The sad thing is. Impact got MASSIVELY BETTER on later years. However, because of the awful decisions made in the past (and today), the product reached "nobody cares" status.
Watching the rumble last night I couldn't believe how many times your channel name came up! Started telling people about your TH-cam account. Really enjoy watching these. Cheers!
“Beer Money against Jeff Jarrett in a handicap match, with Mick Foley in a suit and tennis shoes as the ref. What???!!!” Lmao. Classic TNA incompetence.
I love how many times Vinny calmly, quietly tries to interject things to soften Bryan's anger, and Bryan just completely blanks him because he doesn't want the purity of his anger to be damaged.
If Bryan isn't one of the best radio / podcast personalities around, Idk who is. Easily the best in the wrestling podcast universe. His voice, his delivery, his knowledge on the subject. I fucking love this dude.
You gotta be joking me! This guy is an absolute fucking mark. He actually has the balls to criticize legends of the business...saying they don't know what they are doing. This from two guys who had a backyard wrestling match in front of 7 people where one guy tosses the other guy in a kiddie pool. Anyone who listens to this clown and actually thinks he is credible is just as big a Mark as he is.
I'm not going to lie, the only reason I even sub to the F4W/WON is because I'm such a mark for the Bryan and Vinnie show. They're both S+ tier broadcasters for the reasons you laid out: their voice, delivery, and knowledge are fantastic. Plus they're both hilarious.
One of the many, many things that made the Broken Matt Hardy segments great was when they actually showed and referred to a gold boat. You can't tell me that was anything but an intentional reference to this.
DCT lol yeah that’s true but i think it’s mostly trolls not actual fans i mean as a person i’ve heard multiple times that he can be a sweetheart but by the divined how can you be a fan of his booking
+thedarkfoxcannon That quote is the best....just Bryan's delivery. I've listened to this so many times just for it.I'll add that the pic that is put up as Bryan goes aggro is just perfect.
@@InternetHydra Bobby Roode isn't doing too badly. He hasn't been the main event or anything but he's doing about the same there as he was with Beer Money in TNA.
0:56 *Sees Vince McMahon in the picture, then notices Cody Rhodes and Jack Swagger there....* *Smiles at where those two are now compared to where they were in 2010.* Just you wait, guys. It gets so much better...
Thanks so much for these. I was always a Bryan and Dave guy, but fuck, man, these are hilarious. And thanks so much for the footage with them. Brings back great memories with fantastic commentary!
+Travis williams usually when Bryan is on Dave's show he tones the ranting down a lot, especially when Cornette is there... he just sits back and enjoys like the rest of us.
They could change the name of the show every once in awhile to the "Bryan and Jimmy Show", and Bryan Alvarez and Jim Cornette could go over old episodes of Impact and Jim could recount what he remembered, and give feedback on the matches and writing.
Thirteen years later, this tirade by Bryan still has me crying. I listened to this show during my commute the morning it was uploaded, and was in tears. This still has not been topped, even by Bryan's "peeing straight into the air" rant, which is the second-best tirade he's gone on.
One year since you posted this comment, and WWE has just released their Q4 and 2021 earnings; first time in company history where they reached $1 billion in annual revenue. :^) Like Bryan says at 10:43, "Theres no hope." :^) :^) :^)
2010 was a terrible year for wrestling, and it was pretty much start and stop with me watching wrestling for a couple of years already. Raw was such a joke. The booking was god awful, and it was a shitty kid show with guest hosts nobody gave a shit about, and they still had 5-6 Million Viewers which is insane but soon would change because they did everything in their power to chase away their audience. TNA was already dead, but nobody told them yet with Dixie Carter who treated her Business like a toy and was so easily distracted like a cat seeing a bird and rather kept a writer who proved that he shouldn't be anywhere near the wrestling business and later lied to the network that he was gone and killed her business.
Holy fuck lol. As of this comment on 4/30/2016, the entirety of that TNA side of that poster except for Bobby Lashley, is gone from that company, with Bobby not even being a full timer last time I checked. Just 3 of the WWE side are gone. Ted DiBiase Jr, MVP and Kelly Kelly. In their stead are AJ Styles and Bobby Roode. (If you count NXT.) The rest of the TNA portion have either come back to the WWE on a special appearance deal, are now in ROH and NJPW, or occasionally doing indie feds.
