Post by The Shredder on Oct 5, 2008 3:46:49 GMT -5
The title reflects one of the numerous things I've uttered while staring at my TV in utter shock while watching TNA impact!. Now I've been there from the very beginning. I actually ordered a few of the weekly PPVs back in the summer of '02. I watched Xplosion on channel 94 over here in New York on Time Warner, despite it being broadcast so poorly on that channel. Plus, I watched the FSN shows, which were what I consider to be TNA's best days. Those were some of the best single hours of wrestling I've ever seen. Very well booked shows.
Boy, this company has undergone changes on every level during its six-year-plus existence, and it's current state is.....well....let's just say HOW THE HELL HAVE THEY SURVIVED THIS LONG???!!
TNA is a joke. Why? Well, here's some reasons:
Vince Russo is at the helm
Oh dear God. What were they thinking. TNA has been drawing WCW comparisons since day one, and now they have completed this association with the very man who is large part responsible for tanking WCW. Now, Russo has talent. He gave us the Attitude Era, as well as the characters who populated that era, such as Stone Cold, The Rock and DX. He used to sit down with the wrestlers, talk to them, get to know them, and from there he would give them a character that best suit them, and this process worked. When he went to WCW, I don't know what happened. The man just lost his damn mind. He started developing characters that we're not only some of the most bizarre creations in wrestling history, but the biggest failures, as well. Since being in a part of TNA, almost every match has ended with some kind of interference, every show features a quote that is so out there, I'll never forget it and to top it off he has given us a terrorist character, and he had the nerve to give him theme music that featured air planes crashing! Yes, Muhammad Hassan was tasteless, but TNA should've learned from WWE's mistake.
The Beautiful People
Velvet Sky and Angelina Love aren't that bad of wrestlers, but they're not great either, that they should be receiving this much TV time! 3 weeks ago, that beauty contest is probably one of the worst segments in wrestling history. What a waste of time. I don't think you could come up with a more painful way to waste time if you could. What was gained from it? Couldn't they of found a way to do this segment without taking up 20 minutes?
Booker T develops an African accent
Yeah, just read the title of this section, and you can develop your own comments for this ridiculous garbage. The worst part is he's one of the guys sitting at the top of the company.
X Division
Believe it or not, the X Division title was actually considered the World title's equal. Well, if you state that in a TNA discussion these days, that conversation with end with abrupt laughter. This once-great division has been changed into one of worthless matches and little prestige. Come to think of it, there really isn't much of a division to speak of right now.
What the hell is going on?
Miss iMpact! one week and you'll be lost when you watch the next broadcast. Hey, wait a minute, watch iMpact! this week and watch the next and you'll still be lost. Ten thousand things happen in one show, with little or no explanation, usually the latter. Wrestlers seem to disappear for months at a time and show up again without a word from Don West or Mike Tenay as to where they have been. They have 2 hours, and sometimes three-quarters of the roster is missing from a single broadcast. Not only that, but they release wrestlers every week. It's like WCW. They have a bazillion guys on the roster, and you have no idea of knowing if somebody is still working for the company or not, because they refuse to talk about that guy's status. In WWE, when a guy gets injured, they tell you about it. In TNA, it's like they don't want you to know. If you can name every wrestler on TNA's current roster, I commend you.
Well the TNA fanboys are sure to attack me for this assault on their precious second-coming of WCW. I'll get lots of people saying my points are invalid, despite them being opinions. This article was in no way meant to show WWE's superiority. WWE has many problems as well, but TNA has far more. But that is not the point of this piece. It is meant to show that TNA is a poor product, and how it reminds me of WCW in 2000, when the company was nothing more than a circus act. The funny thing is that pro wrestling used to be a circus act! It was a carnival attraction back in the early 1900's. Well, TNA and Vince Russo have successfully brought the company back to those times. I watch TNA, because it's amusing. It's fun to watch travesties. It's kind of like how people like to look at car crashes on the highway. It's so gruesome, I just can't look away. It was like WWE in 2005. It was a horrid, but I just couldn't help but stay tuned for the latest piece of garbage they were waiting to present us with this week. To those who say TNA is a competitive force in pro wrestling: get real. The company will be gone in the coming years.
