Holy shit dude you are NOT getting it. The reason I don't think TNA won't ever beat Vince is NOT because I don't like TNA. I would LOOOOVE for TNA to be a legit number 2. I think that they never will because WWE is too big and has too much of a head start. It's like if you started up a soda company. At any point within the next 50 years do you think you'll beat Coke? Fuck no. Same thing. If you still don't get why I don't think TNA will compete with Vince then you are flat out dumb.
How can I enjoy WWE and not TNA? I enjoy both. I enjoy WWE more because they work their audience better. TNA tries to, as Paul Heyman said "please too many masters". They're inconsistent. One week it's all about the X and "wrestling matters" then it's Hogan and Bischoff and Ric Flair. WWE at least has a plan and stick to it. It makes for a more consistent show. TNA is like watching a movie that is advertised as a horror movie but was written by a theater playwright and the actors are all comedy actors and it's actually a romance movie. No central driving force.
You don't use anything descriptive. You say "matches weren't good" "promos weren't good" why not? BTW, those are subjective things. A "good match" is simply one that gets the crowd into it, which they all did. If you have a match that has a million moves and no reaction vs a match with 5 moves and the crowd is shitting it's pants, the match with 5 moves is better because it accomplished what pro wrestling is supposed to do.
Please, in depth, explain why each match wasn't very good. Not enough bullshit highspots?
I'm fuckin done with you, especially if you can't do an in depth analysis. I bet you didn't even pick up on Cena's subtle progressive leg selling I mentioned earlier. You are a bitter fuck who watches a program he hates and then comes on the internet and bitches about it. Do something more productive with your monday nights if you hate it so much and watch the stuff you think you'll like on youtube if you can't try to enjoy it more. I try to enjoy TNA. I watch everything on youtube because I don't have cable. I don't comment on the TNA boards very often because I don't care enough to. You come on here and say how the matches suck the promos suck the stories suck, yet when it comes to the matches you can't say why.
If you say "slow and boring match" and the match was over, that's basically code for "I want spotsz and flipz and I don't get ring psychology". So I wouldn't say that if I were you.
1.Promos - they are deficient of emotion, or proper emotion. I don't feel like the person cutting the promo is feeling the words he's saying. They're just saying their lines like they were told to. The best and most memorable pro wrestling promos were spontaneous for the most part. They came straight from the heart and the viewer could feel the emotion expressed at that point. Whether it was written or not, the promo was
felt. It was delivered well. I come from a family of actors and one thing I was taught was that fun and passion are contagious. WWE doesn't have that, therefore the promos don't click.
I don't get that with the WWE. Currently they don't have a solid amount of mic workers. Only Cena, Truth, Punk and recently Triple H who came back to RAW. That's it from MNR. I don't watch SmackDown! but Christian and Orton can hold their own on the mic. Everyone else doesn't know how to cut a promo. It's not passionate. They don't mean it. They don't feel it and I don't as well. No matter how good a storyline could be, when you give the mic to someone who doesn't know how to talk the storyline's value drops immensely.
The delivery is not the only issue. The content is weak. Whoever's writing it is not doing a good job. They're not saying anything new. They're not saying anything interesting. There are no thought provoking dialogues, the interviews are basic and repetitive. I simply don't care about what he or she has to say because he or she already delivers it poorly and what he or she says is irrelevant because of the writing. Plus, they have this stupid (as someone called it) "where's my camera angle" look on their faces all the time. It's thrown together so he or she just says something to further the storyline.
That's the issue with the promos. They're weak. The delivery is lacking and so is the content. The writers only produce something better for the Main Eventers. Everyone else is served basic shit and has to make it shine.
2. Matches - I don't like spot fests. Stop assuming. The problem with the majority of WWE's matches is pacing, reason and story. Very, VERY few people in WWE know how to tell a good story. I'd say it's less than five or six. C.M Punk, Rey Mysterio, The Undertaker and Christian. John Cena and Randy Orton are not included for obvious reasons. They have to be carried but that's not the point.
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Pacing: most of WWE's matches are very slow and repetitive. Rest hold, move, lie down for 10 seconds. Rest hold, move, lie down for 10 seconds. Switch of offense. Rest hold, move, lie down for 10 seconds. Finish. With the lack of story in such a match, it makes for a pretty boring part of the show. Look at some of the better matches in TNA and WWE in general. They start off slow with some nice chain grappling, then the pace picks up more and more but doesn't get too fast unless it's a cruiserweight match, and it just builds until the finish. In WWE it picks up, stops, picks up, stops and then finish. Such a buzz kill.
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Story: There is none 96% of the time. It's bascially two people in the ring, having a 10 minute match, each hitting his moves in a random manner and one of them winning. They don't tell stories with their bodies, with their body language, their facial expressions. They just hit their moves and go home.
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Purpose: The purpose of the match is often forgettable. It's just another match. There's nothing behind it to make me care. Not a promo to hype it beforehand, nothing. And even if there WAS a promo we already have the shitty promo issue with people not being able to cut great promos, so the match is fucked from the beginning. It's very basic. Lazy. Not much thought put into it. One good example of how to do it right are the random Rock matches from way back when. The Rock would get a match against Eddue Guerrero, The Hurricane, Bully Gunn - you name it. But he'd make you care. He'd cut a promo and hype the thing so you have a reason to see him whoop someone's candy ass. The writing was EXCELLENT. Rock was hilarious, he'd drop some awesome one-liners and the overall talent back then was better. They'd play off of eachother and improvise when needed. They knew what to do and how to do it and it worked.
3. Storylines - unless your name is Cena you will not get any
consistent attention from the writers . Just about every storyline is about nothing. There is no conflict between two individuals who antagonize eachother for actual reasons. There's nothing at stake (that matters). There is no clash of opinions, ideology (aside from you bad I good) or anything. Look at Kofi and Ziggler. They've been facing off for such a long time. Does anybody know what the beef is? Why the fuck are they still fighting? Who the hell knows? Last night we got Del Rio vs Kofi. While it's not a long term storyline, it's just Del Rio wanting his revenge for losing.
Every storyline revolves around X attacking Z and Z attacking X and X attacking Z back and Z costing X a match and they face off. There's no progression. There's no character development. There's match after match until the PPV. No time for promos where both men present their argument to the audience so they can get INVESTED in the feud. WWE just expects you to cheer the face and boo the heel because the face is the face and the heel is the heel.
And it all comes back full circle. A fan like me sees a bunch of heels and faces that are more of a shell than an individual. I don't know what they stand for, I don't know who they are and why they're doing what they're doing. They are only defined by their alignment and that makes them all stand for the same things. Faces are happy and fair, heels are angry, cowardly at times and cheat. I can't invest in the roster, therefore I don't care what happens to the people involved in storylines.
Still, they get on the mic and they can't talk. I can't feel what they're saying, I don't are because they don't seem to care. They become even more dull.
And now we have a weak story between two people that don't have a DEFINED personality, can't make me care about them through their mic work and don't bring to the table anything that anyone else on the roster can't.
Do you need more details, Einstein?
