Romo 2 Austin;3960094 said:
RVD coming in was huge, him winning the title was emotional and a good idea as it popped the rating .3 the following week last year, but at this point your right RVD means next to nothing as he just is going through the motions.\
Hogan I didn't have a problem with, at the time, now I wish he would go away and go back to WWE. They'd use him better, why the heck make one of the most over performers in the industry a heel? What good comes from it, he should be a babyface mentoring up and comers, WWE would use him right.
Dreamer, I have no idea why everyone says he deserves so much respect, what was he a backstage helper for the 3rd biggest promotion for 4 years? Wow, you've changed everything Tommy, the whole industry would've died without you putting t-shirts in your trunk. Thanks you deserve a job for life.. No, Dreamer should've been off TV and out of the industry the second WWE closed the ECW re-make.
I'll tackle the WWE part in a minute but I can answer the bolded part pretty easily.
Due to the people that TNA has running their company being completely useless this is the way they operate. Hogan once got WCW super over, and winning the ratings every week, cause he was the lead heel of the best heel thing going. It was mega over and drew money.
So the TNA leaders now (Russo, Hogan, Bish) get together and think "Hey Hogan drew big as a lead heel in WCW. Lets do that again!"
It goes right along with their silly repackaging, once more, of the 4 Horseman idea, in a new form, or when they basically were doing the Millionares vs. The New Blood (Those were the WCW names), trying to package AJ as the new Flair, and some of the other stuff that they've done that just smacks of old, retread, stuff. Which is a Russo specialty, btw. Watch some old WCW stuff (i'm sure you have) but you'll see his finger prints all over that with his attempts to make clones of WWE stars out of WCW guys by giving them the same type of gimmick.
So that's why they've done that with Hogan. Without a doubt. The last part of that where you're saying he should mentor....lol. That's hilarious. Apparently you don't know much about Hogan but he's not into mentoring, or getting people over, cause Hogan is a leech whose all about Hogan and what he has to do to further his money. nothing else.
Which brings me to the WWE part. There is a big reason the WWE only brings him back for small rounds, and in small doses, because you know what you're getting with Hogan. You're getting a much older, no longer useful, performer who isn't going to be willing to put anyone else over and you're only going to want to use him for short term boosts of shows. Nothing else.
Vince knows this better than anyone else and that's why you don't see Hogan back in the WWE for really extended periods or in important roles. Because Vince, rather people like him or not, is a smart business man and the people who hired the people to run TNA, and the people running TNA, are not.
And lets not go overboard here with Dreamer. He shouldn't be pushed major anymore, I agree with you there, but he was much more to ECW than some guy working in the back and selling T-Shirts out of his truck. Tommy Dreamer was the embodiment of ECW. He, along with Sandman, Raven, Funk, Sabu, and Douglas were exactly what ECW was all about.
Tommy Dreamer was a top performer in ECW for it's entire run as a company. He was to the ECW fans what AJ Styles is to the TNA fans. He was their guy. Their top man. They loved him. He meant the world to the ECW faithful.
So lets not go overboard here and short change what he meant to ECW even though he shouldn't be anything big in TNA at this point. He was so much more than just some backstage guy for the 3rd largest promotion for 4 years.