I didn't watch the entire show, but what I watched was infuriating. The Immortal yackfest to start off the show is as tired as The NWO yackfest on Nitro in the dying days of WCW or The HHH twenty minute promos to start off Raw in the early 2000's.
That was a nasty border toss that Williams took. From what I've read Hernandez is not very good at protecting guys with that move. Glad to read that Williams is okay. It is amazing how far he's fallen, he went from TV Champ and feuding with Styles to being squashed by Hernandez. What a waste of good talent.
Good lord a Rob Terry-Scott Steiner feud? Really? I can't wait until the match. It will replace Steiner-HHH and HHH-Kozlov as the worst match in the last ten years and might be the worst match ever. TNA has so much talent why bother with this? Why even employ Terry?
Kaz says he's taking the X Division to a new level or something to that effect. Well a two minute match and a feud with a limited Robbie E sure is gonna set the world on fire. They sure are rebuilding The X Division eh? Why can't Kaz feud with Williams or Sabin o

I thought I read somewhere back in the day where Anderson/Kennedy used to be in touch with Austin and pick his brain on character development, etc.

I cringed after that border toss. Williams looked like he got hurt pretty bad. I'm glad that he isn't injured.When he was in the British Invasion I would always compare him to Buddy Roberts of the Freebirds.
I absolutely agree that Flair as heel is bad booking. Don't you just wish that he would start channeling JJ Dillon at this point? TNA must now mean "Thinking Not Allowed."

I don't watch TNA religously but I turned it on just in time to catch that border Toss, I then turned it back off that move looks literally deadly... and not in a good way. So glad to hear Williams is ok

it becomes clear every week that they have horrible booking skills. wen you have a match w/ the World Heavyweight title on the line, you promote that w/ your life. at least wen WWE's been doin it these past few weeks, they would promote it the week before, but nope TNA promotes it wen the show comes on and w/ that, they give it that feel that it's just a regular match and nothing too special. the "big" matches they have scheduled has the potential to be a highly-anticipated match, but they just announce it halfway into the show sometimes and it's like "wat's the logic on that?" i don't think that it has to do w/ them bein concerned w/ TV ratings because if they were, then they would learn that to get bigger ratings for the next week and the next week, then they need to promote something big to happen for the next show the week before. otherwise you're just gonna go on a downward spiral.

"I was a lot more interested in the Hernandez-Williams match than the brawl outside the ring between The Beautiful People and Sarita and Rosita that the cameras concentrated on."

Gay...

i agree tna wasnt gr8 this week, it seems a little all over the place, the feud i would like to see is steiner vs flair that would be epic

