MMA fans?

Yeah, TNA is sort of drowning itself both financially and creatively at the moment IMO. The story line with Immortal vs Sting (and Fortune) is just so fragmented - like many of TNA's stroylines. (Do you remember when they had Doug Williams beat AJ clean with AJ's own move then both AJ and Williams disappeared as though it never happened!) What gets me is listening to long, boring promos by guys like Bubba Ray and the "enforcer", what's his name .... "Gunner" maybe(?), when guys like AJ, Roode, Kaz, and the whole X Div are sitting in the lockeroom prob biting at the bit to get out and wrestle! And they have claim now that "wrestling matters again". How about cutting the boring promos and letting the guys who can actually wrestle wrestle?!! I stopped watching WWE several years ago beacuse of the same thing. Irish leprechans getting longer on-camera time than technically-sound westlers!
Prob would be wise for TNA to cut the strings with Hogan and Flair et al. I'm sure they brought some interest in when they came in but I very much doubt they are worth their fees. And what's up with Steiner? He's an expensive jobber! I can understand them wanting to use a big name to give their younger guys a rub, but it gets old quick seeing him basically have the same match every time he wrestlers. If Steiner wrestlers you know his opponent is going to win!

Steiner has enjoyed Immortal which I think its just a stupid move, there would be a better buzz if he was on his own.

This whole Immortal Fortune crap has gone on far too long and I wish it would just stop. The only people not directly involved in this whole Immortal nonsense is the Knockouts, and thats the matches I look forward too every week. I record and save the TNA shows that have extremely good matches, and I've done alot more recording in 2009 than I have last year and this year.

Yep, the whole wrestling matters thing they have going on means nothing. Its been the same really, well ok a few improvements. Including the redesign of the stage and the ring. Some people still want the 6-sided-ring back but with Hogan around I dont think thats going to happen, and with his 2 year contract he just signed now, god knows what he has in store for TNA.

Suspect Hogan has something to do with the end of the main event at the PPV! (Don't think Roode is the Hulksters kind of wrestler.) I kind of feel sorry for the TNA originals so long as Hogan and Bischoff are in the fold.

Originally Posted by cdy

Suspect Hogan has something to do with the end of the main event at the PPV! (Don't think Roode is the Hulksters kind of wrestler.) I kind of feel sorry for the TNA originals so long as Hogan and Bischoff are in the fold.

Looks like a last minute change of plan there, Hogan doesnt think that Bobby Roode is ready for the title yet.

I wonder what Roode must be think now...

Can't imagine Roode's too happy, matey! That ending had Hogan's prints all over it. I think Hogan is dismissing Roode as he did Bret Hart back when I first started watching pro-wrestling in the early 90s. Hogan prob would prefer to put the strap on Abyss, or or some other boring giant, than a Roode or AJ. I wonder what kind of influence Flair has backstage because I'd imagine he'd be more into pushing a smaller, more athletic guy - though maybe not Roode because of the Hart similarity. I'd imagine Flair would go for a guy more like Storm or Kazarian. I notice Flair has been conspicous by his absence since Steiner came back into the fold - coincidence? Austin Aries inpressed me at the PPV. I was pleased to see him go over clean.

Yep, it was a pretty good PPV. Apparently last nights iMPACT Wrestling was also pretty good.

I wont be watching it until Saturday so staying away from all the spoilers.

Likewise!

I don't recall the last time a pro wrestling show genuinely shocked me. This wks Impact! did just that .... Angle squashed by James Storm!!!

Originally Posted by cdy

I don't recall the last time a pro wrestling show genuinely shocked me. This wks Impact! did just that .... Angle squashed by James Storm!!!

I'm just coming off from watching the PPV for WWE. The ring collapsed during Big Show and Mark Henrys match!

Originally Posted by dan-ger-ous

I'm just coming off from watching the PPV for WWE. The ring collapsed during Big Show and Mark Henrys match!

I think that happened during one of the last WWE shows I watched. I think it was Lesnar vs Show!
Regarding Angle's squashing, I wonder if the Olympian has done something to irritate the powers-that-be. Maybe been caught unlawfully using prescription painkillers or steroids again? Weird how they had him squashed in something like 90 seconds. Also weird that he'd agree to that. Probably a record defeat time for him.