PW Boards TNA Heavyweight Championship Tournament

Omackeral

It's been a while since I've run one of these so thought I would give it a go. It's a simple concept, we put all former TNA Champions into a tournament and find out, through voting, who the best of all time is. We've had successful ones for various other titles but this is the first time we visit Impact Wrestling. For the record, while TNA started in 2002, it's own world title didn't come into being until 2007. However, it controlled the NWA Heavyweight title from 2002 to 2007 so all champions between those years were TNA workers.

There have been a total of 25 TNA champions. All Triple Crown winners (i.e. Heavyweight, X Division and Tag title holders) get a bye into Round 2, as well as the longest reigning champion not to hold that distinction. This gives us even bracket numbers for the tournament. Got it? Ok let's go!!!

Omackeral

Round 1 matches will be first to three. First wrestler to receive three votes will advance.

A random number generator will be used to make the draw.

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Rhino

The War Machine






vs





Mr. Anderson

...ANDERSON!

beakerjoe

Nether were glorious champions and both had jumped the shark by the time they claimed the gold.

Kennedy for me.....just

Stereomaniac

Rhyno.

gerrybbadd

Rhino for me. Simply because I seen nothing of Anderson reign.

Plus, Rhino was literally a beast

nasty_crash

Kennedy for me... much better all rounder than rhyno imo

Omackeral

I'd go with Mr Anderson myself. Rhino is the man but he only held it for a month or something and was never as good as he was in ECW or WWE

Omackeral

The bark is worse than the bite as Mr Anderson puts down the Manbeast.

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Matt Hardy

The Only World Champion That Matters







vs



James Storm


The Cowboy

beakerjoe

Matt hardy for me

Storm was given.a token reign and even though its in its infancy, Matt Hardy is going a great job as a heel champ

A Brad Maddox Guy

Hardy for me too, same reason as beakerjoe.

thebostoncrab

As much as I hate to say this....Matt Hardy

Omackeral

The Cowboy rides off into the sunset as current champion Matt Hardy moves on.

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Jeff Hardy

The Anti-Christ of Professional Wrestling







vs




Rob Van Dam


The Whole F'n Show

beakerjoe

Jeff by a mile....

chopperbyrne

Jeff

RVD was awful in TNA.

Necro

Jeff for me too. Raging I missed the first two rounds!

Omackeral

Jeff's amazing heel work in TNA sees him go over in whitewash fashion.


Ron Killings

The Truth







vs




Raven

''What about me..?''

Necro

I kind of want to give Ron a vote here to avoid a whitewash... But it has to be Raven.

gerrybbadd

The former K Kwik, future R Truth for me.

He had a great run in TNA.

LeeJM

Raven for me. He should have won it alot sooner than he did.

Kankan14

Raven.

He was better. Thats it really

Omackeral

Raven has too much for Truth to handle. Moving on...

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Mick Foley

The Hardcore Legend







Vs




Lashley

The Destroyer

Necro

Lashley. Didn't even know Foley was champion to be honest!

ShagNastii

I'll echo the above. I legitimately can't think of a single TNA moment for Foley. When was he there?

Lashley 2-0

LeeJM

Lashley by default for me. Foley was awful in TNA. Without a doubt the worst period of his career

brianregan09

Lashley

Omackeral

Foley does not have a nice day as the Boss Bobby Lashley powers through.

Ethan Carter III

troubletroubletroubletroubletrouble







Vs



Bully Ray

Hardcore 5150

Necro

Bully Ray without question for me.

thebostoncrab

This is actually a tough one for me. They are both great for different reasons...but Bully's reign just edges it for me

Bounty Hunter

Hard draw for EC3 but Bully for me

beakerjoe

EC3 for me, though im too late. Hes the best thing on TNA the last year or so

Omackeral

EC3 bites the dust as the former Aces and 8's leader advances.


Magnus

The First Ever British World Champion








Vs




Ken Shamrock

The World's Most Dangerous Man