FINALLY, A POSITIVE REVIEW: : TNA FEEDBACK BATCH FOUR
By PWInsider Readers on 1/15/2007 10:29 AM
Wow what can I say about the tonight’s PPV other then “what in the world was thatâ€ÂÂÂ. After last months grand slam of on PPV TNA hit a bunt when they should have hit a home run. TNA tried to be cute and clever and ended up being neither. I have watched TNA since week one of their weekly PPV’s, I sat through the Johnsons, the midgets, the Dupp cup, and the rest of the bad they had back then and I have never been so disappointed as I was tonight. The Christy Hemme promo was HORRIBLE and I think ruined VKM after BG cut a solid promo. Why mention Chyna does anyone watching really care about her? I have watched TNA every chance I could but I really don’t know if they will be getting my money next month, I’m disgusted at how bad of a product they put on tonight. I am embarrassed to call myself a fan of TNA after that display of filth. TNA mocking WWE for using Big Dick Johnson and them using their version of him is so stupid and hypocritical and would someone please tell me what Bob Backland is on so I can avoid it? I’m so frustrated right now as a fan of TNA because they have the talent and the ability to blow the WWE out of the water but instead they give us a product which is barely better and the only reason their not just as bad or worse is they don’t have their champion job to a never was Z list celebrity or have celebrity impersonators wrestle longer matches then some of their champions! Dear god I am completely in shock at how bad this industry is right now, TNA you were my glimmer of hope now you are just another dark cloud in a gloomy sky.
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So I didn't see the PPV but reading Mike's recap I feel sorry for him that he had to watch that crap. This was by far TNA's BEST effort to be a carbon copy of WWE. I found it sad and insulting that they would have VKM do that promo given the way the show was booked. I liked the title change of the X division but I was also expecting a Jerry Lynn heel turn to go with it and they didn't even do that. I also was expecting a title change in the main event but not Christian. I don't see money in a Christian vs Angle feud for the belt. If they want to have a program with them ok but TNA spent so much time building up Joe that it would just be a crime if he was not given an oppertunity to run as the top dog. This PPV comes off the heels of me trying to tell a pro WWE supporter that TNA offers a better product. Boy, THANKS TNA for making me look like a total jackass now. Oh well! Here's to hoping that they will fire Russo and the product will get better. By the way LOVE the site.
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Elite subscriber Jason Orsinger
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Match 1
AI Styles VS Rhino - last man standing
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i liked aj's new look, and this was a great match, i thought the finish with aj styles letting himself get counted out, was a little hokey, but he's supposed to the smarmy heel, so he screwed rhino out of true retribution...the aftermath was good w/ the rhino driver on the stage, and aj styles gets his heel heat back as he droptoe holds rhino through the table and the tunnel...
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match rating: 31/2 stars out of 5
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Match 2
X-Division Championship
triple threat rules - jerry lynn/chris sabin/christopher daniels
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great match, and i've gotta say off the bat, tna please!! Please!! use jerry lynn more reguraly, he's like flair and michaels he could make a broomstick look awesome...on to the match, great back and forth, jerry lynn got to hit the emarald fusion/celtic cross and the cradle piledriver...bme was awsome too...again another dusty finish in a sense as jerry lynn hits the cradle piledriver on daniels and then chris sabin sneaks from behind and gets the win and the belt...i guess in a way it was proly to keep the fued going....and sabin gets his heat and can really act cocky now
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match rating: 3 1/2 stars out of 5
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MATCH 3
PCS Bowl
Alex shelley vs the Austin Starr
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First off, i don't ever want to see an elephant in a thong, it's bad enough when the idiot on the wwe creative team does it, and believe i feal the same way as the guy they caught on camera, putting his finger in his throat and pal i have to agree that;s just nasty, thankfully i wasn't eating anything....anyways i thought it was kool to see bob backlund still in his mr. Bob character from 90's wwf....and then the third judge is samoalian joe, who stole the red power rangers mask, i wonder if mvp found his mask missing...lol.......anyways to the match, awesome match these two have such great chemistry, it went back and forth, i've loved alex shelley since he came into tna, he's like a mix between steven regal and dean malenko....austin star reminds me of an early career macho man mixed with ricky steamboat with his fluity...great match i thought it was good to goto to a draw, and then bob backlund with his shtick and his whole anylasis ends in a tie, then nash comes in and says five minute sudden death....awesome and i thought alex shelley going over was great, because to be honest i thought when this first started pcs stuff, the austin starr would win hands down...so them having shelley going over and staying with nash, was great...the aftermath was interesting w/ the other pcs "competitors", jay lethal, sonjay and senshi...with starr thinking senshi would go with him, and then slaps senshi and they brawl, and then starr gets in the face of bob backlund, then backlund snaps and puts starr in the crossface chicken wing...
