By Shane McKinley, Torch specialist

"For those who deny chance have no chance at all"
-"Back Round" by Wolfmother

I'm telling you, Hulk Hogan came to TNA because of Daffney.

There's talk about Hulk Hogan bringing TNA into the national spotlight. There's talk about Eric Bischoff along with the Hulkster having a hand in the creative direction of TNA. There's talk of Ric Flair joining TNA. There's talk of "Monday Nights War II."

What I think Hogan lends to TNA mostly is name recognition. But for truly TNA to take over Raw in the ratings in the future (we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves), they've got to work on the things we've been harping about. Namely, creating a product that, you know, makes money. They're picking up chump change right now when they could be doing so much better.

I'm guessing that the next Impact will have video packages of Hulk Hogan announcing his joining TNA in New York, bits from his Larry King appearance, and so forth. I think fans can live without an Abyss bit.

TNA tends to drag these things out. (Um, Sting retirement tease at end of PPV?) But, I would urge TNA to keep things simple. The idea of Hogan being the "law" figure in TNA would be efficient, as people will tune in to see the Hulkster. (Side note: hooray, no more Main Event Mafia talkathons!)

Other acquisitions TNA has made tend to fizzle out. From Booker to Mick Foley, they become just another face in the crowd. If TNA can't make the Hulk "Mr. Charisma Himself" Hogan experiment work, then I give up.

Onto quick ECW notes...

Amusing that the response ECW General Manager Tiffany gave to why ECW was chumped out of the Bragging Rights PPV was this: "Well, we'll be there at Bragging Rights 2010." Thanks, Tiff. It's good to know that you spend more time working on your hair than working on your own show. What are the odds that Tiffany doesn't even know ECW is a wrestling show?

Bryon Saxton is your new ECW announcer, and he doesn't want to wake the baby in the next room. Put him alongside old-school Don West. What a pairing.

I always find the "a hush has fallen over the crowd, because they know what's at stake in this championship match" a bit odd. Maybe they're just bored stiff. That's how it works in WWE. A fan yawning is a fan "needing more oxygen because the incredible action of Paul Burchill and The Hurricane has left him gasping."

Still somewhat a bitter pill to swallow Christian's role in WWE (bring up new guys). Zack Ryder? Check. Now they are on the Yoshi Tatsu train. I don't know why I can't get on that Yoshi train. Maybe because he's just so annoyingly adorable.

William Regal continues with the wrestling tradition of little kiddies hating evil British guys who want world domination.

Email is mckinley.torch@gmail.com

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