Beer Money - Less Than the Sum of its Parts - Split 'Em Up!

[Uncle Sam]

So I'm watching 'iMPACT!' and, just like I often do, I'm thinking, "Hey, this James Storm is talented - and that Robert Roode ain't half bad either. Too fucking bad they're in a dead end tag team together."

Seriously, what else is there to accomplish as a tag team? Split the two up and give them some proper feuds. I'd quite like to see Storm as a face actually. Have them feud and have Storm as the face. Yeah, that's right...

 

[NSL]

Although this is awfully close to another current thread, I'll post

I don't think they need to be split up. Storm is best a sa tag wrestler, and he showed that during the feuds with Rhino and Chris Harris. Sure, he was great during those, but he's twice as great inside of the tag division. Harris and Roode have brought the best out of him.

Roode has always been great in my eyes, and if/when they split, I'd be happy to see him get pushed. But, again, I love him as a member of Beer Money Inc.

The tag division is one of the backbones of TNA, and there's no need to take one of the top teams out of it.

 

[gd]

Personally, don't really care much for either of them, but it may just be the boring tag team thing, but they aren't really clicking for me at the moment. I think that the best thing for them to do would be a split up at the moment. Roode showed that he was pretty capable in the TCS last week and Storm has shown some flashes here and there as well. I don't think either of them will be main eventers or anything, they simply don't have it in them. However, they could be good assets to the mid card, which is all fine and dandy

 

[TLC]

I still love them and everything but they are boring now a days after fueding with mostly all the teams in the roster is there any shock, I think MCMG are going too be getting the belts at final resolution so Beer Money wont have much to do in the division, a split would be alot better at this point of time. I also think there fued would be really good and I could see Roode actually being a main eventer one day.

 

[farlance]

I have always thought that Roode should be the TNA champion. I still think Beer Money has a pretty good thing going on though and am not tired of them at all. It would be bittersweet if they split up as long as they pushed Roode. Id almost feel sorry for James Storm, because I dont see him being successful in a solo career. I wouldnt mind if they brought back Chris Harris and started up AMW again. I would be fresh and a lot of the current fans havent seen AMW.

 

[Theo Mays]

That's awesome duke. James Storm seems like a great guy. Anyway on topic...

I don't think it is the right time to split Beer Money up. Mainly because they are my favorite tag team in the business. They work so well together. I think both will be successful in the singles department (Roode being a future ME and Storm being a solid midcarder). The time will come for these two to break up the team and I have no doubt that their feud resulting from their breakup will be awesome. I think come March-May we will see the seeds planted for a potential breakup.

 

[CaptainCrazy74]

Don't be so down on Tag team wrestling. The writers and owners are the ones dumping on the tag division. Blame them for the crappy story lines. Robert Roode and James Storm are much better as a tag team if the writers would give thm a little more to work with. Just because Vince at the big company isn't doing it doesn't mean everyone should follow suit. He is a bit of a racist but no one else is following that path.....

 

[TooDarkMark]

They have had their run, and I think it's pretty universal that it may be time to split them up. I have always thought James Storm is a star star star and can see him being a huge anti-hero face.

Alot of people are high on Robert Roode, and I'm not as much. But hey, he has the potential as well.

I would like to see an amicable break up, and I believe TNA already understands this, pushing Roode to the finals of their little Thanksgiving thing. So, it's not like someone here has an idea that the powers that be haven't already considered.

 

[CardiffCam]

Personally I love Robert Roode as a singles competitor, and think face or heel (most likely heel), he is a future world champ.

James Storm, on the other hand... I've just never liked him as a singles competitor. I think he's one of those people that always will be a tag team competitor,a nd I prefer it that way. I always rate singles competitors on whether I see them as world champs, and Storm I see as global champ tops.

But I say, Beer Money are going strong, they're popular, keep em going for a couple more years, then when they're at their hottest point, split and feud, with Roode winning and going on to the main event.

