4. Bobby's World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM8SGVA3u-c The art of anticipating something, anything, is wrestling seems to be long gone. WWE and TNA are both guilty of just throwing things out there to fill up TV time, and because they have no patience. Now, I harped on the return of Bobby Lashley to TNA recently, but if you're going to bring him back at least try to use him right. At Lockdown, Lashley showed up again after a lengthy hiatus. The next episode of Impact it was announced he'd take on Ethan Carter the following week. Instead of re-establishing Lashley's character, or giving him any promo time to talk about why he's back in TNA and what he wants to accomplish, he was just thrown right out there. He then had a back-and-forth match with Ethan which was interrupted by Willow for no particular reason. Lashley just sat there and watched. So TNA goes to the effort of bringing back Lashley just to have him look on while Willow ends his return match? What kind of return was that? Does Bobby have anything to say about his first fight in four years ending like that? Well apparently he didn't care, and the announcers didn't care, so I'm assuming the fans don't care. Should we really have expected anything else, though? After all, this is the same company that introduced Rob Van Dam by having him get beat down by a bat for 10 minutes his first night in. So maybe they are making a little progress actually.
Andrew Soucek
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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