Sorry Rey, not about you, but I miss the reviews. Here’s Kyle Fitta:
Last Thursday night, I was listening to the Observer podcast. On the show, they were talking about various things. One of the major topics that they address that stuck out in my head was Hulk Hogan’s promo on Reaction. They summarized what he said, and from what I heard, it made me realize this quite possibly might be the dumbest promo I have ever heard on a wrestling show. I looked on sites to see if somebody quoted word for word what the Hulkster said. Nobody, despite one person who didn’t exactly quote it, reviewed this show. So I put matters in my own hands and I actually wasted some of my ratio to download this show. But it wasn’t so bad because there actually was a very good match on the show between Motorcity Machine Guns—arguably the best tag-team in wrestling currently vs. Generation Me—who, despite their ostentatious, athletic move-set, play an exceptionally well heel duo. The fight was stiff and assorted well with usual high spots. Anyways, before I get off topic—here is what Hulk Hogan had to say:
“We are so real, it’s unbelievable. If you don’t get over, like I said, you’re fired. If you don’t get over, if you don’t put asses in seats, if you don’t put the coinage in the piggy bank, you’re fired. No more games. No more kayfabe. ‘It’s a work’ ‘I’ve won 34 tag-team belts.’ Who gives a damn how many fake belts you’ve won? If you don’t draw money, you’re fired around here. If you don’t put asses in seats, you’re gone.â€
This has to be the most detrimental shoot/promo I have ever read. Primarily, TNA isn’t going to start working all shoot fights, so stop fake advertizing. Generally, most wrestling fans know what looks real or not. All Hogan is doing is lying to the fans. Promises that aren’t help up are a way to lose loyal fans. I just don’t get what relevance that has in the Immortal angle. How is this any way serviceable to the story? The Immortal angle is about a group of wrestlers trying to take over TNA, so what does that have to do with drawing money or putting asses in seats? And if EV 2.0 overcomes Immortal, does it not matter if they don’t draw? Do they still get fired?
In addition, TNA right now has feuds based upon titles; one being the entire feud with Team 3D that means nothing now because titles doesn’t mean anything. Jeff Hardy is also the TNA champion. Therefore, according to Hogan’s logic, Jeff Hardy doesn’t matter because he holds a fake belt that means zilch. So if titles don’t matter, why did Hulk Hogan help Jeff Hardy win the best in the first place?
Succinctly, Hulk Hogan is saying there is no purpose to a wrestling show other than making money. While that is true, you don’t shoot a promo on TV saying that in-between “fake†storylines. It diminishes the value of every angle on the TV because you are saying there is no importance of it. The perplexity, lack of logic, and thought process of Hogan and Dixie Carter, for actually allowing Hogan to do this promo, is astonishing to me. It renders the entire point of the moot of what wrestling is based upon—the suspense of belief—and it’s far more detrimental to your program to expose that everything in wrestling is fake and none of it matters.
