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A Modest Blog on 20 Questions and Answer Columns on TNA Wrestling
By Aaron Glazer - October 18, 2009 | Email the author

So, I posted 20 questions about TNA Wrestling, had fans respond, and wrote columns, including fan response on the answers. Well, all 20 columns are done, so here they are!

1. AJ Styles is the World Champion. Why isn’t he the focus of TNA’s television show?

Click Here for the answer to Question 1, including the ADD of Vince Russo and his love of new toys.

2. Hernandez is getting over as a monster, but what do they do when he has to actually wrestle?

Click Here for the answer to Question 2, including how to make Hernandez work and stay over like Vader.

3. Why would TNA run Main Event Mafia vs. World’s Elite heel vs. heel?

Click Here for the answer to Question 3, including building the World’s Elite’s credibility.

4. Why are none of the really good X-Division workers featured in the X-Divison?

Click Here for the answer to Question 4, including how to re-brand the X-Division.

5. What happened to Daniels? Didn’t his matches used to make sense?

Click Here for the answer to Question 5, including where Daniels started going downhill and how to fix that.

6. If the Knockouts draw the best ratings, why isn’t the rest of the show booked more to work like that division?

Click Here for an answer to Question 6, including the great concern for fans of the Knockouts.

7. Who thought “The Pope” D’angelo Dinero was a good idea? Seriously, worst name ever.

Click Here for the answer Number 7, including some of the worst wrestling names today.

8. Has Mick Foley gotten anyone over at all since he came to TNA?

Click Here for the answer to Number 8, including how Mick Foley has been best used in TNA.

9. Lacey Von Erich was apparently gorgeous and a terrible wrestler. What other second and third generation stars had the look but not the skill?

Click Here for the answer to Number 9, along with some of the worst second generation stars to step in the ring.

10. Where did Matt Morgan’s ring psychology go?

Click Here for the answer to Question 10, including who Matt Morgan should be studying in the ring.

11. I know WWE doesn’t like managers, but TNA wants Lashley to be huge and he can’t talk at all. Why didn’t they give him a manager?

Click Here for the answer to Question 11, along with a discussion of the role and use of managers in wrestling.

12. With AJ Styles and Matt Morgan signed for five more years each, does that mean we shouldn’t worry about them being buried since they can be built around or should be worried since they can’t leave?

Click Here for the answer to Question 12, including considerations of a regime change in TNA.

13. With The Motor City Machine Guns, Beer Money, and The British Invasion, why isn’t the tag title scene better?

Click here for an answer to Question 13, along with what needs to be done to make all the dominoes in TNA’s Tag Division fall into place.

14. Simon Diamond and D-Lo Brown: Are they the two worst road agents ever (non-Disco Inferno division)?

Click Here for the answer to Number 14, along with what makes a good Road Agent.

15. WWE has no blood and it hurts the product sometimes. TNA has plenty of blood and it hurts the product sometimes. Which is better?

Click Here for an answer to Question 15, along with a unanimous answer from readers!

16. If Kevin Nash is such a big deal, why does he have the mid-card belt, the Legends title? Also, is that the worst named title in wrestling?

Click Here for an answer to Question 16, along with the potential uses of Nash and the Legends Title.

17. Is Suicide more over than Kaz would be if given the exact same level of push?

Click Here for an answer to Number 17, including two new ways to take Kaz.

18. Around what percentage of TNA matches end with run-ins or cheating?

Click Here for an overview of AJ Styles vs. Kurt Angle from the Impact before Bound for Glory. The main answer to Number 18 was “Too Many” which isn’t worth a column.

19. Am I the only one under whelmed by the Bound For Glory card besides AJ vs. Sting? The show always delivered in the past, but I’m getting worried.

Click Here for a full preview of the show!

20. If TNA manages to sign Colt Cabana, how should he be used?

Click Here for an answer to Question 20, including Good Times, Great Memories.

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