TNA Pluses and Minuses

[Arturo Classico]

I was thinking about some good parts of TNA and what I dislike. I came up wit these pluses and minuses of TNA:

Pluses:

LAX the best Tag Team in America right now

Anything with Shelley, especially the new tag team with him and Sabin

Christian Cage as the heel champion, makes great TV and has been one of the better world champion in the past couple of years.

Team Cage in general including Tomko, the perfect foil for Cage and Steiner's insane promos

"Black Machismo" Jay Lethal

"Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels

AJ Styles


Minuses:

Team 3D, horrible!

Making Serotonin jobber when they deserve way more

Basically the whole X Division

The Eric Young Angle

Lack of Continuity in storylines

The misuse of Kurt Angle, Sting and Samoa Joe

Too many promos and not enough wrestling

Too many gimmicks for matches

using former WCW/WWE talent over TNA talent

The tag Team Divison

Making Abyss look totally weak



Any way those are a few I could think of and I wanted to post something about TNA that was sort of positive and yet critical as well. Anyway these are just my thoughts.

[jcdenton]

Plus

Money for workers.

Great Roster

Minuses:

The worst bookers on earth.

[MGH]

jcdenton said:

Plus

Money for workers.

Great Roster

Minuses:

The worst bookers on earth.

I'll say SOME of the worst.

CZW still holds that title proudly.

[Boku AKA Da Green Guy]

I'm still placing Lethal's rip off gimmick as a minus.

[hollywood]

PLUSES:
In its own small way, it's put an end to the McNopoly. No matter how bad I think their shows are, I'll always credit them for that. (I just hope they can survive long enough to keep things that way!)

MINUSES:
They manage to screw up every major opportunity that lands in their laps.

[Mayonnaise]

Pluses:

• Great Talent.
  
• First national exposure for a lot of guys.
  
• An owner seemingly willing to lose millions of dollars and not bat an eye.
  
• Some of the smartest men in wrestling (Raven, Douglas, Konnan and Taylor to name a few).
  
• LAX
  
• The X Division concept.
  
• iMPACT Zone tapings
  

Minuses:

• Horrible Use of said great talent.
  
• Wasting money on horrible ideas (Elevation X mainly since I doubt they ever use that again)
  
• Not using the intellegnce that is there and hiring others. (Mantel, Rhodes and, Russo). Looking inward isn't a bad thing.
  
• Gimmick Concept matches out the ass.
  
• Forgetting about/Misuse of the X Division
  
• iMPACT Zone tapings
  
• Forgetting about home grown talent in favor of former WWE and WCW stars (not counting guys like Tomko and Christian that were never really given a shot in WWE).
  
• Lack of anything mid-card
  

[destrucity]

Unmentioned Plusses & Minuses

Plus

I get to watch wrestling on TV on Thursdays

Minus

Terrible TV matches that last only 3 minutes and have run-ins
Six sided ring makes moves look weak (compare the Pounce in TNA to ECW to see what I mean)

[angryfan]

I look at their biggest minus right now being threefold.

They have great talent that they can consider homegrown, but refuse to use most of them as more than filler.

They took the one thing that was theirs to flaunt (the X-division) and made it into something that either doesn't matter, gets no TV time, or is fodder for Kevin Nash.

They are seeminly obsessed with gimmick matches.

[Joekishi]

Plus:

Having an incedibly deep pool of talent
TV time
PPV

Minus:

Not using that talent to the best of their abilities
not using the TV time adequately enough to promote the PPV.
Not using the PPV in order to really build more storylines/conclude them

[infrared]

+'s
Shelley & Sabin
LAX
Petey Williams face turn
Christian Cage
Jarrett's not all over the product at the moment
most of the face/heel turns
-'s
Having the OWW proclaimed "Worlds Biggest Jackass" as a booker
Gimmick matches
The burial of Serotonin
VKM
Shelley not as X champ
Eric Young being like Eugene