Impact Wrestling's WORST Storyline? A Look Back at Claire Lynch
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2018
- Bad writing in wrestling is as inevitable as death and taxes ... find out what happens when the best in Impact Wrestling have to deal with a pregnant crack addict named Claire Lynch!
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This needs to be a series called Storylines. Where Brian reviews the best, worst, corniest, most interesting storylines across wrestling from the last 30 years. I would love to see a set series on just storylines and Brian giving us the history, rundowns and his opinions.
I'd watch it
Hell yeah
You could make the entire series around TNA storylines
what about the bride of KANE storyline ? i always hated that
That’s genius
Lets not forget the best thing to come out of this storyline. Christopher Daniels showing the world Kazarian has a personality
Kazaian is a dick cause he blocked me on Twitter for no reason so f##k him and Daniels
Lil Man Mullins Have you considered you are most likely an asshole
Since I was unable to watch TNA until 2016 (my cable didn't carry Spike), this is my 1st time seeing Kazarian with long hair LOL
As for the angle, I could tell how awful it was just by reading the reactions on Twitter.
+AlexGreat321
Agreed.
+RaWatcher
Agreed.
You know how you can have one really bad meal at a restaurant and you swear you'll never eat there again? That was me with this storyline. I was definitely in the boat of "Impact is way better than WWE" around this time and for a good while it was. Then this storyline happened. I was never more embarrassed to be a fan of wrestling, I stopped watching it probably 3 or 4 weeks into this storyline and never tuned in ever again. I even gave a lot of my wrestling shirts to Goodwill because I was done as a fan. It actually took me a while to watch WWE, RoH or NJPW again because this storyline had me THAT embarrassed to ever watch wrestling again. In fact if it weren't for Prince Devitt starting Bullet Club I may have never watched wrestling ever again.
Wait Volnutt? You can comment on the moon?
The fact that the scripts had Dixie called a beautiful and wealthy woman , while the younger more attractive actress was described as a foot shows what an utter mark she was for herself.
Julia looks really pretty when she’s not playing a crack addict
That's what people always tell me and I always respond "I'm not playing a crack addict that's just my regular face."
@@josephtelegen8754 I found it hilarious
Yup...her appearance sure seemed different in her wrestling role.i sorta feel bad for her the way she was put thru the whole mess.
Lol, yeah she looks really pretty in her other work but looks a little plain and college athlete-y when portraying a psycho. That's the power of makeup and decent acting I guess.
Oh god. I actually remember this storyline. I try my hardest to forget this.
To add to this, I didn't know the actress quit because of the horrible threats she received. She didn't deserve that.
Mecha Buu Same here, brother.
I stopped watching Impact when they revealed Claire Lynch... they should have stopped at the Styles/Carter part of the storyline
Fanboys are the worst.
yeah, i felt bad for her too, that was pretty fucked up for them to do that to her.
Mecha Buu yeah, they took that way too far. I get she was a heel, but she's still a fucking person
That was Katie Vick sister same mother different fathers
The greatest show On earth
it's Becky Lynch's sister.
I dunno, she didn't go "AJ STYLES YOU FOOKIN' ANIMAL YE".
😂
@Karl M Nope. Katie Vick was worse and nothing good came from it. At least this gave us Bad Influence and showed Kazarian has personality.
The sad part about this is how dumbasses treated the actress for doing her job. That's why there is still the conception of us wrestling fans being idiots.
Sooo Julia was my roommate when I worked at Disney. She rented me out a room in her house and I had NOOO idea she was involved with wrestling until like a year after I moved out. Lol. Very sweet lady.
Cool bro
Lie
Cool story, bro
@@sheepdavis it’s true. I was the house they lived in. He brought home many Donald Duck and Haunted Mansion items for my room.
@@sheepdavis how do you know?
"Poorest idea ever conceived."
Nice pun :)
All of a sudden, I don't think Shinsuke's ballbusting AJ enough. Honestly, he should go the way of Cassie Cage's X-Ray in MKX.
BlossomOfThorns agreed.
Cassie Cage's Fatality Ended Up Being Undertaker's Tombstone Piledriver LOL Cassie Cage: Heehee That's The Wrong Fatality Taker Had It First
Might as well just go with her fatality in MK11.
