Starting off, let's talk about the possible use of TNA's version of the nWo, what ever TNA ends up calling the group, if anything.

Some are pleased with the arrival of the legends, Hall, Pac and Hogan, while others seem to be very displeased with it and are calling the return a rehashed WCW, which we all know in the end failed because of older generation superstars like these guys taking the spotlight from the younger guys who needed to be built as stars to save the company. I can truly understand everyone's concerns and those are not pleased to see the returns of these "old timers"(so to speak). However if Hogan and Bischoff have truly learned something from the fall of WCW, they will know that things have to be different and if they do things much different, these legends can be used to revolutionize the wrestling business once again for TNA. This time it would result in them coming in to help build stars and not take the spotlight away from them. Based on the promos in which were done on the January 4th Impact debut on Monday Night going head to head vs Raw it seems as if they are taking this approach. What I would like to talk about in regards to this whole topic, is where I would go with this angle and how I think it can be truly used to the best of its potential to help TNA grow into a future threat to the WWE.

There is no doubt whether you like the older guys involved in wrestling whomever they may be, like an NHL hockey team trying to win a stanley cup the use of veterans are necessary and helpful in a run and in wrestling I believe it's no different. Every experienced athlete has something they can bring to the wrestling business and can use to help younger encourage, build and inspire young stars. Among that they also have the chance to come in and bring some older fan base that have followed their careers Hall, Nash, Hogan, Waltman may be past their prime as far as their wrestling days go as far as being the "spotlight" of every show, but numbers don't lie they can still draw fans according to TNA's Impact on Monday, January 4th with the show drawing it's highest rating ever. So in my opinion these guys should be around for certain reasons and dohave a lot to bring if used the right most effective way. So let's get to it.

The debut of these on January 4th told a simple story to me. These old guys want to come in and take the spot they had in WCW when they were in the spotlight, meaning it will be all about them again and who cares about everyone else. Now I think there is nothing wrong with this approach and here where I would go with it.

Every week the nWo(i will refer to them as this until TNA gives the faction a new name) comes out and does their classic attacks on younger TNA stars trying to send the message "we're back and once again to take over". They can interupt promos, matches, backstage segments resulting in them trying to gain power at the expense of younger talent. However this time around the younger guys take a stance and step up against the faction telling them this is not your time, it's our and we are not letting you take the spotlight from us, thus creating the young stars vs the veterans. I would take guys like Morgan, Hernandez, and Jeff Hardy.

Continuing on, Mick Foley at the end of Monday's Impact debut after he tried to confront Hogan was laid out by the nWo at the end of the show. I would use Foley to create or be the leader of the younger generation stars forming a group of something like "The Young Blood". Foley expresses that he is all about young guys and doesn't like the fact that the nWo is here and that he and his group of young stars are not letting them come in here, take over and steal the spotlight that they are so undeserving of. This could lead to.....

The Outsiders Hall and Nash(formerly Razor Ramon and Diesil) vs the tag team of Hernandez and Matt Morgan feud to be created. Than you take Jeff Hardy who joins the group of the "Young Bloods" to bring some already achieved young star power to the group to take part in a feud with Sean Waltman(formerly 123 Kid, Syxx Pac or X Pac). These two feuds would create what i think could be credible use for the nWo with Hernandez and Morgan eventually winning the feud in the end and Jeff Hardy winning the Waltman feud. Now Morgan and Hernandez vs the Outsiders might not end up being the most exciting feud wrestling wise because Hall and Nash are obviously shells of their former self(s), but the use of them would help further build two young guys who are the future part of the future of TNA. Next Jeff Hardy vs Waltman creates the younger star of the nWo vs the oldest star of the Young Bloods, but still creates a younger vs older type of match that can actually be the most entertaining of the faction feud. The last time I saw Sean Waltman wrestle he still had something left and if that is still the case, wrestling against Jeff Hardy who still has plenty to bring in the ring can possible add an enjoyable match to the faction war. Now if Hogan ends up being a part of the group and the leader of the nWo you can maybe have a Foley vs Hogan match of leader vs leader at a Bound for Glory event. Bound for Glory would be the event that after tons of build up or weekly Impact promos/segments of heated alteractions between both factions would be the night where all these matches would take place, whether it be the conclusion of the angle or continued on.

