Hail Sabin!

                It’s the day after Chris Sabin became the TNA Heavyweight Champion of the world and my only question is:  Where does TNA go from here?   Similar to last year with Austin Aries, Sabin got the nod from Hulk Hogan and vanquished the top heel in TNA.   But much like Austin Aries’ title run came to an end via Jeff Hardy winning the Bound For Glory series, will Chris Sabin suffer the same fate?

                While TNA may have questionable booking at best, I want them to know that there are options out there for them, and I’m going to take you right now through a three part program that can make this whole situation not go down the crapper.

                First and foremost, Chris Sabin needs to keep the TNA Title until Slammiversary.   I can take you that far, TNA, but beyond that it’s up to you to figure out where to go.   So who does Sabin defend the belt against at Slammiversary?   Why the winner of the BFG series of course, who will hopefully be Austin Aries. 

                Aries and Sabin are two solid workers, the only two thus far to cash in the X Division Title for the TNA Title shot and, well, they had some drama leading up to the match with the mask and all, so this will make for a most excellent feud and series of matches if portrayed correctly. 

                At this time, the other two factors we need to consider are both Aces & Eights and the Main Event Mafia.   These two factions pretty much take care of each other.   The time for Aces & Eights is through.    They need to break up, but it doesn’t need to be pretty.

                First off, there can be some dissension between Bully Ray and Devon, with Devon noting that he still has gold.    Bully Ray needs to break off though (at least for now) and go feud with Hulk Hogan and Brooke.    Initially, Hulk Hogan could have someone fight on his behalf.   I’m not going to name any names because TNA has a lot of stars they need to build up, but even if Bully Ray was to lose a big match to Hogan’s protégé, Ray could still give the guy a hardcore beat down afterwards, forcing Hogan to step in and finally face Bully Ray to get the divorce and blah blah blah.   Look, I think we all know this is ending with Hulk Hogan getting back in the ring, right?

                So then what is there for the rest of the Aces & Eights members?   For some reason, I feel like Devon and Mr. Anderson should have a decent feud over the TV Title.  I don’t know exactly who else is left after that.  DOC (aka Luke Gallows aka Festus aka whatever his real name is) got released and so did D-Lo Brown.   Does that leave anyone besides Mike Knox and Wes Briscoe?  I feel like it does, but anyway, throw Knox and Briscoe into a tag team and call it a day for Aces and Eights because it has been long enough.

                On the flipside of this, we have the newly reformed Main Event Mafia.   Wouldn’t it be nice if they could just all say that they got back together to get rid of Aces & Eights, they did that, so now they’ll go their separate ways?   Sting can go back into semi-retirement until he is needed to come back out and fight evil once again.   Rampage Jackson isn’t ready to wrestle yet anyway so I have no idea why he’s even in the MEM.   Samoa Joe and Magnus can go back to tag team purgatory, where they might even bump into Mike Knox and Wes Briscoe.   Kurt Angle, well… He can do pretty much whatever he wants because he’s Kurt freaking Angle.

                                This should set up things rather nicely, as a potential Slammiversary card could see Sabin vs. Aries, Devon vs. Anderson, Bully Ray vs. Hogan’s protégé, and then, you know, how hard would it be to come up with something for Kurt Angle, AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, etc.??   Those guys should be the easiest ones to make matches for since they have so much history.