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Thumbs Up (barely) Best Match: 12 man fourway Wort match: Kong vs Taylor First off my section was suppossed to the right of the entrance. When we were looking for our seats we were told that the floor arrangement had been rearranged and now our section was facing the steady camera. So not only did I lose my seat just a few feet away from the entrance ramp, I probabkly got my ugly mug on TV a hundred times. Not cool TNA. Preshow was filled with obnoxiously loud music and Jeremy Borash pumping up the crowd saying the loudest fan in each section throughout the show will get backstage passses. That's how they get people to cheer for this crap. ODB came out to sign autographs and Nash came out to work the crowd before Willie Nelson's daughter came out to sing the anthem. She was Rosseane Bar bad and actually got quite a few boos. The crowd seemed to be into everyone except Taylor and most of the X Cup foreigners. During the preshow announcements I'd say Booker had about 70-80% of the crowd but by the time he was announced for the main event and all of his Houston skits were shown he probably had 90%. Twinke Toes Trigg waws not announced to the crowd. Don West sweats like a pig and has to constantly towel himself down during the broadcast. I don't know if it was mentioned on the broadcast but the guys with Sharmell were Booker's PWA students (Neico & Gustavo Mendoza). At least some of the "security" in grey shirts thayt Joe took out were also Booker students. The finish really flatened the crowd. Being on the floor no one in my section knew what the finish was. Everyone was asking everyone else, "what happened?" We learned that Booker left with the belt but there was never an announcement made to the crowd. Post show saw Joe give the crowd the finger and stumble around the ring but it was not Joe who had the most heat as there was a large "Fuck Vince Russo" chant going. In my opinion, the wrestling and action was just good enough overall tonight to make up for the genuine lack of phycology in many of the matches and the tremendous main event let down. |
Chris Marullo
TNA Victory Road
Thumbs Up
Best Match: World X Cup Elimination Match
Worst Match: Kong v Wilide
Leave it to TNA to build on expectations and then crash. The first 90 minutes of Victory Road looked like they were moving in the right direction and heading for a phenomenal PPV. Instead, the last two matches had the typical screwjob finishes that leave audiences flat and wrestlers dead in the water with 50/50 booking.
Frank Trigg and Kurt Angle could have a great tag team - no doubt headed to be titleholders for a while until the inevitable split. But AJ Styles, getting momentum for a main event push, once again gets punked out. At least Karen Angle was invisible for the first PPV in many months.
The main event finish made no sense. Sting didn't get over a lick to the live crowd (so much for what a 1.0 share on Spike means nationwide) and Sharmell counting the pinfall was a groaner. Didn't TNA do two "possession of the belt" angles already THIS YEAR?
Now they leave Jim Cornette to be the mouthpiece who "talks them out" of both of these dopey situations. He must be well-paid and sitting at home laughing. I know I wasn't - I paid for the card.
Jeff Cohen
Flushing, NY Dave,
I really thought this show was a very good "wrestling" show. They really kept the dumb stuff to a min. I read your thoughts on the wrestling fans at ringside and I thought to myself, between that and Vince talking about the Walmart guy that won 100K, pro wrestling loves to make fun of their fans. So if a company is really wanting Samoa Joe to be their big star(John Cena, HHH, Edge, Batista, ect). So they book him to wrestle face in the heels hometown???? Which they promoted all night long???? Who is driving this ship?? Talking about things that TNA does wrong, this is one thing that really bothers me. They want us to believe that Robert Roode has all this money and lives this rich lifestyle, yet he only has 1 robe that was a hand me down from Terry Taylor. Then you had this ending?????? Was this the best they could come up with? Sorry, had to vent.
As I said this was a very good wrestling show. I thought the Gail Kim v/s Angelina Love match was the best womens match I have seen in a long time.
Best match: X Cup Elimination Match
Worse Match: LAX v/s Beer Money
I give this show a thumbs in the middle. It was a thumbs up till the ending.
Heath Pittman
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