even during the good years it still felt bush league and had stupid shyt going on then. like I randomly ran across some dude named REDRUM on there going against Raven in 2007 I think..one of the worst matches I've ever seen.
now lets be fair, and acknowledge all the bad gimmicks in the wwe as well.
the wwe is theh king of bad gimmicks. so if TNA is bush league because of that, then what does that make the wwe?
yeah, they werent original WWF guys, BUT they came there when they were young. Feds have always swapped talent back and forth. Hall & Nash were originally WCW guys too, but they made their names while they were still young in WWF. Theres a difference between that and going somewhere after your over the hill.
And there's not ONE TNA match w/ Angle you can point me to that was better than his match with Benoit at RR 02, or better than his match with Brock at WM 19, or better than the cage match him and Benoit had on RAW.
You always go thru dark periods when trying to build ur own talent. IT happened in the mid 90's, but look what happened right after w/ the Attitude era.[DOUBLEPOST=1397522695][/DOUBLEPOST]
you mean let them appear in WWE and have a non-important role like Flair, Hogan currently, vs let them appear in TNA and be main eventing fighting/defeating talent 30 years younger.
- the attitude era? dog, half of the attitude era was piss-poor wrestling that benefited from good booking & the shock tv/jerry springer era. it wasnt because of the talent that they "developed". chit didnt become a good wrestling product until '99-00 when all those wcw cats jumped ship & they raided ecw's roster. oh and '97 was pretty cool, but barely any of those guys were wwf stars.
- i stopped watching TNA regularly not long after the hogan regime took over so im not gonna speak on what flair & hogan were doing until i brush up on it. but whenever i checked TNA out, they were moreso on-air personalities, rather than wrestlers.
- either way, lets not act like they werent prominent IN-RING wrestlers in the wwe YEAR & YEARS after their prime. with flair looking like mr burns and hogan hobbling around with his grandpa hip. and nobody complained then. yet people complained when they were in wcw 10 years EARLIER, as if they found the fountain of youth a decade later in the wwe. i mean, lets be all the way real here; i liked rock/hogan just as much as the next guy, but if that match happened at starrcade, it would be chitted on to no end.
- most of those guys youre referring to, werent exactly young when they came to the wwf either. and most of them had more years under their belts than kurt angle did when he went to TNA.
especially scott hall who got known like a decade before he went to the wwf.- yes talent was swapped regularly. no joke. the problem is, the wwf isnt held to the same standards as the others. to this day, they get away with trotting old wrestlers around in prominent roles, can sign established stars from other promotions without being told that *insert wrestler* is a wcw star, etc etc.
- angle matches? the benoit stuff might be his best. that may be arguable. he definitely has better matches in TNA than that lesnar wm19 joint. cmon now doggie.
and we can go match for match, and see that his TNA catalog is stronger.
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