Kev, ain't it fun pointing out pro wrestlings plot inconsistencies? Especially when you know who's responsible?

In what other business could anybody not just get away with such nonsense but have nonsense make you successful?

I think that chaos is part of pro wrestlings appeal. If this stuff unfolded in an orderly manner or even made a lot of sense, I doubt it would last as long as it has.

"Speaking of Foley, after playing an insincere heel for a couple months, he came off as a total babyface early in the show, but then acted like a heel again the rest of the show. Perhaps it’s his split-personality disorder acting up again. It must be contagious, because Beer Money’s Robert Roode and James Storm seem to have a case of it as well. …"

So did Vince McMahon on Monday night. He played heel to Trump's babyface, and then moments later played face to Orton's heel backstage, soliciting a crowd pop by announcing the PPV match.

RESPONSE FROM KE: True. But it would have made less sense if McMahon had suddenty forgotten that Orton tried to take out him and his entire family.

I seem to remember a similar angle developing with Samoa Joe in cahoots with his opponent during the TNA Impact! video game's career mode.

Joe's new theme music is awesome. Dale Oliver is so hit or miss (mostly the latter). Daffney's theme doesn't fit her in my opinion. She should just use raven's music.

Is Dr. Stevie still a wrestler by the way? Must be nice to get paid to not bump. His tack-back stunt must be what affords him all his apple gadgets. (@michaelmanna on twitter)

Who was that guy that came out to check on Rhino after Eric Young hit him ? I didn't quitee understand that part, was he a staff dude or some other wrestler? Rhino basically shoved him into Lauren, so I wonder if Abyss was watching...

AMC, i disagree with you 100 percent. I feel that plot inconsistencies and illogical story lines were the reason for WWE's downfall from the Attitude Era, and have long alienated viewers from ever going back to the product.

Anyone older than 20 is not going to tune into pro wrestling unless they've been a fan of it for awhile. I know most of my friends have stopped watching, simply because they feel pro wrestling is just garbage and makes no sense. Which is why WWE are playing it smart, by appealing to a younger audience, and getting them hooked.

Its the first time i must disgree a litell bit.
To much cheritisisem
While you right on most of the things but despite that i just lovvvvvvvvvvve it.
Impact was grat.

1. Joes new look and the change in the charcter is intersting and fun to look at - now when sting is finelly gone the formalety of the "resspect" is changed. The suits dosent importent its a pure heel stable.
2. Beer money are so over in the impact zone its great!!. I didnt like the W of stiner.
Its time for beer money to bit the mafia clean and after thet to estblish thire name by wininig 3d agin - super clean.
3. Aj VS Joe at bound 4 glory - they must bild this match.

I hope we wont see sting leading aj and the daniels cz that whould be really stupid now.

Now whan sting is out its time 4 the mafia to put young tna talents over

The storyling of yung is kinnda intersthing.

TNA is not successful. The only reason they've survived is because of Panda Energy dumping a ton of money into the company so Dixie Carter won't be sad.

They earn zero money on their house shows, merch, or PPV sales.

This feels like a bad version of the later NWO story lines. I think this hurts Joe in the long run.

If Angle was in charge of the MEM all this time, what exactly did he put up at Sacrifice and why was Sting such an idiot to believe him?

I think the reason that the TNA womens division is so much better thans WWE's is that they let characters develop more and they all have a different flavor to them. Kinda like WWE had with Trish and Lita at their prime.

And yeah, I'm a huge Daffney mark.

The guy at the end of the Rhino segment was the Navy guy he's been training. That illustrates one of the biggest problems I think TNA has. They do have a decent amount of talent, but with just two hours each week, some story lines are only worked into the show every few weeks. Just too much going on for the limited amount of air time they have.

Kevin I have read you post and I respect you opinion on pro wrestling. I have an idea about what tna should have done with Joe and I would like your thoughts. The only way tna could have saved this HORRIBLE swerve is by doing two things.

First just like you when I was done reading the recent PPV results I thought have Kurt Angle turn on the MEM and join Joe's nation of violence. The reasons you gave were perfect plus adding EY and Matt Morgan to the group was gold.

Now on to the bigger problem which is Joe giving the title away. TNA could have turned this into a great opportunity to get Joe over as a great heel. Joe should have came out on impact and said there is a little known secret that I am injured and will require surgery. So instead of winning the title and having to turn around in forfeit it i thought to myself who is worthy to be champ, who is as good Joe and that one man is Kurt Angle. So I used KOTM to make him champ.

