Missing Pieces, Wasted Chances

February 20, 2011 Patrick Hickey Jr. Professional Wrestling, TV 0

Aside from Ric Flair turning his back on Fourtune and Mr. Anderson giving his Mic Check finisher on Eric Bischoff and intensifying his feud with Jeff Hardy, this week’s episode of TNA Impact! was mediocre at best.

With no defense of the Tag Team titles, the TV title still out of commission with Abyss injured and Kazarian finding himself in a feud with Robbie E [insert first pump here], TNA has no heat on any of their heels.

As a matter of fact, many of the current storylines make no sense. Why did Robbie E get away with beating up Kazarian? Where was Fourtune? Are we to believe that the strongest faction in the company would let a lower-mid-carder and his valet beat up one of their members?

Get real.

Think of it this way: Imagine back in WCW in 1997. Lets just say that Alex Wright beat Konnan with a nice-looking German suplex and then tried to take liberties with him afterwards.

What do you think would have happened?

He would have walked away dancing?

Um, no.

The NWO would have been down to the ring faster than Sean Waltman could open his mouth and say something crazy, beating the tar out of Das Wunderkind from pillar to post, before spray painting him.

Who knows what TNA plans to do with any of these angles right now.

Right now, it seems like they don’t even know.

The feud between Samoa Joe and The Pope [who is trying noticeably too a disaster as well, with the emotionless crowd at the Impact Zone not caring what happened. One of the best wrestlers in the world, Samoa Joe is being wasted in TNA. With Immortal incredibly weak right now, it makes sense that Hernandez, who is essentially their freelance ass-kicker right now, teams up with Joe, not only become the stable’s new muscle, but challenge Beer Money for the Tag Team titles. Nothing against Gunner and Murphy, but these guys are too green still to be taken seriously by the fans.

With the Motor City Machine Guns out of action right now as well, TNA needs a decent angle in the Tag Team division.

Speaking of wrestlers being wasted, TNA has Matt Morgan and Christopher Daniels sitting backstage while Knockouts get to wrestle for 12 minutes every Impact. What is going on here? While Velvet Sky is the best looking woman in wrestling and Sarita, Angelina Love, Madison Rayne and Tara are capable workers, but seriously, give the real fans some great matches and find another way to feature the hotties.

The bottom line is simple: TNA needs some drama right now and it’s safe to say that the way things are right now, they’re looking in the wrong places. No one cares about Jeff Jarrett re-marrying Karen Angle-Jarrett- that angle should have been pushed last summer when it meant something.

But that’s what TNA feels like overall- something that would have been cool a while ago.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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