Roofs wrote:
Had a great night at TNA on Friday, really enjoyable show overall.
Thought the opening match was probably the best, with not having Sky I hadn't seen much of Amazing Red's work - superstar in the making right there (if used correctly obviously).
Highlights for me were:
* Desmond Wolfe - fantastic on the mike, and solid match with Angle
* The Pope - this guy's got serious potential, what the hell were WWE thinking letting him go?!
* The main event - plenty of comedy and entertainment, didn't realise how over Beer Money Inc are, superb stuff
* The atmosphere
* Dixie Carter mingling with fans all night, full credit to her (managed to get her autograph!
).
Took a few pics, not very good because was only using an 8.1 megapixel camera phone, but will post them up when get chance.
Only gripes were:
* The Ladder match - what happened?!
Somehow became a kind of tag-team match between the 4, very wierd + disappointing they went against what they had advertised.
* No Tara.
Joking apart though great show, will definitely be there when they next tour. TNA! TNA!
Let me give my two pence on what was a thouroughly disgusting and rather poor attempt at pro wrestling:
-They had a six sided ring. Now wait, wasn't the last PPV all about the 'Genesis' of the 'New' TNA? And the 'New' TNA used a four sided ring?
-A five man ladder match was the main event - a massive [well on bravo] TV campaign was shown many times for at least a couple of months. What do we get? It seemed to me that someone had forgotten to bring a proper TNA Ladder Match Ladder, they had a crappy step ladder with steps on one side only in the ring prior to the match. Again, more failure to deliver by TNA.
- Kurt Angle 'quits' on last weeks Impact, but yet he is wrestling on this show, seemingly without a care in the world?
-They didn't let ANY of the English talent stay over as faces in their home country. Nigel McGuinness, Doug Williams & Brutus Magnus all remained heels. With the latter two not even getting any mike time & got buried in the main event. The only Brit who they kept over as a face was big meat head juice man Rob Terry - AND HE ISN'T EVEN ENGLISH! He's from Wales.
The wrestling wasn't even up to much. The X Division match was flat, The main event was on halfway through the show. The last match of the card was basically a squash match - SQUASHING TWO ENGLISH GUYS!
As my first ever TNA lvie experience I can honestly say that GPW at the Monaco in Hindley put on a far superior show, with one millionth the budget of TNA and one tenth of the talent pool. I wouldn't suggest a TNA live event unless you want to go home having watched the most lackluster, unintelegable garbage this side of a CZW show.
