The Wrestling Watcher

@ThinkWrestling1 For a former basketball player, you couldn’t slide a credit card under Mark’s vertical.

Ever wondered why The Undertaker never does a Leap Frog in his matches? Now you know why🤣

@wrestling_VI TNA is a distant #3 but with national exposure and a WWE partnership. They’ll never operate as smoothly as WWE/AEW, but they’re a valuable company to have around for wrestling. They need a vision and a realistic mission statement to better operate in the space they’re in.

What is your honest take on the state of #TNA?

Ahmed Johnson was inches from breaking his neck. #WWF96

@deluxewtc Ruthless Aggression has two eras within itself First: April 02-April 05. Figuring out the brand split, still reliant on big names like HHH, Taker, Rock, Angle and the heir to the throne is Brock Lesnar. Second: May 05-May 07: Cena, Batista and Orton become the focal points

theyre calling 2006 ruthless aggression era now

@RicoGennero Yes, Vince pivoted from Hunter to Austin here because of the Curtain Call.

@IsThisAWork Not the curtain call ?

Stone Cold beating Marc Mero was actually a big upset. Steve was kind of just there and not super featured to this point and Mero was getting the huge push and presentation. I wonder if Vince just pivoted from HHH to Austin because he likes heel King of the Ring winners. #WWF96

@HitmanGFX44 Is that inferring that mullet-Scott also wasn't roided Scott?

@IsThisAWork I'm probably in the minority, but I always preferred Mullet-Scott over Roided-Scott. Mullet-Scott was strong AND moved like a cat.

My favorite thing is when people act like Scott Steiner wasn’t freaking huge before he became Big Poppa Pump. #WCW96

@davemeltzerWON And Bret Hart had creative control his last 30 days, correct? They breached his contract twice. Bret had every right to refuse that finish. It was in his contract!

@RHoopsRecruits From what I remember, he had one backstage interview saying he lost on purpose so he could lose DiBiase as his manager and one guest commentator where he was edited quite a bit Austin was far from getting the push leading to this. In many ways, Vince lucked into his next top guy

@IsThisAWork Just rewatched this not that long ago. Austin was getting some decent sized pops in this one for 96 heel.

Can only think of @OfficialTAZ when this comes on. #ECW

@DarkSideOfRing @RealJeffJarrett @VICETV @TheJimCornette @THEVinceRusso @dlobrown75 @JEFFHARDYBRAND @VICE @IAmJericho Really looking forward to this. I really liked TNA and at a certain time was the only promotion I was able to keep up with due to my work schedule around 06-07.

24 years ago today, TNA held its first event, setting out to challenge the wrestling landscape. On July 7 at 9PM, the first 2 hours of our 3-part event exploring the history of TNA Wrestling through the eyes of founder @RealJeffJarrett premieres on @VICETV. First look is here.

@FadeAwayMedia This match sucked. Jeff was not feeling it at all.

Jeff Hardy reflects on his final WWE match before his release The match that happened to involve The Rock. Jeff had wrecked his Corvette earlier and the moment it happened, he knew his run in WWE was coming to an end 💔

@WrestlingNewsCo @BenVealWrites Jim’s cohost on his podcast is from New York, so that’s not the reason! Maybe Vince should look at his booking style for the reason why Cornette hates him.

Vince Russo was the guest on the latest Wrestling Life with @BenVealWrites. He was on to promote his book, Total Nonstop Agony: The Rise and Fall of TNA. Vince Russo on Eric Bischoff: "Out of everybody I ever worked with in the business, he is the person I like the least... Eric made the decision from day one to be an absolute a**hole to me." Russo on why he and Jim Cornette never got along: "Jim Cornette hates people from New York. It's that simple. Nobody's more New York than me, so the second Jim Cornette meets me, he's going to have a problem with me, and he's going to decide he's going to treat me a certain way." Russo on Triple H running WWE creative: "Triple H has no business whatsoever being involved in creative. I did not see a creative bone in Triple H's body... Just because you're a 16-time world champion doesn't mean you know how to write a television show. He doesn't have a clue." Russo on Dixie Carter's TNA leadership: "She was afraid to make decisions, and you cannot have a leader of your company afraid to make a decision... that is inevitably what bit her in the a$s." Russo on running a wrestling company and Tony Khan: "These guys are not your friends, they want something from you... I made it a rule to never be friends with talent, and I think that probably hurts Tony to some degree." Russo on WWE under TKO versus Vince McMahon: "Even with Vince, man, it was always talent first, talent first, talent first. You get the feeling that TKO don't even know these people's names." Russo on Hulk Hogan's death: "The day Hulk died... this business will never be the same again. It's Babe Ruth dying."

@Coltsplaya22 @davemeltzerWON “I won’t lose here but I’ll lose on this date” sounds reasonable to me.

@IsThisAWork @davemeltzerWON Reasonable creative control.

Based on most accounts, he was a key person, but now we have Vince McMahon, Jim Cornette (who actually came up with the finish), Levesque, Shawn and Russo all taking credit. He does leave out the part of the conversation where Bret would lose to Shawn in any arena if Shawn lost in Montreal and Bret was staying for another month to do it including TV tapings, MSG and one more PPV show. That's the part of the story the anti-Hart side aways leaves out.

@NeroZero__ @BrianRSolomon

@BrianRSolomon Hogan truly did pass the torch to him after Mania 18.

The man was paid $1 million just for his WrestleMania 17 match with Austin alone.

@Fibonacci69 Its funny how wrestling works and how everyone tries to take credit for things. HHH, Russo, Cornette all said they were the ones to come up with the screw job. I only believe Cornette's story. Also, Bret was in the right. He had creative control, Vince breached contract here.

Triple H claims he was the one behind the infamous Montreal Screwjob "Vince had come to us and said, Bret is not resigning and he won't drop the title to Shawn... the conversation was basically, here's what he's willing to do and it's gonna kill business" "There was just a silence and nobody knew what to say. I was probably the least important person on the totem pole at that time, but I was like, 'I gotta say it.' I was like, 'fuck that, like if he won't do business, do it for him.'" "That started a conversation that led to the Montreal Screwjob"

@BustedOpenRadio @_denisesalcedo I actually think Top Dollar ended up being one of the better heels today. He’s a valuable part of TNA and I think he still has a bright future.

🧠Now this is outside the box & Screams MONEY MONEY MONEY💵 @_denisesalcedo reacts tonight at 11p ET on #BOAD See you then on #ProWrestlingNation247 Ch. 156📻

@Youngy54 People say that Austin’s heel turn didn’t work, but I thought it was very entertaining. Truthfully, it should have went to WM18 where Stone Cold faces Triple H for the belt and then he turns face after. Domino effect might have kept Austin from walking out a few months later.

I fucking love some heel Stone Cold. This mini feud with Spike over RAW and SmackDown that week was great stuff.

@TheOVW5 I always thought Show and Brock had really good chemistry. I really liked their string of matches in 03.

Brock Lesnar and Big Show fight off air on Raw (2017) This was probably the last time these 2 physically interacted in WWE.