By Curtis Shanks, PWTorch Specialist

Welcome to the TNA Impact edition of Under the Microscope. We're here to review all those little observations and tidbits you may have missed. This is not a detailed recap of the show, but a review for those of you that saw the show but didn't actually "watch" it.

After last week, we know that Mick Foley likes pumpkin pie and roller coasters, and Samoa Joe was in the mood for a pinata. But what else is there to notice? Let's see what we can spot. Cue the opening pyro.

TNA is trying to give Samoa Joe a new edgy character, apparent by his knife threats to Scott Steiner over the past month. Last month, Joe and Steiner brawled out of the arena during their PPV match, leading to Joe supposedly disfiguring Steiner with the knife. Joe appeared on camera with a bloody knife and Steiner was seen wearing a mask during the next edition of Impact hiding his horrible deformity. Apparently the injury was not as severe as we were lead to believe. Scott Steiner was shown without the mask this week, less than two weeks after the attack. Not only was there no mask, but no huge scar on his face from the heinous attack.

The first X Division title defense by Suicide is a successful one, as he defeats Kiyoshi to retain his title. The announcers play it up as Suicide's first X Division title defense, but we all know it's Christopher Daniels under the mask. Daniels is actually in his fourth reign with the X Division Title. He has now defended the title eleven times counting this week's match, resulting in an 8-3 record. During those defenses, Daniels has defeated the likes of Elix Skipper, Chris Sabin, and Petey Williams.

After Devon spoke last week, it's Ray's turn in the Rough Cut segment this week. One noticeable phrase used by Brother Ray was "enhancement talent." Rough Cut segments have always gone to the limits of what you can and can't say without breaking kayfabe. An enhancement talent is of course an industry name for a jobber, or someone who is booked to lose most of their matches in order to make others look strong. TNA loves to throw in little things like this to appease the insider fans, but I believe enhancement talent is on the list of phrases we will never ever hear in WWE. You know, along with the other banned terms like wrestling or wrestler.

Brother Ray also mentions his time in ECW. I haven't been keeping count, but I believe that's about 32 straight episodes where he's done that. He remembers first joining forces with Devon in the Dudley Family, mentioning that there were nine members in the group at that time. During its time in ECW, the Dudley clan consisted of Buh Buh Ray & Devon Dudley (Team 3D), Dudley Dudley (who wrestled as Charlie Hunter in the WWF with minimal success), Big Dick Dudley (who passed away in 2002), Little Snot Dudley (indy wrestler Anthony Michaels), Chubby Dudley (who ran the Liberty All-Star Wrestling promotion), Sign Guy Dudley (known later as Lou E. Dangerously), Studley Dudley (ring announcer Joel Gertner, who acted as the group's manager), Dances With Dudley (joined the group in its later years), and Little Spike Dudley (who made the jump to WWF with 3D and later TNA as Brother Runt).

Brother Ray also mentions a quote during the segment, "beat me if you can, survive if I let you." While it sounds like something someone in the Main Event Mafia would say, that's not the case. Keeping with tradition, Ray is once again referencing his ECW past. The quote was a catch phrase used by former ECW wrestler and current Smackdown announcer Tazz.

"To me, this is an example of another great wrestler not wanting to sit on the sidelines, somebody that doesn't know when their time has come. I mean think about it, they seek the glory that comes with being a champion. It's the selfish side. A side that can't give it up and always wants to be in the spotlight." If I were to ask you who said this quote, I'm sure 99 percent of the answers out there would be a vote for Chris Jericho referring to one of the legends he is feuding with right now on Raw. The quote is actually from the mouth of Don West, as he was talking about Mick Foley before his in-ring confrontation with Sting. The only clue that this is not a Chris Jericho quote is the fact that the word "hypocrites" does not appear even once.

Seeing A.J. Styles and Abyss facing off in a cage brings back memories of Lockdown 2005. The main event on that card featured the two aforementioned wrestlers facing off in a cage match to determine the #1 contender for the NWA World Title. The match was a must-see, as Styles and Abyss dished out one sick bump after another, including a nasty looking door-to-the-face shot on Styles. Styles defeated Abyss after a power bomb off the top rope onto some tacks and would go on to make use of the title shot, as he defeated Jeff Jarrett at the next month's PPV. Seems like ages ago, which is sad because that was the last time we saw A.J. with a World Title in TNA.

