Rate Valentine's Impact

[Solidus1]

Each to their own. For me it just keeps getting better.

 

[Stopspot]

Each to their own. For me it just keeps getting better.

Exactly. It's not like I hate TNA far from it. I just cannot connect to the product right now.

 

[Senhor Perfect]

I hate TNA.

The truth comes out :robbie:

 

[Testify]

I have been disconnected from the TNA product for a while now. I do not like the idea of Roode and Aries as a team to be honest since it seems like a copout to me, like they don't know how to fit them into the main event scene and thus decide to just put the tag belts on them instead of putting them in personal rivalries. I couldn't care less about Angle as he is today.

TNA's product continues to be solid but I do not feel it. If I cannot connect to the product it will take it down a couple of steps on my rating.

Fair enough. I was just being curious, even though I completely disagree on your statement on Aries and Roode. But what can you do. I still love you evil moderator. :steiner:

 

[Testify]

The truth comes out :robbie:

Gonna make some calls, dude, this shiz is getting our game on!

 

[Stopspot]

Fair enough. I was just being curious, even though I completely disagree on your statement on Aries and Roode. But what can you do. I still love you evil moderator. :steiner:

I feel like TNA should focus on building tag teams in the long term (just like I feel that WWE should) instead of taking two singles guys who have momentum and chucking them together, entertainment value withstanding. Because TNA at the moment only have three tag teams, Chavo and Hernandez, Bad Influence (who for a while now have been more like Daniels + Kazarian) and Morgan and Ryan (Who haven't been seen in weeks). Aries vs Roode won't last in the long term as a team and thus not benefit the TNA tag team division. I love tag team wrestling so that might influence my feelings on this somewhat.

And yeah, to each their own. It would be super boring if we agreed on everything tunga:

 

[Testify]

I feel like TNA should focus on building tag teams in the long term (just like I feel that WWE should) instead of taking two singles guys who have momentum and chucking them together, entertainment value withstanding. Because TNA at the moment only have three tag teams, Chavo and Hernandez, Bad Influence (who for a while now have been more like Daniels + Kazarian) and Morgan and Ryan (Who haven't been seen in weeks). Aries vs Roode won't last in the long term as a team and thus not benefit the TNA tag team division. I love tag team wrestling so that might influence my feelings on this somewhat.

It's been booked that way ever since Pritchard came in to TNA (the tag division I'm speaking of). That's why we got to see Matt Morgan and Crimson, Joe and Magnus, Pope and Devon, Chavo & Hernandez, AJ & Angle, and now Aries & Roode.

That's just the state of tag wrestling in TNA: singles stars are mixed in tag team. The show's not about roster anymore, the roster is about the show, if you get what I'm trying to say. It's been for over a year like that.

We need to get over it. We will never see the same old X, Tag and KO divisions, like they once were. This is the new era in TNa wrestling history. Like it or not, it is. Old TNA (Steel Asylum, KOTM, Feast or Fired etc) is dead, new is here in front of us (Gutcheck, less gimmicks, Open FIght Night, Champ Thursday, UK tour, on the road, LIVE etc.).

 

[Stopspot]

It's been booked that way ever since Pritchard came in to TNA (the tag division I'm speaking of). That's why we got to see Matt Morgan and Crimson, Joe and Magnus, Pope and Devon, Chavo & Hernandez, AJ & Angle, and now Aries & Roode.

That's just the state of tag wrestling in TNA: singles stars are mixed in tag team. The show's not about roster anymore, the roster is about the show, if you get what I'm trying to say. It's been for over a year like that.

We need to get over it. We will never see the same old X, Tag and KO divisions, like they once were. This is the new era in TNa wrestling history. Like it or not, it is. Old TNA (Steel Asylum, KOTM, Feast or Fired etc) is dead, new is here in front of us (Gutcheck, less gimmicks, Open FIght Night, Champ Thursday, UK tour, on the road, LIVE etc.).

"those are the times" is in my opinion not a good enough excuse. How will they expect people to care about their tag belts and division in the long run when there are no established teams who will be there for the long run?

 

[Rysenberg]

Thought it was a really good Impact, 8.5/10 for me, the crowd boosted my rating so much, best wrestling crowd I've seen since the Raw after 'Mania. The matches were awesome, Magnus/Daniels, Angle/Joe, and especially RVD/Storm were really good. The 6 man tag was enjoyable, I quite like that English guy (his name escapes me), that bump he took look sore as fuck anaw. Aries vs Roode at the end was great, the fingerpoke of doom and the chair spots had me audibly laughing, before marking like fuck at Chavo and Hernandez getting booed out the arena. The only issue I had with the show was the ending which was weak as hell, getting so tired of the A+8's schtick, but aside from that a really great impact for me.

