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Ciara's Editorial: W.T.H.I.G.O.T.N.A?


Date: 03/27 6:30 AM
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TNAAs if you don’t know, haven’t heard, or don’t care I have been frustrated a lot lately. A lot of BULLSHIT is a going on in my life and to sit and explain literally everything that is going to you all is going to take more than one BS article. I never tell people to much about my life because I tend to be a private person and telling someone is not going to make anyone understand unless you’re in my shoes. Lets just say I’ve been through a lot maybe too much. There was only few outlets for me to get away from the stress in life school, music, art, and wrestling. Wrestling believe it or not helped me the most. Yes I love music, yes I love art, and I really didn’t care for school. I would risk listening to music or painting a damn picture for wrestling. In high school I blew off so many art projects because I had to watch wrestling. Of course I would always do them later because I wanted a good grade I wasn’t that horrible in school I mean hello! I was on The National Honor Roll throughout high school…SAY SOMETHING! 

Anyways as I was saying, what I’m trying to say is there was a long standing point in my life more like my entire life where wrestling meant the world to me. Today is a different story, I find myself asking if I should continue to watch, support, endure this thing that I once loved with all my heart any longer. Wrestling has become like a bad ex-boyfriend to me. You want to leave pack your shit and say I’m done you treat me like crap but he always seems to apologize and make things right for at least a day or week depending on how much of an asshole he is JUST SAYING! Nothing seems to interest me anymore. I don’t get as excited as I used to. 

Maybe I expect to much but I really don’t all I want is wrestling nothing more. “Well Ciara wrestling is not wrestling anymore its all entertainment no one wants wrestling, its boring.” DUH I know this. I’d take a match where someone throws on a headlock and holds for twenty minutes that entertains me. I’m sorry folks I’m old school I didn’t grow up on the Attitude Era like most of you I was watching wrestling when wrestling was simply wrestling no nude chicks, no NWO or DX, no Stone Cold or the Rock, and none of this stuff that you see today. Sometimes I go back and watch old stuff from WWE or WCW or even the territories on Youtube and reminisce on old times. Wasn’t into ECW that much but respect them for what they did something about watching a guy sit there and letting New Jack staple him in the head with a staple gun is too much for me makes no sense. 

With all that being said, as a person, as a fan I hate to be screwed. This past month I have said I’m tired of being screwed over and over by one company in particular. I’m sorry Bret Hart but TNA has screwed me far worse than Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels have done to you. Yes we all go through the phases of where we say we are done with TNA and then change our mind. But I have absolutely had it with TNA and I mean it. I cant do it anymore. I don’t watch TNA, don’t care to know what’s going on, I just don’t TNA at all. TNA is like a stalker, you know he’s there but you don’t want to know if he is truly there.

If we are going to talk about where all this anger/frustration I have for TNA began we must start from the very beginning. The first time I heard about or was aware of TNA was through a Pro Wrestling Insider magazine. At the time I was a hardcore WWE fan because nothing else was around but WWE. WCW and ECW were gone, no territories, no nothing just WWE and oh there was that awful promotion XPW that was around and that went nowhere but in the trash for me. Anyways I’m looking through this magazine and they have this huge section of an article on A.J Styles “who the fuck is A.J Styles?" is what I’m thinking. The more I continued to read I’m intrigued instantly because they are talking about how “phenomenal” AJ is and they mention something new to me TNA, up until then I had never heard of another company existing besides WWE. The article is going on mentioning names like Jeff Jarrett, Christopher Daniels, Sting, Frankie Kazarian, and so many others that I remember seeing recently on the short lived World Wrestling All-Stars. Like most wrestling fans I want to learn more, I want to see this new thing that is going on in wrestling that has been hyped up in this one article that it’s the greatest thing to happen to wrestling. 

