Lance Storm TNA Rant

Lance Storm wrote:

Lance Storm has posted yet another rant after watching iMPACT!. He kept tabs on the actual amount of wrestling on the show. Storm wrote: [b]"Am I the only one that noticed that TNA iMPACT! this week had less than 18 minutes of actual wrestling on the program. Official match times totaled, I believe, 17 minutes and 55 second. ECW has had more wrestling minutes than that on their show and ECW is but half the length. If we break down the entire 120 minutes of the program we have 18 minutes of wrestling (I rounded up), 32 minutes of commercials, and 70 minutes of skits, promos, and general stupidity. Keep in mind the name of this company is Total Nonstop Action, yet only 15% of this show was action. This leaves 27% of the show for commercials, and 58% of the show skits, comedy, and talking. There was even one stretch where they went 37 minutes with out a wrestling match. Can this even be called a wrestling show anymore?" He then criticizes TNA for devoting more television time to the Christy Hemme vs. Sojourner Bolt match than the Jay Lethal vs. Alex Shelley match. Storm pokes fun at Sojourner Bolt's heel turn similar to how Tony Schiavone poked fun at Mick Foley winning the WWF Championship in 1999 by sarcastically saying that it will draw big ratings and that he's on the edge of his seat. Although, Bolt's match with Hemme drew a 1.28 cable rating, the highest rated portion of the show, if not one of the highest segments of the year. Storm wrote: "Why would any sane person book Jay Lethal vs. Alex Shelley and Christy Hemme vs. Sejourner Bolt on the same show and decide to give the latter match more than twice the time as the former? We had the opportunity to see Jay Lethal and Alex Shelly wrestling in TNA (Total Nonstop Action) and they were given less than 2 minutes for their match. What a wasted opportunity to entertain fans! I guess the thought process must be that the big Sejourner Bolt heel turn will draw ratings and PPV buys. I know I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to find out where that angle goes. Are there not already more heels than faces in the Knockouts division?" You can read his latest rant at StormWrestling.com.

some of his points are correct there is more promos and segments than wrestling but the feast or fired seg didnt go on that long and how sad is he if he watches tna and times it if he's gonna moan all the time cos this isnt the 1st time he's done this why does he watch it ?

hes a prick lol

Yes, because we all care so very much what he says after his glittering, legendary career

If I can be serious for a moment, i agree he's a prick lol

I am no Lance Storm fan, but he is 100% correct with this rant, his problem is that he has nothing good to say about the business so when he actually does have a point its overlooked as simply him being bitter!

The WWE dedicate 35-37 minutes per week to Wrestling on Monday Night RAW and 45-47 minutes per week to Wrestling on Friday Night SmackDown! which is pretty good considering the amount of adds it has, although I am not sure if they count the match time in total when the go for an add break!

18 minutes is pathetic, I think he is very right to time the matches, he obviously didn't sit there with the egg timer however he probably watched it then thought there wasn't much wrestling so decided to watch it again and time it

I don't like TNA due to the fact that there is very little wrestling on the show and they seem to always put breaks in the middle of matches!

invincibleILeak wrote:

I don't like TNA due to the fact that there is very little wrestling on the show and they seem to always put breaks in the middle of matches!

hi double double e?

as i say they try to copy all the bad bits from wwe lol.

they are meant to be some new thing thats differant, but in reality its a low budget wwe with the odd talent and the same fans. oh and 6 sides lol

Also, the fucking cheap shots at WWE. , the're not funny and do nothing for them!

basicly ther like an uncool kid pretending to be cool , yet they live in a flat whereas the guy they want to be is a jet set multi house man

invincibleILeak wrote:

I don't like TNA due to the fact that there is very little wrestling on the show and they seem to always put breaks in the middle of matches!

For that you could be talking about the WWE!

I hate watching RAW when they only put one real good match on per week if that then the go and stick an add break right in the middle of it, especially when we have to put up with 5-7minutes of entrances first!

They did it last night with the Tag Team Championship match, Punk & Kingston and Morrison & Miz where putting on a great match yet all the WWE want to do is show pointless skits

I used to like the old double camera they used to use, where they would take you backstage while a match was on and just split the screen so you could see both!

lol i never even heard of Lance Storm.

It stinks of bitterness really lol.

He was a really decent wrestler but had the personality of a stick, a smelly stick with acne at that. This is the side he hated so this is why he's going off on one.

Thats the thing though Disco. I don't think this actual post is bitter, however Storm is that bitter on almost every other post that anytime he does make a good point its completely overlooked because of the reputation he has got himself

He's right.

As much as I love TNA, there really was almost no wrestling on that show. Add to this the majority of the promos were about the main event, which featured an obvious ending, and it was worth even less time to watch.

Storm is right here, 18 mins just isn't good enough for a show that's supposed to be the alternative. RAW will usually only show about 20-25mins of wrestling, and just checked the times for the last 3 hour RAW, which had only 37 mins of wrestling, while Impact had been showing about 30-40mins of wrestling until recently. The current storylines seem to have lead TNA to go a lot more promo heavy on their shows, which is disappointing, yet the shows have actually been strangely better as of late, go figure.