This past Sunday night TNA Wrestling reached the pinicle so far of their rise to being a comprehensive, well written show. This isn't a review of Destination X so, in as few words as possible, it was a good show with a match of the year contender in AJ Styles vs Daniels and an unexpected World Heavyweight Title change. No, instead I wanted to highlight to examples of how far TNAs booking and story telling has advanced in the post Russo era.

To me, TNAs storylines now have the same substance as any well written TV show or comic book. Storys have a begining, middle and end and most importantly of all, characters interactions with each other are now remembered and brought to the forfront instead of being forgotten about three months down the line.

Here are two examples from this past Sundays Destination X.

1. Jesse Sorenson
Several months ago Jesse Sorensen recieved a C-1 vertebrae fracture with spinal cord edema at the hands (knees) of Zima Ion. For a couple of weeks TNA kept us updated on his condition and then slowly let him slip onto the back burner. Podcasts and blogs were happy to criticise TNA for this but this past Sunday they responded in the best way possible. At Destination X, an X-Division PPV, TNA updated us on the condition of this X-Division competitor, first of all with a vignette and then by having the once again mobile Sorenson come down to the ring and cut a promo. The crowd responded well both to his unexpected return and his apparant well being.

The promo was well written and essentially stated that Jesse hoped that Zima Ion would win the vacant title so that he (Sorenson) could then take it from him. After the segment was over, as Jesse was leaving to walk back up the ramp, Ion made his way down to the ring for his match leading to a brief staredown between the two as Ion mocked Sorensons neck injury and Jeremy Borash informing us that this was the first contact between the two since Ion broke his neck.

This is good simple writing 101. TNA have taken a negative in Sorensons career threatening injury and turned it into a positive. Now, upon his return proper, Sorenson will have a story to his character, he'll be the returning hero with a score to settle rather than a random guy that carrys a football. By placing the title on Ion TNA have fulfilled one half of Sorensons wish list already, left the fans anticipating his return and created a hook for Ions' title reign too.

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