If this whole storyline is used in a some sort of direction like this new stars will be created with the use of older generation stars in what I feel would be an interesting and beneficial part of a TNA show. Later on, if the angle caught fire and fans were really into it still, they could add a few more members to each group and shake things up with different feuds and keep it going for a little while. The nWo could bring some young guys to side with them like a heel turned Shelley and Sabin(maybe being tag team champions at that point) while in a feud with Beer Money joining the Young Bloods. Either way if the angle is continued add a few more members to each group, but the nWo bringing in younger stars this time because they are failing in their attempts to beat the Young Bloods by themselves. On a final note to this angle if things are gone this route I see plenty of possiblities and a perfect use of what once was the best faction in the history of the business the nWo and the creation of a group of youngsters who are going to take this company to the next level of where wrestling should be and needs to be in 2010.

While all this is going TNA should be generating a hot angle of younger generations superstars vs older generation superstars, but still have plenty of opportunities at other feuds with the amount of talented wrestler's they do have. Here are other feuds I would go with among the angle above.

Deangelo Dinero vs Desmond Wolfe: Anyone who watched the January 4th Impact saw Dinero make short work of Wolfe in a roll up for the 1, 2, 3 and victory. Despite the short match it contained good action with two of TNA's best today and stars of the future. After Wolfe lost he looked shocked and angry, as if Dinero should not have won and pulled a rabbit out of his hat. I would have him say just that Dinero got a lucky victory that won't happen again and they create a feud between the two. Both men are good on the microphone and in the ring so I can see them putting together great segments and matches. Wolfe could win the next match, but Dinero holding their first match he won over Wolfe's head to create a third match to be carried onto Bound for Glory hopefully adding a great match to the biggest pay per view card of the year.

Motor City Machine Guns or Beer Money vs The British Invasion: TNA has a great possibility at building a tag team division with natural tag teams that have chemistry together and a tag team division that we have not seen taken serious and being strongly built in a long time. If they are going to outdue the WWE this is one way they can do, as the WWE has no real tag team division. I would put either one of these teams against The British Invasion to have them eventually win the titles. Later on I will end up putting them against each other (that being the Machine Guns vs Beer Money) after the Invasion losing the titles having Beer Money being the heel group against a young talent and funny Sabin/Shelley group. I would end up having this feud really rise up again or become most heated at the time of Bound for Glory and you have a great tag team match on the card now.

Next another division that needs to be built up is the X division. The X division is what can really seperate TNA from being truly different from any wrestling organization out there and in my opinion better than any other if they truly utilize it to it's potential and give it the attention it really deserves. What this really means is they have to give the division superstars weekly matches, promos and segments that put over the X division just as much as heavyweights. The X division needs strong focus on the show in order to truly gain importance meaning for TNA and this not only must involve them making the X division a strong focus on Impact but having a strong spot on every pay per view card. There is no reason that TNA cannot feature an X division match on any pay per view as a main event or one of the main events on a card and put it right up there with the heavyweight division. This is wrestling that people want to see and TNA should have realized this by now or should realize it and if they do and give it lots of focus, I truly believe it will draw plenty of new fans over time. Right now I would focus this division around guys like Homicide, Suicide, Shannon Moore, Rob Van Dam (if he appears) Jeff Hardy in the future maybe, Jay Lethal without the rehashed macho man type gimmick, no doubtingly current champ Amazing Red and put Daniels back in the division. Focus on a small group like these guys particularly or maybe even some new young arrivals who are suitable athletic wise for this division and build storylines for these men particularly not just containing of good matches, but real feuds, real heels and real faces. The X division does put on great matches, but really has no personality of focus behind the wrestlers in the division which will and can make all the difference.

For this division I would love to see them end having a Bound for Glory match between Christopher Daniels vs Homicide given a high spot on the card with Daniels being the heel and Homicide being the ruthless face that we never see.

