Television Coverage: The Road to Glory
Because I'm bored.
This is Smurf the new smurf of smurf smurf.
Hosted by Jeremy Borash and Christy Hemme who seems disinterested.
They start by running the show down and not in the way that I would run it down if you catch my drift.
They claim that the main event is what people have been talking about. I don't disagree, but not because of either of the 2 men actually wrestling in that match. It is mainly a talk of will Joe and Angle somehow be involved? I guess that's still talking about the main event but outside angles should never overshadow the freakin main event to a PPV going in to the show. After the fact its not quite so bad, but since the company itself calls this the biggest match in company history, the focus should be the match itself. There I go again using logic and reason I should know better but I don't.
A hype video airs, you know when you say that you started the company 4 years ago and this is the culmination of things, you had better not have a bad show.
They are talking about it being in Detroit. You know as much as I am in favor of TNA leaving Orlando for PPV's they really picked the wrong city in hindsight with the freaking world series in town on that night for the first time in 22 years.
I can honestly say that the video performed its function pretty well in that it got across the idea that this is a big deal of a PPV, but the real question is whether that was such a hot idea to start with because as I said, if you over-hype and under deliver its hard to generate good will in the future. Plus, calling Sting/Jarrett the biggest match in company history when you know you've got Angle/Joe coming up soon (I hear next month) then how do you follow up and hype that one?
You know, the WWE doesn't have to tell us that WrestleMania is the biggest show of the year. People just know it. Wrestlemania stands out, none of TNA's shows outside of Lockdown stand out and that only because of the different format. I actually like the concept of Lockdown more than I used to because of the fact it is TNA's only unique PPV. Well Slammiversary has King of the Mountain but that match is uniquely complicated.
I typed all the way through the Commercial Break!!!
Christian Cage and Rhino video package. They are more than friends, they were brothers according to Christian. Maybe its just me but if that we true wouldn't we have seen them team up on TNA TV more in the past few months? Really, what did Christian do to Rhino in the first place to cause this feud, oh I vaguely remember Rhino sticking up for Sting and Christian getting pissed. Oh, during this video they used a knockoff of Eminem's "Loser yourself"
Senshi Vs. Chris Sabin video airs. Darth Vader calls the X-division home to the best athletes in wrestling. You wouldn't know it the way the division has been booked. Of course, you can't say, Its home to nameless-faceless-personality less wrestlers the likes of which haven't been seen since WCW Saturday Night.
They briefly hit on the Kevin Nash open invitational X-division battle royal. The question I have is what will take longer, the ring announcer saying the name of the match or the actual match itself. I heard that this one is going to be played for laughs and this worries me. Memo to TNA, I am funny and I'm not just talking in the looks department and anytime you guys try to do funny you screw it up and it ends up being not funny. Just saying!
Monsters Ball video package airs and it surrounds Joe's possession of the world title. If the main issue ends up being between Joe and Abyss with Runt and Raven just being in the background than that's the best we can hope for in this match. We hear whatever that was that Jake Roberts did on iMPACT last night.
Commercial Break!!!
Up next a look at the most dangerous match in wrestling, 6 sides of steel.
It occurs to me that what TNA could really use is an Unleashed style show where they can show past PPV matches and stuff. I say that because they have had some strong wrestling on some of these monthly PPV's and its a cheap way to get people exposed to your product. I'm not saying it'd have to be every week but this company just assumes that people are familiar with what has happened to it in the past. As I've heard stated before when you have new viewers you need to take them by the hand and walk them through everything and if they expect Angle and the move to Prime time to mean new viewers then that's what they should look to do. They won't, but they should.
Bound for Glory commercial.
We're back and now we're talking what I think has been this company's best feud this year LAX Vs. Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles.
We go to a video package, but it just starts up with the build for the cage match itself. I would like to have seen this package chronicle the whole feud from July to now. If I were someone that stumbled on this show for the first time and hadn't seen it before, I might think that this was the extent of the entire feud. I say that for a long running feud that is to conclude in a cage match, you should chronicle the whole feud going back to the beginning. They didn't even mention the fact that they had 2 stipulation matches previously that were advantageous to the team that chose the stips.
Borash calls Kurt Angle the most dangerous man in wrestling. You know I think he may have a point there just not in the way he probably intended.
Commercial Break!!!
