I am shocked. I am stunned. I am also wrong, and I will take this opportunity to say kudos to TNA for putting the Machine Guns and Kaz over last night in their respective matches. A little more of that, and I will be very hyped up for TNA again. I am happy AJ & Tomko retained. I fear for Gail Kim's safety at the hands of Awesome Kong. I could go without Eric Young and James Storm trying to figure out who's gonna get drunk faster and throw up quicker. It sounded like the Abyss Black Reign match was nasty. (good nasty).
I am wrong. I was wrong with the preview I gave. I'll update my record later, but I can guarantee you this. I lost two matches, easily. I am stunned that 3D and Cage did not win. I hope its the beginning of a new directive to bring in the DESERVING younger talent.
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If that was true, the idiots in the Impact Zone would've cheered Kaz and the two Hardy wannabes, plus every other 'young deserving' talent on the roster. The fact of the matter remains that despite what's said here and on the web, on a main stream level, no one wants to see Kaz, Sabin or Shelley, hell there were more signs for Nash and Karen Angle than there were for those three jumping beans
I like the Machine Guns team, despite the fact that their just seems like a completely random name.
Give yourself a name, dude... something like "anonymous" just makes me think you're nothing more than an angry, grumpy child who's upset that Santa will be giving him/her a lump of coal.
I think that TNA is at a crossroads. On one hand, they can put over Kaz, MCMGs, and Robert Rude. On the other hand, they can push Nash, 3D, and the Steiners (who look like they need to be in a nursing home). They can either go the way of WCW (another WWE), or the way of ECW (more indy, grassroots wresting with mainstream reach).
We all have our favorites in TNA (mine being Styles, Joe, Cage, and basically the whole figgin' X-division), but I still have to put up with Sting, Nash, and Kurt Angle (who looks in lala land). This is kind of like watching the WWE, putting up with crap to watch what we are interested in the most.
But TNA needs to decide - focus on what made you unique, or focus on being the next WCW, where WWE castoffs go.
Hey, what' the fuck is iwth the bashing of WCW? And let's not forget, ECW was built on WWF and WCW castoffs (Jimmy Snuka was their first champ for christ sakes, RVD and Jerry Lynn were WCW rejects, Raven, Justin Credible and Shane Douglas were droppings from the WWF) So the grassroots comment is really out of place. TNA is fine as is, and the WWE is fine as is (would be better when Cena comes back)
I understand what you are saying, but when I first starting watching TNA, I saw guys like AJ Styles (A WWE castoff) that the WWE would have never thought could carry a match. They were more of under-the-radar (the casual fan might not have seen them, which is what I mean by grassroots), and gave guys opportunities that they might not have gotten (something I link with ECW in a way). I'm not putting down WCW, but when I think of them, I don't think of the place Booker T got his main-event start, but a place where Nash, Hogan, Hall, Macho Man, Piper went to after the WWE. We saw those guys before. It's like when a sports team says, "Screw the farm system/draft, let's just load up on free agents." TNA has/had a great stable of young wrestlers, but they need that push.
Ben, not that I need to correct you, but I think it's much more accurate to call Styles a WCW castoff than WWE. The only recorded match of him in WWE was on 2002's Jakked (jan 26) jobbing to Hurricane Helms. He worked much longer in WCW (about three months or so) before going to WWF.
TNA's major problem is their enormous roster with two hours. If they actually slow things down and have an A-Rated show, a lot of workers get upset. When they try to include everone, the show becomes a clusterfuck. (Excuse my language.)
jinsei, no worries. I didn't follow wrestling that much then, and thanks for the correction.
And yes, clusterfuck is a perfect way to describe TNA.
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