Half way through the rant when Bryan was trying to predict whether TNA would lose their show due to ratings or Russo being fired, I would have loved to be there with a crystal ball to tell Bryan that Russo being a secret advisor to creative would make the company lose their TV deal
They'll fire Russo before Panda pulls the plug. Oh was Bryan ever wrong on that. Panda stops funding the promotion and Russo was still there until Spike dropped them. What is even sadder despite Russo's shit track record, there are people defending him as a genius.
+RealParadoxBlues I feel that WWE did try to book Raw better during this "war"...but only for the first two or three weeks. After that, they stopped caring.
Day-me-in Moody yup. Sometimes you just have to regret not doing what you could’ve. Bret in that fake out with HBK would’ve been awesome. Toooooooooo much time passed for it to have been anything else but a “meh” moment.
Tony Almonte well Bret could barely do anything physical due to the stroke, he wasn’t going to wrestle Shawn. If he was able to fully wrestle he probably would’ve been back in WWE and wrestling well before he went into the Hall of Fame
Bro Bro Bro Bro Bro it wasn't my fault Bro.I told Dixie it wasn't gonna work bro she ruined my ideas bro.Bro trust me bro my ideas were gonna increase the ratings bro
2022: raw ratings are just barely above where TNA ratings were. AEW is scaring WWE to the point where they're actively counterprogramming against it and copying its gimmicks. Tony Khan now owns ROH and AEW, and likely buys impact before the end of the year. Vince McMahon's booking is so bad that fans are wondering if they shouldn't hire Russo.
The problem with TNA is that they are under this illusion that they're just TNA fans and just WWE fans. When the truth is that a lot of TNA fans are WWE fans first.
Angle,Sting,Jeff,A.J,Joe,Bobby,Matt,Anderson,Storm,Abyss,Bully,Sabin,Daniels,Morgan,Hernandez,Kaz,Creed,Shelley, and so many others I missed alot. Everyone knows what I am saying here I hope it was such a disaster he's so true, but think if this roster could have been booked correctly, the possibilities the dream matches some we now see today. If done properly during this they would have had a new a,axing option instead of watching a Criss Angel on Raw. Cx
From www.wrestlezone.com/: Abyss and Hogan are out first to a nice pop, both of them are posing coming down the ramp. There are several crowd shots of Dixie and Brooke, and and Abyss is sporting some new wrestling gear with red and yellow on the back. Hogan says this is the biggest night in TNA and begins to address Flair and AJ but gets cut off by a loud TNA! TNA! chant. Hogan says since they attacked him, this is TNA’s reckoning day. Hogan calls them out and it looks like we are starting off the show with Abyss/Hogan vs Styles/Flair. Abyss/Hogan vs Styles/Flair AJ and Abyss start this one out with as they trade blows before Abyss picks up AJ for a slam in the middle. AJ gets back to the corner and quickly tags in Flair. They lock up and Flair hits some chops in the corner. Flair hits a low blow and AJ strangles Abyss with the robe before hitting Hogan with the Pele kick. Styles and Flair work over their opponents until the arena goes dark, and it’s the return of STING!!! Sting has the bat and he is backing Flair off. He lets Hogan and Abyss get up before he hits them with the bat and takes them out! Result: No Contest
"I WOULD HAVE A GOLD BOAT. I WOULD HAVE A BOAT MADE OUT OF GOLD." That line gets in my head all the time.
Reminds me of "A PUDDLE OF BLOOD. THIS IS BLOOD.. IN A PUDDLE. A PUDDLE.... OF BLOOD."
I WOULDN'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT SINKS! I WOULD HAVE IT!
Scarsguard reference anyone?
Fellas I have good news from the future
Then he could hang with Danhausen.
The sad thing is. Impact got MASSIVELY BETTER on later years. However, because of the awful decisions made in the past (and today), the product reached "nobody cares" status.
Anything from 2010 TNA is MILES BETTER, than fucking wrestlehouse lmaooo
@@Whiteboifrumdaeastno it’s not lmao
@@xadamx94 modern impact is gay
@@Whiteboifrumdaeastwere you born in 2010
@@Venomous9 wouldn’t that make. Me a modern impact fan ? Lol
Finally found the classic "gold boat" rant. Good times.
Watching the rumble last night I couldn't believe how many times your channel name came up! Started telling people about your TH-cam account. Really enjoy watching these. Cheers!
Helloooo!
Cheers bra. Tna is making kids cry bra
What bar is Bryan Alvarez?
He is...Maria's coconut slices!
love ya guys..keep up the good work.
“Beer Money against Jeff Jarrett in a handicap match, with Mick Foley in a suit and tennis shoes as the ref. What???!!!”
