I agree with majority of this list however, the only person who I would move up is Mickie James. She has had three runs with the company and like you said in the first run, she took some pretty hard-core bumps in the second run. She really elevated the knockouts division. And finally right now on her third run she’s doing some of the best work of her entire career with Jordan Grace Deonna Purrazzo and this last rodeo.
Sharmell’s contribution to any show is that she reminds you of the “I want to have sex with your wife” storyline. That earns her a spot on any show in my opinion.
@@charlieh1932if you type in “deadlock PW sync (sync means they show the clip at the same time as the guys are talking) Kurt Angle Booker T wife” You’ll find it. Also look up “deadlock PW sync Rikishi” and I promise it’ll be worth it. LOL
2016 TNA was on deaths door with its smallest ever roster but just look at some of the names there. LA Knight, Lashley, Galloway, Broken Matt, Decay, Mia Yim, park EC3
This was my favorite period of TNA. Aj Styles was not the focus, bringing the show down with his lack of charisma. This was also when wrestling review sites were giving it higher booking ratings then WWE shows.
For anyone saying the audio is out of sync it isn’t. I’ve checked everything and so have team UA-cam. I don’t know why this is happening but try clearing your cache before watching.
Everything is good on my end on iPad, but roku was off, but yeah works perfect on IPad. Great video and perfect list imo. I may have had Corny in A and maybe moved 2 or 3 ppl, but it was pretty spot on. 😅
Thanks for taking the time to put this togther, Hawk. As always I appreciate and thoroughly enjoyed it. Other than a few here and there, I can't really argue with your ratings. Easy to think some were better than they actually were before you take their matches and feuds into consideration. If anything, this was just a great reminder of the good old days and some of the cracking wrestlers TNA used to have. Cheers.
You’re completely on point with the S tier, but some of those wrestlers brought me great joy in watching their awful matches laughing my ass off. When they put Rob Terry in that circus act with his face completely covered it cracked me up every time.
Did Okada give The Pope credit for his success? If not, a shame. The Pope has always been good in WWE and TNA. I was glad he got a role in NWA and showing off his promo skills.
You know your a true MarkyD fan is when you fall asleep every night to one of your videos !! Cheers to you this is your best one yet !!! All love from Arkansas we love you here man !!!!
Ah getting to A tier was nice remembering bygone eras plus seeing your optimism was nice, thanks for your efforts. I was glad you mentioned Awesome Kong with similar care I found for her role in the company. Growing up watching her matches was always nice and sometimes more oft than not, a rose in the wastelands of the impact zone.
@@Nikelaos_KhristianosOnly after TNA issued several apologies to New Japan for mishandling talent. Happy they were able to repair the relationship nonetheless.
Towards the end I thought you forgot about Chris Sabin. Then he’s second to last which made me smile. He was my favorite back in the day. Good stuff 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Marky D legit made me care about TNA I never watched it in the pass but I love his TNA vids cause I love knowing more about the pass of other wrestling companies the main reason I love watching Wrestling With Wregret
White Bat Audio for the background tracks. Good choices. Its a lot of their 80's style pieces. Can listen to that all day. Nice work on the video. Can't imagine how long this took to put together.
I think Winter was more the victim of the storyline. In the ring she was actually pretty decent. And Shelly Martinez as a valet for LAX was entertaining in the ring suck indeed though. Abyss probably in A just for dedication and also becoming an important backstage influence later on.
Amazing piece of work, thank you so much for all of your work on this. With Mick Foley in particular I don't think it was really Mick's fault, he was pretty broken down at that point and TNA seemed to want him to pretty much what he'd done all over the place before when he really wasn't physically capable of doing it, if they'd used him as a special attraction and a character, he might have had a better run. It did seem a bit like Dude Love imitating Cactus Jack though.
Honestly I think he shouldn't have done a lot of wrestling at that point, I honestly feel like they should've done this, Mick Foley enters as an authority figure who doesn't do any wrestling for a while, he basically could've been a spectacle wrestler for hardcore matches on very few occasions kinda like for WWE in the 2001-2007 period, like from what I saw he wrestled three hardcore matches in that entire time, Mick Foley v Randy Orton Backlash, 2004 (hardcore match). Edge v Mick Foley 2006 Wrestlemania and One Night Stand 2006 Edge and Mick Foley v Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer. Basically two of those matches put over the guys he faced and the third was because it was the second One Night Stand and he didn't wrestle the first instead he was a commentator for the first One Night Stand, so I would've had him in the Abyss Monster's Ball match again putting Abyss over and I think that's really the only match he should've wrestled, he could've served as a great manager as well like maybe have him be the manager for Abyss to give Abyss more legitimacy as a hardcore wrestler with the Hardcore Legend on his side and you could've billed Abyss as the New Hardcore Legend learning from the old hardcore legend basically a kind of passing the torch storyline.
