Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Sept 30, 2014 10:54:38 GMT -5
It's been an interesting year to say the least and it seems like its gonna be the final one. I want to talk about all the changes that the company went through during this year. From creative to the roster, match quality, and the management side of things.
Creative. Its been better than past years, not saying that the storylines have been good, just that I rather watch TNA now than the f***ing Brooke Hogan show, Green Lantern Abyss, and the Aces and Eights. My big problem this year is that they ripped off major WWE storylines (Daniel Bryan and Evolution). I had a theory that the creative team did this so when people tuned in they thought they were watching another brand of WWE and stick around. It was hilarious that the main angle this year was Bully Ray putting Dixie through a table, and right after he does it, its reported that he won't resign with TNA. There's been some goofy things too like the Menagerie, Sam Shaw, and the lesbian angle.
Oh yeah I almost forgot about the first months of the year when Dixie latched on Hogan begging him not to leave, like a child throwing a temper tantrum. That made TNA look even more amateur, the owner begging the WWE guy not to leave, then Hulk getting a pop from tens of thousands of people at WM...
Roster: Now its pretty much an skeleton crew. We started the year with AJ Styles, Sting, Bad Influence, Chris Sabin, Bully Ray, amongst others. They're all gone now except Bully, and after reading his twitter feed, he pretty much rt's the fans comments about his TLC matches, he stopped talking about TNA. Kurt Angle's contract expired a few days ago, and I don't see him taking a pay cut. Aries is also rumored to leave. f*** it even ODB left. I can't see Jeff Hardy sticking around for much longer. MVP was the biggest signing of the year, but after a weird heel turn and hurting his knee he's pretty much an afterthough. Lashley proved to be a decent champion, even shoot fighting (well against a tomato can), but as someone pointed out Bellator is his employer not TNA, I can't see them lending him if they're not on the same channel. That leaves Roode, Storm, Joe, and Abyss as the stars. Well, Joe almost had a resurgence but they went with Eric Young, now he's hurt and could possibly miss Bound for Glory. Abyss and Storm both got fat, it's embarrasing to look at them. Roode is awesome like always, but the way he's been booked. Like even at the beginning of the year he cut a promo that he wanted to leave TNA, and didn't he got suspended for the better part of the year by MVP? The roster is certainly worse than a year ago.
Match quality: The wolves are an asset in both the tag team and x division, but how can you bounce back from losing AJ and Daniels?
Management: Its been a clusterf***, Dixie hired John Gaburick, a guy whose claim to fame was to direct wrestlemania commercials, now he's in charge of booking and talent relations. Other gems of the year was when Dixie hid Russo from Spike TV, Meltzer claimed that when Spike found out it ruined the relationship, most of us didn't believed that, until a Spike TV executive buried Russo, calling him about as worthless as a piece of gum stuck to your tennis shoe. We should've known this was gonna happen after Jeff Jarrett left in January.
There was a VICE article about the state of TNA, Dixie was in full denial mode, claiming that TNA was profitable...
I can't see Spike resigning them, otherwise they wouldn't tape like months of tv in advance.
To sum it all off, Dixie is the main problem, she wants to run everything, even being a tv character.
I think that this could be TNA's worst year ever, maybe next year either they won't be around, or the Carters finally sell it to someone who knows what the f*** he's doing.