After weeks of not so interesting attempts at making the old ECW old-timers seem interesting, TNA President Dixie Carter announced exactly why the stars such as Raven, Al Snow and others have been entering the Impact Zone. It seems that TNA Wrestling has forgotten that about four years ago there was a PPV showing by WWE called One Night Stand where ECW legends battled with WWE current performers and put on what was to be their final and last tremendous showing of extreme wrestling under the ECW brand. Well, anyways, TNA is now doing the same thing….yes, again.
An ECW-only PPV will be place next month in August 2010 which really just seems like a thrown together attempt by Mick Foley and cast to relive the glory days and make themselves possibly relevant to the new TNA audience. So far, TNA’s initiative to hire a large amount of wrestling legends of the past has flopped over greatly because the stars they hired were stars in the mid 90s and even the seventies and eighties in some situations. They deserve repect and do still command a crowd, but they realistically speaking are all in their late forties, fifties and even sixties. Who knows, if WWE who still technically hold the rights to the ECW brand and trademarks allows this, maybe (and this is a big maybe) these battered ego stars of ECW’s past will find some new place within TNA Wrestling’s organization. But we doubt it!
Overall TNA has stepped up its performance in terms of match booking, but they still lack significant storyline plotting and progression that is necessary to hold a general fan’s attention. Ladder matches, championship bouts and various other specialty matches are plaguing the Impact Zone, yes that is right, the Impact Zone, not TNa Wrestling’s PPV events. They are following in WCW’s tradition of offering PPV grade matches for free to television viewers in a last attempt to still the market from WWE’s strong grasp. Don’t expect this to work. If you can see Beer Money Inc. and Motor City Machine Guns perform top quality specialty matches on Thursdays, why would you purchase TNA’s inflatedly priced PPV events? Hmmmm…seems we have some problems boys.
Check out more specific match related news from Thurday’s TNA Impact here:
http://www.spike.com/full-episode/extreme-invitation/39027 (TNA Wrestling online postings are surpringly crushing WWE’s B list programming episodes by an astonishing amount of views.)
