{"id":1432,"date":"2010-03-04T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2010-03-04T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T05:01:21","slug":"tna-wwe-random-wrestling-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"TNA & WWE: Random Wrestling Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By John Pitroff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hogan & Flair confirmed to wrestle:\u00a0 Oh, god.\u00a0 This should be interesting, to say the least.\u00a0 I might pay attention just to see how terrible these two are in the ring.\u00a0 And, it has been announced that they will both be wrestling on the debut edition of Impact on March 8.\u00a0 Attempting to sell your new generation of wrestling by having Flair and Hogan wrestle on the show more than a decade past their prime is like the NFL trying to stay hip while making us watch The Who perform 35-40 years past their heyday.\u00a0 As my good friend, comedian Mr. Goodnight said, \u201cWho Cares?\u201d
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\nNot only will both be wrestling on the show, they will be in the same match!\u00a0 What we have on hand for the new wrestling company of the next generation is Abyss & Hulk Hogan vs. AJ Styles & Ric Flair.\u00a0 There is somewhat of a generation gap here, and it seems to show the confused nature of TNA as a whole.\u00a0 They realize it is important to make new stars, they also know the importance of big name talent, but they don\u2019t know how to put them together properly.\u00a0 Why Hulk Hogan and Abyss are teaming is beyond me.\u00a0 How anyone ever dreamed of Hulk Hogan and Abyss as allies is smoking better stuff than RVD was getting at the time of his run as WWE Champion.
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\nDespite all this negativity, I guess something has worked here for TNA, because whether or not I like to admit it, I will be paying attention to this come March 8th.\u00a0 This booking decision might work.\u00a0 I know one thing, it will work better both Flair and Hogan will be able to work come March 8th.<\/p>\n

NXT to follow wannabes around like Tough Enough:\u00a0 We all know how well Tough Enough worked, so why not do it again?\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at this situation with some logic:\u00a0 The only talent to come out of Tough Enough are John Morrison and The Miz.\u00a0 And, both of whom are not known as being \u201cTough Enough\u201d guys.\u00a0 The announcers never mention their history on that show.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because it is bush league and once a star reaches a certain level, it only makes them look bad when you see where they started.\u00a0 They lose that star power quality when you see them bickering amongst friends inside a house fighting over orange juice while wearing pajamas.\u00a0 I know that never specifically happened, but it was pretty close.
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\nHow WWE thinks this type of concept is going to work again is beyond me.\u00a0 How many Tough Enough\u2019s were there?\u00a0 I admit that I had to look it up because I stopped paying attention after the first season, but there ended up being a total of four seasons.\u00a0 The best thing to come of Tough Enough besides John Morrison?\u00a0 Jackie Gayda and Charles Haas\u2019 two children.
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\nThere are only two wrestlers still involved in WWE from Tough Enough, one of them who didn\u2019t even win it.\u00a0 WWE also signed a ton of the wrestlers from Tough Enough that didn\u2018t win.\u00a0 What happened to them?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know, and nor do you.\u00a0 And if you do, you watch too much wrestling and read too much about it online.\u00a0 If you have been following whatever happened to Ryan Reeves, seriously, get a life.
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\nThe only thing that Tough Enough did was expose the wrestling business and put WWE in a weird position of admitting where wrestlers come from at the same time of having to ignore all of that once one of the alumni became a \u201cWWE Superstar.\u201d\u00a0 What is going to happen with NXT?\u00a0 Will we see the same things happening to a lot of these already established stars of the independent scene?\u00a0 Will it ruin more careers than it makes, will it put WWE in that same awkward position of admitting, \u201cYeah, this guy is just some dude, he is nothing really special, but we will totally ignore our own show once he reaches that certain level of and has that aura of a star?
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\nOne last thing about this before I move on.\u00a0 Why not just call it NEXT?\u00a0 WWE already has enough trouble with stupid three letter abbreviations.\u00a0 WWF, anyone?\u00a0 Get the \u201cF\u201d out?\u00a0 How about get the \u201cNXT\u201d out?\u00a0 WWE needs to stop trying to be so hip and just go ahead and call this show \u201cNEXT,\u201d before they get themselves into even more legal trouble for stealing someone else\u2019s brand name again.<\/p>\n

