So yeah, Kurt Angle found out who the VP of Aces and Eights was a week ago. He was so furious, and he claimed that it was a TNA problem. Yet, he not only didn't reveal it long before the broadcast this week, not at the top of the show, but he waited until a half hour into the show to reveal it? And instead of revealing it, he waits to beat the shit out of the guy he'd been feuding with? If I were Sting and the TNA management, I wouldn't want this guy on my side. Seriously, what a scumbag. Then again, Eric Young poured his heart out to that same Sting, and he was still like "lol NOPE, gonna go with James Storm" for the final match in the best of three series. TNA is a mess, but then again, the arc of the company makes me believe that they have no chance. In that company, togetherness is for scoundrels. Only Bad Influence has fun. Only Aces and Eights are a brotherhood.
There's a bit of a change, and obviously, people may be groaning that Hulk Hogan is the avenue through which they're driving that car. I wouldn't have had him as one of the major agents of change, but there's actually something of a spark there with him and Bully Ray. He didn't show it tonight, but Hogan's still got a hell of a promo inside him. The question is whether this will end up as a long-lasting bond, or will one of the two end up turning on each other? It would be too easy to say it's a TNA problem, because it almost feels like wrestling relationships, especially ones post-Russo, are meant to decay from the moment they begin. However, it's fair to ask whether that has to be the case. Asking TNA to be an agent of change shouldn't be too hard, but this is the same company that uses the same measuring sticks WWE has given them.
Of course, asking them to change the weekend before their hallmark gimmick pay-per-view is a bit unfair as well. They put the cards in place, and really, those cards are for the most part instruction cards, Jokers, and non-sequential, off-suit middle numbers. I think there could be a nine-of-clubs in there with the Bully Ray/Jeff Hardy match just because of history, but then they talk about being proud of each other and wanting to have a great match. Like, who the fuck is laying this shit out? Is it D'Lo Brown? Because that would be the ultimate in troll storytelling. The guy as the VP of Aces and Eights sabotaging non-Aces and Eights stories? That would be so meta that I wouldn't care how lame it was.
There's a bit of a change, and obviously, people may be groaning that Hulk Hogan is the avenue through which they're driving that car. I wouldn't have had him as one of the major agents of change, but there's actually something of a spark there with him and Bully Ray. He didn't show it tonight, but Hogan's still got a hell of a promo inside him. The question is whether this will end up as a long-lasting bond, or will one of the two end up turning on each other? It would be too easy to say it's a TNA problem, because it almost feels like wrestling relationships, especially ones post-Russo, are meant to decay from the moment they begin. However, it's fair to ask whether that has to be the case. Asking TNA to be an agent of change shouldn't be too hard, but this is the same company that uses the same measuring sticks WWE has given them.
Of course, asking them to change the weekend before their hallmark gimmick pay-per-view is a bit unfair as well. They put the cards in place, and really, those cards are for the most part instruction cards, Jokers, and non-sequential, off-suit middle numbers. I think there could be a nine-of-clubs in there with the Bully Ray/Jeff Hardy match just because of history, but then they talk about being proud of each other and wanting to have a great match. Like, who the fuck is laying this shit out? Is it D'Lo Brown? Because that would be the ultimate in troll storytelling. The guy as the VP of Aces and Eights sabotaging non-Aces and Eights stories? That would be so meta that I wouldn't care how lame it was.