WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (April 19th)
3. Planning Ahead
TNA has four pay-per-views a year to promote these days, and even that seems like its too much for them to handle. With only 10 days out from Sacrifice, exactly three matches were booked. How is that even possible? Doesn't Dixie Carter pay people whose sole job is to develop and create wrestling matches? How can no one in the company think ahead? Creative completely rushed into having Daniel Bryan winning the world title. Oops, I meant Eric Young. At the very least could that moment have not been saved for the pay-per-view? Or, how about saving Young vs. Abyss for the show, instead of just throwing them out there on Impact with an hours notice? Right now, the champion does not have a match booked on the show! Impact also had a segment with MVP and Austin Aries. The two had a pretty good verbal showdown, and Aries challenged his boss to a match...next week. What? Again, why not at the pay-per-view? That's at least a match, which is what pay-per-views need to eat up air time. Angle also made his return to run off Ethan Carter and challenge him at Sacrifice. Actually that last part didn't happen either. Nothing did. WWE just gave hundreds of thousands of fans WrestleMania for basically $10 (or even less depending on how much of their content you watch). TNA is still charging full price for their upcoming show, but hasnt put in any of the effort necessary to get people to want to order it. With deep cuts to their roster you wouldn't think they could afford to not promote a pay-per-view. Apparently they can, maybe they think they'll make up the money differential with all those fancy Willow umbrellas they're bound to sell.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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