This has Russo written all over it. All that was missing was Claire winning the world title in a pregnancy test on a pole match win over AJ, Angle, and Hernandez.
And a miscarriage.
It was Eric Bischoff's idea. Vince Russo had quit TNA again by then.
@@InstagramAWrestlingHistorianBischoff must have read Russo's notes before he left. 😂
That baby is more real than the one in American Sniper.
I stopped watching American Sniper before that point.
wstine79 bruh 😂😂😂
At least it wasn't a HAND! Urk...gotta go drink more bleach before I continue to remember the Mark Henry/Mae Young affair!
@@theblocksays Claire > reigns
@@theblocksays cool hand luke
the eddie vs rey (dominick) feud is by far my favorite bad story line ever. the angle was SOOO bad but the matches were insanely good.
And then the "Eddie's Estate" storyline that took place after he died. I stopped watching Smackdown for a couple of months because of that.
The Eddie vs Rey thing was just a rehash of Sandman vs Raven involving Sandman's kid. It made me laugh.
It was Dumb but Honestly I liked the I AM YOU PAPI shirt Eddie had lol
Sting Rey and as awful as it was Eddie’s promos were on point during that time
I loved that they had a ladder match to determine the custody of a child...that shit was prime Wrestlecrap. What made it better was that they had a lady come out with Dominic who was supposed to be a custody official of some kind. So it was all supposed to be fine and dandy with officials that a child's custody be fought out in a ladder match. It was so blitheringly stupid, it was like a Vince Russo tribute of some kind.
the story line itself was dumb, but the performances both in ring and out of it were done excellently.
The only way that’s crowd could have been more dead would be if they started playing Rob Conway’s entrance theme.
No one wanted to just look at him.
😂😂😂😂
@@Xehanort10 he wasn’t a sight to see
@@rickyrosay33977 the whole damn world didn't want to... look like him.
@ahmadzahraniAAZ
And like you, he didn't had his way with many many girls
OMG This video has revealed to me that the woman who did my orientation as a new Universal Orlando employee back in 2016 was none other than Claire Lynch omg.
Fans ruining a person's career due to sheer entitlement? Why am i not surprised.
The horrible storyline certainly did not help, but its a storyline... its fiction
I don’t think that Claire Lynch killed TNA, but she definitely danced on its grave. This storyline was TNA’s Katie Vick.
I'd even argue that this is worse than the Katie Vick storyline. Katie Vick may have been written to push book sales, gave us Triple H humping a mannequin in a funeral parlour and implied (also never denied) that Kane was a necrophiliac but it was consistent with Kane's character of having a tortured/troubled past where you could believe that he could've accidently killed his then girlfriend.
Whereas the Clair Lynch story was all over the place from the start, beginning with "AJ & Dixie are having an affair" to "no actually they're helping a crackhead" to "also AJ is the crackheads baby daddy" until finally ending with "lol JK not really you guys" it all felt like a waste of everyone's time, partly due to the actress leaving mid story.
Ok let's not go that far now
The biggest blessings of this angle was...
1) The creation of Bad Influence
2) AJ Styles 13' Lone Wolf Storyline
But Impact couldn't even afford these guys when they needed them most. Darn it.
+Revolution 161
#FACTS
Also AJ's lone wolf gimmick got him super popular when he was about to leave the company which lead to bullet club which lead to him coming to WWE and winning the title. It was like the wrestling gods rewarded him with the best 5-6 year stretch of his career
SCU
*Vince Russo: 'Claire Lynch was AJ's best angle EVA BRO'*
RockaJabroni 😂😂😂😂
NO its NOT
😂😂😂
Somehow Russo's name gets dragged into a storyline discussion lol.
would have eventually led to a paternity test on a pole match
Chris Daniels, the most underrated worker of all time. Damn, I love that guy.
Almost was The Higher Power
If...if Claire was never pregnant, how did they have a paternity test for there to be results for them to spoil by Claire saying she was never pregnant?
Simple answer to your question, sir: this storyline sucks. The end!
Vince Russo Swerve
You have to do the whole Kane, Matt Hardy, and Lita storyline.
He did it in 'Top Eight Worst Kane Angles (excluding Katie Vik)
It needs a separate episode.
