shattered dreams
Hexagonal Hedonist
What was that music at the end about? For half a second I thought it was Goldberg music.
IMPACT Wrestling LD for 11.10.11 is Sorry 'Bout Your Damn Luck, James Storm!
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JJYanks121
The Mouth of the South Shore
I'm literally sick to my stomach with how despicable TNA can be for a damn wrestling angle. That was so tasteless on so many levels and such a bad display of the company.
klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
shattered dreams
Hexagonal Hedonist
Are you serious?
Why? It was pretty common stuff.
Pretending that a professional wrester was hurt. The horror.
You want to hear about tasteless, I watched this film once where they actually killed a guy, right there on camera. Talk about tasteless, this guy in a suit actually murdered this other guy with a PPk. I couldn't believe it. Society is going to hell, personally I blame the rap music.
JJYanks121
The Mouth of the South Shore
We're talking about a concussion though, not a sprained ankle. MAJOR difference when you are talking about head injuries. Do a leg injury and this is fine, but in wrestling more than anything you don't use a concussion like this. That's just distasteful on every single level.
Not only that, Sting is now officially the stupidest man on the planet. Why wouldn't he cancel the match? He was back there and saw how bad Storm was, so why even leave the remote possibility of having the match?
And then, to make it more distasteful, the company that caught flack for not stopping Jeff Hardy from going to the ring when he's not fit to compete lets a guy with a head injury who is not fit to compete go to the ring? Tell me how any of this remotely seems like a good idea to any of you? Please, I would love to hear this.
Not only that, Sting is now officially the stupidest man on the planet. Why wouldn't he cancel the match? He was back there and saw how bad Storm was, so why even leave the remote possibility of having the match?
And then, to make it more distasteful, the company that caught flack for not stopping Jeff Hardy from going to the ring when he's not fit to compete lets a guy with a head injury who is not fit to compete go to the ring? Tell me how any of this remotely seems like a good idea to any of you? Please, I would love to hear this.
shattered dreams
Hexagonal Hedonist
The use of blood has been so much more effective in TNA since they cut back on it.
OK, I tried sarcasm, this time I shall try being blunt.
Because it's a fucking fictitious television show!
Did you not hear the trainer say he ran off?
Tiger Chaos Theory
You ain't drawin' shit!
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IT'S STILL REAL TOO ME!
JJ, shut off your tv. It's full of lifelike depictions of real life violence.
Did you not hear the trainer say he ran off? But as far as tasteless stuff goes, the crowner goes to the time WWE put up a story on their website about Jeff Hardy being found unconscious at a stairway in a hotel.
shattered dreams
Hexagonal Hedonist
Why? Wrestlers really get leg injuries as well
Do you really not get the story here?
Because the only people that care about the Jeff Hardy thing are presumably smart enough to tell the difference.
I thought it was a striking visual that sold this great story further.
JJYanks121
The Mouth of the South Shore
That's nice, and I'm saying pick any other type of injury if you want to do an injury angle with Storm. You simply don't do a head injury story, especially when it's not legit, and you don't let a guy go into a ring with a head injury. It's a fictitious show, but it's a real ring and they really do make contact with one another. You are telling people watching that this company is ok with wrestlers having head injuries competing in their ring. That's not a good thing at all.
Defend it all you like, but a man that likely has a concussion (in storyline) just went into a ring. I know it's not real, but the idea that someone with a head injury would engage in physical contact and the company WOULD ALLOW HIM TO DO IT, including the GM who very easily could have cancelled the match, is just stupid on every level. You aren't going to win this one man. I know you are the defender of these things, but you have to understand that on this one, it's not about booking or short sidedness. It's about utter tastelessness and just doing the wrong thing.
But wait a second, I'm a little bit confused. What is TNA thinking, putting AJ Styles, the man who should be the face of their company, in the main event of a PPV, for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, and against another younger (relatively speaking) TNA original? Shouldn't Styles be involved in a meaningless mid card match, while they fast track some older guy (with a likely WWE history) into the main event? I thought for sure that we'd get Styles versus Devon, while the main event would be another nostalgic trip down memory lane.
If I didn't know better, I'd almost think the people at TNA might be starting to get a clue.
shattered dreams
Hexagonal Hedonist
I think JJ must have hit his head earlier.
What part of HE RAN OUT WITHOUT PERMISSION did you not get?
JJYanks121
The Mouth of the South Shore
You don't see me defending that one, trust me. Knowing his history, him being found unconscious could be construed in such wrong ways. Still, the thing none of you are getting is that it doesn't matter if he ran off and it doesn't matter if the "story makes sense" which it doesn't but that's not the point. The point is that a man who had a head injury made his way to a ring for a match he was scheduled to have (that wasn't cancelled for some inexplicable reason that no one can explain). No one stopped him, or even likely tried, and he stumbled his way slowly to the ring and actually made it there without a trainer or even Fortune to stop him from being an idiot. More importantly, TNA, which is run by babyfaces now (it's no longer Immortal running the damn place) didn't do a damn thing to stop a performer from wrestling with a head injury. You can't be serious in defending this? I mean really, there's nothing positive about this at all. Nothing.
Tiger Chaos Theory
You ain't drawin' shit!
No JJ is pretty consistent with his distaste for for things like this. Doesn't make him right, just consistent.
klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
As I've had to say dozens of times about TNA: can they keep from screwing it up?
So, explain to me why every other injury is fine to exploit, but the one that you've randomly decided to give a shit about is poor taste.
JJYanks121
The Mouth of the South Shore
I'm the only one thinking straight and that's quite clear. I have no problem with ya'll defending this show from a booking standpoint when it comes to stories, but to defend a company for having absolutely no class. That I cannot understand. Do none of you understand why a head injury is a worse thing than a leg injury? Really? I mean ya'll can't be this stupid can you?
Tiger Chaos Theory
You ain't drawin' shit!
JJYanks121
The Mouth of the South Shore
A leg injury doesn't cause harm to your brain which can alter your life function. Especially in wrestling where a man's head injuries led him to murder his fucking family (at least in part), that's one thing you don't fuck with. Leg injuries heal, arm injuries heal, head injuries don't. Once you have a concussion, you are more prone to concussions the rest of your life and your skull is more sensitive the rest of your life.
I can't believe I'm explaining concussions on a wrestling forum, a place where this should be common knowledge given the real life circumstances surrounding this sort of thing. I honestly can't believe I'm having this conversation.