Monday Night Wars v2.0

The Mofo was originally gonna talk about his awards for 2009 and his look ahead at 2010, but those are going to have to wait after the events of tonight. You know originally the Mof was not enthused by the prospect of the Monday Night Wars returning. Typically, the Mofo DVRs the shows and watches them of fast forward while doing something else. The prospect of Hulk Hogan running the show wasn’t enough to get the Mofo interested in tuning in to TNA live head to head with raw even as it became more and more apparent that TNA was throwing money at everyone they could think of to beef up the name recognition on their January 4th show the Mofo still wasn’t all that interested. Then the WWE announced Bret Hart and for the Mofo TNA might as well have canceled their show in the Mofo’s mind. Bret was basically the nuclear bomb of surprises then only thing anyone could pull out that might be bigger at this point might be Rock wrestling a match.

Tonight though a funny thing happened, the Mofo found himself tuning in to Spike at 8 and not changing the channel. The Mofo was actually interested in what they were doing. Sure the Mofo was on USA at 9pm to see Bret, but as the shows went on The Mofo found himself wanting to check out TNA more than WWE. Now the Mofo is sure he’s in the minority on that, but hell the Mofo definitely was surprised that wanted to see what TNA was doing more he wanted to see if Bret was back on the screen. Now we all know Russo’s track record of writing a great chapter one and being a train wreck from then on. While this definitely wasn’t how the Mofo would’ve booked the whole deal, the Mofo could definitely see how fans would be interested and into the first Impact of the Monday Night Wars v2.0 era.

On the other side of the fence, the Mofo has to say he was disappointed in what the WWE presented. The Mofo can understand the reasoning behind the Shawn/Bret, stuff and the Vince/Bret stuff even if he would’ve done it differently, but the rest of the show just didn’t seem like a good showcase for the the new talent to be shown off to the additional eyeballs that were going to be watching. The Mofo heard people he hasn’t heard mention wrestling in years talking about watching Raw on Monday. The Mofo doubts any of those guys are going to be talking about how cool any of the new guys they saw were and that’s really what the goal of getting all those new eyeballs has to be.

Now with all that said in the Mofo’s mind what’s really pertinent about the  Monday Night Wars v2.0 is what it means for guys like the Mofo. That story tomorrow.