-Why?
-Because... IT'S THE MAGIC OF RAPE! *ding!*
Djarra it needs it's own video
Dante Williams Agreed
Wait. So in 2012, TNA won Best Weekly Program...and was voted Worst Promotion for, at the time, the SIXTH year straight! How does that work?!
Cuz they had the best and the worst storylines
Wwe at that time was just like still water nothing really happened there
@@DeathShock28 Weekly WWE really, *really* sucked. People Power!
Hearing about the abuse the actress got from this makes me sad. If you don't like a storyline, criticise the company and writers all you like and when in doubt, blame Vince Russo. But you shouldn't threaten and abuse the performers. At the end of the day, they're just people trying to make a living (and in this case, since it was TNA, she probably wasn't making much of a living from it anyway).
This sadly doesn't just apply to wrestling. Actors have received death threats from TV shows & movies. Even a toddler. I WISH I made that last one up. Here's a link for this...
czcams.com/video/2uVgdyetMmk/video.html
I always feel sorry for actors who play villains when they get attacked by loonies who can't tell the difference between reality and fiction and think the actors are their characters and did what their characters did.
@@Xehanort10 Right. It's just insane. People actually spammed her business online profile with hatred for the character she was playing on TNA as if she was actually that character.
*sigh* As an actor, I feel really bad for Julia. The fact that she had to quit because of crazy fans is too terrible for any actor to go through, and I've been hearing a lot of stories related to actors being harassed over stuff they had no control of. Example: Josh Keaton, and also his wife I believe, being harassed by Voltron shippers.
As a wrestling fan, it's these types of people that makes fans like me ashamed to be one. I understand, this story sucked, but that doesn't mean that you have to go crazy on someone who is just there to perform and make money. It's not her fault that she was in a bad story! Who knows? She could've had a good time acting there. I hope nothing but the best for Julia.
Paul Dennett What's worst is that they're shipping BROTHERS. What is wrong with people?
True but it IS her fault that her acting is laughable. She did not deserve to be harassed regardless.
Seriously? Man, I friggin' love Josh Keaton. His performances as Spider-Man and Green Lantern were stellar.
@@dylanogg347 he voiced Steve Rogers in Marvel’s What If series on Disney+
@@claymathewselevator8121 Sweet.
Hope the angle and subsequent trolling didn't affect Julia's career in the long run.
And she's a beautiful lady.
Arindam S. Roy yeah that's mad grimy of them to not tell her the specifics when they hired her. Hope she managed to recover from this
AlwaysLookCool 729 why are cringy wrestling fans that take it to seriously assholes
DJ Cream I feel so bad for her, she was harrased by a bunch of assholes who are too stupid to understand that she was acting, and that the storyline was fucking fake
@@GothGirlKara It's the sector of wrestling fandom who think it's 1000% real, even the story-angles.
@@theblocksays seems toxic as hell.
I was watching every week around this time, this was terrible.
SegaCDUniverse The matches were pretty good though.
SegaCDUniverse Same. I pretty much stopped caring about TNA at that point, although I do watch it from time to time.
Yeah, though it seems to have gotten better as of late
Me too. I was watching because TNA was solid at the time. But, this angle was so trashy, I wanted to see how bad it could become.
gojenson Same here
LOVE THE NEW INTRO!
At least, It’s not about a wrestler kidnapped his boss daughter and married her kayface.
yeah they'd never do something that far fetched..........
พงศกร ฉ่ำพึ่ง that was cool
This was worse. That was wild but at least it went somewhere & they worked their way out of it.
พงศกร ฉ่ำพึ่ง that was kinda fun tho
Kayface, you son of a bitch !💪🏾
WrestleCrap's 2012 Gooker Award winner, everyone!
Maximus4587 Zane totally needs to do a video with RD and Blade.
@@thekidfromiowaThe Fact that Impact was also Wrestling Observer's Tv Show Of The Year must of really had them laughing their ass off.
@@thekidfromiowa Sadly, that will be impossible now as Blade Braxton passed away in March of 2021...
