Jim Ross Blogs – TNA’s TV Situation, MMA Announcing Debut, More

Jim Ross has posted a new blog entry, here are the highlights…

On TNA’s TV Situation: Heard the past few days that Impact Wrestling has more suitors to become TNA’s new Cable TV home in early 2015. That’s the good news but none of the cable networks are powerhouses but at least Impact has renewed interest from the cable world which is a good thing. I hope that for the Nashville based company’s sake that something positive works out for them. It’s obvious that major infrastructure changes will be in store for TNA but that’s not necessarily a bad thing as companies do that all the time. It actually might make the company more efficient and productive over the long haul.

On His MMA Announcing Debut: Getting very excited about working with Chael Sonnen on Friday night October 3 on PPV for Battleground MMA which will emanate from Tulsa and will feature the return of the 8 man, single elimination tournament with the winner earning, the hard way, 50K. Check with your local cable and satellite provider for more info. I can assure you that our broadcast won’t be boring. I’m very excited to stick my toe into new waters especially considering I’m a major MMA fan.

On Monday’s Raw: Unique ‘go home’ show for Monday Night RAW from what seemed like a listless Lafayette, Louisiana Monday night. It was obvious that WWE wanted the biggest audience possible in order to highlight the Lesnar-Cena main event for Sunday’s Night of Champions PPV by having it during half time of the Monday Night Football game which then put the America vs. Russia storyline in the coveted, final segment of RAW.

The Lesnar/Heyman/Cena segment was the highlight of the show by far which lends even more credence to the theory that Sunday’s PPV is essentially a one match show which isn’t a new development or necessarily a bad thing. The WWE World Title is the most meaningful Championship in WWE, as it should be, but the other titles are luke warm at best. Speaking optimistically perhaps that matter can begin to change this Sunday.

I was hoping another RAW match or two would have been perceived more positively especially with some having ramifications and providing fans another reason to watch on Sunday as I will be doing. Instead, most bouts felt like they did not have the sense of urgency that only the talents can provide and instead felt like it was business as usual on Monday night.

Rollins vs. Reigns but the outcome was a head scratcher considering that the same two men will meet again this Sunday. To think that Reigns can’t ever lose, no matter the circumstances, to continue his build is dubious logic. In a nutshell I did not understand the outcome of Rollins vs. Reigns Monday night.

I’d have liked to have seen a NXT bout on this show as it would greatly help promote the WWE Network and demonstrate to fans what they are missing with this first run, original program. Last week, NXT was the best produced WWE program of the week from where I was sitting and I watched all their TV shows.

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