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**The CyNick** · 03-26-2004, 12:00 PM

Yeah great ideas, and really good impersonation.

With the WWE title picture, I think an interesting angle out of Angle being GM is that he's trying to book Eddie in all these title matches one after another so that Eddie gets worn down. Then at some point down the line, Angle finally makes a comeback and announces himself as the #1 contender. That would set up Angle-Eddie for maybe Summerslam where Eddie is exhausted from his busy schedule and Angle has been sitting behind a desk not taking a bump and getting back to 100%.

Depending on how far they want to take that, and depending on how healthy Kurt will be, but that could be the Wrestlemania 21 angle. Say Eddie goes all the way to Survivor Series, and he's defended the title against Bradshaw, Big Show, Booker T, RVD on PPV and other lower card guys on TV, Angle annoucnes that for Survivor Series he's the #1 contender. Eddie has all these built up injuries and he loses at SS to Kurt. Kurt then announces as GM that Eddie gets no rematch. But of course Eddie wins the Rumble and that gives him a title shot at Mania. Kurt, still acting as GM, announces that he put in the Mania contract that if Eddie fails at Mania he will NEVER get another WWE title shot, and he can never enter another Royal Rumble or any match to win a title shot. So its all or nothing for Eddie in Los Angeles at Wrestlemania 21. Of course Eddie wins and all is good in the world.

I like the idea of the NBT getting back together. In fact they talked about this on Byte This a couple weeks back with Jindrak. If they are going to do this they might as well try to make them stars. Not to spoil Velocity for anyone, but it appears they are trying to build up Jindrak as somewhat of a monster. I would also do that with Sean O'Haire. After a couple weeks of them each killing guys in singles matches I would take them off TV. Then you start running vignettes that the Natural Born Thrillers are coming back. Eventually they show up on Smackdown and they interrupt 2 jobbers who were "getting ready for the next match", and they totally kill those guys. Do that for a couple of weeks. You could even do it where the fans expect to see them when they see 2 jobbers standing in the ring they could be chanting to see NBT. Of course they come out and pummell the unsuspecting jobbers. Basically you make them a modern day version of teh Road Warriors. They dont sell very much, and they kill everyone in their path. That way they dont have to expose the fact that they aren't the best workers in the world.

As for the CW's, the thing about TNA's X-division is that a lot of times they do moves which are fun to watch but the moves dont mean anything and the whole thing just becomes a spot fest. I think there is a way to push the CW style as being fast and high flying but still tell a story in the ring which makes every move mean something to the audience.

03-26-2004, 12:00 PM	#7
The CyNick Make the IWC Great Again Posts: 8,922	Yeah great ideas, and really good impersonation. With the WWE title picture, I think an interesting angle out of Angle being GM is that he's trying to book Eddie in all these title matches one after another so that Eddie gets worn down. Then at some point down the line, Angle finally makes a comeback and announces himself as the #1 contender. That would set up Angle-Eddie for maybe Summerslam where Eddie is exhausted from his busy schedule and Angle has been sitting behind a desk not taking a bump and getting back to 100%. Depending on how far they want to take that, and depending on how healthy Kurt will be, but that could be the Wrestlemania 21 angle. Say Eddie goes all the way to Survivor Series, and he's defended the title against Bradshaw, Big Show, Booker T, RVD on PPV and other lower card guys on TV, Angle annoucnes that for Survivor Series he's the #1 contender. Eddie has all these built up injuries and he loses at SS to Kurt. Kurt then announces as GM that Eddie gets no rematch. But of course Eddie wins the Rumble and that gives him a title shot at Mania. Kurt, still acting as GM, announces that he put in the Mania contract that if Eddie fails at Mania he will NEVER get another WWE title shot, and he can never enter another Royal Rumble or any match to win a title shot. So its all or nothing for Eddie in Los Angeles at Wrestlemania 21. Of course Eddie wins and all is good in the world. I like the idea of the NBT getting back together. In fact they talked about this on Byte This a couple weeks back with Jindrak. If they are going to do this they might as well try to make them stars. Not to spoil Velocity for anyone, but it appears they are trying to build up Jindrak as somewhat of a monster. I would also do that with Sean O'Haire. After a couple weeks of them each killing guys in singles matches I would take them off TV. Then you start running vignettes that the Natural Born Thrillers are coming back. Eventually they show up on Smackdown and they interrupt 2 jobbers who were "getting ready for the next match", and they totally kill those guys. Do that for a couple of weeks. You could even do it where the fans expect to see them when they see 2 jobbers standing in the ring they could be chanting to see NBT. Of course they come out and pummell the unsuspecting jobbers. Basically you make them a modern day version of teh Road Warriors. They dont sell very much, and they kill everyone in their path. That way they dont have to expose the fact that they aren't the best workers in the world. As for the CW's, the thing about TNA's X-division is that a lot of times they do moves which are fun to watch but the moves dont mean anything and the whole thing just becomes a spot fest. I think there is a way to push the CW style as being fast and high flying but still tell a story in the ring which makes every move mean something to the audience.