Rhino is very underrated here when you compare him to many in the B tier. He is a former world champion who had good matches with most of the roster. He is good at promos and has one of the best finishers in the business. He had a match with Angle and Christian that lasted an entire episode of Impact. He pulled triple duty at the first Bound for Glory as an audible to Nash's injury. The man is a TNA legend! Heel or face, he slots in anywhere on the card even to this day. Also while I think you underrate the sum of Joe's career, I would still argue his first 2 years are good enough to justify him in the A tier regardless. It is one of the best runs in wrestling history. In my opinion, it is the best TNA television ever was. Great video!
I don’t think Dusty needed to work nearly as much in-ring as he did after the early 1990s WWF run, but my god even when he was past his prime Dusty Rhodes knew how to work a crowd. Watch his bullrope match with Steve Corino in ECW or his NWA Title match against AJ Styles. Both of them are master classes in leveraging a reduced skill set to maximum effect.
I still don't know how Tony Khan hired her, appeared as a big star and opponent for Jade Cargill, lost and she is wrestling random tag matches on dark since then
Sanada ranking B coming right after he finally won the big one in New Japan. Very underrated guy, it's a miracle TNA used him well after so mistreating so many others
82 minutes...damn Hawk, you DESERVE this week's punch to the gut and brick to the head and the entire Shuv-it-squad should smack itself one in celebration of your dedication!
I’m shocked, I agree with Samoa Joe. The 5* match and win streak made him. The Kurt Angle storyline validated him. Everything afterwards was just stagnation
I think you were too nice to Jarrett and Dixie. Yes, both had roles to play in TNA's existence, but they both made a lot of mistakes that deserves to see them demoted to at minimum a B grade. Jarrett's booking of himself as the top guy at the expense of guys like Raven, Rhino and Monty Brown was hugely detrimental to the company. His act grew tired quickly, he was HHH without HHH's star power. Dixie....well, too many screwups to mention, including the screwup that's partially responsible for seeing them dropped from Spike TV due to her bizarre obsession with employing Russo. She may have talked her father into buying the company when it was struggling, but that doesn't make up for her fuck ups.
Shinskue Nakamura, officially, has had three matches in TNA. Granted, two was on Xplosion and one was TNA airing where he took Kurt's version of the IWGP title. He should be a solid "D" as it was never bad but everything he did really meant nothing to TNA.
1:15:13 sting was always my favorite growing up watching wcw, and to think he’d went another 20 years after they closed basically is insane. And what’s even better is it’s hard to think of any just horrible matches he’s had that were his fault Imo. Like Stings always been good and will go down as my favorite alongside Shawn Michaels, Macho Man, Booker T, and DDP. Without wcw growing up idk what I’d done lol. Like I didn’t get into WWF until a cpl years after I discovered wrestling lol.
34:04 to this day, my favourite comedy angle TNA ever did is the Bob Backlund PCS tournament, which contained no actual wrestling and was actually overseen by Kevin Nash. Legendary.
i think its fair to say Jay Lethal was fun and had moments in TNA but he really came into his own in ROH. B tier is still a top tier so I ain't mad at it.
Been watching your content for many years now; rarely found myself agreeing with many of your takes in the past! That being said-I've always been entertained by your antics, and I was pleasantly surprised by this video. This one, and your video about Raven's 7 Deadly Sins have become my favourites at this point. Amazing work, and I ESPECIALLY agree with both of the NC stoner friends making it into the B Zone! I've always thought Shannon Moore would've been much better utilized in TNA as a heel; adjacent to his short-lived first TNA run. Shannon's first run with the company, when he was wrestling under the "Prince of Punk" name was a great constellation of this! Shannon defeated AJ Styles in his debut match; on the main event of iMPACT! and really did quite a bit to showcase his potential in the X-Divison... It's truly a shame that he didn't stay with TNA during this go-around-I really felt he could've become a draw if he did! Cheers, and you should definitely make a video about this short-lived '05/'06 TNA run of Shannon Moore in the future.
The more of Shannon Moore’s career that I see, the more I want to class him as a guy who came too soon. His Prince of Punk run in TNA was excellent, and his WWE run as “The Reject” led to a good tag run with fellow ex-TNA talent Jimmy Yang, where both men got over organically. Moore was good in ring & his character work was solid to boot.
