By Wade Keller, PWTorch editor

-Impact Wrestling starring... Dixie Carter? Given what happened last week, they had to start the show this week with a follow-up, but the overall strategy of focusing on Dixie having a meltdown and the entire storyline with A.J. Styles is a curious strategy to draw ratings. Will wrestling fans embrace this? Will this type of approach attract non-wrestling fans into watching a show that is otherwise built around wrestlers wrestling? It’s a gamble TNA has chosen to take. The that it stars the President of the company and now her husband does, history shows, make the motivations for this being the centerpiece angle less objective.

-Styles took a nice bump for Serge’s punch. He also got right back up, which was good because Styles can sell being surprised by a punch, but he shouldn’t sell beyond that.

-By the end of the contract signing with Joe Park and Bully Ray, I was nearly believing that Chris Park and Joe Park were separate people. At least Abyss didn’t refer directly to anything that just happened, because if he did it would be impossible for the storyline to acknowledge that Chris and Joe are one the same person. At least now, when that is revealed, there is a sliver of plausibility that Joe/Chris coordinated the deceptive video stunt.

-Joey Ryan, despite not getting the job last week, is among the most compelling and polished characters on Impact right now. It’s nice to see Al Snow get some appropriate TV time. He is very good in his role as a teacher trying to teach a young punk some respect.

-What undercuts Taz’s announcing is how nonchalant he is about almost everything. It takes away any intensity from angles when he just chuckles as he talked about Samoa Joe costing Aries his match against Crimson. If he doesn’t take anything seriously, the viewer feels foolish investing emotionally either.

-Sting made Roode tapout as the final image of the final show before the PPV. That’s fine, but what was missing was that inspirational Sting promo to sells fans on his desire to be champion once again. That’s vital to selling the PPV.

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