TNA has disappointed me on so many levels the past couple of months.
AJ Styles acting like Flair (with the robe and screaming with his hick accent)
Not hyping their move to Monday night's correctly
Rob Van Dam's horrible debut
Orlando Jordan
Shannon Moore
Nasty Boys (thank God they are gone)
Wolfpac (yeah I like the NWO, but it is definitely sour now and a shell of the former group)
Bubba the Love Sponge
Stupid Knockout angles (their matches are good though)
Not using Jeff Hardy and Rob Van Dam correctly
Mr. Anderson's stale gimmick
Vince Russo
I started watching TNA in I believe 2003 when I started coming to this forum. They have changed so much since. And have done so many stupid things. They have no sense of marketing or advertising at all. In what way is it a good idea to keep Rob Van fucking Dam's debut a secret! Why is Jeff Hardy out there making a fool out of him self? Every time he comes out and talks on the microphone he sounds like an idiot! In WWE he never sounded like such a douche. It is like TNA just gives him the microphone and tells him to say whatever he wants. Yeah that works when it is some one like The Rock. But when some one has the mic skills of one Jeff Hardy that is a bad idea. Especially his annoying hick accent. Example:
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And what the hell happened to Hulk Hogan's microphone skills while I am on that subject? It seems like he has lost his spark. His acting job is very lackluster. TNA I had so much faith in you and you let me down again and again. Piss poor acting jobs by a lot of the workers, it is just embarrassing. I watch a WWE show and the majority of the show is very professional, not just the production and it's not because they have money, but their wrestler's most of the time put on a good acting performance. I never was a real WWE supporter until this year when I realized wow... WWE is the major league and TNA is obviously the minor league.
I watch a lot of angles on TNA and just think to my self, who in their right mind would keep Vince Russo as their booker!! Just look at the stupid shit he has given us. So many unnecessary gimmick matches and angles just for the sake of it being a gimmick idea. The Knock out's Lock box angle? Where did he get that stupid idea from? Al Gore? The Last Rites match between Sting and Abyss a while ago was embarrassing to watch. I don't know who came up with the King of the Mountain match but it is just so moronic. "Keep it simple stupid!"
I seen an interview with Jim Cornette on Youshoot, and he totally rips into Russo and it seems to make sense. Like how Russo is a mark.
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And it makes sense. Russo sees himself as a TV script writer in a fake wrestling world. Russo was good in WWF because he had someone smart like Vince McMahon to shoot down the stupid idea's he had and go with some of the risky raunchy ideas he had because the time was right (see 90's; Jerry Springer; Howard Stern; South Park; Beavis and Butthead; and so on).
Also what is the difference between these two words: Global and World. Why do they have a Global Champion and a World Champion? Why was the Global title called the "Legend's title"?
Ugh... well yeah. Sorry but TNA has just frustrated me beyond belief. I was always so Pro-TNA and antiWWE but it has switched completely. When I watch TNA I have so many shake my head moments and it is just embarrassing to watch that show and say this is what wrestling has become. It is fucking WCW all over again, and that is not a good thing and I really hate to say that. :-/.
And to the people like Ryan Clark who say we shouldn't complain about TNA because it is good for the business. Fuck you and fuck that. When some thing is done and it is stupid or doesn't make sense you can't act like "oh it is OK". What happened to the wrestling audience? Look back at the amount of viewers there was in the late 90's. At their peak. Looking back to 1999:
10 May 99
RAW had 8.1
Nitro had 3.3
22 Nov 99
RAW had 5.5
Nitro had 3.4
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Monday_Night_Wars_Ratings.JPG
Now look at 2010.
January 4th
RAW had 3.6 (some places said 3.7 so ?)
Impact had 1.5
roughly 5.6 mil people watched RAW, roughly 2.2mil watched Impact.
January 11th
RAW had 3.7
Now. Look at that. Does anyone see something wrong with that right above or is it just me? RAW's rating was barely effected at all by TNA. Now lets look at the ratings.
April 5th
RAW had 3.2
Impact had .85
WHAT THE FUCK!? Where are all these people at that watched Impact on January 4? They obviously are not watching either product now. On January 4 WWE was barely effected by TNA, and TNA had a reasonable audience. Now those over 2mil people aren't watching? I am just baffled and have been thinking about this for a while.
Sorry for the rambling pointless drunk rant.
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