HandofFate

So I am reading online that it has been revealed that Dutch Mantell is booking the TV shows and PPVs while Vince Russo is in more of a consultant. I'm not a Russo lover or apologist, but will anybody who has been badmouthing Vince on here as being the head booker admit they were wrong?

Jackie sold that kick to the stomach from Gail Kim in Cornette's office almost like it was death...

TNA's most devoted fans want Russo gone. I can't wait to hear how that gets spun. what was the rules to that match? was it a casket match but with the weird thing hanging over the ring? It was a casket match where the casket was lowered from the ceiling then had to be lifted up after the casket was closed

it was just the flip. Steiner was on the mat and holding onto the ropes but Angle was able to pull him down after a second or two

Sting beats Abyss

Sting looked his brains were blown out onto the coffin when they showed him after being chokeslammed on top of the casket

BTW.... Angle beat Steiner with a Sunset Flip

LMAO the fans were chanting "FIRE RUSSO" when the deathbed was lowered during the Abyss/Sting match

They have been showing clips of him the last month or so saying he was finding himself so there was SOME build...just none saying that he was coming back tonight

So far: LAX beat Team 3-D James Storm & Miss Jackie beat Petey Williams & Gail Kim Senshi beat Austin Starr VKM beat The Heartbreakers Chris Sabin beat Jerry Lynn Rhino beat AJ Styles

damn....that was a NASTY Black Hole Slam on SoCalVal

DUDE!!!!! talk about a NASTY headbutt!

speaking of the first hour... Who were the two cage dancers?

I don't have a cable box so I can't order. My friend's mom is a HUGE wrestling fan so she might order it. It all depends on how she feels this evening...

I think they were trying to sell the story of the referring giving Sting multiple warnings before pulling the trigger, so they could say he was so far removed from his principals that he didn't pull back when he had the chance. The problem with the way they did it though is everything you mentioned. Even if they let all those things go, Sting should have been DQ'ed for putting Abyss through the barbed wire, not shoving the ref. So at least you wouldn't say "he got away with all that other stuff, but they nail him for this!" No one ever gets DQed for hitting someone with a chair OUTSIDE of the ring. Inside the ring, you'll see a DQ, most of the time. So if you are ok with the logic of the tacks just happening to be where he got chokeslammed, then you could logically say that Abyss just happened to have been upside down when he got hit with a chair. Pretty much anything goes outside of the ring, but once you're inside the ropes, you better play by the rules. Yea, it's pretty silly, but hey...that's the way wrestling works. Now touching or shoving the ref can, as we saw on Genesis, get you DQed. The wrestler is never supposed to touch or push the ref. The ref can let it go for a while, but after repeated occurrences, he has to take control and lay down the law. Yea, it's not the best way to end a PPV match, but if you go to the basics of wrestling, what happened can be logically argued.

LMAO that Paparazzi skit was funny but what really made it great was how Senshi just sat there

I liked the show. There were a lot of undercard matches that were really good. I was a little surprised that they are gonna strip LAX of the titles. I knew that many people were gonna be crapping on the stripping of the title. I was also really surprised that they actually followed continuity and had a title change on a DQ. I just wish that would have been brought up when Jarrett was champ... I was very surprised that they finished Joe/Angle with 15 minutes left for the PPV. It made me think that someone was injured or something happened and told the ref to have them finish the match early. Anybody hear anything on why the match was finished so early?

why didn't they keep Sabin's old theme? the one where they first added Hail Sabin! to it because the fans were chanting it for him?

the last part of the preview said that there was an incident in Mexico City involving LAX and AJ Styles whick kept him from competing on the show

yea. He had drop foot syndrome. He finally had a good surgery on it and it healed good and he rehabbed it good. I always liked it when he had the Superman trunks on instead of those long tights. Just made him look tougher instead of some long tights...

The Dudleys wrestle Bently & Kazarian next week on Impact. Damn. Thought they would have used a lower team like Shark Boy & Norman Smiley. Who else could they use now? Hoyt & Killings? Man... They kinda blew it on who they picked to wrestle 3D in my opinion on BFG.

I don't think that 3D/Naturals will happen. The Naturals still have their title shot at the Tag Titles and last night Team 3D said that they are going to be working their way up the ladder to get their shot so I think it'll be a lesser tag team like say... Matt Bentley and Kazarian. They are a low enough tag team but I think they could be competitive against 3D. Kazarian & Bentley could cut a promo about how 3D doesn't deserve a shot but they do. They were wrestling in TNA together before they (3D) even came over. They could also show how their jealous about how 3D gets lots of breaks, but they (K&B) haven't gotten a break since they reformed about 3 months ago (give or take a month).

talk about doing anything for a job... *shudders*

Johnny Devine hinted on his myspace page that he could be returning tonight for the PPV & the World X-Cup

Latest Rumor is Tiger Mask IV is gonna be Daniel's opponent. I don't watch non-US wrestling. How is he?