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they lost a grappling talent who wrestling fans love....
to hit any curveball the brass threw at him. He’ll have a long, independently successful career with less money than he thought but much better memories.
Hogan and Bischoff have missed the zeitgeist. They think they’re still young, hip scenesters, ahead of the curve. They are actually old, fat men wheezing for the bus. So keen on sipping their mochchochlattefrappacappacinos and firing off nonsense lawsuits to take note of where wrestling
is. It’s passed them by. Either that, or they don’t know how to play it. Because wrestling is now most interested in...wrestling! Amazing, isn’t
it? Fans want mano a mano action, good action at that, proper competition. Examples? UFC’s massive success, the rejuvenated boxing world, the cognoscenti’s love of Dragon Gate, a wrestling promotion, even pretty decent WWE matches; it’s all there if you take a look at it for even a moment.
The new TNA management believe that skits pay. Throw enough ordure (shit, wageslaves) at the wall and some is bound to stick. So you’ll come back next week, to get a whole lot of other shit. It’s a win-win! Except that wrestling loses. Ah, but, you might mumble into your Angus burger, Bischoff has just instituted a ranking system, exactly what you proposed. You’re right. But it’s based on fans voting via the stupidity superhighway, so it probably won’t be a strenuous grappling-based list.
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But hang on, you might dribble into your pint of pernod, they’ve just hired and crowned RVD, a proper wrestler who has character, isn’t that what you want? It is, but there’s something you should consider; Hogan and Bischoff have a love of the new. Like someone who has a box set of “The Wire” and buys another because it has a Spanish commentary, they believe everything new is good and exciting – they demean what’s there (look at the hobbling of AJ, a brilliant worker with limited stick skills given a role with big character work, the messing of Abyss, the elevation of Rob Terry) and parachute in saviours who have done it in the past, ergo can do it now. In the meantime,
Daniels languishes in the indies and Abyss farts around with Flair.
What made you your fortune? Wrestling. What brought you to the dance? Wrestling. What do you peddle? Wrestling. So what have you decided to ignore? Wrestling. They tried to push the grappling a few weeks ago, and it was ok, but one week later, the confusion was back. You see, you can’t have wrestling without wrestlers. With Daniels, they had options. Without him, there’s a hole. Carry on like this and TNA will be right in the ordure. And you know what that means.
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