Shane McKinley, PWTorch.com Contributor (2.0)

Welcome to the dregs of TNA's product, as evident in the last showing. Content like this is what you will find in a trashcan. Want to experience a 10-minute snoozer opening with Kevin Nash in charge? You're in luck. Relish when Mick Foley takes you on a trip to a...roadside restaurant? I don't know anybody who gets a thrill out of watching TNA play up its "insider" bit (oh look, there's Ed Ferarra! Wow!). It's useless to me. On the flip side, why would any casual fan stick around to watch Foley in some random bar? And the payoff for all of these Foley vignettes? Jeff Jarrett might come out next week...and stand on the stage with pyro going behind him. All right then. It's good to know that the fearsome five (Hogan, Dixie, Jarrett, Foley, Nash) are getting more attention than the World Heavyweight Champion A.J. Styles.

It seemed that for every okay move on this show (Chris Sabin getting some love, Joe trying to make that silly Feast or Fired match respectable, the freshness of Eric Young vs. Hamada), there were just baffling decisions that are...damn near unexplainable. The trailer park match of Tara vs. ODB was so awful, unfunny and depressing it could sober up any drunk. It's also good to know that the Beautiful People are just trashier WWE Divas, something that once upon a time they boasted that they weren't ("We actually wrestle!," screams Lacey Von Erich as she rolls around in mud).

Why should I believe in any TNA hot budding talent (Matt Morgan, Hernandez) if they get cast aside for guys like...Jesse Neal? Does Neal really "deserve" such treatment from TNA management over other guys like Morgan and Hernandez? Even Scott Steiner practicing his favorite sexual positions on Bobby Lashley's wife couldn't force me to feel anything for The Boss. Oh, and a man was set on fire on Impact. If you go to their website, you can see Abyss getting burned alive. Pick up the Bound for Glory DVD while you're there.

Greg Parks, PWTorch.com Contributor (2.5)

With this effectively being the "lame duck" time until Hogan and his cronies come in, I thought maybe we'd see the writers experiment, take some risks, book using ideas outside-the-box and try something different. But this goes to show that "different" doesn't equal "good." They experimented with the Knockouts division...involving them in a garbage brawl and a mud-wrestling match. That's definitely a step back and the exact opposite of what the Knockouts (allegedly) stand for.

Chances are, if you watched the opening segment, you probably tuned out the rest of the show, since none of the matches Nash announced seemed remotely interesting. Looks like Rob Terry is running out of chances with the Brits, but I hope they don't try to turn him face. Scott Steiner dry-humping Kristal in the ring was just disturbing. The Beautiful People got way too much backstage time, but hey, gotta get that bait-and-switch in there. Eric Young having to use the ropes to beat Hamada was a joke. Jessie Neal pinning Hernandez? Really? Styles vs. Wolfe was fine, but ultimately worthless. And I can't believe Abyss agreed to get himself lit on fire for an angle only shown on TNA's website. He should be ashamed, even if he thought at the time it would air on Spike TV. No excuse to waste something like that, which should be done rarely, if ever, and only for big moments, on a random episode of Impact.

Then there was the Mick Foley segments. I don't know how to feel about the overly scripted nature of the segments, from the camera panning back to show a disheveled Jarrett after hearing the voice off camera, to the awkwardly extended shot of the handshake at the end. And I'm sure Jarrett and Foley's references to Dixie went way over the head of most of their fans. They had a good hook for next week in Jarrett's return, I'll give them that.

Daniel Wilkenfeld, PWTorch.com Contributor (1.5)

Admittedly this show happened to catch me in a bad mood, and it did have a couple of good points. Oddly enough, the Foley search, which I dreaded the most coming in, was easily the best part of the show. We got to see a few minutes of AJ-Wolfe, but not even really enough to do any appetite wetting. On the downside we had Jessie Neal pinning Hernandez, which was personally kind of annoying, but not really a problem. Then there was disaster that used to be the Knockouts division. They managed to simultaneously do the one thing they swore they would never do by treating the women as mere eye candy, and yet somehow managed to go the opposite direction by having another match with eight freakin' chair shots to the head.

I assume this was filmed before the Umaga news or the study of Andrew Martin's brain, but couldn't someone, somewhere, have made the call to cut out what would normally have been a bad idea from a show where it was actively offensive? It's the WWE's London bomber response all over again, only this time, instead of just being offensive, it was also physically dangerous. Oh, and to complete the hat trick, somehow, in his first day back, they decided to bring up Jarrett's kids (though in a less bothersome context than usual). I think I'm going to take a couple weeks off for winter break—maybe that's enough time for TNA to get back to where they were just a couple of weeks ago. In the meantime, TNA is a failure.

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