Fantastic list and I couldn’t agree more. Supper shocked and grateful for seeing Awesome Kong and Monty Brown so high on this list. They actually got me watching🤘🏾💪🏿❤️
@@Markyd123 That's a great question... that's a great question... He's ironically good? Also C is similar to G which could make him Quadruple G (one up on WWE)
I remember when I watch TNA for first time the things that keep me wanting to watch it again were The Beautifull people, Kurt Angle and Shark Boy''s Stone Cold impressions that was really fun
I’m actually happy AJ didn’t stay in TNA, he was probably the best wrestler in the world for awhile and nobody really knew because he was in TNA. Crazy how the last few years of his prime is when everyone else got to see how good he was. Sad to see the state of Impact now.
I started watching TNA since the beginning when it first started airing on Star Sports in India. Have always been a fan of the old product. Not much of the current state of affairs it is in. But I must admit that I got a lot of gyaan (knowledge) and insight on the TNA product watching each and every one of the Hawk's videos. Much more than I gained watching the show on telly. I think TNA should acknowledge the efforts that the Hawk puts, in his own unique way, to make us fall in love once again with the show that we grew up watching. So from my side, I thank you Hawk. I present you with a punch to the gut and a brick to the head...
1:13:36 "there's no lying in wrestling" is surprisingly a very profound and even academic comment. Scholar and philosopher Roland Barthes said the same thing about wrestling in an essay from his 1957 compilation Mythologies.
@@paddyfeehan5670 thanks dude. It was a tough decision but ultimately it was about money. If you were paying him to be a comedian he would be top tier all day. 2007 was surely nashes funniest year.
Thank you for making another tribute video to what was arguably the best of the 2nd best. I'm gonna stooge myself off but I never really watched any TNA, and before coming across this channel, I don't think I even heard about them. All the love I have for TNA comes from your videos. The incredible amount of work you have put into documenting the absolute worst and best of a wrestling show is worthy of praise too. This almost feels like the end of a chapter, in a way. If you start covering AEW I reckon you could have something real juicy to sink your teeth into. Say what you will, those guys just radiate early TNA energy. There's also the same high flying style I know you like and plenty of shitty wrestling, whacky characters and complete fumbles. Also....a wild Slapnuts appears! (but only 3-4 years down the line)
Great video hawk love to see a tier list after all the years of covering TNA/IMPACT, and the list was pretty spot on except the only one I would change is Abyss to A tier. Although I do agree they did start making him look stupid towards the end of his career he was arguably one of the biggest faces of that company and one of the most interesting characters to look forward to watching during his early/mid career run. Maybe it’s just me but I always loved watching him and wished he would of gotten a better push with titles/storylines. Also as I a kid I wanted to see him go to WWE and see how he would of done there with the abyss character if had gotten a good push/storylines
Hey markyd, what do you think about possibly creating a "How Good Can it Get" series, aka a competition for the best televised episode of wrestling ever. It would basically be the complete opposite to the "How Bad Can it Be" belt.
@@Markyd123 Just from Attitude Era Raw alone I think there are some great and memorable episodes out there, like March 17, 1997, September 22, 1997, and Jan 4, 1999, alongside episodes of Nitro like May 27, 1996. I'm not extremely well versed on TNA / Impact but I'm willing to bet that there are people out there who have episodes they'd like you to look at. Thank you for responding!!!
I love this video. It's hard to find other genuine TNA fans, especially ones making good content on here. You seem to underrate some of the 2016 guys though, Braxton Stutter, Trevor Lee, Mia Yim, Robbie E, etc. Loved that era for the company honestly. Overall though pretty close to a perfect ranking.
TNA should serve as a lesson to AEW. They had all the best talent, at times they had the best roster in the industry, but it didn't amount to a hill of beans with bad management and bad creative.
The older I get the more I start to think that the lack of advertising was their biggest downfall. I never saw a tna advert. I get aew adverts all the time. That’s important
Timestamp for every tier
The SHUVIT ZONE 1:11
D 17:00
C 33:56
B 50:06
A 1:06:06
Thanks my friend will get this one pinned up
❤❤Ew
@@Markyd123 you ripped off my channel !
@@eddiebobetty9379 lol yea right stop the cap before he hit you with a brick to the gut
@@eddiebobetty9379did you just… screenshot Wrestlingifs’s logo?
Abyss - A tier - put his body on the line for nearly 2 decades in tna and did everything that was asked of him and a tna Hof - Definitely A
Yea fair enough I get it. I think as a character he just suffered to much
I agree. By the standard Marky said it's hard to imagine TNA and not think of Abyss despite all the insanity and goofiness with his character
Agree 100%
Abyss is the first thing I think of when I think of TNA. Mick Foley and his matches are cemented in my brain.
