{"id":177791,"date":"2024-05-01T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=177791"},"modified":"2024-05-01T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T18:29:38","slug":"tna-impact-hits-misses-4-25-mustafa-alis-ballot-initiative-nic-meneth-and-broken-matt-hardy-address-audience-nemeth-vs-edwards-jordynne-grace-josh-alexander-vs-kazarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/05\/01\/tna-impact-hits-misses-4-25-mustafa-alis-ballot-initiative-nic-meneth-and-broken-matt-hardy-address-audience-nemeth-vs-edwards-jordynne-grace-josh-alexander-vs-kazarian\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES (4\/25): Mustafa Ali&#8217;s Ballot Initiative, Nic Meneth and &#8220;Broken&#8221; Matt Hardy, address audience, Nemeth vs. Edwards, Jordynne Grace, Josh Alexander vs. Kazarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2380142779\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>TNA HITS AND MISSES<br \/>\nAPRIL 25, 2024<br \/>\nLAS VEGAS, NV AT PALMS CASINO RESORT<br \/>\nAIRED ON AXS TV<br \/>\nBY JOHN LASLO, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><strong>NIC NEMETH AND &#8220;BROKEN&#8221; MATT HARDY ADDRESS THE AUDIENCE &#8211; MINOR HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alright. Acknowledging that Nic should have won, is good. I am totally on the fence about a returning Matt Hardy. TNA is one place where Broken Matt Hardy would work, and has worked in the past. However, I think that the reason he\u2019s in TNA is that he wants to have matches, which I respect, but also, he needs to be moving in a different direction. I think Matt Hardy has a lot to offer besides what he does in the ring. I honestly think what he was doing in AEW was perfect for him, but I think he came to TNA because he wants more ring time. Quite frankly, I\u2019m also dreading another Team 3D vs Hardy Boys match at some point. The System coming out saved this a bit, even though it lead to my least favorite trope- a promo for a match on the show I was already watching.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MUSTAFA ALI\u2019S BALLOT INITIATIVE &#8211; HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alright, I\u2019m really digging this. It\u2019s the type of random dumb stuff that TNA is famous for. Sure, let the wrestlers vote on who should be the next number one contender. It\u2019s great.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JORDYNNE GRACE INTERVIEW WITH GIA MILLER &#8211; HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll bite. I love Miyu Yamashita. She\u2019s an amazing talent, and making this a KO World Title match makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1) MIKE SANTANA vs. MYRON REED (w\/The Rascalz) &#8211; MINOR HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Awesome, good to see Mike Santana back. Not so great to see him squash Myron Reed. This match wasn\u2019t much of a match, but a way to put together something between Mike Santana and Steve Maclin. I personally really loved the way that the three Rascalz left Maclin out to dry.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3233097719\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>STEPH DELANDER AND KON BACKSTAGE &#8211; MINOR HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is really apparent that Matt Cardona had to bow out for surgery. I have to wonder if the Kon vs PCO feud would be over by now, and it would have been Jordynne and Sami Callahan vs. Steph Delander and Cardona instead of this. I would have preferred that match in many ways, I\u2019ve seen enough of Kon and PCO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(2) JOSH ALEXANDER vs. FRANKIE KAZARIAN &#8211; HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This match was a surprise, and it was really good. I dug the impromptu nature of it, and Eric Young coming in with his head all bandaged up was great. This match was setting up a furthering of Frankie Kazarian and Young, but possibly with the addition of Josh Alexander.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STOLEN BALLOTS &#8211; HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alright, I popped for the Rascalz coming in while everyone was distracted by Hammerstone to stuff the ballot box. That\u2019s what you use things like this for. It\u2019s a nice piece of character development for everyone involved, and we\u2019re getting a Alex Hammerstone vs. Jake Something at Under Siege out of it. Excellent use of time, no notes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIR$T CLA$$ ADDRESSES THE AUDIENCE &#8211; MISS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AJ Francis and Rich Swann are great, and they are making a name for themselves. That name happens to be dumb, and I hate using symbols as part of a name. It\u2019s a tag team name, not a password. They could have made it a password by making it 1$t Cla$$, which is eight characters long and includes both upper case, lower case, a number, and a symbol. So if any of you need to reset your gmail account password, there you go. Don\u2019t forget to turn on multi-factor authentication to help protect your information.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3071437422\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>(3) XIA BROOKSIDE vs. ASH BY ELEGANCE &#8211; MINOR HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was a good match, and probably the best one they\u2019ve had so far. I\u2019m ready for them to move on to facing other opponents now. I thought it was absolutely hilarious that the personal concierge provided Ash by Elegance the gaudiest brass knuckles I\u2019ve ever seen. If Ash by Elegance is a comedy wrestler, I can get a bit more out of this gimmick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VOTE COUNT &#8211; HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commentary on our current political climate, this ain\u2019t. What it is, though, is fun. Love that it also is leading to a number one contenders match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(4) SAMI CALLIHAN vs. THE GOOD HANDS (John Skylar &amp; Jason Hotch) &#8211; MINOR MISS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This should have been longer, and more competitive. It didn\u2019t do anything to re-establish Sami and it made the Good Hands look weak and dumb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEVE MACLIN AND FRANKIE KAZARIAN BACKSTAGE &#8211; MISS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of Maclin and Kazarian teaming up. Are we just factioning off? That might be good to buy some time for things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(5) NIC NEMETH vs. EDDIE EDWARDS (w\/Alisha Edwards &amp; Brian Myers) &#8211; HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I loved this match. I really love it when two good hands get a chance to step up and really shine. These two have been constantly overlooked and undervalued through their respective tenures, but every once in a while we get a match like this that shows why they are so trusted. And they gave it away on free tv. This is why I\u2019m still paying money every month to watch TNA. It\u2019s also going to lead somewhere. Bringing in Speed Ball Mountain and Ryan Nemeth would build a nice little face counter faction to The System.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL THOUGHTS &#8211; MINOR HIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall not bad, and it built toward the rapidly approaching Under Siege really well. However, there were still too many short inconsequential matches, which I\u2019m not a fan of. It\u2019s really difficult because they only have so much time per episode and most of the talk segments were pretty entertaining. It\u2019s strange because TNA seems to be moving in a direction to be more like the Sports Entertainment version of pro-wrestling that is the signature of WWE. There\u2019s a lot of nostalgia around as well, which has always been part and parcel of TNA, but I feel as I grow older, I have less nostalgic feelings, and more interest in seeing NEW things. I\u2019m still nowhere near how excited I was for the product last year at this time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1849819271\"><div id=\"pwtor-2197544073\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>TNA HITS AND MISSES APRIL 25, 2024 LAS VEGAS, NV AT PALMS CASINO RESORT AIRED ON AXS TV BY JOHN LASLO, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR NIC NEMETH AND &#8220;BROKEN&#8221; MATT HARDY ADDRESS THE AUDIENCE &#8211; MINOR HIT <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2024\/05\/01\/tna-impact-hits-misses-4-25-mustafa-alis-ballot-initiative-nic-meneth-and-broken-matt-hardy-address-audience-nemeth-vs-edwards-jordynne-grace-josh-alexander-vs-kazarian\/\" title=\"TNA IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES (4\/25): Mustafa Ali&#8217;s Ballot Initiative, Nic Meneth and &#8220;Broken&#8221; Matt Hardy, address audience, Nemeth vs. Edwards, Jordynne Grace, Josh Alexander vs. Kazarian\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists_hitsandmisses","category-specialists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-01-at-1.28.50\u202fPM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177793,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177791\/revisions\/177793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}