TNABaddboi 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2007 Preview: TNA ANNOUNCES GAUNTLET MATCH FOR THURSDAY’S “iMPACT!” Winner to get World Title shot at March’s “Destination X” Pay-Per-View Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling has announced that a Gauntlet Match will take place at this week’s “Thursday Night iMPACT!” on SpikeTV at 9pm ET. The winner of the bout will earn a title shot at NWA World Heavyweight Champion Christian Cage at the “Destination X” Pay-Per-View in March. All of TNA’s top stars will compete to determine a true number one contender for the NWA World Heavyweight Title. Two TNA stars will start the bout, with a new entrant every two minutes. Competitors are eliminated when they are thrown over the top rope. The final two participants remaining will compete in a one-fall singles bout to determine who advances to the Pay-Per-View to get the World Title shot! TNA Wrestling management has announced the following names to compete in the huge Gauntlet match: Abyss AJ Styles BG James Chris Sabin Eric Young James Storm Kip James Kurt Angle Rhino Robert Roode Samoa Joe Scott Steiner Sting Tomko ALSO THIS THURSDAY ON “IMPACT!” ON SPIKE TV: - The wrestling world will hear from “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner, who apparently has some things to say to Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle! - NWA World Tag Team Champions The Latin American Xchange will be in action - Plus, TNA Knockout Gail Kim will take on “The Pride Of Tennessee” Jackie Moore in an Arm-Wrestling match! All this and much more this Thursday night on Spike TV – witness the aftermath of the “Against All Odds” Pay-Per-View as TNA begins the road to March’s “Destination X” epic event! I'm actually going to miss this show because i'll be traveling, but it actually looks like it could be fun. I've always been a sucker for battle royales, and having one on Impact guarantees we'll have more than 10 mins of wrestling this week (and the fact that the other two matches are squashes). Watching how they book the eliminations will be interesting... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Star Ocean 3 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2007 I'm gonna watch this without having looked at the spoilers for the first time in forever. Wish me luck. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2007 - Plus, TNA Knockout Gail Kim will take on “The Pride Of Tennessee” Jackie Moore in an Arm-Wrestling match! WHY? Somebody tell the writers that its not 1982! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacques 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2007 Gauntlet match looks loaded. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cabbageboy 0 Report post Posted February 15, 2007 It's not 1982. The stuff from 1982 was better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 Yeah they didn't have scripts back then! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dubq 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 Who's the guy pushing Konnan to the ring? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 What the hell Brotha Buh buh is a goodfella? Next week its a Fondu Pot match the loser gets cheez wiz poured on them! Damn near perfect Macho Man impersonation by Jay Lethal! Sonjay still sux. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dubq 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 At least he finally shaved his thinning hair off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 Poor Ron Killings is stuck with a gimmick that is already outdated. Where the hell is this Hollywood deal going? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2GOLD 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 I actually enjoyed IMPACT a lot this week. Positives: Jay Lethal- His Macho Man is awesome and I was already impressed with his ring work The Fallen Angel promo- Finally, it appears he is going BACK to the Fallen Angel full gimmick instead of just the name The Battle Royal- Very well done, no one got treated like a complete punk and it put over Steiner strong Steiner's promo- He actually explained why he hates Angle and I'm totally fine with jealously as a reason Backlund- Bob is just great, absolutely great. I forgot how much I missed him. Negatives: The Truth stuff- It's not funny and it's going nowhere, just let him be THE TRUTH again The fat guy in the PI segment- Again, not funny and really stupid. Would have killed the whole segment without Lethal being awesome Unoffensive: The arm wrestling- I'm fine with it. Keeps the angle going just fine with Harris still selling the eye injury. Kim was already engrossed in the angle and now she has someone to feud. Plus Miss Texas claim was always how strong she was, it worked out seeing Kim "humiliate" her. LAX match- They beat the hell out of two guys and set up the match next week, which just sounds like a strap match with a new name. The Big Pussy show up, I have no idea what that was about but I guess it was a SpikeTV cross promotion deal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Star Ocean 3 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 Tomko's always felt like a son to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dubq 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 The interaction at between Tomko & Christian at the end of their promo was great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cabbageboy 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 Yeah, I am digging the Christian/Tomko/Steiner stuff. Steiner pretty much defines the term guilty pleasure. One thing that separates Steiner from most everyone else is that he truly seems unpredictable. You never know what he's liable to say or do next. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
