This is a solid read on TNA's history. If you're familiar with TNA at all this most likely won't be new information, however, it's a good read, and nice to have it in one article.
Today marks 24 years since the launch of NWA-TNA Wrestling and the weekly pay-per-views was announced via press release.
Swipe to see the original press release.
Ordered with the quickness, but what about WrestleDream? It's been skipped. I know you can stream it on HBO Max, but there's a hole in my AEW disc collection (not counting the Forbidden Door shows since none of them have a physical release.)
Love this call because I can watch both shows live!
This will be cool to see! Especially when you compare it to the History of TNA: Year One DVD from a few years ago.
Bear Bronson via Busted Open: “So I could explain the difference between the two (TNA & AEW) and I’m not throwing any shade here but when I was with AEW, in all of five years, from start to finish, I felt like a signed extra, if that makes sense. Where you’re just kind of there… Whether you’re there or not, it doesn’t really make a big difference, and on the complete other end of the spectrum is with TNA, I actually feel like an important part of the piece moving forward, and it’s funny because I came to the company at the same time as The Righteous who I’m very close with, and we both have very similar journeys, where we feel like we found a new home, where we are like, ‘We can really sink our teeth, and give all of our talents and give everything we have to push a company forward…’ I feel like even in my first weekend with TNA, I felt welcomed immediately by the entire roster, all these people I don’t know. The team, the entire team I just met, I felt welcomed immediately, and I feel like now — even looking at just when we were in Syracuse, I had this feeling that the entire roster’s firing on all cylinders, because we all want this to succeed. It’s not every day wrestling companies land on major networks, right? So with us landing on AMC, and now the announcement of Slammiversary and the announcement of Lockdown returning, I feel like everybody’s just hungry. People talk about top one, top two, top three companies, it’s like, we wanna be the top and you feel it from everybody on the roster and it feels really, really good to be a big part of that.”
He was used a lot as Bear Country and later as the Iron Savages. Neither clicked with the AEW audience. Having said that, I like his run in GCW and TNA. He’s a better fit than in AEW and that’s okay. TNA needs a powerhouse like Bronson.