Kevin - in my world anything Steiner = good .

This Mafia domination only works if the younger TNA guys get elevated as a result. As often as Kevin Nash talks about passing the torch, we need to see it happen. Like at Bound for Glory.

By the time that event is over, Styles needs the World title and Beer Money needs the tag belts. The other titles are fairly insignificant at this point but guys like Hernandez, MCMG, Matt Morgan, Lethal Consequences and Samoa Joe need to be the new faces of the promotion. This is a list of ten guys who need a chance to show what they can do.

Using the next three months to build interest in and elevate the next wave of TNA stars has to be the priority. I wonder what the odds are against that happening.

I don't watch TNA ever, but I watched the go-home Impact before Victory Road, and the one thing I was impressed with was the promos. A.J. Styles cut a real emotional one on Kevin Nash, Homicide cut a funny one after winning the X Division title, Abyss cut a killer promo on Dr. Stevie (ug, is that his name now?) despite his angle with Stevie being ridiculous, and Team 3D cut a no-nonsense promo on the British Invasion (put them on your top ten list, Kev).

Now if only TNA could get the rest of the show right, it would be worth watching.

And in addition to the title holders all being around 45, I have to take issue with the fact that the last three TNA World Champions have all been between the ages of 40 and 50. And one of them was Mick Foley. Yikes. That Frontline angle really was a bust.

That Morasca is pretty bad: the most fake-looking slaps I have ever seen, the worst prance into the ropes I have ever seen, and I could have done without the closeup of her backside when she entered the ring. I hope that WWE never signs her.

TNA must have realized that the only area where they are undoubtedly superior to WWE is tag team wrestling. So, naturally, they take the belts off of one of their bright young teams and put them on a couple of over-the-hill guys who aren't even an actual "team." WWE recently did the same thing, inexplicably splitting up one of their very few (two? three?) legitimate teams (the Colons) to put the straps on a couple of main event singles wrestlers. Admittedly, logic has never played a big part in wrestling booking, but these moves boggle the mind (especially TNA's move).

Am I the only one who has just never gotten the hype about Samoa Joe? The guy has no charisma, no "star quality," can't cut promos, and is only passable in the ring. He's not a terrible worker, but there is absolutely nothing special about what he does in the ring. What am I missing?

It's the nWo all over again. Allowing these vets to make the calls is killing this company.

I'll take a classic weekly PPV over this crap any day of the week...

Well at least now I know that Jeff Jarrett can't be the one to blame for some of the horrendous booking anymore.

It seems like TNA is moving backwards. Ron Killings, AJ Styles and Christian were Heavyweight Champions before. Now it's Sting, Foley and Angle.

If I'm Ken Anderson, I go break my wrist hardway just so I have a reason not to join in on that train wreck.

No thoughts on them taking the Knockouts title off Victoria/Tara after only two weeks, Kevin?

It makes no sense whatsoever to start building the Tara character nicely, give her the belt, only to take it from her two weeks later.

The constant throwaway nature of modern wrestling and devaluing of title belts is extremely frustrating and annoying.

I'm only 30, but even when i was a kid just starting to watch wrestling during the emergence of Hulkamania, titles rarely changed hands, and when they did, it was a massive deal.
Now we barely bat an eyelid when a title changes hands more than once in a night.

Just looking back at the two major titles in WWE (which is ridiculous it itself), in the last 19 title changes no one has held the title for more than 3 months.
Also, in the last two years the Smackdown title belt has changed hands 17 times.

Just to put it into perspective, Batista has as many WWE title reigns as the great Bret Hart, whilst Triple H has had more reigns than Bret Hart and Hulk Hogan combined.

I can't imagine the feelings of those who are old enough to remember the days when guys like Harley Race and Ric Flair would hold the glorious NWA Heavyweight title for 2-3 years at a time.

RESPONSE FROM KE: I don't have a problem with them putting the belt back on Love. I do agree with you, though, on titles in general changing hands way too much.

Kevin...decent analysis for having not watched the show. I haven't either, and the same reviews have been given.
I see a growing trend here that is disturbing. We have some of the boys that are 5-15 years past their prime holding postitions and titles that quite frankly they shouldn't be holding.
It's disappointing to see them not take a mentor roll and instead keep an ego roll and continue to take away from guys like Styles, Roode, Storm, Lethal, and a host of others who have busted their butts for 7-8 years.
I hate to say it, in looking over it a shift began with the introduction of one of my favorite wrestlers, Mick Foley.
I am starting to question if he wasn't or isn't one of the main boys not only pushing the door shut on the younger guys but holding it shut as well.

I would be interested to hear your thoughts on it.

Tazz is as out of shape as Shane Douglas, he probably should just stick to promos. Knowing my luck he'll join Tenay and West and it will be a one line fest all night long.

PS. Jenna Morasca should retire now before someone gets hurt, namely herself.

Have A Good Day.

