Celgress
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Superior One
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Post by Celgress on Jan 18, 2010 14:38:16 GMT -5
@ Deeks and Mickey & Sylvia
How dare you apply logical and tested booking techniques to the current TNA product! We like our TNA just the way it use to be, failing miserably to attract mainstream attention and casual fans!
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Post by kickassJP on Jan 18, 2010 15:38:04 GMT -5
I disagree. I think that the crowd sucked last night and that Anderson will get over in the coming weeks.
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Post by rrm15 on Jan 18, 2010 16:26:23 GMT -5
I don't understand why TNA is wasting their time with this loser.
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Post by hajimenoippo on Jan 18, 2010 16:31:42 GMT -5
I'm tired of this "WWE released he shouldn't wrestle anymore" BS.
Why cant WWE guys work in TNA or ROH? They can bring a lot to the table, are known, and provide experience to the roster, or give the roster some new blood.
Ken Anderson will help make TNA look legit, as will their other main eventers, and the show just feels more big time.
Deal with it. If a guy can bring in some viewers, TNA or WWE will hire them. The bottom line is money.
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Post by Ryushinku on Jan 18, 2010 16:47:32 GMT -5
I have no hate for Mr Anderson. I simply don't care at all about him, and his PPV showing did nothing to make me feel otherwise.
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El Hijo De Slapnuts
Samurai Cop
Really waiting for Minoru Suzuki to face off with a live gator.....
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Post by El Hijo De Slapnuts on Jan 18, 2010 16:52:38 GMT -5
Very few wrestlers are "homegrown"(as in the wrestler started in that company's school),but Anderson could do some good,Kendrick is great in the ring,who cares if he likes pot;if they brought in RVD you guys would be pooin' your pants.
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Post by jalen on Jan 18, 2010 17:17:31 GMT -5
And just turned heel with ... wait for it ... the help of a retired WWE wrestler. Oh, and who beat homegrown Christopher Daniels? Val Venis. And where were the Machine Guns? Chillin' their heels, while The Band sucked up time (and just sucked) with Beer Money. Samoa Joe? Nope. We got KENDRICK!!! Desmond Wolfe went from feuding with a main event WWE castoff to ... feuding with a midcard WWE castoff. The point is, TNA already has a stacked roster. Lots of homegrown, original talent. Rather than turn them into stars, they keep relying on castoffs as the draw, and their homegrown stars to fill in the spaces. A stacked roster of what, exactly? And how do you turn that stacked roster into stars without 1) sacrificing a lot of the roster to begin with, and 2) not having established guys to give them rub? If you want no-names who can work, go watch ROH. That is a niche market. That is not a business model that is designed to compete with McMahon, which is obviously what Dixie and company want. Ken Anderson is far more likely to attract a frustrated WWE fan than Samoa Joe. Jeff Hardy is far more likely to attract a frustrated WWE fan and/or an Attitude Era casual fan than AJ Styles. TNA needs those names to survive. Again, if they wanted to go the route of ROH and build all these young guys that only their niche fanbase cares about, then fine. That's not what the company wants to do, obviously. They want to compete and win a ratings "war" with Vince. Are you referring to the company that took castoffs like Stunning Steve Austin, Cactus Jack, Jean-Paul Levesque, Mean Mark, etc, and built the company around them?
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Post by Black Swagger on Jan 18, 2010 17:41:19 GMT -5
I'm tired of this "WWE released he shouldn't wrestle anymore" BS. Why cant WWE guys work in TNA or ROH? They can bring a lot to the table, are known, and provide experience to the roster, or give the roster some new blood. Ken Anderson will help make TNA look legit, as will their other main eventers, and the show just feels more big time. Deal with it. If a guy can bring in some viewers, TNA or WWE will hire them. The bottom line is money. I can't stand the term "WWE reject". I just don't understand, I mean if a wrestler is no longer working for WWE, and they need to make up for lost income to feed their families and pay their bills and I am sure that TNA is a better alternative than getting your brains kicked in for chump change in front of 75 fans (No diss to the indy scene, as I love it). The machine known as WWE will always continue to get rid of guys who will still have plenty to contribute to mainstream wrestling. Plus TNA can see that a guy like Kendrick can be a huge addition to the X-Division, and they can see that Ken Anderson can still be a star in main stream wrestling. I think Anderson brings a lot to the table, and I feel that he is going to be great as long as he remains healthy. What I wish TNA would do is try to get some guys who are booted from WWE while they are still in their prime.
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oubon
Tommy Wiseau
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Post by oubon on Jan 18, 2010 18:01:36 GMT -5
I'm amazed how the haters won with Kennedy. Now, even people who are defending him accept the "injury prone" thing.
You can tell people 5000 times he's been as injured (2,5 times if you count the month injury that cost him the mitb) in 3 years as Batista, Mysterio, Cena, Edge, Taker.... That's just funny. You just have to repeat something again and again and it becomes the reality.
As for his match, he was clearly a heel since the beginning (the bitch slap) and if the match has nothing to do in a ppv (like some other ones), it was the perfect Kennedy heel match, with lot of acting and attitude, and some good bump. Now that he's clearly heel, he will do marvelous things.
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Post by donners on Jan 18, 2010 18:16:32 GMT -5
@ Deeks and Mickey & Sylvia How dare you apply logical and tested booking techniques to the current TNA product! We like our TNA just the way it use to be, failing miserably to attract mainstream attention and casual fans! Yeah, like getting a 1.26 rating on the back of a week of massive hype, a rating they achieved a dozen times last year without such hype or the huge expense of all the latest signings. Hey, they even turned out a PPV that was almost half as good as last year's Genesis. Watch the fans flock to TNA now.
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nonrev
Don Corleone
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Post by nonrev on Jan 18, 2010 18:18:29 GMT -5
I wish it was Kendrick who got the push Kennedy is about to
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Snowman
Dennis Stamp
The "Called His Mama at WrestleMania" Guy
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Post by Snowman on Jan 18, 2010 18:21:58 GMT -5
Mr Ken... I mean Anderson is such a Marmite wrestler, people either love him or loathe him, there seems to be no inbetween.
Personally I think he is awesome and marked out when he turned up. But I don;t think this was the right way to debut him, they should have just had him squash creed or lethal or even shark boy if he is still around.
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Post by donners on Jan 18, 2010 18:27:01 GMT -5
Mr Ken... I mean Anderson is such a Marmite wrestler, people either love him or loathe him, there seems to be no inbetween. Personally I think he is awesome and marked out when he turned up. But I don;t think this was the right way to debut him, they should have just had him squash creed or lethal or even shark boy if he is still around. I honestly think the booking is reflecting a lack of understanding of the TNA roster and, more particularly, their connection with the fans. Putting a new, fairly mediocre figure against a TNA stalwart like Daniels was asking for trouble. Debuting (and over-hyping) a new opponent for Abyss, a TNA regular who has put himself through all sorts of punishment over the years, is again just inviting a backlash. It was a bad situation to put Anderson in - firstly with the hype that he could not possibly match, secondly with an opponent who the fans are going to prefer over him (and not in face/heel terms, but in actually WANTING to see that person).
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Post by derrtaysouth95 on Jan 18, 2010 18:32:46 GMT -5
It was good for what it was and I'm glad he's in TNA where he might stand a good chance to getting used.
Hopefully he can stay healthy and keep his mouth shut this time.
And the match not being great I don't feel was his fault. He was in there against Abyss...a guy who is out of his element if it's not a hardcore bout. So it was just a bad choice to debut him against him.
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Post by Natalya's Ass Fanboy on Jan 18, 2010 22:48:27 GMT -5
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