Destination X perhaps an all X Division PPV:\u00a0 I keep hearing that TNA\u2019s Destination X PPV might be an all X Division show, but I seriously doubt it.\u00a0 With Hulk Hogan at the helm of TNA and his love for big name talent and characters as opposed to great in ring work I doubt we will be seeing an all X Division show.\u00a0 Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff both know better than to have an entire thirty five dollar show with no name, no character talent jumping around the ring as if it is a jungle gym.
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\nI have never been a big fan of the X Division.\u00a0 I know I am an online wrestling writer, and I will most likely be killed for a such a statement if anyone ever finds out where I live, but I live with my statement.\u00a0 The X Division is totally overrated.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t hear from me within a few weeks, I have probably been abducted by some 15 year old TNA mark who is torturing by making me watch TNA X Division spotfest after TNA X Division spotfest.\u00a0 I stopped caring about spotfests in 2001 when I saw it perfected at WrestleMania in the TLC match.\u00a0 And, when I had a better spotfest in my backyard at the same age as my kidnapper with my two friends in the backyard of my dad\u2019s house.
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\nI hate to keep agreeing with Hogan here, who, oddly enough also agrees with Vince McMahon on this situation.\u00a0 But, the fact remains that X Division wrestling, or cruiserweight wrestling (which, mind you, is leaps and bounds above X Division wrestling) doesn\u2019t really sell Pay-Per-Views.\u00a0 So, therefore, attempting to sell and entire PPV with all X Division matches is just insane.\u00a0 I will retract all statements and take a Styles Clash off the top of the Ultimate X structure that always seems to botch if I am wrong about his whole concept.
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\nPlease, Hogan & Bischoff, know better than to try to sell the wrestling audience to the idea of an all X Division show, especially if you want us to pay for it.\u00a0 If it is really something you want to try that bad, try it out on free television first.\u00a0 Then, go from there.
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\nWrestling is about having characters that people care about.\u00a0 Wrestling is about making people care enough about who is in the ring.\u00a0 Anyone can jump around like an idiot for 15 minutes.\u00a0 Hulk Hogan, a man who has never been one to have a lot of wrestling moves, knows that it isn\u2019t always the moves that matter, but the character, the man, that is using the moves.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope he isn\u2019t so old that he has forgotten what made the idea of Hulk Hogan so amazing in the first place.\u00a0 I\u2019m not totally sure what that idea is, but I know what it is not and that is X Division wrestling.<\/p>\n

Steve Austin says he will not come back for a match:\u00a0 Thank you, Steve Austin.\u00a0 I have always respected Stone Cold for his in ring work, his character, and his ability to mold them both into what a wrestler should be all about.\u00a0 His treatment of his wife?\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 I totally respect the fact that he does not want to come back for another match.\u00a0 He is one of the few wrestlers that realizes once it is time to hang up the boots, it is time to hang up the boots.\u00a0 That does not mean you hang them up for a few weeks, months, or years and then put them back on.\u00a0 His remark that, \u201cI definitely do not have any interest in delivering anything that would be second-best to what I’ve done before\u201d is what it should be all about.\u00a0 When you can no longer give your best, why give the second rate to the fans?
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\nAustin also remarked that it would never live up to the expectations of fans if himself and Hogan were to ever have a match.\u00a0 I am totally with Austin on this one.\u00a0 It is about time a wrestler was real about his ability once he has retired.\u00a0 It is about time a wrestler put aside the money, the attention, and the fame so that he could come back for one match that will only taint his own legacy.\u00a0 The best thing Austin can do is stay out of the ring and let his work from the past speak for itself, and the best a lot of these other wrestlers can do is learn from someone as amazing a performer as Austin and stay out of the ring once the prime of your career has come and gone.<\/p>\n

Jeff Hardy TNA situation:\u00a0 In the epic saga that is the Jeff Hardy TNA situation and my obsession with it, the latest piece of news is that he in fact did not sign a contract the time he appeared on the Monday night Impact special.\u00a0 Apparently, he has a contact waiting for him once he clears up his legal troubles and once he stops being a drug addicted psychopath as opposed to just a regular old psychopath.\u00a0 I have always been a fan of Hardy and think he is the big name that TNA needs to really push themselves to the next level.\u00a0 Read my column on Jeff Hardy and TNA if you really want to know how important he is to that company.\u00a0 It seems as though TNA keeps messing this situation up.\u00a0 Having him debut, attack Homicide, become a painter on the show, never be heard from again, and never be mentioned on TNA television since.\u00a0 It is all just so ridiculous.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope that this news is true and in fact TNA has him in their back pocket with a contract ready so that he can be what TNA needs him to be.<\/p>\n

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By John Pitroff Hogan & Flair confirmed to wrestle:\u00a0 Oh, god.\u00a0 This should be interesting, to say the least.\u00a0 I might pay attention just to see how terrible these two are in the ring.\u00a0 And, it has been announced that they will both be wrestling on the debut edition of Impact on March 8.\u00a0 Attempting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[337,606,707,775],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-hulk-hogan","tag-ric-flair","tag-tna","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}