"The average age of those title-holders is 45. That doesn’t seem like progress to me". Sniff, Sniff. Smells like WCW booking 101 to me. The clock is ticking for Shane o Mac to show up on a TNA broadcast.

Good post Kevin. I agree with everything you said. I sure hope they have a good story planned out, because it does not make since that MEM has all of the belts and the young guys were kind of kicked to the curb. They said Lashley will be in MEM - don't you think they need more faces now? Especially with Jarret out. It seems kind of uneven.

As much as I hate to admit it I actually like having the MEM having all the titles, although it's about 4 months too late. It's always cool if the major heel faction has all the belts and therefore a legitimate claim to being called "the best" in the company. However, it might be a bit late in the game for this. The only good thing about this is when we see one MEM member loose a title that will signal the end of the faction, at least for now.

Kev as always you are so right. I really can't wait until September when Umanga & Mr. kennedy come in to create some new match-ups along with the soon debuting of lashley hopefully giving some members of the main event mafia some time off. All you can really say about Victory Road is that it is classic Russo looking out for his boys from WCW over the guys he's been with over for over half a decade. What happened to Kevin Nash wanting to put over the young talent in TNA he sure didn't do that on Sunday even though who cares about a Title that is defended every 6 months. Hopefully TNA does the right thing restart the AJ-Angle Feud let A J finnally win the Title and have Joe turn on them in agrander plan to destroy MEM.

Realistically I think you can expect the older guys to still be holding down the young wrestlers for another 10 years. I can see Nash hooking up the World title belt at Slammiversary 17 with his walking stick.

I have not watched TNA since the beginning of June when Royal Pains debuted on the USA Network. So my Thursday nights between 9 and 11 are spent watching Burn Notice & Royal Pains. Far more entertaining than TNA.

It's a shame because there are flashes of brilliance. I saw the Sarita-Alissa Flash match online and the quality of it was much better than what we get from most of the divas in the WWE. But the quality isn't consistent on TNA so I began to look to other channels.

The Over-the-Hill Gang won all the titles?? Why did Shar-smell even wrestle?? I would have had Angle lose (and see if he fired himself). Tazz - a zzzzz list wrestler and commentator. Kevin "watch the knees" Nash win a title - pleeze. Booker "guess my accent" T and Scott Weiner as tag champs?? Beer Money is suppose to be the "future" of tag team wrestling but Russo is up to his old bag of WCW tricks and won't let ANYONE hold a title longer than 2- 3 months. Fire Russo!!

I don't belive no one has commented on the the most glaring story line problem. Why is it, that just because the MEM have "all" the belts, that they are in control? Couldn't Jarrett or Foley just walk out on Impact Thurs. and strip them of all the belts if they wanted to? That is the big thing I can't get past.
And don't even get me started on how all of a sudden the Legend's title is something to cherish but the X-Division title doesn't even have a match on PPV. I thought it was looking good for the X-Division for a while there but if the MEM doesn't have that belt I guess it's worthless.
I thought the best thing about the PPV was Abyss' new/old look. I dug how he was all wet and kind of looked like he'd just come out of a swamp. With his new attire I said he looked like a cross between Mick Foley and One Man Gang. Then my brother dubbed him One Mankind!

That was bad...very bad. There was absolutely no atmosphere at all and the crowd were dead the whole time, though, i can't blame them after what they paid oney to go and see.

No Motor City Machine Guns, Lethal, Consequences, Suicide...X-Division.

What happened to the Eric Young angle with Jarrett.

Where was Eric Young?

Rhino?

There were numerous pointless matches...Morgan Daniels, Dudley's Brits, Morasca Sharmell

So when Joe sees Tazz, he gets fired up. Hmm...okay.

The only good thing was watching Velvet Sky going through the ropes.

Having followed WWE for many years, i would LOVE to see two of my favourites Umaga and Kennedy back on the screen by joining up with TNA.
I'm pretty new to watching TNA and feel it lacks the strength in depth of top stars that WWE has which is why I REALLY hope TNA sign up Umaga and Kennedy.

I've been watching TNA for years and the more ex wwe-"STARS" who should be retired enter the fray, the worse it becomes. Do TNA management not learn from the past??

The way forward for TNA - fire Foley, Steiner, Taz, Jarett, Douglas, Stevie bloody Richards, Raven, Booker. Keep it fresh. Keep nash but for heavens sake keep him out of the ring before he has an MI and so does everyone else watching him. That jacknife looks more fun than hurtful.

most importantly though FIRE RUSSO! anyone want to start a petition?

Get the title feud between angle, aj and joe. But as individuals without this MEM shite. Title belts back to beer money and get them to feud with motor city machine guns. The thing with TNA is that the x-division is amazing and a HUGE draw so they should return to using it properly. And with lashley, kennedy, morgan, abyss, daniels, hernandez there are so many ways to push the company rather than turning it into a second rate wcw.... hit Reset.