Finally gone through all ten of those tapes.

[Guest Black Tiger]

Okay so one week and ten episodes later, I am damn sure ready to get some more of this stuff, when I'm in better financial shape. However, until then there are some things that I have to know.

 

1. What did Jarrett actually do to Brian Lawler (or what did Lawler THINK Jarrett did to him)?

 

2. Who was the bullet? My guess is that it was Road Dogg or whatever he's called now (BG James?)

 

3. Did the Dupp Cupp end with Teo?

 

4. Where did "Monte Brown" vanish to?

 

5. Ditto with Mortimer Plumtree

 

6. Finally, whatever happened with the Sonny Siaki vs Flying Elvis angle?

[Styles 0]

Okay so one week and ten episodes later, I am damn sure ready to get some more of this stuff, when I'm in better financial shape. However, until then there are some things that I have to know.

 

1. What did Jarrett actually do to Brian Lawler (or what did Lawler THINK Jarrett did to him)?

 

2. Who was the bullet? My guess is that it was Road Dogg or whatever he's called now (BG James?)

 

3. Did the Dupp Cupp end with Teo?

 

4. Where did "Monte Brown" vanish to?

 

5. Ditto with Mortimer Plumtree

 

6. Finally, whatever happened with the Sonny Siaki vs Flying Elvis angle?

Holy old/dropped angles batman! Glad you're liking it.

 

1. I don't think we ever actually found out, I think it had something to do with his "girlfriend" April. A couple weeks later Jarrett and Lawler actually made up and teamed up. Then Lawler disappeared for a while before returning along with David Flair and Eric Watts to attack Jarrett in an another angle that ultimately went no where

2. Yup!

3. Yes, and the Dupps haven't been seen since!

4. He dropped Truth on his head with a botched powerbomb when he was world champ, and was sent packing immediately after.

5. He eventually became AJ Styles manager and then disappeared because he moved away from Nashville.

6. Siaki won, Yang bolted when he didn't want to sign a contract, and Jorge stuck around for a while as the last remaining Flying Elvis before being dropped because he couldn't go through a match without less than 10 blown spots...

 

Yikes, the first year was really very confusing when you think back at it, with things literally changing from week to week. If anyone else remembers better than me (not too hard!) feel free to add.

[Guest Mosaicv2]

Okay so one week and ten episodes later, I am damn sure ready to get some more of this stuff, when I'm in better financial shape. However, until then there are some things that I have to know.

 

1. What did Jarrett actually do to Brian Lawler (or what did Lawler THINK Jarrett did to him)?

 

2. Who was the bullet? My guess is that it was Road Dogg or whatever he's called now (BG James?)

 

3. Did the Dupp Cupp end with Teo?

 

4. Where did "Monte Brown" vanish to?

 

5. Ditto with Mortimer Plumtree

 

6. Finally, whatever happened with the Sonny Siaki vs Flying Elvis angle?

1 Brian thought Jarrett was foolin around with his "girlfriend" April (who was one of the TNA dancers)

2 Brian Armstrong aka Road Dogg was the bullet

3 yes & Stan afterwards had a promo sayin he quits NWATNA

4 i dont know he had his last match against Sonny Siaki

5 Mortimer Plumtree disappeared after SEX dominated... but was a ring announcer on one show & then left

6 Sonny Siaki def Jorge Estrada on 10/16/02 to end the feud

[Jingus 0]

Hell, I was there live when they were planning lots of their angles, and I'm still confused.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Yeah, the whole first year of TNA can get downright scary at times. Hell, it can get downright scary NOW!

[Guest Mosaicv2]

just a reminder:

 

they were 25 live epidoses of TNA in 2002 & 49 live epidoses in 2003... tis is just a reminder... dont take to harsh

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

OT: The lack of a fast reply part at the bottom of the board (one where you can easily type in your response instead of having to click on a button) sucks.

 

I'll answer the questions, but be forewarned that I might not be the most accurate.

 

1. What did Jarrett actually do to Brian Lawler (or what did Lawler THINK Jarrett did to him)?

Lawler thought that Jarrett boinked his "girlfriend," April. Jarrett told him to shut up, and that he never touched her, and that was that. Lawler's chick then went on to boink Syxx Pac, I guess, and the entire angle was terrible. After Lawler left with April one night, the angle was dropped.

