By Shane McKinley, Torch specialist

-Great outing by TNA on their PPV. The combo of Wolfe-Angle and Styles-Joe-Daniels is a great calling card for people to check out this PPV.

-Not sure how I'm supposed to react when the cool gangsta Homicide squares off against the little leaguer Amazing Red and his proud pappy Don West. TNA putting Don West alongside Red is just...weird. West is the mouthpiece for Red, but Red couldn't speak a word and I would be fine with that. I like Red because of his unique ring work. I really don't need thousands of camera cuts to West at ringside.

But hey, at least TNA doesn't love Suicide anymore. Good riddance.

-There are two women's divisions in TNA: the Beautiful People and The Knockouts. Used to be a time that the Beautiful People not only sold sex, they also sold their characters and their feuds were harmless fun. Now it seems that with the departure of Angelina Love and the arrival of Lacey Von Erich, the only thing the Beautiful People can sell is T & A. Hey, sex sells, but as any dude knows, even "BP rope burns" get old and we move onto the next thing. Unless somehow TNA makes a gimmick match out of it.

And how great is it to be a TNA cameraman? Get paid to zoom in like a perv on some stripper's butt? Maybe Jay Lethal should apply to be a TNA Cameraman since management doesn't believe him as a TNA wrestler.

-Even hardcore TNA fans can't defend why the "Nash hitting James Storm with the Global Belt" has anything to do with the TNA tag team title match. What we now know is that we're supposed to go gaga over an ancient WCW feud with Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan. And that guys like Beer Money? They're chumps. It's good to know that Nash is back to ruining PPVs.

For old time's sake... (with the Schiavone f-bomb).



Ha ha, indeed. Next you know somebody like a Super Dave Osborne is WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Ha?

-Another question: would TNA resist the temptation of the NWO coming back?

-I can imagine a lot of WWE divas being jealous of Tara being involved in an actual, serious feud with Awesome Kong. Tara used to dress up in banana outfits in WWE and now she's in steel cage matches with Kong. Good for her.

-There seemed to be a story running through the night of TNA's homegrown young talent getting booted a bit for older, more bankable WWE rejects like Kevin Nash or "Team ECW" (Rhino, Team 3D). I like the idea of a separate faction in TNA that consists mostly of hardcore guys. Maybe just to get away from another Abyss feud. Perhaps a Hernandez vs. Matt Morgan feud?

-D'Angelo Dinero is like a designated hitter nowadays. It's nice that he's there, but it's hard to remember what he's done in TNA other than hock energy drink products.

-TNA came to their senses and realized that not a lot of people gave a crap about Lashley vs. Steiner, so it became a No DQ match. In his PPV report, James Caldwell mentioned that when Steiner choked Lashley with a cable cord happened, that particular act had no place in the post-Benoit era. I was reminded when during the Chris Jericho-JBL feud, at one point JBL dragged Jericho and choked him with a rope. I felt it was too much.

-The main events of Wolfe-Angle and Styles-Joe-Daniels definitely made this PPV a must buy. They felt rewarding to watch. The upcoming "changes" could be a hit or miss frankly. It's important for TNA to build back fan confidence in their PPVs, and I felt tonight they made a good step into that direction.

Email is mckinley.torch@gmail.com

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