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Old 10-17-2014, 02:14 PM   #1
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Jeff hasn't been Willow for a couple months now. Also, I might be misinterpreting what you said there but it seems like they're in a no win situation for you; it's bad if the card is filled with ex-WWE guys but it's also bad if it's filled with people with "no name recognition".
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Old 10-17-2014, 03:46 PM   #2
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Jeff hasn't been Willow for a couple months now. Also, I might be misinterpreting what you said there but it seems like they're in a no win situation for you; it's bad if the card is filled with ex-WWE guys but it's also bad if it's filled with people with "no name recognition".
I agree that it's unfair to dismiss a promotion for having a roster of unknowns and whatnot, since otherwise you'd never be able to enjoy NXT or the indies or really anything that isn't Raw. However, I do think TNA has a problem of being incredibly inconsistent with the talent pool they have available. Like, I can watch a couple of episodes of New Japan or Chikara or whatever and get a decent feel for who matters and who doesn't in those promotions-- if Okada's a major name over there now, chances are he'll still be a major name over there a year from now. TNA, though, is terrible about rocketing guys to the top and then completely forgetting about them-- Magnus, Young, Aries, etc. The end result is that none of them feel important, and you end up with, like he said, a roster full of nobodies.

Though this is a problem WWE is just as bad about, if not worse, considering that everyone not named John Cena or Randy Orton seems to be completely disposable. But just saying "WWE does it too" doesn't make it any less of a problem.
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Old 10-17-2014, 11:30 PM   #3
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Jeff hasn't been Willow for a couple months now. Also, I might be misinterpreting what you said there but it seems like they're in a no win situation for you; it's bad if the card is filled with ex-WWE guys but it's also bad if it's filled with people with "no name recognition".
It's a problem with consistent builds. It's fine to have a few ex-WWE/WCW guys in the main event to help give name recognition to the card - but that won't last forever. You have to also be building your young guys and grooming them to eventually take the throne. That was the case in the beginning, but the arrival of Bischoff and Hogan derailed that train completely.

Now the guys who were being "built" back then (AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, Frankie Kazarian, Low Ki, Rhino, Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Lance Hoyt, Monty Brown, etc) are all either gone from the company or are still there but dwindling without any real focus or purpose.

I think they have recently made an attempt to reconcile those issues and begin rebuilding their talent of home grown talent, but it seems like the boat has sailed. They had stellar momentum going in 2005-2006, but all that fell apart when they put all of their focus on terrible storylines with old timers and let their budding homegrown talent fizzle out.
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