With TNA forced to rewrite their big “they†angle, they [no pun intended, well maybe] were left with three extra babyfaces on their roster in the way of young upstart Crimson and veterans Scott Steiner and Kurt Angle.
While Angle is in a feud with Jeff Jarrett, Crimson has no one to wrestle [though maybe once Abyss gets back on TV, they can slug it out for the TV title]; the same thing goes for Scott Steiner. The company’s champion, Ken Anderson is a babyface too, as well is Matt Morgan, who just two months ago, looked like he was going to get a huge push.
Anderson is in the middle of a long angle with Jeff Hardy and Morgan looks like he’s about to get involved in a storyline with Hernandez, which doesn’t help either one of them. Even though they’re both massive guys with a great amount of athletic ability, the matches between the two are far from Bret Hart/Curt Hennig epics. However, the reason behind that is the ring psychology and lack of story structure, not the quality of the in-ring work. You can’t have these guys go out there and beat the crap out of each other and have no definitive reason why it’s happening. If TNA is patient and develops a decent backstory for these guys to work a reasonable angle around, then it will work.
But patience isn’t a word many would give to TNA’s creative team.
As far as the matches go from this week’s Impact!, TNA provided a mixed bag of wrestling action. On one hand, they finally took some time away from the Knockouts, who have had the longest match of the show two weeks running. At the same time, the match they had was a slow and sloppy one, with newcomer Rosita hitting a wishy-washy moonsault on the luscious Velvet Sky to end the match.
In the X-Division contest, Robbie E defeated Christopher Daniels as Suicide and Brian Kendrick, in a match that did little but show off Daniels’ ability in the ring and Kendrick’s ability to sell. If TNA is looking to save the X-Division, their idea of a number one contender’s match at the next pay per view is puzzling. Robbie E isn’t over with fans and neither are the Buck brothers.
But TNA has bigger problems, considering that the TV title is essentially vacated and they haven’t been wrestling tag matches with new teams in over a month.
Seeing Fortune square off with Immortal is interesting, but without Hogan and Abyss, Immortal is lacking some toughness. The sheer lack of a good old-school, “evil to the core†heel is hurting this angle more than anything though.
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