(Try) Wrapping Up A Month In One Article!

It has been a month since I have sat down to write an article – and post it – which some people may have mis-understood that it meant that I was no longer a fan of the product thus not writing anything negative about TNA to “save face”. I can’t speak for every writer on the internet that write about TNA Wrestling, but I don’t write to “save face” or play favorites, I write about TNA Wrestling because I enjoy and care about the product. I’ve made it quite clear over the past three years writing for TNA Revolution that I care about the product good, bad, or indifferent. Sure, there are websites that only want “positive” articles on TNA Wrestling, but the world doesn’t work like that: Nothing is perfect. So, since I have cleared that up for future reference… shall we get down to the point of this article? I think so.

The entire purpose of this article isn’t to send a message to “those people” who like to make bogus assumptions, but to talk about what I have talked about which is TNA Wrestling. I think the past month of TNA Wrestling has been up and down, with good and bad aspects to the product. Let’s break those down:

Good:

- Two back-to-back good pay-per-views! Hardcore Justice and No Surrender were both money well spent – in my eyes – with both having enough good to feel like I got my money worth. They had their faults (including some bad booking) but in the end, they were good enough to get a “pass” in my book.

- Building up talent from Robert Roode, James Storm, Jesse Sorenson, etc. It shows people that TNA does indeed know how to build new talent, but it takes more time than people are wanting to give them. You look at the build that Bobby Roode has received over the past few weeks since “No Surrender” (and even before then)… wow. Night and day change!

- Rebuilding of the X-Division has been really good, not perfect but good. There still needs to be some tweaks such as that big babyface to root for, as I don’t think Brian Kendrick is “the” guy to depend on as the top babyface. Oh… it’s also got “A Double” Austin Aries. ‘Nuff said.

- Great long-term building for “Bound for Glory” for the top matches. Sure, Roode/Angle is only going to get one month… but if you think about it, it has more. Angle is working with Immortal now and let’s flash back to earlier this year: Angle was apart of the new “They” along with – you gussed it – Roode and Fortune. Thus… it has legs so far.

Bad:

- Enough of Immortal! Plus, let Sting kill off Immortal for good at “Bound for Glory” by defeating Hulk Hogan thus allowing us to move on from this long, boring, and beaten to death stable. It has been lost since Hardy was put on the shelf – or how ever you want to put it – and it became a revolving door for the World Champion (minus Sting).

- Lack of tag teams right now which isn’t the normal for TNA Wrestling as they really had a strong division. But, they lost Chris Sabin due to injury, Generation Me “took their ball” and went home, Ink Inc has been out due to Neal’s injury but are back now. They need to bring in one or two more good tag teams to make it back to its glory day.

- Hot Potato with the Knockouts Championship has go to stop, build Winter up as a top heel and someone as a top “babyface” then take the belt off her instead of just tossing it between James/Winter.

Indifferent

- Jeff Hardy being back, I don’t really care. I enjoy the angle and the entire “one more try”, but it’s one try to many personally. We will see.

- Mexican America as a top tag team is still waiting on the jury for this decision, I can’t decide what I think about it.

So, that’s it… I did my best to wrap up the past month into this one article, so hopefully you guys enjoyed. Now, let’s get this train back on the right track.