Guest oldschoolwrestling Report post Posted April 18, 2003 JEREMY BORASH: FROM THE INSIDE by NWATNA Updated: 4/18/2003 3:25:33 PM Greetings and Good Friday to you are yours. The young and semi-exciting Jeremy Borash here for another edition of "From the Inside" for your Friday enjoyment. TNA once again delivered an incredible show Wednesday night, getting tremendous reviews across the board. Two very strong weeks in a row, with this coming Wednesday looking very solid. The more time goes on, the more people are getting used to our non-traditional approach to business, and the less you hear about people not willing to spend the 9.95 a week to support our product. Why? Our show delivers. It is that simple. Great storylines, great wrestling, and always a two hour roller coaster ride of Total Nonstop Action. If you haven't purchased one of our PPVs in a while, please do. You'll love it. I have never been more proud of our product. I've been battling pneumonia for the last week. Mike Tenay and Don West were kind enough to fill in for me on Xplosion this week, as I arrived to the building right before showtime, sweating like the Dixie Chicks at an NRA meeting during the show. I was said to look as bad as Nick Nolte's mug shot photo. But, at least I didn't end up in the emergency room… This brings me to A.J. Styles, who suffered a nasty cut on his forehead during the street fight with Glen Gilbertti. Styles was taken to the emergency room and required nine stitches for the cut. Mike Awesome, who may be one of the nicest guys in the wrestling business, had a rough night as well. Awesome was reportedly knocked silly about a minute into his match with Saturn and worked the majority of the bout in no man's land. Awesome collapsed immediately upon coming thought the curtain after his match and was attended to by our trainer. Knowing he had another appearance to make, Awesome regained his bearings, went back out, only to collapse again backstage after his second appearance. By the end of the night, he was in pretty rough shape but in good spirits. I don't think Julio Dinero or Alexis Laree imagined that they would be pinning NWA World Champion Jeff Jarrett on PPV four weeks ago, but needless to say, those two were great, and helped build for a match that Dave Meltzer believes may draw our biggest buyrate to date. Jarrett/Raven has all the makings of what may be our biggest match in TNA history, and I can't wait for April 30th. I don't remember the last time I saw fans bringing signs counting down the days to any match, anywhere, but there were at least five signs in the Asylum Wednesday night with some reference to "14 days" to the world title bout. I get a lot of comments asking about the honesty and mere acknowledgement I give a lot of net writers and websites, when other companies choose to virtually ignore the internet's presence. My take on it is simple. I've seen the power of this medium. WCW Live! was a groundbreaking project that connected with wrestling fans like nothing else ever has. In WCW, it changed the negative perception wrestlers had of the net fans by opening up honest and candid dialogue between talent and wrestling's most loyal of followers, with the talent soon realizing that this fan base was incredibly loyal, powerful, and should not be ignored. Jeff Jarrett credits the whole "slapnuts" craze (some of WCW's best selling merchandise at one point) to the groundswell of followers on WCW Live! who instantly picked it up and ran with it. I'll never forget the how many people showed up with "Slapnuts" signs to the first Nitro after the whole slapnuts thing happened on our show. WCW security even confiscated the signs because they thought it was obscene. I even remember Bob Ryder going out into the crowd and making security give the signs back to the fans and having to explain to security what it was all about. At one point, WCW Live! was the most listened to streaming media program in the world. That fact alone is amazing. 99% of all talent in WCW (and keep in mind many, if not most, were disgruntled) would be open to doing our show at the drop of a hat because they got to interact with fans who understood things more than most and had a great time doing it. To cast off the opinions of your most loyal of fans is not only insulting, but bad business. Sure, much of what is written on the net could be classified as nothing more than mark mental masturbation, but sifting through it all, I've found more bad than good. So when I reference something I see on the net, I do it because it is my nature... it is a community to me, and I'm still living in it. Great to see Justin Credible on board with NWA TNA. I think one of the most rewarding things to see backstage is a renewed fire that TNA has brought back to talent who have had a rough couple of years elsewhere. It is inspiring. Especially great talent who lost their love for this business, once again get it back. Our roster is really