October 4, 2006 Observer Newsletter: Kurt Angle, Observer MMA Hall of Fame

The aftermath of TNA’s surprising signing of Kurt Angle has let to the next question, which is, what becomes of it.

The surprise was great, although there were wrestlers in the company, particularly those who lived through WCW, who saw it as a negative, pointing out it made nobody any money, and when WCW became enamored for working the boys and doing surprises, it was one of many reasons it went down the tubes. Still, this one wasn’t a negative. Nobody was lied to, at least by TNA. It wasn’t a promise that didn’t, at least to a degree, live up to the hype. 

Does it really change the face of wrestling? Probably very little, but it can be a building block if the dominos fall correctly. It wasn’t as if they promised a wrestling in the main event as a surprise, it drew no extra buys (and this surprise, as best we can tell, had no effect on the buy rate, and it couldn’t have anyway since it was never plugged on television), and then they pissed away the first Angle match. Instead, all the “money” specifics are still on the table.

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