TNA Wrestling Presents: TNA Wrestling Year 1 [DVD]

This is a great introduction to TNA and look back. Even though TNA isn't in the best of shape right now they are still in business and have lasted eleven years and counting. It says a lot about the company. As we learn from the documentary wrestlers didn't think it would last a week let alone eleven years. There is a nice tribute to Curt Henning. I wished they would have interviewed Scott Hall and Ken Shamrock. Both had short runs in TNA but of course Shamrock was the first champion for TNA. I thought Scott Hall helped bring some star power to TNA when it first started. I tuned in for Hall vs Killings when Hall had a shot at the NWA Title. I would have liked to see a few more matches added to the dvd but they picked four great ones. The biggest one being Raven vs Jarrett. That was an awesome match and Raven deserves credit for help putting TNA on the map. His coming to TNA was big and he helped their company a lot. He was overlooked. I liked seeing the X Division matches. I liked to see AJ Styles who I believe is and will always be the franchise of TNA. He is a great wrestler and one of the wrestlers who carried the company early on. Jarrett despite what most people think of him being the owner and putting the belt on himself the facts were he would always be in TNA where a lot of guys might not be there long term. TNA didn't have as many good wrestlers as WWE. Jarrett was still a great wrestler. He had a great ladder match with Beniot in WCW and a great match with Shawn Michaels in WWE. I liked seeing America's Most Wanted. They were a great tag team in the history of TNA. Eventually they broke up but they had a good run together. Storm and Harris are great. It was nice to hear from them in the documentary. I liked how TNA had some famous ECW wrestlers appear in the first year like Sabu, Raven, Sandman, Saturn and Credible. I think Killings and Styles were both great champions along with Shamrock and Jarrett. TNA had a good first year. Exciting X Division, Big names stars from WWF, WCW and ECW and great new talent. It's a very different TNA today but I am sure TNA will endure and not go out of business for a long time. This is a must for a TNA fan and great for any true wrestling fan.

If you love TNA and you love history, you'll love this dvd. It provides interviews and matches so you won't get bored. Even though it's cheaper just to sign up for [...]to get unlimited access to ALL PPV's and specials for only[...] a month. I have it and it's great. This is not an add or anything. I hate when people do that. This is just a recommendation. Nothing else!! I bought this dvd for my husband for new years and he absolutely loves it. I even learned some new things about TNA myself.

Tna Wrestling: Year 1 is a great dvd that showes what tna did to get towhere they are today.for those who never got to see tna back then you should pick up this dvdit's great for any wrestling fan.wheater your a WWE,WWF,ECW,WCW. or another kind of pro wrestling fanout their.

