I'm not talking of billing it as 'Angle vs whoever'; just simply 'Angle's debut'. The Angle signing was huge, it should all be about him.
What high hopes? Doing nothing? Not being on PPV's? If they do, they're not showing it. I feel wrestling is too conservative when it comes to losing. Bobby Roode has only started a singles run, why shouldn't he be 'jobbed out' to Kurt Angle - multi-time World champion, Olympic gold medallist, the biggest acquisition in TNA history, a man billed as the best wrestler in the world & one of the best of all time? Surely if the no.1 contender to your World title is expendable then someone they have 'high hopes' for is too. You could even - the following week - have Roode be interviewed about what facing Kurt Angle is like, since he's the only one in TNA to have wrestled him. Roode can say now he knows what the standard is, he knows how good he needs to be to be the very best. Even though he lost it's only made him hungrier, he's going to try that little bit more, he's going to push himself that little bit more, so that the next time he faces Angle it'll be his hand rasied in victory and they'll be asking Kurt Angle the following week how it felt to have been in the ring with the greatest wrestler in the world, Robert Roode. Spilled into a Roode fantasty promo there, but you get the idea.
I wasn't advocating splitting, just a backstage arguement based on the cold, hard facts everyone can see. Maybe it didn't come across as such but I thought the fact Traci came back with the whole 'huge announcement' thing showed it was only an argument and not a split.