Boy, this company has undergone changes on every level during its six-year-plus existence, and it's current state is.....well....let's just say HOW THE HELL HAVE THEY SURVIVED THIS LONG???!!
TNA is a joke. Why? Well, here's some reasons:
Vince Russo is at the helm
Oh dear God. What were they thinking. TNA has been drawing WCW comparisons since day one, and now they have completed this association with the very man who is large part responsible for tanking WCW. Now, Russo has talent. He gave us the Attitude Era, as well as the characters who populated that era, such as Stone Cold, The Rock and DX. He used to sit down with the wrestlers, talk to them, get to know them, and from there he would give them a character that best suit them, and this process worked. When he went to WCW, I don't know what happened. The man just lost his damn mind. He started developing characters that we're not only some of the most bizarre creations in wrestling history, but the biggest failures, as well. Since being in a part of TNA, almost every match has ended with some kind of interference, every show features a quote that is so out there, I'll never forget it and to top it off he has given us a terrorist character, and he had the nerve to give him theme music that featured air planes crashing! Yes, Muhammad Hassan was tasteless, but TNA should've learned from WWE's mistake.
The Beautiful People
Velvet Sky and Angelina Love aren't that bad of wrestlers, but they're not great either, that they should be receiving this much TV time! 3 weeks ago, that beauty contest is probably one of the worst segments in wrestling history. What a waste of time. I don't think you could come up with a more painful way to waste time if you could. What was gained from it? Couldn't they of found a way to do this segment without taking up 20 minutes?
Booker T develops an African accent
Yeah, just read the title of this section, and you can develop your own comments for this ridiculous garbage. The worst part is he's one of the guys sitting at the top of the company.
X Division
Believe it or not, the X Division title was actually considered the World title's equal. Well, if you state that in a TNA discussion these days, that conversation with end with abrupt laughter. This once-great division has been changed into one of worthless matches and little prestige. Come to think of it, there really isn't much of a division to speak of right now.
What the hell is going on?
Miss iMpact! one week and you'll be lost when you watch the next broadcast. Hey, wait a minute, watch iMpact! this week and watch the next and you'll still be lost. Ten thousand things happen in one show, with little or no explanation, usually the latter. Wrestlers seem to disappear for months at a time and show up again without a word from Don West or Mike Tenay as to where they have been. They have 2 hours, and sometimes three-quarters of the roster is missing from a single broadcast. Not only that, but they release wrestlers every week. It's like WCW. They have a bazillion guys on the roster, and you have no idea of knowing if somebody is still working for the company or not, because they refuse to talk about that guy's status. In WWE, when a guy gets injured, they tell you about it. In TNA, it's like they don't want you to know. If you can name every wrestler on TNA's current roster, I commend you.
Well the TNA fanboys are sure to attack me for this assault on their precious second-coming of WCW. I'll get lots of people saying my points are invalid, despite them being opinions. This article was in no way meant to show WWE's superiority. WWE has many problems as well, but TNA has far more. But that is not the point of this piece. It is meant to show that TNA is a poor product, and how it reminds me of WCW in 2000, when the company was nothing more than a circus act. The funny thing is that pro wrestling used to be a circus act! It was a carnival attraction back in the early 1900's. Well, TNA and Vince Russo have successfully brought the company back to those times. I watch TNA, because it's amusing. It's fun to watch travesties. It's kind of like how people like to look at car crashes on the highway. It's so gruesome, I just can't look away. It was like WWE in 2005. It was a horrid, but I just couldn't help but stay tuned for the latest piece of garbage they were waiting to present us with this week. To those who say TNA is a competitive force in pro wrestling: get real. The company will be gone in the coming years.