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match rating: 4 stars out of 5
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match 4
James Storm(w/ Gail Kim) vs Petey williams
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Good match, i liked how storm was using some of harris' moves continuing the amw fued, and the aftermath with petey williams getting handcuffed to the corner, and storm about to nail williams with a beer bottle...when gail kim grabs storm's hand and then storm goes after gail about to bash her with the bottle and she hits a low blow and starts to dominate storm, and then the big surprise of miss texas, buck's favorite comes in and attacks gail kim, and the death sentence on kim was great...over all the match was pretty forgetable but the aftermath made it better
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match rating: 3 stars out of 5
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next came the end of dx vs dx, as triple h's quad injury and hbk "no showing" at the alamoe so vkm celebrates their success and said that now the war is between vkm and the wrestling fans against vincent kennedy mcmahon...then something unexpected happens christy hemme comes out of no where, and asks what about chyna, in the foundation of dx, and then talks about different females, just being used as t & A, and saying they want to wrestle....anyways kipp james acted like a jack-ass as ussual and calls her a slut, etc. anyways this angle went to long...here nor there though if it means tna gets a better competitive women's division to compete with wwe's lack of appreciation of women...it would be great...in my eyes the x-division is the correct way of using "cruiserweights/light-heavyweights", and if tna has a women's division that's competitive as their x-division, and give stars like tracy, so-cal val, and a lot of other indy girls, and good wrestlers that have been thrown away by wwe's motto of fire good looking wrestlers and hire playboy models and victoria secret models and strippers a like...anyways i think it's great for there to be a place in the usa use good female wrestlers correctly, instead of looking at the indys or japan...
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Match 5
Tag team championship - LAX vs team 3d
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great match, i think lax and 3d have great chemistry and excited to see this fued go on, i think its 2007s styles/daniels fued with lax...great match and then when i think it could be a classic, russo brings out the roadwarrior hawk angle, with spike coming out being drunk and screwing 3d out of the titles...very stupid the first time they did it with hawk, when droz and animal were teaming as lod...anyways another goodmatch then a screwy finish ruins it.
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Match rating: 3 1/2 stars out of 5 would've been better w/o the crap runt pulled
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Match 6
30 min. Iron man match - joe/angle III
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great match, although to be honest i would put joe/angle II as the better match...only because this match seemed really rushed, and it got off kind of slow and i was watching as ten minutes went by, and i was like they're gonna do michaels/hart wrestlemania 12..but then they get started and i liked the reversals, the different ways, and i liked that there were a couple of taps and pins, then at the end i was watching thinking, ok either joe or angle will have the advantage or joe, and then they'll be a submission locked on and they won't tap till after the match...i thought joe should of went over, but angle lasted his own move at the end it was great....
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match rating: 4 1/2 stars out of 5
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Match 7
Nwa world Championship
Abyss vs Christian cage vs Sting
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Welp we've got about 15 minutes left for the main event, let a lone twenty minutes to 11pm...this match seemed very rushed, but sting hitting the scorpion death drop on abyss and abyss gets pinned that easy was kind of underwelming, then it appears james mitchel made a deal with tomko and christian, and wanted abyss to suffer watching him lose his belt and christian getting it, and i think mitchel wanted control over abyss and this was to teach abyss to never turn on him again... when i first saw this match, i was like ok, which heel will win since, although kurt angle is kindof a tweener in fans eyes, tna wants him to be babyface and so i thought abyss or christian would go over, and then i realized heres a way out of the triple threat feud and a way to a sting vs abyss at next months ppv, so it came to make sense, we'll have angle vs christian next month, which will freshen it up a bit in the main event area..anyways, given the time restraints, and jeremy borash not even being able to do his big championship intro it was good and i'm looking forward to the coming months...
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match rating: 3 3/4 Stars out of 5
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welp tna gave us great action for are dollar, and this went to 10:55pm unlike others ppvs who've lasted til 10:15pm, or 10:30pm, etc.
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overall: i would say buy it, great action with the exception of the vkm stuff was very entertaining and, living up to the tna motto, this is wrestling!!
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Elite Member
Curtis Willard, jr.
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