I think anything that is done in a way that makes sense and engages viewers is entertaining and cannot be considered a flop or the recycling of old ideas. WWE recycles almost everything that's ever been done to death, (and in a very boring manner) and still WWE successfully holds an average rating of 3. So whatever TNA does could be entertaining and still be a complete bust, or it could be completely boring but everyone for some reason watches and TNA's ratings could go up even though subjectively we all think what they did should have ended up a complete bust.
I just have to say to Brian in Austin: who really cares what HBK tweets!!! A lot of you smarks out there talk about Shawn Michaels like he's the classiest guy alive and act like you know him. And don't get me wrong, I think Michaels should go down in history as one of, or the best wrestling entertainer of all time. But, he's one of the biggest con artists ever, Montreal Screwjob anyone, and he's as unclassy as they come and he will not stay retired. HBK will be back for at least one more match or run someday. In WWE everyone who retires comes back. No one stays retired ever. It's not a lie that Nash and Angle are 'retiring', it's a storyline and if you remember anything about the late 90s you'd know that this same route of 'messing with the internet community' has been done before and is all part of making wrestling matter again. And, really, does TNA really lie when they swerve their audience? NO. That's part of the entertainment, if you can't handle being 'lied to' then go watch John Cena. Wrestling companies don't lie to their fans through storylines. Your friend, or mom, or teacher might lie to you but a soap opera like Young and the Restless doesn't lie to you. An old rerun of Seinfeld doesn't lie to you. Fake reality tv, as much of a lie as it is, isn't lying to you. It's show business. You don't know the actors, so how on earth could they be lying to you?
And who is to say Sting has 3 to 4 years left. I'm sure he's alluded to it before, and you think so subjectively from what you have read. It sounds likely but who is really to say? People were saying the same of Hogan in 88, Flair in 91, Taker 10 years ago, list goes on and on. Even Hitman, the most dedicated to retiring came out of retirement. People say things one day and change their mind the next. It's not lying, it's called making a living, having a change of heart, entertaining fans and attracting them to the product. Retirement happens and life goes on and on and on and on and then usually the wrestler comes back. No big deal really. It's like when you tell a girl you'll love them forever and then dump them a few months later. If everyone stuck to their word Ric Flair would have retired in the 80s, the 90s, the 00s..Savage would have retired in 91. Hitman wouldn't have come back this year. Kevin Nash has retired before (99) and come back i do believe. Imagine how dull wrestling would have been for all those years without all those personalities. It's a good thing they lied and came back, its a good thing WWE and WCW lied to its audience time and time again. Please. Wrestlers are not our friends who sometimes lie to us, we do not know them and everything they plan on doing in the future. Reporters report what has been said and we read it and smarks take it all way too far as if its all unchanging permanent truth. Just ask Chris Jericho, i believe he ranted about this a few months back. So Bischoff and Hogan think its funny to stage Nash and Angle's retirement, they find it funny to make it appear as if Hogan's on his death bed, and all of you smarks eat it all up. And old school fans like me can see through it and laugh at how seriously this stuff gets taken by the IWC. In WWE, they tell you how it is and keep it simple to create you. Now Bischoff and company are trying to win smarks over or destroy them. I hope they succeed either way.
And Pope and everyone else is gonna get a rub from being around real entertainers that were and still are the real deal. Hogan might be a wrinkled gimp, but he made WWE and wrestling entertainment. Wrestling in 2010 doesn't make any sense without the major guys from the past and they need to be around for a few more years to give the future the proper groundwork going forward in their careers. Guys like Pope, Hardy, RVD etc will be so much more credible working with the business' best ever and much more credible than they would ever be in WWE wrestling guys like Sheamus and John Cena. Bischoff is the smartest guy in all of wrestling, self made unlike Vince McMahon and no resources he worked his way through the ranks into a business he knew little about and almost put the McMahons out of business and he may still someday.
And anybody who uses that cliche line about "Hogan, Russo, Bischoff in it for the pay cheques" gets under my skin and totally destroys their credibility. It's essentially a cop out of an argument. It's like a monkey at the zoo imitating all the other copycat monkeys all making the same sounds. It signals a lack of independent thinking and intelligence.
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