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Its not only the booking, its also the IZ that makes the show look bush league, pushing IWC darlings and the casual fans dont like them at all.I don't think it is any secret that one of the main problems that TNA has always had is in their booking and creative teams who really struggle at times and have problems in continuing when they have done well. A good example is going into Bound For Glory when despite it not being the best run in to the biggest PPV in TNA they were doing well and the whole "They" angle had momentum and did have people interested in it but from Bound For Glory through to now the booking in TNA has been abysmal and i don't understand how TNA can book so badly in such a short space of time in between the middle of October and now.
Since Bound For Glory we have seen Fortune become a joke and dominated by Doug Williams and Matt Morgan despite the fact that Fortune were probably the best thing in TNA, we have also seen The Motor City Machine Guns momentum just suddenly stop when the tag team division in the company has been on fire for a good six months. The main event scene seems pointless with Jeff Hardy, Matt Morgan, Mr Anderson and Rob Van Dam seemingly involved in a storyline with each other but with barely any interaction with each other and the X Division has gone even further backwards then before Bound For Glory.
After putting so much into the whole "They" storyline we have seen Immortal as quite possibly the worst main event stable ever with Jeff Hardy around some of the time but Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff never around and Jeff Jarrett now somehow an "MMA specialist" with Abyss now a fan of casket's and being used as a complete Undertaker/Kane rip off. So much was put into the build up to Immortal that a stable of Jeff Hardy, Jeff Jarrett and Abyss as it's only in ring characters is a joke and the fact that they have been so far from dominant despite the fact they apparently now run the company is an even bigger joke.
Surely someone within TNA management can see what we see on tv and in the crowd and they can see that what is being put out on screen is pure garbage outside of in the ring between AJ Styles and Doug Williams which is the only reason to even watch Impact right now. Now this is not an anti Vince Russo thread because he is not the only one on the booking and creative team but how TNA can go from putting out a show that makes me want to watch on a weekly basis without fail leading into Bound For Glory in mid October to me not being able to watch without recording and fast forwarding through almost the whole show belies belief and surely now major changes have to be made to the booking and creative team as the current one with Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan is clearly not up to the task at all and TNA are going backwards rapidly despite having better in ring workers than WWE.
You're a funny guy , man.And the WWE has better workers than TNA, they dont rely on SPOTZZ and the same old shit.
There is no doubting that the impact zone doesn't do TNA any favours but then that can be forgotten about if TNA could book something that makes people want to watch. I highly doubt the first thing people take notice of when WWE does something well is how big the arena is as it is the character's in the ring that get the reactions and that sell the tickets and for me AJ Styles is much better to watch than Randy Orton.Its not only the booking, its also the IZ that makes the show look bush league, pushing IWC darlings and the casual fans dont like them at all.
Abyss isnt doing anything since his feud with Pope.
Dont mention the IZ crowd again, they only mark for SPOTZZZ.
And you want Immortal as dominant as the MEM? Didnt you learn the lesson that making a top stable too dominant makes the fans dont give a shit about the babyfaces?
And the WWE has better workers than TNA, they dont rely on SPOTZZ and the same old shit.
If it wasn't for AJ Styles and Doug Williams i would no longer even watch Impact because since Bound For Glory the product has been horrible with great booking decisions like turning Matt Morgan face when he was becoming a great heel or having The Beautiful People almost monopolise the whole Knockout's division or give Jeff Jarrett an MMA gimmick or have Samoa Joe become a bitch for everyone to go over or release Hamada and Taylor Wilde or split up Team 3D and allow them to be singles wrestler's, i could go on and on but i'm getting dizzy.100% Agree with OP. The only thing worth watching on TNA right now is the AJ/Williams feud. I remember a few years ago when TNA was making constantly better TV and PPVs then WWE, they didn't do it by booking ridiculous stables in nonsensical rivalries, they did it by showcasing what they did have and that was superior wrestling talent. But then Russo came along...
TNA may be better than WWE in regards to the way their product is shown and the fact that TNA is not put out for the children but WWE have people on their roster who are HUGE stars and make people tune in to watch just because they are on Raw or SmackDown whereas TNA has great in ring workers, a few great all round talents and a terrible booking team. Going into Bound For Glory i was satisfied because i thought to myself we are about to see a stable in the mould of The New World Order come out of this with Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan as heel's alongside one of either Kurt Angle who is one of the best heel's of all time and a big star or Mr Anderson who has potential to be a great main event heel and would represent a change and i truly believed that TNA were ready to move to the next level but i was horribly wrong.Another TNA hating thread. Seriously? All you guys do is complain and hate TNA. No matter what TNA does they can never satisfy you guys. It's better than that PG WWE shit. WWE's booking is worse than TNA's.
They do?Its not only the booking, its also the IZ that makes the show look bush league, pushing IWC darlings and the casual fans dont like them at all.