This commercial for what I guess is supposed to be for some kind of like a dating service or something where you call and talk to other singles is highly insulting. I mean just because I'm home on Saturday watching a wrestling show and writing about it on the internet doesn't mean that I'm dateless and alone and need to get laid.
Shut up!!!
Kurt Angle's sit down interview or at least parts of it re airs. You have no idea how relieved I am to learn that the likes of David Young, Shark Boy, Norman Smiley, Cassity Riley and Johnny Devine have the eye of the Tiger, hey Angle said everyone did that includes them. With news like that I have to question how this company isn't already number 1. I mean it doesn't make sense to my world view. Quite frankly, my not being able to understand this makes me want to go and hide in a cave.
Oh dear have I seen this Sting video package before? No, this is not the one from Hard Gay Justice that they played over-and-over-and-over when the fire started. They say that Sting has been in a distant place for 2 months. I think that if this is true, we may want to subject him to a drug test before the show. I always get a little wary of athletes in their distant places.
I don't know who said it earlier this week but how sad is it that you had no Sting on the show that aired right before the PPV. Are you trying to tell me that WWE would have Cena headline Wrestlemania and keep him off of the Raw right before it? I thought not.
The Fozzy video ends the show.
My thoughts: This show was a nice first try for the company doing a show like this. There was nothing on this show that focused on Jeff Jarrett his being in the main event was almost an afterthought. Sure, we complain that Jarrett has been the focus of the show too much and its time to move away, but that time should've come after this show. Well, OK should've come a long time ago, but you know what I mean.
The show told you what matches to care about focusing on Christian/Rhino, Monsters Ball, 6 Sides of Steel, Senshi and Sabin and the main event. Now if they could do a better job on iMPACT of getting us to care about the top matches instead of doing 100 things at once in each segment then we'd be 1 step closer to a consistently watchable wrestling show out of this company.
It wasn't a waste of the half hour I spent watching it though. I can't say that it made me more excited to watch BFG than I was before because I'm not the target for this special. I was going to watch anyway and of course, Live Blogging tomorrow Baby!!! As for my thoughts on BFG as a whole, I guess you'll have to read the CARE preview tomorrow, cheap plug.
This is Smurf the new smurf of smurf smurf.
Hosted by Jeremy Borash and Christy Hemme who seems disinterested.
They start by running the show down and not in the way that I would run it down if you catch my drift.
They claim that the main event is what people have been talking about. I don't disagree, but not because of either of the 2 men actually wrestling in that match. It is mainly a talk of will Joe and Angle somehow be involved? I guess that's still talking about the main event but outside angles should never overshadow the freakin main event to a PPV going in to the show. After the fact its not quite so bad, but since the company itself calls this the biggest match in company history, the focus should be the match itself. There I go again using logic and reason I should know better but I don't.
A hype video airs, you know when you say that you started the company 4 years ago and this is the culmination of things, you had better not have a bad show.
They are talking about it being in Detroit. You know as much as I am in favor of TNA leaving Orlando for PPV's they really picked the wrong city in hindsight with the freaking world series in town on that night for the first time in 22 years.
I can honestly say that the video performed its function pretty well in that it got across the idea that this is a big deal of a PPV, but the real question is whether that was such a hot idea to start with because as I said, if you over-hype and under deliver its hard to generate good will in the future. Plus, calling Sting/Jarrett the biggest match in company history when you know you've got Angle/Joe coming up soon (I hear next month) then how do you follow up and hype that one?
You know, the WWE doesn't have to tell us that WrestleMania is the biggest show of the year. People just know it. Wrestlemania stands out, none of TNA's shows outside of Lockdown stand out and that only because of the different format. I actually like the concept of Lockdown more than I used to because of the fact it is TNA's only unique PPV. Well Slammiversary has King of the Mountain but that match is uniquely complicated.
I typed all the way through the Commercial Break!!!
Christian Cage and Rhino video package. They are more than friends, they were brothers according to Christian. Maybe its just me but if that we true wouldn't we have seen them team up on TNA TV more in the past few months? Really, what did Christian do to Rhino in the first place to cause this feud, oh I vaguely remember Rhino sticking up for Sting and Christian getting pissed. Oh, during this video they used a knockoff of Eminem's "Loser yourself"
Senshi Vs. Chris Sabin video airs. Darth Vader calls the X-division home to the best athletes in wrestling. You wouldn't know it the way the division has been booked. Of course, you can't say, Its home to nameless-faceless-personality less wrestlers the likes of which haven't been seen since WCW Saturday Night.
