So first off I feel I should inform you I am biased, Kurt Angle is my half sisters uncle, so I've gotten tons of autographs and memorabilia from him. I know he has a bad rep as of late but he's a cool dude! We had a cancer patient in the family and Kurt (the night before Bound For Glory I believe) came down to the hospital and spent hours with the children. Now I got free tickets from Kurt and managed to get the 3rd row.
Wow, that's awesome. And while people still obviously dislike him for the "incidents" he's been included in, nobody see's him as a bad wrestler. I mean, I know people who consider him one of the best today. And when it comes down to it, sometimes you have to separate the Kurt inside of the ring and the Kurt outside of it. Of course, he isn't the only one that applies to either. But you definitely shouldn't take something like this for granted, hell, I have no connections to anyone in my family. That's also really sweet about the cancer patients, and I'm sorry for whoever it was that had to be one more of it's victims. But things like that are truly what divides the genuinely caring and nice guys from the rest, and I'm sure none of those children will ever forget it.
Now, I don't like that their venues are so small for only one reason, TNA is huge, they could sell out decent sized buildings! This was at an ice arena that youd catch a CZW show at. A lot of people I know were unable to get tickets as it sold out.
I know this is frustrating and you aren't the only person I've heard complain about the size of their venues, and it's hard because there isn't really one clear cut reason why. But how I look at it is, it's baby steps. You have to remember that TNA rarely ever leaves the iMPACT! Zone and when they do it's for live shows like these. So I think it ends sort of being like, they don't want to vary too far from where they started. And you also have to remember about negotiations with arena's and stuff as well, for some reason or another, they could've fell through. Like I said, it could be any of these or it could none of them, but as long as you were entertained (which you were), I'd just get over it.
Also, I know they're supposed to act nice but the talent in TNA are really nice. Madison Rayne spoke to me for a few minutes though her line was long, she was incredibly sweet. BMI, Kaz, and Hernandez were also really cool; Matt Morgan was the coolest though. Since they come out to meet everyone after the show, they normally are tired and go fairly fast. But Morgan was different, he stopped to take pics and talk to tons of people. He signed literally everyones items, and had about a 5 minute conversation with me, as I am a huge Morgan mark. Some people like Abyss were a little bit rude, but the guy's a top heel so that could be him in character.
This doesn't surprise me, in a good way of course. You have to remember, very rarely will superstars or divas
want to be rude or unfriendly. And if they are, it is usually either the specific person trying to stick to kayfabe or things like that. Not saying there aren't some people who are going to be a bit more bitchy or mean, but it would almost be more surprising if you had said that they all ignored you or something like that. And about Morgan, that's really great. Especially being in the WWE for a little while before TNA and everything, he should have enough experience now to know proper fan etiquette. You always get one or two of these kinds of people in each of the these meet and greet things, and I'm glad that yours did.
Abyss is also most likely trying to cling to kayfabe and all that, because like you said, he is heel and I feel like more of the monster types seem to keep away from things like these or at least try and sort of move things along quicker than others. There isn't much else to say but man oh man, cannot express the amount of envy I am feeling, sometimes being a Canuck really sucks when it comes to TNA.
Also, what matches did you actually end up seeing? Not that I will die if I don't no, just always interesting hearing what TNA booked this time.
But i'm glad you had fun, and for the idiots that only watch the tna on t.v and talk bad about it, go to a live event, and say it's not better than WWE!!!