I’m back due to TNA causing Brad existential despair. Let’s see how long I can hold on this time.
1. Announcing Foley’s farewell address when he just signed is utterly ridiculous. Jarrett asks for a meeting and seems to imply Foley will be back. No one is surprised but Don West. They end the show with Foley announcing he’ll change the wrestling world next week. Do these ever pay off?
2. I wish Sabin and Shelley were pushed more, but you could do worse with opening shows with them to pop crowds. Their match was good, but the gimmicky actions of Dutt are silly in the wrong way.
3. Angle vs. Morgan was a pretty good match, but there was no reason for Kurt to go over a guy they’re building so cleanly, especially kicking out of his finisher. Kurt beating up both of the MCMG and then both of Morgan and Abyss made him seem great… and everyone else seem useless.
4. Nash turned on Joe because he disrespected Hall and Nash months ago. So making sure he kept the title for months was revenge? How is costing Joe the title to Sting worse than what he could have done ages ago against Booker?
5. Apparently Sting is champion, not because he’s the best, but because Joe didn’t respect him enough to beat him early when he was clearly superior. Good promo, but it leaves us with a paper champion. Here comes AJ Styles, who cuts the promo of his career to be belittled by Sting and compared to his… father? That’s out of left field. AJ slaps Sting and is fully justified… in the feud that’s now for the title, but only for the second best wrestler in TNA…. then they cut from something that’s actually working to Angle beating up the Prince Jobber Squad.
6. The beautiful people stop Hemme for taking their T.V. time, as she’s walking away to get off T.V. And they manage to anti-sell HD by saying it’ll make the women less attractive.
7. Hey Cheerleader Melissa wrestles, that’s always a good call. Roxxi can really go too. The curb stomp is a cool move that’s not really seen done stiffly on T.V., so TNA has Melissa doing two of them for a transition near fall. Overall, this was nearly WWE formula, without the babyface shine and these two are capable of far more, which isn’t to say this was bad, merely not as good as it could be.
8. Wasn’t Booker a heel because he didn’t get a proper dressing room? And since I’ve watched, why has Booker totally changed his accent? He sounds absolutely retarded now.
9. They finally found the right role for Creed- Squashed by Nash. Then a blown up Nash cuts a long, terrible promo… but at least he seemed like a heel, unlike Sting.
10. Do any matches in TNA just end without beatdowns or cut- aways?
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I saw what you typed but you could have just typed “TNA suck” and repeat ten times.
(1) As I look at him, Morgan needs to hold himself a little lower to the ground, because he can’t lose 5 inches in height. He just looks exceptionally awkward in his frame. A guy like Nash is built for seven feet. A guy like Morgan is either a workout warrior or a roid freak, and that’s about all keeping him from looking like Gheorghe Muresan.
(2) Nash’s promo started out typical Nash, which I was digging. Unfortunately, he had to resort to cheap heat and garbage to get the retards in the crowd to give the proper response. I think I hate TNA crowds almost as much as the promtoion itself.
(3) Yes, pretty much every one of those inconsistencies occurred to me. This promotion is infuriating.
I’ll send you some holy water to wash the shit stains Impact left in your eyes. Do you want UPS or DHL?
Impact Zone crowds always suck. All the more reason for them to get the hell out of there. A bunch of tourists are more likely to cheer old-school stars like Sting and Nash no matter what they’re doing.
Good and not inaccurate observations, but we could at least all give them props for pushing strongly to their HD/Live episode next week like it was actually something significant. Most times, not even the WWE condescends to do that for their PPVs.
AJ’s promo at the beginning was great. Booker’s backstage stuff…not so much. What they hell are they thinking?
Having been in the Chicago audience for BFG, I concur with Randall that Impact Zone audiences are a signficant problem.
The crowd in Chicago was hot, the arena was nearly sold out and I think that energy had a positive impact (no pun intended) on the quality of the show.
And while I’m not a fan of Nash in the ring (and let’s face it, who really is) I can see the logic behind the match-up with Joe.
I do think TNA deserves some credit for basically carrying a story line over several months. Joe and Nash developed for months. Joe versus Booker (which was really the start of this young/old angle) started months a little while back as well.
I prefer story lines that develop over time, so I’m glad TNA is trying to keep something going.
It caused me less despair this week, actually. Sorry I handed off a really talky show to you, at any rate.
TNA’s new tagline:
TNA: Causing Less Despair
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