Bobby Roode: He could have easily been pushed up high feuding with Daniels or feuding with Styles (styles still being a good guy) to get him over. Sure this Eric Young thing is drawing him heat and making his name more well known, but they could have just made them feud with each other rather than having Roode "own" him.
It's not even drawing him worthwhile heat, he's just turning into Sean Waltman. I do agree that he's going in a bad direction.
Ron Killings: Instead of the most pointless storyline in wrestling history, they could have teamed him with Elix Skipper who they fired and started that tag team they were planning on having a while back. This would have been one of the most athletic tag teams of all time and both of them know how to entertain. Instead of Team 3D losing to LAX in a street fight 70,000 times they could have had Mexican v. African American. Now THAT would have been a real gang fight.
Though that is a popular idea, I'm not sure it would have come off nearly as well in reality as it does in theory. Killings and Skipper both have a tendency to botch and not use any sort of pacing in the ring. Putting the two together would only compound that problem.
The Naturals: How were they not showing character? They were never given a chance to talk so how could they prove themselves? They were on the verge of being the next big tag team in TNA. They had them in a very heated feud with Team 3D and they blew it by out of nowhere, just never booking them in matches or any storylines after that.
They had their chances, but they put on some of the worst matches in recent history. Granted, they were in a feud with Team 3D when they broke up, but they were doing really poorly against good tag teams as well. After being jobbed out unmercifully for such a long time, they lost any legacy they had as a tag team and with it went their charisma.
Jay Lethal: I know they're trying to give him character but they could have done that by putting him and Dutt in more tag team matches.
Or simply not making him seem socially challenged.
Eric Young: This whole paranoid thing is played out. It's over. The fans love him not because he's funny. They love him because he's such a great wrestler. We could have been treated with high quality matches if they would have just had him feud with Roode rather than having him be owned by him.
I actually long for paranoid Eric when compared to the current functionally ******ed Eric.
VKM: Get them out of the feud with Hemme. Put them in a storyline where they start trying to get out of TNA. This would have some real life feel to it just like the WWE storyline they had and that made them the hottest thing in wrestling at that time. Now they're nobodies again.
Yeah, um, they just need to start jobbing VKM to everyone and their grandmother to get what little use out of them they can. There doesn't seem to be much salvaging of the VKM ship anymore.
Austin Starr: He can be the top X division heel. Instead he's feuding with Bob Backlund. I do like that they're providing good matches with Senshi though.
Fully agree.
Senshi: One moment he was the X division champ for about half a year and the next he is a nobody fighting in pointless matches against Austin Starr that aren't even built up with a storyline every week.
Also agree.
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On the other hand however, there are many people that I do like where they are headed. For instance:
Christian Cage: He is the big name heel that TNA signed him to be in the first place. The longer he stays on top the more he is hated and the bigger his name grows.
It is about time that they started to use Christian in a useful way. I'm glad to see him bringing that charm that made him so cool in the WWE into TNA.
Samoa Joe: I like that he finally got his title shot and now he's in the main even picture even more.
Let's see, leading up to his title match with Christian, the match barely got advertised (hell, if it weren't for the internet, I may have completely missed that he was even getting one) and he was jobbed to Tomko prior to the match. Now, I don't have anything against Tomko, but he's nowhere near main event level yet, making him beating Joe all the more damaging. The fact that Joe was more of a main event player when he WASN'T in the world title hunt is kind of scary.
Kurt Angle: I like that they're building the show around him and Joe. There's a reason that people went nuts when Angle signed with TNA. He is one of the best wrestlers in the business (next to Samoa Joe in my opinion) and they're doing exactly what they are supposed to do, build the show around him, Joe, and Christian.
While it would be great to build a show around Angle prior to his complete loss of touch with reality, building your show around a nutcase doesn't seem to be an effective use of talent. Angle doesn't need to dominate the TNA main event right now, he needs to get some therapy.
Chris Sabin: I like that he's becoming a better heel every day. He's going places.
...yeah, nothing says "going places" like wearing a diaper and acting like a geriatric.
Christopher Daniels: This is the character I wanted for Daniels for a long time and they've finally given it to us.
Daniels being repackaged is a good thing as he seemed to be going nowhere prior to his short leave. So, agreed.
AJ Styles: I think that his Rhino feud is played out, but I think that will finally be ending after Lockdown. When that does happen, I think things will REALLY pickup for AJ. I think the rhino feud was just to establish him as a heel anyways.
If he is put to better use after this, then the Rhino feud won't be a big deal. If he goes on to feud with someone like Eric Young, then this feud may be a sore spot on his career for a while.
