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I very much enjoyed this. I love Broken Matt.

riffmongous wrote: »

Brilliant stuff again, Matt is a visionary

Did anyone see the press conference between EC3 and Lashley? I thought it worked really well, I really liked the presentation of it, and EC3 at the faceoff was great

The only issue I had was showing how few people were there. You're pre-recording it, use camera angles that don't show all 20 people that showed up early for the show. Other than that annoyance, I enjoyed it. Who would have ever thought Bobby Lashley would become pretty good on the mic?

Just watched last week's episode today. Still an episode behind, but all I can think is "Sure 'tis a grand championship belt"

I like the lake making people change into alternate gimmicks, like Joseph Park and serious Jeff with his personalised belt.

So is Aly going to suddenly become a skilled wrestler at some point? I noticed when talking backstage about the gift she got Gail, her voce was less high pitched.

Watched some of this today but my god the commentary team are horrendous.

The Hardys vs decay was a fun match.

Codys debut was just meh as he always is.

Brandi/maria was terrible.

riffmongous wrote: »

WTF was Jeff's crazy first transformation?

I had no idea about that either but I saw online someone said it's a character Jeff created called Itchweed. There's a few whacky videos of him like that on Youtube.

I was a bit worried when they decided to go down the amnesia angle route but I'm enjoying it. And what a great jumper he's wearing.

Loved the line:

Dad Hardy stuff from the latest impact was hilarious. Its exactly how you do comedy in wrestling. Matt Hardy is having a great year in 2016, character wise

I caught Impact last night.

It is actually painful. Their roster as never been so bad. A huge chunk of their guys are wrestlers that couldn't get themselves over enough to graduate past NXT, let alone WWE's main roster. Could you class anyone as a truly top top notch superstar? Jeff Hardy's stock has gone down as much as Matt Hardy's has risen.

Bateman, O Shea, The Legionnaires (or whatever they are called), Storm, Galloway, Sandow and especially Richards. They are all yellow pack IMHO.

Matthews is a bit of a dud alright.

Serious smell of "Heat" or "Velocity" off him. That's the level you are dealing with.

Ah they have a decent enough roster. I think the likes of EC3, The Wolves, Lashley, Galloway, DJ Z, Trevor Lee, Mandrews, The Hardys, Moose and others are all very talented guys.

All of the above guys could easily slot into WWE (NXT in some cases). Take EC3. He is a star in my eyes, he just has it. When in NXT (the old tv show not the developmental), he was only ever to show glimpses of his potential in a badly written show in which very few people saw. He wasn’t given a fair chance. In TNA, he’s been given the opportunity and freedom to show what he can do. He’s in my eyes very similar to The Rock in terms of being very charismatic and comfortable on the mic and being decent enough in-ring.

Galloway is another talented ex WWE guy. He wasn’t ready for the main roster when he debuted, still immature and green in terms of being positioned where he was when he debuted. He devalued as a jobber as he grew ready to be pushed. Look at his work on the indies and in TNA, he’s one hell of a talented guy and I hope he gets another chance soon in WWE as he can be easily a mid-card talent.

The problem with TNA I feel the company just has a stink it just can’t shake. People don’t really give it a chance and when they do there is enough garbage to put people off. From awful booking in some cases, to the terrible commentary team (Josh and Pope are equally awful) to other less than stellar roster members (An aging Al Snow and an “I couldn’t be bothered” Damien Sandow to name but a few), , to the sub-standard production values, coupled with the behind the scenes nonsense affecting the show, TNA has plenty of negatives holding it down.

Wrestling is all about perception and presentation, and right now TNA is a damaged product. While they are doing a lot of things right in some places, it’s hard for the talented roster to constantly shine and come off as big stars in TNA currently.

Aye I get ya now Shag. But it’s not TNAs roster holding it back, well maybe to a small degree in relation to depth and the few duds they have. It’s the perception and presentation of the show that hold it back.

Take TNA vs WWEs two main shows.

Presentation wise, one is extremely well produced compared to the other. From the lighting, to the entrance way, even to the colour scheme of the sets, TNA looks sub-standard right off the bat. WWEs production is top notch in regards how we see the product. TNA is a company cutting corners and can’t barely stay afloat let alone compete with WWE in that respect.

From commentary, WWE aren’t great but they are still leaps ahead of TNA. The Pope is a nice guy, but he makes Booker T seem like Bobby Heenan. And as for Josh Matthews, he is putting himself over and is waaaaay too smarky for anyone’s liking. He just comes off bitter while ignoring his main duties of putting the talent over. A change here could easily make TNA more watchable.

As far as storylines, they are as good as WWEs. Poor in places and great in places, nothing blow away in recent memory but by in large they are very similar in this regard. Sure you could argue that Broken Matt Hardy has been teh standout character in wrestling this year over any WWE wrestler.

In relation to the rosters, WWE obviously are ahead. They rely on the star power of part timers to drive the big events and have a great pool of talented wrestlers who they can’t seem to make into top stars par a few. TNA have very little star power, but they’ve done a good job at building their top guys up to be fair. Lashley has been booked strong (though I disliked him losing to Edwards), EC3, Galloway, Mike Bennett have all been elevated since joining (in EC3s case from nothing), as well as others like Rosemary and DJ Z. Booking on the lower, middle of the card isn’t great but the top end of the card has been decent enough. There roster has their fair amount of duds (Sherra, Al Snow, Aron “Damien Sandow” Rex, Jessie Godderz, An aging Abyss, The Legion). But overall they have a good roster, with many of them could easily hold their own in WWE.

Overall its the presentation and perception of TNA which hold sit back, not the roster.

You could fire Josh and replace him with any current employee. Money saver.

Josh is by far the worst commentator in wrestling and always has been.

Looking forward to tonight's show

I thought Total Nonstop Deletion was great.





I roared laughing when and I was nearly crying over