My Thoughts on RVD, Jeff Hardy and AJ Styles

[The Show Off]

Last night was a great night for TNA. They had three three quality matches and a nice title change.

People will bitch about everything, as is evidence by the above thread. Rob Van Dam in a quality compitent wrestler that went over a cowardly heel to with the richest prize in TNA.

AJ's reign may be "weak" but it was "weak" in the way the JBL's title reign was "weak." He played the cowardly heel to the best of his ability and tried his best to make you want him to lose. Just because a champion is "weak" doesn't mean he's bad. Besides AJ's credibility was well established earlier on in his reign by going over Sting, Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, and Kurt Angle clean. Then he turned heel and he relied on Ric Flair's help too much, Tenay and Taz talked about that during his defense against The Pope.

TNA has sooo many problems, why can they be given credit where credit is due?

[Swiss Ultimate]

Originally Posted by The Show Off Last night was a great night for TNA. They had three three quality matches and a nice title change. People will bitch about everything, as is evidence by the above thread. Rob Van Dam in a quality compitent wrestler that went over a cowardly heel to with the richest prize in TNA. AJ's reign may be "weak" but it was "weak" in the way the JBL's title reign was "weak." He played the cowardly heel to the best of his ability and tried his best to make you want him to lose. Just because a champion is "weak" doesn't mean he's bad. Besides AJ's credibility was well established earlier on in his reign by going over Sting, Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, and Kurt Angle clean. Then he turned heel and he relied on Ric Flair's help too much, Tenay and Taz talked about that during his defense against The Pope. TNA has sooo many problems, why can they be given credit where credit is due?

The problem is, I didn't want AJ to lose. I wasn't even being a smark about it, I just didn't feel like RVD was really that good of a person (aka, he wasn't face enough) and I didn't feel that AJ was that bad a person (he wasn't heel enough).

We're supposed to emphasize with the hero, watch him fight and feel like he actually is overcoming an obstacle that could have potentially stopped him in his tracks. I didn't get that feeling. Rob Van Dam is and always has been great in the ring but, rarely did he ever come off as someone I'd feel sympathy for or relate to. He's a pot-head jock who happens to succeed at nearly everything he does. He's Mr. Perfect on THC.

Jeff Hardy, despite his lack of talent on the mic', has shown an innate ability in the ring to make me care when he misses a move, care when he gets hurt and even care when he loses. While RVD dickishly celebrated I actually felt for Jeff Hardy as he lay there. I cared.

AJ had everything to lose in that match and nothing to gain, he wasn't the aggressor, he didn't initiate the match, he didn't even make me hate him. After all this time with Ric Flair it's funny that he didn't learn how to be hated.

Aside from Flair, you know who was an awesome heel who I nearly despised (his character of course). Triple H. When he consistently destroyed Mick Foley in match after match and did his best to retire the guy, at that point my idol, I really felt like he had something to gain in his matches. Every match I watched I really wanted him to lose and I was disappointed to see him win and not only win but win fairly.

AJ busted his ass to give us a great match but, you know what? I had no reason to root against him. I didn't care either way who won.