Guest Joe Report post Posted November 17, 2003 I used to be a HUGE America's Most Wanted fan...Seriously, I used to be all about Storm and Harris...They were easily the best team in the world and really got me back into tag team wrestling... But over the past few months, I've realized something...I hate the way they're booked...To the point where I'm actually starting to dislike AMW... They're basically the Jeff Jarrett's of TNA's tag division...As in, they're the go to team that always ends up as the champions after a short title reign by some other team...Just look at it so far, AMW held the belts, then the New Church, then AMW, then Triple X, then AMW, and now Diamond and Swinger...But who's going to beat Diamond and Swinger for the belts? I'd be shocked if it were any team other then AMW...And the booking makes that so obvious, it's like we're just waiting for Storm and Harris to win the belts again...It's incredibly boring and making me wish that Storm and Harris would be broken up and sent away from the tag division... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Agreed 100%. They've been booked almost as redundant as Triple Hulk Jarrett has to the point where it's like "wow, AMW are champions, and they're going to work the formulaic tag match...**yawn**...next!" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Agreed 100%. They've been booked almost as redundant as Triple Hulk Jarrett has to the point where it's like "wow, AMW are champions, and they're going to work the formulaic tag match...**yawn**...next!" Add AMW to your fuck list. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamoaRowe 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 This thread has the potential to become extreme if some Jarrett fans and Dave O'Neil wander in here. Note: this was not intended to offend anyone. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Styles 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 OMG Jeff Jarrett has clearly used his flesh morphing vinyl clothes to change into America's Most Wanted and dominate the tag division! FUCK JARRETT! On a serious note, I dont see the problem, they're the top babyface tag team, tag teams are hard to come by, new heel foes get built up every few months, win the belts and eventually are defeated until the new foes come along. Thats wrestling, what's the problem? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Joe Report post Posted November 17, 2003 That's "Boring Booking 101"...It's so basic, it's annoying... What's the point of AMW ever losing the belts if they're just going to win them back in a few months? It's a total waste of time and talent frankly, since as I said earlier, I actually do (or did) like AMW... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes Report post Posted November 17, 2003 That's "Boring Booking 101"...It's so basic, it's annoying... What's the point of AMW ever losing the belts if they're just going to win them back in a few months? It's a total waste of time and talent frankly, since as I said earlier, I actually do (or did) like AMW... I agree with losing the titles and winning em back but that was basiclaly how territories worked back in the day. The new, hot heel beats up champion, but champion prevails and awaits the next. But AMW suck because THEY HAVE THE BALLS to complain about the booking. When Vince McMahon thinks you suck because of your hick accent, then your doomed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HollywoodSpikeJenkins 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 AMW = overrated Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JacK Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Yeah, it gets pretty obvious that AMW are eventually going to win the belts back, which is why they need a second face team like, say, 2 Live Krew to win the Tag Team belts, keeping AMW away from them, at least for a time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dave O'Neill, Journalist Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Guess who's Here Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eirejmcmahon 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Christ, first Jerry Lynn and now AMW, you guys will be ragging on the Truth next. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ghost of bps21 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Just yesterday I was looking through the NWA history and it turns out that this goes back much farther than this. Apparently, back in the day, they used to do this all the time! In fact I found references to guys named Race, Thesz and Flair where they constantly won the title back after dropping it. Clearly this is Jarretts fault. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TDinDC1112 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Yeah, there should be title limits like there are term limits in politics, right? You get the title once, and then that's it. That way, every one in the promotion gets a title reign. Screw Wrestling 101 and the simple booking philosophies that have worked for 80 years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
