Jim Ross
has posted a new blog, discussing last night’s RAW and more. Here are the
highlights…
On The IC Title Contender’s Tournament: No
stinkers in the tournament and felt that Barrett vs. Ziggler was especially
good. Even though the match was ‘cold’ the two men were fighting for something
which anyone watching could understand and relate to. Plus, Barrett has many of
the necessary villain traits necessary to be a villain in today’s TV Wrestling
world that most of his peers don’t exhibit.
On Heels in
Wrestling: The subtle nuances of being a main event level villain in
pro wrestling are being either ignored or simply not focused on in today’s TV
wrestling world. Too many antagonists would rather be ‘cool’ that to be truly
disliked. It has never been harder in my lifetime to be a pro wrestling villain
than it is today and that’s not a good thing. For those that think that there is
essentially no line that exists between good and evil, I’d suggest that those
that share that philosophy are out of touch with reality. Perceived good and
evil still exists in our world but don’t take my word for it…just watch the
news or read the newspaper and that goes for no matter where you
live.
On The Warrior Tribute: The Ultimate Warrior
Tribute was nicely done by WWE as it is still hard to believe that the
controversial performer passed away just a week ago after his triumphant return
to WWE at WM30 weekend.
On TNA: Seems like TNA is
signing their core talents whose contracts are either up or in need of revising.
WWE has seemingly made it clear that they have no interest in Impact talents and
will instead reply on their Performance Center for their future stars. However,
with Jeff Jarrett preparing to launch another promotion it makes sense for TNA
to be proactive. Remember this, and this can’t be over thought, the key to any
wrestling promotion is talent and television meaning one must have a core of
meaningful talent that can ‘get over’ and relate to the audience and a strong TV
presence that the masses can find and on a network where they regularly watch
other programming and not just the wrestling show.
