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12-07-2006, 08:07 PM
I haven't really gotten a shot to review TNA on a steady basis since I forgot the move to primetime and late working. So 1st heres a new bit:
Monday was supposed to be Big Show's last night but he was asked to stay on for another week to work the Smackdown European tour because WWE felt light on main eventers. He is currently in Europe and worked the Madrid, Spain show yesterday.
- During a radio appearance on 97.1FM in Chicago, Jim Ross said that he doubts WWE will ever acknowledge TNA's VKM angle on the air. He also addressed the Vince McMahon/Paul Heyman situation, saying Vince always has final say and that ECW will continue on without Heyman. Other things of note were that he said he is concerned about Kurt Angle, said that Lita left WWE because she was tired of going on the road and because she has other interests in life, that his favorite wrestlers are Steve Austin, The Rock, and Shawn Michaels, and that Triple H is unfairly criticized by the internet.
- Kurt Angle and Dixie Carter will be meeting with people from the TV show Ghost Whisperer this week in Hollywood.
Credit: WrestlingObserver.com
The Good
TNA opens with the build of Sting/Christian/Abyss. It appears judging from the promo that Abyss could be the tweener. As the show gets more into Star Wars type terroritory , Sting feels that Abyss can be a man. That he's more than Jim Mitchell's puppet. Meanwhile the evil Christian reveals Tyson Tomco knows something about him.
Rhino kicks off TNA as he demands A.J Styles come out so they can finish what they started. Christopher Daniels instead comes out as he tries to make peace. That lasts til Styles jumps Rhino as we see. Now A.J Styles is a heel again ? WOW...
We see LAX come out and its kinda a miracle that Konnan isn't in a wheelchair at this stage. For those who don't know , K-Dog has a really bad hip and he's pretty much in horrific pain and will have to have surgery soon. Homicide gets to face Petey Williams. Good short singles match as I loved the reversals into Williams simple piledriver. No Canadian Destroyer ? Darn....AMW makes the save setting up a Flag Match at the PPV. ( Should be good.)
Backstage we see Doctor Kevin Nash. He's busy checking out X-Division stars minds with ink blots. Low-Ki looks on serious as hell and answers each blot with " Warrior " . Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal answer as Nash has his doctor outfit on. Austin Starr sees himself as X-Division Champion and then NWA World Champion. Alex Shelley just wants Nash to love him as usual. ( Funny stuff) . Then Nash tells Dutt he's juicing as he reacts is priceless. This weekend at the PPV the PCS series will start .
Eric Young will be in a bikini contest which harkens back to when Alan Funk won Miss TNA back in 2002. Young cuts a fuinny promo saying he needs to drop as much wieght as possible and needs to know what a woman knows to win against Miss Brooks.
Young comes out to face Low-Ki as that match is started. Low-Ki looks weird as hell facing Young and the fans are behind the funny face Young. Still it doesn't last long as Miss Brooks shows up and flashes Young as Eric's goofy facial reactions sell it. Low-Ki wins it.
Jim Cornette comes out and makes the AMW/LAX Flag Match. He gets interupted as Christian and Tomco comes out. Christian pretty much dismisses Cornette as he tells him he's too busy worrying about 1st Amendment rights with LAX to do his job. Tomco and him are gonna reveal Abyss's secret and he taunts him with it til Abyss hits the ring !
Abyss is on fire as he tears into both heels. Of course the numbers are too much and out comes Sting to make the save. Sting extends his hand to shake Abyss's hand as he reaches out to the man inside the monster. Abyss of course blackhole slams him as Jim Mitchell taunts Sting.
We get more PPV matches as Chris Sabin vs Christopher Daniels for the X-Division Title is brought up. Jerry Lynn will be special guest referee for this. Rhino vs A.J Styles is also added as we learn. The Vodoo Kin Mafia ( VKM) are gonna be there as well.
