Oh, hell yeah! Undoubtedly, it'd go viral - or at the very least, it'd do exceptionally well. Although, I'm not exactly sure if there's a sufficient amount of *"Maven material"* _worthy_ of the Z-Man compiling and uploading across 4 weeks of content for *W³* _But who cares! It's MAVEN FFS!_ 🤌🏼 I'm definitely crossing my fingers! 🤞🏼 *Please Zane, for **_us!_* *For the **_content!_* ⭐💥⭐💥⭐💥⭐💥⭐💥⭐
This is one the funniest comments I seen 😂 Good job haha!! It’s QUIZ No more monster hawk Aka the wrestler that never recovered From bitch ass Cody Rhodes stupid booking of his in aew I called it I told everyone Cody beats him he won’t recovered They made him too badass/powerful opponent he beats him, they make him an after thought. Yep Im right once again. Is rarely I’m wrong 😑 I wish I was wrong most of the time I’ll be seen good booking or great storylines.
Love when you do TNA classic reviews! An interesting show to review for the future could be the TNA lockdown 2010 event that featured the Team Hogan vs Team flair lethal lockdown match!
Monty Brown still had a lot left in the tank when he jumped to WWECW. Everyone was high on him, but he left wrestling to take care of his family and is doing fine, which is great to see.
You got the commercial kind of right. The luchador takes his mask off to eat the Big Mac and we do see Shocker’s face, but after he finishes he pulls his face off to reveal another mask underneath. So the idea is the crowd thought they got to see his face, but they really didn’t. And yes, it was incredibly wacky and stupid.
Nah Brian, I Remember the Shocker McDonald’s commercials clearly in my head. This is how the commercial went: he ordered the burger meal and sat down to eat in the restaurant. Realizing he couldn’t eat with his mask on he took it off revealing his face and everything. After he got done eating he took off the face, revealing that it was just a mask and under it was another luchador mask. That is the reason why the crowd was disappointed in the end
This was around the time I found out about TNA. They were still filming tv, but it was going to syndication. One night at like 2am I was going through the local channels and happened to land on channel 52 in Dallas and TNA was on.
I agree, Brian Zane with your thoughts on Monty Brown to Marcus Cor Von. However, counter point, Marcus Cor Von's theme. *"YOUR GOING DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, JUST CALL ME SMOOTH-"*
Wow, Monty Brown was psychic, because he was accidentally right about Abyss being two "omega males", since years later we'd find out that Abyss was the alter-ego/"brother" to Chris Parks. If only Monty was still in the business when that was revealed, as we could have gotten Monty appearing to just so "See? I told ya'll he was two Omega males!".
Raven winning the title was an amazing moment but I hated the fact he lost to Jeff Jarrett AGAIN…..on a house show. Seeing him defend it all summer was great but they couldn’t even give him the decency of losing it on tv. The fact he never won it back always pissed me off.
What I hated the most about Raven's title reign was how short it was and guess who takes the belt away from him? You guessed it. Jeff fucking Jarrett because he's gotta have the belt
I get the hot tag feeling too 'insider' thing, but to be honest its one of the less offensive ones that could be picked - especially if used for any high energy tag in, even if they get cut off (and in fact, calling the cut off ones hot tags does help hide the insiderness of it a bit)
Totally random fact: When Frankfurt Galaxy disbanded, years later Frankfurt Universe came up as successor. Their first game ever Frankfurt Universe played against Augsburg Storm. I led the Storm onto the pitch that day. RANDOM!!! :D Shout out to all my football buffalo brothers!
Man, I remember them reacting to Shocker unmasking like he was Steve Austin so vividly it could have been yesterday. To be honest, I just took it at face value that he was a huge star and I was weird for not knowing who he was...
Raven and Larry Zbyszko, two of my all time favorites. Still hard to believe WCW/WWE didn’t know what they had in Raven. The guy got over as a face while the leader of the heel stable that never (EVER) won.
Ya know, in 2018 I was Ina bad spot in life. I came across ur reviews of old WWF PPVs & it just brought me right back to when I was a kid. Awesome videos. You got me wondering bout more modern wrestling, which I completely stopped watching after maybe 01-02. Once the rock was pretty much gone. U brought me back into it after all those years. Plus my name is also Brian. Thanks for the great work man
I feel like there was so much left on the table when it came to Raven. He should have been one of the major players of wrestling. This reign didn't even last that long. WCW and WWF missed out not ulitizing Raven.
