The Island of Lost Ideas

[WaffEl-11P]

I see that there's one in WWE FAN, and seeing as TNA FAN's dead, we should have one here so we can talk about what our plans were.

First of all, Christian York's briefcase held an X-Division title shot. I figured that Tank and I would be able to work out something good, considering that Bully Ray was the X-Division Champion at the time of the shutdown.
Next, remember Kurt Angle being kidnapped? Also Christian York. The plan was for him to return brainwashed (think Olympic Hero Angle) as a member of the No Fun Allowed that York and Taryn were talking about at...I think it was Hardcore Justice. I'm not sure though.
Finally, the whole Alex Shelley thing on my part. My plan was for Mr. Anderson's open challenge to be answered by Shelley, where he would win based on some botched Bad Influence interference on Anderson's behalf. Then, Daniels and Kazarian would beat down Anderson and reveal that they had been approached by Shelley to work for him. This works on several fronts from my perspective, chief among them being that I was really losing steam on Anderson after my hot opening month with him. Second, I loved writing for Bad Influence as faces, but I kinda had to hold back because hey, they were faces. When they were heels, I could really say whatever I wanted. Finally, with Shelley as the leader of Bad Influence (I'd drop Anderson, switch Shelley to taken and tag BI to him), I could see if I could write for a top-level heel, which I was hoping I could make Shelley into.

So that's about all I had. I do want to see what would have become of, say, The Garret Gestapo, for instance. If you have any ideas that you wanted to put into action, or even something from the earlier days that you never got to see through, post them here.

[Title Master Mikey]

Couple of things relating to Kenny King. He started calling out Joey Ryan while he was still the X Division Champion. Natural suggested doing Option C with King vacating the title to get a World Championship match but I declined. Had TNA FAN stuck around, we'd have done Ryan vs. King in an Iron Man match for the the title and built it as their Final Encounter.

There were plans to have a comedy division with the main prize being the Television Championship. If you read a couple of Zema Ion or KCW matches from just before Bound for Glory 2013, you'll see hints of it. Ultimately it was decided that a comedy division wouldn't work out but if it had stuck, I would have picked somebody up and they basically would have been the one doing the Orange Juice Theory type promos instead of El Generico.

Edit - One more thing has just popped to mind. If I remember correctly, Hayden had both Austin Aries and the Machine Guns but he was close to having them cut due to inconsistency. Had they been cut, I was tempted to either take Austin and tag the Guns or tag all three to King. Would have been something like The Greatest Guns To Ever Live.

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Harold was going to suffer a series of head injuries and cycle through a bunch of gimmicks, including the Scorpio Sky gimmick. Basically, it's what I had planned for Cody Rhodes. He would've changed his name to Harold Mason Andrews, Scorpio. And eventually, he'd end up in the same hospital as Chavo, which would be the same one Abyss had been in last year. And Abyss would break them out and the three would form a stable, along with Madison Rayne.

Before Jono turned Beer Money and TnT into Aces and Eights, I had considered doing the stable with Joey Ryan, Garrett Bischoff, Wes Brisco, and Jay Bradley. But I eventually decided that changing Joey's gimmick would hurt the quality of his promos.

Also related to Joey Ryan, originally, I was going to hint for Ryan to lose at Bound For Glory 2013. I ended up not doing so because I was really enjoying the main event scene with Ryan, Zema, and King. And to add to what Mikey said about the Iron Man Match, ideally, I would've wanted to do it similar to Bret/Michaels, with only one fall, but rather than go to overtime, have the fall recorded with about two minutes left in the match, and have the loser come up just short of tying it. And I probably would've wanted King to win it, because Mikey's done a hell of a job and deserved it.