Joe would then proceed to shoot down every one in the KOTM match. JJ was only in the main event because he owns the company etc, bash AJ really hard (setting AJ up to be the face to save the company) by saying AJ only beat bums to when his World Championships and is beyond over rated. That leaves Mick Foley which Joe would go on about the fact that a over the hill washed up reject from another company(don't say wwe) will never win the TNA championship in his nation of violence.

Joe would then put Angle over by stating he is the second best wrestler in the world behind himself and start talking about how he is in his prime and go over his accomplishments.

Joe would then tell every in the impact zone that when he recovers from his surgery he will destroy who ever is carrying the TNA championship and carry it like a man not defend it once every few months like Foley.

Sting would come out and interrupt Joe they could exchange words and Joe would tell sting at BFG he is going to retire his ass if Mattt Morgan does not first. Have Morgan attack sting and declare his allegiance to Joes Nation of Violence.

Joe would spend the next few months leading up to BFG as a heel manger. He and Kurt would get Matt Morgan over.

Joe retires Sting at BFG.

PS Angle would lose the TNA belt to AJ Styles in a one hour Iron Man Match at BFG. Matt Morgan would retire JJ( I can dream) This would make TNA 3 huge and young stars going forward. Sorry It was long but please let me know what you and all the other fans think.

I can't believe that you think that anything Vince Russo would come up with would make sense. I have to agree with Don West though, I'd rather see Sharmell and Morasca than either Russo or David Arquette wrestle for the title. Another great Russo idea that made a lot of sense.

This is starting to look like what went wrong with the NWO. The Mafia are supposed to be the Elite, the established veterans. They are supposed to be the best of the best, now they have to buy people because they can't beat them??

Now they add Joe (stupid move unless this is a swerve within a swerve), Morgan (isn't Nash supposed to be the big man in the Mafia?). Who else are they going to add? Are they just going to add people when they can't win? Then what's they point of claiming they're the best, the elite? It just makes them seem like they can't keep their place at the top.

This may have an out but it looks like the creative staff is going to goof this one up too. They need to stop drinking the kool-aid and develop a storyline that actually makes sense.

Jon,

Good points!

Well we called it Kevin, that your idea to resolve this muck was WAY too complicated for TNA writers to think of.

Nash, Bubba, Raven and Foley should b teaching the up and comers how to cut promos.... The AJ one with Joe was just sad...

Am I the only one who wishes that we had a daffney vs roxxi no holds barred match on tv?

Damn big business....

The whole Main Event Mafia storyline with Angle and Joe just sucks. Fine, they wanted some silly mark-out moment at a PPV. If that's the case, do what the WWE does and manage to avoid having Joe HIT ANGLE WITH A LADDER during the King of the Mountain match. Do some storytelling in the ring - Joe can't get his hands on Angle throughout - instead of just throwing a twist in at the end.

"The gist of it was that the MEM members realized they couldn’t beat Joe, so they paid him a lot of money to join them."

Ever since the wrestling world adopted Kevin "I do it for the money" Nash's attitude towards heel turns, it lost its emotional premise (usually jealousy) and now seems best handled by lawyers working out the fine details of the contract for the switch of allegiance.

Daniel's post was completely on the mark. I too thought Angle should break off from the MEM led by Sting and start a group with Joe after Joe explained he was injured on TV (and thus willing to relinquish a title win).

"Bring back the WWWF" also makes a good point about the state of heel turns in wrestling. Except for CM Punk, how many heels have a legitimate, emotional reason for their actions?

I agree with you, the final segment was great. Joe being all about the money was not a good rationale, but at least Nash saved it a little by saying they couldn't beat him so they bought him. They really should have said that they only bought off Samoa Joe just before Slammiversary so that it puts Joe over as a threat.

is it me or does Somoa Joe not look like he belongs with MEM A J looks more like he could fit in Logic would fit in if A j jioned and did the swerve until umanga comes in Sept then they bring him in to stop Joe and then A j turns on them like he is a mole then wins the Title from Angle.

Joe is gonna destroy the MEM from the inside. He's a mole. He'll take down the Mafia and have all of Jenna's money (cough, cough) in the process.