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Paul Jordan sent along the link to the following video, teasing that on next week's Impact Wrestling, the company will recap the happenings of Triplemania with talents commenting on the Sexy Star-Rosemary incident. Unless they are going to admit to the business being a work on their own television, which would be madness, it appears the company is going to turn the situation into a work. You can see the video below:
Note from Mike: I am speaking personally here, and not for PWInsider.com, but if this video is part one of a plan to bring in Sexy Star for a grudge match against Rosemary, in my opinion, it's a horrible, tawdry idea.
One, it's rewarding a talent for injuring someone else. Why should Sexy Star get a payday over any other woman who works for GFW after what she did?
Two, it's forcing the person who was injured to go back in the ring with someone they can't trust. What if Rosemary doesn't want to do this?
Three, it just comes off like the company is so devoid of ideas they need to latch onto anything that fans are talking about, while ignoring that all the talk revolved around disgust and outrage over the situation. Therefore, they are not going to get the fans to then invest in seeing a match between the two. Everyone involved should be better than this, especially given the collective wrestling mindset of the current creative team. I get the idea of controversy creating cash, but will it?
Four, even if GFW changes the parameter of what happened to fit a "worked" storyline, it's an extremely insulting position to put Rosemary in, especially since she has publicly denounced Sexy Star as a liar and someone who took advantage of her. Putting Rosemary into a story of that nature comes off looking like the company isn't concerned about her well being, just about what they can get out of a bad situation.
Five, even the company is aiming to add this story to say, Bound for Glory, it's not going to add one buyrate because the audience buying that show is already buying it. The entire premise will be based around a grudge of someone shooting when they should have been working, which means that every other match on the show is just going to be a work, so why should the audience care? Is this going to make the company more money? Even in Mexico? If it happens at Universal, the audience gets in for free anyway. I can't see how this could be a gamechanger or even something that could make a major difference in rebuilding GFW/Impact, although I am sure someone from the company could argue otherwise. I invite them to feel free to come on record with me and explain that mindset, if that is the case.
One can argue that people were emotionally pulled into the situation, but that's because it was a legitimate situation. The second the audience senses it's work, they are not going to have that same level of investment. They are going to look at it, shake their heads and move on.
So, we will see how this transpires next week but the basic idea of this is something I see very little positives from and GFW needs more positives, not negatives - and this is not anything that is going to make fans sit up and take notice and feel like they need to spend money on the GFW brand.
1:02 PM ADDENDUM:
Since GFW released their video tease about the Sexy Star-Rosemary situation at Triplemania being covered on this week's Impact Wrestling episode (and my commentary on why turning this into a storyline was such, in my opinion, a bad idea), it should be noted that two different GFW sources have reached out to PWInsider.com to state the company is not doing an angle with Sexy Star or planning on bringing her in.
We are told the company will be covering the incident, since it was such a big talking point among fans, but it is not part of a storyline leading to a match or anything of that nature involving Star vs. Rosemary. Since the company is building to a GFW vs. AAA storyline, I can see how they could incorporate the incident into the thread of that story, but based on what we were told this afternoon, it appears there will be no attempt to make money off Star shooting on Rosemary.
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