I hear you man.... but thats kinda harsh.... I dont know that man, nor what he's been through or going through. So its really hard to take stuff like that as concrete facts (lazy and etc). One of my boys is an indie wrestler, thats who I went to the show tonight with... him and some of his fellow indie friends. Just hearing some of them talk about this shyt put things in a different perspective.
I believe guys on the bigger stage more or less do it for the money and are more lazy than guys on the smaller unguaranteed stages. Every show counts for them and they do it less frequency vs pretty much being on the road 320 days a month and after awhile just becoming numb and going through the motions.
Plus they just come off more personable and humble and less self entitled. Everyone was super friendly after the show. Pope was taking mad pics, shaking hands and signing shyt
Sidenote...... my boy knows Abyss so I got to see him briefly and I also met some guy from ROH named Caprice Coleman who was here with his son.
caprice coleman is a good guy.
a hometown grassroots guy from the hardy's indy era or so.
he socially knows the hardy's.
so it makes sense he was there.
i feel this was a legacy title run for hardy.
which i get if we were talking tags.
in singles, i would have made hardy.
have to get in shape and prove himself.
way before i gave him a legacy title run for cap to a solid all around career.
imo, you have hardy lose to eciii at bfg,
then, hardy comes back in shape with some aesthetics.
then you put him over in that title run.
the renewed focused aged grappler title run.
not the aged fat overshape legacy title run.
this shyt is like a legacy last run for someone like billy graham.
vince would never pull the trigger on.
even if graham came in, in shape unlike hardy.
i can't honor this, i would have rather seen an ey heel run with the belt.
all because ey is the type of guy who got a legacy run, but at least ey was in shape.
plus, played up the patsy transistional role.
to create the last great swerve in wrasslin of the bdc takes over tna.
then, ey went out and then came back even more focused.
down to his look and persona as a ramping up next level heel.
that is the guy you give a legacy title run to, and the instance if they were an old timer.
like bully ray's title run, he had to refocus himself and at least be in the best shape for bully ray.
this motherfukker hardy has the same body type.
of a grown up bart simpson working as a stripper.
i get the same loser vibe.
i got from bart in adulthood, from matt hardy.
i have to turn the tv, anytime matt hardy is on it cause this is what matt hardy is in real life.
art barr
also, tna missed out on gold by not having jeff be eciii's assistant.
leading to some type of collision with matt, too.