I don't think that's what people are saying... or at least any of the intelligent folks are. What they're saying is that something bigger than that needed to happen. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not at all upset by the fact that Angle retained, and I'm not even that put off by the ending. However, nothing really happened after that to make me want to tune in on Thursday to see what's next for Angle and Roode and TNA in general. It just wasn't a moment that has any chance to live on in the halls of professional wrestling history, and it wasn't even close to it. It felt like it could have been the ending to a regular episode of Impact Wrestling, not the biggest PPV of the year.
TNA Bound For Glory 2011
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I don't think that's what people are saying... or at least any of the intelligent folks are. What they're saying is that something bigger than that needed to happen. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not at all upset by the fact that Angle retained, and I'm not even that put off by the ending. However, nothing really happened after that to make me want to tune in on Thursday to see what's next for Angle and Roode and TNA in general. It just wasn't a moment that has any chance to live on in the halls of professional wrestling history, and it wasn't even close to it. It felt like it could have been the ending to a regular episode of Impact Wrestling, not the biggest PPV of the year.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Dont forget it was in the midst of whacking into Roodes dangling foot, and doing a funny weird 3 count at the end, making the whole thing look like total buffoonery even more than it alreay did
Legit LOL'ing thinking of that again
Don't have to. You'll probably just turn into more of a casual fan if anything.
Course it does. Roode was a face because he was a home grown talent who everyone wanted to see go over. That's basically his entire gimmick right now.
He didn't go over, and you are pissed because a home grown talent you wanted to go over lost the match. In other words your reacting almost exactly how your supposed to, except taking things comically seriously because you're on the internet.
What I think you're trying to say is that if it was heel Bobby Roode going over face Kurt Angle then that would be fine... except that would be stupid, because TNA would be making people root for the heel, which is not how professional wrestling is supposed to work.
You are supposed to want the face to win and be happy when he does.
You are supposed to want the heel to lose and be angry is he does not.
Those points are barely worthy of debate at this point, it's the foundation that wrestling has been built on for fifty years.
The only subject worth of debate is whether it is necessary for big shows to be utterly predictable. You think that everyone should know the result the the wrestlemania main event in advance, I think that unless results are unpredictable then the average fan will seldom have any reason to invest in an outcome.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Uh, yes, the buyrates of Wrestlemania seem to indicate that people dont take to that sort of predictability stuff
I'm not arguing this anymore. Why am I even upset or surprised? Fuck everybody that ever defends TNA. No matter what WE all feel wrestling should be, they keep trying to take this invisible upper-hand away from us and try to reinvent a flat tire. They are focused so much on just making us scratch our heads and cheer for nothing that there is no correlation between any storylines they write. There are always dusty finishes, always confusion, always over-complicated beginnings, endings, and middles that it's just pointless for any of us to continue to use brainpower and waste any more of our time trying to decypher shit that will never make sense.
Do what I'm about to do... give up and get some sleep. At least tomorrow you'll wake up and realize that there are about a billion more important things to do with your lives than try and figure out something that can't be figured out.
Do what I'm about to do... give up and get some sleep. At least tomorrow you'll wake up and realize that there are about a billion more important things to do with your lives than try and figure out something that can't be figured out.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Meh, still glad I bought it on account of the Kenderson - Bully Ray match, and The Hogan -Sting coalition
Well the 'intelligent people' seem to consist exclusively of you right now. Everyone else does indeed seem to be legitimately upset that the pro wrestler they wanted to win failed.
I agree that the ending could have been better, I have already stated that the show should have ended with Hogan and Sting instead. My simple objection is to people having a fit because they called the main event wrong.
Then why does the typical Christmas special of a soap earn three times the rating of a day to day episode? The holiday blow off for a soap opera is conceptually almost identical to the wrestling PPV. It's a big, special show, but not necessarily a blow off... because that's a really stupid way to write television. Wrestling is a never ending story in exactly the same way a soap opera is, that's exactly the point I'm making.
Don't worry, that happens to everyone when they finally find themselves on the opposite side to me. Sad really.
Joe's Gonna Kill You
The Hunt is On
LOVED the PPV.
Well worth the money I spent.
Well worth the money I spent.
klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
I've only been saying that since everyone started saying he would be the top guy in the company if given a chance.
This Is My Name Thank You
Is a horrible poster.
Very well said D-Man. A++
Only thing is on the whole sleep part is what if you have insomnia like me and barley can sleep.
Joe always makes me happy. I enjoy knowing some people just love wrestling for wrestling.
I didn't see the whole show, but I liked everything that I saw. Hell, I didn't even hate Anderson in his fight, though I still maintain he blows. Seeing him mess up the table spot on the outside did validate my hatred though, which made the match all the better for me.
The Hogan stuff kicked ass too. That shit should have DEFINITELY closed the show. The match might have sucked, but it was the post-match that was really important. If your heart didn't swell a little bit as Hogan looked to the fans and ripped his shit off, you have no soul.
Hyorinmaru
Sit Upon The Frozen Heavens
If that's the case then Roode really should have won. Why let an injured man keep the world title?
It just doesn't make sense
This reminds me of Wrestlemania 25.
This Is My Name Thank You
Is a horrible poster.
So the title will become Vacant and we will have another tournament to crown the new champion...
Pepe Silvia
Occasional Pre-Show
I'm almost positive the title will change at Final Resolution
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Surely, those people paid money for ther Kid Rock concert, and not the predictable storyline culiminations that are inarguabley paramount to the stand alone apex PPV of the year for the company?
If you would like to suggest that BFG isnt that for TNA, feel free. Best of luck to you.
Rising Savior
Occasional Pre-Show
Good show but I fucking hated the fact that Angle won. I'm not a huge Roode fan but he absolutely should of won. The way tna built up Roode with the video packages and how he's waited 13 years to become a world champ and the whole 250 days on the road shit. This couldn't have been fucked up yet they found a way to fuck it up. All they had to do was have Roode submit Angle and then after have Storm come out and celebrate with him while confetti drops. Fuck you Russo or whoever wrote that shit.
I don't know, I wont be able to stab a guess at the next title change till I see where they're going on Thursday.
In other news, is it just me, or has TNA's desperate shortage of heels reached critical mass. The company is back in the hands of a face, and they basically have Angle and Bully Ray... and that's about it for guys who could believably work a main event. Which is probably one of the reasons why the decision was reached not to put the strap on Roode.
Someone needs to turn soon, it's just a question of who. Anderson is about the only one who works off the top of my head, and I think if he turns again then he's going to get stuck at a permanent right angle.
In other news, is it just me, or has TNA's desperate shortage of heels reached critical mass. The company is back in the hands of a face, and they basically have Angle and Bully Ray... and that's about it for guys who could believably work a main event. Which is probably one of the reasons why the decision was reached not to put the strap on Roode.
Someone needs to turn soon, it's just a question of who. Anderson is about the only one who works off the top of my head, and I think if he turns again then he's going to get stuck at a permanent right angle.
Given that it's not even their highest drawing PPV I doubt I'd need much in the way of luck.
Oh, and from what I remember, WWE maintain a similar booking philosophy across all of their PPVs, including all of the ones that have been bleeding buys for the best part of a decade.
