TNA No Surrender thoughts

Tonight, Kurt Angle defends his World Heavyweight Championship against both Sting and Mr. Anderson in a Triple Threat match. Who will walk out with the Title? Meanwhile, Bully Ray, James Storm, Bobby Roode, and Gunner all compete to determine the winner of the Bound For Glory Series. What match will headline when TNA heads to Philadelphia next month? All this and plenty more at TNA No Surrender. Read on for my thoughts on the show as it happens.

Classy start to the show.

I like Sorensen giving the football to the kid. One of the few straight-up babyfaces in TNA. Hopefully they don't screw it up; I'm liking the difference from what they usually give us character-wise.

Absolutely solid opener. Great job by both men. They kept the storytelling simple for once and I'm enjoying this feud.

So there's my answer on how they're doing the finals of the series. It does make sense that they'd continue the format all the way through, though it's got to be rather difficult to book the Series with all the crazy point values and such.

Again, basic $@^& storytelling in the match, and it's working. Good guys do good things; bad guys do bad things.

That was honestly more depth than I expected from Storm. Another entertaining match. I love the sneaky ending.

Three-for-three with pretty good wrestling. Then they went right back to Winter as Champion. I wouldn't have taken it off of her in the first place. Not sure why they threw the 10-day title switch in there, but it took away from the overall story.

Nice Bully Ray/Gunner segment. Nothing outright terrible so far tonight.

I liked the opening of the match until the spot with Rosita. Dinero dominating a woman isn't particularly face-like.

Way too much BS interference in that one. A match that could have been a good deal better had the booking not interfered with the action.

Another bad Anderson promo. There's a reason he was scripted in WWE.

Hell of a start to Morgan/Joe.

Solid match. I wish the product featured more of guys like this and less BS involving Immortal, Anderson, and Sting.

Pretty darn good match. They're doing a good job building people up tonight for the most part.

Good promo by Aries. Much better than what we got from Kendrick on Thursday.

Talk about a war. I'm not a fan of a lot of high risk dives and such, but these guys really left it all out there in the ring (and ringside area).

Another great Bully Ray promo. I think he's definitely earned a PPV main event, just maybe not Bound For Glory.

This is Roode's chance to finally prove he's main event worthy after all these years being called the future of TNA.

Well, he was on his way to doing so, but the match wasn't long enough to be a star-making performance. Impressive from both men for what it was, though. I have my doubts about Roode headlining BFG, but he could certainly prove me wrong and make it in the top tier.

The segment with Rosita was really weird, given what else they've done with her tonight. Felt really out of place on this show. They should have done that earlier in the night.

Great match so far. Everyone's got on their working shoes.

All in all a pretty good match. The ending took away from the strong workrate, but of course we've got to get to Sting vs. Hogan next month. Ick.

I'll give TNA props for this one. I was expecting worse. Every so often they show that they can be quite the entertaining product, and tonight was mostly one of those nights.

That's all for No Surrender. I'll be back tomorrow for Raw, and a news post will be up shortly after midnight. Thanks for reading!