I had never really watched TNA, other than a few matches off youtube from the early day, and know little about it ( i didn't know angle and booker are there).
To me, the wrestling (when there actually was some) was solid and entertaining. MCMG made a fan out of me, as did LAX. I've seen AJ before and he is still the goods, Tomko seems to have improved, cage, rhyno, sting and most of the others were just same old.
But the overall show to me was cheap, i mean wrestling society x cheap.
what they need is to get a better freaking production company, get rid of a few dead beats they have on the roster and do MORE wrestling on these shows.
Last time I saw it the X division was the Sh*t, whats happened there?
The Ladies seem to be slightly better in the ring to WWE but the story lines seem the same.
My understanding is that the way wrestling companies make money in by 3 main things, merchandise, ticket sales and ppv buys.
I doubt they would sell a whole lot of merch (i'm really looking forward to getting that TEAM CAGE shirt).
I don't think they sell tickets for impact do they?
and on the basis of that show last night, i wouldn't buy the ppv.
I'll watch it again to see what they do with their go home show but to me it was very second rate, and i doubt they have the money to improve it.
I'm going by first impressions here but i think they need to cut the crap out of the show, use the 2 hours to more effect. Instead of having a thousand talking segments, tell a story through a match, or have a match and have a quick mic moment afterwards.
It just felt like an hour before we saw and wrestling, and when the production values are that bad it make me feel like i am watching a b-grade tv show that isn't particularly interesting. Like North Shore or something.
When they are wrestling, they shine.
And theres a few things now that i never want to see in TNA again after d/l some ppv's and shows.
Reverse Battle Royal
King of the Mountain
Feast or Fired
Hard 10
Anything on a pole
Any matches that have a set up like the two matches with sting and Abyss in the past, the death bed one and the jail one?!?! - Stupid
Any match with more that one defining rule!
Matches don't need to have 3 Gimmicks and 9 Rules to be entertaining, i think they need to strip it bare bones on the matches and start using the more simple gimmick matches, ladder, cage, lms, i quit, tables, first blood.
Even only use those occasionally and then REALLY occasionally throw out a elevation X or a ultimate X or a barb wire match or TLC you get the picture..
I just think there trying to hard, let the wrestling to the talking and only do Gimmicks occasionally.
And with the gimmicks there Giving people, some are cool, i like Abyss and Rellik, Judas Mesias is a bit of a rip form undertaker or kane but is kinda cool, i'm not digging the wwf '99 rip offs though, there sorta funny but cheapen the brand in my opinion.
What they need is there own identity, i might get into that another time but i think i have typed too much.
*** This will probably sound like an incoherent rant because i was typing off the top of my head and can't be bothered re-reading or spell checking, apologies in advance ***
