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Mark Jindrak - Still has big potential. I suspect he'll go to AJPW where all the ex-WWE guys have a couple stables together. He'd be worth signing but I don't see where he adds anything. He's better than a lot of the random big guys TNA has around though. Akio - Out of the guys WWE cut, he's been the best. Has worked in Japan and will probably work ROH. I'd love to see Akio and Noble as a tag team in TNA. Shannon Moore - Sort of redundant, uses a lot of Jeff Hardy's moves. I've never been overly impressed with him other than a guy who is willing to bump like crazy and do some cool spots. TNA has plenty of them. Gangrel - He looked okay in OVW, but he's not going to draw jack at this point. Maven - Still has potential and I think he'd be great in TNA if he was repackaged and got freed from WWE style. He needs to break out from being "Maven: Tough Enough Winner" and get his own gimmick. Billy Kidman - If he can be the old WCW Kidman and if he can wrestle X-Division style, he's worth signing. Otherwise don't bother. Spike Dudley - I think he may be too banged up to do his old act anymore. Mordecai - Stay the heck away, hor-ri-ble.

Big Dick Dudley got to use his name in XPW, so I guess they probably do control the name.

I see Danny "Damaja" Basham and Grenier as being in the most trouble. Grenier has Patterson to lobby for him and Damaja has all his OVW buddies. I think these guys probably work cheaper than most of the guys who got cut too. That's key in looking at this stuff - How much hossness do you have? (likely to get multiple chances to get over) - How roided are you? (Vince will mark hard and give you many chances to get over) - Are you in any programs? (if so, you're safe) - Who are your backstage friends? (HHH, Taker, Michaels?) - How big is your contract? (if it's big you might get cut) - How long have you been in WWE? (If it's 8 years or more you're pretty safe) - Were you in WCW? (you're probably going to get cut)

Venis is going to stick around, the guy has just been on fire and is having good matches with everyone. Doesn't hurt to have a guy on hand who can make anyone look good (look at his match against Masters). Conway's probably the guy with the best look out of all the OVW Originals so he stays. Tomko still has hoss size. Scotty has seniority. I don't see many more cuts until Heat and Velocity disappear.

Scotty's been around longer than all those guys who got cut, thusly he stays.

Booker v.s. Benoit #1 contender for the US title - They thought it would be cool because they did it in WCW in their "Best of 7 Feud". Plus Benoit isn't doing anything. Morgan getting jumped by the Mexicools is revenge for all the hoss beatdowns of Cruiserweights over the years. It's deliciously ironic because usually they'd have a throwaway match between some cruiserweights, then Big Show/Taker/Nash/Kane/Scott Steiner would run out and destroy all of them. In this case, Morgan and Regal have a throwaway match and Morgan gets owned by the Mexicools. I think it's very cheap heat and offensive to have a guy play an Arab-American, make a throat-slashing gesture, use Daivari as a "suicide bomber", bring in hooded terrorists to choke out Taker with piano wire when he gets in trouble, and then carry off Daivari like a martyr. It's Vince exploiting 9/11 for financial gain which is sick beyond sick. Definitely a Court Bauer influence on this show, I think

Weirdest... Smackdown... Ever.

It's pretty easy. Michaels talks about how many titles he has and how many great matches he has, how he's not a washed up hasbeen, but he's mad playing second banana to Hogan when he's the showstopper, blah blah blah. Basically, I'm better than Hogan and the fans don't give the respect I deserve. And you have to go hmm a bit with Angle, Flair, HHH, and Michaels all heel with Flair's comments a few months ago with who he said he wanted to be in a WWE Four Horsemen.

Um, there is no buyrate for One Night Stand in those numbers. That's the Backlash buyrate that is 270,000. There's no numbers listed for May, let alone June (when ONS happened). And considering if you look at the legend where they plot out the buyrates, the estimates are as of April 30th. It'd be pretty hard to estimate a One Night Stand buyrate on April 30th. Please read the PDFs before you agree with anyone who posts this kind of crap.

Cades not still with the company is he???? :| <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Lance Cade is in OVW now and has been looking pretty awesome (and he has a gimmick that's not just being a Stan Hansen clone), meaning WWE will fire him.

That was probably Flair's best match since the WCW days. Probably just under **** territory.

He never counted a pinfall. Delirious tapped out and West screwed up and said "ONE TWO THREE". Watch it, the ref doesn't make a count (although Delirious tapping kind of sounds like the start of a 3-count).

Holy crap... TNA put a Torrent file and a tracker up on tnawrestling.com!

Here's the link http://tnawrestling.fanserv.com/www/video.php TNA lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's supposedly going to be up sometime today on the website. Some admins on the TNA forum said it was supposed to be up at 4 PM EST, which obviously isn't the case.

He's very good in his role by wrestling standards. He has his own character that isn't just a Vince McMahon ripoff which are what most of the "authority figures" before him weref. He can act very slimey. I'd rather they get rid of the GM/Authority figures for good, but Bischoff does a good job and has kept himself somewhat fresh. Thankfully they haven't done any authority figure v.s. wrestler crap lately, which is what is really stale. He's also been a bit more of a tweener in the last six months... just enough to be unpredictable and not side with the heels 10 times out of 10.

True, but like I said they have had quite a long time to plan ahead for this. But maybe they figure there was no point to have blowaway shows considering they arent on cable right now. There might be more stuff they add to each show too in post production. With that said, I dont know how large their syndicated network is (I would guess not very big at all) but apparently Impact will be aired in it's place, so TNA does have a little TV coverage, fortunately a channel (Sunshine Network out of Florida) which I have. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> According to PWInsider, they thought the tapings last night had the best in-ring wrestling in the company's history, so it's probably a lot better than it looks on paper. When you have so much stuff on these shows, it's hard to figure out how they're going to put all these matches together into a show or what backstage stuff they're going to add to flesh things out.

It's kind of hard to book really great shows when you have to tape four shows in one night. I think they did as well as you can expect.

New Jack is even scared to death of Smothers, if that tells you anything. Smothers is one crazy mutha and I'd pay to see he and JBL fight it out.

That makes sense, because said person wrestled in Puerto Rico over the weekend and is probably on his way back quite soon.

4 1-hour shows is plenty of time. The booking just needs to be on, and since D'Amore has taken over it's been very good. OVW builds up to a show every 2 or 3 weeks on its weekly TV during the summer, so there's no reason TNA can't successfully build a PPV every 4 or 5 weeks.

No offsides No icing Fighting where the loser goes to the penalty box. Bigger puck (or more HD coverage of games) No ties, 4th quarter and then shootouts. Fewer games

I think they'd allow him to continue working some ROH shows if the WWE office was cool with it. Matthews wasn't signed to a WWE deal when he was in 3PW. The other possibilities are 1) Non-WWE OVW wrestler beats him for the title, 2) ROH guy comes onto OVW TV/OVW event and beats Punk for the belt (and wouldn't you know it, ROH distributes OVW tapes), or 3) ROH/OVW co-promote a show in Louisville.

Yep, there could be a great CW and tag division with everyone they have on Smackdown now (and I'm sure Tajiri will be joining them). At least Velocity is going to rule for a couple months before it ends. I wonder how long before the Juvy/Los Guerreros v.s. Rey/Psicosis/Crazy 6-man on Smackdown?