Scott’s Blog of Doom

Apparently the next TNA PPV is going to be Joe v. Angle part seven million, this time with every title in the company on the line.  Plus one that’s not even a real belt!  They should just have Joe go steal some old WCW TV belt from the garbage like Jim Duggan did and defend that, too, because it’s just as valid as Angle carrying the IWGP title around. 

Anyway, I don’t know who they think they’re kidding here, but this feud is beyond tired and they already peaked 8 months ago as far as casual interest with it.  It’s too little too late as far as making Joe a big star if he beats Angle now, because you only get that one chance to pull the trigger before fans start seeing someone as Just Another Guy and they blew it with Joe.  Not to mention that having Joe crush a perfectly good X Division champion just to have another belt to cart around was exactly the kind of short-sighted thing that Vince Russo made his name on.  And hey, the tag titles on the line in a singles match, gotta love that. 

Stupid, stupid, stupid. 

…so it might as well be me.

Still working out the details, but I’m doing a fifth book for Kensington Publishing, about the so-called Hart Family Curse, which will of course heavily feature Chris Benoit.  I’ve been wanting to do something on the death rate in wrestling for quite a while, and I knew I had to jump on the chance to do something on Benoit while the iron was hot, so this should give me plenty of opportunity to rant.  The format is probably going to run along the same lines as Buzz on Pro Wrestling, with a series of essays rather than a month-by-month timeline like the last few books, but I’ll work that stuff out as I get into writing it. 

More details as they become available!