It's Monday. You know what that means. Sort of. As a very special taster, we're offering up the first part of our new Patreon series, Destination Cancellation, for free this week so non-patrons can sample it and have it serve as a bridge to next week's return of the regular free show. (This first episode of Destination Cancellation dropped for Patrons this past Friday.) After an intro previewing the Patreon show and next week's regular show, you get the entire first part of what will be a seven week series covering the disaster that was TNA Wrestling from the July 2014 Spike TV cancellation through the end of the Destination America run in December 2015. If you like this episode and want to hear the other six parts that are dropping in the coming weeks, subscribe to our Patreon at the $5.00/month tier or higher, with annual subscriptions running $50.40 and thus saving you 16% off the monthly price. Enjoy!

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It's Friday. You know what that means: The first of SEVEN installments covering TNA's 2014 cancellation by Spike TV through the end of their run on Destination America in 2015. Part 1 covers the weeks of July 14 to August 25, 2014, and topics of discussion include:

• Why everyone was convinced that Vince Russo was secretly working for TNA.
• Russo accidentally revealing it by sending Mike Johnson an email he meant to send to Mike Tenay.
• Russo's ridiculous, ever-changing reactions to the situation.
• Dixie Carter's inexplicable unflinching loyalty to Russo.
• Spike TV and Japanese partner promotion Wrestle-1 both making it clear to TNA that they did not want Russo around.
• TMZ breaking the story that Spike TV had cancelled TNA Impact.
• The big new TV announcement is coming soon! They promise! Just wait for the next TV taping!
• Production staff among others being owed lots of back pay.
• Kevin Kay visiting an Impact taping AFTER cancelling the show.
• How Kay's handling of the cancellation was fueled by his regret over how he handled the end of the Spike/WWE deal nine years earlier.
• Rafael Morffi and other key office staff abandoning ship for better, non-wrestling jobs.
• TNA is negotiating with...Velocity, Discovery's car and airplane channel?

....and much more. Enjoy!

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