Austin Aries at the end of last week's Impact....

[BenChillin]

They wanted to make Aries a heel so when he loses to Hardy it's more "emotional and bigger"

Fuck that.

Fuck giving Hardy a title to stay longer. Aries holding it was good for the time it was.

Damnit TNA. DAMNIT.

[Zeven_Zion]

Why are we acting like TNA is setting Aries for failure? Have we learned nothing from Aries' title win and title defenses?

- Aries versus Roode(c) for the belt : "oh TNA will never give the belt to Aries this soon. They just wanted to find a way for him to drop the X-Division title without actually losing it. They want to do Roode vs Storm, he's just another guy on Roode's list, Roode and Storm need the belt to Main Event BFG. Storm will win the series."

Well, little did we know, Aries won the title, Storm didn't win the BFG series.

- Aries(c) versus Roode: "okay, here we go, now Roode's gonna take his belt back just in time for Bound for Glory. Figures. TNA fucking up a great thing once again. Storm will win the series and we can have Roode vs Storm for the belt. No way TNA is going to have Roode not go for the belt again, that stipulation spoils it all."

... yeah. Not really. Aries beat Roode. AGAIN. Storm didn't win the series. Hardy did. Pretty much no one predicted it.

TNA is manipulating our doubt for them with the way they book Aries. They're focusing WAY too much on Hardy. Oh it's Hardy's time, he turned his life around, finally Hardy will be Champion. Then turned Aries heel. And why not?

Can anybody in here honestly say that face Aries is more entertaining than heel Aries? No. He works better as a heel. Is he a good face? Hell yeah he's a good face, but he works better as a heel.

Also, turning HIM heel should be no issue whatsoever. He's not TNA's biggest face, not by a long shot. For one thing, Hardy tops everyone. Then you have Sting, Hogan and maybe James Storm. Aries is over but he's not THE top babyface and when your challenger is more over than your Champion - that's a problem. Both TNA and Aries are at fault here but it is what it is.

By being heel however he can at least get close to Bully Ray or rival him in heel status as I think he's a better heel than Roode, but that's just me.

So overall - please stop LOOKING for reasons to say "TNA fucked this up" when we haven't even seen the conclusion of the match. For all we know Aries will turn face again shortly after, or he'll actually win the match and remain heel.

A lot of people are forgetting that Aries is running out of heel Main Eventers to fight. He already feuded with both Bully and Roode. Who is he gonna fight? Kid Kash? A heel Aries opens up more options for him IF he wins. Namely AJ Styles and James Storm, both feuds that I doubt anyone wouldn't want to see. Especially the James Storm one - that match on iMPACT was fantastic.

Will Hardy win? There is a possibility. With Aces and Eights most likely prevailing at BFG and their goal clearly being the World Title, TNA will need a face Champion - Jeff Hardy. TNA's ratings have suffered as well and perhaps a Jeff Hardy reign could remedy that, at least a bit. And of course think of how good this will be for business.

Either way, TNA will either keep on stroking the smarks or do something that's going to make them some money. Either way, acting like turning Aries heel and a POTENTIAL loss to Hardy would be abysmal is straight up ignorant. It all led to a heel Aries. How's that a bad thing?

[SpecialFNK]

Aries should turn full on heel, and it could be more believable for him to come full out next Thursday all pissed off because he lost the title at BFG. which is what should happen, Hardy is the bigger star.
I think all of what Aries has been doing is scripted, from being jealous of Hardy to what he said this past Impact.
IMO Aries is not a consistent world champion. he should be thankful he was in the right spot at the right time to be the current world champion. TNA needed someone big to headline Destination X, made sense for that to be the then X division champion. the X division has been so week outside Aries there wasn't anyone for him to wrestle big enough for the X title. so TNA comes up with a plan for Aries to face the world champion Bobby Roode. it was also the right time for Roode to lose the title since he's beaten all the competition up til then, and it was a good story for the little guy Aries winning the title.
David can't keep beating Goliath, or it's not a story.
Aries can lose the title to Hardy, then come out full on heel. that will give him more opportunities to feud with faces in the upper mid card like AJ Styles, Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe.

[akathelaw]

So I haven't been following TNA closely for the past year, but I have had a general idea of what was occurring on the shows. I ended up catching the end segment with Aries on Youtube and I was impressed with him. Aries doesn't need the World Championship to validate his talent. Hardy actually needs it more than anybody, because he is a former World Champion. All of TNA's former World Champions deplete in value the longer they go without title reigns, especially World title reigns. Hardy will most likely capture the championship again, and Aries will move on. Hardy will be a strong face who can go up against a number of heel talents in TNA, boost ratings presumably, and hopefully draw a decent PPV audience into 2013. For TNA's sake as a company they need to put the strap on Jeff Hardy, arguably their biggest star, for better or worse.

[MrPlatano1989]

I still don't consider it a full heel change. Todays business is not like yester-years! I believe it's given him more of a cocky edge, something that played a big role in his current position in the company. So what if he brainbuster'd his upcoming opponent, I would too lol! Remember when they made Hogan face after his Mania match with The Rock? I see this along the same lines. They see how huge Hardy is for the crowds and masses, so instead of having a super over face vs face match, they can take advantage of how over he is and make Aries more hated to create a crazy environment. We had face vs face for BFG 09, and the crowd was off and on when deciding who to truly go for. If Aries does present himself as a full heel tonight, then the crowd would be super involved in the match. They can feel disgusted whenever Aries is on offense, and excited when Hardy is on offense. By the end of the match both men will have earned their respect regardless of they were originally rooting for. And I def dont see Aries using full heel tactics unless they are unsuccessful and near the end because he's desperate. I see TNA trying to have Aces & 8's stand alone as the super heels of the night. Sorry for the long post, hope I got my opinion across. Either way I've trusted TNA this far and they seem to know what they are doing, Its been a great year for TNA PPVs! Enjoy BFG everyone!