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Big Pete

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Well, VKM are the WWE Tag Team Champions...

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Also the Lethal Lockdown match is officially...

Team MVP (MVP, Jeff Hardy & The Wolves) v Team Dixie (Bobby Roode, Austin Aries & The Bro-Mans)
 
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I just double checked. The line-up I have for the Lethal Lockdown match is:

Team MVP: MVP, Gunner, The Wolves
Team Dixie: Beer Money, EC3, Rockstar Spud

Also, Magnus is defending the TNA Title against Samoa Joe.
 

Big Pete

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That's what I thought too but they taped some more episodes earlier this morning right up until the go-home show for Lockdown.
 

Big Pete

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On the whole I think it's an improvement.

Hardy + Aries are both improvements on the original line-ups & I don't consider the Bro-Mans too big a downgrade on EC3 & Spud.

Should be a decent match, they just need to be clever about how they use the Bro-Mans because the rest can work.
 

WellsNZ

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I am loving that they're getting behind Joe the last couple of episodes. Would be great to see him in a feud with Roode for the belt.
 
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Problem is TNA do this so often. Build Joe up, faces champ, loses, gets dumped back to mid card. It's dumb, but that's what they do. That whole Nation of Violence thing really took the wind out of his sails.
 

WellsNZ

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Yeah you're not wrong there. If he just goes to Lockdown, gets screwed somehow, then goes back to midcard obscurity it will be all for naught.

I have hope that it's going to be different this time for him though. I still expect him to get screwed at Lockdown, but I expect him to stay in the mix from there. Especially with AJ gone, Sting gone, Angle hurt half the time, there's room for a face up the top that he can seize.
 

WYD

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I can understand that they're trying to get the fans behind a likable underdog but you should probably protect your title a little more than that.
 
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Yup. Won Tag Titles with Frankie Kazarian + Kevin Nash, X-Division for about 2 seconds, multiple Global/TV Title reigns, and now the TNA World Title (plus the Knockouts Tag Titles with ODB).
 

Big Pete

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While TNA maybe a lost cause to the point where decisions like these don't matter and won't affect the company, it doesn't change the fact that I think this is a terrible idea.

Now, like a lot of fans in the IWC, I like Eric Young. I actually think he's one of the more comedic acts in the entire industry and has the versatility to play an effective straight man...but only to a certain point.

The problem is, that point doesn't correlate with the TNA championship, or at least it shouldn't. By handing Young the belt, TNA has trivialised their championship at a crucial time in the company's history and while I'm sure the minority of the audience feels good about themselves, it does nothing for the promotion moving forward.

JUST like it didn't do anything for the promotion when Chris Sabin won the championship the previous year.

TNA had to persist with Magnus awhile longer and only hand the championship off when A) It was clear he was no longer effective in this role or B) A new face had emerged that had won the support of the crowd and deserved a run. For mine, none of those events had occurred and at the end of the day the only achievement this publicity stunt has acquired is weakening whatever credibility Magnus had acquired over the past few months.
 

Misanthrope

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I will say that they've at least distanced Young from the worst of his comedic stuff lately by injecting him into the feud with Abyss and Magnus.

Just seems rushed, and especially so given that Joe was a much better choice if you were going to shift the belt off Magnus.
 

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