Torch Feedback TNA Impact Reax #3: "It seems like you need a scorecard now to determine the heels and faces"
Oct 24, 2009 - 12:19:36 PM
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John of Cocoa Beach, Fla., Writer (5.0): Best match: Beer Money vs. British Invasion. Worst match: Beautiful People food fight. You got a sense of newness in TNA from this broadcast, much like years ago in WCW when Booker T became champion after the famous Vince Russo fires Hulk Hogan speech. It seems like you need a scorecard now to determine the heels and faces. Kurt Angle is now a face? Are Samoa Joe and Kevin Nash still heels? Nash has an issue with Eric Young of the new top heel stable the World Elite. Where does Joe stand? Will we have a face faction of the Mafia? Time to break out those NWO Wolfpac T-Shirts! The Beer Money and British Invasion match had an incredibly dangerous suplex off the top of the cage spot which I give Doug Williams credit for taking. Williams reminds me of the old school AWA British star Billy Robinson. Tough, brawny, and wrestles stiff. I can do without the Matt Morgan ring entrance. Did he buy the old Lex Luger Narcissist's ring robe off WWE Shopzone? Batista should be paid royalties for the entrance theme. Was shocked to see how much leaner and meaner Rhino has become in the last several weeks as he solidifies his heel character. The announce desk looked like an ECW class reunion of Taz and Team 3D. Too bad we can't get Joey Styles to replace Mike Tenay. Or put Don West back on as a heel commentator, but I'm looking for a screwjob from West as he will turn on the Amazing Red. What was the purpose of the food fight backstage from the Beautiful People? Thought the TNA Knockouts were supposed to be smarter, sexier, and more powerful than those other Divas? We end with A.J. Styles and Kurt Angle getting attacked, Angle by the new Desmond Wolf, the former Nigel McGuinness and Styles in the parking lot. Who attacked AJ? Daniels? Joe? Or, let it be... please... let it be MRRRRRR KENNEDY! Or whatever his name will be in TNA.
Terrie Neilson of Las Vegas, Nev. (6.0): Best: Lethal Consequences vs. Guns. Worst: champion in the background. The show was titled "Black Thursday?" on screen. It should have been titled "Sudden Change" instead. Just what percentage of Impact was made up of complete restarts and/or sudden stops. Booker T apparently departs out of nowhere (rumors notwithstanding, saying he's just gone sounds lame). Kurt Angle suddenly respects the young guns (well, at least a few of them) after all this time of stomping on their progress. Steiner and Nash are suddenly distancing themselves from Kurt without a valid explanation. The relationship between Kong and Saeed was never really delved into, and the ties are severed without real build. Rhino apparently isn't interested in Lashley anymore; Steiner seems to be. At least Rhino's shoulder chip stayed put. The match should be good, but how exactly did Daniels and Joe get the right to face A.J. at Turning Point? The same goes for The Beautiful People and Taylor/Sarita. I will give credit, though, that the food fight was one of the better ones I've seen. Just as quickly did Hernandez's ring gear change, it changed back. And where did his push go? If Beer Money can't have another tag title shot against the Brits, 3D is busy mediating Rhino, The Guns have the title shot, and Steiner is without a partner, where do Storm and Roode go? Certainly TNA isn't thinking of splitting up Beer Money? I hope not. Where does Morgan go after Desmond Wolfe (a/k/a Nigel McGuiness) ambushed Angle? I just have this odd feeling that Wolfe is a smokescreen making Angle face's turn look legit. And for all this talk about Sting not completely retiring after Bound For Glory, there was no major follow-up. I would have liked this show a whole lot more if this bout of PDS (PPV Detachment Syndrome) weren't so bad.
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