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[Queen Scoop]

I nearly dies laughin' at a post on another forum about the Hogan/Abyss vs AJ/Flair match and I had to share it....

Old man Hogan & "Power Ring" Abyss vs "Lil Natch" AJ & old man Flair

A senior citizen and a bad gimmick VS another senior citizen and another bad gimmick...

I'm sorry but I gotta agree.. I watched a few minutes of TNA from last week and it was just plain painful to watch Hogan get in the ring ( yeah I know.. it's always painful for me to watch Hogan at any time but you know what I'm sayin'...)...I'm sure one of these days, Flair's head is gonna explode on live tv during one of his rants..at least I'll have it on DVR...



As for the "surprises", who knows.. you can't believe half of what you read spoiler-wise but I do expect RVD, Hardy and maybe Moore to show up in the ring.. Sting will more than likely take to his perch in the rafters and see if he should hang around or fly the coop....he'll most likely wait til the ratings come out and go from there..

[Purple Marauder]

I suspect a switch of some kind. Hogan and Flair may start out in the match, but I suspect it will become chaos and get thrown out. Maybe Hogan gets replaced by Sting and Flair by Desmond Wolfe. Seems those two have been getting along lately. I am waiting on a 4 Horsemen style group eventually.

[Queen Scoop]

I was thinking the same thing, Purps.. I look for something to happen to cut this "match" seriously short.. Hogan hasn't been shy about saying what conditions his body is in.. I just can't see him going long.. unless Abyss carries the match for him, which wouldn't shock me since he does seem to have super powers now that he has Hogan's ring...

[Purple Marauder]

I have no idea when the UK people see this so...

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That didn't take long did it. Brooke Hogan on TNA.

So, I DVRed both shows and have now watched both shows. TNA was 1000 times better than Raw tonight. The worst part of Impact was Hulk Hogan and Brooke Hogan. Everytime Hulk showed up, the show just lost something. The short beginning matchup that was just about Sting turning was done pretty well. If they continue to make Sting a true heel, they may be on to something. I just hope they are not planning on Stings heel turn to be on the level Hogans was when he joined the NWO.

Impact had a really good flow. I like how they are bringing attention to the X-Division. And, of course, Daniels did the job again. WTF? Then, they drop the ball by trying to get us to buy into Shannon Moore as a big name for a surprise PPV match up.

RVD's debut was quite good. He is very over. And, he beat Sting in less than a minute. Then Sting got his heat back with the baseball bat beatdown.

Even the stuff with Jeff Jarrett that I really don't care about got me to watch when they put Beer Money in the match.

Angle vs Anderson was good again. As was Pope and Desmond.

Still can't believe there is no mention of Joe.

If it weren't for Hogan, the show would be great.

[Queen Scoop]

I checked in when raw would go to a commercial...couple things I saw didn't surprise nor impress me...

[Illusion]

Hogan ruled.  Him and Flair bleeding all over the place was awesome.

I hate the Anderson/Angle feud but I skipped that bit.

Glad Williams kept the X division title.  I was expecting Kaz to get it because he's more over, then I thought he'd go against RVD or something at the PPV assuming it was still all x division.

Which brings me to that.  They fucked themselves up by doing that.  Now Abyss gets a shot before The Pope that won the tournament in February to get the title shot, making all of that completely pointless.  Abyss and Wolfe got title shots last week in a four way as well.  Pope still gets his shot but now that tournament has lost all credibility when it could have been used every year like KOTR or something.

Good show though.

[gungrave17]

i dont get why people was enjoying rvd's return, he beat sting in under 30 seconds, making sting looks like a pussy

i hate the BP, and the explanation on how hamada and awesome kong lost the title, didnt tna have more knockouts than those 7 who where at the 3 way tag team match

i hate myself for missing the jeff hardy part, but i love when flair bleed, he always bleeds like crazy

i hate the fact that kaz got kick out of the x division title, and they gave it to shannon moore, this guy doesnt impress me the way that kaz impresses me

i like angle's entrance, the part where the army came out,

i also like the 3 way x division title match, something wwe doesnt have

[The Headliner]

Well, damn. The new theme song is about ten times worse than the last one. Congrats on defying the odds there, TNA.

The Sting turn shocked me. Longtime wrestling fans are conditioned to second-guess, so it crossed my mind, but I quickly convinced myself that it wouldn't happen. And then it did, and I was blown away.

The X Division segment setting up the triple threat lost that momentum. Putting myself in the shoes of a casual fan flipping between Impact and RAW, I saw no reason to stay glued to Spike TV when Kaz and pals were on the mic. Fortunately the wrestling was the exciting style that you rarely see in WWE, but was it too late to hold viewers for that part of the show? Very nice finish though.