The women's division right now I think is actually pretty strong and surely much stronger than the WWE's with TNA giving us great matches containing of great women wrestler's we haven't seen in a while or maybe ever. The division is actually wrestling and TNA doesn't give us the so unecessary bra and panties type of matches that these days in wrestling are just shameless, pointless television that is not wrestling but a "sex show". TNA claims to want to be a wrestling company the women's division is one area where they are showing that, while the WWE still tries to exemplify their women as sex objects and tries to use the women's division for mostly sexual type angles or references to get their wrestler's over. TNA should continue to do what they are doing with a little more focus on the personalities of their women athletes. At Bound for Glory I would have the main event for the singles title Awesome Kong vs Hamada and go with Sarita and Alissa Flash vs a forming group of Tara and ODB. 6 of TNA's best women wrestler's today and they should definitely all be on the card if they want to continue to build this division.

TNA lately have done a good job with AJ Styles as world champion and giving him a long pay per view type of match with Angle on the 3 hour Impact super show getting a clean victory he enters the new year looking strong and as a credible champion. TNA needs to continue this and he needs to be the highlight of Impact on a regular basis if they are going to truly different themselves again from WWE. By that I mean a star who is without a doubt one the best wrestler's today given the title and the chance to truly give us more of what wrestling has been missing as the most highlighted superstar ending 2009 and going into to 2010. What would be my highlight feud for him in 2010?. I would love to see TNA bring in the likes of an underused WWE star like Rey Mysterio or Rob Van Dam and eventually give them a main event match with him at Bound For Glory. Maybe even Jeff Hardy who is well known and still capable of putting on a spectacular match with AJ. The fact is AJ can put on a great match with just about anyone and TNA has tons of possiblilities for him, just as long as he's the base around the company as champion and nothing less.

Lastly in TNA there are four big names left. Samoa Joe, Sting, Bobby Lashley and Kurt Angle. TNA seems really high on Lashley and I think he does have some potential but still has a lot to prove to me as far as really showing passion for wrestling while being a part of MMA. But if he shows that passion in the future, put him in a feud in the future with one of the best still today and of all time Kurt Angle, for Kurt can make anyone look good. While this is going on Sting feuds with Samoa Joe putting him over at Bound for Glory, but if you don't go this route we can once again see a feud between Angle and Joe that I thought TNA dropped the ball with last time because it was too rushed and not given enough hype and go with Sting vs Lashley. Angle vs Joe given the right hype can be one of the biggest and best matches we've ever seen but second time around getting the real focus it deserves and really getting the chance to make Samoa Joe a star. While Lashley defeating Sting at Bound for Glory will help him as well, but that's only if he chooses to stay.

So finish off with my thoughts on TNA I have given everyone tons of ideas for future feuds and where I would go with storylines, feel free to give me your insight on what you agree with or don't as I am always very interested in the opinions of other wrestling fans, my opinion is of course based on what I see now and not how things end up panning out in the future as fan reaction can change a lot of things and some thing could succeed or not succeed. No matter what happens TNA has to take chances this year and really try to build some strong storylines, great feuds, in which all lead to strong credible future matches that truly display what they want to display "this is wrestling" and we are building stars that our competitor has failed to and is failing to. WIth every said TNA has to build the young and not base anything around "what has been" or around the older generation stars. The older generation needs to pave the way for the new and the new must take over that is what needs to happen and if it doesn't the real risks that need to be taken aren't and the failures of WCW had may be in the mist.

To the WWE and Degeneration X, shall it die or like the nWo can the WWE find use of it.

Every week I watch Raw and see Shawn Michaels act like a 13 year old teenager on television, as a wrestling fan am insulted. This might be appealing to a teenager or young kids, but a grown man just doesn't find another grown man doing childish acts that are not even creatively done funny. As far as Triple H goes, personally I never thought much of as an in ring talent, at one point he may have been that guy to be able to some what carry the company on his shoulders, but even than he wasn't a wrestler that I enjoyed watching. Today Triple H being a part of a stale, lifeless, rehashed and just lacking of entertainment Degeneration X, makes him more boring than he's ever been. Adding Hornswaggle to the mix acting like a little kid, makes it three children like adults in a show where a good amount of the audience is consisting of young adults. WIth that being said The DX we see now is not a useful part of a wrestling show and is an insult to a wrestling fan, who truly knows his/her wrestling.

