You know I was starting to like tna after bound for glory, and they started pushing the young talents like aj styles, samoa joe, and daniels. They had that awsome 3 way match at the ppv, and then aj and daniels again the next month. Then hogan was coming, and then I thought the jan 4th show was pretty good. But man, Ill be honest, ever since then their product has been horrible, while wwe is getting alot better since mania is coming up. Now I hated wwe for changing into a pg show, but u know there storylines and characters are better than tna. That is what makes me interested into a wrestling show, the storylines and the characters. I love good wrestling matches, but to me the storylines and the personality of each character is what makes the matches meaningful to me. TNA can have the best matches, but u know if the storylines suck for the match, it's hard for me to get motivated watching it. Well not to get off the point of the topic, but to answer the original question of this post, no I don't think the product is good, or is it getting any better. To be specific, this is what I don't like about tna at the moment..
-I hate that they aren't pushing daniels. He was main eventing one minute, then the next he is jobbing in a minute and losing to val venis. He is an original tna guy, and he is one of the main guys that put tna on the map, and I think it's just hogan not liking the guy for whatever reason, and his character and talent is being wasted. You can complain that wwe waste talent, but don't tell me that tna isn't wasting any guys either
-Nasty boys being pushed more than beer money. I dont' have to explain to you, but this sux, plain and simple.
-Bubba the love sponge. I thought borash was great, and he seems to love tna, and u can tell by his online videos that he has a passion for this job. Bubba sux, i know he might be able to give tna more exposure, but that doesn't mean I like him. He seems monotone, and have no passion in his interviews. Thats not even goin into his backstage reputation already.
-Abyss. My god what happen to him. He's a pussy, plain and simple. THey made him a pussy. This whole hall of fame ring is stupid, so what this ring is what motivates him into a monster again. Even if he turns into a monster, I don't want him to come out to freaking hogan's american theme. He should be a psychotic monster that just murders people in the ring, but now he's all sucking hogans...you know what. I'm not saying he shouldn't be pushed, what I don't like is his character, it sux, even with this transformation he's going through.
-Aj styles. I can't buy his heel turn, he seems like a complete second rate flair wanna be. This isn't the aj that I watch and became a fan of.
-Samoa joe. Too many damn heel/face turns for him. This has really hurt his character. So is he goin to be a badass when he comes back from his kidnapping...hmm yea i saw that already with his nation of violence stuff. A main eventer one minute, jobbing to orlando jordan. Don't like it.
-Hogan. Yea I'm not into hogan right now, he seems to say that he isn't doing this for himself, and that he isn't going to wrestle for tna, but just to help make the other wrestlers into stars. Then only less than 2 months into the job he is goin to main event an impact and wrestle. With flair no less. I'm tired of watching hogan and flair, tna should be pushing young guys in these spots.
-Constant mentioning and bashing of wwe. This seems very childish, and makes them second rate. Enough of talking about wwe, just concentrate on ur own product.
-The band. I'm sorry but if u havent started watching wrestling the past 10 years, why should anyone care about them. They keep talking about the past, but the new audience might not even know who these guys are. At least with the bret storyline, wwe actually has footage of the screwjob, and can show a video about the history of bret and vince. With the band, and this whole nwo past, they talk about it and then assume everyone will know. Yet they probably have no clue, or don't care.
-Foley. The same can be said about foley, and his storyline with bischoff. Again new fans might not know about their past, so it's confusing. No footage of their history is what is hurting.
-No jeff hardy. Ok I know he might show up later, so I'll see what will happen. But at this moment, they kinda botch his debut. I rather he not even show up that live impact and waited until he can come back fulltime.He made his debut, and then the next weeks he isn't even mention again. He probably was the most over wwe guy, and tna doesn't even mention him again. Again we will see if he comes back and how they push him, but right they should of just waited on his debut and did it in a more meaningful manner.
-The way lashley left. This made tna look horrible. I remember him talking about how he was goin to be the tna champ and mma champ at the same time. But he dumped tna the first second an mma company offered him a contract. They pushed lashley initially as a potential top face of tna, but now looking back I bet they didn't even signed the guy.
I could go on and on, but this post is getting long already. I do like some of the stuff on tna right now, I like anderson, angle, and the pope. But that doesn't make up for the bad product that I'm seeing. Wwe storylines goin into mania is pretty good right now, and theres nothing on tna that can top the hype that taker-shawn will have and a potential bret hart return match. We will see after mania if tna gets better, but right now this is wwe's time, and nothing on tna will come close to being a better product than vince's company around mania.
