Who Are ‘They’?

TNA is a wrestling promotion that loves factions. Nothing seems to work better for them than throwing a bunch of guys together and hoping that they somehow, someway get cool.

Creatively, they’ll try anything from giving Booker T an Al Pacino angle as the head of the Main Event Mafia, to the tired old act of throwing a bunch of talented Canadians together, just because they can wrestle and come from the same place.

However, considering how many factions they’ve had over the past few years that have fizzled out like stale Pepsi, it’s getting to the point where the ideas are stale before they’ve seen the light of day.

On this week’s Impact, Crimson, dressed in a black suit and a red tie, choked out A.J. Styles before announcing “again” that “they” were coming. At the end of the show, he came out after apparently sticking a nail board to the back of Abyss and saying it once again. Reports on the dirt shirts have said that Scott Steiner is set to appear at the next Impact taping.

Could this be the return of the MEM?

Better yet, does anyone even care about them anymore at this point?

Crimson is huge; rather than the melodramatic posturing they have him doing, let this kid wrestle and demolish people. At the end of his matches, then have him make the announcement that “they” are coming. The way it is now, who cares what a youngster with no experience in the company is saying? With Immortal disregarding his taunts for the last two weeks as well, how serious are fans supposed to take his threats?

You’d think with all the money TNA has spent on talent over the past two years that they’d understand that older wrestlers clouding their roster wouldn’t help their ratings.

With Styles hurt at least until the next pay per view and Alex Shelley injured, the company has to go without two of their best in-ring performers and rather than use this as an opportunity to give some other “fresher” face an opportunity to wrestle, they have Matt Morgan [who needs someone big and nasty to feud with in the worst way, what about Abyss?] squash the ever so green Rob Terry and continue the boring Team 3D feud before having one of their stars, Jeff Hardy wrestle the ancient Tommy Dreamer.

This is not the way to get new fans.

Team 3D were on of the greatest tag teams ever, but it’s time for both of them to either find new partners and move on or retire. No one is going to believe, again, that they’ve reconciled and are back on the same page. It’s just been done too many times. Instead of wasting time with them, why not give Brian Kendrick a match?

Why not let Samoa Joe, a guy that was over more than anyone on the roster two years ago and is now mid-card fodder, get in the ring and rebuild his career?

Why is Jeff Jarrett still main event-ing anything? The fans were bored of him three years ago. At this point in his career, his job should be putting talent over, not wasting the in-ring ability of Kurt Angle for his own purposes. The same thing too goes for Angle. This guy should be used to showcase some of the up and coming technicians the company has? Why isn’t Desmond Wolfe being used? This was a guy who was on fire for two years in ROH to only be given a joke angle in TNA.

Dixie Carter needs to let the young guys wrestle and give Vince Russo some time off. Creatively, the guy is burnt out and the only thing keeping TNA interesting is the quality of the matches.

For 2011 to be the type of year the company needs, things have to change and soon.

All in all, this week’s Impact failed to do two huge things, get heat on Jeff Hardy’s upcoming rematch with Mr. Anderson and get more excitement regarding Hulk Hogan’s return next week. As a result, it’s a show that misses the mark.