History Awesome / TNA

* Slammiversary XVI (2018): Marked as one the best PPV s of 2018. with critaclly acclaimed matches like Johnny Impact vs. Petey Williams vs. Taiji Ishimori vs. Fenix in a awesome Fatal 4 Way match, LAX vs. OGz 5150 Street Fight Match that both tag teams put a personal and awesomee tag team match, Pentagon Jr. vs. Sami Callihan in outstanding Mask vs. Hair match that tore the house down, and Wrestling/AustinAries vs. Moose for the Impact World Championship match.

* Slammiversary XVI (2018): Marked as one the best PPVs of 2018. with critaclly acclaimed matches like Johnny Impact vs. Petey Williams vs. Taiji Ishimori vs. Fenix in a awesome Fatal 4 Way match, LAX vs. OGz 5150 Street Fight Match that both tag teams put a personal and awesomee tag team match, Pentagon Jr. vs. Sami Callihan in outstanding Mask vs. Hair match that tore the house down, and Wrestling/AustinAries vs. Moose for the Impact World Championship match.

* Slammiversary XVI (2018), Marked as one the best PPVs of 2018. with critaclly acclaimed matches like Johnny Mundo vs.Petey Williams vs. Taiji Ishimori vs. Fenix in a awesome Fatal 4 Way match, LAX vs. OGz 5150 Street Fight Match that both tag teams put a personal and awesomee tag team match, Pentagon Jr. vs. Sami Callihan in outstanding Mask vs. Hair match that tore the house down, and Austin Aries vs. Moose for the Impact World Championship match.

*** NotSoFastBucko Turns out Anthem threw both Corgan and Dixie out installed longtime Anthem executive vice president Ed Nordholm as president, which means they're in charge alone!
* After the above, Anthem knew they wanted a wrestling mind in charge to take over the company. So at first they trusted the original founder Wrestling/JeffJarrett. What followed was the infiltration of the Global Force brand, the heated IP custody battle with the Hardys over Broken Matt which affected both their brief ROH run and their return to WWE, and ultimately a string of drunken behavior culminating in him embarrassing Impact during its crossover with AAA's Triplemania show in Mexico. After he was given the boot and the GFW rebrand was killed off, Impact promptly reversed course on the Broken gimmick, relinquishing full ownership to the Hardys, then revealed the return of both Wrestling/DonCallis and Scott D'Amore to run day-to-day operations. Like Corgan before them, Callis and D'Amore have taken ambitious broad strokes to make Impact continue to feel like a partly-cinematic yet lively character-driven fight league. They've also strengthened the company's ties to both AAA and CRASH in Mexico, run a crossover card at Wrestlecon with ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground'', and with Callis as a NJPW English commentator at the same time, they've even begun to slowly mend the fences in the company's broken relationships to both NJPW and ROH.

*** NotSoFastBucko! Turns out Anthem threw both Corgan and Dixie out installed longtime Anthem executive vice president Ed Nordholm as president, which means they're in charge alone!

*** NotSoFastBucko ! Turns out Anthem threw both Corgan and Dixie out installed longtime Anthem executive vice president Ed Nordholm as president, which means they're in charge alone,!

* ''August 25, 2011'': After managing to beat Fortune, Immortal prepares to beatdown AJ Styles, when Mr. Anderson returns to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge take his revenge for being put in the hospital by Immortal a few weeks ago]]. He throws ScottSteiner through a table and beats Gunner to a bloody pulp [[HoistByHisOwnPetard with the same chain he and Bully Ray had used to take out Anderson before]], all the while a ''terrified'' Bully Ray is forced to watch. Even more impressive is that '''[[LargeHam MISTEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! ANDERSON!!!]]''' was [[TranquilFury completely serious and never spoke a word the entire time]]. In hindsight, Bully Ray is probably regretting beating him down a few weeks ago...

