That is why Bourne should stay in the WWE. They need a guy who can sell for the bigger guys and Bourne can most certainly do that. He tends to oversell at times but he does good for the most part.
That is the role of the modern cruiserweight in WWE these days. To help promote the bigger dudes. Hell, does anyone actually think JTG is going to be doing anything of interest in 3 months time once he's finished getting squashed by Shad on free TV for 6 weeks? Hell no. If I were Dixie/Eric/Hulk, and i had to choose which wrestler to sign out of Bourne and JTG, i'd pick JTG immediately, because we know he can connect with the crowd, much like R-Truth does, or even in he way he did in TNA, plus he can work a fast match pace, and JTG has even come up with a few innovative moves to help him stnad out amongst the roster. Bourne does the SSP and that's literally about it.
Bourne is simply not over with the crowd except for one move. The Hardys were over thoroughout their whole careers (mainly Jeff) and Bourne hasn't plain and simple.
Bourne's major problem is that he's joined WWE 10 years too late. If he'd joined up when the 24/7 Hardcore angle was going, or when nearly every fued involved a ladder match or tables match, he'd be getting 'Holy Shit' chants every night, and therefore the marks that are there for spot monkeys would have wanted to see more of him, and he'd have reached a cruiserweight status that only guys like Crash Holly, Jerry Lynn, Psicosis, Juvi Guerrera, and Rey Mysterio achieved. Those are the cruiserweights that we actually
remember and aer likely to be remembered in 10 years time. Ok, so most of the were spot monkeys as well, but others like Lynn and Mysterio know/knew how to put on amazing matches without resorting to high spots repeatedly in order to get over.
I mean, why do people actually believe that the Hardy's got over? Honestly, why do you (not aiming this at LJL, this is general, to everyone) why do you think people actually cared about them?
Because they were pretty boy spot monkeys who thought up some semi-original moves and nothing else (Poetry in Motion? That's just Air Sabu but no chair isn't it?). Prior to their 1999 fued with Edge and Christian, nobody cared about the Hardy Boyz. A few girls screamed but that was about it. Fuck man, they needed to be lumped with Gangrel before Creative gave them a real chance, and that's the same trap that Edge and Christian had just got out of.
Once they started having regular ladder matches and hardcore matches people warmed up to them and they got over by doing 20 foot high Swanton's or being powerbombed through a bajillion tables.
If Matt and Jeff debuted now, as individuals, with the talents they had then, we'd be having this thread about them. Or if they debuted as a team, we'd be discussing how many weeks before they get split up?
It's why they never do anything with Matt. He was always the least popular of the two, because he took less dangerous bumps. Fans of the Hardyz tag team want him to succeed, but everyone else can see exactly why he isn't. Because unless he's jumping off something or being smacked round the head, no one, truly, cares.
Jeff became a ME'er because the crowd would explode every time he appeared, although that really was just the young women and under 13's. Did you ever hear a Hardy chant that had a predominant male voice behind it, or did it just sound like girls in the front row of a Justin Timberlake concert chanting for Jeff?
If he goes to TNA, he will just get lost in the shuffle like Kendrick and they have plenty of guys who do what he does so why does he need to go to TNA?
Exactly. Let's add one more spot monkey to an ever growing list. TNA need to figure out a good balance of what did work from 1999-2009, and then infuse it with the ideas that WWE are doing now.
I don't mean PG rated angles or any of that, but slow, methodical build ups, that actually make sense. Otherwise, TNA aren't building a wrestling promotion to rival WWE, they're building a circus with nothing but trapeze acts in it, and trying to rival WWE.
