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willierko
willie from new york city, joined wrestlingmarks.com on 9/7/07
Rant on TNA Tag Team Champs
by willierko on 4/7/08 7:54 PM
-AJ Styles And Tomko = Irrelevant
These two are great athletes in their own right. But in my opinion they have no right being tag team champions at the moment. Now I will admit when they won the straps at Bound for Glory I was glad that a good tag team was holding the belts. An exciting tag team had won the straps. Then again the tag belts went through a 5 month period of unimportance with title holders like the aging team 3D, Samoa Joe By Himself, Kurt Angle By Himself then with Sting then to team pac man (I still shudder at that period of horror). So at Bound For Glory that all changed. An good tag team was holding the titles. A tag team of importance as they were aligned with Christian Cage, which gave them instant credibility of being the number one faction of TNA since the demise of LAX .
But in usual TNA fashion they managed to completely fuck up something so wonderful as a Great Faction like the Christian Coalition and for the past few months we have to be force fed the crap that is the ANGLE Alliance...not to mention we never know what is up with that faction. I mean are they even a unit ? are they trusting of each other ? and why in the hell should we care...but i digress.
So where does that lead us today you might ask. It leads us to one weak ass tag team division. Yes we have talented tag teams such as LAX and The Rock N Rave Infection not to mention the TNA tag team of the year for 2007 the Murder City Machine Gunz. Also Team 3D and the weird and horrible tag team of Black Reign And Rellik.
Its pretty sad of how TNA is booking the tag Titles. There making it look like Tomko and AJ's 2 main priorities are to get under neath the skin of Christian Cage, and to protect kurt Angle from Samoa Joe and Kevin Nash. I mean lets look at Tomko and Aj's last 5 pay per views shall we :
Genesis 2007
Tomko and AJ Styles defeat The Steiner Brothers to retain the Tag Titles.
Ok no problem here. the steiners had a nice decent build up and the match wasnt horrible. Including Scott's promos leading up to the match were Steiner Funny.
Grade = B-
Turning Point 2007
No Tag Title match
6-MAN TAG: Kevin Nash & Samoa Joe & Eric Young defeated The Angle Alliance (Kurt Angle & A.J. Styles & Tomko)..
*sighs*
This is where the shit hits the fan. This pay per view was very bad in my opinion. Although this match wasnt bad it was not a pay per view match. Not even close. We see no tag title match and the of the burial of the tag titles begins.
Grade = N/A for no title match
Final Resolution 2008
TAG TITLE MATCH: A.J. Styles & Tomko defeated Samoa Joe & Kevin Nash to retain the TNA World Tag Team titles..
This match was not as bad as i thought it would be, but if I remember correctly this was a filler match. A match to keep Joe busy. A match to progress Joe's frustration so that over shadowed the fact that this was A TITLE Match. If that is not bad enough this match was completely over shadowed by The AJ/Christian/Angle drama.
Grade = D
Against All Odds 2008
TAG TITLE MATCH: A.J. Styles & Tomko defeated B.G. James & Bullet Bob Armstrong to retain the TNA Tag Team titles..
Worst match of that whole card in my opinion...do i really need to say anymore. I mean at this point I had had all I could take with the burial of the Tag Titles...complete failure.
Grade = F
Destination X 2008
SIX-MAN-TAG: Samoa Joe & Kevin Nash & Christian Cage defeated Kurt Angle & A.J. Styles & Tomko..
So we get the same match from Turning Point, this time Captain Charisma replaces Eric Young..Eric Young is so under rated...I digress...This was it for me. When I watched the match i had completely forgot that AJ and Tomko were even the champions. I just enjoyed the match for what it was. A nice decent little match that pushed Joe..nice...but the tag titles were as non existent as Bob Holly's WWE Title Run.
Grade = ....whatever.....
Lets not forget that AJ and Tomko will be in the semi main event at Lockdown as they team with Team 3D and James Storm to face off Against Christian, Rhyno, Matt Morgan and two guys who need to retire already...although I do love Kevin Nash...still hate Sting...I digress.
Good night everyone and go enjoy seeing Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin job to the wannabe La Parka and the wannabe Kane.
Comments
(6 total)
From jeff on 4/7/08 11:42 PM
I agree that the tag team division is suffering because of this stupid Angle Alliance storyline. This storyline has been going for like 3 to 6 months. I hope it ends at Lockdown. Anyway their is probably going to be a Styles/Angle rivalry which should be awesome if booked right. That's going to happen after Lockdown why else would Steiner cash in the case after Lockdown. A Steiner/Joe match doesn't sound that good to me, but hey if that's the only way to keep Angle out of the title picture then fine. I hope they drop the titles to LAX they definitely deserve those titles back.
From theminister on 4/8/08 11:09 AM
I agree that Tomko and Styles have beome irrelevant. TNA has been building a Styles v. Angle feud for like 3 months and we still haven't seen it. Styles is my favorite TNA wrestler and it pains me to see him getting wasted. As Jeff said an Angle/Styles feud could be awesome if booked right. It will probably happen after Angle drops the belt to Joe.
From 92tombstone92 on 4/8/08 2:30 PM
u may be right with the TNA tag teams and champions but WWE is doing a worst job of it because the only good tag team is London and Kendrick and when Kane and Taker team up for like a reunion of the Brothers of Destruction every 7 months or when DX does a little reunion of HBK and HHH other than that WWE sucks with the tag team division
for the TNA tag teams there probably the best tag teams around
From willierko on 4/8/08 3:43 PM
in my opinion they have 3 other good teams such as Cade and Murdoch, Yang and Moore, and Miz/Morrison are arguably the 2nd best tag team in the company
From hulkamanialives4eva on 4/9/08 4:48 AM
hey at least TNA is giving their fans tag title matches. I havent seen one in the WWE since the 15th anniversary show.
From ROHjuggalo on 4/9/08 11:39 AM
Like others said, at least TNA thinks about the tag divison. did anyone see raw on monday? Those two tag matches were the worst thing seen since Mae young giving birth to a hand. And thats bad