To make a long story short I finally see TNA fell in like because I wasn’t in love with it. The only thing that turned me away from TNA in the very beginning was just like WCW there was no women’s division. I love all wrestling but I’m a huge fan of women’s wrestling. Yes of course TNA finally tried to establish a division with basically one woman. Trinity amazed me. Everyone always says Lita is the best female high-flyer and I always say to them “y’all must never seen Trinity.” I admit it for a long time I was a Lita mark then I saw Trinity and it became Lita WHO? Over the years I’ve seen a lot of female High flyers but Trinity is up there as one of the best. Not many people can moonsault off a cage and hit it perfectly. For a long while Trinity was the main chick in TNA. A lot of girls came to TNA but soon left so fast that you actually forgot that they were even there. In my opinion Trinity is the Original TNA Knockout not Traci Brooks, yes Traci was in TNA for a long time but before she came around Trinity was there. TNA is also where a very young Mickie James, then known as Alexis LaRee debuted. Her and Trinity had a series of matches. Mickie would later leave the company go back to indies and later be picked up by WWE, Trinity would also leave TNA to go to the WWE and TNA’s women’s division went to straight to hell until 2007. For a long time TNA’s Knockout division was pretty dreadful. The thought that you have Traci Brooks, Jacqueline, and later Jackie Gayda and Gail Kim, and Christy Hemme in this division and couldn’t do anything with them but make them valets and catfight is ridiculous. Yeah some of these girls couldn’t get the ring without committing suicide but still COME ON. WWE’s Diva division was great at this time you had Victoria, Lita, Molly Holly, Trish Stratus, Jazz, Ivory, Gail Kim, Jacqueline, Torrie Wilson and later the diva search chicks would take over. 

At this point in time I’m watching WWE faithfully like its my religion but I’m also tuning into TNA. The X-Division was what TNA built their company solely around. Guys like Low-Ki, Christopher Daniels, A.J Styles, Jerry Lynn, Elix Skipper, Kazarian, Matt Bentley, Chris Sabin, and so many more started out in the X-Division and made it what it is. There was a time in TNA where the World Title meant less of importance than the X-Division Title. Seeing what the X-Division has become nowadays saddens me. TNA has all these guys there that could benefit from the division but rather waste my time with utter BULLSHIT. Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Generation Me, Eric Young who is busy walking around with that old TNA World Title, Okada, Douglas Williams,  Kiyoshi, D’Angelo Dinero, Brian “I’m sitting in a fucking coat closet” Kendrick and so many guys need this division to be alive and running so they can survive but instead TNA rather give us fans Robbie E vs. Kazarian in a feud that is going NOWHERE. 

Not to mention TNA put the X-Division Title on Robbie E after just three matches and stuck him in a lackluster feud with Jay Lethal who needs to move on and go after the TNA Television Title but instead TNA rather give that belt to a security guard….FUCK OFF! I have nothing against Gunner or Murphy  I just hate how they were brought in to TNA through this security guard BULLSHIT constantly attacking people then all of a sudden they are wrestlers GTFOHWTHTBS I’ve been familiar with Gunner since ROH’s The Big Bang PPV in 2010 and I saw some of his NWA stuff. 

Here’s where TNA started to PISS ME OFF! TNA let go of Gail Kim because they didn’t want to pay her a dollar extra. Her departure left a huge void in the Knockouts Division. With her gone TNA had to find someone to take her place as top baby face of the Knockouts. TNA decides to give this spot to Taylor Wilde instead of pulling the trigger on ODB who is beyond over with the crowd. Somewhere down the line TNA decides fuck the rest of the girls here lets just focus on The Beautiful People for two long years. 

Focusing on the Beautiful People helped killed the division. Alissa Flash, better known as Cheerleader Melissa, probably one of the best female workers there is today couldn’t get a damn title shot, a feud, or anything in TNA. Sarita has been relegated to being nothing but a Tag Team Champion. In the past year alone, TNA let go of Ayako Hamada who couldn’t catch a fucking break, Alissa Flash, Nikki Roxx aka Roxxi who for some reason was fired and rehired so many times never given a fair chance, Traci Brooks, Jacqueline disappeared, ODB, Taylor Wilde, Sojourner Bolt, Daffney, and more importantly Awesome Kong. This division doesn’t have a hope in hell I’m sorry the arrivals of Mickie James, Katie Lea, Rosita, and the returning Tara is not enough to save this division. Once again TNA is focusing on The Beautiful People and the ridiculous cluster-fuck love triangle that is between Velvet Sky, Angelina Love, and Winter aka Katie Lea. I don’t give a rat’s ass about this BULLSHIT TNA if you’re going to break up the TBP then why did you waste our time putting them back together? What was the fucking point, Katie Lea could be doing something of importance like feuding with Madison Rayne for the TNA Knockouts Championship. 