The promo for Raven's new heel group ( who have a new name now) is shown. Awesome promo by the way . Their gonna be called " Serotonin " . This is the Wikipedia definition of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin
Now thats a great Kurt Angle/Samoa Joe promo. Having Kurt echo some of the lines I laid out weeks ago as he describes that Joe pushed him to limits he never knew existed. That he had never faced someone as good as Joe and he is scared he'll lose the rematch. Joe says he let up on Kurt Angle and realizes how good he really is. This weekend he'll know how to handle Kurt.
In the Main Event its gonna be Kurt Angle vs Sting vs Christian vs Samoa Joe vs Abyss ! This is the 1st time in my fan history that Sting and Kurt Angle have ever been in the same ring. Markin out people....
TNA does an awesome job to keep Sting and Kurt Angle away from each other too. The match is a tag deal and its a pretty solid Main Event as Kurt's just killing Christian lol. Tomco tries to help but Samoa Joe remembers his deal with Kurt Angle to watch his back. The 2 seem to have a good bond til ....Angle turns ! One Angle slam outta nowhere later , Samoa Joe loses again to Kurt Angle ! That should be fun for people to get pissed over as Kurt has sent a message to Joe for their next PPV match.
The Bad
The VKM stuff is just horridly bad. I mean besides the fake newscastor stuff its just shit. I mean on what world is this funny ? I mean had they done this when the Marine opened , yeah could have been funny. Now its just late bad humor. Whats worse is these fools will get more TV time as at the PPV they will mock the ECW PPV. I'd point out the ECW PPV even at shit levels , pulls more Buyrates than TNA does on a monthly basis but that doesn't factor in it appears.
Line of the Night: " Now , you've answered Warrior on all 5 of these. Where does this blot look like Jim Hellwig ? " : Dr. Kevin Nash to Low-Ki.
OVERALL: ***1/2 outta 5. Great build to Turning Point. You have Styles/Rhino , Sabin/Daniels , LAX/AMW , Joe/Angle and Sting/Christian/Abyss as the Main Event. In all TNA has a loaded PPV coming with great matchups and intriquing plots. Tonights show hyped the action for PPV. Those let down by ECW's PPV will be completely satisfied with TNA's PPV I feel.
Monday was supposed to be Big Show's last night but he was asked to stay on for another week to work the Smackdown European tour because WWE felt light on main eventers. He is currently in Europe and worked the Madrid, Spain show yesterday.
- During a radio appearance on 97.1FM in Chicago, Jim Ross said that he doubts WWE will ever acknowledge TNA's VKM angle on the air. He also addressed the Vince McMahon/Paul Heyman situation, saying Vince always has final say and that ECW will continue on without Heyman. Other things of note were that he said he is concerned about Kurt Angle, said that Lita left WWE because she was tired of going on the road and because she has other interests in life, that his favorite wrestlers are Steve Austin, The Rock, and Shawn Michaels, and that Triple H is unfairly criticized by the internet.
- Kurt Angle and Dixie Carter will be meeting with people from the TV show Ghost Whisperer this week in Hollywood.
Credit: WrestlingObserver.com
The Good
TNA opens with the build of Sting/Christian/Abyss. It appears judging from the promo that Abyss could be the tweener. As the show gets more into Star Wars type terroritory , Sting feels that Abyss can be a man. That he's more than Jim Mitchell's puppet. Meanwhile the evil Christian reveals Tyson Tomco knows something about him.
Rhino kicks off TNA as he demands A.J Styles come out so they can finish what they started. Christopher Daniels instead comes out as he tries to make peace. That lasts til Styles jumps Rhino as we see. Now A.J Styles is a heel again ? WOW...
We see LAX come out and its kinda a miracle that Konnan isn't in a wheelchair at this stage. For those who don't know , K-Dog has a really bad hip and he's pretty much in horrific pain and will have to have surgery soon. Homicide gets to face Petey Williams. Good short singles match as I loved the reversals into Williams simple piledriver. No Canadian Destroyer ? Darn....AMW makes the save setting up a Flag Match at the PPV. ( Should be good.)
