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Post by nexusagainstus on Oct 31, 2011 6:36:13 GMT -5
One, people will be more receptive to a half-decent feud between wrestlers over a Title or something personal (like Jericho-HBK) more so than they will be about suits arguing about who gets to control the wrestlers who get less TV time as a result of people talking about ownership and paperwork. Second, it doesn't matter if Storm will be back in a month or sooner or later, they didn't need to do everything so quickly with these guys. Let Storm actually become credible as World Champion by winning matches and cutting good promos, and tell a story with Roode trying for redemption after coming so close and his friend winning the Title. Let it play out, make fans want to see the match so badly they'll pay for it or watch Impact in droves (relative to how many people normally watch the show). It's just dumb to rush everything as quickly as TNA is doing and not letting everything simmer and build long enough to mean more than any other World Title feud, the same thing WWE does with so many potential feuds and matches. If TNA can build to crappy factions forming and wrestlers way, way past their prime wrestling for a year at a time, why can't Roode and Storm get their shot at building a money match from October-to-October? Who's to say it won't? |
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Post by Byron F'N Saxton Fan on Oct 31, 2011 8:57:26 GMT -5
One, people will be more receptive to a half-decent feud between wrestlers over a Title or something personal (like Jericho-HBK) more so than they will be about suits arguing about who gets to control the wrestlers who get less TV time as a result of people talking about ownership and paperwork. Second, it doesn't matter if Storm will be back in a month or sooner or later, they didn't need to do everything so quickly with these guys. Let Storm actually become credible as World Champion by winning matches and cutting good promos, and tell a story with Roode trying for redemption after coming so close and his friend winning the Title. Let it play out, make fans want to see the match so badly they'll pay for it or watch Impact in droves (relative to how many people normally watch the show). It's just dumb to rush everything as quickly as TNA is doing and not letting everything simmer and build long enough to mean more than any other World Title feud, the same thing WWE does with so many potential feuds and matches. If TNA can build to crappy factions forming and wrestlers way, way past their prime wrestling for a year at a time, why can't Roode and Storm get their shot at building a money match from October-to-October? Who's to say it won't? They just had a match on Impact for the World Title! Why, if after rushing months of storylines into three weeks, should I expect TNA will properly build-up Storm and Roode to Bound For Glory? Maybe LockDown, but the concept of building tension and making their match seem like a huge deal is pretty much out of the question. No slow build for a turn and developing Roode after a devastating loss, nothing to make Storm seem credible, just members of one of the best tag teams in the last five or more years wrestling one week on cable with a title change two weeks after the last one also on TV, shady finish and heel turn. Hogan turning heel was built-up from January-October. A big deal for TNA that wasn't rushed, just like Hogan vs. Sting was built from January 2010-October 2011. They didn't wrestle before BFG, they teased the match and as much as they could in 2011, made Sting-Hogan seem like a big deal. Where's all that build for two guys who will be wrestling next week and in five years with the World Title involved? |
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Post by nexusagainstus on Oct 31, 2011 11:10:59 GMT -5
I can definitely see your points here, but you never know what TNA might have up there sleeve. They could build up Storm to be a huge face that chases for the title, while Roode does everything possible to avoid defending it against him. I don't see it lasting all the way to October, but in all honesty, I don't think most fans would want to watch them feud for an entire year.
Hopefully, Joe get's his fatass back in the title picture soon. Even if he doesn't win it, he can definitely put on some good PPV Title matches.
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Post by Wato Stan Account on Oct 31, 2011 14:48:15 GMT -5
I can definitely see your points here, but you never know what TNA might have up there sleeve. It's usually just disappointment and failure. Worst magicians ever. |
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Post by King Silva on Nov 1, 2011 2:22:06 GMT -5
The storytelling is extremely rushed, devalues the World Title and is just another case of LOLTNA, just with more rage from fans in this case. Absolutely no reason at all that Roode should have lost at BFG. People were behind Roode as a main event act after a couple months of hard selling by TNA, and the majority were ready for a new, fresh name with some credibility and talent to be a World Champion at TNA's biggest PPV. So, what happens? He gets upstaged by Hogan, likely had his match cut short because of HULKAMANIA RUNNIN' WILD AGAIN BROTHER, and lost in a cheap way to end the show. Then Roode's partner, who has no reason to get a World Title match gets one because his friend lost on PPV and Angle has a clause in his contract that apparently can't be taken out by Sting or Dixie, and was just groan-inducing knowing what Hogan said about Roode and seeing why he wasn't getting a Title rematch. James Storm, guy with no build-up at all, beats Angle in a minute in a joke of a main event on a joke of a show in the sense they promote wrestling and had seven minutes of it in two hours. So now James "Walmart BROTHER" Storm is Champion. The bright side is at least if Roode got shafted at BFG, now another fresh name can carry the Title for a while. What happens? He gets upstaged by Eric and Garrett Bischoff, as well as Ric Flair on a show where his next opponent on "free" TV is determined. Who is his opponent? His tag team partner of three years, Robert Roode. That match gets made not a month, three months, six months at LockDown or a year at BFG later, BUT THE NEXT WEEK ON IMPACT. Terrible and a waste of a good time to build-up both guys as the absolute best in TNA with the focus on them, not former a Referee, former authority figure with no defined role in the company and a guy who people feared suffered a heart attack in the ring a month ago. OK, looking past all of that, surely TNA realizes they need something screwy in the match five minutes in to keep both guys strong, keep the idea of that third singles match for the World Title is a dream match and not give away another full-fledged Title match on TV that should have a great story behind it, right? No. They change the Title again (on TV) and turn someone we feel bad for heel. Now Roode is facing AJ Styles, another friend who has at least won matches recently on PPV, and that match for the prestigious TNA World Championship gets made on the go-home show. A storyline that seemingly at worst could have carried TNA to LockDown, ideally BFG and a little beyond was made worse than imagined. Excellent well thought out post that I totally agree with. TNA missed out on plenty of chances the past few weeks involving their World title.  I wish they would have slowed their plans down and did a longer term storyline like you stated. |
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Post by Phantom on Nov 1, 2011 3:59:00 GMT -5
While the angle is rushed, I'm glad Roode is finally champ and is heel. Love Styles but he shouldn't beat Roode at TP. Nobody should beat Roode for a long time. I wanna see him run through Styles, Kaz, Hardy, Anderson, Morgan, & RVD before he loses the strap back to Storm. Hopefully this pans out to Lockdown. Roode vs. Strom at Lockdown for the World Title would be worth watching and paying for IF they built it up properly.
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Post by Adam on Nov 10, 2011 18:54:45 GMT -5
I can definitely see your points here, but you never know what TNA might have up there sleeve. I've tried over and over to give TNA the benefit of the doubt, and the results have hardly been pretty. Hopefully, Joe get's his fatass back in the title picture soon. Even if he doesn't win it, he can definitely put on some good PPV Title matches. A couple years ago, I gave up on Daniels ever getting a World Title run in TNA. Joe is heading down that same path, only difference was he was given the title at one point. |
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