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August 11, 2007

Pacman can look, but he can’t touch

Now that it’s official that Adam “Pacman” Jones will appear at TNA’s Hard Justice pay-per-view tomorrow, I have a suggestion for his ring entrance music. How about MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This?”

As expected, an agreement has been reached between Jones’ lawyers, the Tennessee Titans and TNA that allows Jones to make appearances for TNA with the provision that he cannot touch or be touched. It looks like Total Nonstop Action won’t apply to Jones – unless it’s legal action, that is.

Under this arrangement, at least TNA won’t suffer the humiliation of Jones not being allowed to appear at the pay-per-view after the company heavily promoted that he would be there. The damage to TNA is already done, however.

As the disappointing ratings for Jones’ debut on TNA television Thursday demonstrated, the public wasn’t all that interested in Pacman’s wrestling exploits anyway. Now that it has been made clear that Jones will not be doing anything that requires physical contact, the small percentage of people who were curious about Jones in TNA probably don’t care anymore.

As I said earlier this morning, it’s inexcusable that TNA didn’t have the parameters of Jones’ involvement all worked out before promoting him. It was obvious that there was confusion regarding Jones’ role in TNA when the story broke a couple weeks ago. Jones’ laywer said at the time that Jones “won’t be wrestling.” Jeff Jarrett, however, stated: “Absolutely, yes, he’s going to get in the ring.” The Titans, meanwhile, declined to comment, which actually spoke volumes.

Hoping to score a touchdown by bringing in Pacman, TNA fumbled the ball. I guess TNA will have to find some other infamous athlete to help it attract a wider audience. Is it too late for Vince Russo to call O.J. Simpson about that lie detector test?

Posted by Kevin Eck at 3:38 PM | | Comments (1)
        

Comments

Kevin,

What are you most looking forward to at tonight's TNA PPV? In my opinion, Pacman's appearance is worthless since they trained and advertised him to be a wrestler and now he can't. TNA got it's two minutues of mainstream pub and now it doesn't mean anything anymore. I thought about ordering it, but the rest of the card is pure trash. TNA use to be an alternative to WWE, but now it's just a copy-cat and a bad one at that. Russo has obviously lost the edge and creativity that made him the best writer in the buisness during the mid to late 90's

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