Lmao. Classic TNA incompetence.
Remember when Jeff was a MMA fighter and was challenging people in the crowd to fight😂😂😂
Micah Hill Yes! Lmao!
“It’s so frustrating to see all this fucking talent SQUANDERED on a shit show!”
Me anytime I tune into Raw or Smackdown in 2022.
that was like since 2007
What is your opinion now on Raw & Smackdown talent after what has happened so far this year?
I love how many times Vinny calmly, quietly tries to interject things to soften Bryan's anger, and Bryan just completely blanks him because he doesn't want the purity of his anger to be damaged.
It reminded me of that Spider Man frame of Mary Jane trying to calm Peter down and Peter just replies "No I'm almost enjoying my anger"
>TNA will pull the plug before firing Vince Russo
4 years later THIS FUCKING HAPPENED
oh how the tables have turned
Bryan Alvarez was vindicated because the Broken Hardys did a segment with a Gold Boat
Bryan: They may get a. 5! Then what?
Vinny: I will do a dance.
If Bryan isn't one of the best radio / podcast personalities around, Idk who is. Easily the best in the wrestling podcast universe. His voice, his delivery, his knowledge on the subject. I fucking love this dude.
ChrisThePleb And dropped the truly iconic -5 star's
Get a room
You gotta be joking me! This guy is an absolute fucking mark. He actually has the balls to criticize legends of the business...saying they don't know what they are doing. This from two guys who had a backyard wrestling match in front of 7 people where one guy tosses the other guy in a kiddie pool. Anyone who listens to this clown and actually thinks he is credible is just as big a Mark as he is.
@@genofalconejr5717 Just found Vince Russo's alt account.
I'm not going to lie, the only reason I even sub to the F4W/WON is because I'm such a mark for the Bryan and Vinnie show. They're both S+ tier broadcasters for the reasons you laid out: their voice, delivery, and knowledge are fantastic. Plus they're both hilarious.
I UTTERLY lost it when Bryan started screaming about the gold boat.
YOU TOLD EM TO TURN THE CHANNEL
YOU ASSHOLES!
The legendary gold boat promo!
i love the random burial of the smackdown crowd
Smelliest crowd ever
Sometimes I feel bad about my life so I watch this video to make myself feel better. I suck at everything, but at least I'm not TNA.
Yeah. For me when ever I have a bad day I watch a Impact and I cheer right up because people have it worst than I do.
I’m sorry you feel that way
''Hey i may suck but at least i'm not TNA'' Holy fuck i love that way of thinking.
@@cri_c yo fr tho hahahahaa
I like your style, dude.
I've watched this video so many fucking times because it is just so perfect.
***** It's amazing how so little has changed. They're not head to head anymore but that's about it.
Polaroid Pam Ok it's not just me then!... :)
Polaroid Pam moron. this video is trash.
TNA used to get .99 ratings? holy hell they'd kill for that now lol
Just Another Guy man I remember being glad seeing go over 1.0. Such a waste.
well, WWE is catching up on that low ratings LOL!!!
Their highest was a 1.4
@DjangoFett TNA still wouldn't even come close
Tristan Edwards What year was that? 2007-ish 2008-ish?
2017. TNA is still alive and a gold boat was on screen.
It's weird coming back to this and seeing that at this point RAW is barely staying above the TNA numbers they're talking about here.
Raw sucked around this time
I have a feeling Impact will be the cockroach that survives in the future apocalyptic wasteland
being recommended these gems out of nowhere have made my life 3941394 times better lmfao
Raw was getting 4.0 in 2010
Wowsers
Yeah, I remember when they were getting 5.7 on a Monday night with 18,000 in an arena for a raw....
One of the many, many things that made the Broken Matt Hardy segments great was when they actually showed and referred to a gold boat. You can't tell me that was anything but an intentional reference to this.
16:19 for the Gold Boat!
I would argue 15:20 just to get angry tiny man in there.
I would have a solid gold boat, AND I WOULDN'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT SINKS. I'd be that fucking rich. God I love these podcasts 16:00 mark I think
"You told them to turn the channel! You assholes! You told them to turn the fucking channel!!"
LMFAO
Russo earns his nickname "the Archbishop of Talentbury."
shitstain and everything is properly earned
KingGhidorah5464 careful the Russo marks may start showing up to defend that doofus.
DCT lol yeah that’s true but i think it’s mostly trolls not actual fans i mean as a person i’ve heard multiple times that he can be a sweetheart but by the divined how can you be a fan of his booking
That's a winning nickname.
