Thought of the Day: TNA Needs Some Usos
More on my comment last night of TNA has no soul.If you’ve been watching Impact lately, it’s pretty clear that there’s not a lot of life in TNA. A big part of that is there’s very little that’s supposed to be fun. Other than Bad Influence, no one seems like they’re having fun out there. You have Aces and 8’s vs. Anderson in a feud about trying to injure someone’s neck, you have a world title tournament which is always serious, Angle’s feud involves him nearly being paralyzed twice. Nothing comes off as lighthearted or fun.
This is where the Usos come in. Now before you ask, no I’m not suggesting they jump because that’s not the point. However, let’s look at the Usos for a bit. They have good matches, the fans are into them, and they’re definitely not a serious act. They do their Siva Tao thing to fire up the crowd, fly around the ring, then dance when they win. It’s a fun act that always fires the crowd up and just lets them have fun enjoying wrestling for a change. TNA needs something like that. Just let some guys go out there and have fun without some serious story behind them. It would be a very nice breath of air on Impact.
I get you. But then we run into the same issue TNA has had for a good while. Lack of time. You’d think with all the emphasis they put on Youtube, they’d try to run a second show made up of house show matches and TNA365 vids on their channel. It would certainly clear up time on Impact if we got a weekly ECIII squash without it being Impact.
I’ve wondered for years why they don’t do that with Xplosion. It’s right there and yet it’s used for panel discussions that mean nothing and random matches that don’t advance anything. It’s a wasted opportunity.
Isn’t that what Bad Influence have been doing?
Hence why I said “other than Bad Influence.”
However they need more than that. First of all, Bad Influence is a heel act, meaning it’s still hard to cheer for them. Second, they’re on TV maybe 8 minutes out of a two hour show. A second act like this wouldn’t hurt. That’s what the X-Division would be good at, assuming an X-Division actually existed.