General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Chris]

And then lost the title match only to turn heel and beat Storm after Storm had that week long reign or whatever

 

[O-Blaze]

Yeah Roode won in 2011

 

[Ricky Smarks]

It was, actually, because Bully losing to Jeff is why he formed Aces and Eights.

 

[O-Blaze]

I was at the show Roode won at lol.

 

[Chris]

Technically I think Aces and Eights were formed before that BFG series but we didn't know who the leader was so that doesn't even make sense when you think about it lol

 

[Chris]

I remember the Aces and Eights first debuted attacking Sting when he accepted his HOF thing during the Summer but we didn't get any member reveals for months

 

[Chris]

Oh I got the video working again it just couldn't play from 9-10 minutes in but it works when I skip to like 10:15 lmao shit makes no sense but okay

 

[Chris]

If it does it again I'll probs just say fuck this PPV

 

[Ricky Smarks]

It's been years, but I think he sent out Aces in the Summer and he was supposed to win the BFG series and then takeover after winning the belt, but because he lost to Jeff he had to marry Brooke. I remember Russo doing a video of the year long build to the reveal. Which is one of the best examples of him actually being able to do long term booking when he wants to. That and The Rock heel turn.

 

[Chris]

That all lines up with the timeline that I remember

 

[Ricky Smarks]

Aces and Bully was one of the few reasons I watched TNA in 2013. I wasn't a stickler for it like I was before 2013, but I loved the Bully character. I think that was the last year I could tell you any meaningful angles. I know 2014 had Dixieland and Nick Aldis as champ, but that's it.

 

[Chris]

2014 was the last time I watched it weekly and I basically haven't watched any since then, same with ROH and I also stopped watching WWE and other indys then, just only got into WWE when I came back to wrestling a couple years later

 

[Ricky Smarks]

Between the booking being less than desirable and Dixie cutting the PPVs down to 4 causing me to lose interest, I think 2013-2014 was when they left Spike. I stopped caring to watch after that. I never got a single channel they were on after that.

 

[Chris]

Cutting those PPVs probably what saved the company from going bankrupt tho lmao

 

[Ricky Smarks]

2012 was the last full year I watched weekly, but I do think I saw most of 2013. 2014 was once in a blue moon I caught it. Less and less until Final Deletion. I boycotted all TNA after that for years.