Superstars Reax - 4/19/14, heat on TNA talent, wrestlers who look like Metallica, Mania photos, Impact audience, Bryan's return set, big wins for youth movement and Questions on Hardy as Willow, Sabu, Poffos in the Hall and Garett Bischoff

Superstars:
Good little match between Big E and Titus. I think both men are doing well and hope we see them both shine.

3MB vs. Los Matadores was pretty good for its place on the card. I can see why some people have wanted Drew to break out on his own. I can't say I'd mind it.

There was heat on a number of TNA performers for posing in pictures with Jeff and Karen Jarrett due to those pictures appearing as promotion for GFW. It did seem to imply the stars in the pictures would be part of the new venture. Some of them may very well be, but they're all under TNA contract.

Everything else from yesterday is after the break.












Here are pictures of wrestlers who look like Metallica. Those were mostly pretty good.

Sports Illustrated has a WrestleMania history slideshow. Nothing really epic.

Impact's audience this week was 1.01 million, completely erasing the one-time pop for Eric Young's title win. This for a show with a street fight featuring the Knockouts Champion, a TNA Tag Team Title match, Willow in action, Kurt Angle's return, a tables match and a big gimmick match between two rivals for EY's first defense as TNA World Champion. That should tell you everything you need to know about TNA's standing right now.

Daniel Bryan will return at Raw. That's good to hear!

On the 4/19 live event in Saudi Arabia, Cesaro beat Mark Henry clean via Neutralizer and Roman Reigns beat Randy Orton clean via spear. That's pretty cool. I'm ready for both to be big parts of WWE in the years to come.

For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. TNA will apparently do pretty much anything Jeff wants. See his run as a heel with Immortal if you don't believe me. I don't think WWE would have kept him after some of the headaches he gave TNA in years past. Of note, Jeff's been clean for a good while now, so at least that's not the issue. He just has ideas that are a little out there. Hopefully that new Willow merchandise is selling well to make up for "not having Jeff Hardy around".

2. What an appropriate question to answer on 4/20. Sabu's not on WWE's Christmas card list for a reason. I can't say I blame him given his attitude during his ECW run.

3. There is the question of whether Savage's family would go in if that's not what Randy wanted, but if that's the only way for it to happen, let's get it over with at WM31.

4. I don't see any way he can come back to the ring for TNA without them facing a lot of criticism for it. I don't think he's an essential enough part of TNA to keep around when they could use that money to bring in someone who could actually draw money for the company, but as long as his dad's still on the payroll, TNA will probably keep him (at least until his contract expires).

Nothing to add to 5.

More wrestling tomorrow.