Raven’s 7 Deadly Sins gimmick on Heat is one of the best things I’ve seen. And if Vince McMahon had been willing to put aside his grudge, Raven would’ve been a hell of a mouthpiece/tag partner for Devil’s Advocate Sean O’Haire.
@@gabepollock1641 Yep yep. Also I could envision him controlling Kane and Big Show. That would have been an awesome grouping. He wasn't there at the time, but he would have rocked it as the Higher Power,,, then eventually turning the whole group against Undertaker. Aw man what could have been....
21:54 TIL Elix Skipper didn't start training at the WCW Power Plant until his early 30's, in 1999. Thought he was a good 10-15 years younger too, generally tbh
And to think TNA is still around and is heading into the 20th Slammiversary PPV this July with a lot of momentum with WWE in the mix. Who would have thought. TNA! TNA! TNA!
King of the Mountain is supposed to be the Wrestling Equivalent to staking your flag on the peak of the highest mountain, hence mounting the Title on the top.
2005 was when i was coming into my own as a wrestling fan, not just watching WWE but finding other wrestling and watching TNA on fox sports on fridays and then going to hollywood video renting the best of TNA 2005 changed everything for me
Same here. This is when I really started to dive into the online space of wrestling and finding new things to watch and not just WWE. TNA 04-06 will always have a special place in my heart. Before their partnership with Spike, it felt like I was in on a secret.
Well when they were on FS1, they only got an hour a week for their stuff. I'm glad they went to Spike and went to two hours a week. The match quality and promos improved when they did that.
I guess the Billy Gunn Nine Inch Nails thing just further proves the point that you can't always tell what kind of music a person likes just by looking at them.
Excellent review Wrestling with Wregret. Seeing Raven conquer the mountain, winning the world championship, all the while as a face, and he did so amongst some stiff competition. Thankfully Jeff Jarrett was removed from this main event otherwise we’d be subjected to another meaningless championship reign. Thank you Raven, love you, brother!
This was the show that got me into TNA. I didn't even see it live, I just saw loads of highlight videos and thought "I have to see more!" I then went down the fairly small rabbit hole (it was only 3 years old at this point) and ended becoming a huge fan.
I entirely agree with the person above me. That’s why they had Jimmy Hart here and later Chris Candido right before he passed, they needed a mouthpiece for before and after their matches
@@jayharv285Shane Douglas was their manager a few years later (2007?) but they were with Candido in 2005 when Candido passed away after an injury caused further complications
Sonjay Dutt as a wrestler is really underrated for me. I really enjoy him in old tna matches and the way he reinvented himself as an excellent manager is great. Full respect to him
Billy’s shirt was due to him not being able to use “Billy Gunn”. Around this time they spoke and talked about him without ever saying his name or any name for him. Tna used “the outlaw” as a placeholder before finally settling on Kip James.
Great video, little correction. Shocker not only wasn't a masked wrestler in mexico, he had lost his mask in 99 and made it his gimmick to claim he was "100% beautiful" (100% guapo as his very 2005 beanie says) and that losing his mask was the greatest thing to happen to him
This was the catalyst of my favorite era in TNA. Slamiversary to Unbreakable was absolute magic. But once Raven dropped the title to Jarrett on a non-televised indie show in Canada and not only didn’t get his rematch at Bound For Glory but he never got one at all, that left a real bitter taste in my mouth that just kept growing as the years went on.
