some competition.
ROH was really good for post 80s American wrestling. You’d be better off watching NOAH or Dragon Gate.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:05:50 No.19320184 Report

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>>19319787
Best years of ROH were 2004-2007. And they only pure flippers were like special k and the British guys they brought in. Guys like red and the Maximos didn’t last.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:08:17 No.19320197 Report

Quoted By: >>19320454

https://youtu.be/Ju0HPIFa_p4?si=KKxxBYulpjaWmT5m
Matches like this were an oddity in ROH after the first year. If this was in AEW it would be considered their best match ever.

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:10:04 No.19320201 Report

Quoted By: >>19320389

>>19320171
ROH was people ripping off NOAH, then ripped off Dragon Gate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:35:18 No.19320374 Report

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>>19319604
In 2004, TNA temporarily pulled out of their talent sharing agreement with ROH because Rob Feinstein was busted for trying to meet an undercover cop posing as a 14 year old boy.
The partnership was reinstated after Rob was ousted and ROH ended up becoming way more successful under Cary Silkin's ownership, but it fucked over a lot of ROH's short-term booking plans and disappointed the fans, especially since AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels were main eventers in early ROH.
CM Punk got super over around this time because he left TNA and stuck "loyally" with ROH while it was being sold, which set the stage for his big heel turn storyline in 2005 when he shoot signed with WWE while he was ROH champ (the original Summer of Punk)

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:38:07 No.19320385 Report

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>>19319604
they were both shit, one was named after Tits N Ass and the other was about "fake fighting with handshakes"

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:39:13 No.19320389 Report

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>>19320201
>NOAH

All Japan you dumb bitch

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:40:30 No.19320397 Report

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>TNA
>awesome at any time ever
nice headcanon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:40:53 No.19320399 Report

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>>19320389
Tony might be able to draw a crowd for house shows if he emulated old school Japan and ran a Round Robin league and made matches important, instead hes just doing ROH with a (shrinking) budget

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:41:37 No.19320401 Report

Quoted By: >>19320415

>>19319628
>>19319638
The first ever ROH match involved people beating the shit out of a gay character while the fans chanted "faggot" at him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:44:37 No.19320415 Report

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>>19320401
and it was funded by proven pedophile Rob Feinstein, jewish fella, who was jerking off the whole time

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Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 21:52:29 No.19320454 Report

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>>19320197
you're even more correct than you think you are
Slim J fucking rules to this day and he was one of the best things on AEW Dark when that show still existed. He's still young enough to get a proper run as the legendary TV jobber he was always meant to be
https://youtu.be/0f1PDPXCVz0?t=2032

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Nov 2025 22:33:27 No.19320736 Report

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One of my favorite gimmicks of all time was the embassy using Jade Chung as their personal ring steps. She would get down on her hands and knees and Jimmy Rave would step on her to get into the ring. When she defied them they would beat the shit out of her, so prince nana was banned from touching her or else him and the embassy would get fired. Their solution? To start dragging her around by a dog collar.
Even your grimiest indie today would never even try something like that.

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