However, I am current on RAW, SD LIVE, watched Clash of Champions, and have my EOM thoughts in order . . . Let’s start with TNA.
I’m still behind, but I have thoughts on the general direction and the big news this past week . . . and no, that news isn’t Cody Rhodes to TNA.
The overall direction of TNA is still terrible. The only reason it is afloat at all is because Billy Corrigan poured money into the company and found other funding. Yeah, he is part owner and current President, but that means nothing.
He’s been with the company for over a year at least and nothing has changed. Corrigan was seen as the savior, and that hasn’t happen. I don’t think that will change if he gains complete control of the company.
This past weekend is a perfect example of this. This past Sunday’s (10/2) Bound for Glory barley happened. According to reports it was up in air until Saturday afternoon as to if it was going to happen, because of funds. Reports had it that the show needed funding to go on. Beyond that, the next round of TV tapings need to be funded as well.
The show did go on, and it seems like the tapings will happen, because of last minute funding from an unnamed source.
None of this is good. What use is bring in Cody Rhodes if you don’t have the money to put on the damn shows?
And what about the WWE? Just how interested are they in TNA? Some reports say it is just their tape library, but new reports say that the WWE has some legit interest in buying TNA. What would this mean for wrestling in North America?
Honestly, not a whole lot. TNA is barely a blip anymore, a buyout by the WWE wouldn’t be a seismic shift, just a fade out. Truthfully, I think the WWE would just keep a handful of guys, put the video history on the Network and let TNA fade.
With the CWC done and gone, we are back to our normal WWE.
As it has been over the last two years, NXT is the best thing going for the WWE. It is still amazing to me, how the D-League of talent not-ready-for-prime-time is being used better, and is putting on better shows then the main roster.
It is not just the talent, but also creative. For whatever reason, creative in NXT has a better handle on wrestling and putting together a show. NXT is one hour, and tends to be better and pack in more action then a three hour RAW.
RAW is really living up to its name RAW . . . Really, watching RAW is like eating raw meat, just not good for you.
RAW this past month has just coasted and not done anything. I wrote before that KO being champ could be the game changer, but somehow they found a way to keep the game the same, only tells us it has changed.
I, like others, had great hopes for the Cruiserweights, but those hope have already crashed and burned. Mick Foley killed the Cruiserweight Division the same night he announced them to RAW. Foley didn’t just kill the cruiserweights, he spat on their corpses as well.
First he flubbed the quote “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog,” twice. Twice! Then he couldn’t even be bother to know the names of the talent, except for Brian Kendrick. He had to read their names off a card, and still flubbed it.
How insulting – here’s your GM, he can’t even be bothered to know your name. I wonder when Jeff Harvey is coming back?
The first step toward making RAW better? Get a new GM.
It everything about RAW bad? No. We have KO, Jericho, Rollins, Rusev, Charlotte, Sasha and Bayley. But, we also have Enzo Amore who is as terrible by himself as the before mentioned are great combined.
All that aside, it isn’t the talent that’s the problem (Not even Enzo and Reigns), it is how they are being used. RAW would be better served to go back to two hours . . . the only thing three hours is doing is showcasing that creative doesn’t have much creativity.
I really don’t know what to write about SD LIVE. It’s very confusing to me how SD Live can be so good, and RAW so lackluster when they are both produced by the WWE and the split is just marketing. The odd things is, it was this way during that last Brand Split as well.
SD LIVE hit gold with Heath Slater and the tag team tournament, which went very well. Ambrose and AJ Styles has been on fire, the Miz and Dolph has been an emotional rollercoaster, and the USOs have stepped up their game to a whole new level.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
I am basically sick of writing the same EOM everything month: RAW Bad, SD LIVE Good.
But, it is true and I don’t see it changing anytime soon.
SD LIVE and crew seem to know how to use the talent they have. SD LIVE’s two hours fly by, and never seem to be enough, where as RAW seems to drag on forever, and seems to be too much.
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