[quote name='mykevermin']TNA and WWE differ a little bit. TNA has, unfortunately, aped the WWE style of presenting/producing wrestling shows. Lots of rambling in-ring promos, dumbass "commissioner" issues, and a bang-your-head-on-the-goddamn-wall deemphasis on wrestling matches.
OTOH, TNA differs from WWE in that, unlike WWE, they often give the slightest *glimpse* of a push to certain wrestlers. Like Jay Lethal, like Ron Killings, like Monty Brown, like Rhino, like AJ Styles, like Christopher Daniels, like Sabin, like Shelly...they seem to get them involved in angles and matches. But, if you blink at all, you miss it. They get brought up and slapped back down so fast that it's a small wonder that these guys are pissed.
Do they have a right to be pissed that they aren't in the title hunt? Well, they shouldn't be. Very few of the above should be involved in the world title hunt (then again, TNA's upper card is a rotating elite club of boredom like WWE; after BFG, who's gonna get a title match: Joe, Abyss, or Sting? You *KNOW* it ain't gonna be anyone else). Where WWE is stagnany, TNA cockteases their performers and immediately drops them.
Let me put it this way: how long back do you have to go in watching TNA to regard Sabin or Shelly as legitimate performers who deserve any more airtime than, say, Shark Boy? a pretty goddamned long way, IMO.
LAX, IMO, are whiny bitches. Sure, they aren't being pushed now. Perhaps they should be. But, to be brought in as strong as they were, and given the titles (and a right dominant reign)...and to come off as ungrateful and forgetful of that as they are (if, of course, this rumor is true) is just bitchy and petty. I love LAX as a tag team, but they can
right off if they think they need or deserve to be perpetual top-tier guys like Team 3D.
Now, if they're pissed about this Pacman nonsense, then they're in the right, I suppose. But that'll be over and (hopefully) forgotten sooner than later.
In short (too late), TNA is a problem here, but so are all these marks-for-themselves princesses that think they need to be on the top at all times.
'em.
'em in the eye.
'em in the other eye. That isn't how wrestling works, I'm afraid. Sometimes wrestlers have valid reasons to be upset at a lack of push (given that TNA's ratings have been the exact same as they always have been since the jump to Spike, I'd say that the rotating crop of boring-ass title contenders needs to be shifted a bit). Christian sure did. Many in TNA sure do as well. I can empathize with Shelly and Sabin (to a degree, I think Sabin is vastly overrated, but Shelly shouldn't be where he is). I can't empathize with LAX, though.
Oh, and fire VKM.
TNA has promise that is more reasonable than, say, expecting the WWE to do something stupid like let the show involve matches that fans are into and characters they care about...but people aren't going to watch a show and say "well, it sucked, but look at the potential it has! I can't wait to tune in next week!" They're just not going to watch again.
You can believe one of two things for TNA's stagnant ratings:
1) Not a single new soul has ever watched TNA since it started up on Spike. Every single person who watches TNA does so every week.
2) Some people tune into TNA for the first time each and every week, but they are not interested enough to watch again.
The second is obviously more reasonable and far more likely.[/quote]
I think they have a right to be pissed. Sure some of them may not have as talent as others and may not deserve to be pushed as much as others, but regardless of that, they killed themselves working insane spots and what not only to be put into the back burner of the company so that people who already had TV time in WWE could take their spots.
Remember Chris Jericho used to job to Goldberg too in WCW and didn't become a world champion until he went into the WWE. Could he have been considered someone who could dethrone Hogan in WCW? No. Could he dethrone Sting? Goldberg? No. He couldn't. And that is the same case in TNA with talent like Shelly.
All talent is looking for organizations to take full advantage of their potential. To them TNA isn't doing it so they're going to consider their options. It's not like all of them are outwardly badmouthing TNA. And I'm not even saying that they should go to ROH. Some of the talent may sign with WWE for all we know and end up getting jobbed there or having their careers made.
