Thread: Passing the torch
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Old 09-08-2010, 08:52 PM   #4
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It's been so fucking long since the torch has properly been "passed off." To end an era with one superstar and ring in a new era with an up and coming superstar is a huge moment and one that doesn't just change the wrestlers involved, but changes the company as a whole.

Having guys like Nash, Sting, Hogan and Flair in TNA is great if they're going to pass their torches along to the new stars of today, but that isn't what's happening. In order to pass the torch, the match needs build. It needs to be an epic encounter. Sting versus Rob Van Dam or AJ Styles should get months and months of build, and when RVD or Styles pins Sting's shoulders to the mat and wins the World title on PPV, it should fucking mean something. It should mean something more than a new champion - it should mean the beginning of a new time in TNA. It should mean Sting is going to stop wrestling because he can't hang anymore. He's still a legend, but he's not the present: AJ Styles is.
The other key part of that is that the torch which is being passed must still be lit.

Rock jobbing for Brock was monumental, not just because he was The Rock, but because he was still on top of his game and could still go.

At this point in TNA, if Nash or Sting put someone over clean would it matter? Samoa Joe choked out Sting at the last PPV and that's basically an after thought in the eyes of most fans. Flair put Jay Lethal over, how much of a rub did Lethal get from that?

HHH and Taker might be the only torchbearers left who could put a young guy over clean, walk away, and have that match be a meaningful part of that guy's career.
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