SlamJamz Central: TNA SLAMIVERSARY: I predict TNA will be dead before the end of the year...

Monday, June 19, 2006

TNA SLAMIVERSARY: I predict TNA will be dead before the end of the year...

I'm not always known for my accuracy...but i'm going to make a prediction right here, and I have this horrible sinking feeling that i'm going to to watching it as it unfortunately comes true...

TNA will NOT make it to their 5th anniversary...

Especially as Sunday night they put a gun to their heads and pulled the trigger...

The conclusion to Sunday's TNA Slamiversary PPV was by far the most arrogant, the most outrageous, and most importantly the MOST STUPID thing the promotion has ever done.

The debacle that took place was worse than the blatant bait-and-switch of their early days on the air, when the company advertised for nearly a month and a half that Chris Harris would be getting a title shot against Jeff Jarrett when they had NO Intention from day one of ever giving Harris that shot - Harris was "injured" as the then-weekly PPV show went to air, and AJ Styles was substituted into his "guaranteed" title shot slot.

Last night, the company pulled out all the stops, and for the most part, put on a terrific pay per view effort. But the entire show was ruined in the last 3 minutes, as first Larry Z and then Earl Hebner apparently consipred to make sure Jeff Jarrett would be the one who became the champion again....

The probblem with doing that is that TNA has been told by it's very loyal fans (they'd HAVE to be loyal for the crap they've had to put up with) FOR OVER TWO YEARS that Jeff Jarrett is a likable performer but that the fans do NOT want to see him with the belt.

Problem is, TNA and it's bookers, which include the aforementioned Mr. Jarrett, don't want to hear that and continue to book him as champion when it's possible for them to do so.

I don't think they expected what happened at the end of Sunday's PPV, nor do I condone such behavior....but I can't say i'm surprised.

TNA is lucky it wasn't much much MUCH More.

When the people who book the storylines and angles show total and blatant disregard for the fans' desires, it's only a matter of time before something ugly happens. I do seem to remember Eric Bischoff taking a full Coke in the face a few years ago.

And as if that wasn't bad enough, then they did a horrible non-ending, where people who paid $30 to see who would come out with the title got to see...NO ONE come out with the title.

And you can bet the farm that TNA would NOT give away the results on one of the IMPACT episodes that will be taping this evening...no, they're going to be "smart" and hold off and force some sort of run off at the next PPV...

And what's worse...they're letting Jarrett KEEP the title with the proviso that he wrestle the winner of a four way dance to determine his opponant, and both of those matches are now scheduled to take place at their next PPV, Victory Road. They're VERY lucky that the audience attending the IMPACT tapings didn't do worse than what was done Sunday night when that announcement was made. And in letting Jarrett keep the title, they just blew any chance of the viewers taking Jim Cornette seriously as the new "Face of TNA Management". Oh sure, he did a few other things at the taping, but the decision to let Jarrett keep the belt he so blatantly cheated to win will tarnish any chance Cornette had to bring TNA a chance to level the playing field against WWE.

MEMO TO: Dixie Carter, Jeff Jarrett, Mike Tenay, Dutch Mantel, Scott D'Amore, and other members of the booking committee...

THE FANS HAVE HAD IT. PERIOD.

The fans have stood by TNA for FOUR LONG YEARS and hoped they could hang on just so Vince McMahon wouldn't be the only one in the wrestling game.

Those same fans have been screwed by TNA so many times that they have lost count.

Those same fans declared by their actions on Sunday night that they are NOT GOING TO STAND FOR IT any more. And they did so in a way that TNA cannot, should not and hopefully WILL NOT FORGET.

Jarrett as champion DOESN'T CUT IT. PPV screwjob endings DON'T CUT IT. And TNA should be thanking it's lucky stars that something A HELL OF A LOT MORE SERIOUS didn't start at the end of Sunday's PPV.

Has it ever occurred to TNA that one major problem, one real, honest-to-goodness psuedo-riot, and Spike TV will probably cancel them? With no tv, you have NOTHING. Don't believe me, TNA? Ask Eric Bischoff and Fusient Enterprises....

TNA needs to step back and take a LONG, HARD look at what they intend to do and where they intend to be in this business in one year.

They can slam it all they want...but Vince's version of ECW got DOUBLE what TNA's highest rating has EVER been IN IT'S FIRST WEEK ON THE AIR.

TNA needs to stop looking at each individual tree, and start looking at the forest. Or otherwise they are about to be put out of business by a combination of a chicken-s*it network deal, a shrewd marketing division in Stanford, and THEIR OWN BLATANT ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY.

And there are too damm many good workers for TNA to blow their own heads off...they'v ebeen trying and missing for at least two years.... but Sunday night, they succeeded in finally hitting their target...their own brain...

Now, TNA is on life support, in critical condition....and after their boneheaded doctors (aka The Booking team) made a tragic misdiagnosis, their chances of survival are less than 50 percent and getting worse, and every day they continue to allow the patient to be handled by those "doctors"...and they're slipping more and more towards flatlining with every day that passes.

I wonder if wrestling fans can sue TNA's "doctors" for malpractice...

Reprise the Theme Song and Roll The Credits....

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I totally agree with everything you mentioned as I've really been fed up with the way TNA seems to be trying to one up itself by trying to come up more innovative screw job finishes for it's big matches.
The sooner they stop that crap, the better.

10:25 PM  

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