When All Goes Wrong

With four matches, all ending with either no winner or in squash fashion, it’s hard to tell what TNA is trying to do in the ring. With all that’s happened over the past week, this company continues to eliminate the great wrestling that made them a viable option for purists that enjoyed the great athletes and lack of melodrama.

Instead, they have a foul-mouthed imitation of the old WCW, one that continues to fall flat. After a bunch of good shows late in the year and a decent start, this company is running on fumes now.

Make no mistake about it, something needs to be done and soon. This company needs to start developing new stars and creating storylines that work and aren’t scrapped after a few weeks.

It’s time for them to put their game face on.

Matches:

Alyssa Flash vs. Madison Rayne: A complete squash match that continues to try and sell Rayne as a dominant champion. Mickie James came to the ring afterward and threw a challenge of her own towards the champ, setting up a hair match at Lockdown.

Matt Morgan, Winter and Angelina Love vs. Rosita, Sarita and Hernandez: Aside from the nice backbreaker variation finish from Winter, this match was more of a tease, used to promote the new Mexican-America faction. Morgan needs to be pushed properly and matches like this don’t help that process. Able to compete with any of the top guys in the company, guys like him and Samoa Joe are being wasted.

Rob Terry vs. Gunner vs. Murphy for the TV title: A complete sham that all three of these guys were given a shot at a title. In spite of having a great look and a nice F5 finisher, Gunner has a long road ahead of him before fans take him as seriously as both he and TNA would like. At the very least though, he’s the best wrestler of the three, with the most upside.

Rob Van Dam vs. Ken Anderson vs. A.J. Styles vs. Bully Ray: A match that had no winner and got messy at the end. Seeing Brian Hebner make the X sign [one that makes you think something was legitimately wrong] after Bully Ray powerbombed A.J. Styles through a table under the entrance ramp was a scary sight. However and luckily for TNA, it appears to be nothing more than an angle, which is attempting to build Ray as a competent single heel

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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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