With reference to RVD, I've got absolutely no idea what your talking about. RVD is perhaps the most amazingly athletic 40 year old wrester I have ever seen. I'm sorry but the next time I see a guy do a split legged moonsault, I'll change my mind. If it weren't for the fact that RVD cannot help but sound stoned and so it's is very difficult for him to cut a believable and serious promo I would think he almost deserved that spur-of-the-moment title reign over AJ, but that would be going too far.
In jeff hardy's case, well his character permitts that he appear very lacsidasical about everything because it serves little or no interest to himself. If jeffy hardy was then suddenyl avid about everything like a ric flair style character it wouldn't fit him. That is his current in and out-ring style. But if you can watch his match with kurt angle and still say keep the same opinion then there is something else swaying your ideas of what is going on.
In fact if anything jeff hardy has upped his game. He is having to deal with a real heel gimmick for the first time in his career and is doing well with it. In WWE he didn't have to do anything except ths ame old moves and get cheered. It is far harder to be appreciated in TNA because people always compare everything you do to WWE and the atmosphere is completely different. When you have 20,000 fans screaming at you and a huge arena, it always looks better than 2,000 but that doesn't make it the case. In TNA you have to create your own character development because you write more of your own stuff and that is more difficult than reading a script and memorising the lines, the only thing easier about being in TNA is the schedule, aside from that you have to work twice as hard where every night there are people coming out specifically to bash you and your company. WWE every so often put on a good match over 10 minutes long and it gets critical-acclaim because of the rarity, people EXPECT there to be an amazing TNA main event and where there isn't one its, "TNA dropped the ball big time there, they lost another fan tonight". People are so used to WWE's style of programming that they are like a child in a room with their mother, they are afraid to venture out and do things without refering to her first. WWE is rigid and like a bedtime story, the fact that you know what is coming next relaxes people's mind because everything that will happen is set in stone. TNA is fluid, the layout of matches every night i different, the main reason people criticize TNA's matches is because you actualy watched them... unlike the bland, stagnant "encounters" between two superstars who have met a million times before and you know the match format before the match has started. People actually want to watch a match with rey mysterio when they know he's going to try for the 619 three times, fail the first two times and succeed the last time. In TNA you can't call a match before it has begun and this makes people uncomfortable because everything about TNA is fluid, it can change from impact to impact, you never know whats coming next and good or bad that is something to look forward to.
All the above in underlined italice is a separate TNA v WWE rant, sorry.
Personally I never thought jeff hardy was good enough for the big time. Jeff hardy is lucky enough to have a huge fan following for jumping off high things. But he's never wrestled a good match in his life, or if he has I failed to watch that night, notice I used the word wrestled. So it was easy for WWE to take that at face value and promote him to a big star knowing the fact that people liked him was enough for him to merit being there. Jeff hardy has never put out a good promo, and worse still he injured a man with actual potential recently in Anderson, a man who is really going somewhere and could elevate TNA under the correct circumstances. Jeff Hardy is now getting good reaction for his work under his current gimmick but that is only because it is light years better than the pile of shit he has injected into us for years (and himself). Even in TNA he wrestles like a WWE star, all of his match are a combination of his signiture and finishing moves, he can do nothing else except weak looking punches. To say jeff hardy has lowered himself in TNA is rediculous because he wouldn't look good wherever he was. Hell he couldn't even succeed at a best fucked up shoot video because his was so half-assed. So jeff hardy is mute point, don't mistake big fan favorite for good wrestler, otherwise goldberg would have been one of the all-time greats.
On the whole though, most other people have done great from going to TNA. Mickie james is stepping up her in-ring work now and being used week after week where the only quarrell is the quality of the storyline linking her and tara together. Tara herself has been golden since being in TNA, probably better than in WWE and she isn't even in her prime now. Anderson is leaps and yards better than he was in TNA, partly because he is allowed to converse with the crowd making his character more relatable to people. He is a bit of a modern day austin standing up for what everyone believes to be true. And people like him more for it because anderson is supposed to be a heel, it suits him better, and thyats why being a face works right now. Because anderson would normally be heel, but it makes it look like immortal and fortune are so heel tghan anderson is being forced to represent anyone. They have a beautiful accident in the way anderson's character worked out for them.
Orlando Jordan doesn't do much but he arguably is better than he was in WWE also. I think I'm going to sk8ip the formalities right here and say that you could make a case for every guy that jumped ship from WWE being better in TNA, and if you read my rant in the middle, don't fool yourself into thinking they were better in WWE because of the big flashing lights dazzling you and making you lose your sense of intermediary conclusion drawing. Make sure that the actual man, not story or anything else, the wrestling in the ring and the quality of promos that he does are actually not as good now as before and then you can start to talk reasonably.
