MORE RESPONSES TO LAST NIGHT: TNA vs WWE
- 01/05/2010 (1:52:48 pm)
- Georgiann Makropoulos
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I was hoping for something really, really good from TNA.
It didn't happen.
If somebody wanted to start up a brand new wrestling promotion, who would they rather have: old, balding, crippled Hulk Hogan, or Triple H?
Old, balding Ric Flair or Shawn Michaels?
Old, crippled Kevin Nash or the Undertaker?
And this coming from somebody who really, really wanted TNA to hit a home run. Hogans' "friends" were totally unknown by my 5 year old. Anybody figure out why the Nasty Boys even showed up?? ((Thank God we didnt have to see Brutus Beefcake.))
I think the best baseball analogy would be to call it a bloop single to first base.
It didn't happen.
If somebody wanted to start up a brand new wrestling promotion, who would they rather have: old, balding, crippled Hulk Hogan, or Triple H?
Old, balding Ric Flair or Shawn Michaels?
Old, crippled Kevin Nash or the Undertaker?
And this coming from somebody who really, really wanted TNA to hit a home run. Hogans' "friends" were totally unknown by my 5 year old. Anybody figure out why the Nasty Boys even showed up?? ((Thank God we didnt have to see Brutus Beefcake.))
I think the best baseball analogy would be to call it a bloop single to first base.
From: Brad
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Damn Dixie, What the hell have you Done?!?!
You'd assume, if a major wrestling company made the announcement that it was going head to head with a more successful major wrestling company on prime time television that it would be ready.. Not so, in the case of TNA last night. Last night, Dixie Carter did two huge things: she insulted the intelligence of every wrestling fan who bothered to tune in last night, and I bet most of them tuned out before the first hour was even over, and she single-handedly ruined everything the Jarretts built in TNA. That promotion will not be around for another year. I was impressed with the cage match, despite the fact that the cage looked for all the world like a big red bird cage. I could overlook that. I was even excited when Jeff Hardy exploded onto the atmosphere. But when Hulk Hogan made his appearance, looking like he looked in WCW, wearing all black, with his mustache blonde and his black scruff, I knew exactly what was coming. I wasn't wrong. I guess I watched just to see what kind of damn idiot thing Dixie has done now. What she did was sweep TNA under the bed somewhere and try to bring WCW back to life. The show last night was all about WCW and not about TNA. Funniest thing is, just a couple days ago, I watched The Rise And Fall of WCW on dvd. Dixie copied the last days of WCW DOWN TO THE LETTER. Which makes me wonder, has Vince McMahon bought TNA? I've heard rumors to that fact. WCW died because it was being run by people who did not know how to run a wrestling company. Every wrestler interviewed made that distinction. TNA is being run by Dixie Carter, who has been in it for seven years and HASN'T LEARNED A DAMN THING YET. I swear, I don't believe I've ever seen anybody in the wrestling business or anywhere else who is consistently that stupid. If there were any fans in the building who watched wrestling any longer that week before last, they should have been on their feet BOOING. I don't even think Vince McMahon has exposed fans to such shit. I felt so sorry for all the athletes who made TNA what it is that had to work that show. I felt the sorriest for Jeff Jarrett. It had to have been so hard for him to see his promotion being turned into a farce of such great proportions. Jeff wanted to start TNA so badly, and I know what passion he has for the business, that he went so far as to bring in as a majority investor, a non-wrestling entity, and all would have been fine if the original agreement had been honored by Dixie and Panda to let the Jarretts handle the wrestling end of things and let her handle the marketing end of things. If the original agreement had been honored, I believe Jerry Jarrett would have never left the company and the show last night would have put the WWE to shame. It looked like Dixie went and dug up a few graves for last night's talent. I kept waiting for Scott Hall's face to explode. Scott's next career move needs to be a stint on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. He looked wasted as hell last night to me. And so many things weren't even believeable last night. Did anybody really buy Samoa Joe beating Abyss? NOT. And what feasible explaination was given for Eric Bitchoff (not a mispelliing, btw) taking