Random TV Thoughts

TNA: Impact March 5, 2009
- I just have to comment on a few things this week, because this episode of Impact had me wondering WHY? at the end of every segment.
- Why were all 4 teams in the women's tag match on the back side of the ring? It looked like the dinner table on a TV sitcom.
- Why would you bother with a spot where the referee turns his back to allow the Wrestler/Referee to kick his opponent in the balls when he's just getting pinned clean with the dudes finish 5 seconds later and the whole spot ends up wasted and pointless?
- Why would you expose the loop hole of a DQ finish in the Off the Wagon challenge before the PPV? They completely destroyed the selling point of this match seconds before it was even announced.
- Why would Jim Cornette "take back" the Legends title from Booker T? It isn't a TNA Title belt, Booker T made the stupid thing up.
- Why are they trying to have AJ arrested for assault for punching someone, when Joe is attacking people with a large knife?
- Why does Don West now support the MEM? How does him getting mad at Mike Tenay, completely transform his take on every other heel and baby face in the company?
- Why would you build this entire show around building heat between Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle, when your next PPV Main Event is Kurt Angle and Sting. By the end of the show I'd completely forgot Sting and Kurt had heat.

WWE: RAW February 16, 2009
- This was one freak'n awesome episode of RAW. I had no interest in WrestleMania going into this show and a ton coming out, so this was a home run show.
- While no official matches have been announced for Mania yet, 3 or 4 of them are now very clear and I'm looking forward to all of them.
- Apart from the Main Event I don't remember or care about any of the matches from the show but the promos and the Main Event angle were so good that doesn't matter. RAW and SD need to be about selling Mania at this point and boy did this show accomplish that.
-Edge and Cena was awesome. These guys have had great chemistry together and drew well with each other in the past. This was a very strong promo, that made me want to see this match. I'm still to this day amazed at the nuclear heat the Widow Guerrero can generate. I was glad she offered a plausible explanation for Edge being allowed in the match at No Way Out.
- Roddy Piper cut the best promo of the night IMO. I know Piper has always been a great talker but Monday night he was ON even for him. He put Jericho over in his promo, had just the right amount of emotion, came of like a class act, and was just perfect. Jericho came off like such an A-hole in this. I don't know exactly what match this is leading to but when Jericho has to get in the ring and back it up, it will be great. Personally I hope Austin steps up to defend the honor of the HOFers, but who ever it is I'm sure it will be great.
- The JBL - HBK promo bit was nothing special for me, and I don't really care about the match next week, but what I got from this segment was that I will get to see Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker at Mania and that will be AWESOME. Shawn is always great at Mania and Taker, when given an opponent to work with (he's had some stinkers) delivers big time. These guys have show stealing potential.
- The Main Event match I could have lived with out. I hated that Randy was all but beat in the match before Legacy saved him, but the strength of the closing angle more than made up for it, because this was GREAT. I think they've finally recovered from that week they had Shane beat up Orton. Orton killing Shane and then RKO'ing Steph was fantastic and the pending reveal that HHH is married to Steph should give this angle that extra bit of credibility to take it from very good, to freak'n awesome.
- This is what building to a PPV is all about. Strong, serious, heated angles between guys you can get behind and believe. I guarantee you these 4 segments will sell several hundred thousand more PPV buys than ODB's Angle, or Abyss at the Therapist.

WWE: ECW July 11, 2008 (Airs Friday in Canada)
- What a horrible show. I think ECW needs to add a better booking initiative more so than their new talent policy.
- The Finlay match and the Evan Bourne match were fun, but that Main Event finish was SOOOO stupid.
- The Tony Atlas thing was the worst swerve for the sake of a swerve I've ever seen. This tops even the dumbest stuff done in TNA.
- Are we to believe that Mark Henry and Tony Atlas conspired this big swerve where Tony acted like a good guy and Mark pretended to disrespect him, just to pull the wool over everyone's eyes, so Tony could turn on Collin Delaney, and Mark could pull out a double count out non finish in a match with Tommy Dreamer. What a freak'n waste!
- Speaking of huge wastes, quite the debut for Braden Walker. I don't know Chris Harris but anyone who shows up for their WWE debut in the worst shape of their career, deserves to be fired. Wellness policy aside, I don't believe the treadmill is on the banned substance list!

WWE:SmackDown July 11, 2008
- I haven't watched SD in a while but the need to hear JR's voice call wrestling brought me back to Friday nights. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Michael Cole hater, I think he's actually pretty good at his job, but for me JR's voice and wrestling go together like cake and ice cream. Everyone likes cake, but it's just that much better with ice cream. Even the greatest match is a little bit better with JR calling it.
- I usually hate soap opera, but I think the Edge - Vicky program is excellent. Edge is the best character in wrestling and his fight with Vicky was the most realistic and believable break up / reconciliation done in recent history. I wasn't left feeling swerved and both remained hated through out despite both turning on each other.
- Can someone explain the brand split to me please. Since getting drafted to ECW Matt Hardy has been on SD more than he has ECW. There was, I think, 8 ECW stars on this show. How could Vicky fire Chavo and Bam Nealy when they DON'T work for her, They are ECW contracted talent?
- Not a great show as far as wrestling matches went, but I enjoyed the show enough based solely on the strength of Edge's acting and the drama created by he and Vicky.
- A great little detail point in the show that I loved. Koslov was actually going for a dragon screw leg whip before he got hit with the enzugire by Stevie. Great attention to detail!!!!