Zachary FenellThoughts on 02/18/10 iMPACT!
February 19th 2010 15:46
This week’s iMPACT! went from decent in the first hour to absolutely horrible in the second hour. The show started out fine with the AJ Styles/Pope confrontation. The confrontation proved to be a nice change of pace from the standard openings we usually get from the out of touch, “no gaga” Hulk Hogan. Seriously, do you listen to what Hogan says when he speaks? But, anyways back to this week’s iMPACT! The highlight of the first hour was the return of Beer Money to television. Robert Roode and James Storm have tremendous talent and their lack of use over the past month has been unfortunate.
Things started going bad with the Abyss/Jeff Jarrett match, which came off severely sluggish. I like the idea of Eric Bischoff having henchmen, but not Desmond Wolfe. Let Raven, Rhyno, and other midcarders who aren’t doing much else do Eric Bischoff’s dirty work. Desmond Wolfe, despite being relatively new, has already established himself as a main eventer in TNA. I fear Wolfe’s involvement with Bischoff will get him lost in the shuffle.
The show continued to get worse when Hulk Hogan took Abyss to the back, so he could give Abyss a pep talk. The message I contrived from Hogan’s speech is WWE Hall of Fame rings apparently possess superpowers. Moving on past the Abyss debacle, my first thought about Christopher Daniels versus Kurt Angle was the match should headline a PPV, not be a throw away match on iMPACT! Then, the match ends after like two minutes. TNA jobbed out Daniels. I’ll say it again, TNA JOBBED OUT DANIELS! WTF?
To end the show we get treated to two interview segments. Kurt Angle’s promo came off more forced, than emotional to me. Kevin Nash’s promo on the other hand was pretty damn good. He actually made me care about the whole Band storyline for the first time! Still, I don’t like the fact a wrestling show ended with back to back interview segments.
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Things started going bad with the Abyss/Jeff Jarrett match, which came off severely sluggish. I like the idea of Eric Bischoff having henchmen, but not Desmond Wolfe. Let Raven, Rhyno, and other midcarders who aren’t doing much else do Eric Bischoff’s dirty work. Desmond Wolfe, despite being relatively new, has already established himself as a main eventer in TNA. I fear Wolfe’s involvement with Bischoff will get him lost in the shuffle.
The show continued to get worse when Hulk Hogan took Abyss to the back, so he could give Abyss a pep talk. The message I contrived from Hogan’s speech is WWE Hall of Fame rings apparently possess superpowers. Moving on past the Abyss debacle, my first thought about Christopher Daniels versus Kurt Angle was the match should headline a PPV, not be a throw away match on iMPACT! Then, the match ends after like two minutes. TNA jobbed out Daniels. I’ll say it again, TNA JOBBED OUT DANIELS! WTF?
To end the show we get treated to two interview segments. Kurt Angle’s promo came off more forced, than emotional to me. Kevin Nash’s promo on the other hand was pretty damn good. He actually made me care about the whole Band storyline for the first time! Still, I don’t like the fact a wrestling show ended with back to back interview segments.
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