Can you do for the remaining years uo until now?@@Markyd123
"Gifted Glenn Gilberti, how is he gifted?" is probably my favorite gag on the channel
One of my faves too. The "then there's a ref bump" is something I've actually started saying irl whenever I see it while watching wrestling lol
Same. Also "Jeff Hardy's stoner friend" is a great gag
It’s definitely the Jeff Jarrett one.
CAB DRIVER SLAM! THE CAB DRIVER SLAM
A wild slap nuts appears?
Monty Brown being in the A Tier is absolutely beautiful
and if you don't agree, you need to be hit with the POOOOOOOOUNCE!!!!....PERIOD!!!
One of my old favorites
Underrated, Under-appreciated, underutilized
Pounce
He was SO. GODDAMN. OVER. in TNA, genuine shame they just fed him to Ol Slapnuts
I agree with majority of this list however, the only person who I would move up is Mickie James. She has had three runs with the company and like you said in the first run, she took some pretty hard-core bumps in the second run. She really elevated the knockouts division. And finally right now on her third run she’s doing some of the best work of her entire career with Jordan Grace Deonna Purrazzo and this last rodeo.
Yea I always forget that it was three. It feels like she’s just been there forever now!
Sharmell’s contribution to any show is that she reminds you of the “I want to have sex with your wife” storyline. That earns her a spot on any show in my opinion.
Lol I was watching Deadlock talking about that yesterday.
Pulse explaining it was funny as hell.
@@alphawilliams7923would you happen to remember what video that was? Sounds hilarious
@@charlieh1932if you type in “deadlock PW sync (sync means they show the clip at the same time as the guys are talking) Kurt Angle Booker T wife”
You’ll find it. Also look up “deadlock PW sync Rikishi” and I promise it’ll be worth it. LOL
...I'm sorry--what?
2016 TNA was on deaths door with its smallest ever roster but just look at some of the names there. LA Knight, Lashley, Galloway, Broken Matt, Decay, Mia Yim, park EC3
Yea the future, they had an eye for talent but a lot of misses with talent too.
@Markyd123 they didn't know how to make their wrestlers mainstream. That's why they never grew
This was my favorite period of TNA. Aj Styles was not the focus, bringing the show down with his lack of charisma. This was also when wrestling review sites were giving it higher booking ratings then WWE shows.
Xavier Woods, Pentagon, Fenix and Abyss as well...
@@chrisbee9643 only Abyss was in TNA in 2016 out of those? Woods hasn’t been there since 2009
For anyone saying the audio is out of sync it isn’t. I’ve checked everything and so have team UA-cam. I don’t know why this is happening but try clearing your cache before watching.
I'm having the same problem. It's weird
@@dustinbasham393 it might be a ps5/Xbox or Roku issue.
@Markyd123 Roku is definitely F'n up. It's not on any other videos, though. Just this one. It's weird! It's fine on my phone
@@Markyd123 just checked on my ps5 and there’s some audio delay but fine on my phone
Everything is good on my end on iPad, but roku was off, but yeah works perfect on IPad. Great video and perfect list imo. I may have had Corny in A and maybe moved 2 or 3 ppl, but it was pretty spot on. 😅
That was incredible to watch. Very fine work, Hawk, for real.
Thanks my friend
You forgot Curry Man for A Tier
Watched to see my boi made of curry ranked A but not even a poppadom mentioned about that tasty guy.
@@davidplace2849 He's in B tier under his main persona.
Sarita being so high is great, she deserves it! I had such a huge crush on her growing up but she also had the in ring ability to back her looks up
I think she was my computer background or something
GOOD GOOBILY GOOP! An hour and a half of MarkyD reading the riot act on TNA? Yes please! Awesome work, man!!!
NGL, this was some pretty good dedication to take this on!
Yea I lost track of how long this took. I’d say around 80 hours
Thanks for taking the time to put this togther, Hawk. As always I appreciate and thoroughly enjoyed it. Other than a few here and there, I can't really argue with your ratings. Easy to think some were better than they actually were before you take their matches and feuds into consideration. If anything, this was just a great reminder of the good old days and some of the cracking wrestlers TNA used to have. Cheers.
Thanks brother
Damn near hour and a half video. This is definitely gonna be worth the wait hawk
Thanks my friend
@@Markyd123 Keep up the great work my guy
TNA had some great rosters at times, Completely boggles my mind how things fell apart
How TNA fell is a sad known mystery.
If it was just one or two problems we would have stuck with them. There were just way too many problems for them to fight.
Because they didn't push Rob Terry into Main Eventer 😅
You’re completely on point with the S tier, but some of those wrestlers brought me great joy in watching their awful matches laughing my ass off. When they put Rob Terry in that circus act with his face completely covered it cracked me up every time.
