83 Weeks - TNA Bound for Glory 2010 [Show Notes] (Patreon)

This August, 83 Weeks covered TNA No Surrender 2010, which was building up to where we are today - the company’s biggest event of the year:

TNA Wrestling Bound for Glory 2010 happened on October 10, 2010. Yep - 10-10-10, which was part of the promotion. The event was held at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida in front of about 3,500 fans. It’s the same building where on July 7, 1996, Hulk Hogan showed up as the third member of the NWO.

That wouldn’t have inspired any decisions made in the booking tonight, by chance...would it?

Bound For Glory is TNA’s premiere event and this was the sixth annual Bound For Glory event. It received an estimated 30,000 pay-per view buys, which was almost double what all the other PPVs did all year long. That might sound good, but it continued a trend of declining buys from year-over-year PPVs.

The event was announced on June 25, 2010 in a press release, with the Ocean Center setting being announced. To celebrate the event’s announcement, a “Bound for Glory Block Party” was held at the Ocean Center that was hampered by weather - but still had a good turnout, reports said.

Dixie Carter said, "So many people come to ‘Bound For Glory' from around the world", and added, "We wanted a locale that would truly be a destination. With our biggest pay-per-view of the year and all the fan experiences we have planned, it will make ‘10.10.10' an unforgettable weekend".

Tickets for the event went on sale on August 7, 2010. TNA also held a “Bound for Glory VIP Weekend” similar to how WWE does Fan Axxess during their Wrestlemania weekends.

Did you attend that and do you have any memories?

Before we start the show itself, let’s look at the news during that time frame:

News and Notes:

MMA’s biggest main event ever up until that point was getting ready to take place on October 23. Brock Lesnar was scheduled to defend his UFC heavyweight title against Cain Velasquez.

You’re a martial arts guy. Were you watching what Brock was doing around this time in MMA? He was like the real life Goldberg character…

Hogan scored a legal victory over Post Foods for their Cocoa Pebbles TV commercial with Bulk Boulder as a character, who certainly looked like an 80s Hulk Hogan, which was produced without Hogan’s consent. The settlement terms were kept confidential, but the ad, called “Cocoa Smashdown,” has been pulled.

How great are Cocoa Pebbles? Also, do you ever remember Hulk talking about this?

One person in TNA, talking to the Observer, noted, “Don’t you love it how Eric Bischoff says he has nothing to do with creative when numbers are down or the show sucks, but is the first one to congratulate himself on twitter/facebook when Impact or Reaction does a good number?....He’s not going anywhere, but Dixie is on to him and enough people have complained that he has lost a lot of his clout.” Unlike Hogan, who is well-liked, and Russo, who people roll their eyes when talking about his booking but don’t personally dislike him, you get a lot of negative on Bischoff, more because of how he carries himself and relates to talent than for his actual decisions.

Who do you think probably said that? And do you see any merit to their words?

TNA did a publicity stunt on 10/1 before a show in Columbia, SC. Hardy, Borash and Shannon Moore all put on twitter that they would be appearing at a location in town and giving away backstage passes. A throng of people showed up all at the same time, and the owner of a store seeing the mob in the parking lot called police. Police came to disperse the mob. Those same police came to the show later that night to get photos taken with the wrestlers. Unfortunately, that didn’t make much difference as even with Hardy, the company’s top draw, headlining in the Carolinas, they only drew about 700 fans that night.

Who would have come up with that idea?

Business for the company was a mixed bag around this time, with some good news but other areas not so great...

• Estimated average attendance June 2009 1,044
• Estimated average attendance June 2010 1,067 (+2.2%)
• Average Impact rating June 2009 1.12
• Average Impact rating June 2010 0.96 (-14.3%)

• Estimated average attendance July 2009 964
• Estimated average attendance July 2010 1,814 (+85.0%)*
• Average Impact rating July 2009 1.22
• Average Impact rating July 2010 1.10 (-9.8%)

• Estimated average attendance August 2009 1,313
• Estimated average attendance August 2010 1,100 (-16.2%)
• Average Impact rating August 2009 1.13
• Average Impact rating August 2010 1.10 (-2.7%)

*The show in Brooklyn that drew 5,500 skews the monthly average although even without that show, attendance would have averaged 1,200 and been a 24.5% year-to-year increase

What do these numbers tell us, if anything? Can you tell if what you’re doing is working based off of these, especially seeing ratings holding steady or going up?

