Russo! TNA! Great Mr. Kennedy-Bob Holly Angle Idea!
RSPW Live
and Bob Holly are out of WWE.
Russo is rumored to enjoy booking angles based on behind-the-scenes
happenings, as well as storylines that are supposedly "real." This is
a perfect opportunity to do a great storyline along those lines, in my
opinion.
Oh, I know what you're all going to say -- "But "RSPW Live," Russo's
"fake real" angles didn't draw ratings! The casual fan didn't have a
clue about the significance of the angles and didn't care!" But see,
that's where TNA can learn and improve. I say, still do the reality-
based storylines, but clearly explain the back story to the casual fan
as part of the storyline. We all know that much of the best stuff in
wrestling is at least loosely based on real stories and personalities.
Mr. Kennedy probably has a no-compete agreement that hasn't expired
yet. So, they need to bring in Bob Holly for a while first so that
it's not too obvious what's going to happen. I would suggest bringing
him in with Al Snow, to add a tag team of talented ex-WWE veterans to
the mix. Al could be his wacky WWE character, and Bob could play an
angry mean loner who can only just barely tolerate his tag partner, in
the name of going for the tag titles. Plus, their past as "The Job
Squad" means that this would make sense. This alone could generate
some interesting new tag matches while waiting to bring in Mr.
Kennedy.
When Mr. Kennedy comes in, they can do it with much publicity. He can
do one of those surprise debuts on PPV where he says he wants the TNA
World title and will become an immediate force in the World title
picture.
On Impact, Tenay can do one of those "serious" sit-down interviews
with Mr. Kennedy, where he asks in-depth why Mr. Kennedy left WWE.
They can have Mr. Kennedy rip on WWE as much as he is willing, plus
explain his side of the story, if he has a pro-Mr.-Kennedy opinion.
They can say that he injured his wrist (so the fans know what is being
reported as one reason for him leaving), as well as say that WWE
kicked him out for almost injuring Randy Orton (whether or not this is
true, this fills in the fans on the other reported online "reason" for
Mr. Kennedy leaving WWE). This not only makes it look like Mr.
Kennedy is legit tough, for supposedly almost putting WWE's arguably
top heel on the shelf, but also sets up a future storyline based on
Mr. Kennedy supposedly being reckless and dangerous to wrestle.
They tease Mr. Kennedy in the World title picture for a while, but
save that for later. Mr. Kennedy may need the time to heal if he did
indeed badly injure his wrist. Mr. Kennedy's return happens on PPV,
where he barely wins an exhausting hard-fought "qualifier's match" for
a future World title opportunity. The ref helps an exhausted Mr.
Kennedy over to the ropes where Mr. Kennedy slowly and barely pulls
himself to his feet and raises his arm in victory. Suddenly, Bob
Holly flies through the ropes into the ring with a steel chair and
attacks Mr. Kennedy from behind. As Mr. Kennedy lies on the mat,
Holly hits him with about 20 vicious rapid chair shots in non-stop
sequence. The ref tries to grab the chair and Holly KO's the ref with
the chair. An army of security then storms the ring, and Holly
systematically knocks them all out with the chair. He then runs
around the ring with the chair and tries to KO all TNA employees
around the ring, including some camera people, Jeremy Borash, and the
timekeeper. Mike Tenay and Don West drop their announcing and run
away. Holly then gets back in the ring and puts Kennedy's supposedly
previously injured wrist inside the steel chair (this is why this
would have been previously talked about in the storyline), then Holly
climbs to the top rope, clearly intending to do the infamous "steel
chair stomp" to "re-injure" Kennedy's wrist. Suddenly, Jim Cornette
walks out to the stage and demands Holly stop or he's fired. Holly
spouts something that can't be heard at Cornette, which appears to be
profanity, then grabs the chair and starts running toward Cornette
with it. Cornette, looking frightened, drops the microphone and takes
off through the curtain.
Next Impact, there is a Tenay sitdown interview with Holly, now no
longer affiliated with Al Snow. For those of you who haven't heard,
Holly has supposedly given an interview or two blaming Mr. Kennedy for
Holly being forced out of WWE. Holly has supposedly made some angry
angry comments toward Mr. Kennedy. This sitdown interview would be
basically rehashing those comments for the TV audience, except
exaggerated as much as possible. Picture Matt Hardy's promos toward
Edge when he returned to WWE, except turned up in intensity by about
ten times. Holly could swear up a storm, to be bleeped on television,
but not bleeped enough to where you can't tell what Holly is saying.
Tenay reveals that following the frightening events from the PPV,
Cornette has suspended Holly from TNA indefinitely. Holly said that
doesn't matter because there is nothing that Cornette can do to stop
him from going after Mr. Kennedy, so Cornette might as well just drop
the meaningless suspension. Holly then promises to end Mr. Kennedy's
career.
The angle continues to develop on Impact as week after week, Cornette
tries to keep Holly from getting at Mr. Kennedy. They could get
creative with this, with Holly scattering security in front of the
arena by threatening to run them down while in his car, etc. Some
weeks, Cornette is successful, and some weeks Holly breaks through and
attacks Mr. Kennedy during one of Mr. Kennedy's matches. Every week,
when Mr. Kennedy has a match, they can say that TNA security has been
put on high alert while Mr. Kennedy is in the ring. They could draw
on the original heel Stone Cold Steve Austin for some aspects of
Holly's character.
Holly's reinstatement comes when Holly begins attacking Mr. Kennedy
outside of his wrestling appearances. They could say that Mr. Kennedy
has become so paranoid of Holly (for the storyline, they can say that
Holly has been making phone threats toward Mr. Kennedy constantly)
that Mr. Kennedy has hired an assistant to follow him around with a
camera at all times, to record any away-from-TNA confrontations with
Holly, "for legal purposes." This would result in some awesome
"street-fight" sneak attacks to be shown on Impact for several weeks.
