Obi Chris Kenobi

It's times like this I wish I was living in America just to get a game a little earlier haha that's sad isn't it?

The Austin segment sounds pretty fun, if somewhat tried and tested, be good to watch that.

If it isn't Kennedy who could it be?

Watched it again and there were some positive points to take home from this - Scott Steiner was on fire (although the match should probably have finished after the top rope Frankensteiner). I'm not sure how true the reports are about Steiner working against Doctors orders, but he really does seem to have fallen in 'love' with wrestling again. Sure his promo's are still out there, but his ring work has really improved. Team 3D got absolutely shitted on by the crowd - 'SAME OLD SHIT, SAME OLD SHIT!' - hopefully, they pack their bags and leave when their contracts are up in September (if the reports are true), or at the least TNA realize that people are sick of seeing them. Once again, I've got to applaud Abyss and the amount of crap he allows to put his body through for TNA.

I really enjoyed WCW set up - Tenay would pip up with some info now and again, Heenan would give the heel comments, and then Tony would give you the storyline. I thought it worked well. -- Having watched some more TNA from 2005, I miss Team Canada haha Also, Shelly, Joe & Daniels v Styles, Dutt & Aries from the Primetime Special (11.03.05) was a great match.

Started a new game (tew07) as my own promotion, got bored of playing as TNA. Pretty started with a crap cheap roster Norman Smiley Sean Waltman Ted Debiase JR Alex Wright Petey Williams Were the main guys, also picked up Dan Maff, though his matches against Toa Miavia are sucking really badly, worse then Amber O'Neill v Medusa. However, WWE signed alot of TNA workers, then went and dropped to Cult and released a whole load of their roster, so I was able to pick up Alex Shelly and Austin Aries. They put on a C+ rated match which propelled my tiny local promotion into a small local show. I have been trying to get Jerry Lawler to come down, but he's having none of it. In other news RVD has just passed away for 'unknown' reasons - he was 36 years old.

I mean bless Dixie Carter for trying, but she says alot of things and at times I feel like she's a great 'spin doctor'. I'm not sure how much of what she says is true, I'm sure she believes it, she seems like a very positive and driven person. However, when you read all these internet reports about how backstage moral sucks, and people are on power trips and Dixie Carter doesn't have a clue you start to wonder. However, they are just internet reports... As for Boycotting TNA, I'll still watch it to until it ends, whenever that maybe. I have no idea why, but I like my wrestling and its not like I have to pay for it (we get the PPVs free over here in the UK). I guess there's people out there that really enjoy the product as well (at least the 1.0 ratings worth of people who seem to tune in every week), so to boycott just because you don't like it seems a bit harsh. Boycott Nescafé by all means, maybe even Microsoft.

Is it still illegal to touch yourself during a film? Not that I will, but I'm sure there's some out there that probably will over this film when it comes out... but not me.

I simply meant Dixie Carter kept TNA afloat when it probably shouldn't have. Perhaps my exaggeration didn't come across very well.

Sweet, let me know how good it is please, It's not out till another 2 weeks here in the UK. Hopefully, they have a 'live update' on the Rosters by the end of the month.

Wow, I had forgotten how much weight Tony Schiavonie had lost over the years. Also, I miss the 3 man commentator teams.

Wasn't that due to the fact that Dixie Carter gets like $1m pocket money a month. Some kids buy collectors cards, she bought a wrestling promotion.

I think TNA have proved enough that they don't care about their fan base, therefore a boycott of people who don't care/are oblivious won't really work. Saying that, I'm sure if they continue to book the crap they've been doing, and their buyrates totally dry up, maybe then they'll change their ways, but I doubt it. TNA peaks and ebbs almost in some strange yearly pattern, it will have one great year, then dive bomb to total chaos and shit.

Ah, got ahead of myself. I always get worried when a game doesn't have a demo out before its released. Hope its good, me and my mate at work have a whole week off to build and destroy each others franchise team on live.

Anyone seen/played the new Madden yet?

I thought I had read somewhere that Joe said at an ROH he was injured due to tripping over some bad booking (aka TNA's Bad Booking). As for the PPV, it's one I'll be quick to forget, it'll still be downloaded and stored in the monthly archives though for the sake of it. There wasn't much, if anything, to write home about. I'm trying think of what happened last night, and I can't put a finger on anything, all I can remember is Abyss getting beat senseless again, yet getting his annual #1 contenders chance. This PPV did manage one thing, it managed to further confirm that TNA is slowly heading down the road of WCW.

There's a 3 month lee way of the production date on the back, as they can't tell how long a unit might have been sitting in a store before it was sold. Not sure how helpful that'll be, and I'm not sure if it extends to the 3 year warranty. But, it's how they did things with the 1 year warranty.

Same old Killings, at least as far as I was concerned. The whole segment seemed like a waste of time, the crowd didn't seem that bothered. A few boos and that was about it. They made a bit of noise for Killings.

Maybe the toilet was at ringside to signify where TNA is going these days. I used to be such a TNA Mark as well, I would stick up for it at every corner, but now, I just can't be bothered. It sounds like they've ruined what was a good feud, with this typically naff gimmick match. I think I would have preferred it if it had been in a real bar. EDIT: I can't wait till Team3D leave TNA. How can they say that Scott and Rick Steiner are 'Grossly out of shape' what the hell...

I don't know, I was pretty bored as soon as I saw Vince Russo - I mean it was half interesting that he was the masked man attacking Ron Killings, though on further thought I'm surprised there was no connection to Russo being in the KKK with the way he was dressed and with him constantly beating a blackman... However, when he formed S.E.X it just looked exactly like a lame NWO type of thing Tradition v Sports Entertainment. Then his 'shoots' and Mike Tenay trying to look angry, just didn't work for me at all.

I thought they were going to produce straight to DVD releases from now on?

Yeah, for weeks David Flair had been attacking people with a sack, then he finally revealed that the Original NWA title was in the bag, and he had been attacking people with it. Dusty Rhodes then fought AJ Styles in a Ladder match for it, for some reason (even though Jeff Jarret was still the Champion and had the TNA Title).

Funny you mention that, I've just got watched up to those PPVs recently, I'm up to PPV 44/47, and that SEX stuff has bored me alot, I'm skipping through the shows really. Then Dusty Rhodes appeared and won the title for no reason.. that was odd.

Watching over some old iMPACTS from 2005, and I still can't think of any segment that I enjoyed more then 'Team 3D's Funeral' on 10.15.05. Everything in that segment was just spot on. Anyone got any other personal favorites?

The only time I've ever been interested in an 'outsider' in the ring was when Tyson appeared, only because I genuinely believed he was going to knock someone the fuck out. What's Pacman Jones going to do... The Pounce?