After vowing to give up on wrestling due to lackluster programming on the part of both companies, I of course gave one more glance at iMPACT following the frustrating AAO PPV.
Mr. Eck is right on the mark with most of this. Being a fan of Anderson's potential, if not the way he is constantly ill-used, I didn't hate the Stone Cold-esque angle that much, in so much as this was the first iMPACT since Genesis that focused on the world title picture and featured a match of the same as the main event as opposed to the whole show being a build up of the Angle/Jarrett story. Sorry, but personally I hate this storyline. I ceased to care about Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle ten years ago, and I fail to understand how wrestling fans and creative teams alike never notice that worked shoots on personal affairs complete with cheap sexual innuendo are nine times out of ten storylines that only work in the short-term, and do long term damage to the company's creative credibility.
On that note, I enjoyed the Anderson/RVD/Hardy story better. It was very "Stone Cold", as mentioned, however...at least Anderson was given some promo time and card prominence, certainly more than he got when he was actually champion. Given that I hate Eric Bischoff, I didn't mind Anderson screaming in his face, and enjoyed the angle precisely because it had some Austin overtones. (I got a distinct feeling, as with recent worked shoots by Roode and Styles, that part of Anderson's intensity was less overacting and more genuine bottled rage at Bischoff and crew). At least taking from a successful playbook is more than TNA has produced lately from any original one.
I too enjoy "Bully Ray" in the way he has played the character, however his obvious potential as a heel is diminished by the very storyline in which he has become one. As Mr. Eck didn't seem to know, he might be interested that the spot "too vile for T.V.", was simply Ray powerbombing one of Devon's sons through a single table, in the ring, followed by a solemn and ridiculous ten minutes of swarming "medical crews" and other related crap which was the lowest point of the PPV. If a company wants to put over an incident as vile and dangerous, I would think that it may at this point have to involve more than a simple table spot.
Yeah, and Robbie E. is talented. Just like every other young star, he is trapped by ugly writing, a bad character based upon something which is very short-term, and a refusal by Russo, Bischoff and whatever species of monkey they have trained to use the typewriters to stop soiling themselves whenever they are given half a chance.
Anyway, the only point I half-heartedly disagree upon is that I will actually tune in next week to see how the Anderson/RVD/Hardy thing pans out. At least the right three people are involved, and I applaud and encourage the heavy involvement of Anderson, although I would support his being able to play his own, very interesting character instead of being forced into a Stone Cold role. I've watched wrestling for a long time, and sorry folks, RVD belongs in any world title picture for his in-ring skills---but he has always sucked on the mic. Including Anderson in the picture allows the promo angle to be covered also. With correct writing, there is a lot one could do with Anderson/RVD/Hardy, using each to complement the other. Of course TNA won't do it, anymore than they will stop the ridiculous Steiner/Terry angle until they have completely soiled themselves again. I have left comments mentioning the basic inarticulate nature of Scott Steiner, and this was also featured in a promo at the AAO PPV. He once again spoke like a dumb ape and stumbled over even the most basic syllables and proved once again that the only credibility he ever possessed was when he wore a wrestling singlet, tag-teamed with his brother, and kept his mouth shut. His current character only gained a peripheral popularity from an association with WCW's side of the Monday Night Wars era, and his continued presence in wrestling afterwards has been an embarrassment allowed to limp on by the same politics and nepotistic alliances that have ruined everything else about the sport. As always, thanks to Mr. Eck for the most intelligent wrestling blog online, and for consistently allowing my overlong rants and complaints to post.

The border toss is dangerous but I don't understand how Hernandez can protect his opponent. The only protection I see is to not do the move. I was just thinking that there could be an angle to Hernandez and the move. Ban the move like they claim in some wrestling organizations for the piledriver. Then everytime, Hernandez attempts the move, he would get major heel heat. He needs to be built as the monster heel now anyway.

I wish that Flair would never wrestle again. What is the point? Flair has already lost multiple times to Jay Lethal. Does anyone think he has a chance against Styles?

Velvet Sky loses her career with an assist from Winter.

Bully Ray is well done. Other than that the rest of the show needed work.

Following a now-too-familiar pattern, TNA gets so close to getting things right only to fumble. Ric Flair in the ring again? Zzzzzzz. And, what a horrible script! What about the element of surprise? Flair turning on AJ certainly had none. I agree, Kevin, Flair should have turned face to counter the return of heel Hogan.
Also, the Jarrett-Angle garbage was horribly written.
I was more concerned about the bumps Sarita was taking than with Williams taking the Border Toss. Man, she had some awkward landings.
The Hardy-RVD match was about what I expected. I can't blame them for not giving us a jaw-dropper, when it appears to be an obvious build-up for a Hardy vs RVD vs Anderson match. That one has potential.

I think TNA creative is going to do a double-double cross with Flair (which is just crazy to begin with). I'll bet his turning on Fortune is going to be a set-up on Hogan and Bischoff and that he is really in Fortune's corner. The dialogue in the locker room before that sort of leads one to that conclusion when Flair said something to the effect of "you know the plan guys." Way too difficult to follow, though...

The Ronald Reagan comment wasn't the only nonsensical thing Pope had to say...Did you hear him say Jesus lived 10,000 years ago? That was one of the worst promos to date.

So let's get to the real question...what did you think of Traci's BIG bouncing boobs as she ran to the ring?

RESPONSE FROM KE: Surprised she didn't knock herself out.

Wow, what a bunch of haters. Sounds like everyone needs to put their "wrestling hat" on and just enjoy. I dont understand why any of you even watch the show?

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It's the train wreck you can't take your eyes off of. And, for all its faults, TNA is still providing some of the best entertainment on tv today (although current tv programming isn't setting the bar very high).
I think what is frustrating, at least to me, is that TNA has the potential to be so much better than WWE, but each time they start hitting on all cylinders they do something which makes you regret having spent two hours of your time watching.