Speaking of Madison, she is stuck in this feud with Mickie James that seems to be going no damn where Tara is still feuding with Mickie also and none of this makes any fucking sense and it needs to end already. The trashing of the knockouts division has made me lost all hope for this division in TNA and I cant no longer sit and watch them trash it anymore. 

As if anything else can piss me off from this company, the X-Division is up shit’s creek, the commentary during matches is disgusting, and the storylines in this company make no common sense to common sense. Everybody thinks WCW in the end was terrible but TNA is far worse and TNA is not even going out of business yet nor have they reached the peak that WCW did. For some reason TNA wants me to believe that EricYoung fell and bumped his head went crazy became Orlando Jordan’s lover boy and  found the TNA World Title in the trash. TNA wants me to believe that Brian Kendrick is a Sensai.  TNA wants me to believe and ignore the fact that Samoa Joe was kidnapped for almost a year with no reasoning behind is okay. TNA wants me to believe that its okay for Brother Ray, Bully Ray whatever his name is this week to beat up his “nephews” on TV all these years us fans have been told that Bubba and D’Von were indeed brothers of course this is not true but STILL WHAT THE HELL? TNA wanted me to believe that Abyss was Hulk Hogan in 2010.To this day TNA is still trying their hardest to convince me that the Jersey Shore gimmick is over. TNA tried to convince me that a Jenna Morasca vs. Sharmell match was better than having TNA Knockouts match on a PPV.TNA is still trying to get me download Jeff Hardy’s new theme song after I have told them I don’t how many times to go away with that BULLSHIT. 

I’m not even going to get into the whole Jeff Hardy incident because its been discussed to death, but the only thing I have to say is TNA this is a wakeup call somebody get this guy help. I’m not speaking as a mark/critic or whatever you prefer I’m speaking as a fan. Once upon a time I was a huge Jeff Hardy fan, he could do no wrong in my eyes. I didn’t jump ship until his last WWE stint. I got tired of hearing of the numerous incidents of him showing up blown out his mind because it made me think wow how can I be a fan of someone like this, being a fan of his was kind of like telling him that this was okay show up to work like this all the time you can never do wrong. Jeff Hardy has pulled this BULLSHIT at least four times in TNA. And it always seems that he pulls this during PPVs why I don’t know. The past couple of times he has hurt someone and to make matters worse this guy has legal troubles. One would think that the reality that you might be going to jail for drug charges would straighten him up. It doesn’t. I commend Sting on handling this situation like a professional and doing what he was asked by Bischoff and getting the fuck out of there within ninety seconds. I had no prior knowledge of this event until I read the news on it the next day. 

What pisses me off the most is that TNA seems so ignore this whole thing as if it never happened. No one gets fined, suspended, or even fired for this incident this whole incident has been quiet. No I’m not saying that TNA needs to fire Jeff Hardy but something has got to give. Allowing this type of madness to go on is doing nothing but killing the morale of you talent and telling them its okay to show up to work like this and more importantly you’re fucking over your fan base that pay their money to come to your shows, watch your shows, buy your merchandise, and big up your company as if you’re the biggest thing on earth. You’re fucking them over the most instead of giving them a decent mainevent on the PPV you throw a clearly intoxicated Jeff Hardy out there who by the way is stumbling all over the place in there with a returning Sting who deserves better than this for ninety seconds. 

I cant tell TNA how to run their business or how to book their matches but all of you knew that was wrong. Dixie Carter I know I always get on you for the constant BULLSHIT you allow to go in TNA but honey enough is enough this getting out of hand. I don’t know why you’re not putting your foot down and telling people what time it is but sweetie do something. If this BULLSHIT has became too much for you to handle then let someone else take over. I don’t want to see TNA go out of business I want TNA to do well, but TNA can not do well unless there is some changes. I’m sick of everybody in TNA that has a position to help change things around ignoring the numerous issues that are wrong with their product and why everyone has tuned out and tuned into other products like WWE, UFC, ROH, or whatever else is on TV besides TNA. Something has to be done for the sake of your fans that you have left, as a fan I’m no longer watching TNA I don’t want anything to do with TNA for here on out if the company continues to go this way.

 



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