They could have Holly attack Mr. Kennedy out of nowhere while he is
grocery shopping and have them tear apart a supermarket during the
fight. There are lots of other possibilities -- use your
imagination. Over the weeks, Mr. Kennedy continues to wrestle on
Impact, but he undergoes a transformation "from the alleged stress"
into a "paranoid-Eric-Young-character-type," except without the comedy
aspects.
The key to this angle is developing an old-school lengthy pro-
wrestling "GRUDGE" feud, like Savage/Steamboat or Raven/Dreamer. This
would not be a 3-week angle for the next pay-per-view, then forgotten
about. This feud would be built, over various phases, over a year's
time.
Finally, Mr. Kennedy does a promo on Impact where he begs Cornette to
reinstate Holly. He says that they only way to stop Holly is for Mr.
Kennedy to beat up Holly so badly that Holly fears Mr. Kennedy and
leaves TNA. Cornette sees Mr. Kennedy's points and agrees, although
Cornette says that the condition is that all of the Mr. Kennedy/Holly
matches will be unsanctioned by TNA, because TNA wants no part of
whatever insanity results.
TNA could then get a series of crazy PPV grudge matches out of the
angle: steel cage, no-DQ, "I Quit" match, etc. At some point in the
feud, they could have Mr. Kennedy go "out-of-control reckless" with
some crazy move, and make it look like Mr. Kennedy seriously injured
Holly's neck (even mentioning his history with Brock Lesnar from
WWE). The storyline now becomes that Holly is paralyzed and has to
rely on an electric wheelchair to get around, his pro-wrestling career
over. The announcers are mixed about the injury, saying that no one
wants to see anyone's career ended, but that Holly intentionally put
Mr. Kennedy "over-the-edge," on the other hand. Mr. Kennedy moves
into the World title picture, while Holly disappers from television
for three weeks or so. Then Tenay has the first sitdown interview
with Holly since the storyline injury. Holly could then blame Mr.
Kennedy for his injury, saying that Mr. Kennedy was reckless and
irresponsible in the match (this is the point of mentioning that
rumored reason for Mr. Kennedy leaving WWE previously in this angle).
Tenay brings up the argument that Holly put Mr. Kennedy "over-the-
edge," and Holly refuses to take any responsibility, stating that
everything he did to Mr. Kennedy was justified by Mr. Kennedy's
previous actions. Shockingly, Holly breaks down and sobs at the end
of the interview, as he talks about how, due to Mr. Kennedy, he can no
longer pursue his wrestling dreams or enjoy many of his other favorite
activities.
Of course, this part of the angle leads to a shocking return of Holly
a month or two later on PPV. It is billed as Holly's first public
appearance in a TNA arena since the injury. Of course, they give him
a ring-side seat and do a ring-side interview with him in the middle
of the interview, in which Holly appears to have moved on with his
life. It just so happens, that Kennedy has a chance at the TNA title
in the main event that night, which he wins. At the end of the PPV,
after the match, in a shocker, Holly climbs out of his chair, leaps
over the railing, and attacks an exhausted celebrating Mr. Kennedy
after his title win. It is the most vicious attack of the angle, and
somewhat of a reminder of the attack that started the TNA feud. It is
revealed that Holly had secretly recovered, but had faked the
permanent injuries as a way to surprise Mr. Kennedy in the future.
This leads to the climax of the feud: Holly challenging Mr. Kennedy
for the TNA title. Both sides wanted the match, but Cornette made
them both agree that this is the end of the feud if they want this
match. It is no-holds-barred, falls-count-anywhere. I'm thinking it
almost has to end with a Shane-McMahon-type stunt, like someone
getting thrown off an arena balcony onto a crash pad. If neither
Holly nor Mr. Kennedy can do that, they could always bring in a
legitimate stunt man to play look-alike for that spot of the match.
It would be awesome if Holly could do a "falcon arrow" off a balcony
through a flaming table over a crash pad, in a hardcore indie show
spot, but of course, they have to make sure any such move can
legitimately be done safely. I guess Mr. Kennedy would almost have to
win, because he's probably got a lot longer time before he retires
from pro wrestling than Holly does, but I think the feud would build
up both wrestlers to where they would have more value to TNA for years
after.
Raymond Daley
"RSPW Live" <rspw...@live.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, here's a crazy awesome idea for TNA, now that both Mr. Kennedy
> and Bob Holly are out of WWE.
Tons of descriptive stuff "snipped".
It won't happen and heres why. It sounds vaguely interesting and Russo
didn't think of it himself so it'd never fly for one or both of those
reasons.
On the 4 times I've ever seen Kennedy work he was shit in 3 matches and made
1 good move in Wrestlemania 24, (some move on CM Punk on a ladder) so I
don't rate him at all as a wrestler. Plus TNA already has someone who looks
like Jeff Jarrett and funnily enough its Jeff Jarrett.
Riley 77
"Raymond Daley" <raymon...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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I actually like it . Here's why. You have an overweight, out of shape Mick
Foley as your TNA "champion". Not even remotely credible. Sting, Angle,
Steiner, even Nash are yesterdays news. They have no heat. Sting is not a
heel, even when he was a Bladerunner...of course, Eddie Gilbert did all the
talking.
Admittedly, Kennedys health is a problem, but if he talks more than he
wrestles, it could work. Snow has personality, Holly is a legit tough guy
and can wrestle. There are enough recognizable ex WWE guys...that you could
work this.
Between the cardboard cut out, Foley getting gassed in the PPV..even quicker
than Scott Steiner would, I just cant watch those clowns on TNA...
Bring on Mrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....................................