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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jun 16, 2014 19:41:33 GMT -5
TNA jumped the gun with him by a few months. Instead of putting the belt on him, that's when they should have started building him. Now that they are getting ready to start the BFG Series (I think...has there been an announcement on it yet...should be starting soon if it is), is the time they could have really turned him into a star. Build him up during the series even more while maintaining the "underdog" feel he has. Just go all in with him the whole time...then when he wins the series and takes the belt at BFG it could be like "wow that whole build felt good, it's awesome he won, he really earned his way to the top". Not earn it as a lifetime achievement award and then try to make him credible. To me it's just backwards booking with him and frankly, I ain't buying it, and from the looks of the ratings (along with other issues) it appears alot of other people aren't either. But what am I talking about...they would have went that whole route with him building him up for 6-8 months as the face of the company then have him lose to Crazzy Steve in the BFG series finals or something. Great idea. If you combined yours and mine, that would've been an awesome build.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jun 16, 2014 19:44:41 GMT -5
Good point, and it ties back into one of the last points I made: that TNA traditionally doesn't grasp the importance of the journey from Point A to Point B. Over the years, the company has delivered things we, as fans, have wanted. We got the AJ vs. Daniels feud back in the day (which, granted, proceeded to never end), we got undefeated Samoa Joe, we got Joe vs. Angle, we saw certain big indy names signed (e.g. Low Ki, Homicide, Jay Lethal, Alex Shelley, Austin Aries, etc.), we got matchups people have wanted to see...but this is a worked sport, not a real one, and you can give fans all the "dream matches" you can think of, they won't care unless you book it in a way that generates fan interest. When you dedicate too much of your show to heel authority figures cutting promos, you lose out on time to have two guys in a feud simply interact and build up tension for their inevitable confrontation. Fans aren't going to care about, let's say, Austin Aries vs. Kenny King as much until you give a solid storyline where people are invested in these two guys facing one another specifically. Joe vs. Angle really was a poster child for this, and now EY is a great example of it. Saying "Hey, the fans want to see Joe vs. Angle", or "Hey, the fans like EY and he's a great performer, I bet we could make him World Champ at some point" is fine...now take us on the journey to those things, don't just arrive at Point A, do the thing the fans may have wanted, and then shrug and say "Point B? What's Point B?" Point B? Point S, for Swerve.
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