By the way, Chavo and Hernandez won that match. Also, WWE was pretty damn good in 2012: CM Punk as WWE Champion throughout the year, the impetus of the Yes Movement, Team Hell No, great matches for the World Heavyweight Championship (especially at Over the Limit), Punk Vs. Bryan, Brock Lesnar's return, A PERFECT STORM, a short but great run from Y2J, the debut of The Shield, WrestleMania XXVIII, Iron-Clad Contract Big Show, and a lot more. Although, that was the year when John Cena was all over the place, with main events against Kane, Big Show and John Laurinaitis.
People Power
Team Hell No was awesome
The only Lynch in wrestling I care about is named Becky.
I agree
#BeckyFearsTheWoooo
@@Sheriff_Curtis
*BULLSHIT*
+Dan M.
#FACTS
@@DemonArshan Tell that to Seth Rollins...
so this storyline is part of the reason the internet wrestling community thinks they have all the power in the world....
Only good to come from this was AJ's eventual character transformation
I was a major TNA diehard at the time, & I unfortunately do remember this god awful storyline. Had no idea about all the behind the scenes drama, involving the actress who played Claire Lynch, though. I still believe that this was the turning point that made AJ decide to leave TNA. I, myself, quit watching very shortly afterwards.
No wonder AJ got the hell out of that company. I'm surprised he stayed as long as he did. This storyline made no sense at all and it was so unbelievable. First they wanted the fans to believe that AJ was sleeping with Dixie Carter. Then all of a sudden he got some random woman pregnant and she is a crackhead. 🤦♀️
Chantholli89 this storyline was AJ's idea
Chantholli89 well of course he is one of the best wrestlers in history if you got booked like the way he did during the end of his 10 year wouldn't you quit after what you did for a company and you get booked like that
DElena's Co it was
Garrett Johnson yeah, watch Daniels and kazarian's interview
DElena's Co oh man ....WHY DID IT EVEN GET GRERN LIT ok sorry about that
I think that was a Jerry Springer chant as opposed to the King?
Luchador Beaux yes
Which is why BZ said Maurry would have been a more apt chant
haha, i thought it was a pic of Enzo. I am at work watching on a tiny screen
Who said anything about it be related to the king, of course it was a Jerry springer chant.
ECTrouble I read the situation Wrong my bad :-)
You know what's funny?
That segment with the baby doll was the first episode I had seen in TNA Impact. 😐
Isn’t the Claire Lynch storyline basically South Park’s “W.T.F.” episode?
ibrahero Essentially.
OMFG it is!
Great episode
Wow, I had NO EARTHLY IDEA that about Claire Lynch and who she really was. I had the compulsion to watch this video because I was familiar with the angle and wanted to have a good laugh, but honestly, now I only find myself feeling bad for her.
Way to do your research, man. I’ve been subscribed to you for a little while now and I’ve been loving what I see, even the old stuff. I haven’t been this interested in wrestling videos outside of top ten countdowns since I stopped regularly watching the actual programs themselves.
Don't get me wrong this angle was horrendous but it did have some benefits. Not so much TNA but the people involved. Daniels and Kazarian made a fantastic tag team and are still tag partners today. And while I assume it was mainly because of money issues, I'm sure that angle is what made AJ realize that he is much better than what the company has been giving him. This man bent over backwards for TNA and they treated him like he was just an average joe. So he decided to leave and went to do bigger and better things and look at where he is now.
Average Joe? At that point (2012-2013) he was a 2x grand slam champion and did everything he possibly could in TNA. Where is this myth coming from? TNA treated him beyond well.
Yeah. They just gave him a bad storyline. It happens to everyone in pro wrestling.
But AJ "didn't shed a tear after leaving TNA". That's understandable considering the way his final contract negotiation went.
TheManWithoutFear Exactly. TNA were gonna give him a pay cut. This man was referred by many as "Mr. TNA" and THIS is how they treat their top guy?
Almost lose a match to James Elsworth
Sounds like a play on the name "Blair Witch"
The Claire Lynch Project where you're walking in dark woods when you hear a shout of "DO THE RIGHT THING AJ."
1:33 - 1:42 i feel your pain
Not even Vince Russo could write something this cringeworthy....
Hey, don't look at me, he wasn't booking at the time!
