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Post by Gopher Mod on Jun 6, 2009 1:29:17 GMT -5
Christopher Daniels. Fantastic wrestler and talker, but for some reason TNA's pretty much written him off as X-Division filler. This has always annoyed me. It's annoyed me greatly. Sure, he has won 10 belts in TNA since he first joined, but none of them have been the World Heavyweight Championship. Considering the man is only behind a select few in building what TNA is today (Jarrett and AJ are just ahead of him), it saddens me that Chris' time in the spotlight may be starting to grow dim (he's 37 years old, after all).
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Post by Paco on Jun 6, 2009 5:37:32 GMT -5
Other...MONTY!
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Post by metalinnovation on Jun 8, 2009 16:31:40 GMT -5
Easily Monty Brown. If he won the NWA title in late 2004/early 2005, something tells me TNA would have been better off in the long run than they are now.
Samoa Joe to a degree was a missed opportunity as well. Throughout 2005 and most of 2006 he was pretty much unstoppable and winning the title would have benefited TNA greatly. I think once Kurt Angle arrived and ended Joe's undefeated streak, it killed Joe's momentum of being THE guy in TNA.
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Post by Citizen Grimm on Jun 8, 2009 18:51:19 GMT -5
Samoa Joe to a degree was a missed opportunity as well. Throughout 2005 and most of 2006 he was pretty much unstoppable and winning the title would have benefited TNA greatly. I think once Kurt Angle arrived and ended Joe's undefeated streak, it killed Joe's momentum of being THE guy in TNA. But the feud between Angle and Joe was still pretty damn good and they had great matches. The problem came when Joe finally won the title and TNA turned him into a whining bitch. I won't even mention that damn Nation of Violence right now.
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Post by Square on Jun 8, 2009 19:08:17 GMT -5
Lance Hoyt 10000% percent. The kid had the ability to be a credible champ to build your company around and he was so over the fans made t-shirts FOR him!
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Jun 8, 2009 19:15:27 GMT -5
i'll say petey williams because he was so over finally and they just drop him, they spend so much time building him into little petey pump then have him fued with scott and then oh wow we squash him and drop him, lame ass
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Post by animalboy on Jun 8, 2009 21:51:42 GMT -5
Cheerleader Melissa
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jun 8, 2009 22:32:13 GMT -5
I've said it a million times... the LAX Mexican Militant angle had the chance to be TNA's breakout angle. Of course, as soon as a certain person was hired... that angle was watered down, LAX was more or less disbanded into just a tag team, and the blowoff match with Styles & Daniels had the hints of Russo all over it.. especially with the tequilla.
Vince "I got WCW sued for racial discrimination because I went on WCW Live and said I wasn't going to push foreign talent" Russo.
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Post by comahan on Jun 8, 2009 22:37:29 GMT -5
I've said it a million times... the LAX Mexican Militant angle had the chance to be TNA's breakout angle. Of course, as soon as a certain person was hired... that angle was watered down, LAX was more or less disbanded into just a tag team, and the blowoff match with Styles & Daniels had the hints of Russo all over it.. especially with the tequilla. Vince "I got WCW sued for racial discrimination because I went on WCW Live and said I wasn't going to push foreign talent" Russo. LAX were still strong months after Russo got there. They beat 3D like 67 times, and only fizzled out because Konnan left the company.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jun 8, 2009 23:08:27 GMT -5
I've said it a million times... the LAX Mexican Militant angle had the chance to be TNA's breakout angle. Of course, as soon as a certain person was hired... that angle was watered down, LAX was more or less disbanded into just a tag team, and the blowoff match with Styles & Daniels had the hints of Russo all over it.. especially with the tequilla. Vince "I got WCW sued for racial discrimination because I went on WCW Live and said I wasn't going to push foreign talent" Russo. LAX were still strong months after Russo got there. They beat 3D like 67 times, and only fizzled out because Konnan left the company. Yeah, but the whole violent gang mentality of LAX was abandoned. The immigration issue being part of their gimmick dropped. LAX was people pissed off for a reason. I forever blame Russo just because the timing makes sense. D'Amore pushed stables well. Russo has no idea what to do with them.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jun 8, 2009 23:10:13 GMT -5
LAX were still strong months after Russo got there. They beat 3D like 67 times, and only fizzled out because Konnan left the company. Yeah, but the whole violent gang mentality of LAX was abandoned. The immigration issue being part of their gimmick dropped. LAX was people pissed off for a reason. I forever blame Russo just because the timing makes sense. D'Amore pushed stables well. Russo has no idea what to do with them. Cause getting beat up by the James Gang and Bullet Bob and then not wrestling at all for months is a good way to push a stable?
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Post by GaTechGrad on Jun 9, 2009 0:14:38 GMT -5
No Monty Brown option?
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Jun 9, 2009 4:55:36 GMT -5
I put other. Mine is Raven when he first started off in TNA and did NOT win the title from JJ.
