Welcome to the Bust Open podcast. I'm Jonathan Hood, and on today's show we talk about TNA.

What's best for TNA's future and why TNA matters in today's wrestling landscape, all part of the Busted Open podcast.

This is the Busted Open podcast.

I want to be able to talk to you, the TNA fan, about what is going on with the company. Then and now when it comes to TNA.

So if you're a TNA wrestling fan and watch the show, this one is for you tonight. I remember when I first

discovered TNA wrestling, it was such a breath of fresh air during a time when there was very few alternatives to

WWE after WCW folded.

Watching WWE back then felt uninspired, kind of the same old creative, the same old matches.

It was kind of like the pro wrestling equivalent of

bland missionary. Every Monday and every Friday, the same bland missionary of professional

wrestling. Unfortunately, that substandard product satisfied Vince McMahon, but not us as

fans on a regular basis because it wasn't different. It was the

same-old same-o. And so when we could talk about total non-stop action, TNA didn't have the

glitz or the production value or the game-changing names during the early Wednesday pay-per-view

era, but it had wrestling and it was entertaining. And just like anything else, you just kind of pick and choose the things that you like, find the wrestlers that you like and say, you know what, I like her or I like him, or I like that match, or I want to see more of that, I want to see less of that. Hey, we're fans, you and I. So you know that's what it's about, right? We watch professional

wrestling, and there's some things for us and some things that are not for us, but we enjoy it

anyway. But more on TNA. I remember that TNA used to give us that incredible talent when

I first started, right? Wrestlers like Amazing Red and AJ Styles and Samoa Joe and Jeff Jarrett and Bobby

Rood and James Storm, Eric Young and Christopher Daniels, Gail Kim, one of the greatest

women wrestlers in my lifetime, the Motor City Machine Guns which

you see now on WWE television and Ron Killings as NWA TNA champion and ODB and

awesome Kong and Velvet Sky and Angelina Love the list goes on and on and on of the

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