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AWESOME KONG'S TNA RETURN, DEAN AMBROSE LOSING SO OFTEN, THIS PAST MONDAY'S RAW AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2015-01-08 10:00:00
I'm very excited that Awesome Kong returned to TNA, but I thought she had no desire to return, what made her change her decision?

I don't know 100% what made her change her mind, but I think it was a combination of the right offer, the fact that WWE obviously wasn't bringing her back anytime soon and possibly the new management in TNA. Kong left during the Hogan/Bischoff era while Vince Russo was booking. This is a totally different management.

What is the deal with Dean Ambrose? He is over with the fans, has great matches, but he is constantly losing in his feuds (first to Rollins, then to Bray Wyatt). Does the WWE (i.e. Vince) want us to lose interest in him and think he is not going to be able to step up to the main event status? I love exciting matches as much as the next fan, and maybe I am a bit old school that thinks a good feud will have the victories go back and forth a bit, but right now Ambrose seems like he is forever destined to be in the mid-card and will never be given a real chance to showcase what he can do at the top. I want the guy to win big, but don’t think it will ever happen now.

Everyone has to lose matches at some point. It may be that WWE management feels that the losses won't hurt him. There are many cases of WWE having someone lose and then pushing him hard because the feeling is that the fans won't remember and will accept the push. I don't think they are killing Ambrose because he's getting in a lot of offense and fighting a hard fight, but certainly, endless losses will wreck him long-time. We will have to see.

Considering that Vince is always giving direction to the Main Broadcast team during the show, how does he give this kind of direction for the international commentators? Specifically, the ones who translate in other studios for the overseas markets.

I am sure that many of those announcers also speak English, so they receive their marching orders and produce what the company wants.

I'm was a huge fan of 24 and the Jack Bauer character. One thing about the Jack Bauer character is for the safety of bigger people he'll risk or sacrifice the safety of one civilian. Do you think if John Cena had allowed Seth Rollins to curb stomp Edge because he's just 1 person and authority being back effects the entire roster it would haven given Cena that "heel but not a heel" character? I think fans who boo him might cheer him for that little attitude he lacks rather then that pathetic sad puppy eyed look we got the next week on RAW. It's not like Rollins was gonna kill Edge anyways. He could of said risk getting him paralyzed and Edge recovers.

That's possible but it wasn't a choice because the reality is that Edge cannot do anything physical in WWE, so while the idea you are laying out is pretty damn interesting, it was never on the table as a possibility. WWE would never, ever, ever put Edge's neck in that sort of danger.

Was the Jan. 5 RAW intentionally a big F U to the fans? Seriously. It felt like one of NWO-dominated Nitros that dragged on forever. The live crowd was dead, almost everyone fans enjoy watching was squashed and the announcing was atrocious. And as you wrote, we know the firing stipulations won't last because WWE stipulations never last. Fans arent mad at the "firings". They just don't care. How could anyone look at that show on paper and think it was a good way to kickoff the New Year?

You would have to ask Vince McMahon all of these things. He was the one that decided the entire show needed to be re-written five hours before they went on the air, according to sources we've heard from.

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