I just don’t get it. It’s like every time TNA gets a little bit of momentum going they just put their foot out there and try to find a few different ways to shoot themselves right square in the middle of it. What is wrong with the people backstage at TNA that they can’t find the right way to lay out a television show? Are they new to this crap?

Someone explain to me how you have the main event of the night end in the segment BEFORE the final segment and then ask the fans to stick around to hear the guy who won the match talk on the stick. Explain that. Go ahead.

Can’t do it, right?

You want to talk about a ridiculous way to end the show – who in their right mind (besides the ultra hardcore fans) would sit through a commercial break to hear that Sting is going to put his career on the line at the pay-per-view? Ugh…ridiculous. Someone should be fired for this and now.

Just so you know, I wanted to have Awesome Kong finally speaking as the major impact moment of the week. No, not because she spoke, but because whenever a “monster” speaks in professional wrestling it usually signifies a dramatic transition coming up for their popularity. For Kong, I think it’ll be a good thing and I think that she’ll continue to prove that she’s worth every penny that she’s getting paid.

As for the rest of the show, again we were presented with way, way too many video packages and vignettes. Someone in charge at TNA needs to stop this and stop it immediately. It’s amazing how horribly TNA is ruining their opportunity to win over a variety of fans from WWE. There are so many professional wrestling fans like myself who are sick of watching WWE’s craptastic, Levesque-centered programming that TNA should easily be pulling in a 3.0 rating each week. Instead, they’re stuck in the 1’s because they can’t put together a show that’s “must see TV.”

And it’s not just the horrendous pacing of the show – it’s the writing, too! One of my roommates (also a professional wrestling fan) watched a little bit of this week’s Impact with me and during the opening segment when the Main Event Mafia was being challenged by the TNA Frontline (or at least I think it was the Frontline), he asked who the good guys were and who the bad guys were. Can anyone explain that? Is Foley a good guy or a bad guy when it comes to Jeff Jarrett? What about Sting? How about Steiner and Nash? There are too many “tweeners” at the main event level and something needs to be done to fix it and quick.

Notice to Dixie Carter – start firing people behind the scenes and start firing them fast.

My final point for this article is that the shot taken by Team 3D’s Brother Ray and Mike Tenay against Jim Ross was low even for TNA. Just leave it alone. Jim Ross doesn’t see a future for tag team wrestling because there isn’t a future for tag team wrestling in WWE. He’s towing the company line and anyone who watches your show (mostly “inside” fans anyway) get it. Taking a shot like they did tonight lowers the worth of the company in my mind.

As a committed TNA fan, I was extremely upset with tonight’s show. Let’s hope for something better next week.

Quote of the Night:
Anything that the Motor City Machine Guns said.

- Joe
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