I have been a wrestling fan for years, beginning with the British wreslting where Id sit between my mother and gran (bad call as they'd grab my arms and twist them!! Did I learn my lesson? Hell no!) and we would watch Kendo Nagasaki, Big Daddy, Mick McManus and Giant Haystacks (amazing to think originally Daddy and Haystacks were a tag team!) and now and then they showed then called WWF and WCW, which was totally different and over the top, and from that moment I was hooked and to this very day I still watch these guys apparently beat each other up for people's entertainment.
But over the years when I watched WWF/WWE, WCW, ECW, and TNA almost every company had one man that somehow got millions of fans, even though he needs 2 additional locker rooms for his ego.
His name....Terry Boella. Who you ask? You know him, he is one of the biggest names in professional wrestling today, the man who used to tell you to say your prayers and take your vitamins, the man with the 24" pythons....Hulk Hogan.
When Hogan jumped ship to WCW, I was glad... despite me hating him, he pulled in the fans...but his ego started making the show unwatchable and went to watching WWF...it's incredible to think that WCW almost destroyed Vince's company....
A few years after Vince bought WCW, Hogan went to WWE...an old man who has less than a handful of moves won the company's most prestigious title which fed his ego even more making it even bigger if indeed that was possible.
Last year, he signed on with TNA Wrestling, alongside Eric Bischoff and brought in the likes of The Nasty Boys, and also added WWE castoffs like Brian Kendrick and "Mr Kennnnnneeeeedaaaaaah" er I mean Mr Anderson.
It is a sad and dark time for TNA with this egotistical monster, getting rid of the six sided ring in favor for the traditional four sided and having a ramp akin the old WCW ring, tell the crowds watching (staff calling them cast members?) no gang signs, no distracting the talent....and recently trying to emulate the "Calgary Screw Job" with AJ Styles and Kurt Angle I see the company going downhill fast. The positive side is that in an interview he said it was unlikely he will wrestle, although the negative side to that is he has more time to screw everything else up.
You can only see TNA on BT Vision soon, Bravo said they wanted to air TNA exclusively and were told no, so not many UK will bein watching the shows or indeed the PPVs...and did you know that according the to TNA website you have to wait 17 days after the PPV to see the on BT Vision? And they wonder why people look for alternate methods to watch the shows.
Well, it looks like it is the end for WCW 2...er I mean TNA. Dixie you added a poison to the system, and it looks like it's just a matter of time.
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