Quick review:
Feast or Fired: *** 1/2
Sharmell and The Beautiful People vs ODB, Roxxi, and Taylor Wilde: **
TNA X-Division Title-Sheik Abdul Bashir(c) vs Eric Young: ** 1/2
TNA World Tag Team Titles-Beer Money(c) vs Abyss and Matt Morgan: ***
Rhino vs Kurt Angle: ** 3/4
TNA Knockout Title match-Christy Hemme vs Awesome Kong(c): *3/4
TNA World Heavyweight Title-TNA Front Line vs The Main Event Mafia(c): *** 3/4
Overall this PPV was decent at best. I'm still trying to make sense of the main event, I just don't understand why the Main Event Mafia had to go over AGAIN. And why in the fuck is Samoa Joe jobbing? He's the best wrestler on the roster and he's been treated like shit as of late. Other than that, it was a decent show. I laugh at the 3's, and 4's out of 10 that people are giving, it shows the general "lets all hate on TNA" bias that I'm honestly just going to ignore from now on.
6.5 = fair
So because the match quality was okay that forgives all the wack ass booking? Where the whole PPV it was all about tuning into Impact?
That aside I loved the previous months PPV from TNA it was fantastic...but TNA rapidly fell back into there normal odd booking patterns. Match quality alone does not make a promotion sucsessful.
However to answer your one question about why the Main Event Mafia went over is because it was the only booked finish that made scense. And heres why....
1) To give the belt to the frontline so soon would cause too much back and forth in the fued. The Mafia would be dead and the fued would be pretty much over already.
2) To continue the tenssion between Sting & the rest of the Mafia. It was clear that when Sting saw the replay he got upset that the mafia had cheated to win. The story telling is that Sting is a good guy on the wrong side.
3) To have AJ win the belt in such a stupid stipulation match would be stupid. Having a mega main event tag match for a PPV is fine. WWE has done them...doesn't mean the title needs to be on the line....but TNA thinks it does. Fortunatly they had enough common scense to make sure the belt didn't change hands in it.
Although I agree that eventually the Frontline needs to win the war its too soon. For a fued of this magnatude, to blow it off after just 2 PPV's would be lame.