So I watched TNA Impact for the second week in a row. First time that's happened, ever. Maybe they really are doing something right.
- The first thing they do in the show is announce the show is moving back to Thursday, starting next week. So the new Monday Night War didn't quite last as long as the last one did. At least TNA threw in the towel quickly rather than run their company into the ground trying to compete with WWE. Though it's another reason why I think they should move Smackdown back to Thursdays. Nobody watches that show on Fridays, not only would more people watch in Thursday but they could knock TNA off of their night again.
- Speaking of which, still with the WWE rings? Ric Flair called his WWE ring his most prized possession, live on TNA TV. Meanwhile Bryan Danielson can't even call himself Bryan Danielson. Do folks like RVD and Jeff Hardy agree that a WWE Hall of Fame ring would be their most prized posession? Cause anyone who agrees with Ric Flair should be trying to get a WWE ring, not wasting their time in TNA.
- Black Naitch was pretty cool overall. Though I did notice, when Hogan came out and beat everyone up (did the former world champion just get taken out by one punch from a 60-year-old man?) and made about fifteen matches pitting all the brawlers against each other, Jay Lethal was left without a match, and indeed he didn't even appear on the rest of the show.
- Brian Kendrick is in TNA now? Still with that funky jacket he was using as The Brian Kendrick towards the end of his WWE run. Is he another who is with TNA primarily to get away from WWE's drug testing? That's at least three.
- TNA did something WWE was never able to do - they made Ken Kennedy promos boring. Even when he couldn't stay healthy for two weeks in a row, Kennedy's promos were always entertaining in WWE.
- Just when a fairly entertaining three-way tag match gets going, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall come out to interrupt. Because the Dudleys weren't slow and awkward enough already. I was momentarily glad to see the MCMG beat them down, until they promptly got beat down themselves.
- Overall, there were more people I didn't recognize on the show this week, which I think is good. It's not good when the show is entirely WWE rejects, they need to mix in TNA guys, which they did this week.
Agree that they need more TNA talent rather than old WWE/WCW talent and very disappointed that the whole segment with Lethal didn't lead to a rivalry with Styles and Flair. He was very talented and held his own when up against Flair on the mic.
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