Tim Romines of Kingston, Tenn.- (3.0) Best Match: Main Event, simply because I'm always for LAX in a top spot. Worst Match: Take your pick. I have tried, I really have, to be patient with TNA through all of their growing pains because I could always see the great potential underneath. Having said that, I'm just about over it. Tonight's show was such a disaster, I can hardly express myself. First and foremost, please Dear God, someone get West and Tenay off my TV. They are deafening, annoying, and thoroughly unentertaining. Could someone please explain to me TNA's fascination with urine? They just kept talking about it. Roode vs. Williams wasn't too bad, just short - but Roode's storyline with Ms. Brooks and Kaz was played out the last few times I saw it. I like Jay Lethal and I really like Christopher Daniels, but I'm having a hard time getting into their feud because of their gimmicks. Lethal is a '80s ripoff and I don't know what Daniel's character has morphed into. Amazing Kong could be okay if she continues to works with someone like Kim, who can go. I hate the Pacman angle with a real passion and just can't wait until he disappears for good. Why are three of the very people TNA needs to push in the ring - Christian, A.J., Joe - being wasted in a low-rent amalgram of every WWE "Talk Show" ever created? These are the types of athletes who can set TNA apart and yet, instead, we get a sloppy, bloody cluster match that comes across as a cheap copy of the old ECW (ironically featuring two former ECW stars). I can honestly say that I am about as unexcited about Sting vs. Angle as a person could be for a "major" title match. I'd rather see more of the earnest interaction between Sting and Kevin Nash than anything concerning the Angles. I will end on a positve note. Anytime TNA can get the uber-talented LAX involved in a main event, I'll take it. I'll come back next week and give it the old college try but things must get better soon or I will walk away.

Jay Povo of Sturbridge, Mass. (1.0): Best: Gail Kim vs. Amazing Kong Worst: Everything else. How could anybody possibly think this was a great show? Yes, the introduction of Kong was very cool; and they probably do have a better women's division than the WWE. In fact, the Knockouts are the best thing going in TNA... but that is not a good thing! There is nothing happening on this show that would worry anybody at WWE headquarters. TNA has a crop of good, young tag teams; but they push the old, washed up teams instead, and Pacman Jones (a criminal in real life, and a babyface in this company) has one of the tag belts. I love the concept of the X-Division, but seeing the champion barely beat a guy like Havoc (is that the worst elbowdrop ever?) after taking a beating most of the match while the number one contender stands outside the ring staring at the ceiling and nodding his head for some reason I'm still unsure of does not get me pumped to spend money to see it. What they're doing to A.J. Styles is ridiculous, and everybody knows it. Some people might think Angle-Sting is a dream match, I'm not one of them. Sting is a boring rerun wrestler, let him manage Abyss or something, just get him out of the ring. I watch TNA for Angle, Cage, Joe, Styles, and the young tag teams, and creative just craps all over all of them. Mike Tenay and Don West's screaming, rambling, and ridiculous statements are an embarrassment to a wrestling promotion that wants to be taken seriously. It really is that bad. I know their biggest PPV is in three days and you need to give a rundown of the card, but they were basically begging people to order it. Also, on top of ALL of that, you have these lame Impact Zone fans chanting "lets go (face), lets go (heel)" during every single match! Not only is it annoying, it dilutes all the wrestlers characters if you cheer for every one of them. So far Impact at two hours has been an absolute train wreck, and I didn't even get to everything here. Anybody who puts this crap on a pedestal has to be angry with the WWE for whatever litany of reasons there are to be right now, and just wants TNA to rise up and vanquish the evil Mr. McMahon. Fire every single person in creative and get people that know what they're doing, and that could happen. But not now.

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