Has-Beens and TNA.
Sting - 49
Kevin Nash - 48
Scott Steiner - 45
Kip James - 44
Booker T - 43
Jeff Jarrett - 41
Kurt Angle - 39
Dustin Rhodes - 39
B.G. James - 38
This is the age of some of the top stars in TNA Wrestling. Reading This message board has me wondering if i'm the only one concerned with the state of TNA. They focus their entire show around these oldies, and the reason they do that is because they are established, and I suppose they think established wrestlers will generate ratings. But they are sadly mistaken. The only thing that will generate ratings for TNA is to build their up their own product, by establishing their own young talent. They finally made a small step in the right direction by giving Joe the title -- but now what? They haven't developed any of their OTHER young talent. So now Joe is left to I guess try and carry these has-beens because there is nobody else for him to feud with.
The only relatively young guys I can think of in the HW division that are anywhere close to established besides Joe.. are Christian Cage, and Abyss. Beyond that, who is there? There's nobody.
The reason for this? TNA's insistance on making Kurt Angle, and the rest of his has-been crew (Booker-T, Steiner, Nash) the focal point of their entire product. Whilst they put guys like Robert Roode, and James Storm to the backburner, two young guys with great potential to be great singles wrestlers that TNA could push to the moon, but they DON'T. Instead they pair the two up as meaningless tag-team with no explanation for why they decided to team up, other than they are both heels. It's really a shame.
Some guy mentioned that TNA is becoming WCW all over again. And as sad as I am to say it, he is spot on. And to me it's a real shame that so few of you so called TNA fans aren't (or at least don't seem to be) concerned.
And now i'm reading talks of bringing in Ultimate Warrior(48) who hasn't seen the ring in over a decade. And people are actually happy about this. I'm really at a loss for words about that, and that's what prompted me to create this thread. The has-been train doesn't seem to be stopping soon. And it's killing TNA from the inside out.
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OoOoOOo ABYSS!
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