Impact – Fight for the Right
Watching the match — seeing Abyss and Lance Hoyt made me feel like I was watching Kane and Test from 4 years ago.
The rules of the match, while creative, were odd. All these men outside the ring, fightig to get in. Then a battle royal with the men inside the ring followed. Okay, it was an odd as that old WCW event where two rings were placed next to each other and a wrestelr had to get thrown out of both rings to be eliminated (anyone else remember that, or did I make it up?).
it turns out to be a big man match at the end with Hoyt fighing Abyss. The “big boot” is not impressive, a moonsault by someone the size of Hoyt – now that’s impressive. I don’t know the names of the moves in this universe. The tourture rack-falling back breaker by Abyss is an impressive looking move as well.
I’m very suprised at the quality of match of these two big men. I was expecting a WWE-style punch-kick match. Hoyt’s Van Terminator was less than graceful but Abyss sold like a champ.
I stand by original TNA-gripe. These guys don’t sell long enough – they don’t tell a story. it’s just one high impact move after another (no pun intended).
Jarret’s backstage promo:
I heard they were turning Jarret face. Maybe he’ll come back as “Jeff J. Jarret” so he can be Triple J. Jarret leaving the wrestling scene (if he actually does that) could be helpful to TNA. Whenever main event scenes shift, it’s usually an exciting time in the promotion. Sting v3.0, Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe (possibly truly in the main event), plus the tournament to put another wrestler in that scene.
TNA’s Kurt Angle:
Even with my limited TNA knowledge, eve I know that a Joe-Angle feud is money. Side note: Kurt’s new music — I think it’s very smart that TNA did not merely do their own version of Kurt’s WWE music. The intense, pulsing music fits with Angle.
The Angle promo:
“The other place.” I wish TNA wouldn’t mention the competition. There’s no reason to do that – it always makes you sound like the 2nd class brand. I remember when Dusty Rhodes was a new and exciting “newcomer” to the WWE. The total disregard of Rhodes’ past was the WWE way.
However, when TNA gets a WWE guy, the WWE guy always yaps about the WWE. Repackage some of these guys.
Angle put over Samoa Joe? What a crazy idea. The audience always sounds like some kind of small, well behaved infomercial crowd.
Even though I’m a Kurt Angle fan, I really hope Joe goes over Kurt. Angle should be to TNA what Terry Funk was to the original ECW. He should build stars. He should be used to grab other talent from the WWE and establish TNA as a true competitor.
Damn. My recording ended when Kurt was attacking Joe.
Decent show.
To make TNA Perfect:
Fire Don West and change the set (no more American Gladiators set).
Download: 
. Slaughter beating Nicky – there’s 5 of them! Cheat, dammit! Carlito vs. Orton – when the hell is Carlito going to get a win out of this? This would be a feud if they exchanged wins every now and then. It’s just Orton squeaking out wins and Carlito looks like a chump. 