{''({o..o})''} 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 The lack of business knowledge and the impatience of wrestling fans now a days scares me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TDinDC1112 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 The lack of business knowledge and the impatience of wrestling fans now a days scares me. exactly Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MikeSC Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Yeah, there should be title limits like there are term limits in politics, right? You get the title once, and then that's it. That way, every one in the promotion gets a title reign. Screw Wrestling 101 and the simple booking philosophies that have worked for 80 years. Perhaps if AMW was a better team, it'd be less of an issue. They have become the Eliminators of TNA --- a team so obscenely overrated it borders on comedy. -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TDinDC1112 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 AMW is the best team in wrestling, and is considered to be by more than just people on message boards. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michrome 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Hahahahah....oh man. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michrome 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 They are sloppy as hell, rarely have good matches, and are incapable of working a good babyface hot tag. The Briscoes, The Backseat Boys, the Dudleys, Spanky/London, The Bashams, the FBI, Kidman/Rey, Los Guerreros, WGTT, Jacobs and Shelley, Tumeric Storm, Tanaka/Ohtani, and NUMEROUS other teams are worlds better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MikeSC Report post Posted November 17, 2003 AMW is the best team in wrestling, and is considered to be by more than just people on message boards. The BASHAMS are better. Heck, the Duds are better. Lodon & Spanky are better. Benjamin & Haas are better. Diamond & Swinger are better. Akira & Sakoda (or whatever the heck their names are) are better. The FBI is better. AMW is a middling tag team. Heck, if not for Ekmo & Siaki, they would have been the worst team in last week's opener. -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest OSIcon Report post Posted November 17, 2003 AMW has the potential to be a really good team. They aren't close right now though. They have some of the attributes down. They have a good babyface personality, show good fire, and show tendencies of knowing how to wrestle as a good babyface team. Of course, they are also unpolished, don't have a clue on hot tags (as was already said), and generally wrestle very similiar matches (start with a brawl, wrestle for a few minutes before the match breaks down and you break out the false finishes/interference). The unpolished thing should eventually take care of itself. I wouldn't say they are sloppy as hell but they are far from crips. The other things need to be worked on. In their year as a team, I have yet to see them really take steps to improve in some of the areas they are lacking in. This whole "politics" thing is amussing. All it is really is a reflection of how a lot of people think these days. Once something/someone becomes big or popular people all of a sudden get sick of seeing them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Silence 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 I'm tired of AMW too, but just be glad Chris Harris isn't still smoking a cigarette while James Storm calls him "buckaroo" until Harris tells Storm to stop the Cowboy gimmick. Those segments were HORRIBLE. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 See, I wouldn't mind AMW if they grew. And they haven't grown AT ALL. I think I will add AMW to the "Fuck" list. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TDinDC1112 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Wow. I had no idea so many people hated them. I like their matches every week, I read Meltzer saying how great their matches are, and I assumed everyone else fealt the same way. I'm going to start watching them more closely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2003 It's not so much that they're THAT bad, it's just that they're bland, and have wrestled the same exact match for the past year and a half. I don't mind popping in a tape and watching a solid old-school match, but that's when it was old-school wrestlers. Honestly, the only style of wrestling I feel hasn't evolved much at all is tag wrestling. Heels beat up face, face gets hot tag, faces win after outsmarting and outwrestling the heels. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MikeSC Report post Posted November 17, 2003 It's not so much that they're THAT bad, it's just that they're bland, and have wrestled the same exact match for the past year and a half. I don't mind popping in a tape and watching a solid old-school match, but that's when it was old-school wrestlers. Honestly, the only style of wrestling I feel hasn't evolved much at all is tag wrestling. Heels beat up face, face gets hot tag, faces win after outsmarting and outwrestling the heels. Honestly, if they were on TV as much as the Dudleys are, they'd be as bashed. -=Mike Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest dvkorn Report post Posted November 17, 2003 Love em or hate em... The AMW/New Church feud was excellent... behind Styles/Lynn my feud of 2002... even though the blowoff wasn't until the 1st show in 2003... Let's all reminise about that feud and stop the hate.... There we go... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DCMaximo 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 The BASHAMS are better. Heck, the Duds are better. Lodon & Spanky are better. Benjamin & Haas are better. Diamond & Swinger are better. Akira & Sakoda (or whatever the heck their names are) are better. The FBI is better Christ almighty, if you are refering to the FBI team of Palumbo and Stamboli, you must be joking. Hell, I can't think of an FBI match I'd rate over **. And the only thing the Duds are better at nowadays is wearing camoflage and sucking up the ring. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Styles 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 Can we just make a ONE AND ONLY things and or wrestlers I can find to hate about TNA thread and get it over with? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michrome 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 No, because it would be 4,000,000 pages long given how shitty the product is recently. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
