Romo 2 Austin;3907317 said:
look at the TNA ppv coming up this sunday, lockdown.
http://www.lockdown2011.com/
This card is looking better than Mania, to be completely honest.
Styles is far from terrible on the mic, is he great? No. But he can hold his own, and he's Mr.TNA as RVD was Mr.ECW, he doesn't need the over the top charisma, he's so great in the ring it overshadows it. He was PWIllustrateds #1 wrestler last year. AJ Styles is truly "phenomenal", he's one of the best things in the business right now, and he's only getting better.
TNA's problem is NOT the wrestling, it is the booking. Vince Russo is the booker, the storylines are pretty much guaranteed to make no sense.
Couple things before I get to the card.
1: TNA booking sucked, as did their shows, before Russo as well. It wasn't nearly as unwatchable, or as bad, but they still weren't smart. Russo is only one part of the TNA management problem. It's gotten much worse since he cameback along, and only worse than that since they added Hogan and Bish.
2: AJ Styles can't hold his own. I've seen the guy talk kid. You're not pulling any wool over anyones eyes. The dude would be school, horribly, by anyone with average mic skills and often is.
His back and forth with Bishoff a few weeks ago was so unbearable it made me want to puke. The guy is just not good on the mic, at all. Fantastic wrestler with very limited charisma and no mic skills. There for he cant be mentioned in the same breath as the 'total package' guys you're trying to put him in the same league with.
He's not nearly as good as guys like Angle, HBK, HHH, Taker, Punk, Orton, Beer Money, and Ken Kennedy. Is he a better wrestler than some of those guys? Yeah, probably all of them except Angle and HBK, but he's light years behind all of them in the rest of the areas.
Now to the card. I can't, and won't, take your completely honest comment seriously cause, lets be serious, you're not able to be honest cause you're a TNA fanboy. Which is fine. It's your deal.
I, personally, am not a huge fan of either product, thus why I don't even watch WWE on a weekly basis anymore and havent for years. Wrestling, overall, is just not real good anymore.
I probably watch as much TNA shows as I do WWE, which says a lot.
As far as the card goes, yeah looking at it on paper, I'd probably like that card, in some spots better, and in others not so much.
I'd be about as excited about it as I was Mania which wasn't a whole lot outside a couple of matches. What pushed Mania a lot more, IMO, was having Austin and The Rock as part of it and then of course, like Hos mentioned, the Taker vs. HHH match by itself was worth more than this entire card.
The Main Event should be solid, although it would have been much better, IMO, without the inclusion of RVD. That's personal taste there though.
Jarrett vs. Angle will suck. Angle is absolutely outstanding but he'll have to spend most of the match carrying an extremely over-rated and barely above average Jarrett. Not to mention the whole wife thing is just...ugh. Stupid. Always has been and it always will be.
Fortune vs. Immortal...ehhh...this reeks of Hogan getting a leg drop victory over whoever is most important in Fortune, which I guess is AJ Styles. Thus setting up the inevitable of Hogan taking the title off of Sting. Thus pretty much the death of TNA's main championship.
Joe vs. Pope should be solid. I wouldn't mind seeing that one.
Hernandez vs. Morgan is awful. Absolutely, totally, and completely awful. There is nothing good about this match.
Womens title...meh. I hate all womens matches cause 99.9% of all women in pro wrestling are absolutely unwatchable.
The X-Division match will be an x-division match. It will be pretty good but its played out, IMO, at this point.
Tag match should be solid but without Beer Money it's not all that great.
And here is the biggest problem I have with this card. The stupid gimmick. Everything is in a cage. That's stupid. It's just as stupid as when WWE does the TLC show and has every match something to do with Tables, ladders, or chairs. At least in the defense of that card, the matches have a chance to be somethign different. They're not all tables matches, or all chairs matches, or all ladder matches.
This whole card is cage matches. STUPID. Period. I hate it when wrestling promoters go over kill like this.