They just wouldn’t quit on that guy. Putting a mask on him was never going to work.
2000s TNA is without doubt the most rewatchable weekly wrestling show ever made
Love the energy
Pretty true, way ahead of its time and still appreciated
Nah 😂
It’s whatever you watched when you were 10-16
@@Solid_Jackson not true. if its good, its good at any age you watch it at
Those ppvs were fire. That first 2 years was bangers on bangers.
Crazy how Okada went from that to one of the greatest of modern times.
Yea a crazy transformation
He just stole the pope's gimmick.
Its crazy that they treated him in that manner in the first place honestly
@@mrass3947Russo never got the Japanese Wrestlers
Did Okada give The Pope credit for his success? If not, a shame. The Pope has always been good in WWE and TNA. I was glad he got a role in NWA and showing off his promo skills.
Thanks MarkyD for putting your time and effort into this!!!!!! Although I’ve never been an EC3 fan, I understand why u put him in the top tier. 🤘
I freaking loved Monty Brown. So much charisma, like a non-annoying version of Big E (even though I love E too).
"Is Jeff Jarrett smarter than me?"
"YES!"
Brooke Tessmacher's backside should be inducted into the TNA hall of fame😋🍊🔥🔥
Yea if we had our way my friend
You know your a true MarkyD fan is when you fall asleep every night to one of your videos !! Cheers to you this is your best one yet !!! All love from Arkansas we love you here man !!!!
Sorry for ripping on Arkansas once on a video. I genuinely don’t know much about it. I’m from a similar bit of England so I get similar Arkansas jokes
Ah getting to A tier was nice remembering bygone eras plus seeing your optimism was nice, thanks for your efforts.
I was glad you mentioned Awesome Kong with similar care I found for her role in the company. Growing up watching her matches was always nice and sometimes more oft than not, a rose in the wastelands of the impact zone.
Bruh. That New Jack line 37:05 had me dying 🤣🤣🤣
8:23 Imagine having KAZUCHIKA OKADA on your roster and the best you can come up with for him is "Superhero parody"
Yea he looked really dumb it felt like someone was sat in the back laughing at him
He didn’t look like a star at that time to be fair. Needed to upgrade his physique, in ring work, and look. And he definitely did!
He was too small,skinny and couldn't speak English
Credit to Okada, he has since come back to TNA as TNA and he seems genuinely chill and happy with the company. 😄
@@Nikelaos_KhristianosOnly after TNA issued several apologies to New Japan for mishandling talent. Happy they were able to repair the relationship nonetheless.
Great list! My entire knowledge of TNA is from your videos 😂
I started watching TNA because of Sharkboy doing a Stone Cold impression, well deserved A tier lol
Watching this in mid 2024 is interesting. Drew McIntyre leading a faction with Tonga Loa and LA Knight is something.
Towards the end I thought you forgot about Chris Sabin. Then he’s second to last which made me smile. He was my favorite back in the day. Good stuff 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Marky D legit made me care about TNA I never watched it in the pass but I love his TNA vids cause I love knowing more about the pass of other wrestling companies the main reason I love watching Wrestling With Wregret
Thanks brother
So awesome!!! Scott Steiner promos!!! Him saying the kids was 1 and 1/2!! I was dying!!!
Thanks!
what an undertaking. All time video, dude
Thanks my friend
This video was IT! It hit hard like a brick. Thanks for your work Marky, glad to be a subscriber to the best wrestling channel on YT
montey brown, aj styles and samoa joe should have been tna's three poster boys for the company.
White Bat Audio for the background tracks. Good choices. Its a lot of their 80's style pieces. Can listen to that all day. Nice work on the video. Can't imagine how long this took to put together.
I think Winter was more the victim of the storyline. In the ring she was actually pretty decent. And Shelly Martinez as a valet for LAX was entertaining in the ring suck indeed though. Abyss probably in A just for dedication and also becoming an important backstage influence later on.
Great video.
Some hilarious bytes. I laughed out loud at Cody Deaner's, Ed Ferrara's and Monty Brown's.
18:58 I still remember when Jimmy Yang doing moonsault kick to his opponent during TNA getting started :) Very beautiful move :)
He had some really creative moves
As someone who watched TNA more than WWE as a kid (I really dont know why) I love all your videos man, they really give me so much nostalgia!
Amazing piece of work, thank you so much for all of your work on this. With Mick Foley in particular I don't think it was really Mick's fault, he was pretty broken down at that point and TNA seemed to want him to pretty much what he'd done all over the place before when he really wasn't physically capable of doing it, if they'd used him as a special attraction and a character, he might have had a better run. It did seem a bit like Dude Love imitating Cactus Jack though.
