TNA/Eric Young

[Whitey Ford]

I don't care what you guys think. TNA is growing on me. Its entertaining, and the wrestlers are actually working instead of telegraphing to the audience the finishes (most of the time).

The womens' division is lightyears better than the WWE's womens division.

The faces are fresh, and I find myself rooting for them for the character, not just because they're the face in the feud.

BUT...I have to say, Eric Young is fucking hilarious. He's just such an idiot, but he plays it off in a way that I can't help but laugh at. That carries on to when he's in the ring, since people always root for him pretty much no matter what.

[MJ Windsor]

TNA has lots of great points, i just do not think they play to them enough.
They honestly could be a very fresh alternative to WWE if they did the opposite to the WWE.

push the womens division -
whilst it is currently better than WWE (which is not exactly hard to do) it is not as strong as it once was.

push the x division -
again, WWE has no realy interest in this style, those in the WWE that can perform in this way are usually used as jobbers or when they do get a push they fuck it up, as in Bourne and London.
TNA should be main eventing shows with the X Divison. Aries is quite possibly one of the very very best talents on TV right now and could easily carry a main event storyline which does not revolve around the World title.

push the tag team division -
and once again, it was absolutely excellent at one time, it has dipped recently and TNA have resorted to WWE tactics of throwing 2 unused guys together. They should find and push genuine tag teams, it worked before and can work again.

push Samoan Joe -
it is a crying shame to see what has become of this guy, once THE MAN who could whip up a crowd like no one else in TNA, he is now a joke who has been involved in so many short lived 'comebacks' it has watered him down beyond belief.
It is unlikely the WWE would do anything great with him, a grass skirt and teaming with the Usos is likely to be a sure thing if he headed there.
So TNA should start again and build him up, and do it simply like they did before, a big fucking guy who can fly around the ring and kicks peoples heads in. 'Joe is Gonna Kill You' needs to ring around the Impact Zone once again.


Aside from that, is is great to see Roode as the World Champ, so far it might not have been quite as exciting as id have liked, but that is probably because he turned heel way to quickly. But the guy is an awesome heel so i have no real complaints.

James Storm is having the greatest run of his career, thanks in part to Angle who is one of the very few 'older guys' who is worth having around in an active capacity. Storm should without doubt have a solid world title run in his future.


One thing they need to do is get rid of Flair, he is awful and i cant stand seeing him in his current form. His legacy will always stand up to those of us that know it but it is killing me to see what he has become.

Oh, and clearly the Hogan/Bischoff experiment has failed. Let them leave and pay Heyman anything he wants to be the head booker.

ECW might have failed but that was due to finance and poor business. When Heyman has been free of that worry he has produced the best wrestling TV. Remember Smackdown during the Lesner/Edge/Guerrero/Rey/Angle etc etc era, that was Heyman.
Wrestlers respect him and they seem to thrive when they are working with him.
Pay the guy some money, give him money to use and weekly TV and he will make good things happen.

[AWA CEO: Mr. Timothy Draven]

Jan 20, 2012 4:50:28 GMT -4 MJ Windsor said:

TNA has lots of great points, i just do not think they play to them enough.
They honestly could be a very fresh alternative to WWE if they did the opposite to the WWE.

push the womens division -
whilst it is currently better than WWE (which is not exactly hard to do) it is not as strong as it once was.

push the x division -
again, WWE has no realy interest in this style, those in the WWE that can perform in this way are usually used as jobbers or when they do get a push they fuck it up, as in Bourne and London.
TNA should be main eventing shows with the X Divison. Aries is quite possibly one of the very very best talents on TV right now and could easily carry a main event storyline which does not revolve around the World title.

push the tag team division -
and once again, it was absolutely excellent at one time, it has dipped recently and TNA have resorted to WWE tactics of throwing 2 unused guys together. They should find and push genuine tag teams, it worked before and can work again.

push Samoan Joe -
it is a crying shame to see what has become of this guy, once THE MAN who could whip up a crowd like no one else in TNA, he is now a joke who has been involved in so many short lived 'comebacks' it has watered him down beyond belief.
It is unlikely the WWE would do anything great with him, a grass skirt and teaming with the Usos is likely to be a sure thing if he headed there.
So TNA should start again and build him up, and do it simply like they did before, a big fucking guy who can fly around the ring and kicks peoples heads in. 'Joe is Gonna Kill You' needs to ring around the Impact Zone once again.


Aside from that, is is great to see Roode as the World Champ, so far it might not have been quite as exciting as id have liked, but that is probably because he turned heel way to quickly. But the guy is an awesome heel so i have no real complaints.

James Storm is having the greatest run of his career, thanks in part to Angle who is one of the very few 'older guys' who is worth having around in an active capacity. Storm should without doubt have a solid world title run in his future.


One thing they need to do is get rid of Flair, he is awful and i cant stand seeing him in his current form. His legacy will always stand up to those of us that know it but it is killing me to see what he has become.

Oh, and clearly the Hogan/Bischoff experiment has failed. Let them leave and pay Heyman anything he wants to be the head booker.

ECW might have failed but that was due to finance and poor business. When Heyman has been free of that worry he has produced the best wrestling TV. Remember Smackdown during the Lesner/Edge/Guerrero/Rey/Angle etc etc era, that was Heyman.
Wrestlers respect him and they seem to thrive when they are working with him.
Pay the guy some money, give him money to use and weekly TV and he will make good things happen.

I agree . . . I used to be a faithful TNA viewer . . . until the Sting vs. Hogan bullshit started happening . . . I used to rave about the womens division and I used to rave about the tag team division. I used to get excited to see tag team matches. LAX, Beer Money, 3D, Motor City Machine Guns etc . . . there were so many good tag teams. I loved watching TNA for their X Division and their Tag Teams. I loved that Christian CAGE and Joe and Angle were their main eventers . . . they had something great going then . . . and then Sting came back . . . then Jeff Jarrett came back . . . and then Hogan/Easy E came in . . . and it went down hill real quick. I have not watched one episde in months (about 6 months now) . . . I've heard that Roode is the champion, which is awesome for him. He deserves it. I heard Storm was doing well. I heard Jeff Hardy is back and is a face again . . . however, I've had no interest in watching. I kinda lost my love for TNA . . . which is sad because I was a huge supporter!

[MJ Windsor]

You should give it a go Timbo, there are definitely some worthwhile moments in most editions of Impact.

On another note, why they have wasted Alex Shellys massive talent since Sabin went out with injury months ago I'll never know. Only now have they put him in contention for the X title, it's completely fucking mental!

[#Kokaine#]

As Kyle could atest but he isn't here, Aries/Shelley goes way back and they could use that chemistry in any feud that have in TNA. Shelley brought Aries into Ring of Honor, and formed Generation Next. Because of his TNA commitments, they pulled the plug on Shelley being the leader and replaced him with Aries. When Shelley returned, they officially bounced him the group and Aries and Shelley had a small feud throughout the remainder of the year. Aries would go on to become the only two time ROH Champion, and had a lengthy Tag Title run, and a legend of the company putting out a 75 minute match with Danielson in 2004. You could say it worked out for him. If TNA doesn't use that, even vaguely, they dropped the ball.