Great item

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TNATHE HISTORY OF TNA:YEAR 1I have to start this off by saying that I am a huge wrestling fan, I always have and always will be. With that said this is an excellent DVD to own, if you are truly interested in how a company is started you should check this out. This documentary goes into detail about the first year of this great company. You will hear from a lot of wrestlers that were there that first year as well as TNA president Dixie Carter, and announcers Mike Tenay & Don West. I think most importantly you hear the whole story from the man that created it all Jeff Jarrett. He starts from right when WCW was bought and tells the story of how this company came to be. It was real interesting to hear just how hard it was to make this happen, they had to go through some tough times to make it happen. On their opening show alone the ring fell apart right before the came on the air. Which brings me to something else, the opening to this documentary is brilliant. We open up to a black screen and hear Tenay, Don West, and the production crew doing the sound check right before they go on the air, brilliant. I really can't go into how informative this DVD is but I highly recommend it.MATCHES1.DOUBLE ELIMINATION X DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP-AJ STYLES VS PSICHOSIS VS SENSHI VS JERRY LYNN-this was the match that would crown the very first x division champion, in this people would be eliminated by being pinned or made to submit twice in the match. Two would start and when one would be pinned or submitted he would await his next turn while another wrestler went in. I have to say that this match was amazing; Styles and Psichosis started it off both performing at the height of their game. When Psichosis was pinned Senshi [then known as Low Ki] rushed in and went to work on Styles. It was with these two that Styles actually pulled off a hurricarana from his back; he jumped up straight off his back and hit a hurricarana. Afterwards Senshi had to sit it out while Jerry Lynn came in and made quick work out of Styles. Now it was Psichosis in with Jerry Lynn, and what happened between these two will have you remembering WCW and their cruiserweight division. But after a cradle pile driver Psichosis is sent to the back after being eliminated, and Senshi jumps straight in and goes to war with Jerry Lynn. There is even an MMA inspired moment between these two. But it isn't enough for Senshi and he is eliminated, in comes Styles. After a great back and forth battle that Styles gets the pin, but that is only Lynn's first loss in the match. It is at this point that special referee Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat comes in and calls the insane action that follows. These two put on a show that gets me tired and I wasn't even in the match, these two battle it out with neither wanting to budge. Eventually AJ becomes the first x champ, and he earned that belt with this performance.5/52.TRIPLE LADDER MATCH-X DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP-JERRY LYNN VS AJ STYLES VS SENSHI-by this time Senshi [Low Ki] was the x champ and had to put it on the line for this classic bout right here. This is pretty much a rematch of the one above minus Psichosis, and with ladders. This is honestly one of the most entreating ladder matches I have ever seen in my life, these three put on a great show. There is some really innovative stuff in this match, including something I have always wanted to see in a ladder match with multiple matches. This is one of those matches that no matter who like or dislike you wish they all could win, these guys are that good. And after what was a great finish in this bout, Jerry Lynn becomes the X Division champ for the first time.5/53.TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP-AMW VS THE NEW CHURCH-next up is another great match that put former champs AMW against the current champs The New Church which was Slash and Brian Lee [R.I.P.]. this is a classic tag team brawl that put AMW on the map really in TNA. The feud these two teams had in TNA was great and really entertaining, great match up right here. The New Church really dominate most of this match over powering AMW. But Chris Harris and James Storm really prove how tough they are and what great wrestlers they are. AMW ends up taking the titles after a hard fought battle.5/54.WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP-JEFF JARRETT VS RAVEN-this was at the time the biggest match in TNA history in my opinion. If you had been lucky enough to be following TNA you would have seen one of the best laid out story lines in TNA. Ever since Raven had debuted in TNA he had not only become the most interesting character but his whole point of being there was because his destiny was to become NWA/TNA champion. This was Raven's first shot at Jarrett and he was there to win. This was battle and to be honest one of the best matches not only in TNA history but in each man's career. They both were bloodied by the end of this match, and both were spent. It was a back and forth battle that saw outside interference, people going threw tables, and finisher after finisher. Perry Saturn, Justin Credible, Sandman, and New Jack also appear in this match along side the Gathering to help out Raven. Sabu makes an appearance as well to help Jarrett, Sabu's exit is great as he plows through an actual fan, not a paid actor. Jeff Jarrett wins after a hard fought battle between these two, all the interference doesn't take away from this fight at all, it adds to it.Great release, I highly recommend it.

As a fan of TNA since the first show, I was very excited to watch this DVD. I believe that some of TNA's most impactful moments were during their weekly PPV years. As good as this dvd is to sit back and relive stories, I still feel that the dvd could have done better. For one, the video's go out of sequence to the stories, and I felt like they did more talking and less videos. This is probably the best TNA DVD that I have watched, but it is nowhere near the quality of a WWE DVD Documentary. If your a fan of the TNA early years or want to learn some history on the early years if you never got a chance to watch it is worth picking this dvd up. If you want to get caught up with TNA from the first year, this really isn't that type of dvd.

The thing that I have a problem with this dvd is that there are only 4 matches to see. Other then that,the documentary itself was helpful & informated. I give this dvd a 8 out of 10.

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