* June 16, 2011: The return of Jimmy Rave, Kid Kash, and Wrestling/AustinAries. Sting assaulting Wrestling/HulkHogan in his office. Gunner pinning Mr. Anderson cleanly. KurtAngle announcing that he will compete in the Olympics again at age 43 and beating Wrestling/JeffJarrett in a Parking Lot Brawl to force him to move to Mexico.

* May 09, 2013 episode of Impact; Aces & Eights is having what ends up being a three on two handicap match against Sting and KurtAngle (thanks to Aces & Eights taking out their possible partners) when its discovered the ''entire'' rest of the stable has been laid out in the back. The match continues until it looks like Sting is getting a 3D through a table...when [[BigDamnHeroes Abyss who has been missing for nearly a year and a half reveals himself as the Aces & Eights attacker and storms the ring]] to join Sting and Angle as their third man. Anderson ends up chokeslammed through a table and Devon gets a blackhole slam to end the match. Tazz's [[OhCrap reaction to Abyss' return]] was well warranted.

*** NotSoFastBucko ! Turns out Anthem threw both Corgan and Dixie out, and now they're in charge alone!

*** The aformentioned Monster's Ball match; not only was it the first of Rhino's three wins of the night, but JeffHardy damn near killed himself when he leaped off the top of the ring entrance tunnel for a Swanton Bomb and narrowly missed the edge of the stage. (It's also worth mentioning that the match was as violent as advertised. You can watch the full match [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypu7qqULyYk here.]])

* After Bubba the Love Sponge [[IncrediblyLamePun crossed the line]] by putting "Fuck Haiti" on his {{Twitter}} page, Awesome Kong punched him out. Granted, it ended up costing Kong her job, but [[HurricaneOfPuns kharma]] works in mysterious ways: a couple of months later, after ambushing Kong on a radio show and went on a racially-tinged tirade, Bubba himself was fired from TNA.

* Prior to TNA's move to Pop!, the company IRL hired a new Senior Producer of Creative & Talent Development: ''[[Music/SmashingPumpkins Billy motherlovin Corgan]]''.

* Mickie James got one on the April 14th episode. While Wrestling/MadisonRayne was arguing with her [[TheDragon Dragon]], Mickie, despite having been run over by a motorcycle and having her shoulder dislocated, comes out and delivers a very convincing WorldOfCardboardSpeech, swearing to tear every hair out of Rayne's head and beat her within an inch of her life. The real Crowning Moment Of Awesome here comes from her delivery of the speech, which made her seem to be an absolute {{Badass}} despite having her arm in a sling.

* Slammiversary 2006: For The NWA Tag Titles, America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and Wrestling/James Storm) defending against Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles. In previous encounters, Wrestling/GailKim had been the difference maker making sure AMW retained the belts against them but earlier in the show Daniels and Styles commented they had a plan to neutralize her. During the match Gail tries to interfere but gets caught and a [[BrawnHilda giant muscular woman (Sirelda)]] appears in the ring and chokeslams her and carries her out of the arena evening the odds. Despite it Harris and Storm fought on proving why they were once TNA's greatest tag team, but in the end after a miscommunication and Storm hitting Harris by mistake, Styles and Daniels hit a Frog Splash Moonsault combo to end America's Most Wanted 8 month reign and Daniels would go on to say after they won the belts that was the loudest pop he's ever heard in The Impact Zone.

* Wrestling/GailKim made history in the promotion when she was crowned the first TNA Women's Champion (or Knockouts Champion, if you prefer) at ''Bound for Glory 2007''. She would be the standardbearer for the division (which garnered praise from both critics and fans of the promotion) for months, feuding with the top talent in the division—most infamously with Awesome Kong.

