{"id":48369,"date":"2022-01-08T00:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48369"},"modified":"2022-01-08T00:04:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T05:04:13","slug":"a-wrestling-analogy-im-proud-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48369","title":{"rendered":"A wrestling analogy I\u2019m proud of"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve ever watched much Impact Wrestling in my lifetime, whether they were NWA-TNA, TNA, TNA-Impact, Global Force Wrestling, or whatever iteration the promotion ever was under the ownership of the Jarretts, Dixie Carter, or whomever.\u00a0 The peak of my viewership of the product was when a distant acquaintance and former schoolmate of mine, Sonjay Dutt was a regular performer, and I was curious to see a guy I went to grade, middle and high school with, live out the dream he always had as long as I had known him, in being a professional wrestler.<\/span><\/p>\n

But in this day and age when professional wrestling seems to be doing pretty well, with the WWE and AEW sitting comfortably on top of the industry, there are all sorts of tiers beneath\u00a0 the top of the mountain, and if I had to make a pick, Impact Wrestling would probably be the #3 promotion in North America.\u00a0 Followed by other promotions like the NWA, maybe Ring of Honor again one day, along with a litany of even smaller independent promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much is being made these days with all the talent that\u2019s been liberated (read: fired) by the WWE, and how AEW is hoovering up many of the names as soon as their non-compete clauses expire.\u00a0 Personally, I think AEW\u2019s roster is bloating to unstable proportions, but they\u2019ve yet to collapse under the weight of their talent and their payroll yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw the card for Impact\u2019s Hard to Kill<\/em> PPV, and thought that damn, that\u2019s a pretty loaded card.\u00a0 Numerous championship matches, and what I really like is how Ring of Honor champions are just kind of randomly showing up at other promotion\u2019s shows, to defend ROH blets, and Jon Gresham only adds to the credibility of the card.\u00a0 In a different point of my life, I\u2019d literally drop what I was doing and hop on a flight to Dallas to try and watch this with my brother, that\u2019s how decent of a show I think this has the potential to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

AEW has been doing a lot of impressive stuff over the last few weeks, and I hear the chatter, but as I\u2019ve made fairly clear that I just have a hard time caring about the things they\u2019re doing.\u00a0 In all fairness, I have a hard time caring of what the WWE is doing lately too, but the difference is that I still have Peacock access and can see their PPVs.But despite my general ambivalence towards Impact historically, I\u2019m finding that I\u2019m rooting for them in the midst of all these wrestling promotional battlegrounds.\u00a0 And I made an analogy that made more and more sense the more I thought about it, and I have to say that I think it\u2019s pretty accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The WWE is obviously the Yankees; they have money, they have history, and they\u2019re the biggest baddest franchise in the business.\u00a0 AEW is the Dodgers, who are blending all sorts of new-school strategy and flinging obscene amounts of money out on the market to bring in top-tier talent to bolster their roster, even to excess.\u00a0 But that makes a promotion like Impact, the Oakland A\u2019s, a cash-strapped promotion that does well enough, but has to really maximize the value out of every asset they have and try and play smarter than the richer competition in order to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when it comes to sports fandom, who doesn\u2019t appreciate the plucky underdogs, especially when going up against the big bad rich opposition?\u00a0 Hoping for Impact to do well has no consequence or conflict to any allegiances if I had any, and when the day is over, the successes of other promotions outside of the WWE and AEW are better for the industry as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever wrestlers are released from WWE, most of the time I\u2019m usually like, man that guy\/girl would be perfect for New Japan, or Impact, but just about everyone ends up in AEW, due to the money they\u2019re flinging.\u00a0 I don\u2019t hide that I have these general ideas about promotions, and I think most big white oafs always stand a chance at being the next big bad foreign heel in NJPW, and if there\u2019s one thing that Impact has always done well historically, is that they\u2019ve always cultivated good women\u2019s wrestling.\u00a0 Even long before the WWE did, Impact doesn\u2019t get enough credit for their contributions to women\u2019s wrestling, and Hard to Kill has some pretty good women\u2019s matches on deck that I most definitely wouldn\u2019t take a piss break through.<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost makes me think I should perhaps seek out some replicas of the Knockouts Tag Blets, so that my girls can be double champions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve ever watched much Impact Wrestling in my lifetime, whether they were NWA-TNA, TNA, TNA-Impact, Global Force Wrestling, or whatever iteration the promotion ever was under the ownership of the Jarretts, Dixie Carter, or whomever.\u00a0 The peak of my viewership of the product was when a distant acquaintance and former schoolmate … Continue reading A wrestling analogy I\u2019m proud of<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,151,79,100,83,69,54],"class_list":["post-48369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-blets","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-observations","tag-television","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48371,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48369\/revisions\/48371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}