RedJed

You obviously haven't watched TNA that long if you think this is the WORST EVER.

Honky Tonk Man, I'm assuming.

One hour only. Clearly they didn't really give it much thought because of that fact and because it's more just hype for autism than anything. I read somewhere else that before and after every match, they have celebrities doing interviews about the disease. It's a classy move by the company, though, to generate focus to a special cause during what was going to be a throwaway show anyway. IIRC, this might be the last SNME on the current contract, as well.

Since he won the title, I think this was the strongest Punk looked overall tonight against Regal. That was a serious shit kicking he was taking, but yet still went over, probably with a broken nose to boot. The visual of him standing there all busted up, holding the belt was strong, made you think he finally "earned" the belt he has somewhat, after going through that fight. Regal still looked credible as hell there too, almost beating Punk twice in a row. The Batista matches made him look good, too, but just in a different way, in fact the exact opposite.

Yeah, his orbital bone had been messed up but he's been back working for the last 6 weeks or so (if not more).

Courtesy of the Observer site.... Paul London beat Charlie Haas in a dark match. 1. JBL & Cody Rhodes & Kane & Ted DiBiase Jr. beat John Cena & Batista & Cryme Tyme. JBL pinned JTG after a closeline from hell. CM Punk did commentary. 2. Great Khali beat Jimmy Wang Yang in a squash. They did the segment with Jenny McCarthy and the autism stuff. 3. Edge beat Jeff Hardy with a spear after interference from MVP, likely leading to Jeff vs. MVP at SummerSlam. ------- I would imagine more backstage segments added or not announced from the initial spoilers. Show sounds horribly dull with the exception of Edge/Hardy.

Wow, no sense of humor eh? People, especially nubes, take shit way too seriously. Apparently the guy never got one of the mainstays of "the business" - ribbing!

Most theater seats still aren't very comfortable, even your typical stadium seating venue. So if I was able to have a plush leather seat or even better, a reclining couch or something of the sort, I'd be all about that.

Does having a gigger inadvertently thrown to you by another wrestler (Raven) during a match count for something? Nah, I figured not lol

Haha yeah that Dennis Stamp offensive burst was hilarious! I totally dont get the Medusa humiliation angle by having her come out in a bath robe and a shower cap. WTF?! Although I guess that having her coming out in next to nothing isn't exactly punishment for her, eh? Wahoo-Hennig in a strap match tonight though, awww yeah....

The plan is for him against Williams though at the ppv, I guess. They put him over in a four way match on last week's Impact, and beating the champ in a non-title match is definately where it's leading. Given Williams hasn't done shit with the belt, it's not like the belt is holding any prestige right now so might as well give him a shot.

Cmon guys, lets not get in a pissing match over whatever you are all pissing about.

Quick thought from tonight too, it was kind of funny how little the crowd responded to the idea of Cena/Batista in any capacity.......Mania, Summerslam, or even booked as the main event of Raw (granted, they cheered, but it wasn't anything crazy). With that said, the issue there is "lack of issue" so to speak, that story between them is far from developed enough where them having that match yet is even worth it (I tend to think a similar thought in how they rushed Edge/HHH out of the gates too), they should tease mistrust and probably a major turn with one of them going heel on the other in due time, and THEN we can start suggesting the idea of Cena/Batista. So chances are we are still going to have the Cena/Batista/JBL/Punk SummerSlam match but we'll see.

If they really are setting Cena/Batista for SummerSlam (I'm still not convinced), they still may do a four way for the title, just Jericho/JBL/Kane/Punk, which would make sense now with Adamle as GM for him to "stack the deck" against Punk by putting him in there with three heels. From there, Jericho against Punk could go, depending on how long they want to milk the Michaels injury angle out (which appears to be not very long, likely). Or you could even do Jericho and Punk after they blowoff Michaels and Jericho, probably after the Sept. ppv. The way I figure is this feud with Michaels is putting over Jericho as a serious heel (and nice character work on him renouncing his old Y2J gimmick tonight) and as such, a title program is up ahead in the future for him once the Michaels feud is over, and honestly I dont see Punk losing the belt anytime soon, but yes, maybe to Jericho later in the year.

I added my thoughts in ( ) Thanks to Alex of PWInsider.com for the following results: TNA is currently taping this week's iMPACT from Orlando, FL. Below are the results: Beer Money defeated Christian Cage and Rhino to earn a shot at the Tag Titles at Hard Justice. Team 3D interfered and Cage challenged the two to a tag team match at the pay-per-view (Likely by the next taping, they will announce that match as a New Jersey Street Fight). Jay Lethal, Sharkboy and Curry Man defeated Johnny Devine and Rock & Rave Infection. Lethal takes the mic and was going to propose to So Cal Val again but she says she lost the ring (Dutt took it from her in the horrible hospital segment last week). Lethal gets upset and walks off. Booker T comes to the ring to give Samoa Joe a "tour of the Six Sides of Steel." Joe comes out and they start to brawl. Someone drops a bat from the rafters and Booker nails Joe with it. (The bat deal is getting repetitive) AJ Styles comes out to check on Joe. Styles takes the mic and demands Sting show himself, saying he's tired of making excuses for him. Sting's music plays but out comes Kurt Angle, who hits Styles with several Olympic Slams and leaves him laying. In a non-title bout, Consequences Creed defeated X Division Champion Petey Williams (Setting up title match with them at the ppv). Backstage, AJ Styles challenges Kurt Angle to a Last Man Standing match at Hard Justice. Matt Morgan pinned Sal Rinauro. He called out Tomko and they brawled until security broke it up. They break free of security and Morgan lays out Tomko. Gail Kim and Knockout Champ Taylor Wilde defeated Velvet Sky and Angelina Love. Awesome Kong hit the ring after the match and laid out Kim and Taylor. ODB and Roxxi came down to chase her off. (This all sets up a title match with all of those women at the ppv) -----Overall, sounds ok and definately advances or sets up alot of stuff for the ppv, which I posted in the general thoughts thread. Morgan v. Tomko will probably be added to the ppv, boy I wonder who's doin the job there?

