Welcome to the "TNA did everything they could to put me out of a watching wrestling mood last night" edition of The Wrestling List. That show last night was AWFUL. I should point out that I only watched the first hour of Impact and just like the old days of WCW Monday Nitro of 2000, I was looking at the clock wondering when Raw would start. Then, Raw starts and I'm in such a lousy mood after the bad hour that I've watched that I had a hard time even getting into that show. I didn't really enjoy Raw that much but again I don't know if that is based off of the first hour of Impact.
I will start with the big news out of TNA yesterday. The Monday night experiment is over. TNA will be moving back to Thursdays beginning next week on May 13. The decision was a Spike TV decision and TNA went along with it. TNA has not been doing well on Monday nights and did a 0.5 last week against the three hour WWE Raw draft show. A bad number. Now, point out that the show has been replaying on Thursdays and doing a better number on that night. When you're doing all of this live TV on Monday nights and more people are watching the taped replay on Thursdays, it's a simple decision. I did love how TNA promoted it last night saying that they were doing what the fans wanted. Well, that and the ratings aren't good. The RVD title win show did do a better rating a couple of weeks ago getting up to a 1.0.
Ok, let me get into last night's Impact. This show was so bad that I will not be following them back to Thursdays until they get this show under control. Their product is so all over the place right now. They'll have a good show and then follow with two bad shows. The show opened last night with promos and a brawl that lasted 30 minutes!! 30 minutes!! We had Jay Lethal come out with Flair's Hall Of Fame ring on and doing a Flair impersonation. Now, the Flair impersonation was great stuff and he was doing stuff that I hadn't even caught on with what Flair does. Flair comes out insulted to which Lethal backs off saying that he wasn't doing this to insult him. He gives the ring back. Team Flair makes their way out as does Team Hogan minus Hogan who is in a limo with Bischoff at the time. This brawl goes on and goes to commercial. They come back from commercial and there is still talking going on after the brawl stops. The brawl continues and then Hogan arrives after he made his way back to the arena. Hogan destroys all of Team Flair by himself. We got to commercial and come back. Another promo is ongoing about this never ending brawl. Yes, the brawl continues. It was unbelievable. I looked at the clock and saw 7:30. I could not believe that this opening segment went for this long. This should have been over in 15 minutes tops. The next thing that we see is The Beautiful People backstage and Velvet Sky uses the line that could not be more true. She says that the knockouts division is all about The Beautiful People. It is!! LOL. This division was so strong a while back to where they even made a Knockouts DVD. They still have the strong talent for that division which is the sad part. It's turned into knockout of the week against The Beautiful People. Now, I should say that I am fine with The Beautiful People. I like Velvet Sky. She is by far the star of the group. She's a good talker and can hang in the ring. I'm indifferent to Madison Rayne and I am just not into Lacey at all. Samoa Joe was back after that getting involved in the segment with the Ink, Inc. team taking on Williams and Kendrick. Joe destroys all of them which is always good with me. Then, we go backstage to Ken Anderson dressed as a choir boy beating up The Pope. I am begging for Raw to come on the air. Actually, at this point, I'm thinking that I don't even want to watch any more wrestling tonight. LOL. I have read and heard the happenings of the rest of the show. Vince Russo booking 101 alert. The person that has been battling The Band turned and joined back up with them. Yep, Eric Young joined up with the group. Russo is notorious for booking that kind of stuff so no one has been surprised. Then, we have the fans voting for who they want to challenge for the TNA title. Desmond Wolfe gets the fans vote taking on Rob Van Dam. The match is very short which I didn't get considering that your fans wanted to see this match. This should have been a longer one. I've heard criticism of the rest of the show but I have no desire to watch it. Yep, TNA has got to fix things now cause I will not be following them to Thursdays. This show was horrible.
On to Raw. I didn't really like Raw that much but again I'm coming off of a terrible first hour of Impact. So, my watching mood was lousy at this point. I'll just hit some various points on Raw. So, Edge is a heel again. I liked the segment with him and Randy Orton. I liked his explanation of how he did what he did last week as a way to make a statement cause the draft had messed up all of his plans. Basically, he said that he had laid out his game plan and everything to take out Swagger and win the World title and the draft ruined it all. I found it kind of odd that they had Edge doing a promo about how he had done everything to get the fans to like him including playing to them, coming up with catchphrases, and tying them to finishing moves. I found it odd cause I had noticed that Edge was getting really over. So, just as we get used to him as a babyface, he is a heel again. That is fine because I love Edge as a heel. I love Edge either way obviously but I liked his exchange with Orton. Wayne Brady being involved in the segment was odd. Orton ended up laying out Brady and then Edge with a RKO. I love the idea of Miz and Jericho as a team. They will do some really fun promos together. They were gold on commentary and actually woke me up from my wrestling watching misery up to that point from Impact. LOL. Miz and Jericho did good with them basically being like two ex's bonding together over their hatred of being done wrong by the same person. I found that funny. The NXT rookies get thrown into the Beat The Clock matches. Basically, Cena faced one and Batista faced the other. The one that wins the quickest gets to pick the stipulation of their match at Over The Limit. Daniel Bryan got the match against Batista. Are you kidding that he is 0-9 on NXT???!!! I had no idea that he had lost that much. This match had an interesting story to it. Michael Cole ripping on Bryan like always. Then, he starts to get offense in on Batista and then Cole starts to turn on his commentary seeing how he is giving Batista a tough match. Bryan got a lot of offense in on him and it made him look good. Then, you have Batista finally going nuts at the end to beat him and continue the abuse after it due to him being taken further than he expected. I had to laugh at the reference by Santino to Regal and Kozlov when he said that he was one of the seven people that watched ECW and knew of their problems. Umm, WWE. You do realize that those same seven people are the only ones watching NXT? That was why I laughed. NXT is doing the same numbers as ECW was doing and has already been canceled.
The WrestleMania XXVI DVD has been released which includes the event and the Hall Of Fame ceremony. Best Buy has the exclusive Blu-Ray version of the DVD which also includes more bonus features which are the Raw and Smackdown shows from the week before WrestleMania.
Tara posted on her My Space last week that she will be leaving TNA.
Have a great week!! Take care and God bless!!
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