strummer 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 Meltzer --We don't have the Raw rating yet, but Raw destroyed TNA programming last night. This is TNA did a 0.5 and Impact fell roughly in half to 0.6. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dobbs 3K 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 Meltzer --We don't have the Raw rating yet, but Raw destroyed TNA programming last night. This is TNA did a 0.5 and Impact fell roughly in half to 0.6. Ouch. Double ouch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hunter's Torn Quad 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 With major luck, this might wake TNA up into realizing where they really are in the grand scheme of things. It should also kill off any fantasies of going head-to-head with Raw on Monday, because they wouldn't just get destroyed, they'd get smashed into tiny bits. So nobody's going to mention Steiner tapping out to Angle in their first interraction? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eirejmcmahon 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 Sobering numbers for TNA. Bad enough they mucked up their prime-time Monday special but to have half your viewers switch off when the competition is around....well, if morale was poor before.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chazz 0 Report post Posted February 16, 2007 The rating Raw got last night,3.0, wasn't exactly earth shattering even with Raw being shown at a different time and day. Actually, I thought Raw would do a lot better in the ratings than what they did. Impact was another good show with the highlight being The Gauntlet Match. I read a recap of Raw and am glad I made the decision to watch Impact instead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted February 17, 2007 So the very special 3 hour Nitro got poor ratings? This is not good for the sweeps month of February which dictates how much money they will get from sponsors and commercials. Back to having Darrel Talley hyping diet pills again! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
UseTheSledgehammerUh 0 Report post Posted February 17, 2007 I downloaded Impact! and thought it was a good show. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hunter's Torn Quad 0 Report post Posted February 17, 2007 The best comments on the rating, which is bad no matter how you'd like to spin it, come from the Torch. You've got a couple of people on their boad claiming TNA should be excused from making mistakes because they're so young, as well as the usual complaint about only having one hour. And Keller actually thinks Impact took a bite out of Raw's rating. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chazz 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2007 Last year's Thursday Raw drew a 3.4. This year's drew a 3.0. Why is that so hard to believe that Impact took took away some viewers that otherwise would've watched Raw? I myself choose to watch Impact over Raw. Had Impact not been on, I probably would've watched Raw. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cabbageboy 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2007 I watched Raw and did a DVR of Impact and watched it immediately after Raw was over. Let's face it....Raw....Impact. Not a hard decision. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mecca 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2007 The best comments on the rating, which is bad no matter how you'd like to spin it, come from the Torch. You've got a couple of people on their boad claiming TNA should be excused from making mistakes because they're so young, as well as the usual complaint about only having one hour. And Keller actually thinks Impact took a bite out of Raw's rating. Keller has become increasingly stupid as the years have gone by. I was a Torch reading at one time but he's just so completely out of touch. Awhile back he claimed the WWE was so bad TNA could go head to head and baet them. The only thing on TNA I enjoyed that much was the Jay Lethal Macho Man impersonation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eirejmcmahon 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2007 Last year's Thursday Raw drew a 3.4. This year's drew a 3.0. Why is that so hard to believe that Impact took took away some viewers that otherwise would've watched Raw? IF any kind of sizeable number of regular Raw viewers did indeed tune into TNA instead of WWE, it means that MORE than half the regular TNA audience chose to do the exact opposite. There's no way those numbers can be spun in favour of TNA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted February 18, 2007 I watched Raw and did a DVR of Impact and watched it immediately after Raw was over. Let's face it....Raw....Impact. Not a hard decision. Watch the replay on Saturday Nite? Why watch 2 hours of a crappy Raw when there is Raw AM which is the condensed edition of one hour of Mr. McMahon rants, Ric Flair, the main event! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