Yes they can, once they ditch anyone over 40, bring in Shimmer to bring the KO divisions back to life and turn Impact into Reaction, catch my drift?Another TNA hating thread. Seriously? All you guys do is complain and hate TNA. No matter what TNA does they can never satisfy you guys. It's better than that PG WWE shit. WWE's booking is worse than TNA's.
casual fans dont even like wrestling, so f*** 'emIts not only the booking, its also the IZ that makes the show look bush league, pushing IWC darlings and the casual fans dont like them at all.
Abyss isnt doing anything since his feud with Pope.
Dont mention the IZ crowd again, they only mark for SPOTZZZ.
And you want Immortal as dominant as the MEM? Didnt you learn the lesson that making a top stable too dominant makes the fans dont give a shit about the babyfaces?
And the WWE has better workers than TNA, they dont rely on SPOTZZ and the same old shit.
Funny, I think the exact same thing about you in every TNA live PPV discussion thread.Another TNA hating thread. Seriously? All you guys do is complain and hate TNA. No matter what TNA does they can never satisfy you guys. It's better than that PG WWE shit. WWE's booking is worse than TNA's.
Seriously dude, I don't give a rat's ass if you don't like indy wrestlers, but TNA isn't actually PUSHING any IWC favorites. The closest thing to an exception is Kaz, and he is neither an IWC darling nor all that indy (mediocre personality and mic skills does NOT automatically make somebody indy).Its not only the booking, its also the IZ that makes the show look bush league, pushing IWC darlings and the casual fans dont like them at all.
Weren't you the same clown who basically every week ran down everything to the point of you supposedly never watching TNA again? And what does WWE doing or not doing have anything to do with TNA?Another TNA hating thread. Seriously? All you guys do is complain and hate TNA. No matter what TNA does they can never satisfy you guys. It's better than that PG WWE shit. WWE's booking is worse than TNA's.
Machine Guns as the tag champions,Fortune.Seriously dude, I don't give a rat's ass if you don't like indy wrestlers, but TNA isn't actually PUSHING any IWC favorites. The closest thing to an exception is Kaz, and he is neither an IWC darling nor all that indy (mediocre personality and mic skills does NOT automatically make somebody indy).
Featuring them on the show as secondary/tetriary characters does NOT diminish fan interest in the show if those fans ALREADY have a reason for watching (i.e. interesting personalities in the ME and having said personalities involved in something actually exciting). And besides, practically every wrestler on the roster that doesn't come off as indy aside from Magnus is already being used in a capacity.
I don't think i have ever agree with a post more than i have yours in my whole time on these forums but everything you said is everything that i feel about TNA as a company now and have done since the first couple of Impact's after Bound For Glory because since then the booking team has completely fallen apart and right now there is not even one hald decent storyline in TNA and if it wasn't for the Styles/Williams matches TNA wouldn't even be watchable at all. Right now watching TNA is worse than WCW in 2000-2001 and what is really worrying is that WCW were at their worst then and about to go out of business whilst TNA actually believe they are doing well and moving forward.Funny, I think the exact same thing about you in every TNA live PPV discussion thread.
On topic, I lost interest in TNA a couple of weeks after Bound for Glory. Leading up to it I was more interested in TNA than I have been in a wrestling company in a long time. Despite controversy from this forum regarding the main event I thought it was very well executed and thoroughly entertaining. After the PPV though it was like creative just couldn't be assed to carry on with what they started when I really thought it would be the turning point (no pun intended) for the company. I mean, here we have probably the biggest pro-wrestling angle in the past few years, played out well I might add, then had it fall flat on it's ass the following week.
TNA never ceases to bewilder me with how they fuck things up.
Another example is Jeff Hardy, say what you want about him but he is the only man that has come close (and arguably actually doing it at one stage) to toppling Cena in the popularity list. Someone who was the most over professional wrestler on the planet in 2008-mid'09, signed by a company yet as if by some miraculous occurrence of idiocy, manage to NOT capitalize on it due to booking or whatever the hell you want to blame for it.
You can call me a TNA hater or whatever, but when I returned to watching pro-wrestling, I LOVED and hell actually PREFERRED TNA to WWE, now it's transferred itself to nothing but a glorified indy.
TNA is going to be in a world of hurt when Hardy, Angle, and of the veterans whose status TNA is riding on such as Nash and Sting leave the company for good.
Show me anyone who isn't a long-term TNA fan and basically is a casual who gives a fuck about AJ Styles or Samoa Joe (for the record, I think they're brilliant) and i'll give you a blowjob.
This is only one of the many diseases TNA has, but a big one nonethless. A heel Orlando Jordan was cheered there at one time so thats all the proof you need of it being a cancer.Impact Zone is TNA's cancer.