Hunter's Torn Quad

PWI says Shantelle Taylor was released. She was the woman who, under a mask, wrestled Jamie Noble a few times in dark matches.

As well as Iron Sheik and Mick Foley, Evander Holyfield is also backstage at MSG.

From what I remember, nothing. It was done to start Smackdown off with a big angle.

And Sherri and Biff Wellington. And what's wrong with Marc Mero? The guy brings up valid points and I'm behind him all the way. The industry does need a real change. Valid yes, but some are saying, and I agree to a certain extent, that he's pushing his own agenda. It doesn't matter what his agenda is as long as it helps focus attention on the problems in wrestling and keeps the pressure on those within the industry to do more to clean up their act.

Even assuming Pacman's appearance did bring in some new viewers, look at what they saw. A terrible soap opera with a twist that Ray Charles could see coming. And that's in the condition he's in now. TNA can spend all the money they want on celebrities in their desperate attempt to get people to notice them, but it won't matter unless they put on a product that keeps the people around and willing to spend money.

And I must post this one too:

She's still there, and is at the PPV as well.

I finally saw this last night, and I thought it was good. I agree that the shoot DVD was crazy, and that the Doerksen fight was stopped too late; I was half expecting his head to detach from the rest of his body, it was taking so many shots. The main event was good as well.

No one's suggesting they're making it up, because MVP's condition is legit. People are just questioning, rightfully so, how it's being used to trumpet the value of the Wellness Policy when the policy has come under so much warranted flak over the past month or so.

I'm sure he would have wanted that to happen, and it's the excuse Vince gave to the locker room the next night when defending his actions, but it could never have happened. Bret was still under contract to the WWF until November 30th, and showing up on Nitro would have breached that contract and opened up Bret, Eric and WCW to legal action from Vince that they would have lost.

TNA coming down hard on the curse that is the laptop computer. The second one is funny given that TNA will have spent money hand over first for Pacman and his much hyped 'debut' on Impact had no effect on the ratings. And according to PWI, TNA will debut another female interviewer at the PPV.

You're assuming their participating in the angle means they were fine with the exploitation.

They had no personality to speak of and lacked the ability to connect with a North American crowd. They were a good tag team at the time, great by WWE standards, but they were also physically broken down from working in Japan for so many years. They weren't able to work hard enough for long enough for their in-ring ability to overcome their lack of intangibles.

Maybe Tanahashi is getting another in long line of stop-start pushes that New Japan gives out. And because another, albeit less high-profile tournament has started in Japan:

Because if anybody deserves the benefit of the doubt over whether they're exploiting something, it's Vince McMahon, right?

One obvious reaction is that this is a work and is part of the '161' thing that's playing out on the ROH message board. If it is a work, it's the second time they've 'fired' Rave, with the first one being done to set up his joining of The Embassy.

This is the first match that came to mind when I saw the subject of the thread. That crowd were dying for Goldberg to win and they would have gone beyond crazy and blown the roof off of the arena. They desperately wanted Goldberg to win and were going crazy as he mowed down one wrestler after another. But of course, an immobile HHH had to retain with about the only thing he was physically capable of doing, the sledgehammer shot. This was the very definition of a town killing finish.

It was 0.99 or 1.0, depending on if you round up. Either way, TNA will be disappointed because they'll have expected the buzz from Pacman to give them some kind of boost.

I think we'll end up with either Tanahashi beating Nagata or Nakamura beating Makabe.

Because TNA are so pathetically desperate for any kind of publicity to let the world know they exist, that little things like making sure the legalities are taken care of get ignored. With TNA, you never know what madcap scheme they'll try next, but you do know they'll find some way to screw it up in grand fashion.

It's a veritable comedy of errors from TNA lately. What will TNA do with him if they can't get him cleared to wrestle? A dogfighting skit backstage with the X-Division goofs?

And the no-doubt anticipated rating for this Impact was a 0.99, which is the first sub-1.0 rating for Impact in a while.

Bernard and Akebono gave us the mandatory screwjob finish of the night. Block A is still wide open, while Block B is almost as open with Nakanishi possibly making a late run. Here's a photo from 8/8, with Makabe against Nagata:

When more complete spoilers come out, they can be posted here.