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RAW OR IMPACT?, SECOND GENERATION STARS, JOE HENNIG AND MORE

By Buck Woodward on 2010-02-20 10:00:00

Which show will you watch first every week, Raw or Impact?

I have to watch both for the Tuesday morning hotline I will be doing on both shows, so maybe I'll flip a coin every week.  

It seems like there are a lot of second generation or better stars wrestling in the business today, especially in the WWE and their developmental territory, FCW.  Do you think it would be a good idea to start a one hour show that focused on the Second Generation Stars, maybe change Superstars into WWE Legends?  Or do you think it would be a good idea to have a Title that can be defended across all three brands, and what would you call this title or the name of the show?

There just aren't enough second generation stars to devote a weekly show just to them.  Randy Orton, Ted DiBiase, Cody Rhodes, Joe Hennig, Brett DiBiase, Richie Steamboat, Primo Colon, Carlito Colon, David Hart Smith, Natalya Neidhart... that's ten, so it would be hard to have a championship or show just for them.  However, I do think a DVD devoted to them would be really cool.

What is the latest on Joe Hennig possibly getting a call up from FCW? He was one guy I've been interested to see on the main roster, and I think they could have a pretty good opening program with him feuding with Dolph Ziggler on Smackdown. I mean you've had commentators compare Dolph to Joe's dad, and even with the "I Am Perfection" theme song, you could have a pretty good basis for a feud. I mean they've had bigger feuds over less before.

Well, Joe wasn't selected for the upcoming NXT season, so it would appear WWE isn't ready to introduce him on television yet.

I got a burning question in my head, why did TNA announce a barbed wire massacre only for it to never happen? Did they even have barbed wire in the building?

I never understood that move either.  There was no reason to tease fans at the open of the January 4th show with that match, only for the format to be "thrown out" and the match forgotten.  There were never any plans to do the barbed wire match that night.

I know y'all have been critical of TNA for running a rerun of the January 4th episode on the following Thursday instead of a new episode. But, do you think that decision was based on knowing they would be going against the National Championship Football game. Or do you think they would have done the rerun regardless of the competition?

No, that didn't have anything to do with it at all.  Honestly, it wasn't criticism as much as it was the unfortunate fact that after building up a lot of buzz on January 4th, it was 10 days before any new TNA product was on TV.  By the time the next episode aired, the buzz had died down a lot.

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