An open letter to TNA about gimmick matches

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by Chavo You might be right about the Ultimate X... but the cage match should be sacred. Lockdown takes the cage match too far because by the end of the evening, the crowd has habitualised to the concept, meaning that the bookers need to introduce further stipulations such as an electrified cage, or doing insane spots from the cage such as an Elix Skipper huricana from the top. Thankfully, what has saved TNA so far is that they haven't yet regressed and tried to use a cage as a climax to a feud, because then the crowd wouldn't give a shit because they had a whole card of cage matches a couple of months ago. However, they are going to have to continue to raise the bar now because a cage match isn't enough. And that can only lead to one thing... Triple deck cages and Viagra on a pole matches. Sounds familiar?

To be fair, I don't think TNA's fans have the attention span to remember that there were cage matches a couple of months ago.

Anyway, the saving grace so far is that they haven't come to the ends of the limits they can opt to push. They'll continue until they've run out of limits to push, and the fanbase will be so desensitised it won't matter what they do at that point.

And, of course, that's more or less where you're going. Eventually, they will run out of "shock" and jump to "stupid" in hopes that we won't notice the difference.