Passing the torch

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by Fox ...But that's not what happens. Hogan feuds with Abyss and Styles with the idea of "helping the young guys," but when the feud goes back and forth and is simply a continuation of something else instead of a singular event with a beginning and an end, it doesn't mean anything for Abyss or AJ Styles. When it's just a series of matches and sometimes the young guys win and sometimes the old guys win, nobody really comes out looking better. The only way to "help the young guys" in that situation is to job out and make them into stars, and do it with proper build-up and an epic encounter... ...TNA just doesn't do this. I have no problem with the Legends in TNA, but only if they do their shit right.

I may be wrong, but it looks kind of like where this whole Wolfpac thing is heading. They're fleshing the story out half-ass'd, but I think the INTENT is that Nash and Sting, using some "Russo magic" worked shoot shit, are a couple of grumpy old guys who still want their last shot vs youngsters who will take their place.

The problem comes from TNA seeing the potential, but then taking a shit on it in execution. Are Nash and Sting supposed to be heels? They're being put over as two guys who merely disagree with Hogan and Bischoff. Didn't they just do this angle with the MEM just a short while ago? What happens when they get beat? Will the winner dissappear (a la Jay Lethal) in the end?

As I said, the INTENT seems sound, but TNA has a knack for screwing the pooch on what could be gold. Look at their track record: Machine Guns insanely over? Let's keep them off TV for a VERY long time, then have a tourney with Beer Money like a year and a half later to remind people why they once cared. Knockouts division entertaining? FIRE THEM (or, make no effort to retain) and hire fat botch machines (Knuckles and Lottalove). AJ Styles is the man? The company icon, eh? Held every TNA title, you say? Well, now that we got a TV deal with Spike, let's make him a comedy act, Christian's bitch, then Flair's bitch! There's more, but this would turn into a wall of text.