New tag team rules in TNA?

[AndarielHalo]

Maybe it's just me, but when I'm watching TNA iMPACT! I notice in tag team matches, there comes a point in the match, unannounced, where they just completely ignore the rules of tag team matches.

Usually it happens when someone interferes or a partner rushes in, prompting the other partner(s) to rush in and make a big clusterschmizz brawl.

After which, two guys who were never tagged in begin fighting, or one guy tries to pin two guys one after the other, neither of which were tagged in.


What the hell is with this? This also happens to be the least of all my problems with TNA

 

[Rated_R_Superstar2010]

ya i've noticed this type of thing too. a few weeks ago, dont remember who was in the match, but i do remember that the person who got the pin fall was not tagged in. this is really just lazy booking. of course the "rules" of a wrestling match arnt very important but it still make you think how stupid some of the writers can be.

quick side note: how bad does it make the british invasion, the tagteam champs, look if they lose a 3 on 1 match to chris sabin.

 

[ccotreau1]

Its not only TNA that does that. WWE used to do that too, when their tag team division was better. Mind you I am not counting the quick switches by teams like Los Guererros and The Basham Brothers, but they used to do that in the 90's.

 

[BladeRunner]

TNA has very lax rules when it comes to their brand of wrestling.

The good thing about it is it gives more opportunities for random crazy shit to go down. Of course, if you like everything to be more rules and "sport" oriented you may not like that fact.

WWE now has that sort of thing where rules are very strictly gone by generally. But of course, now that makes it harder for random run-ins to take place and all the other assorted things that might happen.

What's funny is, like 3-4 months ago TNA had even less rules.

 

[Exist2Inspire51]

I also noticed in the mixed tag match with Lashley and Steiner that Kristal apparently tagged with Lashley when she touched his arm or shoulder when he was outside of the ring. Since when can you tag with someone outside of the ring?

 

[NSL]

It's not "new", and it's certainly not only in TNA. It happens everywhere. I don't like it a whole lot, but it at least keeps a flow going. It prevents lulls from happening, and keeps the action going until the finish.

What TNA should look into, would be to adopt the luchador tag team rules, that if one partner leaves the ring, the other can come in with no tag. This also works to keep the action going forward, and allows any number of ways to change the "legal man"...

 

[AndarielHalo]

Honestly, I've NEVER seen this sort of thing outside of TNA. Maybe I've seen instances in other companies where someone who wasn't tagged in picks up the pinfall, but this is an EVERY WEEK sort of thing with TNA.

This just stems into another problem involving STUPID REFEREES!

One example: Samoa Joe tells the referee to LET Bobby Lashley come in so he can beat him up. Bobby Lashley kills Samoa Joe and Red wins the victory, in a near mirror of the time Santino won the IC championship off Umanga (who is dead now, so maybe watch out, Joe? Nah, kidding). And the referee can just do this whenever they want? Ignore the DQ thing just because a wrestler asks them to?


This also reminds me of a pretty stupid thing Lauren said that shows either she's scripted to be stupid, or TNA thinks we're stupid:

Eric Young dressed as Homicide gets Hernandez disqualified. Lauren asks Earl Hebner if he is RIGHT in doing so because it wasn't HOMICIDE who disqualified him, but ERIC YOUNG.


I went into a huge rampaging rant at this: It doesn't matter WHO disqualifies you; you get disqualified if it were Joe Shit the Ragman dressed as Captain Crunch! What does she honestly expect, that because it's revealed to be Eric Young, he reverses the DQ because obviously HOMICIDE didn't mean to disqualify him because HOMICIDE wasn't even there?


Who books this shit?

 

[absent]

But then years ago the guy on the outside had to be holding onto a rope tide to the ring post for the tag to be legal. Not sure when that "rule" was dropped.

If you're going to have tag rules, personally I liked when they were used as part of a storyline. Illegal tags or no tags were used used as a way to get a nice flow and finish to finish the match but if the ref missed them or got confused, after the match they would be cited as a way to over-turn the finish and prolong a feud. If you let the rules go so loose I guess it's hard to justify that sort of decision and it seem credible.

I often found it interesting how the old ECW seemed to have no rules yet preserve tag rules when it seemed fit. Got a bit contradictory at times though.