They briefly hit on the Kevin Nash open invitational X-division battle royal. The question I have is what will take longer, the ring announcer saying the name of the match or the actual match itself. I heard that this one is going to be played for laughs and this worries me. Memo to TNA, I am funny and I'm not just talking in the looks department and anytime you guys try to do funny you screw it up and it ends up being not funny. Just saying!
Monsters Ball video package airs and it surrounds Joe's possession of the world title. If the main issue ends up being between Joe and Abyss with Runt and Raven just being in the background than that's the best we can hope for in this match. We hear whatever that was that Jake Roberts did on iMPACT last night.
Commercial Break!!!
Up next a look at the most dangerous match in wrestling, 6 sides of steel.
It occurs to me that what TNA could really use is an Unleashed style show where they can show past PPV matches and stuff. I say that because they have had some strong wrestling on some of these monthly PPV's and its a cheap way to get people exposed to your product. I'm not saying it'd have to be every week but this company just assumes that people are familiar with what has happened to it in the past. As I've heard stated before when you have new viewers you need to take them by the hand and walk them through everything and if they expect Angle and the move to Prime time to mean new viewers then that's what they should look to do. They won't, but they should.
Bound for Glory commercial.
We're back and now we're talking what I think has been this company's best feud this year LAX Vs. Christopher Daniels and AJ Styles.
We go to a video package, but it just starts up with the build for the cage match itself. I would like to have seen this package chronicle the whole feud from July to now. If I were someone that stumbled on this show for the first time and hadn't seen it before, I might think that this was the extent of the entire feud. I say that for a long running feud that is to conclude in a cage match, you should chronicle the whole feud going back to the beginning. They didn't even mention the fact that they had 2 stipulation matches previously that were advantageous to the team that chose the stips.
Borash calls Kurt Angle the most dangerous man in wrestling. You know I think he may have a point there just not in the way he probably intended.
Commercial Break!!!
This commercial for what I guess is supposed to be for some kind of like a dating service or something where you call and talk to other singles is highly insulting. I mean just because I'm home on Saturday watching a wrestling show and writing about it on the internet doesn't mean that I'm dateless and alone and need to get laid.
Shut up!!!
Kurt Angle's sit down interview or at least parts of it re airs. You have no idea how relieved I am to learn that the likes of David Young, Shark Boy, Norman Smiley, Cassity Riley and Johnny Devine have the eye of the Tiger, hey Angle said everyone did that includes them. With news like that I have to question how this company isn't already number 1. I mean it doesn't make sense to my world view. Quite frankly, my not being able to understand this makes me want to go and hide in a cave.
Oh dear have I seen this Sting video package before? No, this is not the one from Hard Gay Justice that they played over-and-over-and-over when the fire started. They say that Sting has been in a distant place for 2 months. I think that if this is true, we may want to subject him to a drug test before the show. I always get a little wary of athletes in their distant places.
I don't know who said it earlier this week but how sad is it that you had no Sting on the show that aired right before the PPV. Are you trying to tell me that WWE would have Cena headline Wrestlemania and keep him off of the Raw right before it? I thought not.
The Fozzy video ends the show.
My thoughts: This show was a nice first try for the company doing a show like this. There was nothing on this show that focused on Jeff Jarrett his being in the main event was almost an afterthought. Sure, we complain that Jarrett has been the focus of the show too much and its time to move away, but that time should've come after this show. Well, OK should've come a long time ago, but you know what I mean.
The show told you what matches to care about focusing on Christian/Rhino, Monsters Ball, 6 Sides of Steel, Senshi and Sabin and the main event. Now if they could do a better job on iMPACT of getting us to care about the top matches instead of doing 100 things at once in each segment then we'd be 1 step closer to a consistently watchable wrestling show out of this company.
It wasn't a waste of the half hour I spent watching it though. I can't say that it made me more excited to watch BFG than I was before because I'm not the target for this special. I was going to watch anyway and of course, Live Blogging tomorrow Baby!!! As for my thoughts on BFG as a whole, I guess you'll have to read the CARE preview tomorrow, cheap plug.
posted by Casey Trowbridge at 10/21/2006 11:07:00 PM
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