* ''Victory Road 2008'' was the stage for a Crowning Moment Of Awesome for Japanese wrestler Masato Yoshino during the opening match. It was the World X-Cup Elimination Match: a 12-man elimination tag match between the four teams competing in the World X-Cup tournament that was pretty much 20-plus minutes of nonstop action. The underlying story of the match was that Team Japan suffered early loses of two of its members, forcing Yoshino to go the rest of the match alone. Yoshino would make it down to the final two, where he would go down in defeat to Team TNA's Alex Shelley, but not before trading many near falls despite the fact that Team TNA was the dominant team in the match (two of the final four competitors were Team TNA's Shelley and Chris Sabin, better known as the Motor City Machineguns).

* ''Against All Odds 2008'' Jay Lethal with the fate of the X Division resting on his shoulders finds himself in a three on one situation against Team 3D and Johnny Devine after his partners The Machine Guns get taken out during the match. He fights well but gets overcome by them. But when they start to threaten his Love interest Socal Val, a fire ignites inside him and hs snaps with new found strength and takes all three of them out. Culminating in Hitting his Idol as a kid Macho Man RandySavage's Flying Elbow Drop through a table and winning the match.
** And shortly afterwards, Brother Ray (Before he became Bully) refuses to hand over The X Division Title so what does Lethal do? He dives out onto him laying him out and regaining the belt.

** Long version? When Corgan went into business with TNA in the first place he did so under an "equity pledge agreement", where if TNA became insolvent, [[labelnote:meaning]]in more debt than the company's worth[[/labelnote]] he would assume the voting rights on Dixie's shares and thus be in complete control of the company. His loaning money to the company to ensure that it could keep running shows was also a move to rack up the debt obligations. However, Dixie has denied the company's insolvency in order to keep Corgan from exercising his options and exercising his right to assume control. The pile-on of lawsuits and other complaints, AKA "multiple events of default," have allowed him to legally question TNA's claim of not being insolvent by which Dixie delayed his motion to assume control. That is the purpose of ''his'' lawsuit: to get the state to call bullshit on Dixie's solvency claims. He even filed a restraining order injunction so they can't sign contracts and sell off assets without his say-so in the meantime. He has outsmarted Dixie Carter in RealLife about as thoroughly as Immortal did in kayfabe, but where Immortal wanted to either run the company into the ground or cash out and pillage it, he's here to ''stop Dixie from doing so''.

** Long version? When Corgan went into business with TNA in the first place he did so under an "equity pledge agreement", where if TNA became insolvent,[[labelnote:meaning]]in more debt than the company's worth[[/labelnote]] he would assume the voting rights on Dixie's shares and thus be in complete control of the company. His loaning money to the company to ensure that it could keep running shows was also a move to rack up the debt obligations. However, Dixie has denied the company's insolvency in order to keep Corgan from exercising his options and exercising his right to assume control. The pile-on of lawsuits and other complaints, AKA "multiple events of default," have allowed him to legally question TNA's claim of not being insolvent by which Dixie delayed his motion to assume control. That is the purpose of ''his'' lawsuit: to get the state to call bullshit on Dixie's solvency claims. He even filed a restraining order injunction so they can't sign contracts and sell off assets without his say-so in the meantime. He has outsmarted Dixie Carter in RealLife about as thoroughly as Immortal did in kayfabe, but where Immortal wanted to either run the company into the ground or cash out and pillage it, he's here to ''stop Dixie from doing so''.

** Long version? When Corgan went into business with TNA in the first place he did so under an "equity pledge agreement", where if TNA became insolvent[[labelnote:meaning]]in more debt than the company's worth[[/labelnote]], he would assume the voting rights on Dixie's shares and thus be in complete control of the company. His loaning money to the company to ensure that it could keep running shows was also a move to rack up the debt obligations. However, Dixie has denied the company's insolvency in order to keep Corgan from exercising his options and exercising his right to assume control. The pile-on of lawsuits and other complaints, AKA "multiple events of default," have allowed him to legally question TNA's claim of not being insolvent by which Dixie delayed his motion to assume control. That is the purpose of ''his'' lawsuit: to get the state to call bullshit on Dixie's solvency claims. He even filed a restraining order injunction so they can't sign contracts and sell off assets without his say-so in the meantime. He has outsmarted Dixie Carter in RealLife about as thoroughly as Immortal did in kayfabe, but where Immortal wanted to either run the company into the ground or cash out and pillage it, he's here to ''stop Dixie from doing so''.