When Brian was saying how a wrestler shows how professional he is by going on with a terrible angle, I couldn't help but think of everything they've done to Kane. Bravo to Glen Jacobs for putting up with it all
Looking back: TNA really treated AJ Styles like shit with storylines like these. He was one of their most loyal & over original stars. When they made him Ric Flair's protege by having 2 random valets under his arm, that was another thing that wasn't believable. That might be a good thing to have beautiful women in your corner, but AJ as far as I know loves his wife & is a family man. He is the polar opposite of Ric Flair. Overall he seems like a good guy. As bad as WWE is, at least they don't do shit like this to him.
Julia is a wonderful person. She didn't deserve the hate.
The one thing that annoyed me was when they went on about how attractive she was, as if that had any bearings on the storyline! They were trying to portray AJ as having cheated on his wife, so to make him NOT look like the bad guy, the other woman had to be an ugly, drug addicted rapist.
It's insulting to those with drug addictions and it was pathetic.
"Dumbest angle TNA ever conceived..."
(Un)intentional pun?
This angle was like a combination of Eddie and reys 2005 angle and the undertaker trixy angle from 2003
With all worse parts 😂
How bad were Raw, SD, and ROH TV for Impact to be called the best show of 2012?
Keep doing these storyline videos. This is awesome!!!
Blues Saraceno man. Right choice!
SauROnmiKE I love the remix of the song.
Great musician but bad replacement for C.C. in Poison.
"She looks like The Lizard." Daniels with that hot comic reference
Fitting as The Amazing Spider-Man came out in 2012 too
Congratulations 200k bud keep it up.
Vince McMahon tried to do a story line where he had an incestuous relationship with Stephanie... just throwing it out there.
I will say Julia Reilly (Claire Lynch) is a good actress. She has a CZcams channel (czcams.com/users/PresenterTradeshow) and I checked out her work. I must say it's miles better than her performance in TNA.
Internet haters, SHAME ON YOU!!! Yes, the storyline is awful but don't attack Julia because of her acting, attack Dixie for creating such an awful character!!!!!!
Could have become a great heel manager if she were a wrestling fan. The storyline was awful but the character could have morphed into something better.
X Baron, yeah but Julia doesn't have the experience on being a crying victim. I don't think she even cried as Olive Oil so yeah, she's only known for promoting a product.
I must say, despite what Christopher Daniels and and Kazarian thinks, Julia (Claire Lynch) is a very cute woman.
That channel doesn't exist now...maybe wrestling has done it to her again. Poor Julia :P
Reilly wasn't ugly by any stretch and its a shame she had to quit and leave the Internet over such a dumpster fire storyline, but what can you do...
yea I agree she is attractive
Battle for the worst angle: Katie Vick vs Claire Lynch storylines, no holds barred. The winner (if you can call it that) gets Brian Zane's belt. The only problem is, we all lose.
Loved how you put "Evil Ways" in the end song. It was an awesome theme... Until wwe sent they're cease and desist
This is the angle that made me give up on TNA.
I believe that, I walked away form WWF after that one guy crashed into Lita and she lost the baby, and that guy whoever he was kept insisting that it wasn't his fault.
Who created this angle? Vince Russo? What a shitty storyline for the best wrestler on the planet.
Murray Lindsay AJ created it himself it was his idea to this kind of storyline
Bill The Grammar Supermacist I didn't say that i just he came up with the idea to do a Holy bible type of storyline
Bill The Grammar Supremacist his idea was that Claire would be Dixie’s niece
New intro vid is ace. Keep doing it for the Content!
Let the cringing begin🍿🍿
Update: I paused and cringed at least 30 times
Dazed Gypsy Agreed
Thanks to this, we got the 'Lone Wolf' AJ Styles angle.
Great theme song
It could have been worse. Julia Reilly could have been put through a table by Bully Ray.
and then the baby miscarries and Bully tells the audience that it's not his fault- oh wait.
Do every big show face/heel turn
EVERY big show turn?? i don't know, Brian has a family he might want to spend some time with... plus the video would be about 12 hours long. :)
tho a really quick video of how many turns big show had and their impact vs how many chris jericho had and their impact, could be interesting.
I wonder if they make meds to prevent him form going heel? That would be a funny angle for him for if he comes back....then Shane insults him and he falls off the wagon and just punches everyone in the locker room.
