TNA Observations

[>V<]

I've only recently (the past couple weeks) caught snippets of Impact after missing it entirely for two years or more, so bear with me.

Is it just me, or does Kazarian look like he ought to have greasy long hair and thick stubble, and chew toothpicks? Seriously, he's a Scott Hall clone.

Who is that glorious skank holding Bully Ray's championship belt? Whoever she is, I'm her #1 fan.

Speaking of Bully, I forgot what an awesome worker he is. Always been a huge fan of his, great mic work, solid in the ring, always gets the crowd involved. It's great to see him finally in a major role, with a big shiny belt.

[>V<]

Also, I still don't give a fuck about Dixie. She's a heel now, apparently? She shouldn't be an on-screen character, she has zero charisma and is way too much of a "real person" to be in a ring. Pro wrestling requires larger than life characters, and she's like someone's mom. It's just too weird.

[Seito Risa]

LOL

Bully is on his, I think second now, run as the TNA Champion. This is "The Other Brooke" that is with him now, running off of his (on screen only? Not sure) marriage to "The Painted On Tan" Brooke Hogan. TNA is desperate to try to make itself relevant again, so it is trying to run sort of a parody of the WWE Attitude Era to get there. While Sting has been able to drop both "The Crow" and "Crazy" personas and can show a lot more character than he has been allowed, the entire thing is sort of a rewash of the laundry and as predictable as watching paint dry. Frankly, they really hurt themselves with their last social media driven 'return' only to have it be yet another MMA castoff. They really turned off all but their most die-hard of fans who had kept up with them with that fiasco. Someone else to have a 3 month run for a paycheck from their already overdrawn payroll. Oh, joy.

Frankly, TNA should just go ahead and accept being a smaller show and concentrate on product quality, because trying to duplicate WWE at this point is just going to finish the job they started when they departed from the old formula that had worked for them in the past, being something different from WWE, and just turned into a WWE sub-clone featuring castoff and mishandled former WWE talent. (I want Mr. Kennedy back, dammit! His mic skills paired up with CM Punk would be something to see).

[Eden Morgan]

Sept 28, 2013 9:42:32 GMT -5 >V< said:

Is it just me, or does Kazarian look like he ought to have greasy long hair and thick stubble, and chew toothpicks? Seriously, he's a Scott Hall clone.

I've been saying that for years

[Zane]

Our friends at TNA rushed another storyline conclusion. While I am as tired of "Aces and Eights" as anyone (hell, just about everyone) else, the build and conclusion for this heated up and blew off in a matter of about three or four weeks. This is one of the many reasons that I couldn't watch TNA even when I had cable. They rush almost every single storyline that they have, other than this stupid "Joseph Park" storyline, which seems like it's going to drag on interminably. Knowing TNA, they're going to have Bully and the remainder of his faction completely ignore what happened this week, because TNA seems to have this annoying habit of just ignoring story lines and their finishes. Not that WWE doesn't, they do it all of the time. Still, this "end of Aces and Eights" story deserved a bit more of a build than it got. I'm happy that it's done, it was drawn out and painful to watch. Be that as it may, the death of a stable should be something that takes a few months of build up and creates a "super face" as the counter point to the group and its leader. I like Mr. Anderson, at least as far as his mic skills go, but he never seemed like the "super face" type. He was just the angry, violent ex member looking for revenge. It's a believable angle, but it's just lacking something. Almost everything that TNA does feels forced when I watch it, other than "Bad Influence". Those two manage to be goofy and insidious at the same time and work extremely well together.

I agree with Wayne, they need to get Dixie off of TV. She's an abysmal heel and has ZERO TV personality and charisma.

[DrunkenBuzzsaw]

Gunner throws in the towel on Storm, costing him his match.

Hmm...has Dixie been reading Synergy?

[Zane]

Lol. Yeah, I noticed that too.

[Lord Hastings]

Vince should just buy the video library so they can make comprehensive DVD sets for Kurt Angle and Sting.

[Seito Risa]

Dixie really does need to be not seen and not heard. She's like, Vickie Guerrero without having been connected to a family full of wrestlers.

[>V<]

Do they not have PPV shows anymore? They're calling this episode of Impact "Final Resolution" and I think they did that before with some other show last month...

[DrunkenBuzzsaw]

They still have one or two actual ppvs a year. The rest are episodes of Impaxt.