Freaking Out Over TNA Hard Justice? Maybe You Don't Have To

For those of you who don't know, TNA's latest PPV, Hard Justice, was on last night. I thought it was a very good PPV wrestling-wise, with the exception of the horrible Mick Foley vs Kevin Nash match, which was so bad I think I dozed off a bit during it.

Then we saw the World Title match. As I mentioned in my article yesterday, despite the trouble Kurt Angle got into just the day before, he was going to be at the event. Some people were not happy that he was released from jail, but I had no issue with that personally.

Many thought that because Angle got in trouble with that law, even being busted with HGH, he was going to lose his TNA World Title.

I asked B/R yesterday "should TNA take the title off of Angle and suspend him?" People were unanimous, all saying yes, one even said to FIRE HIM. That is why I made a poll asking if he should be fired, which was surprisingly high.

I don't think we should see Angle fired. He got in trouble with the law, but we have seen other wrestlers get into trouble with the law before and they were not fired after it. A suspension for 30 or 60 days would be fair, also it shows what integrity TNA has.

As most of us know by now, Angle came to Hard Justice like I mentioned and won the match, retaining his World Title. Some thought he would win, but Hernandez, who won his Feast or Fired briefcase back, would cash in the case on Angle that night.

Some thought Matt Morgan would win the World Title, putting the younger talent into the limelight more. In fact, it would be the perfect time to do it and it would fit in storylines perfectly.

But no, TNA had Angle retain.

But let's not get too upset with that right now. Heck, we have the iMPACT tapings to look forward to. Angle cannot be suspended while he has the World Title, so he is going to have to drop it at some point.

My guess is that TNA had no idea what they would do last night in regards to the World Title and Angle. They just went with the idea they had in the beginning. They probably need more time to get a storyline in place for Angle to drop the title.

I think it is a safe bet to think Angle will lose his title on this week's iMPACT taping and start his suspension.

If he is not suspended, I feel it is a travesty.

It sends the message, "If you're the top guy, you're untouchable. You can do anything you want if you're the big guy in the company, but if you're some mid-carder, you will be suspended."

Like I said in my previous article regarding Angle, if Dixie Carter will send Jeff Jarrett home and think about firing him even though he did nothing wrong, why not suspend Angle for breaking the law?

Is Angle controlling TNA?

This is what I thought would happen once we had all of the older vets come into TNA. There is no one there who can control anything. It's not about business—it's about the older vets holding on to their spot even though they don't deserve it.

Scott Steiner, Booker T, Kevin Nash, Sting, and others are no longer the wrestlers they once were. Sure, when they were younger and wrestling in WCW/WWE, they were THE guys.

They deserved to be in the top spot and the main events. But now, they are KILLING a company.

Angle still has wrestling ability, and he is still just as good as he was in the WWE. But TNA thinks he has to be the top guy there, and you cannot put the top spot on a guy like AJ Styles or Samoa Joe despite how much they deserve it.

Does anyone realize that AJ Styles is a former 3-time TNA World Champion? Does anyone know when the last time he had that title was? I'll give you a hint; it was before all of these main event-hogging vets came in.

If Angle does not get any punishment at all, we can safely say he is inside Dixie Carter's head. He is controlling everything because he realizes how valuable he is to the company, and he is exploiting that.

This is what separates TNA from the WWE. This is also why WCW went out of business. If anyone can remember 10 years back, WCW was a promotion that was even with the WWE, sometimes better.

However, no one really had control. The inmates were running the asylum.

In the WWE, you have a guy like Vince McMahon, and for as much crap as he takes, he deserves just as much, if not more praise. He is a businessman, and everything runs through him and the WWE board.

In TNA, the wrestlers are controlling storyline ideas and saying what would be good and how they don't want to do certain things. Does that sound familiar?

Sure, just like WCW, TNA has storyline writers and a creative team. But, their creative team has Vince Russo, Jeff Jarrett, and just about all the other vets in TNA. Styles and Joe have been said to attend the creative meetings too.

This is good and bad though. It's good because you have the wrestlers chiming in with ideas, but it's bad because they are chiming in with ideas for themselves.

Kurt Angle is no different. He is said to be controlling a lot of the meetings since Jarrett was sent home by Carter.

So wouldn't you think that he would not be punished by Carter because she has given him so much power?

She was not in the wrestling industry before TNA—she did entertainment work. She doesn't realize she is being taken advantage of by everyone, especially Angle.

We have to wait to see if she finds her inner male and grows balls so she can suspend him, which may or may not happen. There is a scientific problem with it, of course.

However, she does need to realize Angle has to go for now. You have to be fair to your talent in the locker room. Angle should not be above anyone else.

We have to see what happens on iMPACT this week, if you ask me. There may be a storyline in regards to his departure. Let's not freak out right now.

I say wait until Thursday to freak out. Right now is not the time because there is no reason to.

TNA may have kept the title on Angle for now, but that does not mean that it will still be on him at this time next week.