I ordered Hard Justice on Sunday night and some of my friends came over to watch it. I can't vote thumbs up, down or in the middle or tell you a best/worst match because I got up in the middle of the show and took a walk around the lake.
I've ordered every TNA pay per view since Victory Road 2004 which was their first monthly PPV. I used to own all of their Pay Per View events on DVD. Sunday was the last show I will order for quite some time. It isn't really all TNA's fault either though they do play a large role.
I'd pretty much given up on the WWE back when Dr. Hiney appeared only watching it a few times since then, I didn't think it was right that I should be embarrassed to watch something even though I was the only one in the room.
I love wrestling and I will always love wrestling as an art form. I don't really like wrestling so much. It seems wrong to me that I can sit and watch a performer, wonder how long I will be able to enjoy him/her before they're unable to wrestle anymore to injury or worse because they've died and to not have it seem unreasonable to wonder such things about people in their mid-20's up to their early to late 30's.
It disgusts me that the owner of the most powerful and successful wrestling company in the world can refer to congress as a bunch of Barney Fifes because they have the nerve to ask for information relating to the health and well being of his performers. I know Vince said that so that when Congress does come down on him, he can say it was because of what he called them and that makes it worse. That's just another way of trying to rationalize the problem out of site.
I don't really want the government to regulate pro wrestling but then it isn't as though the industry has ever shown an ability to police itself. Lord knows WWE gets away with a lot of things in the way they conduct business that Congress isn't investigating.
Then there's TNA. This company has no known drug policy and will hire any WWE castoff who even remotely has a name just so they can point to that guy and say: "Look who we signed, he used to be in the WWE". Then at a time when the industry needs to focus on cleaning itself up they go and sign Pacman Jones one of the most polar opposite figures to clean as you can find and all so they can get mentioned on ESPN and Dixie Carter can have her picture taken with another supposed star so she can hang it on her wall. This company isn't about networking it is about people being able to point at others and say I've associated with them. I'm sure there are some dedicated employees in both TNA and WWE and I hope they are able to hold on but it seems like tiny voices crying out in a room the size of the known universe.
So I sold all those TNA DVDS and Sunday was the last show I'm going to order. I know some wrestling companies do put on good shows but the stench of the industry to me overcomes any **** match or above.
I'm glad I have MMA though it is not without its own faults. I stopped writing about wrestling for the most part on my personal site and while I'll still continue to follow the industry I just can't contribute any of my money to a wrestling company these days. I hope that somehow, some way the industry is cleaned up but I've had the optimism beaten out of me in this regard.
Thanks for letting me vent:
Casey Trowbridge
Huron, SD.
I've ordered every TNA pay per view since Victory Road 2004 which was their first monthly PPV. I used to own all of their Pay Per View events on DVD. Sunday was the last show I will order for quite some time. It isn't really all TNA's fault either though they do play a large role.
I'd pretty much given up on the WWE back when Dr. Hiney appeared only watching it a few times since then, I didn't think it was right that I should be embarrassed to watch something even though I was the only one in the room.
I love wrestling and I will always love wrestling as an art form. I don't really like wrestling so much. It seems wrong to me that I can sit and watch a performer, wonder how long I will be able to enjoy him/her before they're unable to wrestle anymore to injury or worse because they've died and to not have it seem unreasonable to wonder such things about people in their mid-20's up to their early to late 30's.
It disgusts me that the owner of the most powerful and successful wrestling company in the world can refer to congress as a bunch of Barney Fifes because they have the nerve to ask for information relating to the health and well being of his performers. I know Vince said that so that when Congress does come down on him, he can say it was because of what he called them and that makes it worse. That's just another way of trying to rationalize the problem out of site.
I don't really want the government to regulate pro wrestling but then it isn't as though the industry has ever shown an ability to police itself. Lord knows WWE gets away with a lot of things in the way they conduct business that Congress isn't investigating.
Then there's TNA. This company has no known drug policy and will hire any WWE castoff who even remotely has a name just so they can point to that guy and say: "Look who we signed, he used to be in the WWE". Then at a time when the industry needs to focus on cleaning itself up they go and sign Pacman Jones one of the most polar opposite figures to clean as you can find and all so they can get mentioned on ESPN and Dixie Carter can have her picture taken with another supposed star so she can hang it on her wall. This company isn't about networking it is about people being able to point at others and say I've associated with them. I'm sure there are some dedicated employees in both TNA and WWE and I hope they are able to hold on but it seems like tiny voices crying out in a room the size of the known universe.
So I sold all those TNA DVDS and Sunday was the last show I'm going to order. I know some wrestling companies do put on good shows but the stench of the industry to me overcomes any **** match or above.
I'm glad I have MMA though it is not without its own faults. I stopped writing about wrestling for the most part on my personal site and while I'll still continue to follow the industry I just can't contribute any of my money to a wrestling company these days. I hope that somehow, some way the industry is cleaned up but I've had the optimism beaten out of me in this regard.
Thanks for letting me vent:
Casey Trowbridge
Huron, SD.
