{"id":36091,"date":"2016-12-09T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=36091"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:14:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T20:14:05","slug":"tna-impact-hits-misses-128-full-sandow-matt-jeff-hardy-eddie-edwards-deserve-moose-allie-mandrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/09\/tna-impact-hits-misses-128-full-sandow-matt-jeff-hardy-eddie-edwards-deserve-moose-allie-mandrews\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES 12\/8: Full On Sandow, Matt &#038; Jeff Hardy, Eddie Edwards, You Deserve It, Moose, Allie, Mandrews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-170445605\" 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><h2><u>Hits<\/u><\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Full On Sandow:\u00a0<\/strong>It really is refreshing to see Aron Rex back in the role of Damien Sandow (minus the name). His babyface run in TNA was painfully awkward, and never really clicked. He\u2019s been doing his best work in the company over the past couple weeks by just doing what worked in the past. The promo he cut before his match with Moose had a couple of good lines in it when he asked, \u201cIs three seconds <i>really <\/i>enough time to declare the winner of a match?\u201d Then threatening to sue everyone in the crowd was also good for a laugh. Let\u2019s hope we see more of this Rex in the future.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Total Nonstop Deletion Hype:\u00a0<\/strong>This wasn\u2019t Matt and Jeff Hardy\u2019s finest work, but they did a pretty solid job of building up next week\u2019s bound to be insane Total Nonstop Deletion episode. We were introduced to all of the key players in the segment, and Matt took a couple of fun digs at Shane Helms over his 3 Count and Hurricane past. Actually, I\u2019d pop like crazy if 3 Count was in that match, but I digress.\u00a0On the (slight) downside, while I can for some reason get into a gardener and Vanguard 1 (to an extent) as characters in this bizarre storyline, the thought of a two year old wrestling may finally make this angle jump the shark for me. We\u2019ll see if they can make it work!<\/div>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">Misses<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Eddie\u2019s promo:<\/strong>\u00a0Taking the title off of Bobby Lashley has not paid off one bit. Eddie Edwards is a good wrestler, and while he comes across as a likable guy, he\u2019s just not main event material. He\u2019s simply cast in a role he shouldn\u2019t be playing. He solidified that in his backstage promo during Impact.\u00a0Edwards is kind of awkward on the mic, so they should take advantage of that! Play to his strengths, and have him be a quirky, endearing, and awkward champ. It may fail, but it will at least feel more genuine than having him in a suit cutting tough guy promos that he\u2019s clearly not comfortable delivering.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Aiden O\u2019Shea vs. Mandrews:\u00a0<\/strong>What a ridiculous match to book. Both men needed wins here, as O\u2019Shea has not wrestled since coming back to television and Mandrews just turned heel. There was no reason to put them against each other!\u00a0Josh Matthews didn\u2019t even bother putting over Mandrews\u2019 change in attitude. It made it seem like he wasn\u2019t watching last week when the X Division wrestler turned on DJ Z. It basically felt like this match was taped six months ago, and thrown into this episode to fill time. Well, Mandrews picked up the win, basically killing the gimmick of O\u2019Shea as a credible enforcer.\u00a0Matthews also strangely noted that Billy Corgan\u2019s former bodyguard was the \u201cenforcer of Chicago\u201d without any explanation as to what that meant, because he couldn&#8217;t say Corgan&#8217;s name. It was amateur hour all around.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Allie\u2019s First Real Match:\u00a0<\/strong>I just hate the idea of someone being able to train for a few weeks in professional wrestling, and quickly being able to defeat someone who has devoted their life to the craft. On Impact, it was revealed that Braxton Sutter had secretly been training Allie, and it was somehow enough to give her the win over Laurel Van Ness.\u00a0Just think of any competitive sport, and how absurd it is to be better than a pro in a matter of weeks. It undermines the very idea of wrestlers being talented in their respective field. Look no further than Brock Lesnar unable to join The Vikings, or Tim Tebow and Michael Jordan attempting to play baseball. These things take time!\u00a0Besides that, the match should have been built up longer. They jumped a few chapters in Allie\u2019s story by having her beat Van Ness so soon. Last of all, there\u2019s no chemistry between Sutter and Allie. That just needed to be said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Strap Match:\u00a0<\/strong>One of the worst matches of the year. When a 53 year old Al Snow is by far the best wrestler in an upcoming four person bout, you know you&#8217;re in trouble.\u00a0Strap matches are often underwhelming, but when they\u2019re booked, they should be saved for wrestlers that actually have a heated feud behind them. The Tribunal vs. Snow &amp;\u00a0Mahabali Shera does not fit that criteria. And while the strap shots likely stung quite a bit, they didn\u2019t look good on TV. Of course, the faces went over in the end, which made the newly repackaged Tribunal look just as ineffective as the old version.<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>You Deserve It?\u00a0<\/strong>Moose opened up Impact holding the Grand Championship that he won last week. He quickly received a \u201cYou deserve it!\u201d chant from the crowd. He deserves the Grand Championship? Is that what this awful chant has been reduced to? I thought it jumped the shark when Kevin Owens was greeted with it when he won the Universal Championship, but now it absolutely needs to go away forever.\u00a0Moose also told the audience that he didn\u2019t win the title alone in his promo. \u201cWe did it.\u201d Nah, I\u2019m good. I don\u2019t want any credit for helping win the Grand Championship. Thanks, though!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK&#8217;S IMPACT HITS &amp; MISSES:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/02\/tna-impact-hits-misses-121-moose-becomes-grand-champion-rosemary-vs-jade-crowd-dcc-allie\/\">12\/1: Moose becomes Grand Champion, Rosemary vs. Jade, The Crowd, DCC, Allie<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<p><em>(Andrew Soucek is a new PWTorch contributor\u00a0who is going to write TNA Impact Hits &amp; Misses each week and a new Specialists feature soon, also.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1309615787\"><div id=\"pwtor-2903063135\"><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>Hits Full On Sandow:\u00a0It really is refreshing to see Aron Rex back in the role of Damien Sandow (minus the name). His babyface run in TNA was painfully awkward, and never really clicked. He\u2019s been <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/09\/tna-impact-hits-misses-128-full-sandow-matt-jeff-hardy-eddie-edwards-deserve-moose-allie-mandrews\/\" title=\"TNA IMPACT HITS &#038; MISSES 12\/8: Full On Sandow, Matt &#038; Jeff Hardy, Eddie Edwards, You Deserve It, Moose, Allie, Mandrews\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18562,"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":[46,52,28,27],"tags":[2387,4328,4378,906,556,206,4377,149,580,4379],"class_list":["post-36091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlightarticles","category-opnionandanalysis","category-specialists_hitsandmisses","category-specialists","tag-al-snow","tag-allie","tag-aron-red","tag-damien-sandow","tag-eddie-edwards","tag-jeff-hardy","tag-mandrews","tag-matt-hardy","tag-moose","tag-vanguard-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/05\/SandowDamien_noborder.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091","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=36091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36092,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091\/revisions\/36092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}