15:35 I'll be honest, it always surprises/baffles me that whenever people start talking about/ranking who they think are the Top 5/10 best Wrestling Commentators ever, that Mike Tenay isn't nearly given the amount of respect of ever even brought up in the conversation as much as he should have tbh. Like ever since I first started watching wrestling, (WCW in like 94/95), and Tenay made his debut in like mid to late 96. Well, im pretty sure it's around there anyways. I like seem to vaguely remember them bringing up him coming on for the first time for a cruiserweight match I'm almost positive. I think it was a match between Guerrero, (I seem to vividly remember it being an Eddie match) vs someone i just cant rememeber, (i dont think it was one of the more popular cruiserweights), but the only thing I vividly remember is them bringing him up for the first time to commentate for a cruiserweight match cause they said he was more familiar with that style and their move sets those guys pulled off and actually knew the names of the moves and all im almost positive 😅. Anyways, even though I think he was always good no matter who it was wrestling, I think he was at his best when it was cruiserweights/smaller guys pulling off a bunch of high flying moves. I also think that he and Tony worked well with each other and were a great tamdom working alongside each other calling the matches, and idk how much if at all he was with them, but they really had a great trio of Commentators with Bobby Heenan, Tenay, and Tony Schiavone, and honestly when Eric was on the mic he wasn't bad at calling matches and all as well. I think are massively underrated when it comes to them commentating in their era because of how great JR, Lawler, Cornette, Heyman, Taz, and Cole were during the attitude era/into the Smackdown era. But yeah, I really believe Tanay doesn't get the credit ye deserves for being a great commentator and just how good he is at knowing like almost all the names of any move being pulled off, even having to correct Tony and Bobby numerous times I rememebr lol. But yeah, dudes a top 5 of all time imo. He's deff one of the best of all tine/to ever do it.
I think talking about TNA is definitely relevant right now given they’re working with WWE as of late. I mean we had a historical match just a couple days ago at NXT Battleground.
The thing with Scott D'Amore taking the moonsault was his idea. Scott had just been promoted to the booking committee and decided to write himself off TV, or was written of TV so to speak so he wouldn't be tempted to be front and center in most scenes, as the legend goes.
That whole opening just proves that TNA/Impact has always had a guardian angel watching over them. How else have they survived all these years after all these hurdles?
TNA Slammiversary 2005 was an amazing PPV I was just watching this a few weeks ago the main event king of the mountain match was awesome on the next episode of impact James mitchell would return and that's how we get abyss and James mitchell together I mean they've been teasing that in the lead up to victory road 2004 that's such an iconic pairing that's easily James Mitchell's best run in my opinion great review brian glad you're reviewing this PPV.
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C'mon we gotta get TNApril next year
TNApril will be slap nuts.
Yoooo that's actually a good idea 😂
If Brian does this, you deserve a cut XD
I’ll give you a hell yeah for that one.
Shell yeah!
Can't wait for next year's That's So May-ven
Brian might be able to get an easy collab that way. Maven certainly loves to talk with others.
It’s the future that he can see. Lol
@Eminem200183 ahh, beat me to it.
He tries to save a situation, then (thanks to golden boy Orton, probably) he ends up misbehavin'
Oh, hell yeah! Undoubtedly, it'd go viral - or at the very least, it'd do exceptionally well.
Although, I'm not exactly sure if there's a sufficient amount of *"Maven material"* _worthy_ of the Z-Man compiling and uploading across 4 weeks of content for *W³*
_But who cares! It's MAVEN FFS!_
🤌🏼
I'm definitely crossing my fingers!
🤞🏼
*Please Zane, for **_us!_*
*For the **_content!_*
⭐💥⭐💥⭐💥⭐💥⭐💥⭐
MAVEN HERE. I USED TO BE A WWE WRESTLER... ECT.
i had no idea Shark Boy came up with the name Slammiversary. He knows how to name things and protecting his name
Just ask Disney
Did you have any idea Homer Simpson came up with the name Shark Boy?
I mean, hey everything is everything I I guess
Hoyt looks so much like Test here they should've called him Quiz.
Fantastic comment
Isn’t that lance archer in Aew
@@colingordon0986 it is indeed.
Announcer: Exxxxxaaammmm
This is one the funniest comments I seen 😂
Good job haha!!
It’s QUIZ
No more monster hawk
Aka the wrestler that never recovered
From bitch ass Cody Rhodes stupid booking of his in aew
I called it I told everyone Cody beats him he won’t recovered
They made him too badass/powerful opponent he beats him, they make him an after thought.
Yep Im right once again.
Is rarely I’m wrong 😑
I wish I was wrong most of the time
I’ll be seen good booking or great storylines.
Interviewer: "You know Raven, Jeff Jarrett does have siblings...."
Raven: "Yes but I imagine they would die of grief....."