coming together, and Justin Credible's star will shine bright in TNA. Jerry Lynn told me he thinks the best matches in his career were with Justin Credible. Hopefully somewhere down the road we will get to see that happen. Jeff Jarrett and Sandman made appearances together in Philadelphia yesterday, and were said to have had a great response. Smackdown is coming to Nashville this Tuesday. They have been purchasing four ads a week during our Saturday Xplosion show for the last month or two. The last time they were in Nashville was when the Katie Vick necrophilia angle took place. Nothing brings back a wrestling crowd like a good corpse screwin'! I've said it before, but worth mentioning again... I love Glen Gilbertti's new character. It will take a few more weeks to shake the years of the "Disco" personna with the fans, but there are less and less "Disco sucks" chants every week. He has always had that kind of talent, it was just pointed in the wrong direction. AJ Styles and Sandman were engaged in quite a game of chess backstage, with Styles winning the first contest, and Sandman quickly retaliating with a squash of Styles in 22 moves. The much anticipated third contest will go down this Wednesday. Malice was going to be brought back in last week, but has been sick since returning from Japan. Red/Lynn vs. Triple X may have been the best match I've seen so far this year. Those four are so talented in four uniquely different ways, that together it was nothing but pure magic. Red's springboard hurricanrana to Chris Daniels (who was on top of Jerry Lynn's shoulders) was one of the most breathtaking moves I've ever witnessed. While I have seen that move attempted before in Japan, no one has ever hit it as perfectly as they did. Outstanding job by all. This week, the NWA World Tag Team Champions, Red and Jerry Lynn will square off to determine the #1 and #2 contenders for the X-Division title. These two have battled once before on our show, and if history is any indication, this should be great. I will be traveling to New Zealand next month to do play-by-play for the next WWA PPV. Due to scheduling conflicts, I will not be able to attend the Australia house shows before the PPV on the tour, which is very disappointing to me. Sydney and Melbourne have some of the greatest wrestling fans anywhere in the world. I'm off to my medicated dreamworld for the weekend. Enjoy your Easter Sunday… and we will see you back this Wednesday night at the Asylum. Take care, Jeremy Borash Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bps "The Truth" 21 Report post Posted April 18, 2003 He has told me nothing!!!!! ... Red's springboard hurricanrana to Chris Daniels (who was on top of Jerry Lynn's shoulders) was one of the most breathtaking moves I've ever witnessed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest RedJed Report post Posted April 18, 2003 Well that explains why Awesome was so sluggish. I didn't think it had to do with the lack of being in shape since he hauled ass in All Japan just recently in that same condition. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mecha Mummy 0 Report post Posted April 18, 2003 God, I hope Jarrett and Raven do at LEAST a *** match, because the hype for the match is just awesome. And for the love of god, no overbooking... please? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest bps "The Truth" 21 Report post Posted April 18, 2003 I would expect that to be a very violent match. If there's one really cool positive about Jarrett it's that he'll take a beating for his company. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kotzenjunge Report post Posted April 18, 2003 I might just order for the first time in two months to see Raven/Jarrett. I hope it isn't overbooked like Styles/Jarrett was. I felt kinda burned by that one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Astro101 0 Report post Posted April 18, 2003 So...Sandman can really play chess? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest CoreyLazarus416 Report post Posted April 18, 2003 Apparently so. For Week 40, in the "One and Only" thread, I said something along the lines of "I wish Malice would return tonight." Turns out he would have if he wasn't sick. Ownage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest the 1inch punch Report post Posted April 18, 2003 Can we assume Raven's getting the belt Personally, I think itll be a quickie reign and theyll put on AJ Styles on WEek 52/Year Two week1, whichever they decide is more important Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest snuffbox Report post Posted April 18, 2003 I know Im seriously considering buying the Raven-JJ ppv. I really hope the NWA doesnt fuck it up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheGame2705 Report post Posted April 19, 2003 I have cash. But fuck I don't have a cable box. Darn . May get one just to order it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
