After over a year of creative hiatus, Abyss is back, but can he rekindle the flames of creativity inTNA’s ongoing battle with The Aces and Eights?
The answer isn’t exactly a fair one.
No. No. A thousand times no. Abyss is a monster, an awesome blend of Mick Foley and Glenn Jacobs and a wonderful athlete, but he can’t be TNA’s creative savior against the Aces and Eights. The sad part is that it has nothing to do with Parks. Instead, it has everything to do with the poor writing on Impact. Anyone remember the last time Abyss came back for a night? No? That’s because it was forgettable. Scrapped like a Disco Inferno match to start Nitro, last year the company teased an Abyss comeback, but nothing materialized.
What they presented viewers instead was Joseph Park. What a mess to see a monster like that regulated to such Penn Jillete looking silliness. That angle, for all the effort TNA put into it, essentially put Parks back at square one. Although he still has credibility, NWA champions just don’t pop out of thin air, he’s got an uphill battle to climb. In order for it to work, he has to be the monster he was never allowed to be, even during his short title reign.
He has to be completely unbeatable. he has to be hardcore and bloodthirsty. A few years ago, TNA gave Kurt Angle all the belts for a short time, why not start Abyss with the TV title and then have him go after Bully Ray?
The powers that be at TNA will never let that happen. After a month or so of Abyss’ reign of destruction, they’ll give Sting or some other veteran that drew money in the 90s a push and Abyss will go back to being a sleeping dragon. If used correctly, Abyss could be TNA’s answer to Mark Henry, a nasty, snarling wrecking machine that only wants to cause pain.
What creative turns him into is something marginalized, insignificant and ultimately just flash and very little bang.
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