“No more questions this parole hearing is over”
dude Raven is such a cool wrestler I would never get tired of him speaking or wrestle
@user-ih2tr7rt9r Sorry if you got that I don't like Raven from my comment. It came from a place of fandom. I mock because I love.
Everyone trolling Shane Douglas right in front of him is such a treat
Raven fulfilling a destiny usually reminds me of Teen Titans. But this Raven is cool too!
Yeah Teen Titans Go is a classic ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Ay yo much respect for shouting out the classics! Love both Ravens by the way. My favourite Teen Titans character and my favourite ECW wrestler.
It’s funny, I was actually rewatching it the other day, and it was those episodes, so I see what you mean.
Lady legasus?
I really thought you're beeing sarcastic in the begining and were about to announce June Cena ^^
That's Juan, Juan Cena.
He’s saving it for John cenaugust
Now THAT would be very Cena
So then August 3;16?
That's pretty phuckin phunny 😂
Love when you do TNA classic reviews! An interesting show to review for the future could be the TNA lockdown 2010 event that featured the Team Hogan vs Team flair lethal lockdown match!
Nice seeing you here. Love your work
A megaphone flying from off camera before Jimmy Hart is revealed would've been pretty awesome.
It almost looked like that was the intention.
Man, Monty Brown is such a big missed opportunity TNA could've built the company around him. The Pounce is such an awesome finishing move.
He makes everyone looks bad in AEW by comparison.
He's my pick for biggest "What If" of the century.
Monty Brown still had a lot left in the tank when he jumped to WWECW. Everyone was high on him, but he left wrestling to take care of his family and is doing fine, which is great to see.
Vince McMahon doesn't like black people
@@GeneralUile But he chose his family! Which I can respect form him!
Billy Gunn had been wrestling for at least SIXTEEN years at this point. You can see him as Kip Montana on the Crockett studio shows in 1989.
Debruary... All 28 days of Debra McMichael.
You got the commercial kind of right. The luchador takes his mask off to eat the Big Mac and we do see Shocker’s face, but after he finishes he pulls his face off to reveal another mask underneath. So the idea is the crowd thought they got to see his face, but they really didn’t. And yes, it was incredibly wacky and stupid.
I remember that commercial, I feel so old.
Zach Gowen faced Eli Drake on a TNA house show in Michigan in 2019
Insane to think that Slammiversary 2005 still holds up well from a wrestling standpoint almost 20 years later
Okay I'll admit I did love Roode's shirt with the TN EH. Honestly pretty clever can't lie
Nah Brian, I Remember the Shocker McDonald’s commercials clearly in my head. This is how the commercial went: he ordered the burger meal and sat down to eat in the restaurant. Realizing he couldn’t eat with his mask on he took it off revealing his face and everything. After he got done eating he took off the face, revealing that it was just a mask and under it was another luchador mask. That is the reason why the crowd was disappointed in the end
This was around the time I found out about TNA. They were still filming tv, but it was going to syndication. One night at like 2am I was going through the local channels and happened to land on channel 52 in Dallas and TNA was on.
Basically how I found it was Xpolsion in syndication
Zach Gowen with the first ever literal leg drop
20:39 “Knock-knock, who’s there?” I see what you did there Z-man😂
It’s so surprising how many wrestlers here are still prominently featured in wrestling shows nearly 20 years later.
Mid-2000s TNA was the best of the post-WCW 2000s in U.S. major professional wrestling. Gosh, I miss it.
"The guy hit a moonsault."
"The guy hit the moon pies."
"Trinity and what's left of her outfit." broke me.
I agree, Brian Zane with your thoughts on Monty Brown to Marcus Cor Von.
However, counter point, Marcus Cor Von's theme. *"YOUR GOING DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, JUST CALL ME SMOOTH-"*
Now picture this: Monty's gimmick with Marcus' theme song
Instant main eventer right there
Can't wait for ManTaugust
Wow, Monty Brown was psychic, because he was accidentally right about Abyss being two "omega males", since years later we'd find out that Abyss was the alter-ego/"brother" to Chris Parks. If only Monty was still in the business when that was revealed, as we could have gotten Monty appearing to just so "See? I told ya'll he was two Omega males!".
That would’ve been a hilarious cameo. Monty Brown cutting a promo on video just to say I told you so.
