TNA, the oddest thing to happen to professional wrestling.
From my perspective TNa just have not created any interest through their storylines and have buried star after star for some of the most amazing reasons. You have feuds that go on for months on end, with no real end game to them other than to book them into a match each week. For example the whole AJ vs Daniels/Kazarian story. That went on forever and it didn't benefit AJ at all. Clearly he was winning BFG after he couldn't challenge for 12 months so they just had him do that every week until BFG rolled around again. Same as Bobby Rude vs Angle now, or Mr Anderson vs Bully Ray. They are fueds that do not drum up interest after 6 months of one burying the other. What is the point of tuning in each week to watch the same feud with the same people?
the next point i want to make is why the hell are the right people pushed the wrong way? I give examples
AJ Styles- Now the whole dark troubled character he had was brilliant. It re invented a company long star who had been buried for far too long. what you had when he won the title was a star again, a face of the company. He was a stone cold, a CM Punk, the anti hero has they say. So what exactly did TNA do? They Copied the CM punk story from 3 years earlier and then had him drop the title to Magnus (who is being pushed) and he hasn't been seen since?
Magnus- The future of the company for so long, they decided to give him the big push now and put the title on him. Granted he is now champion but the storyline is terrible. He is working for Dixie, great. Except he is already falling out with her after a few weeks?! So where is that story going to ACTUALLY go? they have Joe challenging for the title now but as experience tells us he has been buried on the promotion for a long time now. It is a shame because at one point he was a massive star that could have easily repeated that in WWE. Plus an extension of the story was the MEM reforming, which also went nowhere and did not contribute in any way to the A&8s story.
Now TNa have done some great things, htey just don't realise it and continue to mess up instead. Bobby Rude and Bully Ray have really established themselves as main event stars since their pushes and that is great. Except they fade to the background as soon as htey are done with no direction to go in and their star burns out for another couple of years.
Now what i propose TNA does frpm here is push and champion the actual stars of the company. If AJ was champ, they could build a year long feud with someone in the background, going from month to month. Have AJ go from feud to feud defending the title whilst the heel (magnus/Morgan/whoever else is in TNA anymore) builds their heel persona. Beating people up, winning matches, really getting the crowd against them. As soon as BFG comes about they dominate everyone and go on for the heel vs face that has been a year in the making if done right. IT would be massive and garner much interest to tune in ala WWE in the 90s. Use the older stars selectively, make them giants not men. angle is their biggest star and yet he jobs to Roode every week, which in turn goes nowhere but back to Angle again. Make the sheer presence of him a massive deal and use him like that. Use the midcarders to really kickstart the X division title scene, Aries/Sabin and the like can do so much more and build the sub title into a significant one of its own. Really strenghen the titles and strengthen the feuds like they did in the 90's. Develop the brand as not a WWE washout but as a young and exciting company. ROH does that and is massive outside the mainstream. If TNA made stars rather than pay former ones then they could really devleop as a company.
It is such a shame that as soon as they reached that cliff edge with Hogan and Bischoff, instead of flying with their stars, they sank with their hasbeens never to recover.
And didn't Jarret form TNA anyway?
