Rumor has it that Total Nonstop Action is trying to bring in The Ultimate Warrior in hopes of reuniting The Blade Runners.
Who?
What?
Huh?
My point exactly.
TNA is hoping to reunite a tag team that honestly...nobody really even knew existed. Especially the casual fan who doesn't find anything before 1998 very interesting.
But Mr. Unmarked Wrestling blogger man, aren't the die hard smarks going to love this reunion?! Isn't this something that they have been waiting for...for years!!! No, not even close.
EVEN if this was going to attract some smarks to tune in Thursday nights... TNA doesn't need smarks. In fact most of the guys who are watching every Thursday night are smarks anyway, who watch TNA not because of their love of that product, but their hatred for what Vince puts out on a weekly basis.
Bringing in The Ultimate Warrior in order to give Sting his tag team partner from 1985 will not help anybody...except Warrior who can collect a paycheck...and Sting who is doing shit right now.
The Blade Runners weren't a big deal when Bill Watts decided to book them in The Mid South and they certainly wouldn't be a big deal now. Not for the smark fans, who are the only ones who know they ever existed in the first place, and not for the marks who would rather buy Cena and Rey Mysterio merchandise.
If you HAVE to bring Warrior for some God forsaken reason...bring his psychotic ass in to job for Samoa Joe or AJ Styles. THAT'S IT. Nobody wants to see Kevin Nash pin him. He comes in, cuts a promo that only blind def squirrels can understand, lays down for a wrestler who can contribute to the product for the next 10 years, collects his paycheck, and goes back home...I mean to PLACES UNKNOWN!!!
Besides...didn't WCW do this already? Nitro 1998? Hogan/Hart Vs. Sting/Warrior?
...Damn you TNA, damn you.
-Mike/Booking...GAWD
2 comments:
Are you kidding me???? There is no way this can't work!!!! lmao... The fucking Blade Runners...
WTF?! The Blade Runners in TNA?! I wonder what genius actually convinced or at least is trying to convince TNA management that this is a good and lucrative idea?! Just like this blog points out, casual wrestling fans aren't even aware of the fact that Warrior and Sting were a tag team back in '85 and smarks more than likely won't give two shits about this reunion to put it midly.
Let's see WCW thought they were booking and marketing genuises with feuds like Hogan vs. Warrior; Hogan/Hart vs. Sting/Warrior which contributed to poor tv ratings and shitty ppy buy rates (of course they're not solely responsible for WCW's downfall of course), that's another discussion/argument/ debate for another time.
On another note, Warrior is slated to face Orlando Jordan in the NWE; looks like TNA wants to snatch Warrior as soon as that engagement is over. I'm not really sure to be honest. I wouldn't mind to see Warrior on tv but not as one half of the Blade Runners though. Lmao.
Charles H. aka Bad News C
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