Jumping ahead after the PPV for a minute..

The house show business following Bound For Glory was not good.

Meltzer reported, “The Bound for Glory angle and big TV rating that followed didn’t seem to help the weekend house shows. The crowds ranged from 700 to 900 for the four Midwest shows. Doing 900 fans at the Sears Center in Chicago is pretty sad, particularly since Chicago is historically such a great wrestling city. However, TNA still does fine overall with the $20 Polaroids with the top star after the show and Don West-led merchandise sales.”

Was that a bad sign?

On the go-home show before the pay-per-view, things got a little chaotic on TV. Let’s examine that a little bit more closely.

10/18 Observer (in italics)

Notes from the 10/7 live Impact show. I call this the collapse under pressure show, because they promised so much and then completely missed out on some of the basics. They had three hours, and in that time, never ran down the lineup of their biggest PPV show of the year three days later. They mentioned the show over-and-over, and did mention some of the matches, but never made it clear who was and wasn’t in Lethal Lockdown on each team, particularly since the key to this TV show was Ric Flair vs. Mick Foley, and the finish and angle after would make you think the two would be in Lethal Lockdown, but it was never mentioned.

Do you think the build could have been or should have been more clear?

They also the week before promised something on this show that would change TNA forever. And naturally, there was nothing. Mickie James showing up with her name written on the graphic as Mickey James hardly qualifies, and I did love the tape going out on her supposedly live promo, Mike Tenay and Taz having to fill the dead air before the tape was fixed and she was back where she was with no reaction like something broke up the interview. And loved her talking about Madison Rayne as Knockouts champion in her promo.

Was Mickie* James supposed to be the thing that changed TNA forever?

How does someone spell her name wrong? Or was that spelling supposed to be used?

The show opened with Abyss snatching Dixie Carter and handcuffing her to him. He was going to take her to where “they” wanted him to. All these people just stood by. He dragged her out in front of the crowd. There was good heat for this segment but it was a killer to open the show like this because you had the “this is bullshit” thing drummed into your head right at the start. Most of the crowd wasn’t reacting. Abyss had his bat and branding iron with him and threatened to use Janice or Bob on her. Isn’t that like child beating. Eric Bischoff ran out with the agents and screamed at Abyss to let her go and let’s talk in the back. As stupid as this segment was, Bischoff almost saved it. He was tremendous in his role of someone pleading with a psychotic monster and talking him down. And he did. Abyss let her go and went to the back. They really on this show pushed Abyss as the star of the promotion.

See Eric! Meltzer talks nicely about you! How did you feel about this segment and the way Abyss was being portrayed?

Also on the go-home show…

The Shore debuted, Robbie E (Rob Eckos) and Cookie (Becky Bayless). They tried. The crowd hated this and this did come off really minor league. Plus, they did this angle while “Jersey Shore” was going on, so it was basically telling people to switch to MTV. Time will tell on this.

The day after Bound for Glory came the announcement that Jenni Farley, JWoww of “Jersey Shore,” had agreed to do the 10/11 Impact taping for a reported $15,000.

She did an angle with Cookie (Becky Bayless, playing a spoof on the character Snookie from the same show), doing a pull-apart. Celebrity angles in wrestling are hit and miss. The general rule is if you’ve got a top celebrity, it garners attention. Donald Trump, Dennis Rodman (the first few times, after a while nobody cared), Karl Malone (only against Rodman), Mike Tyson, Mr. T (again the first run, not so much the second time) and Cyndi Lauper were all gigantic successes. But the vast majority are failures.