However in spite of all that, I honestly do see a small posibility of DX actually staying around and playing a good part in the future of the WWE. The question one might ask, is how and what can be done to make Degeneration X even possibly close to being as entertaining as it was in the attitude era?. My answer to that question is, one of two things, help create and build new young stars and get away from the way to childish segments that they are showing week after week. Make a more serious DX, who might still crack some jokes or act a little goofy, but not in the very child like manner we are seeing right now, wake up WWE it's not just kids who watch wrestling!.

Moving on let's add a few new members to the group, guys possibly like K Kwiq, Evan Bourne, The Miz, Jack Swagger, Kofi Kingston, MVP, Santino Marella(who can bring comedy you want to see to the group) and Carlito. Now while this is going on you keep Legacy in Rhodes, Debiase and Orton together and add one or two members to that group and again use some of the names mentioned above, but I would add Sheamus to the group before any one else, if this is the guy the WWE plans to continue to build as a future star.

Idealy I would add Santino Marella and MVP to DX with Randy Orton seperated from Legacy for Rhodes and Debiase to form a new group adding Sheamus and The Miz and they directly feud with the new DX. You continue the MVP/Miz feud, with Michaels feuding against Sheamus, Triple H feuding with either Debiase or Rhodes and vice versa with Marella. The result of the angle brings forth a stable war we haven't seen in a long time with new young stars getting pushed and further built into future stars that the company so desperately needsin the future. So keeping DX around and forming a bigger Legacy group ends up creating on Raw itself 4 feuds.

Moving you still have Kofi Kingston, John Cena, Jack Swagger and Evan Bourne as 4 other guys the WWE can use and should use, the other names that are on RAW, but not mentioned are because I really don't care to see any one else on RAW on RAW. With that you can create two more descent feuds where 3 guys with a lot of talent get a chance to prove themselves as being able to be a big part of the company in the future. I would take Cena turn him heel(because we all so badly want to see it) and put him in a feud with Kofi Kingston who is already drawing good fan reaction. Than you put a heel Jack Swagger in a feud with Evan Bourne who's an awesome wrestler deserving of a push or a chance to be more than an under used superstar. Cena turning heel would be one the bigger turns we've seen in a while and would be something that I believe most would like, because he's already booed as a face, so it only tells you people want to boo him, so a heel turn only makes sense. Like DX reformed, the Cena as a face has become stale and boring, but the change could respark many's interest, also making Kofi a stronger fan favorite. With Randy Orton's name left out I would myself send him to Smack Down or feud him with Chris Jericho.

WIth all this created on both shows, we'd once again have ourselves wrestling shows, wrestling that fan's are itching to see on a regular basis, shows that TNA has been able to offer more so than WWE, but could still improve a lot on. Of course the feuds are all based on a matter of opinion and some may not agree with the choices I've picked, but no one can deny young stars need the pushes and new feuds that consist of offering better wrestling ability, need to be created and if wrestling fails to do that, we fans will continuosly be left wanting more and for the wrong reasons. The fact is we want to be left wanting more because you couldn't get enough of what we've seen, not because we weren't given enough.

I as a wrestling fan am tired of not seeing wrestilng on a wrestling show, given to us by "wrestling companies". The day and times of wrestling has changed with both TNA and the WWE needing to truly realize that fans want to something new, meaning new stars, less silly gimmicks that may have worked in 80's or 90's and just less talk more action. It's time to be out with old and in with the new, unless the old is used in a way of building the new. Although I'm not all that optimistic that wrestling may be headed in the direction I hope of great feuds with more wrestling and new stars being built, a fan as I've said time and time again, can only hope and dream that, that's exactly what happens.

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