First off, TNA Impact.
I have to admit that I'm pretty excited about the way things are going in TNA right now. They definitely have enough star power to be considered a top level promotion. I didn;t see the PPV this past weekend, but the recap made it seem "big time." As for this week's Impact here are my main thoughts:
-I've been a consitent fan of Christian for a couple years now and he could definitely have a good match with Sting. That match would be a great secondary match behind a Samoa Joe vs. Angle main event, I might even consider buying the PPV. BTW, Sting gave a short but sweet response after Christian's promo that made me feel like they understand Sting's limitations.
-LAX and The Naturals both looked really good, and the fact that TNA has such a deep Tag Team division is a huge selling point to me. It's been along time since anyone has pushed tag teams so well. I really didn't like the angle that played out between Shane Douglas and The Naturals, but at least they're trying something.
-The other two good things I have to say about the show are the Angle-Joe feud is the most exciting thing in wrestling right now. And the Jarrett taking time off situation should be great for everyone involved. I realize that it has a lot to do with personal issues in his real life, but his absence and return will refresh his character and will allow him to make some changes to his act.
-The worst part of the show was this ridiculous reverse battle royal, then regular battle royal followed by a singles match. The singles match was good, and I had nothing bad to say about any of the wrestlers' performance in the two battle royal type matches, but this is just another situation where they try so hard to come up with an original and unique style of match that they make up something that is totally ridiculous.
All in all still representative of how exciting TNA is right now.
Onto the train wreck that is Smackdown
-I can't help but feel like WWE knows that there is very little worth watching on Samckdown so they keep bringing in Cena and Big Show and Paul Heyman to give the fans a reason to care.
-Batista has fallen so fast in the past two years, partially due to his limitations and injuries but it has to be partly due Smackdown's mishandling.
-A month ago Bobby Lashley was in a PPV main event, now he's in a crappy tag match with Tatanka? Way to de-rail him as well.
-Just when we thought we were out with the exploitation of Eddie Guerrero's death, they pull us back in. I can't see any way Benoit's involvement with Chavo and Vicky will be a good thing, couldn;t they have a feud between Benoit and Chavo without Vicky>? The macthes should be pretty good, but the promos will be awful.
-The third biggest angle going on right now is Helms-Hardy, this is a bad sign, still much better than the fourth biggest being Miz vs. Layla. Hardy to me is still almost worthless, he doesn;t have the look and he sounds like an idiot when cutting a promo. His in-ring performance is good, but not great and I feel like Helms has been carrying him.
-As far the Miz vs. Layla thing goes, it's a nice excuse to have all the sexy ladies two weeks in a row, but even the quality of the eye candy is down. It was just over a year ago that Christy Hemme and Stacy Keibler were the signature Divas.
Thats all I feel like commenting on about Smackdown. I'll post again soon.
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