Over the past two days, there have been plenty of TNA spoilers to report from a series of tapings in Orlando, Florida for the next three episodes of Impact Wrestling. We have a major spoiler and heel turn coming out of Tuesday's tapings that sets up the main event for the 2014 TNA Slammiversary live event PPV in June. Let's take a look at who TNA Champion Eric Young be facing and how we feel about it, shall we?
Major TNA Spoilers for Impact Wrestling Thursday 5/15/14 and TNA Slammiversary Sunday 6/15/14:
According to The Wrestling Observer, the big angle that was shot for the TNA Impact Wrestling on Thursday 5/15/14 is that MVP will be turning heel and starting a new group consisting of himself, Bobby Lashley and Kenny King. The swerve comes at the end of the episode, where Eric Young is attacked by MVP and then beaten down by all three wrestlers. MVP then tells the TNA Champion that he will see him at Slammiversary, indicating that at the PPV it will in fact be Eric Young vs. MVP for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
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CB's Analysis: To me, this is a disastrous heel turn that makes absolutely no sense and comes completely out of left field. Over the past few months, the entire reasoning for Bully Ray helping MVP's team beat Dixie Carter's group at TNA LockDown was to prevent Bobby Roode from turning into another Dixie Carter-like owner.
Bully Ray even went as far as to say that the last thing pro wrestling needs is another self-interested owner like Dixie Carter, but the promo was also a veiled shot at WWE's overuse of heel authority figures themselves.
Yet here we are, with another heel turn by another person in charge of wrestling operations. It just makes absolutely no sense to go to this well one more time as the heel authority figure in pro wrestling has simply been done to death.
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The other problem I have with MVP's heel turn is that it now puts him and Dixie Carter in place as being two "bad guy" authority figures when it was completely unnecessary to do so. Meanwhile, are you telling me that there is no better competition for Eric Young's TNA Championship on a Big Four PPV than another ex-WWE wrestler who literally just got to TNA?
I would have much rather seen Eric Young vs. Austin Aries at Slammiversary for the sheer match quality, or Eric Young vs. a returning Samoa Joe to finish that angle, or Eric Young vs. Kurt Angle, who at least has been in TNA for years now.
Instead, we get another ill-advised heel turn in TNA that just doesn't measure up.
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