So what were you guys thinking JWOWW was going to do for business?

Main event was Angle winning a 25 man Rumble style Battle Royal for $100,000 in 26:31. At the beginning, people were coming in so quickly that guys had time for one lock-up and then music would play. It was scripted differently than most Rumbles. There were something like 19 guys in and nobody had been eliminated. Then Abyss came in and they made him a monster, as he threw out almost everyone. Then after tons of eliminations and about five minutes since the last guy came in, RVD came in. He worked some spots with Abyss. They were supposed to do a crossbody where both would go over the top. Well, RVD went over the top and Abyss, well, he didn’t. So then he did in this terrible looking delayed bump after RVD had already hit the floor.

What was your reaction to seeing this backstage?

Show Itself:

We’ve arrived at the pay-per-view event itself.

TNA BOUND FOR GLORY PPV POLL RESULTS

• Thumbs up 77 (47.5%)
• Thumbs down 56 (34.6%)
• In the middle 29 (17.9%)

BEST MATCH POLL

• Sabin & Shelley vs. Generation Me 78
• Hardy vs. Anderson vs. Angle 45

WORST MATCH POLL

• Tara vs. Love vs. Sky vs. Rayne 65
• Moore & Neal vs. Young & Jordan 28
• Nash & Pope & Sting vs. Joe & Jarrett 15

The set looks like the Welcome Wagon helicopter that got shot down in Independence Day. Or, maybe, the first Souled Out set. It’s not a bad thing. The entrance area looks awesome, with the center screen sliding up and being transparent (because of the type of video wall it is).

Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley beat Generation Me (Max & Jeremy Buck) to retain the TNA tag titles in 12:52. As far as an opening match goes, it was great. Crowd loved it. Fast action, good moves. The Guns opened with a double tope. The heat spot came on working on Shelley. Sabin hot tagged in. They set up a double draping DDT on Shelley, but Sabin came in and broke it up with a German suplex on Max. Later, Max came off the top rope on Sabin’s neck and Jeremy did a flip dive over the top onto Shelley. Jeremy hit the 450 on Sabin, but Shelley saved. This led to a “This is awesome” chant. Lots of big moves including GenMe doing more bang for your buck for a near fall. Jeremy did a forward roll into a 450 on Shelley, and then Sabin did a German superplex on Max. The finish was clean, with the Skull & Bones by the Guns, which is Shelley coming off the top with a cross body and Sabin using a neckbreaker in the same move, and Shelley pinned Jeremy. The right way to kick off a show, great heat, and the match went the right length. ****

In an interview, Madison Rayne called Christy Hemme a phony bitch, a skank, a whore and compared her hairstyle to Bozo the Clown. Suffice to say they are going in a different direction than WWE when it comes to promos. The main thing is Rayne told Tara she was indebted to her for life because she let her return to TNA. Tara didn’t look happy about this.

2. Tara won a four-way to win the Knockouts title over Angelina Love, Velvet Sky and Madison Rayne, with Mickie James as referee, in 5:53. Not good. Sky’s offense looked bad. They built to everyone doing their finishers on each other. The finish was supposed to be Sky doing the O’Connor roll on Tara, who was to reverse it and hold the trunks for the pin. They actually got lost in rolling, so it didn’t look good, but Tara got back in the position to win. When Rayne got back in the ring, she was furious at Tara for winning the title, since in the promos she claimed she could trust Tara while Love and Sky were egomaniacs who couldn’t trust each other. Rayne started yelling at Tara and then took a swing at James. James then KO’d Rayne with one punch. James and Tara had a staredown. It seemed they were building Tara vs. James, but Tara ended up dropping the title to Rayne the next night at TV. With Rayne’s new dark hair, she and James look a lot alike, almost like sisters. ½*

The Eric Young & Orlando Jordan comedy gimmick is that Young is now supposedly to be a comedy goof because of a concussion. Jordan is a bisexual who has the hots for Young. Young thinks Jordan likes him because his family shunned him and Jordan sees him like a father figure. Young thinks when people say Jordan is “bi,” they mean bipolar so he’s taken him under his wing. But in the matches, Young constantly turns on Jordan.

