Greg Parks, PWTorch.com Contributor (6.0)

So the story of this show begins and ends with the mid-show brawl, which was all over the Impact preview commercials leading up to tonight. While the booking move was intriguing in theory, most of the brawl looked terribly weak, including Brother Ray's shots over the table on Booker. So they get points for creativity, but they didn't pull it off as well as they could've.

The rest of the show felt largely inconsequential, but that's often better than the tripe TNA usually runs out there. The Knockouts tag match was fun and I already really like Sarita. I'm hoping they continue to follow-through with Hernandez's push, but after his sit-down with Mike Tenay and Homicide's follow-up interview, it's no wonder TNA gave these guys a mouthpiece. Morgan vs. Styles wasn't bad, and kudos to Morgan for selling the leg throughout the match. Sting vs. Magnus was disappointing for a main event, but it was mainly there to lead to another show-ending brawl.

Curtis Shanks, PWTorch.com Contributor (7.5)

The story of the night was the huge mid-show brawl involving half the locker room. And you know what? I really enjoyed it. It's something we really haven't seen before. The number of people involved made it hard to follow and take in everything that was going on, but I think that's what TNA was going for. With wrestlers running out one-by-one, the brawl lasting past a commercial break, and the involvement of the police, it was a lot different (and might I say cooler) than any brawl we've seen lately. While there was still a few logic and booking errors if you analyze the segment, TNA gets the benefit of the doubt from me for trying something new to keep people tuned in.

With the Mafia and World Elite joining forces, one thing is missing. Unity and character build-up with their opponents. It's the same thing that led to the fizzling out of the Front Line story arc, so let's hope we don't see the Mafia win another one-sided battle and continue their domination. Maybe this time we could use the storyline to actually push some babyfaces. With the recent developments of Hernandez's character, there is hope.

The rest of the show served it's purpose, although there should have been more fall-out to a brawl of that magnitude. The Guns are finally resurfacing, and their storyline could be interesting. The Knockouts are still hit and miss, but trying hard. Styles/Morgan was easy to predict, as no best-of-three series has ever been won 2-0. Sting and Brutus Magnus was just an okay main-event, but at least it's yet another new face in the show closing segment. I'd rather see average matches with new faces in the final segments instead of above-average matches with the same people week in and week out.

Daniel Wilkenfeld, PWTorch.com Contributor (8.5)

I really liked this show again. The spontaneous brawl midway through the first hour was an excellent booking move, and obviously I'm going to like any program that features Hernandez as its signature star. I am also all in favor of the catapulting of Eric Young into the main event spotlight, and any and all things involving AJ Styles.

Oddly enough, given that it was Hernandez-centric, the one thing that really held this show back was that the ending felt a bit anti-climactic. I can't quite put my finger on why, but I think it might be something as simple as the fact that Hernandez didn't get entrance music. That stretched out the moment of excitement just a hair to long, but at the climax of a show (whose main event would have otherwise been Sting vs. Brutus Magnus) even the slightest misstep can affect the aftertaste it leaves.

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