OK...so I just finished watching TNA...wasn't good except AJ/Angle, that was excellent, better than their PPV match. That being said it wasn't bad either.
Here's what I think: The good: AJ/Kurt, but it's bad business to give away your PPV main event. Don't care since I wouldn't have paid for it.
The Knockout Tag match was really fun. Ric Flair as AJ's mentor, he can seriously take Styles to the next level as his mouthpiece, lord knows that's Aj's major weakness.
The ho-hum: Hogan booked as a tweener. Not bad, but not good, how are you going to have the guy cut his first promo as a face, turn down an nWo rip-off reformation, then cut a heel promo on Jarrett? Too much curve booking on his first appearance.
Foley. Was a whole lotta walking around to find Hogan in a small building.
Sting. Revisiting his WCW gimmick after he's been oh-so vocal the past few years is re-hash. As with Foley, I hope this goes somewhere.
Jeff Hardy. Not good to fuck your fans over in the first match of the show with horrendous booking, no matter who is appearing. And it wasn't as HUGE as a surprise as it should have been when you play theme music. Should have had him come without music, ala Hall in WCW, would have shocked people more. But still nice to see him, just could have been more surprising.
Joe/Abyss Boring. Slow. Ho-Hum at best.
The not-so-good: Hernandez/Morgan-Raven/Stevie- what the fuck? Didn't showcase anything and squashed Raven and Stevie in the process.
Bringing in nobodies like Orlando Jordan, Shannon Moore,the Nasty Boys and Val Venis. None of these dudes have really nothing to offer TNA except taking up limited roster space. NO ONE knows or cares about Orlando Jordan and Shannone Moore, the Nastys only have work because of Hogan and Venis is a good hand, but so so terrible to rehash a gimmick that's shelf life expired nine years ago. Not good at all.
Rehashing the nWo, why swear to all the fans that you are all about wrestling and moving forward when it looks like they're in some way headed to rehash an angle that has been rehashed 5 times already and the last three times were epic failures. Way to focus on the future.
BAD: Starting the show with bogus, patented TNA booking. They had the proper outlet to showcase exactly what makes TNA special with the X division, instead we get some lousy camera angles, some half-decent spots and a very bullshit finish in a mushy match. The fans knew it too, with their "bullshit" chants. Not a good way to start off their biggest show to date.
Lack of wrestling. There was more matches on Raw, and Raw,IMO, had better wrestling tonight. Angle/AJ was the match of the night on both programs, but Raw had two very good, solid matches with DX/Jerishow and a nice Orton/Kofi match. Plus the 4-way was fun. Besides the mainevent, the KO tag match was the only other TNA match that delivered. Wolfe/Pope seemed too loose but has legs to run a program, Abyss/Joe was slow and boring and the X match was atrocious due to booking. The singles womens match was o.k at best. But TNA didn't showcase wrestling,or it's young, fresh, exciting young talent that Jarrett and Hogan both talked soo much about, there was too much talking.
All in all, not terrible, but not good by any means. They really dropped the ball on delivering a good wrestling show. We got rehashes, the introduction of no-name never weres, but we also got Hardy. Out of 10 I'd give this show a 5. Acceptable but I can't honestly say it was better than Raw.
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