3. Shannon Moore & Jesse Neal beat Orlando Jordan & Eric Young in 6:34. Jordan came out in a white woman’s outfit with a women’s top and leggings. Actually he wore the same outfit, just in a different color, that Marloes Coenen wore when she went out after winning the women’s title on the Strikeforce show the night before. Which made that doubly strange. This match worked live as comedy because everyone was into Young’s gimmick. At one point he did double high-fives to all three wrestlers and the ref, and then slingshotted Jordan into the ring. The people started chanting for him. There was a spot where Young and Jordan were both crotched on the top rope with Jordan right behind Young. Later, Young pulled out this book that on the cover read “TNA rule book.” When Jordan would tag in, the people would chant, “We Want Eric.” Jordan held the ropes to pin Moore in the blocked sunset flip spot, and then Young kicked Jordan’s hands off the rope. Young then went across the ring into the face team corner, and started urging Moore to tag him. Moore tagged Young, and Young did this comedic 80s babyface comeback (described as being like the old Rockers tag team, given that he really was doing Marty Jannetty) on Jordan. Jordan was eventually double-teamed and pinned by Moore. It worked for what it was. **

Jordan angrily considers attacking Young. Then Young bends over and Jordan stares at his asshole. Taz says “Don't drop the soap,” to remove all subtlety from the moment.

The Eric Young stuff was highly entertaining...but the rest of this...what do you think about it looking back?

4. Jay Lethal pinned Douglas Williams to keep the X title in 8:14. A solid match that told a basic story. Williams, whose gimmick was hating high flyers, used all kinds of suplexes, but Lethal kept kicking out. So, frustrated, he went to do a huracanrana off the top rope, but Lethal rolled through and got the pin. Just before the finish, Williams hit the Chaos Theory suplex that looked awesome. When Lethal kicked out, the crowd started chanting, “That was three.” After the match, The Shore showed up. Taz called him Robbie G but he calls himself Robbie E. He laid out Lethal, using a diamond cutter as his finisher, since he’s from the Jersey Shore, and DDP was from the Jersey Shore. He then said Lethal was a disgrace to the state of New Jersey while Cookie finished with her catch phrase, “Jersey’s in the house, bitches.” The Shore got heat, but it felt more like go-away heat. **¾

Did you enjoy this segment? Or did you feel like Meltzer was right about the go-away heat.

5. RVD pinned Abyss in 12:58 in the Monster’s Ball match. RVD came out fast with kicks and a slingshot legdrop, and then a Ryder kick and a plancha to the floor. RVD threw in a barbed wire board. He ended up giving Abyss a bulldog headlock on the barbed wire board. RVD went for the rolling thunder but Abyss moved and RVD landed on the barbed wire board. Abyss used a garbage can lid shot to the head. RVD did a rolling thunder over the top rope onto Abyss, who had been laid out on a table used as a bridge between the apron and the barricade. The funniest thing happened as the fans started chanting, “This is wrestling” after that stunt show move. RVD used a Van Daminator. Then he went to the top rope, and Abyss threw a chair at RVD’s head, he lost balance and fell through a barbed wire board set up between the apron and the barricade. That led to a “This is awesome” chant. RVD’s face was bleeding between the eyes from falling into the barbed wire. You should never do that with real barbed wire because even if you keep your eyes shut, it could rip open your eyelids. RVD then threw Abyss into the barbed wire board. He then did a Coast to Coast (Van Terminator) dropkick knocking the barbed wire board into Abyss. RVD missed the frog splash. Abyss grabbed Janice. But RVD threw a chair that hit Abyss in the head, grabbed Janice, and used a shot with the nail board to the gut. Abyss started bleeding from the mouth, which is usually done by biting a condom with blood set up before the match and kept in the mouth. RVD then used the frog splash for the win. Abyss was laid out, bleeding from the mouth, but vowed that “They” were on their way. ***¼

Abyss just rules at selling horrible pain, such as landing on barbed wire. You can see him pulling at his arm like it’s caught on the barbed wire. Unless it really was, in which, damn.