** Long version? When Corgan went into business with TNA in the first place he did so under an "equity pledge agreement", where if TNA became insolvent[[labelnote:meaning]]in more debt than the company's worth[[/labelnote]], he would assume the voting rights on Dixie's shares and thus be in complete control of the company. His loaning money to the company to ensure that it could keep running shows was also a move to rack up the debt obligations. However, Dixie has denied the company's insolvency in order to keep Corgan from exercising his options and exercising his right to assume control. The pile-on of lawsuits and other complaints, AKA "multiple events of default," have allowed him to legally question TNA's claim of not being insolvent by which Dixie delayed his motion to assume control. That is the purpose of ''his'' lawsuit: to get the state to call bullshit on Dixie's solvency claims. He even filed a restraining order injunction so they can't sign contracts and sell off assets without his say-so in the meantime. He has outsmarted Dixie Carter in RealLife about as thoroughly as Immortal did in kayfabe, but in this case he's doing it to ''stop'' her from either running the company into the ground or cashing out and pillaging it.

* The #FINALDELETION between Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy, involving Jeff fighting Drones (sorry, AERIAL ASSAULT ROBOTS) with a guitar, Matt having a hologram, driving over Jeff's lawn with a lawnmower and drawing shapes in it, Senor Benjamin (Matt's Hispanic housekeeper), Matt playing the violin (claiming it was given to him by close personal friend Stradivari) to summon Jeff and culminating in possibly the most cinematic, gloriously crazy match ever put in tape. [[https://youtu.be/kiktBcRHABU And by popular demand, it's now available to watch entirely!]]
** It even got its detractors to start talking about TNA again.

* Another man cemented as a main eventer by the Angle Retirement Tour? [[Wrestling/BobbyLashley "The Destroyer" Lashley]]. Sure, he already had a dominant run as the TNA World Heavyweight Champion, but after being disassociated from the BDC storyline and having his title reign preempted by Destination America in favor of Angle, Lashley was moved down into the high-midcard borderline as a babyface. Since beating Angle in his final match in TNA and then turning back heel on his own, Lashley has been on a tear of destruction, beating the piss out of everyone in sight, attacking guys in training gyms, knocking off nearly all his foes cleanly and not only taking back the TNA World title, but also acquiring the X-Division and King of the Mountain titles and dumping them aside just to show how much of a beast he is. What's more, his mic skills have improved drastically since the last time he was champion, no longer needing any type of mouthpiece like MVP to come across as an arrogant elite fighting champion jerkass. And his unceremonious dumping of the two midcard titles were used to set up the next X-Division Champion, popular rising star DJ Z, on a mission to beat him for legitimacy as well as replace the much-maligned KOTM belt with a new concept called the TNA Grand Champion.

** Just let that sink in. A man regarded by many as the God of alt-rock is such a wrestling fan, that he goes to work for them not as a special guest star, but as someone dedicated to saving the company from itself.
* The Kurt Angle Retirement Series is this. In particular, his two matches with Drew Galloway. The first one is a great stand out and even was the main event. The second match, while not as grand, was just as wonderful. Not only did these matches show that the aging Angle still had some gas in the tank, but cemented Galloway as a future main eventer.

* The creation of Decay took two wrestlers who needed a boost (Abyss and Crazzy Steve), added in a complete newcomer (Rosemary/Courtney Rush) and resulted in one of TNA's most enthralling heel stables yet. Rosemary especially stands out as someone who is fantastic at playing a character, no matter what situation she's handed.
** In addition, thanks to Mr. Corgan, they get to use "The Nobodies" by Music/MarilynManson as their theme.
* It finally happened. Dixie Carter is out.