TNA Impact Wrestling: Reasons Why Bully Ray Should Be Champion Now

I hope TNA Impact Wrestling doesn't drop this 275-pound ball called Bully Ray in the next few weeks.

While the company is building and growing and showing it has mettle and can stand with the "big boys," but not be the top banana in the business, the biggest heel in all of the business is building a strong case to become a world champion.

But, like in the world of reality television, there is one major issue with that proposal; the power in TNA has three or four other contenders who are meshed into this "cluster," and the chances of Bully becoming a champion are slim because James Storm is locked into a title match with Bobby Roode in April.

So Impact Wrestling, for everything that has been good about its programing and its planning so far in the first three months of the year, has hit a bit of a wall and needs to figure out what to do.

Looking at the landscape of the company, Roode, Storm, Bully, Jeff Hardy and to some extent, Sting are all the major players in the title picture. While it is better to see more than one contender night in and night out, Ray is the "de facto" agent in all this, playing both sides of the fence and he has an "issue" with all four of the other contenders.

Welcome back to the days of the NWA when a "Top 10" contenders list really meant something. Ironically, it comes from four men who made tag team wrestling as important as any singles title match. That speaks volumes about the talent on TNA's roster.

Bully is a throwback to the days of One Man Gang, Bam Bam Bigelow, King Kong Bundy and some of Vader all rolled into one with the ability to wrestle.

I cannot think of any "one" wrestler he resembles in the ring (maybe because of the calves) but he has the style of a brawler (maybe Ole Anderson or a much bigger Ivan Koloff) who is more agile than you think.

Bully deserves the title around his waist, and while we are all waiting for Roode and Storm to wrestle (haven't we been doing that for some time?), the fact is the sideshow is getting a little old and fans are a little "over it" for now.

They want action and they want resolution. If they cannot have that, then it is lost on them as to why this took place at all, and frankly, lost on me as well.

The way to make a company work like this is have good "faces" and good "heels" that mesh together like a Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair or Sting and Hulk Hogan. Ray is every bit that part, and having him face both "faces" and "heels" only builds his case. Put the strap on him. See where it goes.

A good champion can take the belt and run with it. Bully Ray appears to be the type he do that, even if he is not the "typical" champion we all have come to expect.