Did Abyss wear any protection around his stomach? Did he have a bloody condom? What can you tell us about this match?

6. Sting & Kevin Nash & Pope D’Angelo Dinero beat Samoa Joe & Jeff Jarrett in 7:40. Joe started and worked the entire match. Nash was moving real slow here. Finally, when Joe went to make the tag to Jarrett, Jarrett refused the tag and walked off. This left Joe alone against all three. They booked it where he was fearless and fought all three but the numbers game was too much, and finally Nash pinned him after a power bomb. The purpose of Nash being the one to pin him when he’s supposedly leaving smells like an angle. It was like when Tara was going to lose the retirement match, and then won two matches on TV right before she left. As it turned out, they had already reached a new contract agreement so it made sense. With TNA you never know. But if he’s even leaving for a few months, Pope should have been the one to take the fall. *3/4

Why let Nash get the pinfall here?

Team 3-D came out, and before they said anything, a “Please don’t go” chant started. Bubba did the talking, saying that they were the greatest tag team of all-time, have held world tag team titles in WWE, NWA, WCW, All Japan, New Japan and TNA. He didn’t mention Hustle, not that it matters. Bubba said that they had done all that they could, they had nothing left to prove, and they were retiring. The crowd played along but you could sense nobody bought it, and why should they? They said they wanted one last match, with the Machine Guns, for the titles. They said either they retire as tag team champions, or the Guns beat them and get to say they’ve beaten the greatest tag team of all-time.

Taz and Tenay argue about why the Machine Guns would want to avoid this challenge with Team 3D. Tenay seems really confused by Taz saying they might not want to risk losing their titles.

Why do a retirement angle just a few minutes before a main event with a retirement stipulation?

7. EV 2 (Tommy Dreamer & Rhino & Stevie Richards & Raven & Sabu, managed by Mick Foley), beat Fortune (Robert Roode & James Storm & Kazarian & Matt Morgan & A.J. Styles) in 24:46. Flair was wearing one of Shawn Michaels’ tank tops that looks like a women’s tank top. Maybe this was dress like your favorite Strikeforce woman’s fighter night. Foley attacked Flair right away, and he bled. Awesome camera work, showing a close-up of Flair as he was gigging his forehead. So Flair was bleeding in seconds. Kazarian started with Richards and they announced this was a 5:00 segment. So at 3:43, the buzzer sounded for Styles to hit the ring. Styles did his picture perfect dropkick on Richards. He then used a figure four while Kazarian held Richards’ arms outstretched. This period was supposed to be 2:00, and it basically was since Dreamer made the save at 5:46, spitting water into Styles’ face. Roode came in at 7:49 and Dreamer became the first of many to bleed in this match. Flair started throwing punches at Dreamer through the camera hole in the cage. Sabu was in at 9:56. The match started dragging and these guys were all brawling and bleeding and not getting any heat.

