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When TNA signed The Hardcore Legend, Mick Foley, it was a huge moment for the company and another huge name in wrestling to add to their list of former World Champions. I for one was delighted when they signed him, hoping he may wrestle again and have some more good matches. Even if just used as a personality rather than wrestler, he would obviously do TNA a lot of good.
I think the angle they have gone for has actually worked quite well. They didn't put him in the ring straight away, which would have been tempting, but revealed him as the executive shareholder. I like Foley as an authority figure, he gets a lot of mic time, and he is involved in the biggest angle going right now, so I like this. I like his alignment with the TNA frontline and Jeff Jarrett, and I'm glad he hasn't turned heel like some said he might. He has cut some great promos so far, including the one on last week's Impact, and it was good to see him back in the ring at Genesis, even if he did seem a little rusty.
My only criticism would be that his first match should have been something more meaningful. I know it was a big match in terms of the angle, but Kip in the match and the fact that it was a 6 man tag made it seem less special than Foley's ring return should have been.
Basically, my question is, are you happy with the way Foley has and is being booked since he arrived in TNA?
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Re: Do you approve of the way TNA have booked Foley?
I really havent kept up with the storyline behind it all, but so far one match in a few months, Im happy with that. However, I think Cornette, Double J, Foley, all in positions of power on the same side it too much. One of them is going to have to turn heel and I was thinking it would be Foley last night.
Re: Do you approve of the way TNA have booked Foley?
I'm hating Foley's position. Basically, he's filling up the Frontline space when it'd be much better to be using the youngsters if you think about the future of TNA. He's obviously not drawing them a whole lot of buys or ticket sales, as shown by what they were doing to get rid of Geneis tickets. They'd be having the same result without Foley anyway.
If I was TNA, I'd be questioning why I even hired the guy in the first place. The way they've used him has not added anything.
Re: Do you approve of the way TNA have booked Foley?
The guy hasn't main evented a PPV in nearly a decade, and has lost pretty much every match he's had since 2000, and yet he wins his TNA debut in a PPV main event?
Does that sound anything like smart?
Foley being added to the Frontline is just as bad as Team 3D and Rhino, if not worse. Atleast with Rhino, he helped put TNA on the map, and you could try and argue in TNA's retard-logic that after their fued with the X-Division, Team 3D were "humbled". Foley just comes in as a guy who buys the company out of nowhere and now is suddenly sticking up for these guys he's never really met before (in TNA).
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Re: Do you approve of the way TNA have booked Foley?
How is it ridiculous that Foley would stick up for those guys? The nature of the angle is such that he would have to take one side over the other, and he obviously realises that what the Main Event Mafia are doing is wrong. He cares about the business and the future of the business, and we watched those guys in TNA over the years, citing them as what made it great. He said all this in his early promos on this angle. I don't really see the problem with that at all.
As for him winning, his latest promo covered that. You expect TNA to have him job just because WWE did? He was determined to do the best he could in this one due to what happened to BG James, his belief in the Frontline's cause and all the bad things the MEM have done recently. He said that for one night, he would be as good as he ever was. I don't see the problem with somebody going on sheer determination and managing to get the job done.
That's the great thing about Foley. His promos can make most things work.
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Re: Do you approve of the way TNA have booked Foley?
Him being on their side isn't ridiculous, him leading the charge is.
My point about him winning is just to show how badly TNA fail to build their own stars. Instead of giving the spotlight to a young guy who could benefit from it, they give it a guy whose nearly a decade past "retiring". Foley hasn't been relevant since 2006 and yet he's main-eventing a PPV. I just do not understand TNA's booking.
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Him being on their side isn't ridiculous, him leading the charge is.
My point about him winning is just to show how badly TNA fail to build their own stars. Instead of giving the spotlight to a young guy who could benefit from it, they give it a guy whose nearly a decade past "retiring". Foley hasn't been relevant since 2006 and yet he's main-eventing a PPV. I just do not understand TNA's booking.
He's a draw though. Foley being in a match is the only reason I watched the PPV.
As long as it gets AJ and Joe over in the long run I am not too bothered. As I said though, I would have given AJ the win instead of having Foley get the pin. It was a crappy finish too. A sloppy DDT on a chair.
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Foley is a draw? I would bet my house the buyrates beg to differ.
Like I say, hasn't main evented PPV since 2000.
But its Foley. You don't think his first match in TNA was anything of interest for many fans?
EDIT: And by the way, you're wrong. Vengeance 2007. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 20 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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The only way Foley would be a draw for me is if he is booked in some sort of gimmick match. The man is hella up there in age and he has never had the most wrestling talent in the world. I'd go as far to say that the only reason he had a job in wrestling and the main reason he is popular is because he is willing to take huge bumps.
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