Tonight we get action from both WWE and TNA. Both companies are within 2 weeks of a PPV, so things should be interesting.
We start off Superstars with a Divas match. Read on for my thoughts on this match and everything else from the night's wrestling.
I like how they tied this match into the Divas Title situation on Raw. It made the match seem more important than it normally would.
It seems like we're seeing more out of Alicia lately. This was actually a good little match.
The Great Khali on Superstars is a bit of a surprise. He is a former World Champion after all. You'd think he'd at least get some kind of pre-commercial break mention. Filler match. Pretty much just there to sort of reintroduce Khali as a dominant competitor and show that they're not pushing The Usos.
It's really weird seeing one of the top-grossing wrestling acts of all time doing commercials for Rent-A-Center.
I like the Dreadlocked Demolition Man name. I'm really curious as to where Reks' career goes. He's much better off here than as the surfer character from the ECW brand. He just looks like a mean, nasty dude. actually he kind of looks like the main character from the remake of Bionic Commando as well. I mean, you know, without the giant robotic arm.
Anyway, that move where he dropped Hawkins on the ropes looked brutal. What does he do after he crushes everyone on Superstars?
Jack Swagger SHOULD be mad that he's not in the World Title match. I'd like to see him get another main event push down the line. Quick but good match.
If only Impact could be quick and good. Where did Eric Bischoff get that shirt? Immortal looks pretty desolate without Fortune, Flair, Hogan, and Abyss. The Hardy Boys, Jeff Jarrett, Rob Terry, two ex-security guards, and Karen Angle. Wow.
I'm not really a fan of the "the defectors were crap anyway" promos. Ungrateful I can get, but treating them as that inferior is pretty lame. Why would Flair pick them to join him if they were so bad?
Kazarian actually DID leave TNA once for WWE, but didn't last very long. He had a few matches on Velocity but I seem to remember that WWE wanted him to cut his hair, so he decided to go back to TNA. Just throwing that out there.
Here's more of that "reality show" camera work that that radio guy talked about at the start of the show. I'm not really sure why TNA ran that. I honestly can't think of any other fictional show that takes itself seriously that talks about things like that during the show. I keep trying to think of 24 or something starting with someone talking about the camera work.
Whoa, Hernandez is back? That's kind of a surprise. I wonder what they'll do with him this time.
Did Jeremy Borash call him "Brother Ray"? That would have been pretty easy to correct before the show aired.
Hey, thanks for talking over what Ray said, Mike Tenay.
Wait, was this a No DQ match or tables match or something? I'm confused.
It seems like it could be set that Jarrett's going to win on Sunday, because otherwise I don't think they'd advertise the second stipulation for March 3. At least they could have said that Angle would get that custody on that date as well to not hint at one side over the other. Interesting stipulation, if a bit out-of-the-blue. Karen's a surprisingly good promo.
Not a bad debut for Rosita. Kind of a clustermess match as we often see in TNA, though. According to Online World of Wrestling, Rosita (previously known as Divina Fly) is 20 years old, 4'11" and 105 lbs.. Wow, that's pretty small. I wonder how that'll work for or against her.
Jeff Hardy's facepaint and painted ladder are bizarre as always. I'm not really sure how it gets him over as the Anti-Christ of wrestling though. Yep, Hernandez returns out of nowhere and (presumably) joins Immortal. Hopefully he gets more of a re-introduction than this and isn't just more hired muscle. He's been gone long enough that he should have gotten some kind of promo or video at least a week before his return.
That Bully Ray promo was bad. The camera, the delivery, what it set up, all of it. Why can't we just have Devon vs. Ray in a Street Fight? A 3-on-1 street fight in Devon's favor is pretty dumb.
And speaking of dumb, TNA's next match has Brian Kendrick sitting down in the ring in a robe while a match is going on, Taz going "Oh! Oh! Oh!" on commentary for the stop-start push of the Jersey Shore parody Robbie E, and the sudden return of someone who was originally a character from a video game. A decent match, though pretty much a brief move exhibition. This division needs help.
Oh wait, apparently the match IS a #1 Contendership match and not a Fatal 4-Way for the X-Division Title. I had it right the first time, but anything I've seen on PWTorch.com has had the match listed as a Fatal 4-Way with Kazarian. They slip up from time to time, but I think they're right more often that wrong.
That music for Against All Odds is awful. Steiner and Beer Money vs. Terry, Gunner, and Murphy doesn't really sound like a solid match, but it fits with the storyline. And at least they're not giving Steiner's in-ring return away on free TV (though I don't think they mentioned it being his in-ring return).
If you're looking to rag on TNA for relying on former WWE and WCW stars, the main event gives you a good chance to do that.
Another "group of heels beat up a bunch of faces" ending to Impact. It's kind of wearing thin at this point. I would have preferred it to be more even before Anderson made the save. This didn't exactly inspire me to order Sunday's PPV.
That's it for tonight's 3-hour marathon of wrestling. Tomorrow I review Smackdown, where Edge faces Dolph Ziggler for the World Heavyweight Championship with Vickie Guerrero as the special referee.
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