Surprised at a new champ? No.
Who actually watched Impact last week? No one here according to the lack of LD. No one at the other place. Went to PWTorch the morning after for results, nothing there either. I know it was WM week, but literally no fucks were given about TNA and it's TV programme last week.
Quite frankly, they had to do something to remind people they existed.
Surprised that it's EY? Absolutely, a guy booked mostly as a comedy character for the last three years, a guy who at one point was one half of the Knockout Tag Champs holding a company's main title? Not taking anything away from him, I'm a fan and there's few on the TNA roster who deserve it more and from what I've seen and read he's an all round good guy in general. But it's yet another bush league attempt by the company to jog behind any sort of bandwagon the WWE produce.