Looking at this picture and knowing where most of the talent went years later is really symbolic of how this was not a war at all.
Bryan sounds like Tobias from Arrested Development
+Travis Atwell "I'm sorry I'm late Dave I just blue myself"
Travis Atwell HUZZAHHHH!!
And now Bryan has a gold boat sitting on his desk.
"because the (gets louder on the mic) fucking guy putting your show together is an numbskull"
lmao
+thedarkfoxcannon That quote is the best....just Bryan's delivery. I've listened to this so many times just for it.I'll add that the pic that is put up as Bryan goes aggro is just perfect.
+Honey Berkana incan listen to bryan rants all day lol
I wonder if Brain ever got that gold boat since everything seems to be doing better
He has a small one on his desk is what I heard!
A GOLD BOAT!
Lol half of the talent they're talking about on Impact now works for WWE
I think prime TNA around where Angle still came in and had matches with their top guys was what people wanted AEW to be.
@buck fugg
True sans the women’s division
And sadly are no better booked, except maybe AJ.
Internet Hydra so true! WWE is terrible! TNA was much better (at times) than WWE was then & now.
@@InternetHydra Bobby Roode isn't doing too badly. He hasn't been the main event or anything but he's doing about the same there as he was with Beer Money in TNA.
Hearing Bryan rant against TNA always makes me smile.
Wow that poster set a precedent for how much talent TNA would lose to WWE, and how many WWE alumni are still in TNA for a paycheck.
Orion Ake fuck WWE!!
Irrelevant to the conversation.
@@HandlebarOrionX A president? Like Trump? Also shut the fuck up E-drone.
Pardo What are you trying to say?
Jim Cornette That was the part I understood, I didn’t understand the other stuff...
0:56 *Sees Vince McMahon in the picture, then notices Cody Rhodes and Jack Swagger there....*
*Smiles at where those two are now compared to where they were in 2010.*
Just you wait, guys. It gets so much better...
Bryan makes my day Jesus Christ
100th time watching and the last 2 minutes are always my favourite part
Bryan sounds like me whenever I talk to my friends about the video game industry.
Or me about music in general
Still one of the most hilarious rants
8:11 "Why the fuck would you do that?"
"Because they're retarded"
I CAN'T BREATHE xD
"That segment did an 0.76"
"That's no good"
And now that's an average number for Smackdown
SmackDown has never recovered ever since Jinder became champion and Reigns went to SmackDown
Thanks so much for these. I was always a Bryan and Dave guy, but fuck, man, these are hilarious.
And thanks so much for the footage with them. Brings back great memories with fantastic commentary!
Cornette and Alvarez should rant together, I'd pay to hear this
i find it impossible that they've never done one, i know Jim has been on observer live multiple times.
+Travis williams usually when Bryan is on Dave's show he tones the ranting down a lot, especially when Cornette is there... he just sits back and enjoys like the rest of us.
They could change the name of the show every once in awhile to the "Bryan and Jimmy Show", and Bryan Alvarez and Jim Cornette could go over old episodes of Impact and Jim could recount what he remembered, and give feedback on the matches and writing.
That would be a lot of estrogen in one room.
@@unr3alGaming That would be bad for Corny's blood pressure
Thirteen years later, this tirade by Bryan still has me crying. I listened to this show during my commute the morning it was uploaded, and was in tears.
This still has not been topped, even by Bryan's "peeing straight into the air" rant, which is the second-best tirade he's gone on.
All these years later WWE is trying to counter book AEW.
One year since you posted this comment, and WWE has just released their Q4 and 2021 earnings; first time in company history where they reached $1 billion in annual revenue. :^)
Like Bryan says at 10:43, "Theres no hope." :^) :^) :^)
Also, WWE doesnt "BOOK" wrestling matches, PAL. they are S T O R Y T E L L E R S :^) :^) :^) :^) they T E L L S T O R I E S ! ! ! ! :^) :^) :^) :^)
@@TheFuckingShitLoL that’s awesome for them. I love to see all wrestling companies do well.
@@therealmikebarfield I agree. So does Bryan Alvarez. Ironically enough, he appears to indicate this at 16:07
12:52 “do they have to do a .1” in (September 2021) that’s EXACTLY what they’re doing, and the show is better than what’s it been in the last 8 years.
Ratings don’t mean shit, I just want a decent entertaining watchable product.
@@DreFromMaine8472 i get what you mean, but the higher the ratings, the better the show. think about the wwe a long time ago versus now...
