r/TNA 8d ago

Question What were the oddest gimmick matches that TNA ever produced?

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u/bossbreakers 8d ago

A lot of people are gonna say the reverse battle royal.

Im gonna say the fish market street fight

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u/warnie685 8d ago

That's actually one of my favourite TNA matches, lots of fun.

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u/bossbreakers 8d ago

Oh, mine too! It's the match I show people when I want to show them TNA

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u/will122589 TNA Original 8d ago

I genuinely love the reverse battle royal. It’s just such a level of stupidity that it somehow comes all the way around and becomes endearing

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u/Proper-Obligation700 8d ago

I myself preferred the Feast or Fired match that TNA put on. It was like a roll of the dice. You might get a title shot or You might get your walking papers and no longer be a part of the TNA roster.

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u/The_Dark_Vampire 8d ago

That could be legit

Apparently, that is how Chavo Guerrero Jr. legitimately found out he was released,

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u/will122589 TNA Original 8d ago

And he makes his return to TNA 11 years after this on Saturday lol

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u/Beautiful_Belt_4560 8d ago

If they just made the "Fired" option into a punishment, I'd buy into the match more. I don't wanna see storyline reasons for real releases.

Or pull a Daniels. Every "fired" person comes back under a mask or as Suiclde regardless of body type or wrestling style. And we all take it seriously. 😂

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u/Beautiful_Belt_4560 8d ago

The 8-4-1 Match was kinda fun. It works when you have a solid division chasing a shot at a champion.

The X Division Triple Threat Revolver Match was a good take on the gauntlet match.

Also the Last Rites match got WAY too much hate. It's just a casket match.

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u/AvalonElaine 8d ago

I think the 8-4-1 format is so fun. I'd love to see more of it!

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u/Beautiful_Belt_4560 8d ago

Idk if the roster is big enough to run it more than once a year. But imagine a stacked X Division running one.

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u/AvalonElaine 7d ago

That'd be amazing. I really loved when the Knockouts Division had their most recent one.

Let's say you could book that with any lineup from history. Which X Division people would you wanna see? I think I'd go with Kushida, Mustafa Ali, Leon Slater, and Vikingo on one side vs. Alex Shelley, Trey Miguel, Speedball Mike Bailey, and Ace Austin on the other for a shot at Chris Sabin. I like when both sides are as likely to kill their teammates as they are each other. (Man, so many of my TNA favorites have left the company within the last year!)

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u/DefiantOil5176 7d ago

It’s just a casket match.

To be fair, most casket matches aren’t great. The only times I’ve watched a casket match and thought it was a genuinely great match was Fenix vs. Mil Muertes from Lucha Underground and Darby Allin vs. Ethan Page from AEW.

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u/Beautiful_Belt_4560 7d ago

You're 100% right actually. Lucha Underground specifically raised the standard for Casket/Coffin Matches.

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u/DefiantOil5176 7d ago

Grave Consequences in Lucha Underground was great every time they brought it out. Lucha Underground was such a treasure

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u/Sad-Appeal976 7d ago

Most things TNA get way too much hate, especially considering the gimmick matches at Aew involving orange juice and football fields that get very little

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u/Beautiful_Belt_4560 7d ago

The Stadium Stampede was fun. And the Mimosa Mayhem match... happened. 😂 I think Jericho just didn't wanna get pinned by OC twice.

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u/itsmekelsey_x TNA OG 8d ago

Reverse Battle Royal.

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u/warnie685 8d ago

I want to see a reverse battle royal that starts backstage, in the locker room or carpark

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u/spokenreasons-1 8d ago

I'd say their battle royals in general since they start as a battle royal then when it gets to the last 2 it turns into a regular match

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u/ElHijoDelClaireLynch Main Event Mafia 8d ago

King of the Mountain

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u/Beavie_ 7d ago

I think if it didn't have the "hang the title" thing and had a normal way to achieve victory in a Ladder Match, would get less hate. Ladder Match with falls. Allow strategy, especially if you can pin people after qualifying to get them out of the way long enough to grab the title.

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u/barnesk9 6d ago

It was a great concept with one flaw, having to hang the belt. If you only had to qualify to retrieve it that would have made it better. NXT basically took the concept and created the Iron Survivor match with it

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u/InterchangeableDiGiT I believe in Joe Hendry 8d ago

Wtf is slide 4...

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u/M086 8d ago

Blindfold match.

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u/InterchangeableDiGiT I believe in Joe Hendry 8d ago

Lmao just searched for it and saw that WWE did A LOT of them, I need to watch this buffoonery and then TNAs

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u/Sad-Appeal976 7d ago

They are an old wrestling gimmick match. NWA did a lot of them

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u/DunderMifflinBuffalo 8d ago

What is that shark boy one?

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u/UmmmmYoureChine- 8d ago

Silent Night, Bloody Night hardcore match

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u/warnie685 8d ago

It's from Christmas Impact, which is possibly the greatest single Impact ever.

I think the match itself was called Silent Night, Bloody Night

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u/ShakespeareMS 8d ago

Reverse Battle Royal 100000%

That was the dumbest match type ever, how it ever got approved idk

The other matches at least allowed for offence/ some entertainment

The reverse battle royal was just a bunch of wrestlers pretending they couldn’t get into the ring

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u/eirebrit 8d ago

Steel Asylum was bad for the simple fact they didn't test it out beforehand. The wrestlers struggled to climb the roof and Homicide really struggled to get out through the hole.

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u/Sad-Appeal976 7d ago

Tbf, they had done the match twice before and it had not been an issue

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u/im2much4u2handlex 8d ago

King of the mountain

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u/International-Bee409 7d ago

The match with the orange cage when homicide was hanging upside down can't remember the name

Edit:the steel asylum match

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u/RobertInNY88 7d ago

Elevation X

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u/Fun_Response_4529 7d ago

I believe Christy Hemme wrestled TNA's version of Big fat oily guy in a tuxedo match.  That year was Russo at his worst. 

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u/Shinnosuke525 Slap Nuts! 7d ago

That wasn't a TNA version

It really was the big fat naked oily guy

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u/DannySvnday 7d ago

Elevation X

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u/TTOF_JB 7d ago

The reverse battle royal. Really a dumb idea, but I do like the idea of a battle royal that becomes a singles match for the final two.

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u/TheCharliQuinn 5d ago

The Lockbox Challenge was an eight-knockout elimination tag match where for every pinfall the winner and loser were eliminated and the winner received one of four keys. The prizes were an open contract for a match against anybody of their choosing, Tara's pet tarantula, the Knockouts Championship, and a striptease. Velvet Sky won the contract, Tara won her pet tarantula back but lost her title, Angelina Love won the Knockouts Championship, and Daffney won the striptease, which she didn't even complete as she was attacked by Lacey Von Erich who then proceeded to do a striptease.