He was over in a HUGE way. They were selling way way more tickets than ever before and let JJ go over despite the fact that the fans wanted a title change (which is evident by the response of the fans right after the match).
For the record.....I prefer the asylum over the Impact Zone and I miss the Heel section.
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Post by The King of Memphis Tennessee on Jun 9, 2009 16:02:15 GMT -5
Joe. They spent years making him a badass but now he looks weak. He's not getting anything done, seems like he's just making threats about his damn Nation. This guy could've easily been TNA's Stone Cold (not cursing and drinking beer, but a marketable badass to promote the company on).
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Post by jobber2thestars on Jun 9, 2009 16:32:11 GMT -5
I'm gonna go with other, and say Monty Brown is the biggest missed opportunity in TNA. He isn't a great wrestler, but his charisma is amazing, and he has a great look. I can't really fault TNA, though, seeing as how WWE did the same thing.
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Post by lildude8218 on Jun 9, 2009 16:37:35 GMT -5
This is going to sound out there but I'll explain in the end.
Their biggest missed opportunity was keeping me as a fan. I went to Turning Point in 2005 because I wanted to see Sabu/Abyss in the Barbed Wire Match. So I went to their site, found out where to go, when they let people in, etc etc. I got there an hour early thinking it would be enough to get in. What no one told me is there were 2 separate lines (people in the park and outside the park) AND that if you were on their street team that you got to skip the line basically.
I wound up being the next person in line when they said they were at capacity. By some chance, several VIPs didn't show up that night and Dixie Carter demanded the seats be filled by fans. So I got a VIP seat that night instead of being in the pit area. And I had a BLAST.
Because of my situation I couldn't go back next month but planned on hitting up Lockdown in 2006. I had joined the street team and was looking forward to getting to skip the line and whatnot. I even got out there about 4 hours before the PPV to really ensure I'd get in this time.
Well, somehow over the course of 3 and a half months, the people working out there changed. They were no longer as nice as they had been. 7:00 rolled around (the time when they start letting people in) and they wouldn't even tell us in the free line if we were going to even be let past the gate to get a chance to wait in line to get inside.
Finally they opened the gate at 7:45 and I get to the side and all of a sudden there was no street team entrance. So now I was WAY back in the line. Several people started chanting "LET US IN! LET US IN!" and we were YELLED AT and told that they were "doing us a favor" by letting us stay there and watch it on 19 inch monitors instead of making us leave and that if we didn't stop yelling that we would be removed.
Keep in mind they let SEVERAL individuals show up DRUNK and continue drinking beyond the point of healthy and then come outside and taunt the people who weren't let in with less than productive chants while our chanting could have been used to show exactly how there were people outside so desperate to see TNA that they were begging to be let in.
Then after all of that, the Arm Wrestling in a Cage happened and somehow they opened the door and said "come in" even though no one had left. The whole treatment just left a bad taste in my mouth especially after them going above and beyond to help me out the previous time around.
I wound up going to an FIP show in June that year and paid $20 (TNA PPV's are free) and had more fun than I did at Lockdown and decided to just never go back.
Now the point I was trying to make is that I actually got in to both of my shows and still felt bad. I can only imagine how many others stayed for hours and got turned away and treated like crap as well. It just leaves people who would come out to every show not wanting to bother anymore. I'm only 40 minutes from Universal and would love seeing live wrestling all the time but don't even bother.
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Post by ICBM on Jun 9, 2009 17:27:51 GMT -5
Abyss=could have been the absolutely un-stoppable monster heel who nobody could beat. You could make so many babyfaces in programs with him, trying to unseat the monster. But no they just chose to put him in a foolish program with Sting replete with the stupidest Russo gimick match of all time (The Stairway th heaven match)
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Post by Michael Coello on Jun 9, 2009 18:19:18 GMT -5
replete with the stupidest Russo gimick match of all time (The Stairway th heaven match) Out of all the gimmick matches done, the stupidest....is a casket match?
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Post by lildude8218 on Jun 9, 2009 18:33:57 GMT -5
replete with the stupidest Russo gimick match of all time (The Stairway th heaven match) Out of all the gimmick matches done, the stupidest....is a casket match? Do you want me to remind him of the other stupid ones?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2009 19:22:03 GMT -5
Monty Brown, Abyss, and Cheerleader Melissa. Monty Brown. At the time, he was one of the few non WWE/WCW/ECW reject on the TNA roster. They could had build him to be their version of Goldberg or The Rock by putting the belt on him when he at the height in his career in TNA.
Abyss. He could had been the monster heel in TNA during his feud Sting. The fact he won the belt from Sting should had make him into a main eventer but Russo has to f*** it up like he does with everything else.
Cheerleader Melissa. She got the talent to be a top face/heel in the TNA women division if it wasn't for the fact that they give her a dumbass gimmick in TNA. When Gail Kim left, she could help carry the Women division with Amazing Kong instead of Taylor Wilde.
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