Vince Russo's Analysis of Jan 4th

[MizMasta3000]

I lol'd hard when they started chanting that. And what was up with Taz talking to us like we've never heard of TNA before

 

[This Guy]

"Bullshit" was edited out because it was a curse on regular cable, not because it was an unexpected reaction.

Oh I'm sure it was an expected reaction, but they don't edit it on there pre-tape shows, so doing it on a live show seems a little silly...either way though I get why they did it, I am more saying its silly that there biggest show ever had a bullshit chant so early in the show.

 

[This Guy]

I lol'd hard when they started chanting that. And what was up with Taz talking to us like we've never heard of TNA before

Well a third of the audience never had. They did get a record high rating.

 

[noumenon]

The putting it in the past thing, sure. Their faces during the hug tell a different story though. It just seemed really forced and awkward.

And I do agree with Russo in the fact that RAW did nothing to in any way elevate their product on Monday night. It was RAW per usual. Sure it may be the smart and almost brush off business move on the part of Vince to completely ignore TNA, but let's face it... WWE could do with a little boost in the product no matter what the reason.

 

[MizMasta3000]

That was a horrible finish but Jeff made up for it

 

[noumenon]

I personally had never seen the cage before so I wasn't sure if it had ever been used before. My first reaction was "How the fuck are you supposed to get out of that thing?"
Not to mention the camera shots were horrible, you could barely see into the fucking thing.

 

[MizMasta3000]

I figured TNA would do a clusterfuck X-Div match as an opener

 

[noumenon]

Still don't think they did too bad for their first live show.

RAW has been live for how many years and it still blows...what's their excuse?

 

[MizMasta3000]

rated PG

 

[This Guy]

The putting it in the past thing, sure. Their faces during the hug tell a different story though. It just seemed really forced and awkward.

And I do agree with Russo in the fact that RAW did nothing to in any way elevate their product on Monday night. It was RAW per usual. Sure it may be the smart and almost brush off business move on the part of Vince to completely ignore TNA, but let's face it... WWE could do with a little boost in the product no matter what the reason.

Bret's face was the only face you could see. And his face doesn't quite look the same. Shawn was whispering something to him. Bret was trying to hear him over the noise I'm sure. I don't think it was forced. The hug was clearly planned as Shawn stood in Super kick position and Bret stood ready to take it which is what they wanted you to think was going to happen. If Bret didn't want to hug Shawn he probably would have said a handshake is enough and they wouldn't have scripted in a hug at all.

The one theory is that Bret in even recent interviews has seemed to lose his train of thought and go off in tangents. It was apparently a concern that Bret may have this problem in front of such a large crowd. It is believed that Shawn while hugging Bret was telling him that he did good and that he still has it.

I think that was the point though. I think Vince wanted to show that he didn't have to do anything special. I do agree though that he should have done something to draw the crowds away from TNA.

That was a horrible finish but Jeff made up for it

no he didn't. It ment nothing. It was for suprise value only. I do think Hardy will fit in fine with the company though, it will be funnier though if the current rumors that he hasn't actually signed is true. It would be even funnier if he shows back up in the WWE.

 

[The Rated R CMStar]

Personally, I think Raw did improve on Monday Night. It was damn sure a better show that what they have been doing, specially since they were coming a comedy show 2 weeks before and a one segment show before that.

However, if you expected an all out, let's squash TNA show, I can see the dissapointment.

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

Russo should know better than anyone that Vince isn't stupid enough to acknowledge TNA, they have the largest audience in the industry, that would be the best advertising TNA could ever get. Why give them that? Plus no need to worry about something that wasn't half as watched as your product. Even in it's dying days WCW was hanging in there and he still failed to acknowledge them outside the term "down south." Vince has nothing to worry about, why circle the wagons when the indian charging resembles that midget Hiawatha from the Bugs Bunny cartoon?

 

[MizMasta3000]

WWE needs acknowledge that their 18-24 yr fan base "that they care so much about" is jumping ship to TNA because of WWE's shitty product. If WWE kicked it up a notch, TNA wouldnt be lighting a fire unfer their asses

 

[The Rated R CMStar]

It's sad that neither of the two things you mentioned are actually happening.

 

[JurassicBonez]

^^exactly, but you know what there were so many holes with that show. I was listening to Who's Slamming Who and Cornette was the only guy to pick up on something I did as well. They show Hogan's Motorcade, to which Cornette informs us that he recognized the buildings, and they were just driving around the block, but that it was stupid to have the new Boss be late for the show and that the only thing dumber about it was the first words out of Hogan's mouth was that he was in the back all day meeting the boys. To which just shows bad writing.[QUOTE/]

That's just called paying to close attention to the point where you're looking for faults. You saw that they were driving around the block? Studying the buildings around the car is pretty lame. And Hogan saying he'd been in the back all day was a botch. Shit happens.

The 50 billion comercial breaks were really dumb too. Like at least 4 times they came back from comercial for a mere 30 seconds hyped something and then went back to comercial again. The show was horiable, the booking was bad the story line was stupid and network planning was stupid. They needed all the shock and awe stuff to keep people cause they would have lost me during those bad comecial breaks had I been watching Raw & Impact head to head.

That's not a TNA thing. That's a network thing. They do the same thing for the UFC shows. You can't penalize TNA for something the network does.