BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
“Worst Case Scenario” is a new take on the concept of “fantasy booking”. For years professional wrestling fans would spend endless hours of thinking up the coolest things that could happen. Why waste the energy? This only leads to high expectations. “Worst Case Scenario” flips that. Instead of looking through rose colored glasses, let’s take a bi-weekly look at the worst possible scenarios in professional wrestling. I’m not going to be malicious or anything too mean, but I will not refrain from letting my brain come up with the worst possible shit I can. Sadly, it seems the writers and producers of mainstream TV wrestling and the mainstream iPPV level indies are doing the same thing but charging us for it. And now…
“Ring of Honor Goes National!”
In the mid-90’s, ECW was the little engine that could. They were the third promotion in the American “Big Three”. They went from being a small East Coast indie to bigger and bigger and bigger. They’d tour, they’d have syndicated television, they got Pay Per Views, and they became part of the “Attitude Era” phenomenon. In many ways, the era itself is a result of ECW’s rise.
Let’s replace a few things in that last paragraph. We’ll change the “mid-90’s” to “mid-00’s” and the “Big Three” has warped with WWE taking over, TNA being the distant second, and to most folks Ring of Honor is that third. The main difference is that WWE is so far ahead of everyone and Ring of Honor has like a half dozen top level indies right there snipping at their asses. Today we’re going to look at the worst case scenario to get ROH on TV.
Simply put, TNA buys Ring of Honor. Why not? For the money TNA has paid the likes of Hogan, Sting, Foley, and all of the old dudes they could have EASILY bought Ring of Honor. With TNA owning Ring of Honor they’d take their pick of the talent. We’d see all of the best of ROH go up to TNA to be used wrong. TNA would then take people they don’t have any use for and send then “down” to ROH.
Everything we, the fans, hated about WWE’s version of ECW would be gold compared to what TNA’s version of ROH would be. You know TNA doesn’t think anything involving wrestling can get over without Hulk Hogan being involved so imagine the very first episode of Ring of Honor on Spike! Hulk Hogan shows up, beats up Kevin Steen, and sets up the main event of Steen defending the ROH Championship against Garret Bischoff. Bishchoff would win, of course.
THAT is wrestling?
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