Brief Thoughts On Gail Kim And Aces & Eights

Gail Kim turned on the WWE last year and returned to TNA. She soon won both the KO title and tag titles. They built her up to look strong. And now? She is rotated out for the benefit of Brooke Tessmacher. I like both of these women. My problem is that TNA continues to run this foolish system of rotating out their centerpieces. And people are surprised that they never get anywhere? This is not how you build stars or use stars effectively to draw. One more thing I want to say about Gail. Has this run worked out as well as her first run? No. Gail Kim got people talking when she first joined TNA. She came in at a time before the KO division was officially made. She benefited from being developed in the periphery. When the division was formed, she was the first Champion. Not too long after all that, the WWE wanted her back. Had she stayed, would TNA have cycled her out back then? Can't be completely sure now, but if they were going to, she ended up never having to go through that. Now, she does.

I go from criticizing TNA to giving them credit for something. The Aces & Eights storyline is still going on. I compared it to the Nexus storyline the WWE had. TNA is doing two things differently that I like. First, they have kept the identities a secret. They will all turn out to be people who are not too important (not to be rude), but keeping it a surprise does make it more interesting. Everyone knew who the guys on Nexus were. They were rookies from NXT. Having rookies rise up like that was great, but there is still something to be said for keeping it a mystery to the general audience, like TNA is doing. Second thing I like, they are actually treating this as some kind of witch hunt. Who is behind these guys? When the WWE ran the Nexus stable, people were wondering who was having them do this. It turned out that they were on their own. That's fine. It could turn out that Aces & Eights are not led by an active performer on the roster. They are just making trouble by beating down people and playing mind games. So far, this is a better summer angle than Brock Lesnar and Triple H feuding.