Honestly I think he shouldn't have done a lot of wrestling at that point, I honestly feel like they should've done this, Mick Foley enters as an authority figure who doesn't do any wrestling for a while, he basically could've been a spectacle wrestler for hardcore matches on very few occasions kinda like for WWE in the 2001-2007 period, like from what I saw he wrestled three hardcore matches in that entire time, Mick Foley v Randy Orton Backlash, 2004 (hardcore match). Edge v Mick Foley 2006 Wrestlemania and One Night Stand 2006 Edge and Mick Foley v Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer.
Basically two of those matches put over the guys he faced and the third was because it was the second One Night Stand and he didn't wrestle the first instead he was a commentator for the first One Night Stand, so I would've had him in the Abyss Monster's Ball match again putting Abyss over and I think that's really the only match he should've wrestled, he could've served as a great manager as well like maybe have him be the manager for Abyss to give Abyss more legitimacy as a hardcore wrestler with the Hardcore Legend on his side and you could've billed Abyss as the New Hardcore Legend learning from the old hardcore legend basically a kind of passing the torch storyline.
Shelly Martinez deserves a D for being super entertaining. "My vag" is one of the best moments in TNA 🎉
Yea would you bump her up for that?
@@Markyd123 But she said her vag hurts!
Doug Williams rolling German was always awesome especially when he had a lighter opponent to do it to, truly a flashy finisher.
Rhino is very underrated here when you compare him to many in the B tier. He is a former world champion who had good matches with most of the roster. He is good at promos and has one of the best finishers in the business. He had a match with Angle and Christian that lasted an entire episode of Impact. He pulled triple duty at the first Bound for Glory as an audible to Nash's injury. The man is a TNA legend! Heel or face, he slots in anywhere on the card even to this day. Also while I think you underrate the sum of Joe's career, I would still argue his first 2 years are good enough to justify him in the A tier regardless. It is one of the best runs in wrestling history. In my opinion, it is the best TNA television ever was. Great video!
That was one of the hardest Rs I’ve heard in awhile. The silence after was perfect.
Hahaha when?
59:12 The lady in the crowd that yells, "SHUDDUP!!!" is hilarious
Abyss is A tier. He played experienced almost every emotion and put his body on the line for TNA. He is TNA as much as AJ Styles is.
curry man not being in the A tier is crazy
I don’t think Dusty needed to work nearly as much in-ring as he did after the early 1990s WWF run, but my god even when he was past his prime Dusty Rhodes knew how to work a crowd. Watch his bullrope match with Steve Corino in ECW or his NWA Title match against AJ Styles. Both of them are master classes in leveraging a reduced skill set to maximum effect.
Amazing list and video! Glad you took your time with this one. Looking forward to more!
Thanks my friend
The cut of them being put in the tiers has me crying
I’m still waiting for that eventual Madison Rayne video 🤣🤌🏻
I said 200k but that won’t ever happen. Maybe I should say 150k which is much more tealistic
I still don't know how Tony Khan hired her, appeared as a big star and opponent for Jade Cargill, lost and she is wrestling random tag matches on dark since then
Tbh she is doing good doing those dark tag matches, i do not wish to see more of her and probably nobody else does
Killerrrrrrrrr queeeeeeen.
Lots of respect for all the work you put into this video 🙏
Imagine that, The Bucks having issues backstage and not wanting advice from the vets.
Another thing with Shark Boy was he got Stone Cold's approval, he thought it was an entertaining, funny gimmick. Big win there for Shark Boy
Abyss should definitely be A tier , use too check in with TNA just to see him and his matches
Sanada ranking B coming right after he finally won the big one in New Japan. Very underrated guy, it's a miracle TNA used him well after so mistreating so many others
I've forgotten about so many of these wrestlers, well done excellent video
82 minutes...damn Hawk, you DESERVE this week's punch to the gut and brick to the head and the entire Shuv-it-squad should smack itself one in celebration of your dedication!
Sure do
Great Work, Marky D, that was a labour of love, but worth all the hard graft.
11:31
Buddy Matthews was just "Murphy" for a bit, and he was in a decent story line.
I’m shocked, I agree with Samoa Joe. The 5* match and win streak made him. The Kurt Angle storyline validated him. Everything afterwards was just stagnation
Please do more of your watching nwa tna shows ! I watch them while working out perfect for my half an hour on the treadmill
Get back on it soon. The Erik watts and legend stuff really puts me off the show .
@@Markyd123 oh I bet ! Keep up the good work though I love your videos and they make me laugh so much
Good to see Sanada getting some love!