The Naturals remind of a mid 2000s version of the Generation Me aka The Young Bucks
Raven winning the title was an amazing moment but I hated the fact he lost to Jeff Jarrett AGAIN…..on a house show.
Seeing him defend it all summer was great but they couldn’t even give him the decency of losing it on tv.
The fact he never won it back always pissed me off.
TNA The Dailymotion To WWE's TH-cam which I mean smaller yet more entertaining I love both of them
"Quote the Raven, nevermore.".
What I hated the most about Raven's title reign was how short it was and guess who takes the belt away from him? You guessed it. Jeff fucking Jarrett because he's gotta have the belt
Sadly Raven only had Hardcore matches throughout his reign. He wasn't World champion material
A wild Slapnuts appears
@@Gavin48 he definitely could have been. The guy could talk and could work well enough
@@jayharv285 If he changed his match style. But he never did in TNA sadly.
@@Gavin48 i just don't think his wrestling should matter as much as how much charisma he has. He had a ton
I get the hot tag feeling too 'insider' thing, but to be honest its one of the less offensive ones that could be picked - especially if used for any high energy tag in, even if they get cut off (and in fact, calling the cut off ones hot tags does help hide the insiderness of it a bit)
Totally random fact: When Frankfurt Galaxy disbanded, years later Frankfurt Universe came up as successor. Their first game ever Frankfurt Universe played against Augsburg Storm. I led the Storm onto the pitch that day. RANDOM!!! :D Shout out to all my football buffalo brothers!
Einfach Augsburg, meine Güte
Im all for a TNApril next year. Especially with the buzz around them and WWE having these potential crossovers.
Cant wait for you to review The Iron Claw. A movie about the Von Erichs, from the Pizza Inn commercial!
TNApril sounds awesome and I actually loved the Cena month
That match on this card is where the universe decided that for Billy Gunn and Ron Killings that aging would be optional.
Looking forward to Jobber July!
“So long daddy!” Has me rolling
Who knew that Shocker is currently in rehab for substance abuse 😮
Well that's a shocker 🫨
I had no idea that Zach Gowan was in TNA..
Man, I remember them reacting to Shocker unmasking like he was Steve Austin so vividly it could have been yesterday. To be honest, I just took it at face value that he was a huge star and I was weird for not knowing who he was...
you have no idea how big he was in mexico, is sad to see him nowadays.
TNA was on a creative high in 2005 and a shame it got TV deal just in time for Jarrett to make it about him again.
11:39 - How rather appropriate, one of TNA's top moments at this point, is Raven holding the belt two years ago, quite the forshadowing
Raven and Larry Zbyszko, two of my all time favorites. Still hard to believe WCW/WWE didn’t know what they had in Raven. The guy got over as a face while the leader of the heel stable that never (EVER) won.
June of Jinder, let's go
It was right there my man, June-der.
It was a Scott DaMoonsault
Ya know, in 2018 I was Ina bad spot in life. I came across ur reviews of old WWF PPVs & it just brought me right back to when I was a kid. Awesome videos. You got me wondering bout more modern wrestling, which I completely stopped watching after maybe 01-02. Once the rock was pretty much gone. U brought me back into it after all those years. Plus my name is also Brian. Thanks for the great work man
I feel like there was so much left on the table when it came to Raven. He should have been one of the major players of wrestling. This reign didn't even last that long. WCW and WWF missed out not ulitizing Raven.
Raven’s 7 Deadly Sins gimmick on Heat is one of the best things I’ve seen. And if Vince McMahon had been willing to put aside his grudge, Raven would’ve been a hell of a mouthpiece/tag partner for Devil’s Advocate Sean O’Haire.
@@gabepollock1641 Yep yep. Also I could envision him controlling Kane and Big Show. That would have been an awesome grouping. He wasn't there at the time, but he would have rocked it as the Higher Power,,, then eventually turning the whole group against Undertaker. Aw man what could have been....
TJA: Total June Action
21:54 TIL Elix Skipper didn't start training at the WCW Power Plant until his early 30's, in 1999. Thought he was a good 10-15 years younger too, generally tbh
I love the King of the Mountain concept, only wish they'd bring it back. Sure, it's weird in ways, but do like the idea of the match.
