Well, it’s the go-home show for TNA’s upcoming No Surrender show (no, it’s not – No Surrender was this past weekend, but let’s pretend that it’s upcoming) and from my understanding, this is the last TNA show in whatever taping cycle that they had going on. Hell of a run so far; they’ve had some good matches, they’ve done some good builds for this next PPV special or whatever it’s packaged as.
But this would also turn out to be the final set of TNA shows under the leadership of Scott D’Amore, who would soon be fired and replaced by some other guy whose name escapes me.
I haven’t talked about this a whole lot other than make one quick mention of it in a blog post. And let’s be honest; I haven’t had much inkling to discuss much since Sacha’s passing. The fact that I even got the last two Impact musings out of the way is nothing short of a miracle. For what it’s worth, I’m in a much better headspace now than I was then…
With that out of the way… yeah, the Scott D’Amore dismissal confuses me. Here was the guy who was responsible for keeping the ship afloat for the past few years, doing his damnedest to try and put on the best wrestling product during the worst of times, rehabilitating the overall reputation of the promotion, and pretty much succeeding on all counts… and then he gets let go? Why? Is there more to this story than what’s being let on? Or is it just Anthem being a bunch of cheap shits and wanting to cost cuts?
So if D’Amore is out of TNA, what happens next? Right now, TNA is doing good product. The weekly show has been a breezy show – not the most exciting or most extravagant show, but one that I can sit down and watch for two hours. Is that going to be the case going forward? I don’t know. Am I worried? Not particularly. I guess it’s just a matter of seeing how things go for the next few shows.
And once again, this is another business as usual show. Some decent matches here and there, but mostly stuff is happening to build towards the next show. Nice to see Simon Gotch get a match (and a win) over some guy to further his feud with Josh Alexander, even if we don’t know what his beef is. I’d imagine it’s a professional beef and not having anything to do with Enzo Amore.
They tease an Eric Young/Kazarian match, only for Kazarian to say “nope” and bring out his replacement: Big Damo. I didn’t get what the big deal was at first, but later learned that Big Damo was once part of the Sanity stable in NXT, which was headed by Eric Young during his time there. Young quickly dispatches Damo in less than five minutes and the feud continues.
Ash By Elegance has her first match (and win) over some other girl named Savannah (not the one from two weeks ago, but another one). Wasn’t much of a match, lasted a couple minutes, and Ash was more about the gimmick than the match, but hey, it’s something for her to do at least that’s different from… whatever she was doing in WWE, which is… fuck knows.
Not much else sticks to mind, but the show remains an easy watch. Will it stay that way next week? We’ll just have to see.
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