About Monday
 

I full expect TNA to drop the ball again this coming Monday.

I'm going into this expecting a train-wreck which means if I'm wrong I'll only be left watching a good night of wrestling. That said. I hate Hogan as a person and find him boring as a wrestler. I'm hoping that he somehow gets his son a job with TNA so that we can see a David Flair redux.

I'll be watching TNA this monday. RAW has been horrible the past couple weeks.

I haven't watched RAW in months. Then a couple weeks ago I was reading the info on my TV for RAW that night and it said something like:
featuring John Cena, D-X, and WWE Champion Sheamus.

I thought the info was messed up like when it said Sting on a wwe PPV info once. but it was true so I ended up not watching RAW because of this extremely white man.

Gee...that's the same thing I think when I flip to Raw every now and then. Seeing as how Raw has dropped the ball about 365 or more times in a row, TNA can not possibly do much worse. I have high expectations for the show, but at the same time I will be watching critically.

Also, it's extremely ignorant to hate someone as a person when you have not met with them personally. So perhaps you have met Hogan?

:lol:

Explain yourself. How is it ignorant to hate someone you haven't met?

TNA cannot offer me anything I want.

a wrestling show

TNA? :rofl:

yah, lately they have been putting on some of the best matches i have seen in decades

and you hardly see any tna on botchamania anymore

Just because there's good wrestling on a show doesn't mean it's a good wrestling show. Russo's still booking, it's still a clusterfuck.

i see vince mcmahon has gotten to you too

DAMN YOU MCMAHON

What?

I'm not a fan of TNA's booking still. I like the in-ring action, but there needs to be more there. They aren't a wrestling show, they're Vince McMahon's brand of Sports Entertainment with spot monkeys (and I'm not using that in a derogatory way in this case).

They should be building their own identity instead of emulating the Attitude Era.

Do you like Hitler? Did you ever meet him?

watching the very best tna has to offer or watch bret hart take his medicine then have a nap...hmmm, ill watch bret nap

:lol::rofl:

I got to this thread by doing my daily TPWW search for "A Train". I have made a mistake.

I need to spread some reputation around before giving it to you again Thed.

I'll be switching back and forth, just like I was back in the late 90's. I'm very excited about this Monday, the most excited I have been since the horrible let down of the Invasion angle. TNA definitely has the best wrestling, but their story lines are a convoluted cluster fuck, as someone stated.

That being said, it's a big night for them and it could easily make or break their company.

TNA need to get their act together and yet what bothers me most about them is that they can't even seem to see the need to get their act together.

Decades? How old are you

126 years old

I'm gonna guess you're about 17.

add about 10 years then you have it

This is not a personal knock against you by any means, but it's the problem with all TNA fans.
You guys really want TNA to succeed, and really any wrestling fan should. It creates healthy competition. But the problem is that you guys want it to work so bad that you start hyping up a mediocre product.

Once TNA finds a groove it can be great. It has a roster full of potential. But it's not there yet.

i agree that tna has a long way to go, but it defiantly isn't a mediocre product

The story lines are way too sporadic, and I really can't stand the small sound stage look and feel of the show, but as far as in ring entertainment, they are blowing WWE out of the water.

Indeed!

But on another note- I have to work until 7pm on Monday. Not too stoked about that. I'm gonna miss the first hour of Raw... Hour and a half if I need to pick up anything. While I DVR it every week, I won't be able to keep up with all the wonderful mother fuckers in The Vault... :(

You're right, it's worse.

HUUUF DUURF

AJ Styles is gonna lay down for Hogan to celebrate the anniversary of the Finger Poke of Doom

That may very well be.

I have two predictions...
1. TNA is going to try to be controversial, do something "edgy" in hopes that the viewers will tune in the following episode.

2. Hogan will guest host Impact in a similar manner to what the past series of Raws have done.

What I think they should do instead is open the show with Hogan cutting an oldschool promo, introduce whomever he'll be feuding with after 5 minutes of pro-TNA propaganda and then put on a PPV quality show while giving 10-12 characters mic/camera time to introduce themselves better to the new potential audience, put on an awesome main-event match like a Triple-Threat Match between AJ Styles, Samoa Joe and Christopher Daniels. End the show with another Hogan promo which ends in a bunch of security seperating him and whomever they choose to have him feud against.

This is what the rest of the people here on TPWW do with RoH.

Only Indifferent Clox does that

Knowing Hogan, the end of the show will feature him and the debuting Brutus Beefcake being separated by security.

Fair enough

TNA is no worse than WWE at all. The wrestling is 1000x better. The storylines are shit in both companies. I think people prefer WWE still for two reasons - that it has a much bigger stage feel, and two, because of the emotional attachment we have with the WWE. Sounds gay but it's true, we all have very fond memories of the WWE after years of watching. It's only normal to not like change and so on. But realistically WWE is barely better than TNA, if at all. I for one would rather see clusterfuck storylines in return for good quality wrestling than shitty unimaginative recycled storylines and piss-poor restricted wrestling.

Apologies for bad grammar, breaking in the iTouch :)

Yknow I'm totally waiting to see if the booty barber discple zodiac man will follow hogan into TNA.:lol:

He had better, how else will he pay for his jungle gym?

I can't wait for the new one targeted at the 6-12 demographic.

The iTouch Kidz.

So...it's really happening...

Weird.

I'm actually finding myself looking forward to tonight.

I've liked TNA more than WWE for a long while now... I'd say a solid 3 to 4 years...

That being said I like WCW better than WWF until the day it went out of buisness. That being said I think it's because I grew up liking the NWA which became the WCW, and now TNA is the next step along that way. So I'll watch TNA more than WWE. I'm out Thursday nights and Friday nights but I don't tape Smackdown yet I do tape Impact.

Do I think the in ring product of one is better than the other? No.

Actually, the in ring product of ROH is better than both. I've only seen like 5 ROH shows in 2009 and my top 10 matches of 2009 has 5 ROH matches on it. The other 5 are split between WWE and TNA. In ring product for both ofthem has their benifits and downfalls. When Triple H/HBK/Jericho ect. are out their the matches are good, when Primo/R-Truth/Divas ect. are out their not so much. Just like for TNA if AJ/Daniels/Angle are other there we get good matches when Jesse Neal/Rob Terry/Knockouts ect are other there not so much.

The storylines are a diffrent deal. TNA as of late has given us main storylines with AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Kurt Angle, and Desmond Wolfe. WWE has given us main storylines with John Cena, Shamus, The Undertaker and Batista. I know which set of wrestlers I'd rather see in the main event.

That all being said these are just my opinions. And in my opinions TNA is going to get raped in the ratings tonight. But I'm not a ratings fan, I'm a wrestling fan. I watch to see who pust the better show, not who gets the better rating. If I watched to see who got better ratings I'd be watching American Idol rather than nothing...

Anyway, for those of you that haven't been jaded from wrestling yet, just try to enjoy tonight and leave the nit picking until after the show. For one night don't think of who's dropping the ball just watch to see some wrestling.

I'll leave the nitpicking til during the show. Still, great post.

I really hope TNA do ok. In saying that, I also fully expect them to fail. I guess it depends on how Hogans booking goes and if he truely lets the talent shine like he's been saying he will be.

I also think WAY to much emphasis is being put on tonights shows. I say let it drag out for a few weeks and see how it goes.

Fair enough, I can't make anyone do anything. Just enjoy.