over? I must have missed that one. I bet she paid members of the crowd a hundred bucks a piece to chant TNA. I bet she had to go as much as two hundred a piece to get them to wear the yellow shirts. And that was the thing that looked the stupidest. The audience wearing those shirts in support of Hogan and he comes out in black. Did they feel like idiots? Well, they should have. And then the camera kept panning over to Dixie, and she had this look on her face like she really accomplished something. She did. She lit the fuse to the dynamite that will kill TNA. And what was this strip poker shit? What did that have to do with wrestling? That was just the most shameless exploitation of women I've ever witnessed in my entire life. The smartest person on last night's show was Bobby Lashly. He wanted out. My advice to the TNA wrestlers is this: get in touch with Jerry Jarrett or Reno Riggins. Reno Riggins' promotion is the promotion that Jerry Jarrett filmed the show that he's currently trying to shop around with at the Nashville Fairgrounds Arena. Wrestling is in Jerry's blood, I knew he couldn't stay away from it. That is your best bet right now. I do have to say though, despite all my other rantings, that Ric Flair has still got it. I'm not just some fly-by-night casual wrestling fan who just turned on the TV one or two years ago. I've been watching since I was 16. I've saw what worked over the years and what didn't. And last night's effort by TNA.... STUNK. Goodbye TNA. Thanks for the memories. |
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Great Night for Wrestling
I watched both shows tonight and i dont care what anyone else says, tna really stepped up tonight. They delivered. Awesome main even in angle vs. styles. some good returns in hogan and jeff hardy, and some nice surprise appearances from flair, shannon moore, val venis, nasty boys, orlando jordan, etc....Tna was awesome.
Raw really only had the bret hart stuff. the stuff with bret and hbk and then bret-vince was intriguing but the rest was just kind of there. orton vs. kofi and dx vs. jerishow was alright, but we already seen them wrestle lately. nothing really new.
all in all, TNA stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam.
raw will probably pull the higher ratings due to raw and wwe being a bigger name and already being a mainstay on mondays, but TNA Impact was amazing tonight.
Raw really only had the bret hart stuff. the stuff with bret and hbk and then bret-vince was intriguing but the rest was just kind of there. orton vs. kofi and dx vs. jerishow was alright, but we already seen them wrestle lately. nothing really new.
all in all, TNA stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam.
raw will probably pull the higher ratings due to raw and wwe being a bigger name and already being a mainstay on mondays, but TNA Impact was amazing tonight.
From: jlhfrozen
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no mention of the local high school cheerleading girls given hard camera tix & tshirts asked to Pop crazy all night & they would be shown on live tv.. u know the girls who were quiet & lost while the fans below chanted "this is awesome" during Style/Angle.. the girls who laughed at scott hall, and wondered why everyone kept promised to make history but no one did..
i wonder if jeff realizes where he got the money for that car.. him & his brother who exploit alcohol abuse will both be wrestling in front of free cheerleaders soon.
bret hart and hbk was a real moment, and nothing a writer could have done.
i dont know what words to use.. but i dvr'd then watched tna whole, gave it a chance.. and it sucked. watching angle vs styles wasn't half bad BUT way too much silly flipping and angle seemed like he needed HBK in their with him!
that opening shmaz just to get jeff hardy to look good.. ridiculous. i do enjoy pope and nigel (wolf)..
but the shows sucked, mr. sponge bubba fat ass announcing while two guys have a ladder on them was hilarious, hogan proved CM PUNK and all of us, RIGHT.. he brought in bubba, flair, nastys, orlando jordn, hall, waltman, make history, Young guys... GEEZ. there is no war, WWE is the only place to: A. make a living & B. enjoy sports entertainment... also check out ROHWRESTLING.COM for wrestling nothin like what u saw on spike TV..
- Rick
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Well, I must say from all the calls I have received, there sure are mixed emotions of last night. Some loved it, some really hated it.
Some of it I liked, some of it I also hated too.
What did you think?
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