The Main Event Mafia

[Coco]

I just saw a post calling the storyline a masterpiece.

Que?

Sorry, but any storyline that takes a company-wide old school vs. new school feud and turns it into Foley vs. Sting for the World Championship in 2009 took a few wrong turns somewhere.

 

[X]

It was basically NWO version 8023.

 

[Coco]

Yeah, but the nWo never had to deal with a machete-wielding Nation of Violence.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

What happened to the machete?

 

[Coco]

Vince McMahon spoke up about it and it went away. It was the strangest thing.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

I remember that. I bet Linda has it now.

 

[Coco]

Hey, look at that! My Linda McMahon hard-on from yesterday came back.

Somebody need to photoshop Linda McMahon brandishing a machete for me.

 

[gd]

It was decent, nothing special though.

 

[Ambiguous Turd]

I would have never called the group "Main Event Mafia". I think it sounds pretty demeaning to the rest of the roster, and makes it sound like everything else on the roster is shit.

And I know that could be used for Heel heat, but I just personally don't like it done, anyway.

 

[The Dewbliners]

Surprisingly, I'm with Sid on this. They could have just named it "The Mafia".

 

[PEP3]

To me, the whole angle was poorly constructed and executed, convoluted, didn't truly accomplish anything -- except marginally elevating Matt Morgan, potentially...maybe -- and generally did more harm than good to many of the members involved. I mean, whose idea was it for Samoa Joe to give up his main event, World title contender solo push to play second banana and move immediately DOWN the card in this angle? It killed his momentum, in my eyes. The whole angle was a colossal FAIL in my eyes.

 

[PEP3]

I would have never called the group "Main Event Mafia". I think it sounds pretty demeaning to the rest of the roster, and makes it sound like everything else on the roster is shit.

And I know that could be used for Heel heat, but I just personally don't like it done, anyway.

Actually, I think you're failing to see the point of the moniker. By it's very nature and name alone, the Main Event Mafia was intended to demean the other members of the roster. It was originally intended to set up the storylines to have younger performers fighting with those more established stars to get into the TNA main event.

The "mafia" part kind of implies the dirty dealings and behind the scenes politics which come with those things. The mafia is known for doing dirty work in ways that nobody necessarily knows it's happening. That was meant to indicate the political reasons people weren't being put over, I'd imagine.

The name wasn't the problem. Even the storyline itself wasn't the problem. TNA was just really, really clumsy in executing it, dragged some of the angles out way too long and tried to give swerves and stuff that just didn't pan out. Ultimately, it collapsed without even a whimper when it left.

That alone shows how much of a fail it was as an angle. They were around a year and disappeared without anyone (except maybe Steiner, who still occasionally refers to the group...despite it being non-existent) even giving a rat's ass? Now that's just pathetic!