Re: do you think when TNA tried to move to monday nights was the downfall of the comp
It wasn't so much the move it was more that there didn't see to be a plan to follow up on it.
Storylines floundering about, a bit of a mess. Look at the segment with bischoff, hall, nash, waltman, hogan from that show...Fuck thats the nwo in the ring, if you're going to go that route have a proper plan worked out. All seemed totally on the fly week to week. Also were hogan/bischoff supposed to be faces or heels? nobody really knew. What was Hogans role? don't think he was even GM at that stage was here.
I think more than a few people probably disagree with me but if as a promotion you decide to use the past like this, to feed on the Monday Night War and talk about old talent and bring in the nWo members and Hogan, well then don't turn around the edge, JUST DO THAT. DO THE NWO. I mean Immortal was another thing where Hulk and Co wanted to create another nWo and had Hardy do a heel turn. People don't want a half-ass rethread. If you want to make money with the nWo, THEN DO THAT. Hell during their UK tour recently they were thundred of nWo t-shirts in the crowd still. I still think a company could make money from nostalgia, esp. from the thousands of WCW fans.
Instead, the first show they had Hogan show up with a nWo-like music, he meets the former nWo guys and the swerve was no he's a good guy this time! All the nWo' fans arms dropped in disappointment. Instead Hogan should have showed up in red and yellow with the music he used in the WCW at the beginning(sort of the new take on "Real American"). He shows up, meets with Dixie Carter in the ring smiling and all. Saying it's good to be back. Then you do a big angle that night WITH A BIG SWERVE. Where he turns heel and is joined by his former nWo friends. And they could have used the Wolfpac name and music from then on. Again it's not something dirt sheets would have liked but that's what WCW/nWo fans would have liked IF YOUR GOAL IS TO DRAW ON THESE FANS.
Here's what they could have done:
1. Hulk comes in, he's patriotic, he's red and yellow, he has an entourage and American made is played. Gives a good speach in the ring with Dixie Carter. Then you hear JJ's music played and he's pissed and pushes Dixie, he said "you took the company from me and gave it to this con man!". Much chaos in the ring. End segment.
2. Kevin Nash was essentialy Eric Young's bodyguard at the time in the World Elite group. EY was the Global title champion. British Invasion were tag champs yet, their pal Nash had just won the tag team contendership case at Feast or Fired.
3. Have Nash surrendering his tag team contendership case "as good gesture" for his World Elite friends.
4. Then during the show, we see Eric Bischoff for the first time on the big screen. That would have given probably a decent pop. He would say that since he will be TNA's co-Vice President with Hulk, he has decisions control and his first decision is to have the tag team case being decided in a match where the cases will be suspended and the participants will be Beer Money and Team 3-D. During the match, a dark-claded masked man comes in and cost Team 3-D the case. Beer Money gets title shot. BMI seems perplex.
5. Last match on the show is Eric Young, British Invasion against MCMG and Jeff Jarrett. Match ends in chaos as The whole World Elite group(except for Nash) attack JJ and the MCMG, giving them a beat down. Then you hear the Hogan music and he and Beer Money come to save JJ and MCMG, they clear the ring. Hogan and JJ shake hands afterwards.
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Next week:
-Epic match between World Elite and Hogan Booked.
-Hogan and Beer Money vs Eric Young and British Invasion.
-All the titles are on the line. Meaning the guy that gets pined, if he has a title, he loses it. During the match the other World Elite guys come in to do interference. Rob Terry and LAX comes in but Steiner comes in and Hall and Syxx comes from the crowd and there's a fight between all six guys around the ring. Nash doesn't know what to do, he gets to the side of the ring, pulls out an electric stick and touch EY and BI with it when the ref doesn't see it! Roode gives Williams a spine-buster, Storm gives Magnus a super-kick, and Hogan gives EY the big boot, then the leg drop and the three guys are counted 1-2-3!
Beer Money are tag champs,
Hogan is Global Champ. Nash then hit the other World Elite members with a chair to help Steiner, Syxx and Hall. A nWo-like group is formed with the former nWo members + Beer Money.
-Dixie would be in the crowd in tears.
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In the weeks to follow:
-You could have Hogan bragging that the Global title "is better than the TNA World title".
-EY could go on a leave of absence(for him to return as the goofy face that we love).
-JJ would realise that Hogan really screwed his company over. He could meet the World Elite members, saying to them if they need help "i'm there".
-As World champ, AJ could be the leader of the faces(instead of turning heel with Flair). And they could play on Hogan being a fake champ and AJ being the real World champ. You could see AJ facing various guys of the new heel group whether it's Pac, Steiner and so forth. I guess you could add guys in the group for AJ to face such as Desmond Wolfe and Morgan.
The End Game could be Hogan putting AJ over at BFG, uniting the two titles.