Mark Freedman, Torch reader: The best part of TNA's latest train wreck installment was the Torch's entertaining post-show reviews (nice touch with the retro Bockwinkel promo), and what's a fan to do when the major wrestling promotions are tanking faster than the stock market? When I watch WWE, I'm numb with boredom and when I watch TNA, I gag and wretch. Tonight gag & wretch moments: (1) That lounge at the Hard Rock in Vegas made the Impact Zone look like Madison Square Garden, Just what they needed for the debut live and in HD show. (2) The Main Event Mafia. WTF? Was Russo smoking Booker's stash when he came up with that one? (3) Listening to Tenay endlessly over-hype Foley's upcoming announcement. Does that dude not have an ounce of shame or self-respect in him? (4) The fans shouting for fire - guess seeing one human torch stunt gone wrong isn't enough. (5) Listening to Foley's earth-shattering announcement fall like a brick and Angle trying to look dumbfounded as though he's suddenly suppose to fear the new co-owner. Considering that Kurt's allowed to threaten Jeff's children and mock his wife's demise, he can pretty much do anything he wants to the ownership short of correctly calling out TNA's crappy booking. Maybe next week we can see Kurt do an Olympic slam on Dewey & put Noelle in an anklelock.

Terrie Neilson, Las Vegas, NV (8.0) Best: Kong vs. Taylor. Worst: Rhino-Bashir confrontation. Nice new song and montage to begin the new era for TNA, the HD era. "The Main Event Mafia" already seems stale before it starts. The foursome just don't look all that threatening, save for the Nash/Sting-Joe/Styles match. That may change down the road, but any attempts to replicate The NWO are figments right now. Crazy thing though: tonight was the first time I actually got a heel vibe out of Sting through this whole "turn" of his. I also get subversive out of it too, as there are still accommodations to keep from being completely heel. Mick's outside interview gave hints of continuity problems. Live on the East Coast puts it at 6:00 p.m. on the West Coast, and in late-October, it's not that bright outside at 6 p.m. Plus he said something about waiting until the crowd was standing room only. As cramped as it looked in there, wouldn't Mick have expected it to be SRO? I'm also curious to see how the place was filled since the publicity for the show was nearly non-existent here. The Joint had ads for every show BUT TNA. Even the Thomas & Mack had ads for the ECW/SD show. I would have been sending a HOLT report instead of a regular reax had TNA been on the ball.

Anyway, Matt Morgan still needs to slow his promos way down and learn the art of "The Pause". Either he's scripted with too much to say, he's told he has only so much time, or he just hasn't been directed in the finesse of promos. The matches were entirely too short to mean much, but the crowd was hot for what they were given to react to. The crowd wanted to call out Abyss for the seemingly botched Black Hole Slam, but you could that it was executed for Angle to slither out of. Kong is Knockouts champion again; I'm cool with that. The only problem now is that the women's division isn't what it was some months ago. Mick is now a "boss" in TNA. Uh, that could be read into. Mick takes over for Jeff so he can go back to the office, which kinda leaves Cornette out there. Cornette-Foley conversations could interesting in terms of making sense of how matches are booked. But "boss" could also be a swerve warning term, and Jarrett and Foley are in cahoots with the Main Event Mafia. Time will tell if fans should be worried about what this really means to TNA.

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