They're doing a 0.02. That I don't know how that is possible
7:40 7 years later, it sounds like Raw. “Years of my life are taken away.”. Nothing changes on Raw
2010 was a terrible year for wrestling, and it was pretty much start and stop with me watching wrestling for a couple of years already. Raw was such a joke. The booking was god awful, and it was a shitty kid show with guest hosts nobody gave a shit about, and they still had 5-6 Million Viewers which is insane but soon would change because they did everything in their power to chase away their audience. TNA was already dead, but nobody told them yet with Dixie Carter who treated her Business like a toy and was so easily distracted like a cat seeing a bird and rather kept a writer who proved that he shouldn't be anywhere near the wrestling business and later lied to the network that he was gone and killed her business.
Who won the war? UFC did bitches
GOLDEN BOAT FTW.
Holy fuck lol. As of this comment on 4/30/2016, the entirety of that TNA side of that poster except for Bobby Lashley, is gone from that company, with Bobby not even being a full timer last time I checked. Just 3 of the WWE side are gone. Ted DiBiase Jr, MVP and Kelly Kelly. In their stead are AJ Styles and Bobby Roode. (If you count NXT.) The rest of the TNA portion have either come back to the WWE on a special appearance deal, are now in ROH and NJPW, or occasionally doing indie feds.
Abyss was still on the Company at the time of your comment
Well, it's 2021 now and guess what..
Half way through the rant when Bryan was trying to predict whether TNA would lose their show due to ratings or Russo being fired, I would have loved to be there with a crystal ball to tell Bryan that Russo being a secret advisor to creative would make the company lose their TV deal
"What match? What in the fucks going on?"
Is that Desmond fucking Wolf front and centere on the TNA side? 😂😂😂 Hahaha.
Yes...
Tobias Funke has some intense thoughts about wrestling
Every once in a while I come to listen to this and allow myself to be happy for 22 minutes
They'll fire Russo before Panda pulls the plug. Oh was Bryan ever wrong on that. Panda stops funding the promotion and Russo was still there until Spike dropped them. What is even sadder despite Russo's shit track record, there are people defending him as a genius.
And Spike TV dropped them right when they knew about Russo being involved.
8:57 Tune in to the first Raw in 2021 with Hogan and Flair, people have been watching that since Bash at the Beach 94
12:17 the way bryan says david otunga makes me laugh for some reason 😂😂😂
Dam why am I only seeing this now
The Male demos are up... That sounds familiar in 2020...
This was a rant from 2010 yet the shitfest is STILL in business. lol I
And all of it is still fucking true
Magnum BadGuy shut up, lying dumbass
Impact is still bad
Bobby Lawson shut up. Impact is good. Your opinion is bad. dumbass. get off the hate bandwagon.
No it isn't
Hogan comes for the save, and he's hold back while Sting continuously beat RVD. Fuckin love it
TNA is just carrying on where WCW finished
Jason 'Psychedelic Doughnut' Bassett Right up to the day
pat deondre tna was not good around this time so try again
Bryan would make a great wrestling Heel with that high pitched voice LOL
I clicked this video at sheer random just as WWE is gearing up for Team Hogan vs. Team Flair in Saudi Arabia.
lol, the opening screenshot looks like just raw vs smackdown now with all the talent they got from tna
>"..There was a fun X - Division match"
Pretty much sums up the Hogan era.
Pretty brutal how raw These days is closer to a 1.01 than a 4.0
He's equally as pissed off with the writers of RAW now. I actually think Ed Koskey (head writer) is worse than Russo
I now use the phrase "golden boat money" to describe something very profitable.
Vince Russo sucks at his job
I DON"T EVEN GIVE A FUCK IF IT SINKS!
AT LEAST I'D HAVE IT
Remember when bryan used too criticize bad booking?
Well, the "War" did get Bret Hart back on WWE television, for better or worse.
+RealParadoxBlues I feel that WWE did try to book Raw better during this "war"...but only for the first two or three weeks. After that, they stopped caring.
+TAFARockWarrior97 Well, remember, the first few weeks of the "war" coincided with Wrestlemania season.
Love bret but for the worst
Day-me-in Moody yup. Sometimes you just have to regret not doing what you could’ve. Bret in that fake out with HBK would’ve been awesome. Toooooooooo much time passed for it to have been anything else but a “meh” moment.