 

[Testify]

Thought it was a really good Impact, 8.5/10 for me, the crowd boosted my rating so much, best wrestling crowd I've seen since the Raw after 'Mania. The matches were awesome, Magnus/Daniels, Angle/Joe, and especially RVD/Storm were really good. The 6 man tag was enjoyable, I quite like that English guy (his name escapes me), that bump he took look sore as f*ck anaw. Aries vs Roode at the end was great, the fingerpoke of doom and the chair spots had me audibly laughing, before marking like f*ck at Chavo and Hernandez getting booed out the arena. The only issue I had with the show was the ending which was weak as hell, getting so tired of the A+8's schtick, but aside from that a really great impact for me.

The english guy is "Party" Marty Scurll.

 

[Rysenberg]

The english guy is "Party" Marty Scurll.

Cheers, hoping to see more of him.

Just realised, does Valentine's day now being passed mean that the Divas' advert won't be on anymore? :sad:

 

[Crayo]

A generous 6/10 for me. It was too inconsistent. Someone said it earlier that it was stop/start. Every time something good seemingly happened it was counter-acted something mediocre or dull. It's almost like creative have hit a writers block and are being lazy -- something we expect from WWE, not TNA -- but I have said it once and will do again, it will get better.

I'm with Stopspot on this one. If this is the new era of TNA like Testify says, then I'm not optimistic in the slightest. The factors that separated TNA from everyone else in the not-too-distant past was its thriving tag-team and KO divisions, and great main events.

 

[Testify]

Cheers, hoping to see more of him.

Just realised, does Valentine's day now being passed mean that the Divas' advert won't be on anymore? :sad:

Unfortunately, I think they're done with those. BUT.... There's a women day on March 8th, so we might just get a treat for like Valentine's day...tunga:

If this is the new era of TNA like Testify says, then I'm not optimistic in the slightest. The factors that separated TNA from everyone else in the not-too-distant past was its thriving tag-team and KO divisions, and great main events.

I get why you would say that, I really do. What separated TNA before from everyone else were the 3 divisions, now its the other things I've mentioned like OFN, Gutcheck, BFG Series. Things have switched and evolved, it's simple as that. Whether you like that switch or not, it's already happened. I, personally, love it. I'd also like to see a bit better tag, KO and tag divisions, but I ain't gonna cry for what they once were.

Anyway, this little column is what I recommend you to read, just for the sake of the differences of TNA before and TNA now:
http://www.tnasylum.com/2013/02/tna-vs-impact-wrestling-change-in.html

 

[Crayo]

I don't see how you need to trade thriving divisions for gimmicks like that, when having both isn't even close to being impossible. They have no impact (pun unintended) on each other. I just don't understand the "Let's trade in our thriving divisions for OFN, Gut Check and BFG Series" ideology at all. I do understand the ideology of appreciating the new while missing the old, but that's no excuse in my opinion.

 

[Testify]

I don't see how you need to trade thriving divisions for gimmicks like that, when having both isn't even close to being impossible. They have no impact (pun unintended) on each other. I just don't understand the "Let's trade in our thriving divisions for OFN, Gut Check and BFG Series" ideology at all. I do understand the ideology of appreciating the new while missing the old, but that's no excuse in my opinion.

Sure, you have a point about it, and it's one thing that Vince Russo is BETTER than Bruce Pritchard. Russo loved the undercarders, used them a lot more and thus kept the divisions strong with # and freshness at the same time.

Bruce however, focuses on 4 guys/girls from each divisions for a half year, and then rotates/freshes them with some other 2 or 3 wrestlers.

It's their strategy, it has pros and cons, and I got used to it. I'd like to see more of that Russo-ism in TNA now with more guys from the division being used, but it's still going good without it, because this way you build stars. Who has Russo LEGITIMATELY built in his 6 yrs reign? Bruce already built with his booking Roode, Aries, Daniels, Kazarian, Tessmacher, Gail Kim, and some are just up and coming like Bully Ray, Magnus, , Kenny King, Christian York, Velvet Sky and possibly Rob Terry and Rockstar Spud down the line.