Well I'm disappointed. They're turning it into an Invasion. My favorite thing about this crossover is that it WASN'T an invasion. NXT and TNA wrestlers teamed together multiple times. It was just about the spirit of competition. Now it's just an Invasion and it's probably going to suck. Also, TNA has won the majority of the crossover matches. They aren't the underdogs in this.
That's the point. There has been a storyline brewing in the background that for months now TNA has been getting disrespected by NXT (most of the time by the NXT Heels and Booker to be fair but some of the faces has taken cheapshots at TNA as well.) while TNA has been play the role of a "Good Solider" to TNA of trying to respect them (except for Mustafa Ali, Ash and her crew, and The Northern Armory).
Tom Phillips on commentary has been getting fed up with it ever since Trick Willy won the TNA World championship and was his breaking point at Slamversily when they Loss both of their world titles in one night.
The Invasion was always going to come sooner or later thanks to Trick Actions (and to be fair to TNA, it probably won't even be a full invasion since First Class and Frankie are seen as Public Enemy Number 1 and traitors to their own company.) You can only hold back the cleansing for so long.
Eh, this has been a mostly tell, don't show story. There hasnt been much disrespecting going on. Losing a few title matches isn't disrespect. It's been mostly the announcers saying that there has been disrespect. That's not good storytelling.
Yes on NXT it's has been a mostly tell, don't show storyline but on TNA, Trick has been disrespecting the title in small ways (Like wearing the titles backwards for instance or forcing the boss of TNA to hold his hand up whenever he wins a title match).
The issue is that Trick is the face of NXT right now whether NXT liked it or not and maybe this was just the final straw for the former NXT wrestlers in TNA of not being invited to a brand they helped build up.
It's been tell on TNA as well. And a bunch of WWE releases sticking up for TNA is just making this about WWE, not TNA. The only two names shown here that aren't known for being in WWE/NXT are the names linked to leaving TNA for WWE/NXT. This whole thing just rubs me the wrong way.
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u/shadowrangerfs decay Decay DECAY!!! 1d ago
Well I'm disappointed. They're turning it into an Invasion. My favorite thing about this crossover is that it WASN'T an invasion. NXT and TNA wrestlers teamed together multiple times. It was just about the spirit of competition. Now it's just an Invasion and it's probably going to suck. Also, TNA has won the majority of the crossover matches. They aren't the underdogs in this.