Blog #5: February 13, 2009

It's Friday the 13th and bad luck has fallen upon one Total Nonstop Action wrestling this past week.

TNA released three wrestlers this past week. Those three are Petey Williams, Lance Rock, and Jimmy Rave, Rave and Lance making up the tag team of the Rock 'n Rave Infection. I would say that I am very suprised by the release of Williams. I guess if a company made me prance around dressed as Scott Steiner I wouldn't want to work for them either. I would be ashamed of WWE if they don't sign Petey to a developmental contract as soon as possible because he is one of the better talents TNA had.

On the subject of major TNA losses, Christian made his WWE return this past week. So where did he return....ECW? The only logic I see in this move is an effort to have a more marketable ECW Champion now that Matt Hardy is off cutting angry promos/video packages. His return was much less than expected. Todd Grisham said "It's Christian" as unenthusiastically as possible and it was followed by a long silence (these guys were named Announce Team of 2008?). Matt Striker, to my suprise, claimed that the moment had just been made "instantly classic", an obvious nod to Christian's TNA nickname The Instant Classic. With the draft coming up, Christian's time in ECW could be short lived, not like the draft matters anymore since people fight on whichever show they want. I think in the not so distant future, WWE plans to remove the split roster thing all together but only time will tell.

Back to the topic of Matt Hardy's recent promos, not only have they been way to simple, they have been instantly turned into video packages. If WWE needs to advertise for the Hardy fued, all they need to do is show the replays from SmackDown. While the Hardys cut promos about each other, this strange music starts playing and old cilps of the two are shown while they are talking. It's official. Wrestling has lost all legitimacy it had left. And another thing, does everybody in the WWE have amnesia? I distinctly remember Matt costing Jeff a match back in 2002 and saying they were no longer a team and all that garbage. So 7 more years from now, are they going to have the Hardys reteam and then have Matt turn on Jeff. Jeff, stop trusting him, he will just turn on you in the end!

A recent WWE change is their transition from the TV-14 rating to PG, making all shows family friendly, since everybody knows that there is nothing more family friendly than a bunch of guys beating the crap out of each other. This move was made due to WWE's younger fan base. Ok, I don't know everything about the business world but I do know this. Who knows the least about wrestling, kids. Who will buy the less merchandise, kids. Who will be less likely to pay for a ticket and drive to a venue for a show, kids. Today's winner for what is ruining wrestling...KIDS!!! Cena even changed his finisher from the FU to the Attitude Ajustment. I thought the FU was a stupid name for a move when he first started using it, but the Attidue Ajustment? He changes his finisher to a stupid tongue twister just to appease the parents of kids? The kids liked him already so why should they care? I don't even feel like making the effort to call it that so I'm just going to keep calling it the FU.

No Way Out is this Sunday and seems to have a pretty decent card so I'll give it a watch. Whether you agree, disagree, or just feel like saying something make sure to leave some comments about the blogs. Thanks for reading!