Annoying Wrestlers & Some Thoughts on TNA

Throughout my life watching wrestling there have been a handful of wrestlers who I just can't stand when it comes to cutting promos. You have guys like Piper and Savage (WCW days). Then you have Konnan and guys like John Cena. The list can go on and on. It looks like WWE has signed another one of them. Monty Brown. This guys is one of the most annoying wrestlers of the 'modern era'. Granted that I haven't seen a whole lot of this guys since he was in TNA, but I have seen enough of him to know that I can't stand him. He is one of those guys who takes himself way too seriously. I sometimes read on the wrestling newsboards that a particular wrestler is not on TV or has been released because the creative team doesn't have any storyline for him or her. I am praying that creative has no storyline ideas for Monty Brown. That's enough about that.

On to something else.

I'm confused. A few weeks ago I read about how B.G. James (Road Dogg) and Kip James (Billy Gunn) quit TNA (storyline-wise) because of the way they were being treated. The next thing I know TNA gets their Connecticut house show cancelled after city officials refuse to let the show take place due to the proper permits not being obtained. This leads to allegations that Vince McMahon was behind the whole thing. City officials later squash those rumors and in the process claim that they don't even know who Vince McMahon is. After this situation with the cancelled house show TNA posts a video on their website of the James' across the street from WWE headquarters in some sort of rip-off of when DX invaded WCW in Virginia. Weren't these guys supposed to have quit TNA? Why were they shooting videos for TNA's website? Now I am watching the tape of TNA's primetime debut on TNA and the James' calling themselves VoodooKinMafia (or VKM for short) appear and declare war on Paul LaVesque/Triple Hollywood (Triple H), Michael Hickenbottom/Michael KissMyBottom (Shawn Michaels), and Vince K McMahon. Why? I'm not really sure. They claim that years ago HHH and HBK refused to let them join DX only to change their minds and let the Outlaws bail them out by letting them join DX (Nevermind the fact that The Outlaws and HBK were never in DX at the same time) and now HHH and HBK have reformed DX. They are also claiming that DX is a sinking ship. That's it. That's why they are declaring war. You don't get it? Neither do I.

This is obviously an attempt by TNA to get WWE to acknowledge them. It's the same thing that WWE did with those Billionaire Ted skits and WWE is not going to fall for it. This new VKM is little more than a takeoff of DX just like DX was a takeoff of the NWO. TNA thinks that since they are now in primetime that they have now become a major promotion. I have news for them. They're not. They are still the minor leagues. Their ratings may go up a bit since they are on 2 hours earlier then they were, but they still will be lucky if Impact get's 1/4th the rating that RAW does. Their buyrates will still be a fifth of what WWE considers a bad buyrate. They will still be running shows in 2000 seat venues while WWE runs in major arenas (although they don't sell out very often). They will still be running 5-6 dates per month when WWE runs 20. They will still be giving away free tickets to PPVs and TV tapings while WWE will go on making million dollar gates like they just did when they topped the $4 million for WM23 ticket sales. Their wrestlers' public appearences will still be little more than the SpikeTV booth at comic conventions while wrestlers like John Cena are on Conan O'Brien and MTV. Back to VKM for a second though. I'm inclined to think that WWE and DX may make the mistake of lending these guys credibility by perhaps retaliating, but I wouldnn't. I would just ignore it. It's not worth the time.

One last thing. If anyone out there doesn't think that Sting is just in TNA for the huge payday and that he still has a passion for the business, this will change your mind. At the last PPV Sting was taking on Jeff Jarrett for the TNA title in a match that was billed as the biggest match in TNA history (a moniker that a lot of TNA main events are given). You would think that Sting would at least know the details of the match going in. Well, at least 2 weeks prior to the match it was announced that Kurt Angle would be the guest referee. Sting showed up to the building with no clue that Angle woule have involvement in the match. He also showed up to the arena after forgetting his facepaint. TNA staff had to find an audience member who had his face painted like ICP and ask to borrow his makeup. I am not even kidding about this. Facepaint is his whole identity. It's like Superman forgetting his cape or Barry Bonds forgetting to bring his bat to the plate.

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