Backstage we see Doctor Kevin Nash. He's busy checking out X-Division stars minds with ink blots. Low-Ki looks on serious as hell and answers each blot with " Warrior " . Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal answer as Nash has his doctor outfit on. Austin Starr sees himself as X-Division Champion and then NWA World Champion. Alex Shelley just wants Nash to love him as usual. ( Funny stuff) . Then Nash tells Dutt he's juicing as he reacts is priceless. This weekend at the PPV the PCS series will start .
Eric Young will be in a bikini contest which harkens back to when Alan Funk won Miss TNA back in 2002. Young cuts a fuinny promo saying he needs to drop as much wieght as possible and needs to know what a woman knows to win against Miss Brooks.
Young comes out to face Low-Ki as that match is started. Low-Ki looks weird as hell facing Young and the fans are behind the funny face Young. Still it doesn't last long as Miss Brooks shows up and flashes Young as Eric's goofy facial reactions sell it. Low-Ki wins it.
Jim Cornette comes out and makes the AMW/LAX Flag Match. He gets interupted as Christian and Tomco comes out. Christian pretty much dismisses Cornette as he tells him he's too busy worrying about 1st Amendment rights with LAX to do his job. Tomco and him are gonna reveal Abyss's secret and he taunts him with it til Abyss hits the ring !
Abyss is on fire as he tears into both heels. Of course the numbers are too much and out comes Sting to make the save. Sting extends his hand to shake Abyss's hand as he reaches out to the man inside the monster. Abyss of course blackhole slams him as Jim Mitchell taunts Sting.
We get more PPV matches as Chris Sabin vs Christopher Daniels for the X-Division Title is brought up. Jerry Lynn will be special guest referee for this. Rhino vs A.J Styles is also added as we learn. The Vodoo Kin Mafia ( VKM) are gonna be there as well.
The promo for Raven's new heel group ( who have a new name now) is shown. Awesome promo by the way . Their gonna be called " Serotonin " . This is the Wikipedia definition of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin
Now thats a great Kurt Angle/Samoa Joe promo. Having Kurt echo some of the lines I laid out weeks ago as he describes that Joe pushed him to limits he never knew existed. That he had never faced someone as good as Joe and he is scared he'll lose the rematch. Joe says he let up on Kurt Angle and realizes how good he really is. This weekend he'll know how to handle Kurt.
In the Main Event its gonna be Kurt Angle vs Sting vs Christian vs Samoa Joe vs Abyss ! This is the 1st time in my fan history that Sting and Kurt Angle have ever been in the same ring. Markin out people....
TNA does an awesome job to keep Sting and Kurt Angle away from each other too. The match is a tag deal and its a pretty solid Main Event as Kurt's just killing Christian lol. Tomco tries to help but Samoa Joe remembers his deal with Kurt Angle to watch his back. The 2 seem to have a good bond til ....Angle turns ! One Angle slam outta nowhere later , Samoa Joe loses again to Kurt Angle ! That should be fun for people to get pissed over as Kurt has sent a message to Joe for their next PPV match.
The Bad
The VKM stuff is just horridly bad. I mean besides the fake newscastor stuff its just shit. I mean on what world is this funny ? I mean had they done this when the Marine opened , yeah could have been funny. Now its just late bad humor. Whats worse is these fools will get more TV time as at the PPV they will mock the ECW PPV. I'd point out the ECW PPV even at shit levels , pulls more Buyrates than TNA does on a monthly basis but that doesn't factor in it appears.
Line of the Night: " Now , you've answered Warrior on all 5 of these. Where does this blot look like Jim Hellwig ? " : Dr. Kevin Nash to Low-Ki.
OVERALL: ***1/2 outta 5. Great build to Turning Point. You have Styles/Rhino , Sabin/Daniels , LAX/AMW , Joe/Angle and Sting/Christian/Abyss as the Main Event. In all TNA has a loaded PPV coming with great matchups and intriquing plots. Tonights show hyped the action for PPV. Those let down by ECW's PPV will be completely satisfied with TNA's PPV I feel.