TNA Impact Albany Crowd Looks Rough – Empty Seats Dominate TV Taping
Wednesday night in upstate New York, TNA brought the full Thursday Night iMPACT! production to the Broadview Center: lasers cutting through the darkness, the classic red-and-black ring apron gleaming, and enough pyro to light up the Capital Region. Too bad barely anyone showed up to see it.
From the photos and early hardcam shots, the building looked depressingly hollow. Lower bowl had some pockets of life, but the upper levels were straight-up abandoned. By 8:30 PM it still felt like a dress rehearsal rather than a national TV taping.
Over on TNA Asylum, the die-hards were already lighting each other up in the comments:
“Bro this crowd is DEAD. Looks like a house show in 2009.”
“They must have given away 60% of the tickets. The hardcam is gonna be brutal on TV.”
“The 200 real fans who showed up were loud… but damn the empty seats were louder.”
One optimist tried: “It’ll look better once they zoom in!” (he was promptly ratio’d)
Classic TNA fan discourse — half coping, half roasting the promotion they love. You gotta respect it.Look, the wrestling is usually solid. The production value continues to punch way above what the live attendance suggests.
But when your TV show’s big return to Albany looks this light on bodies, it’s hard not to meme it. At least the lighting was pretty?
The beams hit different when there’s nothing blocking them.Will night two (Thursday) fill up more? Or are we getting two straight ghost towns? More? Stay tuned!