I had this video paused at 5:48. I completely forgot about it until browsed back to the tab hours later and was greeted by Crazy-Eyed Brian Zane lol. Completely unexpected.
I fell off watching TNA at a good time because it saved me from experiencing this storyline. How you go from we're helping her get clean to your the father of my baby in a span of a week. Made no sense. I lost it at the part when you said Dixie peaced out because no one was fighting over her anymore lmaoooo. Great video breaking this down. Excited for the new season of WWW. That opening intro grew on me in an instant.
I can imagine the fans did harass the actress who played Claire Lynch, especially when you have people like AJ Styles saying in interviews that if she were attractive that the angle could have worked. That was a dick move. He basically called her ugly, so no wonder fans attacked her.
There is a lot more to this story though, it wasn’t supposed to be some random girl. She was meant to be a member of the Carter Family. But Dixie’s father vetoed it because he was afraid they would look bad.
I’ve been waiting for this Brian. I’ve been waiting for this!
So that's why AJ has the soccer mom hairdo he does now
Thank you for covering this clisterfuck of storyline, Years being a wrestling fan but couldn't see why this storyline was son infamous. Keep it the good work, Brian.
The biggest complex thing to me is feuding to team to feuding to teaming back to feuding with Kurt angle
I'd loved to see you do a video on the Aces and Eights storyline.
You got your wish in 2019
Could you do Aces and Eights?
Michael Dooley Aces & Eights was actually good until Chris Sabin beat Bully Ray for the world title. It's alot like NWO, it just went on too long and ran out of gas
Hey! It's AJ before he developed the Billy Ray Cyrus look!
You should cover Heel Dixie from the winter 2013 whereabouts with the Dixieland gimmick match
EC3 and Rockstar Spud were hilarious in TNA
I was surprised to see this as an Impact thing but then I remembered I stopped watching the company for some time when the affair deal just started happening. Looks like I got out at just the right time then, didn't I?!
I did start rewatching the show about a year or so later and have been watching since. Thankfully the shit has gotten better.
At least We got the best tag team in Wrestling out of this.
1:22 OMG !! Lol
The lawyer was played by Chrlene Watkins who has a lot of bit part credits in sit coms to her name. I don't think she and Dixie are related, in fact IMDB gives her birthplace as of all places Hartford, Connecticut.
I love the new intro!!!
"You know I was drugged. I have to be to sleep with a foot like that" might be the single greatest quote of all time!!
I can just picture Jim Cornette saying, “You’d have to be Gene Snitsky to sleep with a foot like that!”
(followed by the old, “or whatever the f***,”)
Don’t know what the hell was going on at this team in TNA/Impact but man, Kazarian was such a good wrestler
This stroyline ranks up there with the Aces & Eights as some my of favorites for the level of being wacky. I love Kaz and C Daniels yet it was AJ getting a push in this one. Other tag teams I dig from this era is Beer Money!
The new intro is stellar.
Bill Apter: Owner of the world's most optimistic comb-over.
The alliteration at 5:52!
Thank you, I feel that that joke hasn't gotten enough love.
It's weird that this was the start of AJ's dark turn. After this, he lost the Bound for Glory series, lost a match against James Storm and Bobby Roode that meant he couldn't challenge for the main belt for almost a year, and lost a "Final match" against Daniels with Daniels using the Styles clash.
Great video as always
Do the right thing Brian Zane...give this epic storyline the proper respect!!!!
i remember this storyline it was definitely a wrestling storyline though i'll admit daniels and kazarian were funny and tried their best to make this dumpster fire halfway watchable.
This may be hard to believe but the Claire Lynch storyline happened during a creative resurgence in TNA. There was a ton of great stuff happening during that time, the most memorable of which was Austin Aries' ascent up the card and beating Roode for the title.
The Mulholland Dr shirt had to be Daniels ribbing the angle, right? Side note - awesome t shirt and I want one.
Damn, she was really hot in that Goodwill commercial.
Oh so that's why Nakamura keeps hitting Styles in his jewels
If he hadn't shown a picture of this Maury guy, I wouldn't have understood the Jerry reference in the chants. Thought they were referring to Jerry Jarrett and wondered what awful thing he might have done. :D
I wanna know more about that unique all you can eat dinning experience tbh