Anybody watch the Whole F’N Show a couple Thursdays back? Anyone remember that sick ending where TNA World Champion Rob Van Dam was found bloodied and unconscious before a crazed Abyss holding his toothpick of death?
Well, a week later, it was announced that the title would be vacated and a tournament would take place spanning TWO MONTHS, with the finals to be held at TNA’s Bound For Glory PPV.
So what you’re basically telling me is, “Yeah, we have enough faith in Abyss to be the top heel in TNA and have him in World title matches with RVD, but not enough faith to put him over and have him beat RVD for the title at the previous show.”
Now I’m remotely aware that RVD was going to take time off because all his dates for the year were used up (similar to how Mick Foley exited TNA earlier in the year), but was there any reason why he couldn’t have dropped the belt to Abyss and get his revenge when he came back?
Also… a TWO MONTH tournament? Are you shitting me?
Okay, okay, okay. I suppose that with the proper booking, planning, and structuring, this could work and this could quite possibly be used to showcase some of the hungry talent looking to make a name for themselves and consider themselves worthy of a main event spot.
The thing is that I’ve no faith whatsoever that TNA will plan this properly and believe that they will probably just showcase the old guys in their forties and fifties in this tournament over the homegrown TNA talent and trusted mainstays who aren’t WWE castoffs that deserve the shot more.
And then people wonder why TNA is being compared to WCW.
I suppose I could talk about RAW, but you know what? Fuck RAW; nothing happened on RAW that’s remotely interesting other than the announcement of a Six-Pack-Challenge for some world title or something.
It just occurred to me that TNA has ranked contenders for the World title; determined by some unknown means involving fans and stupid bookers. Figures that you could easily have your two top-ranked guys compete in a match to determine who gets the belt. But instead of having a match between your two top contenders to determine a new World champion, you have a tournament? Really?
A tournament featuring guys who are supposedly not ranked? Seriously?
Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, Mr. Anderson, and The Pope advance to the Semi-Finals to be held at the next PPV. The finals of this eight-man tourney will be determined at the PPV following that… two months from now.
Also, Hulk Hogan trashed the tournament in a backstage skit. When HULK FUCKING HOGAN thinks your tournament sucks, it’s time to re-think your strategy.
This is sad. This is really, fucking, sad.
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