Originally Posted by seibu:
“The Hogan exit made perfect sense in storyline terms. Heel Dixie had gone mad with power, alienating everyone, forcing Sting to leave, trying to sideline Styles etc. She thought she could count on Hogan to back her, but he quit, calling her bluff and ruining her plans.
I never saw how Dixie begging Hogan made TNA look bad on any level. In storyline terms Dixie was the *heel* boss of the company, getting her just desserts. Even the most casual viewer would know Hogan is a bigger name than Dixie, or TNA for that matter. To pretend otherwise (either in storyline or otherwise) is ridiculous. You don't need to be a 'smark' to appreciate the visual of heel Dixie clinging onto the ankles of the biggest name ever in wrestling abandoning her.
I never bought the observer story about Hogan's exit. Hogan has never done anything he didn't want to, for any promotion. But if TNA didn't want to go with that angle they wouldn't have shot it, and Hogan would just have been written out off-screen like Foley.”
I completely disagree, I think it was a stupid move that made Dixie look like an idiot whilst letting Hogan feed his ego on his way out. It may not have made TNA look bad, it did make Dixie look bad. Like a lot of things in TNA, it served no purpose to improve TNA at all and instead made Hogan on his final night, after doing sweet FA for the company IMO, look more important than everybody else.
I don't appreciate the visual, but I agree you don't have to be a smark to do so, i think it's a desperate, sad visual to see the woman, supposedly the President of an international company, getting dragged on her knees. I think it's an awful visual.
And before the usual "YOU HATE TNA!!!!!!!!!!!!" rage begins, id think it was an awful thing to do for Stephanie, Triple H, Vince McMahon to do with John Cena.