10 Wrestling Matches That Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Meant To See
3. Kurt Angle Prepares To Blade
TNA.
The very initials conjure feelings of pure, unabashed schadenfreude. The nicest thing one can possibly say about the promotion is that, sometimes, just sometimes, it was as spectacular as it was comically inept.
The shadow of WWE looms over AEW to such an extent that still, two years in, the brains of certain fans are wired to expect something sh*tty on Dynamite purely because WWE once did something related to it that was sh*tty. Whenever AEW holds a contract signing, as an example, a prayer circle is formed. Don't do it like WWE, AEW fans say with hands clasped.
Don't do a table bump.
It's a legitimate phenomenon that indicts WWE's post-2001 era, and the ghost of TNA is equally scary. When Christian Cage held the AEW Title aloft on his first Dynamite appearance, too many people thought he was getting the next shot despite the existence of the rankings framework. WWE and TNA aren't merely bad.
They are traumatic.
In just one LOLTNA moment, at Genesis 2011, the production crew did literally the one thing you don't do when a wrestler is fiddling with the blade.
They captured him in close-up fiddling with the blade.
"Let's get a great shot of those wires!" no Hollywood director has ever, ever said.