TNA Impact Review
With the recent happenings of Slamiversary in Detroit last month, I would have thought Impact would have a new look or feel to it, however the last few weeks I haven’t got that feeling just yet. Samoa Joe’s heel turn was huge, as well as Sting’s official turn to face. However this week, much like week’s past features the show opening up with a Jarrett/Foley Promo. Now I think these two have amazing chemistry (along with Kurt Angle) However, it’s getting repetitive. Friends one week, enemies the next. None the less, both guys provided a pretty good promo.
Next up was the BIG return of Homicide. OK, apparently I’m the only one to care that Homicide returned, because TNA surely didn’t do much. It was almost as if he was never gone. I thought they could have hyped his return, and regaining his briefcase better. It seemed to feel like 3D kinda stole the show in this segment.
A special sit down with suicide was next, and I don’t the direction they are going with suicide. I’ve defended his character, as he seems to be mildly over with the fans. I think it is a little early to “dig inside” the head of suicide.
Tna Impact continued with another promo, this time between Sting and Samoa Joe. Your standard promo hyping the PPV, leading to Joe taking out Sting later in the show.
A nice little mini-match with Beer Money and MCMG was next. To me TNA focuses on 3D and Beer Money WAY too much in the tag team picture, when you have teams like MCMG, LAX, and Lethal Consequences in and out of the tag picture. Certainly a PPV match between MCMG and Beer Money would be better, but this was a nice little tease. Beer Money with another W.
Next up was Tara and her new pet tarantula vs. The Beautiful people. First Tara defeated Velvet Sky, and then Angelina Love to take for Knockout title. This was actually pretty well booked, however not sure if the timing on this was the best. It’s seems like the Beautiful People were really starting to take off, and they just killed their steam. Plus this double segment ran a little long.
Next up is the team of AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels to take on Matt Morgan and Kevin Nash. Pretty solid match here, what you would expect from these guys. Nash/Morgan put AJ/Daniels over, and AJ/Daniels looks pretty good teaming together.
Following that match was the PPV-worthy (on paper) Triple Threat main event match between Kurt Angle, Jeff Jarrett and Mick Foley. Well booked match, that gave the fans something to look forward too, however predictable finish. Eric Young was selected as the guest referee, and he pulled a earl hebner as he said Foley quit when he didn’t to Kurt Angles, ankle lock.
Overall, I wasn’t very impressed with this show. They went through the motions. The matches were average, and promo’s were average. They hyped the PPV which is the main goal of the TV show, however I don’t think this was a show, that would draw in new viewers, or old viewers that stopped watching. This show may not have scored very high, but I also thought match placement hurt the show. The show didn’t flow well to me. It’s not the content wasn’t that good, it was more about momentum, and time value.
Action: C+
Promos : B-
Storylines: C
Overall Show: C+
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