Michael Hayes and Tazz would be interesting as hell, at least for a few weeks. Honestly, I doubt they will do it, but I'd love it if Tazz just tried to carry different announcers for awhile each as tryouts for the new ECW sidekick job. Bring out Hayes, Dusty Rhodes, Ricky Steamboat, etc, do that for a few weeks, change up announcers every segment/match, just to see how they would work with Tazz.

If it doesn't work for him in creative (and I doubt it will, maybe six months at most) I wouldn't be shocked to see them offer him a role as a manager for the tag champs, good idea there that was mentioned by someone else. Some on air talent role for him on a semi-regular basis MIGHT actually work if the guy is hard up for actual acting work.

I agree, I honestly didn't see it coming at all, one of the few times in awhile I've been legitimately surprised at an ending of Raw. So we either got Josh Matthews, Todd Grisham, or maybe Joey Styles taking over ECW announcing, thank god. I say just bring Styles back.

I think this is Vince's way of making fun of Bischoff. Bischoff was a shitty announcer in WCW one day and running the company the next. I don't know if its making fun of Bischoff as much as it's just creating an exaggerated Bischoff-inspired type role for Adamle, based off his WCW storyline situation there that led to him going heel and being with the NWO. Same shit, a bad announcer who wasn't getting the respect from anyone in the storylines, and he goes mad with power. For what it's worth, I think its a great idea and worth a shot since I can't stand him calling matches and I think he'd make a much more heel character anyway with his unintentional blunders, etc. I don't know if that was planned ahead of time, but when Adamle mistook Jillian for Lillian, that was some great shit, and how JR started really jabbing at Adamle, followed by Adamle saying some heelish things towards JR, that I thought was just Adamle being stupid and not knowing any better. And of course the Michael Cole beatdown makes total sense too, was a fun show built around that stuff. It still doesn't fully explain WHY Jim Ross was out there though, I'm assuming at orders of Adamle himself, but still, wtf? Before knowing it was Adamle as GM, I thought someone in the back just told Ross to get his ass out there in a shoot and save the commentary, since Adamle wasn't carrying it well. Top to bottom, really thought that was a strong show that kept me hooked for most of it, Regal/Punk was solid stuff with some stiff shit from Regal, Cena/Batista interaction was good, but still thinking they are going to turn Cena v. Batista into Cena/Batista/JBL/Punk four way (which Observer says is in the current books as of this weekend) or they may do a six pack elimination match (or whatever the fuck WWE calls these) and add Kane and Jericho into the mix. I just can't see them really doing Cena/Batista at SummerSlam, not yet. Oh and a HELL of a promo by Jericho, that segment was excellent.

Depending on if "Batman: Gotham Knight" is canon to "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight", Deadshot has been used. EDIT: RedJed, REALLY out there thought, but...maybe the anchorman character becomes The Creeper? ...like I said, really out there thought that came from re-watching the animated debut of The Creeper again recently. I never thought about that possibility, but hot damn, I like it. I just gotta think they are doing something with him in part three, given they made a point to show him being put on the Joker bus and then "traumatized" further. Him and Crane hooking up to try to take out Batman for some reason sounds possible, along with the guy who was gonna let the cat out of the bag about Wayne Enterprises (who I also fully expect in the next one).

That's a great fucking idea, never heard of it until now. I have heard of the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas but not actual theaters that have plush seating and personal food service to your seat. Minnesota needs some of these, stat!

Just saw it a second time last night (and still, this flick is packing them in, it was about 90 percent capacity for the movie on a Sunday night) and I definately did pick up and understand more the very complex (yet entralling and completely logical) sub-stories within a story, so to speak. I could easily go to it a few more times, which I can't say of hardly any movie in a long time. So any odds on what side characters will come back in the third installment in a larger part? I don't know why, but I have a feeling the newscaster (Anthony Michael Hall, right?) might return as some villian, since he was in the same bus as the Joker when they left the hospital, and then was essentially taken hostage by him. Probably won't be a large part by any means, but a part nonetheless. I think some of us have already suggested others in the film already as possibililties, but I didn't notice him mentioned yet.

While I don't think the Sting/Abyss feud was anything that hurt him (in fact I thought it helped him more than hurt) it was the follow up since his feud with Mesias that has really suffered. Hell, even giving him some character with the Mitchell stuff was alright in theory, maybe not so much in execution though. But I don't think that "hurt" him really.

Wow, you gotta be kidding me. This is like a bad April Fools joke, regarding Prinze. I would think he has better things to do, like, umm, acting?! I don't expect anything good from this.

It just looks like the TCM remake to a tee, basically. Oh yay.