TNA Heavyweight Title Spoiler

by Tim Burke on Aug 10, 2010 5:06 PM EDT

From F4WOnline:

TNA is doing a storyline where Rob Van Dam vacated the TNA title due to injuries suffered from the Fortune and friends beat down of him at last night's tapings. They filmed a segment of Van Dam going out in an ambulance and are doing an injury angle.

They will be doing an eight-man tournament that will end on the 9/5 PPV show. Four first round matches will be taped on tonight's show including Kurt Angle vs. Douglas Williams.

To me this is absolutely ridiculous. They take the belt off of AJ to give it to RVD, who was clearly not happy about it:

I definitely didn’t understand it. For the life of me, I couldn’t understand it. I was very surprised that I would lose that title after holding it for so long, and to somebody who has basically been out of wrestling for over a year, and was coming in from WWE. And he should have been tired from wrestling a match before that. It was like I’m not the star I thought I was. I guess I’m just a guy in TNA.

Now they cut the legs out from him after less than 4 months? To book a tourney? No one ever cares about tourney for belts! Just another reason why TNA's going in the crapper.

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WCW mistakes. When you bring in guys from other promotions and put them over big while shitting on your home grown guys in the process, things don’t end well. Ratings are good though as of late so we’ll see what happens.

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by Geno Mrosko on Aug 10, 2010 7:22 PM EDT reply actions

Why not just put the belt on Abyss?

It’s meaningless at this point anyway.

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by John Lamb on Aug 11, 2010 10:08 AM EDT reply actions

Exactly!

Why not have Abyss destroy RVD in the match pin him clean and then injure him and take RVD off TV. But that doesn’t make sense in TNA because that would actually put Abyss over huge and they would have a hot feud to draw legit money from. Why do that when you got EV2.0? The guys that drew Hogan level money in the 90’s.

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by Major on Aug 11, 2010 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions

According to Dave Meltzer, Rob Van Dam’s going on vacation and they didn’t want him to lose the belt in the ring, so that he can come back and say that the new champion never beat him to start off a fresh feud. Of course, they’ll probably forget all about that idea by the time he’s ready to come back.

by Keith Harris on Aug 12, 2010 9:07 AM EDT up reply actions