Revisiting NWA TNA 2002 Weekly PPV #1, The 1st NWA Total Nonstop Action PPV, NWA Champion Crowned In Gauntlet For The Gold, The Flying Elvis

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

DEADLOCK

Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

WCW and ECW have both closed their doors leaving many talented wrestlers without a place to work. Jeff Jarrett, Jerry Jarrett & Bob Ryder were on a boat and had an idea for the creation of the NWA Total Nonstop Action. Many TV networks did not want to take a chance on pro wrestling, so the only logical thing was PPV. They would do things a bit different by offering weekly NWA TNA PPVs for $9.99. In the first ever NWA TNA PPV we get an NWA Champion crowned. There is a giant Gauntlet For The Gold match that saw Ron Killings vs Ken Shamrock facing off in a one on one match in the main event. Ken Shamrock becomes the very first NWA Champion in the Total Nonstop Action Era. They open the show with a showcase of the brand new X-Division. The Flying Elvises take on AJ Styles, Jerry Lynn, and Low Ki in a match that is still talked about to this day. Toby Keith has a musical performance that was interrupted by Jeff Jarrett which eventually leads to Toby Keith giving Double J a suplex! Also, The Johnsons make their debut! Deadlock Discord: https://discord.gg/E4BvR4W Deadlock Shop: https://shop.deadlockpw.com Deadlock Patreon: https://patreon.com/deadlockpw Deadlock Twitter: https://twitter.com/deadlockpw Deadlock Instagram: https://instagram.com/deadlockwrestling Deadlock Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/deadlockpw Deadlock Pro Wrestling: http://deadlockpro.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The boys are back in town. Welcome to the Deadline podcast episode number 164. Oh my god, that's so many.
0:10.4	We are back again minus one boy. I'll tell you all about that six son of a bitch after we get through the updates.
0:18.6	This week we'll be talking about the very first ever TNA broadcast. It's actually crazy that we already haven't covered this.
0:26.6	I feel like this is a very faux TNA podcast already. So the fact that we haven't covered this is pretty wild.
0:33.7	But we have finally got there. And this is not like because we covered the first episode of Impact before.
0:38.9	This is full on first ever NWA TNA pay review.
0:43.2	Yes, this was the very first time that anyone ever got a glimpse of TNA and what exactly it was.
0:49.6	Uh, still NWA TNA at the time. And yes, there were at the very least a lot of ideas thrown around for this.
0:57.8	Some may say too many ideas. James.
1:02.5	That's unlikely. Before we get into TNA's first ever broadcast updates for deadlock.
1:09.8	Watch this 107 is up on the Patreon. Sometimes we're too many ideas.
1:15.5	Raven versus Larry Zabisco hair versus hair TNA victory road road 2006.
1:24.6	Yes, correct. James sent me this match and I looked at it and I laughed.
1:29.0	And that's all that that was it from there.
1:30.9	Which is we knew we were going to watch it after that.
1:33.1	Fucked up. Fucked up match.
1:34.6	Fucked up man. That's what you got to say about that. That's in our five dollar tier on our Patreon.
1:40.0	Get on over there. Sign up to the Patreon. We're trying to get 3,000 of you son of a bitch is on the Patreon.
1:45.0	Many, many tiers one dollar to you. You get the ad for you video version of the podcast five dollar tier.
1:50.2	You get watch this. You get to find out what's what review we're doing early.
1:54.6	You get to be a part of the Q&A and you get to be a part of the theme seg.
1:57.6	A lot of stuff on the five dollar tier and of course the 10 dollar tier as well as on there you get the monthly exchange.
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