Just watched this week's Impact cause I was curious to see RVD as champion, and I had some thoughts.
- The show opens with an RVD promo where he explains that the reason he's not with WWE is because of their Wellness Policy. We're apparently supposed to boo WWE because of this, and cheer TNA because they let the wrestlers drug it up, I guess by the same logic that makes CM Punk a hated heel because he doesn't abuse addictive substances. (A Punk-RVD feud would be EPIC, BTW.) My main reaction is that I'm surprised the Wellness Policy actually works / has enough teeth that it would be a reason for someone to avoid WWE. Maybe WWE folks aren't on as many drugs as I thought.
- WTF is with everyone fighting over their WWE Hall of Fame rings? If TNA TV were to involve WWE HOF rings at all, you'd think it'd just be to throw them in the gutter and exclaim "These ain't worth shit, now I'm in TNA!" If WWE HOF rings are so prized, why am I watching TNA instead of watching the future WWE HOFers on Raw?
- So Ric Flair has stolen JBL's gimmick as a "wrestling god"? And holy crap he got old in the last two years. He even flubbed his promo a few times.
- It's still weird to me that Hulk Hogan isn't using Hulk Hogan's theme, or even some TNA bastardization of Hulk Hogan's theme like they did with Christian, Booker T, Dudley Boys, etc.
- Speaking of which, how many people in TNA right now are WWE rejects? I don't think there were more than a handful of men's wrestlers on the entire show who weren't former WWE talent, and the vast majority of them are involuntarily not WWE employees. I guess that's why the ended the TNA Originals vs. carpetbaggers storyline - not enough originals left.
- All of that said, the show is markedly better than it used to be, but I'm not sure that's a good thing. I actually watched the whole thing, and didn't spend the whole time lamenting what a disaster the show was, like I usually do with TNA. But I'm not going to be a regular TNA viewer, I'm a WWE viewer. It took putting Hulk Hogan in charge and giving RVD the title just to get me to watch TNA on DVR five days later. Whatever TNA fans were enjoying about TNA for the last several years was not something that attracted me, so now that TNA has changed to get me to upgrade my opinion to "not a total disaster," are TNA fans still entertained? I obviously can't judge that, but I wonder.
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