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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan
I loved Broken Matt Hardy. And it was not really in an ironic way. I genuinely thought it was entertaining as shit.
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I did too, especially considering:
a) they did it with what was destined to be yet another generic tag team breakup angle seen the world over repeatedly in the history of tag team wrestling
b) most of this was on their own dime
c) the angle was on par with just about anything Lucha Underground had done with a similar style and an obviously lesser budget (one was a whole company with money coming into it to produce, the other was, as I just mentioned, pretty much done with Hardy assets)
d) ended up outshining most of the other shit the actual company was producing in spite of it's cheeziness and
e) even if The Company Formerly Known As TNA doesn't want to admit it, they carried the company
on their massive and entertaining backs, both figuratively and at a specific point, financially, when they were at a point of internal turmoil and uncertainty.
This here last point is why *I* personally find the whole suit against them for the #BROKEN stuff shameful- that's the thanks they get for keeping eyeballs on the product up to and including their own produced "show" when the actual company didn't have a taping to air; a mishandling of contract negotiations and a lawsuit?!? The literal example of "no good deed goes unpunished".
On topic: the irony here was they were intentially presenting a "B grade" product, and it was done with a wink and a nod and a touch of Troma-Vision, but TNA was mostly presenting shit and oblivious to how shit it actually was.
Admittedly, my initial gripe with it was how much it was similar to Lucha Underground, then it started growing on me because it was striking me more like a parody than a rip-off (unlike the Wyatts/New Day nonsense).