iMPACT! tapings spoiler

[hyperchord24 0]

Yeah FOCUS. I think that's the key thing here. They need to stop throwing a bunch of matches together, going 100 mph.

[Guest Coffey]

TNA should just incorporate a ranking system. The champions wrestle on PPV and the iMPACT! episodes are all about people moving up to fight for whichever belt they're going after. Show us a graphic with the rankings on it. Tell us that Sabin is ranked seventh and Bentley is ranked fifth. Just let us know that the matches are happening for a reason. Anything, throw us a bone.

 

This, of course, would do away with squash matches but I can certainly handle that.

 

A good example would be Christian. Yeah, he just came in and he has a match against Monty? In TNA, Monty should be way ahead of Christian. Christian should've won at least a couple of matches before having a match with Monty.

 

TNA need to bring in El Generico & The Human Tornado.

[razazteca 0]

Without squash matches what would Monty, Lex Lovett, Buck Quatermane, Diamonds in the Ruff do?

[Guest Coffey]

Be exposed as the shitty wrestlers that they are?

[Hunter's Torn Quad 0]

Saying that if Christian can’t afford a loss to Monty Brown then he wasn’t worth picking up is missing the point in spectacular fashion.

 

It’s not about whether Christian can afford to lose to Monty Brown. It’s about whether the value of bringing Christian in, someone who willingly left WWE to come to TNA, can survive his losing his first major match. It’s about whether the momentum that his jump generated with the fans of TNA, and they were so in love with it, can survive it, because a lot of it wasn’t just because he was a former WWE guy, but because he left WWE for TNA, and wasn’t kicked out, given his release or fired. That key point is getting missed by a lot of people, and it’s a part that cannot me underestimated enough.

 

Yes, Monty has been built up to be the new star of TNA, but is he really at that level? And has he really had enough time to the new audience, what there has been of it, to be built to where he would be accepted as the world champion of the newest national promotion? I don’t think Monty is that level, and he absolutely has not had the time to me built to mean something to the new TNA audience. Maybe it’s how he was mishandled earlier in the year, but Monty doesn’t have the charisma he used to have, and he hasn’t had it for some time. If they want the best out of Monty Brown, then they need to hold back on him until they can find some way to get the charisma back, and that charisma is his strength. It’s going to have to be, because he’s decidedly ropey at best in the ring, and his interviews, while fine for the a goofy midcard gimmick don’t look so good when they’re being given by the world champion.

 

Is Christian beating Brown and then beating Jarrett for the NWA Title really so bad? For one thing, if Monty is still their chosen one, then the guy who he finally beats to win the NWA Title should be the person who can get a really good match out of him, and right now Christian can do that better than Jeff Jarrett. If Monty beats Christian and then beats Jeff for the title, at best it’ll be a **1/2 match, it’ll be the same clusterfuck bullshit match that people have long since been tired of, and it won’t the kind of big bang that Monty’s reign should be.

 

If they go with Christian over Brown then over Jarrett for the NWA Title, which they have to do, it allows for a few things:

 

It allows them the time to get some real charisma back into Brown, which he has been lacking ever since they screwed up and turned him heel.

 

It gives them time to give Brown a solid program; we’ll say Abyss for this example, presuming Abyss beats Sabu in the Barbed Wire match, thus making him this psychotic monster. This lets the fans, all of them, see the entire program evolve, as Brown is shown to take on an eventually beat the monster Abyss and, if they are smart, able to have a killer instinct, which he hasn’t got right now. That killer instinct is something he should have, and this program can give it to him.

 

It gives them time to run a Christian vs. Jeff Jarrett program, which sees Christian fend off Jarrett’s group, along with The Dudley’s or whoever, and to see Jeff off of the main event scene once and for all.

 

Why should Christian be the one to lose the NWA Title to Monty and not Jeff?

 

Beating Jeff would mean almost nothing for Monty. Beating Jeff means virtually nothing as it is, because nobody wants him in the main event level, so why waste Brown’s big coronation win on somebody who it isn’t going to mean much to beat anyway? So, why not have the guy who beats Jarrett for the NWA Title be somebody who can afford a win that means little, and have him shown to be the guy who finally sends Jarrett packing to the midcard. Then, you’ve got an NWA Champion who the fans really want to be the champion, who is over huge, and is a hundred times the worker and promo guy that Jeff is, and has a hundred times the personality and charisma than Jeff. And what do you also have? An NWA World Champion that it will mean something to beat. You haven’t got that in Jeff Jarrett. But you’ll have that in Christian, fresh off of sending Jeff out of the main event scene. And it’s somebody like that who Monty should be beating to ascend to the top of TNA.

[Guest Bulwark]

What I think they should do: Have Raven interfere in the match and destroy them both with weapons to prove he hasn't gone "soft." We're treated to a very entertaining feud(mic-wise) that leads to a 3-way dance at the next ppv, which Christian wins by pinning Raven.

 

There ya go. Christian and Brown stay strong and Raven gets fucked... What else is new.