At 11:53, Storm came in, and he nailed Richards with a back stabber. Raven got in at 13:55. His highlight was blowing his nose into a snot rag, and rubbing it on Kazarian, in the gross out spot. Morgan came in at 15:56. Morgan played power house, power bombing Sabu into the cage. Sabu was bleeding. Richards was bleeding from the mouth. Raven was bleeding as well. Rhino in at 17:57 to start cleaning house, with a spinebuster on Roode, a belly-to-belly on Morgan and a gore on Storm. The top was supposed to come down with the weapons when Rhino arrived, but they were slow on the switch and it came 37 seconds later. Flair and Foley started brawling outside again, with Flair bleeding heavily. The EV 2 guys got the weapons, a cane, garbage can lid, cookie sheet and started using them. Richards threw Kazarian into the cage and knocked the door open. By this point Kazarian and Roode were bleeding. Kazarian and Richards climbed to the top. Kazarian set up a ladder that was on the top of the cage. With the door open and Morgan on the floor, Sabu nailed Morgan with a tope. Kazarian gave Richards a low blow on the roof. Kazarian was climbing the ladder when Brian Kendrick came out from hiding under a sheet on the roof of the cage, and he knocked Kazarian off the ladder. It looked like he was supposed to fall through the table, but didn’t come close. So Kendrick back dropped Kazarian through the table. Most of the people were brawling outside the cage at this point. Styles and Dreamer were in the cage. Styles used a Pele kick to Dreamer, but Dreamer came back with a chair shot to Styles’ knee. Dreamer then put Styles on his shoulders and used a Death Valley bomb off the middle rope onto the chair to pin Styles. Between Nash winning when he was leaving, and Dreamer pinning Styles in a “get your win back” finish, some of this stuff defies logic. Hopefully there’s a storyline reason more than just get your win back why Dreamer would go over clean on Styles. This wasn’t at the level of most of the company’s Lethal Lockdown matches. **½

Give us your thoughts on the match...and also...

Tommy Dreamer pinning AJ Styles….What the...? WHY?

8. Jeff Hardy won a three-way to win the vacant TNA title over Kurt Angle and Mr. Anderson in 18:39. Up until the ref bump, these three were having an awesome match. Angle vowed to have a match of the year, and it wasn’t quite that, but they did a lot of new spots and the match layout, mostly his, was great. Angle missed a charge and flew out of the ring. Later when he returned, he did a spot where he German suplexed both Hardy and Anderson at the same time. Hardy back dropped Angle over the top rope and he took one of those falls where he doesn’t look under control. Anderson was bleeding from the top of the head which wasn’t a blade job. Anderson and Angle brawled on the floor and Hardy did a flip dive onto both of them. They did a Tower of Doom spot where Angle went to superplex Hardy, and Anderson came up underneath to power bomb Angle off while Hardy went flying. Anderson covered both but they both kicked out. Angle used three German suplexes on Anderson, and then followed with three more on Hardy. Angle’s right eye was busted, also hard way, by this point. Angle put Hardy in the ankle lock but Anderson saved. Then Angle grabbed Anderson’s leg, and put both in the ankle lock at the same time. This was a cool spot, and Taz did explain that because he had the move on both people, the level of pressure wasn’t at usual levels on each. They kicked him off. Anderson came back with the forward flip (Lambeau plunge although nobody has used that name for it for a while) on Angle and went for the pin. Hardy came off the top with a swanton onto Anderson’s back. This time Hardy went to pin both and they each kicked out. Hardy used the whisper in the wind on Angle. That wasn’t named after Shawn Michaels’ wife either. Hardy hit Anderson with the twist of fate, but Angle grabbed Hardy in an ankle lock. Hardy kicked out of the ankle lock and Angle fell into a mic check by Anderson for a near fall. Angle used a moonsault on Hardy for a near fall. Angle and Anderson then blocked each others’ trademark big spots. The match was really excellent at this point, and then Angle clotheslined ref Brian Hebner (who does a backflip!). This led to Bischoff coming out. And then we had the angle to end the show, with Hardy hitting both men with a crutch and pinning Anderson, and the big celebration. ****

What did you think about the main event?

Why Jeff Hardy? Why not Mr. Anderson?

Here’s what Meltzer had to say about the match and the aftermath:

An excellent main event match, featuring Kurt Angle, Mr. Anderson and Jeff Hardy, three babyfaces, going for the vacant TNA title, saw referee Brian Hebner get bumped. Eric Bischoff came to the ring, acting like a heel who was going to screw somebody, but threw a chair out of the ring. Then Hulk Hogan’s music played.

