He's worth a billion dollars so he's doing something right

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I don't know how I feel about that match. It wasn't exciting, but it felt "solid". Like I really like Storm and despite the audio problems and the microscopic audience (with half-hearted "this is awesome" chants) I enjoyed it like a WCW Thunder match.

I see what they're going for though and I hope they get there.

Yeah that match sucked. Tim Storm is very sluggish and I don't know what kind of finish that was. Some of the worst transitions I've seen. Beginning of the match was very flat even for a filling out process, no real momentum either way and then when it didpick up Aldis pulled the knee injury and was back another filling out process. Then I don't think they even played on the knee injury the rest the match.

I get what they were going for and what story they were trying to tell but it wasn't executed well. Trying to present Tim Storm as a throwback to the NWA's heyday won't work. He's nowhere capable of pulling off a technical wrestling match and his comeback had no energy to it. Should have started with him squashing a nobody because that match did the NWA no favors. Actually he should be squshed in his next outing.

He's about 950 million short.

Kinda feels like, while everyone thought they were just trying to rush the title off of the old regime's guy, they're taking their time. Which is a good idea. Magnus isn't exactly a mega-star waiting to be made. Storm's already got the title. You can't erase his reign from the record book. Might as well try to make him look good and then wait til you have "your guy" in place to take it off of him.

*cough*Ryback

Maybe if Ryback reduces his asking price since last time it was reported, he wanted around $5000 per show.

Damn. So he has to bring in 500 people extra at $10 for a show that they didn't normally have come see their show.....probably not.

If Emma is worth $2,000, Ryback is worth $20,000.

They need the belt on an unknown. Make their own star.

That's what they have now.

McMahon Sheep,,,,,,,,

They need eyes on the product first. Can't build your own stars if no one's watching.

They need CM Punk. Corgan has the Chi Town connection. Wish Punk.never got involved w MMA cuz his next fight will be a waste and he will need to lick his wounds for another 5 years before he realized wrestling was his bread and butter.

I think this was a move to say to any existing fans that's he's not trying to build a new TNA like promotion and he's in for the long haul. Championship Wrestling From Hollywood is probably the 4th most watched US promotion with their new deal, so partnering with them while they get their own shit sorted is a good move.

And you do that by building up a marketable guy. Feed people thay people are interested in. Either indy darlings or recent cast offs.

I agree. But putting the title on someone and THEN trying to build him up is the backwards way of doing it.

It's the main reason why WWE's titles have meant shit for the past decade plus.

If someone's an unknown right now it's for one of two reasons. They aren't good or they aren't ready. Either way, putting your world title on them would be counterproductive.

This thought process essentially assumes the fed is omniscient

What? How? In no way does it take omniscience to not put the title on a guy until he's been built and gotten over. It's about as far from assuming the fed is omniscient at you can get.

Next NWA title match was announced to be Nick Aldis vs. Tim Storm again.

NWA also currently taking bookings from indies for future NWA title matches.

I think you've both got points. On one hand, I completely get where fan is coming from. People have been conditioned to expect the journey, and it's possible to make the case that it's the cart before the horse. But Destor's got a point in saying that this is just how we've been conditioned by the WWE. There's something charming about them just having this guy who is the guy. That used to be how things were done.

I'm not sure if Tim Storm is that guy. I don't know how many people would be willing to book the NWA World Champion or a 55 year old champion. But he was champion when Corgan took over and they're taking baby steps with it. I dunno, I'm not super-invested but I'm not turned off entirely either. I don't really want them to go with Magnus though. Nothing against him, I just don't see him that guy I really want to go out of my way to watch. I hope Storm beats him again and that sets off Magnus, who turns on Storm and beats him down after the match. Keep them separate for a while and have Storm push for the match. Meanwhile he beats those guys that Destor alluded to.

He looks like Arnold Skaaland on the gas

Tim Storm is going to CZW CAGE OF DEATH with the title.

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He and Aldis were also at House of Hardcore and Tommy Dreamer challenged Storm before Aldis cane out and said he was first and that Storm knew that finish was bullshit.

Tommy Dreamer is a younger man with more experience. It's actually a really good match...in theory. In execution, I imagine it will be abysmal.

I think it'll be neither for the CZW match. They don't have an iPPV deal even these days, but the name is roughly known at least.

Think a Dreamer match will happen at House of Hardcore. They've got that Twitch streaming deal now brother brother, so some good exposure to see it for free.

Oh yeah, House of Hardcore seems appropriate for the Dreamer match.

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Very sweet.

Something about Tim bothered me, and I couldn't figure out what it is until now.

He reminds me of Mr. Dream. If you don't know who I mean, I'm talking about the last boxer in NES Punch-Out!! post Tyson. The later versions of that game scrubbed the most famous boxer in the world short of Muhammad Ali, and put in a very generic looking white dude. It was still *technically* Mike Tyson in movement and function, but they completely altered the palates and bio.

He reminds me of Samoa Joe for some reason. Something about how he looks in profile, I think.

I actually was going to say that. He does kinda look like a whitewashed Joe; it's more the facial features (especially the nose) than build, but I felt the Mr. Dream comparison was more apt. He has one of those dubiously ethnic looks that, had he wrestled back in the 50's, he would have been gimmick'd as some sort of Native American in one territory, a Polish powerhouse in another, and possibly an extra large Jew in a third if none of the places overlapped or unless one of those got him super over everywhere... yet still just a random, generic looking white guy at the same time.

I think it is the movement, hunched at shoulders and then the round face

Yeah, I think you might be right about that. Good for the guy. I haven't had to watch his matches yet, so I have nothing but good will towards him right now, haha. I like his presentation as champion.

I'm watching the Tim Storm vs Nick Aldis match that was on Championship Wrestling from Hollywood

And..my satellite just went out. Fuck

That match was awful

Nick Aldis defeated Tim Storm to become the new NWA champ at yesterday's CZW event. Crowd hated it because of the bait-and-switch done since it was originally promoted as Tim Storm vs a CZW wrestler to be named at the event. Also hated Aldis as the new champ.