Then, they drop the ball by trying to get us to buy into Shannon Moore as a big name for a surprise PPV match up.

True dat.

The Knockouts division is looking up with the Beautiful People as tag champs. A stable of heels cheating their way through title defences is often a formula for good TV, and this match built heat around the singles title as well.

Good teaser by Taz for Sting's opponent. And as he later put it, "an awesome, awesome debut for RVD." Great stuff for Rob and for Sting's character development.

i dont get why people was enjoying rvd's return, he beat sting in under 30 seconds, making sting looks like a pussy

He caught Sting completely off-guard with that kick off the top rope and never gave him a chance to get it together. I don't think Sting looked like a pussy, he was basically sucker punched in an extravagant way. No one believes it would end that quickly if they started out on an even footing.

So that tag match against The Band will take place at Designation X, according to Nash. I loved the explosive match against Syxx-Pac from Eric Young, the best I've ever seen him, brief though it was.

The Angle/Anderson segment was great once they were both involved. It was an entertaining spectacle that I expect will have maintained viewers.

If Beer Money's turning heel then I'm glad. They were one of the most popular acts on the house show I went to in January, but I've always felt they both worked better as heels.

The Impact Zone sure hates Brooke. And after that backstage scene I could sure understand why.

I really enjoyed the main event. It was as good as you could expect it to be, and was hyped well throughout the night. The arrival of Jeff Hardy had been spoiled for me, but for the sake of the show was a nice final surprise to close out on. Shame Spike couldn't wait a few more seconds for the Swanton Bomb before fading out.

Overall it was a strong start for TNA's live Monday night campaign and I'm looking forward to next week. The most intriguing angle coming out of the show is Sting's turn, not just on Hogan but in his methods towards RVD - what will his explanation be?

[gungrave17]

i forgot to tell that brooke crying is one of the worst thing i saw, is she trying to get into acting, cause she needs more acting lessons,

and heady, maybe sting got caught off guard, but we are talking about sting, the freakin icon, not cody deaner, that is just wrong, they couldve put rvd in a better match

and i hate random turns

[The Gopher]

Ok, just finished Impact.

The first segment of the show, with Sting's turn, was done really really well. I didn't see it coming, and the stuff in the back with Dixie actually scared me a little bit!

The X-Division match was great. I know a lot of people are upset that Kazarian is out of the title picture for a minute, but take in mind that he was never pinned, so they can run that angle. Shannon Moore has a good look, and if he can hang with the X-Division guys, he could eventually be a star.

I think the only thing that bothered me about the show was Taz. He was really getting on my nerves. His out of nowhere comment about 4:20 really made me angry, as the whole point of Dixie putting Sting in a match with RVD was because Sting did something unexpected, but somehow Taz already knew RVD would be there in action and be related to the match? Lame.

Also Hogan seems to have his hands in everyone's storyline, which isn't necessary. Pick a feud and stick to it!

Overall, though, a MUCH better Impact than the one from January, and it's a shame their ratings dropped down. Hopefully next week it will bounce up a bit with word of mouth about RVD, Sting, and Jeff Hardy.

[Queen Scoop]

Hogan seems to have his hands in everyone's storyline,

That certainly can't surprise you....

Hopefully next week it will bounce up a bit with word of mouth about RVD, Sting, and Jeff Hardy.

They'd better do something big with Stone Cold being on Raw...


I'm watching the replay of TNA tomorrow night....

[The Headliner]

and it's a shame their ratings dropped down.

If anyone's missed the figures reported by Dave Meltzer:

Raw: 3.4
Impact: 0.98

I think if you asked him to comment, Vince would repeat Eric Bischoff's remark to Jeff Jarrett the other week: "It's gonna be a long, hard climb to the top of my mountain."

- USA Network's VP of Program Research, Ted Linhart, tweeted the following about last night's ratings: "Not much of a Monday Night "War". RAW trounced TNA by 275% w/ total viewers. Also Impact much lower than the test Monday ep in early Jan."

- SpikeTV is said to be fine with the rating. The 18-34 demographic did well and there was no major drop-off in viewers from their Thursday ratings. It was seen as the first step towards a larger goal for iMPACT!.

Source: PWInsider.com

Apparently the highest rated segment of Impact was the Knockouts tag match. The lowest? The main event.

[The Gopher]

I thought the RVD segment was the highest rated segment... and the main event was the lowest, but the over run went from a .7 something to a 1.01, so it can easily be justified that people had to make a difficult choice between which old man they wanted to see beat up, Flair or McMahon. 

[Illusion]

I thought they were live now, why have they taped next weeks Impact?

[The Gopher]

For the time being, Impact is live one week and taped for the next. Still cutting costs in every way they can, but this is something that really hurts that whole crash TV thing they're going for.