 

2. Who was the bullet? My guess is that it was Road Dogg or whatever he's called now (BG James?)

The actual man in the Bullet costume for every time but the one where the mask was taken off is unknown to me. But yes, BG James was finally revealed as the Bullet.

 

3. Did the Dupp Cupp end with Teo?

Yes. See, Stan Dupp is afraid of midgets. The actual backstage segments with the Dupps were, I thought, hilarious, especially when Bo bumped into somebody and said "now we got a match!" Some funny stuff. However, the Dupp Cup sucked, and was TNA's awful attempt at a Hardcore division (seeing as how the only people, at the time, that could do hardcore even close to right were Jerry Lynn and...well, just Lynn, who is better served as a straight-up wrestler, I don't mind the angle being dropped). After Teo won it, Stan said he was gone because he was scared of little people.

 

4. Where did "Monte Brown" vanish to?

Beats me, but I wish he'd return. He was green, of course, but he had this natural charisma to him that made me want to watch him more. Pretty decent power wrestler, too.

 

5. Ditto with Mortimer Plumtree

Mortimer stayed in TNA until early 2003 as the manager of AJ Styles and (when he was there) Ace Steele. They dropped the angle rather abruptly as AJ set his sights on the World title, loosely aligning himself with SEX (Russo's faction, Sports Entertainment Xtreme) while Larry Zbysko managed him for a month and a half after defeating him in a match.

 

6. Finally, whatever happened with the Sonny Siaki vs Flying Elvis angle?

Siaki left the Flying Elvises to become the second worst X-Division champion ever (with the worst being Michael Shane). It's not so much that his matches were bad as that he doesn't work the X-Division style of fast-paced, high-impact maneuvers. Siaki, I do believe, was defeated in a one-on-one match by Jorge Estrada after Siaki burned his Flying Elvises wardrobe in a backstage segment. The feud ended quickly, as Sonny moved onto the middle card while Jorge floundered as, for all intents and purposes, a jobber.

[The Ghost of bps21 0]

Siaki was far worse than Michael Shane.

[Guest Mosaicv2]

Corey Lazarus: Mr TNA Digest... not bein harsh, just tellin the truth.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Not really. Bryan. Siaki held the belt for two months or so, and didn't have any match I'd call flat-out bad, especially considering his level of competition wasn't as great as it was when the belt was basically traded between Styles and Lynn. I re-watch the TNA tapes I have from 7/10/02 and on, and Siaki's bouts were all around ** (except for his squashing of Vaughn, which was a pure DUD, and only watchable for Vaughn's excellent bumping for the Siakolypse). Shane had Chris Sabin, Christopher Daniels, LowKi, and various other extremely good X-Division workers to help him put on some good matches, and he failed at that. Plus, he held the title for 4 months and never won cleanly. Definitely a worse title reign than Siaki's.

[Michrome 0]

I've seen enough Michael Shane lately to say that he doesn't really *suck*, so to speak, he just doesn't fit into the X division. For example, I recently watched AJ Styles vs. Michael Shane from IWA: MS "Stylin and Profilin", and the match was fantastic. It was a totally different match than AJ usually works, but it ended up being better (IMO!) than the much hyped B-Boy vs. Chris Hero match on the same card. Michael Shane's style lends itself to the 20+ minute match he had with AJ in IWA:MS, and when he does it within the frame of 10 minutes, it usually just seems slow and boring, with no payoff.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I'd agree to an extent. Michael Shane has been involved in both of TNA's best matches of 2004 (UX2, Ki/Daniels/Shane), and if given around around 10 minutes to work, he can go. The problem is that Mantel would book him as a pure Memphis heel who would beg off and rely on interference and do nothing but a few restholds and then bump...which isn't exciting television at all. TNA fans, by and large, want solid matches, not things we'd see from Honky Tonk Man.

[Guest TDinDC1112]

I've seen enough Michael Shane lately to say that he doesn't really *suck*, so to speak, he just doesn't fit into the X division.

I agree.

 

Also, Siaki almost killed the X division.