1:10:55 from tongue kissing a fish to tongue kissing Velvet Sky, that's a success story
Fun fact Sanada now is on the top of the NJPW Mountain.
Good for him he deserves it really crisp moves
I think you were too nice to Jarrett and Dixie. Yes, both had roles to play in TNA's existence, but they both made a lot of mistakes that deserves to see them demoted to at minimum a B grade. Jarrett's booking of himself as the top guy at the expense of guys like Raven, Rhino and Monty Brown was hugely detrimental to the company. His act grew tired quickly, he was HHH without HHH's star power.
Dixie....well, too many screwups to mention, including the screwup that's partially responsible for seeing them dropped from Spike TV due to her bizarre obsession with employing Russo. She may have talked her father into buying the company when it was struggling, but that doesn't make up for her fuck ups.
Shinskue Nakamura, officially, has had three matches in TNA.
Granted, two was on Xplosion and one was TNA airing where he took Kurt's version of the IWGP title.
He should be a solid "D" as it was never bad but everything he did really meant nothing to TNA.
To be fair, any time Tommy Dreamer was on camera everywhere he was crying.
1:15:13 sting was always my favorite growing up watching wcw, and to think he’d went another 20 years after they closed basically is insane. And what’s even better is it’s hard to think of any just horrible matches he’s had that were his fault Imo. Like Stings always been good and will go down as my favorite alongside Shawn Michaels, Macho Man, Booker T, and DDP. Without wcw growing up idk what I’d done lol. Like I didn’t get into WWF until a cpl years after I discovered wrestling lol.
Yea he’s a mad man for sure. Still not sure on his best tna match though.
@@Markyd123 I’d deff have to say him vs Kurt at BFG 2007
@@Markyd123 tho him vs styles at 09 and Joe at 08 were good as well.
34:04 to this day, my favourite comedy angle TNA ever did is the Bob Backlund PCS tournament, which contained no actual wrestling and was actually overseen by Kevin Nash. Legendary.
i think its fair to say Jay Lethal was fun and had moments in TNA but he really came into his own in ROH. B tier is still a top tier so I ain't mad at it.
Oh, all the wrestlers this reminded me of. I used to love TNA. This is an impressive video. Thumbs up all day. UA-cam needs more content like this.
EC3 before he watched fight club was just great. The entrance, the mic work. Sad how it turned out
Spud vs EC3 in the UK was great. One of the loudest TNA reactions of all time
He should be a big draw right now. I think it also damaged him as the talent surrounding him dwindled.
@@Markyd123 absolutely. MJF rising to fame the same time he was released too
@@BLCKSMTHApparel yea Mjf is the man now. If you asked me five years ago I would have expected ec3 to be in that position.
29:45 I never realized how much Fake Undertaker Brian Lee actually looks like a Great Value Undertaker.
Hats off to the Hawk for reminding everyone just how great (even the low points) this company was for 20 long years and counting.
I was trained by EZ Money, definitely a very underrated wrestler
Been watching your content for many years now; rarely found myself agreeing with many of your takes in the past!
That being said-I've always been entertained by your antics, and I was pleasantly surprised by this video.
This one, and your video about Raven's 7 Deadly Sins have become my favourites at this point.
Amazing work, and I ESPECIALLY agree with both of the NC stoner friends making it into the B Zone!
I've always thought Shannon Moore would've been much better utilized in TNA as a heel; adjacent to his short-lived first TNA run.
Shannon's first run with the company, when he was wrestling under the "Prince of Punk" name was a great constellation of this!
Shannon defeated AJ Styles in his debut match; on the main event of iMPACT! and really did quite a bit to showcase his potential in the X-Divison... It's truly a shame that he didn't stay with TNA during this go-around-I really felt he could've become a draw if he did!
Cheers, and you should definitely make a video about this short-lived '05/'06 TNA run of Shannon Moore in the future.
The more of Shannon Moore’s career that I see, the more I want to class him as a guy who came too soon. His Prince of Punk run in TNA was excellent, and his WWE run as “The Reject” led to a good tag run with fellow ex-TNA talent Jimmy Yang, where both men got over organically. Moore was good in ring & his character work was solid to boot.
Fantastic list and I couldn’t agree more. Supper shocked and grateful for seeing Awesome Kong and Monty Brown so high on this list. They actually got me watching🤘🏾💪🏿❤️
Triple G (Gifted Glenn Gilberti) should be a C!
How is he gifted enough to get a c?