And to think TNA is still around and is heading into the 20th Slammiversary PPV this July with a lot of momentum with WWE in the mix. Who would have thought. TNA! TNA! TNA!
That is impressive.
It was so good to see Raven win the NWA title that night. And that title looked DAMN good on him too.
King of the Mountain is supposed to be the Wrestling Equivalent to staking your flag on the peak of the highest mountain, hence mounting the Title on the top.
The first time I saw shocker was on an episode of Idiot Abroad where he was training Karl Pilkington to wrestle very funny episode lol
He eventually shocked himself out of wrestling.
"Where's your brother?... He died"
You should review Impact Slammiversary 2018
I know when that 90s San Andreas rap hits it’s about to be a good time. 😎
2005 was when i was coming into my own as a wrestling fan, not just watching WWE but finding other wrestling and watching TNA on fox sports on fridays and then going to hollywood video renting the best of TNA 2005 changed everything for me
Same here. This is when I really started to dive into the online space of wrestling and finding new things to watch and not just WWE. TNA 04-06 will always have a special place in my heart. Before their partnership with Spike, it felt like I was in on a secret.
I hope that in five months we're getting Bam Bam Bigelow's Mobility-Hobility-Jobilityvember.
I didn't even know TNA existed as a full show until 2006. I remember the PPV promos on DirecTV back in 2002, but I thought that was a one-off. 😂
Well when they were on FS1, they only got an hour a week for their stuff. I'm glad they went to Spike and went to two hours a week. The match quality and promos improved when they did that.
Thank you for reviewing this PPV, it was the first TNA PPV that I ever watched with my Dad. It was a nice stroll down the memory lane ❤
I guess the Billy Gunn Nine Inch Nails thing just further proves the point that you can't always tell what kind of music a person likes just by looking at them.
Seriously. I'm a 6'5 Black guy with natural red hair and people are always shocked about my music choices.
Excellent review Wrestling with Wregret. Seeing Raven conquer the mountain, winning the world championship, all the while as a face, and he did so amongst some stiff competition. Thankfully Jeff Jarrett was removed from this main event otherwise we’d be subjected to another meaningless championship reign. Thank you Raven, love you, brother!
I am SO glad you came round to the KOTM match Zman - I loved this PPV and its main event, even above and beyond Raven winning.
Knock knock reference was cold Brian ❤
This was my first ever tna ppv that i watched on my uncles bootleg portable dvd player, insane amount of nostalgia watching this
Man, Raven is my all time favorite wrestler!
I look forward to your "Mick Foley in TNA" episode next week.
I was there. This show was so much fun!
do what you want , i enjoyed you can't see may that total bellas ep floored me . 79 page contract what a freak!
This was the show that got me into TNA. I didn't even see it live, I just saw loads of highlight videos and thought "I have to see more!"
I then went down the fairly small rabbit hole (it was only 3 years old at this point) and ended becoming a huge fan.
Don't know if anyone in TNA ever explained why they loved The Naturals. They were in TV for about a year and a half and no one cared
I think their issue is that they don't really have any charisma at all and everything they did in the ring was clean but honestly just very basic
I entirely agree with the person above me. That’s why they had Jimmy Hart here and later Chris Candido right before he passed, they needed a mouthpiece for before and after their matches
@@TheFlock83 I'm pretty sure they had Shane Douglas not Candido
@@jayharv285Shane Douglas was their manager a few years later (2007?) but they were with Candido in 2005 when Candido passed away after an injury caused further complications
@@VelocitrapLords oh I must have forgot they had him.
Sonjay Dutt as a wrestler is really underrated for me. I really enjoy him in old tna matches and the way he reinvented himself as an excellent manager is great. Full respect to him
The Alex Shelly/Shocker Feud is what got me hooked on TNA Wrestling.
Shocker dressed as Filthy Animals Rey Mysterio
Billy’s shirt was due to him not being able to use “Billy Gunn”. Around this time they spoke and talked about him without ever saying his name or any name for him. Tna used “the outlaw” as a placeholder before finally settling on Kip James.
Would love to see a Samoa Joe in TNA video !
Thanks for all you do Brian !! Love this video
I fell sorry for D'amore going for a manager to having the power and love by his peer to just this year 2024 to get the rug burned under his feet.
