2/8 TNA Against All Odds PPV Reax

Nathan Timm of Minneapolis, MN (1.0) Best match: Shelley vs. Young. Worst match: Brutus vs. Sabin. Shelley-Young was a good match. Steiner-Petey was decent, and maybe it would have fit on a strong PPV card, but when this was one of the better matches, that's not good. Brutus-Sabin was crap. Brutus can talk, but he can't wrestle worth a lick. Poor Sabin. ODB-Kong was okay for a knockouts match. Booker T-Sewell was boring. I do see potential in Sewell, and have seen him have good matches elsewhere, but this was bad. Abyss-Morgan was a waste of time crappy garbage match. The number one problem was that it was never noted that it would be a No DQ, no count-out match, and Tenay had to say the ref "relaxed" the rules. Poor planning on TNA's part. Then they had the wrong guy win. Morgan is much more important than Abyss by a mile, but yet all the ref bumps and garbage crap were worthless having the face win clean. The tag title match was good, but miscast as the semi-main event on the show. Like Steiner-Petey, on a better card, this belongs on PPV. The main event four-way was decent. Would have been a reasonable main event if the rest of the card was better. Like the Abyss-Morgan match, the wrong person won. No storyline was advanced here, and neither Sting nor Angle have a main event level opponent for next month. The lack of both Samoa Joe and A.J. Styles really hurt the quality of the show. It was a letdown of epic proportions for a show I had no expectations for going in to.

Matt Guerra of Bayonne, N.J. (6.0): Best match of the night was the X Division tilt between Eric Young and Alex Shelley. Worst match of the night was Brutus Magnus vs. Sabin. This PPV had a feel of "I can't wait for the next PPV." Booker T. vs. A.J. Styles and Steiner vs. Samoa Joe. Wow, I can't wait to see that. Too bad it's on the next PPV. The main event didn't flow well, but a lot of that had to do with the totally dead Orlando crowd. If TNA can take anything away from this PPV, it's this: put Samoa Joe and A.J. Styles on every show and never, EVER do a PPV in Orlando again.

Alex Roberts in the U.K. (1.5): Best Match: Alex Shelley vs. Eric Young. Worst Match: Main Event. Something needs to change within TNA and change quickly because wrestling PPVs don’t get much worse than this inevitable disaster. Never in my time as a wrestling fan have I witnessed a PPV main event so completely devoid of tension, drama, interest, heat, or value and I’ve been watching for more years than I care to count. The TNA Title match pretty much sums up Against All Odds - no drama, tension, interest, heat, or value to it. In fairness to the TNA roster, none of the in-ring action was particularly terrible it just seemed as if everyone, with the exception of Alex Shelley and Eric Young were on autopilot and simply stopped caring. In many ways, that’s worse than any truly terrible match because at least when someone’s stinking the ring up there’s a sense that they’re trying. Thank God then for Alex Shelley, Eric Young, and A.J. Styles. While Shelley and Young produced an excellent opening bout (maybe TNA will remember to push the X Division in the weeks between PPVs sometime soon), A.J. Styles proved that he has become a genuine star talent. His promo was exceptionally good and in the space of a few minutes he started to reverse months of awful Frontline booking and made me care about him once more. Push this man, TNA, and push him hard because he’s going to be infinitely more interesting and productive in the main event slot than Sting ridiculously joining the Frontline to feud with Kurt Angle. Alternatively, Styles should be putting in some calls to the WWE and getting out of TNA as fast as he can. In truth, it's not hard to see why rumors are that Angle is getting ready to jump back to WWE. TNA looked like a dying company last night. Against All Odds was the kind of go nowhere, do nothing show that WCW produced in its final months of existence, only somehow worse.

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