Lethal doing the Flair impersonation again was highly entertaining. This guy is the Rich Little of pro wrestling. I think you fairly commented and critiqued the episode by pointing out the missed opportunities to make money and the relative values of the matches. Your call on the Chelsea face turn looks like it's going to happen. That probably came to Russo after he read it in this blog. I missed the Knockouts, they should be on every week no matter what.

My favorite part of Thurday's TNA Impact was Jay Lethal's imitation of Ric Flair. When he came throught the curtain to Flair's music, I was hoping that he was gonna imitate Flair and that it was gonna be as good as his Randy Savage inpersonation. And for my money...he was spot on!

I thought it was a pretty good Impact. Personally, I would have preferred the Jarrett-Sting segment to have been condensed to about two minutes. It got boring. And, the sneak attack on RVD was good, but the subsequent search for revenge by RVD was also dull.
If they would have used that time to have a Motor City Machine Guns match it would have been much better.
The Kendrick-Homicide match was excellent...up until the point Homicide went for the toolbox. Didn't work for me.
The Angle v Amazing Red match was fun. It jogged something in my brain and I went searching on the Internet to confirm my memory of Amazing Red's first match on TNA being against Low Ki (Kaval). Sure enough, I found a video of that match, which was outstanding, on YouTube.
It is fortunate that WWE stumbled onto their NXT invasion angle, because TNA appears to be on a good roll right now.

Where were the Knockouts? I know they have been getting less and less time with Hogan, but none at all/

TNA is doing such a poor job at telegraphing their story lines it's not even funny. The least they can do is surprise us by actually having Sting become the heel for real.

Sadly, given TNA's recent track record, I just don't think they have it in them.

Didn't see the show, but from the reports it sounds like it was decent. At this point, I think "neither good nor bad" is about all that you can expect from TNA. What I don't understand is why TNA doesn't deliver more in-ring action. They've made it clear that PPV is not that important to them, so they should at least be offering one long quality match per show.

Hernandez did look great. Isn't if funny how when guys get injured and go to Mexico they generally come back ripped? Something must be in the water down there...

Why are they paying Hall again?

They might as well rename the company Total Nonstop Lethal. He was one of the few entertaining segments on the show (surprised you didn't mention it). Though what was the deal with Anderson basically reduced to a cameo?

Was not a huge fan of Morgan looking pathetic (at least it was to Hernandez, who looks in much better shape) and the joke of the Band getting another "finger poke of doom" victory. Hall looked more drunk than in his arrest photo. It was also good to see angle back.

With how bad the product is I'm completely behind the heel sting angle. I was actually laughing during the Sacrifice replay. If only he could "really" take out Hogan and Bischoff...

Are all of the wrestlers currently buried about to get cut? No guns, not a single knockout, and other omissions almost every week. Plenty of air time for Hogan to take 3 minutes to strut out though.

Has TNA eliminated the Knockouts. No TV time for any of them, but we get Scott Hall. At this rate this company will be like WCW gone.

Where to start with your comments:
You can't have it both ways. Sure, today's wrestling programs should build to a pay-per-view, but isn't it okay for them to have matches on "free," like the Morgan and Hernandez brawl? You don't have to hold back every week and have nothing of significance happen on a weekly show.

You talk about Devon's breaking some wrestling/real world barrier, and, yet, here you are complaining about the business side of the show and ppv buy rates and ratings. The problem with writers like you is that you're too into the business or "real" side of wrestling and you have forgotten how to just sit back and enjoy it, unless that's what you're doing when you hype the Divas unwatchable matches. Relax, Devon's comment was hardly the worst breach of exposing the wizard behind the curtain.

What, if anything, has Wwe done ever since the PG rating became a staple that's even remotely entertaining or fresh? The NXT invasion? Come on, it's another bunch of nobodies that Vince and crew are trying to cram down the fans throats, like pretty much half the roster. Also, what's the point of a contest like the NXT or the Divas when half or more of the "contestants" are still hanging around? Wwe is in a holding pattern that's much worse than the years between the end of Hulkamania and the beginning of the Attitude Era. The PG rated nonsense isn't even remotely concerned with wrestling and is nothing more than a elaborate kid's show. How else do you explain Hornswoggle, Koslov, Khali, or any other knucklehead on every week? Give me a break with you tired criticism of Tna. Every show they have isn't perfect or close to it, but it's much more refreshing that watching Cena's tired act in between a PG cleansed Rated R superstar chase around a defanged Viper who not too long ago was on the verge of dismantling the entire McMahon empire. Sad.