It was his own fault
This is one of my favorite slam anniversaries Raven fulfilling his destiny was amazing Love the story that was told
A top 10 best/worst promo videos countdown would be gold!
Great video, little correction. Shocker not only wasn't a masked wrestler in mexico, he had lost his mask in 99 and made it his gimmick to claim he was "100% beautiful" (100% guapo as his very 2005 beanie says) and that losing his mask was the greatest thing to happen to him
This was the catalyst of my favorite era in TNA. Slamiversary to Unbreakable was absolute magic.
But once Raven dropped the title to Jarrett on a non-televised indie show in Canada and not only didn’t get his rematch at Bound For Glory but he never got one at all, that left a real bitter taste in my mouth that just kept growing as the years went on.
Trinity sure was something else back in the day! And TNA was so damn good, it was great to revisit this show!
I never really got to watch TNA so this vid is my first time seeing her and she's definitely a knockout. Love her outfit too.
Thank you Z-man! Raven will always be one of my favourites. I wish they had him drop the belt on TV though.
Monty Brown should have beaten JJ for the Nwa title.
Is Shocker related to Shockmaster?
Fell flat on his fookin arse!
U cant see may wasn't that bad I really liked the total bellas episode
Thanks for the review Brian ❤
15:35 I'll be honest, it always surprises/baffles me that whenever people start talking about/ranking who they think are the Top 5/10 best Wrestling Commentators ever, that Mike Tenay isn't nearly given the amount of respect of ever even brought up in the conversation as much as he should have tbh.
Like ever since I first started watching wrestling, (WCW in like 94/95), and Tenay made his debut in like mid to late 96. Well, im pretty sure it's around there anyways.
I like seem to vaguely remember them bringing up him coming on for the first time for a cruiserweight match I'm almost positive. I think it was a match between Guerrero, (I seem to vividly remember it being an Eddie match) vs someone i just cant rememeber, (i dont think it was one of the more popular cruiserweights), but the only thing I vividly remember is them bringing him up for the first time to commentate for a cruiserweight match cause they said he was more familiar with that style and their move sets those guys pulled off and actually knew the names of the moves and all im almost positive 😅.
Anyways, even though I think he was always good no matter who it was wrestling, I think he was at his best when it was cruiserweights/smaller guys pulling off a bunch of high flying moves. I also think that he and Tony worked well with each other and were a great tamdom working alongside each other calling the matches, and idk how much if at all he was with them, but they really had a great trio of Commentators with Bobby Heenan, Tenay, and Tony Schiavone, and honestly when Eric was on the mic he wasn't bad at calling matches and all as well.
I think are massively underrated when it comes to them commentating in their era because of how great JR, Lawler, Cornette, Heyman, Taz, and Cole were during the attitude era/into the Smackdown era.
But yeah, I really believe Tanay doesn't get the credit ye deserves for being a great commentator and just how good he is at knowing like almost all the names of any move being pulled off, even having to correct Tony and Bobby numerous times I rememebr lol.
But yeah, dudes a top 5 of all time imo. He's deff one of the best of all tine/to ever do it.
8:38 sudden LoadingReadyRun cameo in WWW, I Like it.
Always nice watching a TNA review.
Bound for Glory 2005…a great showcase of both the good and the bad of early TNA
I think talking about TNA is definitely relevant right now given they’re working with WWE as of late. I mean we had a historical match just a couple days ago at NXT Battleground.
Didn’t watch the entire month of may. Good to see you again Brian
The thing with Scott D'Amore taking the moonsault was his idea. Scott had just been promoted to the booking committee and decided to write himself off TV, or was written of TV so to speak so he wouldn't be tempted to be front and center in most scenes, as the legend goes.
That whole opening just proves that TNA/Impact has always had a guardian angel watching over them. How else have they survived all these years after all these hurdles?
To be fair to King of the Mountain. It's a multi man ladder match, stupid victory conditions aside that's always gonna be fun.
TNA Slammiversary 2005 was an amazing PPV I was just watching this a few weeks ago the main event king of the mountain match was awesome on the next episode of impact James mitchell would return and that's how we get abyss and James mitchell together I mean they've been teasing that in the lead up to victory road 2004 that's such an iconic pairing that's easily James Mitchell's best run in my opinion great review brian glad you're reviewing this PPV.