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15 years ago today, the most watched episode of TNA Impact ever aired. It went head to head with Raw. (www.youtube.com)

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Jan. 4, 2010 TNA Impact goes 3 hours on a Monday night. This episode is most known for the TNA debut of Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff.

Opposite this, WWE Raw promoted the return of Bret Hart to Raw for the first time since 1997.

Here is the episode on TNA's Youtube channel (it has however been edited it seems with some entrances and backstage sections removed for unknown reasons).

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[–] Brain@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like part of this is missing, I remember Hogan coming in by limo, of course that could have been any half dozen shows he was part of later on.

Personally, this is TNA's finger poke of doom show for me. They seemed to have really turned the corner and become a real alternative to WWE with the X-Division and moving guys like AJ into the prominent position over the old guard like Jeff Jarrett. Then Hogan and friends come in for this show and what a few weeks later they move to Monday full time, scrap the six sided ring which differentiated the companies, called fans idiots about the ring and that that stupid playpen ring was holding the company back, then proceeded to make themselves more important than anything and killed TNA's momentum in its tracks. Fuck Hogan and the crew he rode in with.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

100% agree with this. I was a regular viewer of TNA before this, and I even attended BFG '09 in person. I tried to give the Hogan era a chance, I really did, but the first PPV after this, which opened with Hogan ranting at the fans about "stinkin' playpen rings", was when I called it quits.

That was after a month of seeing all Hogan's washed up friends show up out of the blue and make all the guys I liked look like chumps, of course.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

You know the place is washed once the Nasty Boys show up.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

all the 2010 episodes are here too: https://archive.org/details/tna.i-mpact.-2010.01.04.-cd-2.-hdtv.-xvi-d-wb/TNA.iMPACT.2010.01.04.CD1.HDTV.XviD-WB.avi

also i forgot about that domed ring cage that nobody could get out of reasonable. really set the stage for the whole run.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

I have a shitload of TNA episodes, I think from late 2010 - 2012. Because downloading them from pirate bay every week was the only way I could see them.

At some point in 2012 I believe I just watched TNA PPVs only and stuck with ROH instead of both shows.