So it turns out that Kurt Angle’s wife didn’t really leave him. It was all just a big act to snooker Samoa Joe at last night’s TNA pay-per-view. Wow, I sure didn’t see that one coming.

OK, enough of the sarcasm. Honestly, the swerve was so obvious, I actually thought TNA might change the finish from the original plan. Surely, the so-called creative team could have cooked up a way for Angle to win without making Samoa Joe look like such an idiot. If TNA had its heart set on having Karen Angle cost Joe the match, it would have been less damaging to his character if she had just come out at the end and done the turn. At least that way Joe wouldn’t have seemed so naïve by actually trusting her and inviting her to sit ringside.

Speaking of predictable finishes, when Angle vs. Abyss was announced as the main event for next month’s No Surrender pay-per-view, a colleague of mine at The Sun said he already knew how that one was going to end. He said that Judas Mesias, Jim Mitchell’s new monster, would interfere and cost Abyss the match. Took the words right out of my mouth. …

Considering that Adam “Pacman” Jones is not allowed to touch or be touched, TNA did the best it could with him. Having Jones being laid out off camera – after he had a verbal battle with Ron Killings – was a way to get around the restrictions, but how is Jones going to get retribution? Pro wrestling is pretty basic in that at some point there has to be a physical confrontation in the ring. Another problem with Jones is that he is horribly miscast as a babyface. As I expected, the crowd in Orlando heavily jeered him.

TNA should scrap whatever plans it had for Jones and just make him a heel manager. Here’s a suggestion for how his final appearance in TNA should go: Jones, after weeks of being a heel manager and having someone else fight his battles, is booked in a tag-team match with his charge against the babyfaces they are feuding with. Jones, worried that he will get hurt, shows up in a football uniform complete with pads and a helmet. He plays cowardly heel and never gets tagged into the match. After his man loses, Jones runs away from his opponents and heads backstage. A few seconds later, Jones appears on a balcony. The babyfaces catch him and toss him off the balcony, through a table. He is then taken out on a stretcher and never heard from again in TNA. Of course, it will actually be a stunt double, with the football helmet concealing his face. Yep, it’s the old stunt double switcheroo, first used in WCW in 2000 when “Sting” was set on fire and tossed off a scaffold at the Baltimore Arena. …

I think Robert Roode has a lot of potential as a top-level heel, so I’m hoping that his feud with Eric Young came to an end last night. It’s way past time for him to move on to bigger and better things. …

Scott Steiner never ceases to amaze me. He did a Frankensteiner off the top rope in the Steiner Brothers’ win over Team 3D last night. It was just two months ago that he nearly died in Puerto Rico and had to undergo emergency surgery to repair his damaged trachea.