All during the week, and for the past month, Hogan put up videos and twitter messages talking about going to the hospital and having back surgery.  During the past two weeks we were given the impression that the information being disseminated publicly regarding his back was storyline related, that his back was a mess, but all of Hogan’s twitter stuff and speaking was also partially angle-driven. It was notable on the final taped show when Kurt Angle was talking to Hogan in the hospital by phone in a segment taped weeks earlier, Hogan got word out that week before the show that he was back in the hospital.

Bischoff acted like he got caught, and figured Hogan was still in the hospital so he may not be able to screw whoever it was that was getting screwed.

Bischoff took a crutch from Hogan. Hogan gave Hardy a crutch. At first it looked like they were going to go at it, but then Hardy hit Angle with the crutch, breaking it on him. Bischoff then gave Hardy his crutch, and he hit Anderson with it, and pinned Anderson to win the title.

The idea was that Hardy and Hogan both turned heel to join Bischoff. Mike Tenay shouted in disappointment at Hardy for being the supposed role model. Then, Jeff Jarrett and Abyss both came out to celebrate. RVD comes out to question Hardy as to why - and gets hit with the belt by Hardy.

There’s a lot to unpack here. Can you explain the booking on this as far as what your goals were?

Were their other plans that got changed as you neared the event?

Meltzer also brought up concerns about Hardy regarding legal trouble.

Granted, Hardy’s drug trafficking case has had a million continuances, but he’s still under indictment and has another court date in less than two weeks, and they put the title on him and made him the focal point of the promotion, because this angle of Hogan & Bischoff & Jarrett vs. the people staying loyal to Dixie Carter in the ring is dependent on Hardy. I guess if something does happen, the Fortune alliance works and they can slot Styles in that position.

Was the situation with Jeff Hardy a concern in doing this angle?

Meltzer said this overall about the event…

The show had its ups and downs. I thought there was enough good to where it was a thumbs up show going into the final angle. I think a lot of people knew the angle was coming and in general terms what it would be. It was a good start, but like every angle, it all depends on the follow-up. Most reaction to the show, and it was mixed, was largely based on the angle.

Overall, what did you think about Bound for Glory 2010?

Questions:

Wrestlemaniac asked...How far in advance was it known that Hulk wasn’t going to be able to compete in the 6 man tag?

Hazard says...I'm not Jeff Hardy fan but dug his heel run and his custom belt (I even own a copy) what did u think of the belt? Just how long in advance was it decided to turn at BFG? And like "the third man" was there any consideration for anyone else to be Immortal's top heel face?

DJ Jones wants to know...How did Jeff feel about turning heel? Was it something he wanted to try Or was it an experiment that the office wanted to see if people would buy it?

Jeremy asks...I know Jeff Jarrett gets a bad wrap at time, but in my opinion I thought he done fantastic as a heel. What was your opinion on Jeff as a heel?

Gill Boldberg asks...What is the backstory of Jeremy Borash being hired at WCW? Did Eric see his talent and what he would inevitably blossom into as a pro wrestling broadcaster?

Gill also wants to know...Throughout his tenures at WWE & TNA, what was Eric’s relationship with Rob Van Dam like? Did he ever try to recruit RVD to WCW?

Dee asks...if he thinks the Bucks and the Motor City Machine Guns could draw a crowd and even headline a PPV now with AEW/Impact or any other organisation?

Ian asks...Why Jeff out of the 3 to be the heel Champ going forward for Immortal? It seems all 3 could have been great picks

Nic, who is clearly a fan of the show, asks...no wrestling questions just curious what motorcycles eric has had over the years and please elaborate in the 20 minute rambling promo format

Instagram: AWrestlingHistorian asks...Was there talk of putting the TNA Championship on Ken Anderson given Jeff Hardy's troubled past?

This is Henry Le asks...Did you had any input for the “THEY” storyline? And did you wanted the main event mafia vs immortal in February 2011? 

Adam asks..Why does Eric believe TNA has struggled to gain traction during the pandemic?

Rajiv asks...Did you think EV 2.0 had run its course by this point? As much as I liked these guys, I thought it went on too long