This board sucks on the TNA teet so hard that they don't realize how hypocritical they are. The same people who hate Rob Terry and have shit on him since he first appeared, are psyched about this move. I know I've said it before, but I'l say it again: just because something is a shock does not make it a positive. In this case, it is clearly not, and to be honest, it's not even really a shock.
First, Eric Young, who actually has a personality and was starting to get a push before Hogoff came in, wins the belt and renames it the Global Championship. That's all fine and good, but then he pulls out the stupidest Vince Russo-eque idea of not defending the belt on American soil. That would be fine if this was WWE who does TV outside the country all the time (specifically Canada but sometimes overseas) and PPVs in Canada and overseas sometimes as well. However, TNA is ALWAYS filmed at the Impact Zone. Every Impact is there and it seems like most PPVs will be there for the time being. Thus, there was no chance of us EVER seeing that belt defended on our television sets. That leaves us with the only possibility of that belt, which became incredibly irrelevant due to that stipulation, to be defended on these overseas tours and thus, why not have it change hands? It's the only time it can. Of course, the belt is now in the hands of Big Rob Terry, a bodybuilder who looks like he can barely move when he walks.
TNA are geniuses to do this though! Of course, if WWE puts any belt on a guy that looks like Terry, they are merely perpetuating the stereotype that only jacked up guys deserve pushes, but when TNA does it, it's groundbreaking! Do you see the hypocrisy yet? If not, I'll go on. If you do, I'm going to go on anyways so keep reading.
This belt started out as the Legends title, which kinda seemed like the Main Event Mafia's version of the Milliion Dollar belt. Then of course, before it gained any substantiability, A.J. Styles won it and thus, the Legend thing was kinda dead in the water. By the time it ended up in Eric Young's hands, it had no chance of succeeding with the current name. The name change was a smart move, but the "not defending it in America" was a horrible one. A better move would have been to say "Americans can't compete for it". Then, you could have matches between anyone from outside the country. You could even do crazy storylines where wrestlers are feuding, one gets that belt (let's take Eric Young for example as having the belt) and his adversary, let's make it Mr. Anderson since we know he's from Green Bay, wants to fight Young. Young declares he will only fight to defend the belt and since Anderson can't do that, the feud is over. Anderson, refusing to accept that, is shown in segments getting citizenship in another country to become eligible and thus, becomes a competitor for the belt. Something like that could make it seem like the belt is worth fighting for, so much so that guys would change their citizenship. However, this version has been placed on a green wrestler with big muscles. The same thing the TNA marks criticize WWE for, they support for TNA. It's kind of pathetic.
The best advice I can give you is to stop pretending like everything is groundbreaking. When you think of the stipulations that were created, it's not all that shocking that the belt changed hands. Also, this is a belt no one cares about. If AJ lost his belt or even Amazing Red, I might have cared and thought "wow, TNA is willing to change a major belt's hands at a house show", but they changed the Global title which isn't even on tv to push the fact that it can't be defended on TV. It's largely forgotten and thus, this is basically non news. Get over it, and accept that it's not that big of a deal. Or at least stand by your previous statements that Rob Terry should be fired. Anything but throwing praise at TNA for this is a better reaction.
