You know, it all makes sense now. The clues were all there right in front of us. Eric Young winning the Heavyweight Title with absolutely zero buildup. The Beautiful People reforming. The highly illogical move of Bully Ray going from attempted murderer to top babyface. While it had been speculated for some time, it sounds like Vince Russo is back on TNAs payroll. Yes, the man who was head of creative while the company failed time and time again to create any stars, grow their televisoin ratings, or increase house show attendance is now getting paid as a consultant. Sure, that's not as bad as actually being the head writer, but it's not good anyway that you look at it. When the writers (John Gaburick, Dave Lagana, Matt Conway and Christy Hemme) actually put together the shows, they now have someone else they need to please. Russo must be on their minds when plotting out storylines. They're catering to a guy who in WCW turned Booker T into G.I. Bro, changed Hugh Morrus turn into Hugh G. Rection and gave the world title to David Arquette. Why would anyone, anywhere, in any wrestling company want his opinion in what does and does not work in 2014? Dixie Carter could literally pay my cat a consulting fee, and that would be a much better investment. Because he would not give awful ideas on how to rename a stable (S.E.X. Which Russo did in TNA) or create a Reverse Battle Royal (another Russo idea). Vince may be a great human being. I have no idea, I've never met him. But millions of fans around the world can tell you that he is not a great writer. He's not even a good one. There are plenty of other people out there whose opinions that Dixie should value more. But she doesn't. She probably never will. The only bright spot of this situation is that now Jeff Jarrett can't get a hold of his old buddy for his next start up wrestling company. That will at least give him a big head start.
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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