We started this week's show with a large portion of the TNA roster on the entrance ramp hyping the 20-man gauntlet match later in the show. Jim Cornette said it was about time that everyone got a shot, not just the Mafia. Not every TNA roster member participated in the match. Team 3D, Beer Money, Foley, and Sting are already signed for matches, so they could not be a captain of a second match. Excluding injured wrestlers, that left only two active roster members who did not get a chance in the match - Brutus Magnus and Shark Boy.

Even after watching this week's Impact under the Microscope, the ending of the gauntlet still is just absurd and confusing. Jeff Jarrett entered as apparently the last entrant. At that point only Steiner, Angle, and Jarrett were left in the match. After Jarrett pinned Steiner, the match is over...right? We were finding two captains for Lethal Lockdown and only two combatants were left. But the match continued, with referee Earl Hebner counting pinfalls until Angle was declared the "winner." Did the last man get the advantage for Lethal Lockdown by having the other team's guy enter first? It was never really explained.

Much to Angle's surprise, Samoa Joe came out as the real last entrant, even after the countdown clock had disappeared from the video screen and Angle was declared the winner. Joe didn't even have to compete. That left just Angle and Joe as your captains automatically, but Joe pinned Angle to become the "winner" even though Angle is still a team captain. I'm confused now, and I'm sure you are too. Joe's participation in the match should not have been much of a surprise anyways, as the graphic earlier in the show featured Samoa Joe front and center among the 20 competitors.

Over the course of the Microscope's history, we've seen the bleep counter and the "Jarrett is the founder of TNA" counter. I didn't catch any bleeps tonight, but did spot five mentions of Jarrett being TNA's founder. If you read the comments sections that accompany PWTorch articles, there was a call last week for a counter on the number of times Sting says his opponent's name during a promo. I am to please, so a Sting name-drop counter was turned on for the show this week. Final tally? Sting said "Mick" 16 times during the two times he was given a mic tonight.

Numbers crunched harder than an unprotected chair shot to the head: Last week we looked at how various wrestlers in TNA's history have done when a World Title was on the line. The heavyweight title is not the only belt in TNA, so let's look at how some talents have fared when the other titles were on the line.

In TNA's history there have been 84 different wrestlers who have been in a match for the tag team titles, 37 of whom have walked away with the titles. Former AMW members James Storm (44-24) and Chris Harris (33-17) have frequented tag title matches the most in TNA's history. In fact, aside from Storm's 68 and Harris's 50, only one other wrestler has competed in at least 25 tag title matches - A.J. Styles (16-9-1).

Chris Sabin (16-20-1) and A.J. Styles (18-14-2) lead the way in wins and appearances in X Division title matches. The title matches have been spread around a little more in the X Division, as thirteen different wrestlers have competed in at least ten title matches. While guys like Sabin, Styles, Matt Bentley (10-7), Samoa Joe (9-4), and Petey Williams (12-6) have enjoyed some success in X title matches, others haven't been so lucky. Amazing Red won only one of his 14 title matches and Sonjay Dutt was a dismal 0-11 when the X Title was on the line.

There are two more titles in TNA, although those are easier to sum up since they have not been around as long. Taylor Wilde (7-1) has enjoyed more success in Knockout title matches than the titles other two holders - Awesome Kong (8-7) and Gail Kim (4-3). ODB is at the bottom in the Knockout division, as she has yet to win in her six chances for the title.

You don't need a numbers crunch to find out who's had the most success with the Legends Title. There have been five defenses thus far: Booker winning the first four and Styles defeating him at Destination X.

Curtis Shanks is a self-described wrestling nerd. Who else understands what Matt Striker is talking about all the time. Feedback is welcome, as comments, suggestions, questions and pre-sale codes can be sent to Curtis at curtisshanks.torch@gmail.com or in the comments section below.

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