RVD should of hooked the leg

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

I wonder if Styles is still salty about this. It was a shitty decision to put the belt on him then and still is shitty over 5 years later. 

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

I have mixed feelings on it. In a sense, I got that RVD was selling exhaustion but yeah, it really did make AJ look kind of awful for RVD to not even bother hooking the leg.

[cabbageboy]

Not sure why it was such a bad decision. Styles was going nowhere with his poor man's Flair act. Where was he going to go with the belt at that point? The idea of putting it on RVD and then building to some big RVD/Angle match was a good one. Being TNA of course they screwed it completely up.

[Mozenrath]

Dec 20, 2016 9:21:50 GMT -5 cabbageboy said:

Not sure why it was such a bad decision. Styles was going nowhere with his poor man's Flair act. Where was he going to go with the belt at that point? The idea of putting it on RVD and then building to some big RVD/Angle match was a good one. Being TNA of course they screwed it completely up.

Pretty much. This came after TNA already bungled him quite a bit. This AJ was like a teenager at a Halloween party. TNA had a tendency to treat him like this "Golly gee, mister!" youth in general, like his MILF porn-tastic angle with Karen, where he may as well have been helping her take in her groceries before she asked him to stay in for milk and cookies.

I really feel like it took AJ a long time to mature as a main eventer. He had all of the talent, but the clean cut look and bad booking just often made him seem like this young upstart instead of the full package he is nowadays. That "f*** TNA" world tour did him a lot of good.

[Thunderbolt]

lol I'd forgotten about RVD's goofy ass theme music from TNA until watching that clip. That "CAR-LI-TO!" parody of it was gold.

[Muskrat]

I've been a fan of AJ for years but there is no way I could take this version of Styles seriously as "The Face that Runs the Place" on SDL

[Crappler El 0 M]

He should have hooked the leg.
smdh

[Instant Classic]

I loved RVD winning the TNA title, then again I'm an RVD mark.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

It should have been an actual feud and built to a PPV at least.

[A Platypus Rave]

Hooking the leg is a little over rated.

Too many people hook the leg and forget to cover the shoulders... which is what you are supposed to be pinning to the mat.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

AJ was still upset, he mentioned it in his shoots after leaving the company. He was also upset to lose the title to a guy who pretty much stay in tna as a paid vacation.

[Woo]

Hey now AJ wasn't this goofy Flair clone until Hogan arrived. He was perfectly legit as a bonafide main eventer the way he was in late 2009.

[Mozenrath]

Dec 20, 2016 12:32:13 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

AJ was still upset, he mentioned it in his shoots after leaving the company. He was also upset to lose the title to a guy who pretty much stay in tna as a paid vacation.

Not that RVD was terribly thrilled with his TNA stay, either. It must have been humiliating to have people ask him at the airport why he quit wrestling. That may have even been while he was the champion.

[A Platypus Rave]

Dec 20, 2016 12:51:43 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Dec 20, 2016 12:32:13 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

AJ was still upset, he mentioned it in his shoots after leaving the company. He was also upset to lose the title to a guy who pretty much stay in tna as a paid vacation.

Not that RVD was terribly thrilled with his TNA stay, either. It must have been humiliating to have people ask him at the airport why he quit wrestling. That may have even been while he was the champion.

I thought it was Christian who got that question when he was the champion,

[Mozenrath]

Dec 20, 2016 12:53:20 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Dec 20, 2016 12:51:43 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Not that RVD was terribly thrilled with his TNA stay, either. It must have been humiliating to have people ask him at the airport why he quit wrestling. That may have even been while he was the champion.

I thought it was Christian who got that question when he was the champion,

Possible. I want to say both had been asked, along with maybe Kurt Angle.

[A Platypus Rave]

Dec 20, 2016 12:55:53 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Dec 20, 2016 12:53:20 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

I thought it was Christian who got that question when he was the champion,

Possible. I want to say both had been asked, along with maybe Kurt Angle.

I believe they all have complained about it.

But I thought it happened to Christian while he was champion.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Dec 20, 2016 12:55:53 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Dec 20, 2016 12:53:20 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

I thought it was Christian who got that question when he was the champion,

Possible. I want to say both had been asked, along with maybe Kurt Angle.

It happened to Christian, Kevin Nash, Angle, and RVD. That says a lot about what the casual fan thoughts of tna, and that was during tna's prime in SPIKE

[wahoowah11]

I remember when RVD and Hardy came in, RVD said they were rockstars and bigger then TNA.

[________ has left the building]

Rob probably did give a damn about hooking the leg. But he could at least put some weight on AJ to make the pin look better. Normally RVD would hook the leg after the frog splash or at least pin down his opponent's shoulders to the mat. This was more a disrespect even if not intentional.

[Hypnosis]

Dec 20, 2016 11:33:28 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Hooking the leg is a little over rated.

Too many people hook the leg and forget to cover the shoulders... which is what you are supposed to be pinning to the mat.

Regal, Taker, and Bret had/have the right idea.