Monday Night Wars Part 2 - ExtremeGamer's Blog

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Monday Night Wars Part 2

Posted on March 9, 2010 at 08:44 AM.

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So we have the war going on again, except TNA is the new challegner this time. Will this be like the WCW/WWE war from the 90's? I'm not expecting it to be, but time will tell.

For starters, TNA feels like WCW did. Remember the first Nitro? Lex Luger appeared out of no where, after just appearing on a WWE Pay-per-view the night before. The show was even in the middle of a shopping mall. Obviously, appearing out of nowhere is next to impossible in the Internet, but TNA tried it anyway..3 times last night.

First shot was Shannon Moore, now some viewers knew who he was. The announcers said who he was. But the people in the audience..had no freaking clue. Just some freak out from the back to beat on Doug Williams. Doesn't help to have Bischoff say "surprise"..yeah, shocking Eric.

Next was Rob Van Dam appearing to take on Sting. Cool, yes. Love RVD, but this was teased by Hogan a week ago, and then stupid Taz saying "it's about 4:20" before the commercial break. Good way to spoil it for the 5 people who didn't know. Then the use of him was comical. He comes in, pins Sting, then gets beat up. Um, what was the point? And to add on that, how did Dixie Carter know storyline wise that Sting was going to turn heel to have to face RVD? I mean, this makes no sense when you really think about it.

Third was Jeff Hardy being used again. So is this going to be a once a month type apperance until his legal issues are tied up, until that is he loses interest in wrestling again. He's as flakey as they come, yet TNA is using him as a prop in their main event of their biggest show. Just throwing people out there for the sake of throwing them out there progresses nothing. Shock value, sure, but you know you can't do that every week?

And who can't already see either Nash or Eric Young turning on each other against Hall and Waltman?

Oh, and Angle having the US Army beat up Mr. Kennedy..err..Anderson. Why? I don't get that. On top of that, why did we have to sit through Hogan/Abyss vs. Flair/Styles not just once, but twice. UGH.

On to WWE, it wasn't much better. Vince obviously doesn't take TNA seriously, as their show last night was equally terrible, just had no shock monents, unless you factor in my gross out moment of having Criss Angel pull a string out of his eye socket. Yeah, maybe a warning next time WWE, I'd rather watch Home Shopping Network than see that ever again.

Vince didn't pull out the stops, not even close. Start off with a 20 minute babble session with Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker, toss in an Evan Bourne/Regal match, and cap it off with a terrible Cena vs. Vince's goons match. Awful.

So while it may be a war to the people involved, they didn't treat it as one last night. WWE sat back, and TNA fired a bunch of blanks. TNA has the talent and known guys to be "WCW" but 15 years later, unfortunately they seem so mis-managed that it's almost like a chimpanzee is booking their show.

Next week will be the big test, TNA used all it's guns this week, and next week WWE has a returning Steve Austin, Bret Hart on the show, and a bunch of Wrestlemania rematches from years past. TNA will probably have a run in by someone at the end, and then spraypaint TNA on their back.

Comments

# 1 nolan273 @ Mar 9

I think TNA has made a HUGE mistake. Well, actually several mistakes. The biggest is thumbing the eye of Vince McMahon. Nobody ever wins that fight and I don't think TNA will either. The second is basically abandoning what they do. The six-sided ring is who you are. Why ditch it? Another mistake is hiring all those old guys. I like Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan as much as the next guy, but TNA was supposed to be about putting the young guys up front.

I hope things work out for them, but I have a bad feeling that it ain't gonna turn out pretty for TNA.

# 2 DJ @ Mar 9

I wouldn't call it a War, more like an upstart company trying to make noise by going up against the Gold Standard.

WCW was already a well-established brand, was touring most of the U.S., working overseas and running monthly PPV's. They were pretty much on the level of WWF at the time that Nitro started and the nWo angle helped push them to the No. 1 spot.

TNA barely does house shows and the ones they do don't draw very well. They also don't film TV outside of Orlando and only do a couple of PPV's outside of the same arena they film TV.

As a long-time wrestling fan, I'd like nothing better than for TNA to thrive, as it would (hopefully) push WWE to improve its product as well. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of faith in TNA.