@@Markyd123 That's a great question... that's a great question... He's ironically good? Also C is similar to G which could make him Quadruple G (one up on WWE)
I remember when I watch TNA for first time the things that keep me wanting to watch it again were The Beautifull people, Kurt Angle and Shark Boy''s Stone Cold impressions that was really fun
I’m actually happy AJ didn’t stay in TNA, he was probably the best wrestler in the world for awhile and nobody really knew because he was in TNA. Crazy how the last few years of his prime is when everyone else got to see how good he was. Sad to see the state of Impact now.
Jeff Hardy debuting was what got me watching Tna back in 04
I started watching TNA since the beginning when it first started airing on Star Sports in India. Have always been a fan of the old product. Not much of the current state of affairs it is in. But I must admit that I got a lot of gyaan (knowledge) and insight on the TNA product watching each and every one of the Hawk's videos. Much more than I gained watching the show on telly. I think TNA should acknowledge the efforts that the Hawk puts, in his own unique way, to make us fall in love once again with the show that we grew up watching. So from my side, I thank you Hawk. I present you with a punch to the gut and a brick to the head...
we got star sports india in pakistan too, and growing up, it was the next best thing to wwe, especially when wwe got boring around 2009
Doctor: "You just have 1:21:36 of life"
Me: "play this video doctor"
You lost me when you didn’t put Joe at A
1:13:36 "there's no lying in wrestling" is surprisingly a very profound and even academic comment. Scholar and philosopher Roland Barthes said the same thing about wrestling in an essay from his 1957 compilation Mythologies.
I would honestly have Nash in the top tier on his vignettes alone. Some of the funniest stuff ive ever seen in wrestling.
Also excellent video dude.
@@paddyfeehan5670 thanks dude. It was a tough decision but ultimately it was about money. If you were paying him to be a comedian he would be top tier all day. 2007 was surely nashes funniest year.
At first I somehow didn't get that you go by ranking and that this video would just be you shitting all over TNA's roster 🤣
Thank you for making another tribute video to what was arguably the best of the 2nd best.
I'm gonna stooge myself off but I never really watched any TNA, and before coming across this channel, I don't think I even heard about them.
All the love I have for TNA comes from your videos. The incredible amount of work you have put into documenting the absolute worst and best of a wrestling show is worthy of praise too.
This almost feels like the end of a chapter, in a way. If you start covering AEW I reckon you could have something real juicy to sink your teeth into.
Say what you will, those guys just radiate early TNA energy. There's also the same high flying style I know you like and plenty of shitty wrestling, whacky characters and complete fumbles.
Also....a wild Slapnuts appears! (but only 3-4 years down the line)
Sharkboy is genuinely one of the best wrestlers in history
Also Samoa joe and Abyss are a tier by definition.
In a better timeline, Eli Drake and Sonni Siaki became top babyfaces in the Ruthless Aggression Era.
Great video hawk love to see a tier list after all the years of covering TNA/IMPACT, and the list was pretty spot on except the only one I would change is Abyss to A tier. Although I do agree they did start making him look stupid towards the end of his career he was arguably one of the biggest faces of that company and one of the most interesting characters to look forward to watching during his early/mid career run. Maybe it’s just me but I always loved watching him and wished he would of gotten a better push with titles/storylines. Also as I a kid I wanted to see him go to WWE and see how he would of done there with the abyss character if had gotten a good push/storylines
Don’s reaction to Ed was just of sheer horror.
Hey markyd, what do you think about possibly creating a "How Good Can it Get" series, aka a competition for the best televised episode of wrestling ever. It would basically be the complete opposite to the "How Bad Can it Be" belt.
Yea I love that idea. Any suggestions for a show?
@@Markyd123 Just from Attitude Era Raw alone I think there are some great and memorable episodes out there, like March 17, 1997, September 22, 1997, and Jan 4, 1999, alongside episodes of Nitro like May 27, 1996. I'm not extremely well versed on TNA / Impact but I'm willing to bet that there are people out there who have episodes they'd like you to look at. Thank you for responding!!!
@@Markyd123 my suggestion is the first episode of aew
I love this video. It's hard to find other genuine TNA fans, especially ones making good content on here. You seem to underrate some of the 2016 guys though, Braxton Stutter, Trevor Lee, Mia Yim, Robbie E, etc. Loved that era for the company honestly. Overall though pretty close to a perfect ranking.
TNA should serve as a lesson to AEW. They had all the best talent, at times they had the best roster in the industry, but it didn't amount to a hill of beans with bad management and bad creative.
The older I get the more I start to think that the lack of advertising was their biggest downfall. I never saw a tna advert. I get aew adverts all the time. That’s important
Looking back on the mistakes WCW and TNA made, it is clear that AEW is going down that same road. Tony needs to hand control over to someone else!
"Once you go black, you get bad credit." -New Jack Jesus, that guy was insane and amazing at the same time.