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Lynn Hodge: Best match: Leicia vs Crystal segment Worst Match: Dudleys segment as they are fat, old, and overrated. I thought this would be what TNA needs, but I was wrong. You have Kurt Angle, one of the all time greats, beating up a high school kid. Brother Ray looking more and more like Bastian Booger every day. Tenay and West proclaiming BFG being their Superbowl and World Series all rolled up into one...which ironically enough is what every PPV is in their opinions. Oh, and let's have our X Division champ get beat up unmercifully by the Dudleys as well as the best young tag team in TNA, Shelley and Sabin. Let's have our convicted football star who isn't allowed to wrestle defend the tag belts. Let's take our biggest draw, Samoa Joe, and let him run in the last minute of the show with no other TV time. I could go on and on and on. TNA has ruined their belts, made their best talent look like crap, and cannot decide who to push down our throats beyond Kurt, Sting, A.J., their stupid announce team, and the six-sided ring. According to them, their biggest asset is their unique ring. Not their technical talent. Not their high flying wrestlers. Not even their heavyweight title. No no, it is their ring. What crap!

Charlie Greenfield, UK (7.0): Best Match: Eight-Man Tag. Worst match: Team 3D vs. Team Pacman. I thought that this week's TNA debut of a two hour show was not too bad. I thought the first hour was too rushed and was a normal TNA one hour show. The 2nd hour was far much better with lots of good wrestling. The main event between Samoa Joe/Junior Fatu/LAX vs. Christian Cage/A.J. Styles/Triple X was an example of a good main event. It was well paced, had some great spots, and everyone worked hard. The only problem I had was Junior Fatu taking a main event spot from someone who deserves it more. In the first hour I thought that they tried to get everyone on the show. The womens match had too many peopleinvolved. Why does VKM need to be there? The Team 3D beat downs are now boring as they have destroyed the X Division, but I thought they are going to beat down every tag team. Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt are not a tag team, or are they now? The gauntlet was good for what it was, but another match designed just to put all the talent on the show. The gauntlet type matches have lost their meaning of importance. The Sting and Kurt Angle story feud for this week is really stupid! Thats all I have to say about that.

William Hatfield of Clearwater, Fla. (5.0): I'm not gonna give a best or worst match on this one, because all of them really kinda fell flat. Maybe it's because I watched ROH's Driven this past Sunday and it made me fully realize how much all the TNA shows suck. Don't get me wrong, there was cool stuff in this edition of Impact. Raven's promo, Kaz vs. Roode, and Eric Young winning the gauntlet, but most of the other stuff just totally blew. The whole Team 3D vs. Team Pacman thing was retarded as hell. Am I to believe that Team 3-D attacked a champion and his friend, beat the crap of them, assaulted Sharkboy, and basically decimated all of them, and then in the ring with Pacman they wanted to play footsie - I mean football? News flash to TNA: When your ratings decline after signing Pacman Jones, I think that is a pretty good indication no one is tuning in to see him (not) wrestle. The Kurt Angle segments made me feel like I was watching "To Catch a Predator." Creepy and ineffectual. Sure it was so Sting would show intensity, but when did wanting to be World Champion stop being enough? I'm in total agreement with David Moore about the generic intro music and horrible graphics. Did they use Windows Movie Maker to make their intro? If their craptastic Titantron ripoffs suck; they shouldn't even use them. The show suffered and looked minor league because of them. I didn't always enjoy Impact when it was one hour, though I sometimes did, but if this is any indication of where the show is heading with two hours, I'll just record Impact and watch Supernatural or something else instead. I was excited and they let me down... again.

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