Mr Anderson mentions his WWE career in TNA

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Varus

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So you are confirming that you do in fact realize you could say the same thing about WWE doing this to young talent, yes?
Young people are still getting spotlight in the WWE though and not including the Rock those people can put on some pretty entertaining matches most of the time. Sting on the other hand will be gassed out in like 5 minutes at Slammiversary. It's funny because Sting knows that nobody wants to see him wrestle but he does anyway. Like you would think he would tell TNA management "Hey guys, we need to stop pushing me and start putting young talent in the spotlight".
 

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Young people are still getting spotlight in the WWE though and not including the Rock those people can put on some pretty entertaining matches most of the time. Sting on the other hand will be gassed out in like 5 minutes at Slammiversary. It's funny because Sting knows that nobody wants to see him wrestle but he does anyway. Like you would think he would tell TNA management "Hey guys, we need to stop pushing me and start putting young talent in the spotlight".

but hey, you hate TNA anyway so you should love that they overpush the old guy, right.
 

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There is more room for WWE to use young talent as they have so many more hours of content to make. TNA is a once a week two hour show, but they are using their young talent horribly imo. Bully and Sting is the main event (whilst I love Bully, Sting can seriously gtfo). Devon is a TV champion who never ever defends it. Chavo Guerrero and Hernandez are the tag-team champions. I mean, come on.

You could argue that WWE's issues are more frustrating though, with the guys in the spotlight being part time wrestlers (Rock, HHH, Brock).
 
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Please don't have this turn into a random flame war.

The discussion of TNA using their young talent rightly or wrongly is a discussion I am interested in personally, and I'm sure others are.
 

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Please don't have this turn into a random flame war.

The discussion of TNA using their young talent rightly or wrongly is a discussion I am interested in personally, and I'm sure others are.
I don't see it as flaming tbh. I don't think the Ziggler guy understands what I'm saying though
 

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Anyways that was his opinion you guys kind of took it a bit far, everyone has different views you can't force them on others.
 

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Yup, I agree. I'm actually a bigger fan of using old talent to propel younger talent, and it feels like I haven't witnessed a "passing of the torch" moment for eternity.
But unfortunately we aren't lucky to be seeing it outside of Jericho. Unfortunately, we have Angle, Sting (who sells seats, it's the same hate people had on Hardy over Aries and Roode, unfortunately it's what the majority of casuals want) and outside of that, you have Bad Influence vs Dirty Heels, Abyss is back, I'm really looking forward to how Sabin is going to give more attention back to the X-division, as Kenny King has been quality as hell so far, and the fact we only have two hours, with the focus FOR NOW being on the Aces and Eights, who are (sadly) trying to build up people like Bischoff and Brisco.

WWE has 6 hours+ of TV time while Impact has two hours weekly, and i would argue TNA has the better roster, with much better matches, and i honestly am not too huge on the 4 ppv per year schedule. Look at ER's booking, who do you see besides the shield being built well? Ambrose and Kofi were probably pre show before Ziggler went down, and now we have a flurry of matches like Orton/Show, Henry/Sheamus (face it, henry has been around 14 years) HHH and Bork, and Cena main eventing. TNA uses it's talent, name to me the last time WWE had a huge young star pushed besides the Shield (who we watched be beaten by Cena single handedly recently) The last one i can think of is Orton.

ETA: shit meant to quote him first and reply to you with "exactly"