{"id":323780,"date":"2026-04-24T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=323780"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:49:53","slug":"tna-impact-4-23-2026-3-things-we-hated-and-three-things-we-loved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/tna-impact-4-23-2026-3-things-we-hated-and-three-things-we-loved\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA Impact – 4\/23\/2026: 3 Things We Hated And three Things We Loved"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Saturday, April 25, it’s going to be exactly 26 years since I attended my first live wrestling event, where I saw David Arquette win the World Heavyweight Championship at an infamous taping of “WCW Thunder.” And now, here I’m, a quarter-of-a-century later, planning a marriage a thousand miles away, watching one other wrestling event taped within the Syracuse War Memorial, where I used to attend the Syracuse Auto Expo with my classic-car-obsessed father, now named for the hospital where I spent many days as a chronically-ill child, within the shadow of the Equitable Towers where I learned what grown-ups do at work, next to the Civic Center where I used to take acting classes, across the road from the convention center where I graduated highschool, and just a brief drive from the synagogue where I used to be Bar Mitzvah’d, that’s now being became student housing. One friend I attended that “Thunder” taping with died in an expert snowmobile race, speeding right into a wall, crashing into oblivion on Kentucky Derby Day, a few years ago.<\/p>\n

All of those ghosts got here flooding back to me in a Proustian rush of memory throughout the show, as\u00a0Mike Santana made a Jey Uso-esque entrance through hallways that I have never walked in at the least 15 years.<\/p>\n

I saw one WCW taping and two WWE house shows in that arena, and none of them were nearly as good as what “Impact” presented tonight. WCW in 2000 was in a sorry state of affairs, and WWE never really took Syracuse audiences seriously in my time as a wrestling fan, often phoning it in and dealing on spots for TV and PPV. So I can firmly say that tonight’s “Impact,” as boilerplate as it would’ve been, was the very best wrestling I’ve ever seen within the War Memorial at OnCenter.<\/p>\n

It was weird to see Syracuse taken so seriously. TNA might’ve taken the town more seriously in these couple of days of tapings than I did in my whole 18 years there. There was a shoutout to Upstate NY favorite, Dinosaur BBQ, and diverse references to the town being a dump, which it’s, but it surely was my dump for some time; the dump that made me the person I’m today.<\/p>\n

I’m not even the standard “Impact” editor. I just happened to be filling in.<\/p>\n

Call it “fate,” call it “God,” call it “windfall,” I used to be probably meant to see this show and realize how far that little 9-year-old WCW fan, who plugged his ears before every pyro burst, has come.<\/p>\n

Within the introductions, I normally say we’ll get “deep in our feelings” in regards to the show, and boy howdy was I telling the reality with this one.<\/p>\n

Written by Ross Berman<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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