Official 4/26 IMPACT Wrestling Discussion Thread

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Bully Ray has been jobbing his ass off lately, and just jobbed to the guy with the tv title. He isn't getting a run with Roode's belt any time soon. Roode will beat RVD and drop the belt to Storm at Slammiversary

 

[Crayo]

you have such a pessimistic outlook on TNA

OFN was sweet & this episode of Impact was awesome. Tessmacher's finisher & entrance music are awesome. Devon beating Bully Ray shows to me that they are really pushing Devon which is awesome. A bunch of clean victories tonight and the ending segment was actually pretty cool.

I can't wait to see where the Gutcheck thing leads to.

How the fuck do I? Are you really arguing that TNA market their show? But the one time they seem to (I actually saw an ad this week) it's about OFN? Was OFN the point of the show this week? I'll be interested to see if it draws. You say TNA is awesome pretty much every week when most people seem to think it's sucking atm, which by looking at Dolph's review, it does. I'll watch it and post my own opinion but I doubt it'll differ.

Personally, I think I'm less pessimistic than you are strangely optimistic because it's not WWE.

Crayo is a little naive boy.

Stop trying, it's embarrassing.

My thoughts:

1.) Wayyyyyyyy too much Hogan (first time I've said this since he took over as GM)
2.) Devon vs Bully- not a bad match, and they seem serious about pushing Devon as the TV Champ. This is a perfectly acceptable plan IMO, gives them a real mid card belt that they've ben lacking
3.) Not nearly enough Aries or Roode (though Roode sucker punching that chump Silva was hilarious)
4.) Borash's BS was a waste of TV time
5.) Angle squashing Anarquia was fine by me. Did Angle seem like a face to anyone else? Based on the match and his interaction with Daniels
6.) Besides getting to see Al Snow, the gut check s*** sucked balls. Alex Silva was god awful. Literally terrible. Such a waste of time
7.) Tessmacher actually seems to be improving in the ring. She gets the win over Gail, and seems to be the next face they will feed to her.
8.) Joseph Park/Bully Ray-- yes! yes! yes!
9.) RVD as the #1 contender.. whatever. Nobody on Earth thinks he is beating Roode. Pure filler feud.
10.) The stupidity aside that was Hardy teaming with Anderson, I liked the turn of events in the tag match. Joe choking out Anderson was a perfect win for Joe/Magnus, and they are laying the foundation for a Daniels/Kaz & Joe/Magnus feud. Sounds good to me
11.) What the F*** at the main event segment? I didn't bother to do anything besides fast forward through it, but it ended with Borash and Garrett putting Eric in a portal potty and getting s*** all over him? I felt like Eric Bischoff after having watched that, with TNA being the ones who s*** all over me. What a waste of time. Bischoff, work backstage, and stay the F*** off my TV

4/10, a half point higher than last week, but still more bad things happening than good IMO

This seems like it was written by me. I despise the amount of Hogan, I wouldn't have cared too much about Devon and Bully, but every time I see Bully I mark so meh, I'm a big Aries/Roode mark so would have wanted to see more, Angle squash is okay, don't care about RVD, I think it's stupid he's #1 contender but as long as my main man won't drop the title I couldn't care, and I'd hate Garret, Eric and all that bullshit being in the main event.

More bad than good like you say.

I'm sorry, this show was awesome, I'm so pessimistic.

 

[Testify]

Bully Ray has been jobbing his ass off lately, and just jobbed to the guy with the tv title. He isn't getting a run with Roode's belt any time soon.

But he still gets MEGA heat. That's how good he is.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

I'm a Bully Ray mark, and I was calling for him to get a title run as early as late 2011, but he won't be getting it unfortunately. He is fucking awesome to watch, but they are using him to get other guys over. It's not really bothering me tbh. I'm assuming Aries will go over him at whatever the hell the next PPV is, then Joseph Parks/Abyss will go over him at Slammy. Bully has jobbed at like 10 PPVs in a row and still gets as much heat as anyone in wrestling.

edit: Yes Crayo, OFN was literally the #1 focus of the show last night, along with the Bischoff bull shit. Some of it was okay, some of it was overdone. For instance Hogan got to decide that Joe/Magnus would be the first to defend their belts on OFN, and they took literally 3 segments (pretty long segments) trying to determine who their opponents would be out of the Guns, Daniels/Kaz, ODB/EY, & Hardy/Anderson.

 

[Crayo]

edit: Yes Crayo, OFN was literally the #1 focus of the show last night, along with the Bischoff bull s***. Some of it was okay, some of it was overdone. For instance Hogan got to decide that Joe/Magnus would be the first to defend their belts on OFN, and they took literally 3 segments (pretty long segments) trying to determine who their opponents would be out of the Guns, Daniels/Kaz, ODB/EY, & Hardy/Anderson.

Sigh. So it's a new direction they're going in. Hogan + New OFN Concept = Ratings. We'll see I guess.

I agree with you about Bully, he's the TNA version (for me) of Miz. The guy who gets the most heat and is generally the most entertaining on the show, but is used (because of the heat) to get uninterested characters over, whereas I'd rather just see him have a title run. But I'm optimistically okay with him not having a run as long as we see him weekly and most of the time have a mic in his hands.

 

[seabs]

Im fine with Ray as the main event gate keeper providing the guys who beat him do indeed move into the main event.

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[Dolph'sZiggler]

I get the bad feeling that TNA are going to lose their way with Aries. I hope I'm wrong, but if this week was any indication I don't think they'll know what to do with him once he is finished with Ray. The X Division title has already become an afterthought, so I can't really see him going from Ray to back to meaningless X Div. Title feuds.. not sure how they would take the belt off of him with him still advancing up the card (similar to the problem WWE could run into with Rhodes.. how does he go from getting his candy ass whooped by Big Show to moving up?).

Ideally they would set up a feud between Styles and Aries for Slammiversary, but I see them dropping the ball with A Double sadly.

 

[Crayo]

Styles & Aries = Drooling

 

[Bort]

Good IW, some great comedy and decent 'rasslin.

 

[Snowman1]

6/10 for me. Plenty of positives, but most of them were little bitty things. The Joe and Magnus push is the best thing on Impact right now, and I'm loving this Tessmacher push as well. Angle turning face = Fantastic, and the fact TNA is trying to innovate and do something different in the wrestling business that's stale as dog shit is making me mark like a school girl. OFN seems like an interesting way to advance feuds if they can do it right. Gut Check is a nice idea, we'll see how it works out. Love how the show feeled, if that makes any sense.

The problems were the obvious... Hogan and Bischoff. Again. There was so much wasted time tonight... So many useless backstage segments. So many pretapes about Bischoff, the Borash thing to get heat on him for no reason, the ME segment which I didn't bother watching, Hogan debating who the tag team opponents were going to be took way too much time, no James Storm at all, no Styles, a pre-tape of RVD, Bobby Roode in a short backstage segment, very little Aries... TNA's priorities are really messed up. At least the divisions are in a little better shape.