Well, it’s over.
After just nine weeks, Total Nonstop Action has thrown in the towel on their fruitless Monday Night Pillow Fight and are returning to their usual Thursday night timeslot starting next week. I’ve already seen the spoilers for that show and it looks like it’s going to be business as usual. But at least, I got to see their last Monday show…
And I kinda wish that I hadn’t.
Let’s get the good bits out of the way; the opening segment where Jay Lethal was doing the whole Ric Flair spiel (and quite frankly a phenomenal job of it too) and Ric Flair coming out to confront Lethal was tremendous. Honestly, if Jay Lethal ever gets out of wrestling, he should do impressions for a living because he has a natural talent for that sort of thing. In fact, if Impact was nothing but Jay Lethal doing wrestler impersonations for two hours every week, I’m sure the ratings would’ve improved overnight and trumped RAW.
Unfortunately, the rest of the show was a thing. The usual brand of good matches running short and with usually shit finishes. Eric Young joining Hall & Nash to form the 19,960,707th edition of the nWo… er, I mean, THE BAND, is baffling to me and I’m not sure it’s going to last… didn’t Nash beat the shit out of Young some time ago or am I misremembering things? RVD/Nigel… er, I mean, DESMOND WOLFE, seemed like it could’ve been a fun match had it not been cut short. Some stuff with Sting and Hogan…
I find myself watching this show and fast-forwarding on the recording to get to the good bits. I couldn’t find any good bits and the bits that could’ve been good ended before it got good. Even so, from what I saw, this was not a good Impact and gave me the impression that TNA not only tapped out on Monday Nights, but was also crying uncle in a very whiny voice.
So long, Monday IMPACT. It’s been a fun ride… I guess… or maybe not.
Can’t wait for this Thursday show… if I can catch it.
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