TNA and ROH are not comparible (Why I am now chessarmy)

[chessarmy]

Ok...hear me out. Before I get called "mark" or "omg you ride TNA's dick" or some shit like that, just read what I have to say first...

As you all know...i used to be TNAisWrestling until Hard Justice where I got pissed off about Joe losing in a predictable screwjob to Kurt Angle. After like 2 or 3 monthes of watching ROH exclusively (along with changing my name to ROHisWrestling) I decided that I didn't think ROH was the right promotion for me...here is why.

Yes, I enjoy great wrestling...as a matter of fact, I love watching awsome wrestling matches but the problem is, I need to CARE about who is going to win. It just seemed that with Ring Of Honor, they just threw together a bunch of mid card matches and then 2 important ones and then we have a show. It almost seems like their was too much wrestling and not enough storytelling. You see, with me...I want a wrestling promotion to have great storylines and awsome wrestling, ROH had the awsome wrestling but I just couldnt connect with the storylines. Sure, their are some fueds that are memorable like Briscoes/Steen and Generico and Nigel/Dragon, but it just wasnt working for me. I ended up forcing myself to watch it just so I can still call myself an ROH fan, then I gave up.

TNA on the other hand, is a wrestling promotion (bad booking or not) that has storytelling AND great wrestling. I feel like whenever I order a TNA PPV I am going to get at least one match of the year candidate in it. Sure, it was the same with ROH but in ROH I didnt care as much about the storylines. Their also wasnt enough star power to keep me interested, while in TNA they have Angle, Sting, Joe, and others that I am huge fans of (mostly Joe). Anyway, the point of my thread is that I dont think TNA and ROH are comparible. Its like comparing the New Jersey Devils to the Lowell Devils (their minor league affiliate). Why? Because one company is a global promotion and the other is an indie. I think of ROH as the minor leagues of Wrestling (that is not an insult btw) and I think they have great young stars that can make it in the main stream companies. TNA on the other hand, is global...they have the star power, the..well.."money", and the experianced workers. Thats why I decided to switch back to TNA, and I think they have improved ALOT since that PPV that pissed me off..Hard Justice

I switched my name to chessarmy because it was the name I used when I did wrestling talk on youtube, and I was the most viewed wrestling talk show on there so the name has some prestiege lol. And, everyone I know online calls me it so I needed to bring the name onto IWF

anyway, thats my thoughts...if you think I wrote too much, then press the back arrow on the top left corner of your screen, but if you want to argue/agree then your comment is appreciated

 

[phantomgerald]

^^^I think you take wrestling too seriously.

 

[PeepShow]

Another EPIC Fail by Qwaneth to try and get somebody to convert to ROH :thumbdown:

:laugh:

 

[Rell]

Another EPIC Fail by Qwaneth to try and get somebody to convert to ROH :thumbdown:

:laugh:

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I just woke up one day and he was rohiswrestling lol, no converting or anything. It doesnt really matter to me, its only wrestling. I don't even pay for it, so yeah...Like Gerald said, you guys take wrestling too seriously.

Why is my name always brought up in these discussions? Am I like the official roh guy? Do I have roh sigs and avys? Do I purchase roh dvd's each month? Am I named after an roh wrestler?

the answer to all those questions are no. I can really care less, at the end of the day wrestling is wrestling...

 

[Montana]

You made a excellent point about the fans must "care" for the wrestlers, or else the promotion will not become sucessful.

Vince said the same thing about the original ecw, and thats why he was afriad of them as competition.

Me personally, after watching more ROH i've grown to care more so about their roster than wwe/tna. Why?? Not sure, i perfer the characters more so, plus they put their bodies on the line more so, each match. I pretty much dont care about anyone on the tna roster. Thats been one of my biggest gripes about tna, since i started watching it. At least the wwe has a few legends, and young stars, i pay attention to.

This is also one reason i think the wwe is struggling right now. They are having a hard time creating new stars, that the fans care about.

 

[chessarmy]

^^^I think you take wrestling too seriously.

Well, I'm here to talk about wrestling and I dont know anybody who is a wrestling fan in real life so this forum is the only place where i can talk about these things

 

[Adampro123]

^^^I think you take wrestling too seriously.

whats wrong with that? i guess that is the difference between people who truely love wrestling and will always love it and the ones who starts watching it and then just loses interest.

as for your points chessarmy, i agree with a lot of them besides the one about TNA PPVs.

 

[Rell]

I see Wrestling as entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. I've never completely lost interest in wrestling, I lose interest in certain promotions, but at the end of the day, its only entertainment. Its like a TV show, sometimes you get tired of one and switch to another.

 

[CenaMark54]

Anyone who goes on the internet to talk about wrestling with people we don't know takes wrestling to seriously.

We all do.

 

[phantomgerald]

When you get to the point where you change your name to follow a promotion, that borders on fanatism. Wrestling is interesting and we all like it, I think all can agree on that. But to change your name from TNA to ROH, like what's the point?

 

[Kaedon]

TNA and ROH both suck, gotcha

 

[chessarmy]

^ LOL, thats not what I said at all...but if you want to believe that then go ahead :laugh: