TNA and You

Yes, I think by now, everyone has watched, or heard. . . . . .avoided watching TNA Impact tonight because of the way things went down. Indeed, it seems that AJ Styles has finished his time with TNA and Magnus is now going forward as the Heavyweight Champion for the company. But wait a minute, you question me, what would they let go of a man who has been with the company since the very beginning? Why would they do that to AJ on his last night with the company and let Magnus take the win?

Because TNA is stupid.

I remember watching TNA many years ago and how they put many great matches. I recall cheering whenever Petey Williams hit the Canadian Destroyer on his opponents. When Joe was an undefeated machine, where Abyss wasn't wearing a suit. Ah yes, what about that, "Thing with the X in the middle" match that could leave us all in shock. But where did it all go wrong? TNA has made a lot of bad mistakes but after what we saw tonight, I have no doubt it was one of the worst shows I've seen in a long time.

Now don't get me wrong, I like Magnus and his beautiful flying elbow. But I just don't think he's the one to carry a company forward when they are already in the ground to begin with. AJ was there for the company since the beginning and he knew something had to be done.

So he left.

Even looking back at his title loss to Rob Van Dam, RVD didn't hook the leg. I wonder if that was what AJ meant in his most recent shoot.

Bottom line is that TNA is not having a good day at the moment. Yes we can have a new face going forward with Magnus, but how long is it going to take them to realize that they are moving backwards with every step they try to make.

X-7 Going On 29

Wrestlemania 29 is upon us at last and now ol' Y2Jant is now looking back at watching wrestling for over 13 years. Hard to believe that I've been watching WWE for that long and seen so much that has happened. I recall Stone Cold turning his back to the fans and winning the championship with the help of Mr. McMahon at X-7. Or what about the great match between Hulk Hogan and The Rock from 18? XIX was good and XX was something to look upon with great words.

My favorite match comes from Wrestlemania 21 when Eddie Guerrero faced Rey Mysterio. Over the years, I loved, hated and wondered the many things in wrestling and with a great group of friends over at the TWRNetwork, talking wrestling is always interesting. I lived through the InVasion angle, Kurt Angle winning his first WWE Championship, Brock Lesnar debuting and so much more memories that things tend to go unnoticed. But I decided to write this up not only to reflect but to hope for many more great years ahead of me as a fan.

Now, I'm going to get this out of the way but I love and respect Zeus for liking what he currently likes. Since around 06, he's been watching wrestling and his favorite wrestler is of course, Jeff Hardy. At that point, I've been watching wrestling for 6 years and was still reeling from a death that changed my view on wrestling forever.

October of 2005, I was behind many wrestlers but one that stands out is of course, Eddie Guerrero. When I heard the news of his death a month later, I was devastated. A month before, I shook his hand at a television taping of Smackdown right here in Reno. And then just like that, Eddie is now in the heavens with some of the other greats in the business. To me, that was a life changer for me as a fan because I realized that I needed to look at the past to really love the present. That's when I lost steam in watching wrestling and now watch and not cheer till my heart's content.

But now, 13 years of watching wrestling and now I feel like I'm the median of wrestling in a sense. While I didn't grew up on WCW (which I wish I did watch it, InVasion didn't help me like WCW) and watching how wrestling was back in the day, I look towards the younger fans who watched for just a few years and also see how the two can clash. Zeus is on that hand because his love for Jeff Hardy but nothing against him really. Zeus is to Jeff like I was to Eddie. We saw something that stood out against everyone else at that time and said, "You see that? I'm a fan and I don't care what anyone says." This is why I respect Zeus regardless on what he says. We are just fans of something great. Does that mean I like Jeff? Yes and no, I respect Jeff for what he has done for the business for the 13 years I've been watching. Zeus is the kind of friend I would have when it comes to wrestling, someone to think differently that you don't see. Remember, it wasn't until Eddie's death did I realize how important wrestling was before the Attitude Era. How WCW had great wrestling, how WWE was before changing to what we see today and how the indies can produce even better action then before.

All in all, Wrestlemania 29 is going to be one hell of a show and this was a chance to see something great and hope for a better Mania then last. This will be my 13th Wrestlemania, my 5th year knowing Double A, Lex and everyone back when Double A hosted the Wrestlemania 24 show and my 2nd year listening with the network. They say that 13 is a bad number, I think it's a great number for me as a fan of wrestling.

Y2Jant Video Game Preview: WWE '13

We are very close to playing a game some of us, well, alright, most of us are very excited to play, WWE '13. I'm not here to post any previews of the game and such, we already have a lot of information, we just want the damn game already. What I want to talk about is what version of the game I will get it on and what I'm going to do as my very first match of the game.

Some might know that I own all the current gen systems: The Xbox 360 (third one actually, first one Red Ringed on me and I gave away the second one), Playstation 3 and the white looking box Nintendo made a long time ago. I love each system but in this case, I will be getting WWE '13 on the PS3, just so I can play online since I haven't renewed my gold membership.

That's out of the way, I always play Exhibition first and have a singles match just before diving into anything else. This allows me to get used to the controls and see the entrances of the superstars. But my question to everyone is; what will be your first match from any mode actually? Are you going to dive right into the story of the game? Or just have a match just for the hell of it? I would actually start with a typical singles match against whoever I want to face. This year, from looking at the roster, I would start with Ken Shamrock. I don't know, I guess I really like his theme and feel that I could use him in Universe Mode in some way. Maybe out him up against Eddie Guerrero or relive his feud with The Rock.

There is just so many options to play the game that I know I will be buried with it until next year. I can say for a fact that I can't wait to see how they do the Attitude Era story. I've been watching WWE since when I saw Kurt Angle beat Rock to win the WWE Championship at No Mercy and at that time, I've missed the early years of the Attitude Era so I would like to see what happened. Trust me, I still need to do some history lessons on everything before 2000 to get up to speed. But this would be very interesting to see what was happening at the time with everyone at the time.

One last thing I do want to say is I love the WWE games. No matter what, at some point or another, I've played every game for the last couple of years and I can't really complain. As some of my friends have said many times before, no matter what you put in the game, people will b**** about something about the game. I knew that they can't have everything perfect (ala Kelly Kelly) but I'm not going to complain. Why you think we have a community to help with creating whatever we want so we can bring that in from the game. I just love this game and I can't wait to play it sometime in the next week after it is released.