 

[BigAdz]

I'm actually a big Beer Money mark. I will admit the schtick's gotten a little tired and samey of late but I still get a hoot out of their matches.

If they were to split up, I can see Roode pushing up to the main event status. He showed a lot of heart in TCS, enough so that with time he could potentially be holding THE belt.
Storm has a little more in the athletic department and could potentially enter the main event leagues one day but I doubt it

 

[Dagger Dias]

Although Beer Money is getting a little stale.... I do not think they should be split up. They are one of the better tag teams in TNA and should stick around to help that division out longer. Want to know when they got stale? When they turned face. It has not worked out. They should go back to how they were a year ago, beating all challengers who come their way to retain their belts and tell them "Sorry about your damn luck". That version of Beer Money was very entertaining. I would much rather see them stay together long enough to go back to that, rather than see them split up into singles careers.

 

[theviolentmessiah]

I dont think they should be split up, they both spent breif periods as singles wrestlers and were nothing more than midcard jobbers, they are currently a backbone to TNA's tag team division, they are reliable and capable and work best as a team. They could happily make a few singles runs without splitting as a unit, always having that to fall back on. They are without doubt over in TNA and probably a moneyspinner, not only that but I'm fed up of seeing teams split up for no reason, TNA wont give either of these a title, and rightly so in Storm at least, Roode could possibly make it.

 

[Gelgarin]

Split them up... split them up to do what exactly?

Hernandez and Matt Morgen prove adequately that there is very, very little space in the upper card to elevate people into. You can't push people when there isn't room at the top, and even if there were, there are better candidates for elevation that Robert Roode and James Storm. Neither Roode or Storm fit the mould for X-Division guys, and the mid-card belt has pretty much ceased to exist (at the very least for the duration of Eric Young's program with it).

Once Beer Money have split and feuded with each other they have allmost immediately run out of things to do in TNA, and the company are left with the options of repackaging them into two separate, less over, less credible tag teams, feeding them to Abyss in some hardcore clusterfucks, or having them hang around as under-card heavyweights, a role previously occupied by such mega stars as Jethro Holiday and Kip James.

One of you suggested that they could be solid mid-carders, which amused me since that's the role that they are already filling. Almost the entire of TNA's midcard gets split between the tag and X divisions, and Roode and Storm are already one of the top acts of their section of the show. Any repackaging is only going to be a step down for both of them.

And even if that wasn't the case, I'd still be against it. A couple of you think Beer Money has gotten stale, but your solidly in the minority so you'll excuse me if I don't care very much. In terms of crowd reaction only 3D elicit a better response. TNA poll their audience on their favourite matches from each show, and it's uncommon for Beer Money to not be near the top of the list for every PPV. They're an extremely over tag team who can flow effortlessly between face and heel, and have consistently shown their ability to have a quality match with whoever they are put up against.
Oh, and they've still got suitably fresh programs with the Machine Guns, Lethal Consequences, Young 'N Nash and any other team TNA wants to sling together to be getting on with.

Beer Money are an asset to the tag division, and taking them out of it for no potential benefit is a ridiculous idea.

Gelgarin votes no.

 

[burnout4200]

The same people that bitch about the lack of tag team wrestling want the good tag teams split up the second they show some promise. If we ever want a good tag division in either federation we gotta let some teams stick together. Beer Money make the top 10 merchandise sales list every week for TNA. Would a Roode or Storm shirt make the list? Doubt it. They're alot better off where they're at and there's no point in jeopardizing their high spot they currently hold in TNA. They make money so they get featured prominently. A singles push for either one would most likely fizzle out eventually.

 

[Max Moon]

Beer Money is gold. At first I thought the name was dumb, but hey I guess it stuck. Plus, the have that "Beer! Money!" chant going for them. James Storm is really solid, but he doesn't have enough personality to hack it himself. Remember when he was solo, feuding with Rhyno? Lame. Roode does and always has reminded me of Mr. Perfect, and that's more than just the Perfect Plex talking. He rules. Keep them together. They need each other to stay over.