Tony Almonte well Bret could barely do anything physical due to the stroke, he wasn’t going to wrestle Shawn. If he was able to fully wrestle he probably would’ve been back in WWE and wrestling well before he went into the Hall of Fame
the fact tna is still alive when it should have died like 6 times is something.
megamike15 they’ve died and came back more times than rambling rabbit in the firefly fun house
It's actually amazing. I had no idea that TNA was still around a few years ago
And now aew is what tna used to be
@@justinhaifner481 AEW makes money though
When the bombs drop, all that'll be left is cockroaches eating Twinkies and watching Impact.
Wow, TH-cam finally showed me something good on the main page. I'll go and listen to other rants - this voice inspires me, lol.
b and v reviewing shitty tna segments are my favorite. thanks again deadlock. respect. please keep them coming
Bryan sounds like a mixture of David Cross and Patton Oswalt.
16 russo marks who can't face reality
Troldust Bro bro bro bro bro
115 now
Bro Bro Bro Bro Bro it wasn't my fault Bro.I told Dixie it wasn't gonna work bro she ruined my ideas bro.Bro trust me bro my ideas were gonna increase the ratings bro
NXT's doing pretty well for itself these days. Definitely an improvement over WWECW.
"I DON'T EVEN GIVE A FUCK IF IT SINKS. I WOULD HAVE IT."
Holy shit that just took the rant from epic to legendary.
There's no hope everyone. True to this day.
-5 Stars
This rant is so relevant now years later.
2022: raw ratings are just barely above where TNA ratings were.
AEW is scaring WWE to the point where they're actively counterprogramming against it and copying its gimmicks.
Tony Khan now owns ROH and AEW, and likely buys impact before the end of the year.
Vince McMahon's booking is so bad that fans are wondering if they shouldn't hire Russo.
Ain’t happening
in your dreams
2024 dropping in to say "hey 👋"
" I DON'T EVEN CARE IF IT SINKS!"
I WOULD HAVE IT!!!!
The angrier Alvarez gets the higher his voice gets.
The problem with TNA is that they are under this illusion that they're just TNA fans and just WWE fans. When the truth is that a lot of TNA fans are WWE fans first.
How funny is today WWE is making the same mistakes that TNA was doing in that time
Angle,Sting,Jeff,A.J,Joe,Bobby,Matt,Anderson,Storm,Abyss,Bully,Sabin,Daniels,Morgan,Hernandez,Kaz,Creed,Shelley, and so many others I missed alot. Everyone knows what I am saying here I hope it was such a disaster he's so true, but think if this roster could have been booked correctly, the possibilities the dream matches some we now see today. If done properly during this they would have had a new a,axing option instead of watching a Criss Angel on Raw. Cx
122 people DON'T want a gold boat.
Why do i feel like if Bryan was broadcasting from home with the window open,people down the street would be able to hear him?
That would've been great
Bryan we fill your pain but seriously everything that was said here Bryan had been saying for years and with good reason shame Dixie never listened
The fact that Impact tried running against Raw during WrestleMania season was dumb
You know looking back on this, it's funny how everything in wrestling worked nearly a decade later.
TNA going up against WWE is like a guy with a pop gun dueling a guy with a .44 magnum.
david michaud Nope, more like water pistol
I miss the old Bryan who would just rip into everybody and just not give a damn😂😂
Something tells me that Bryan is as much a fan of Russo as Cornette is. Imagine telling them where Raw would’ve ended up.
What happened in the first five minutes of that show, by the way?
From www.wrestlezone.com/:
Abyss and Hogan are out first to a nice pop, both of them are posing coming down the ramp. There are several crowd shots of Dixie and Brooke, and and Abyss is sporting some new wrestling gear with red and yellow on the back. Hogan says this is the biggest night in TNA and begins to address Flair and AJ but gets cut off by a loud TNA! TNA! chant. Hogan says since they attacked him, this is TNA’s reckoning day. Hogan calls them out and it looks like we are starting off the show with Abyss/Hogan vs Styles/Flair.
Abyss/Hogan vs Styles/Flair
AJ and Abyss start this one out with as they trade blows before Abyss picks up AJ for a slam in the middle. AJ gets back to the corner and quickly tags in Flair. They lock up and Flair hits some chops in the corner. Flair hits a low blow and AJ strangles Abyss with the robe before hitting Hogan with the Pele kick. Styles and Flair work over their opponents until the arena goes dark, and it’s the return of STING!!! Sting has the bat and he is backing Flair off. He lets Hogan and Abyss get up before he hits them with the bat and takes them out!
Result: No Contest
I'm sure it was worth the 9,000 views they got.