Update on Lethal Lockdown and TNA Bound For Glory

- Below is the updated announced card for TNA Bound For Glory, coming out of last night's iMPACT. Team Fortune has the numbers advantage going into Lethal Lockdown.

TNA World Heavyweight Title Match
Kurt Angle vs. Mr. Anderson vs. Jeff Hardy

Lethal Lockdown
AJ Styles, Kazarian, Beer Money and Matt Morgan vs. Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Sabu, Stevie Richards and Rhino

Rob Van Dam vs. Abyss

Wait a second, don't they have a PPV that is designed around Lethal Lockdown? TNA has nothing I want to see right now.

It's not different than any WWE gimmick PPV they have since last year. Personally, I believe WWE is stupider for overkilling gimmicks by theming PPVs around them than TNA for doing a 2nd Lethal Lockdown match this year.

With all due respect, CJ, I can clearly respect and accept your disdain for TNA but I think that you're sometimes nitpicking just for the sake of bashing TNA. I won't go as far as compare it to former member TNALDF's hate of WWE and the McMahon family but dude, you're dangerously close.

Sure, but that is one of the things I am not liking about WWE right now. I would like to see them stop having gimmick matches as PPV theme's ASAP. I accept that I might be nitpicking because of my disdain for TNA's current product though. Let me run down what I think of their "biggest show of the year" so far.

I don't want to see Jeff Hardy do anything, except be thrown in NCST Prison. Flair vs. Foley was cool, 4 years ago. Yet more of TNA doing something WWE has already done, but yeah, I pretty much hate everything about TNA right now. Unlike TNAguy, I don't place all of the blame on the company President. I place the blame on Hogan and Bisch, turning TNA into WCW Redux, the even shittier sequel. Dixie mistake is letting those 2 numb nuts run her promotion into the ground. Everything that use to make TNA stand out from WWE is gone and has been replaced with stuff WWE, WCW, and ECW have done in the past.

Which pretty much sums up my point about Dixie's situation. I don't believe that when TNA's demise will come, anybody will place the finger on her for it. Dixie's mistake from day 1 has been to surround herself with people that don't necessarily have the best interests of TNA in mind. These individuals are solely in it to stick it to Vince McMahon for the sake of recreating the Monday Night Wars.

That's probably the saddest part in the whole situation with TNA at the moment: many people offered to help TNA, providing that Dixie made the necessary changes to make it happen. Paul Heyman wanted carte blanche to take control of TNA's structure to make it profitable and meaningful for the rest of the world. Kevin Sullivan could've also been quite the helping hand in the creative process, since he booked WCW for many years before Vince Russo took over. Many people have criticized Jim Cornette for his short temper and disdain of current TNA authority figures but I still value Cornette's opinion and knowledge of the wrestling business and if I were Dixie, I would definitely think twice before refusing anybody's proposition to turn TNA around. Maybe it's because it would mean that Hogan & Bischoff running it didn't work (DUH!) and that would mean for her to concede victory to her detractors but at least, she could've given it a try. To be honest, TNA will need to pull a miracle out of their ass to reel in respect and credibility from its detractors.

I think TNA can survive just as it is right now. I don't see Spike TV getting rid of Impact, since it is their highest rated program, but I don't think TNA can move forward in their current state. Going after WWE, on Monday Nights, was really fuckin dumb and a huge failure and that stupid move proves your point about Hogan and Bisch looking to stick it to the WWE. Their stupid little vendetta is holding TNA down, plain and simple. I think a rival promotion would be good for the business in general, but TNA is not a rival to the WWE, period.

Unlike TNAguy, I don't think Dixie Carter is imbodies everything that is wrong with wrestling and the world in general. I think she went to Hogan with the intent to build TNA and Hogan sold her on his little agenda. Now, she is stuck with them for 2 years and firing them now would be admitting failure and that failure would be even harder to over come then the Monday Night War thing they did earlier this year.

I totally agree with you on this one. Like every promoter, Dixie Carter wants her promotion to be successful and she actually did what any inexperienced promoter would've done: go to people who were successful in the business to help her out. But, as we both mentioned, they have their own agenda, which is detrimental to the growth and credibility of TNA. So, like I said, Dixie's only mistake is to trust the wrong people to put her promotion in their hands.

I don't enjoy bashing TNA. OK, I do a little bit, but I would love to have another viable, entertaining wrestling show to watch. I will never chose TNA over the WWE, but I would watch them both. There was a time where I watched Raw on Mon, ECW on Tue, Impact on Thur, and SD on Fri. Right now, TNA has nothing to offer me and the things they do have to offer, I feel they are miss using right now and buring under stuff the WWE has already done very recently.