Category: Wrestling Television Musings

Is this the go-home show for TNA’s Rebellion PPV? Or is it a total one-match show where everything is just padding before the tremendous Monsters Ball match between PCO and Kon? Has anyone considered renaming Kon to Khan or is that a little on the nose?

Honestly, I’ve got little to say about this show other than it was mostly furthering storylines and builds toward the upcoming PPV. I liked the opening bit with Josh, Hammerstone, and Dreamer, who was bound to get beat up because we’re in the old ECW Arena and there’s a mandate somewhere that Tommy Dreamer MUST ABSOLUTELY GET KILLED in this arena… clearly, Hammerstone didn’t get the memo because he merely beat up Dreamer a bit and let him live.

Speaking of things getting killed, that Monsters Ball match sure was a spectacle. Was it a great match by any means? Probably not, but tabarnac, it was fun, sti. Any chance I get to see PCO let loose and be an absolute beast of a monster is one I will cherish every single goddamned time and I sure wasn’t disappointed here.

That’s all I’ve got for this week. See you all next time, I guess.

Good news, everyone. Cody Rhodes finally finished his fucking story.

What does this have to do with TNA? Absolutely nothing… but I understand they also have a guy named Cody under contract. Maybe we can convince him to finish his story… whatever that ends up being.

Continue reading “Impact (April 4th, 2024) – The Generational Clash That Actually Happened…”

Hey, this is being posted on a Sunday! What gives… oh wait, tomorrow’s April 1st.

Continue reading “Impact (March 28th, 2024) – Nickle And Dime”

Listen, if you want to blame the drop off in quality on DWAYNE, we can do that… but not everything can be blamed on DWAYNE.

Now Charlotte, on the other hand…

Anyway, I’ll keep this brief. Jake Something won a Number One contenders match to Mustafa Ali’s X-Division championship, Hammerstone had an interview with Tom Hannifan explaining his motivations and pretty much establishing himself as the monster heel for Josh Alexander to overcome one of these days, and Jordynne Grace retains the KO title over Tasha Steelz. There was other stuff happening, but not enough to warrant a deep dive or anything.

Don’t get me wrong; the show wasn’t bad, in spite of what the opening blurb of this post would imply. It was just there. And I had little to say. Sometimes, it happens. Is it professional? No, of course not. But then, I never said that I was a professional.

See you next week.

Part of me wished I had done this on 3:16 day, just so we can talk about something that isn’t WWE-related or even Stone Cold-related… oh well, maybe next year.

Then again, maybe next year, I’ll have more than these weekly Impact postings to see a “regular” occurrence. To tell you the truth, I’m still shocked that I’ve been keeping up with these shows for as long as I have. I figured the dumping of D’Amore would’ve lead to a drop in quality (or at least the return of that fucking owl logo), but thus far, the show has been somewhat pleasant, if not uneventful.

In any case, this is the post-Sacrifice edition of Impact, which means we can start building towards TNA’s other PPV offering for this year, Rebellion.

Continue reading “Impact (March 14th, 2024) – A Step Above The Rest”

Sacrifice happened this past weekend… surprise to me, actually… but there you go.

Anyway, I didn’t see the show nor did I check out results, so I’m not going to “spoil” anything on that show during a musings for a show that served as the go-home show for that show… does that make any sense? Any sense at all?

Continue reading “Impact (March 7th, 2024) – A Show That Happens”

It’s the leap day edition of TNA Impact and also the fallout from this past weekend’s No Surrender show, which I did not watch, but thankfully, there were enough recaps for me to catch up.

On a personal note, I’m feeling a bit better. I’m getting over the hump. I’m… almost ready to move on. I’m not quite there yet… but we’re getting there.

Continue reading “Impact (February 29th, 2024) – Leaping Lanny Sadly Not Included”

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.

Continue reading “Impact (February 22nd, 2024) – Should I Be Worried?”

I honestly don’t if I should even be doing this right now… my mind’s not in the right frame of mind at the moment. I’m still reeling over the loss of my friend. I haven’t done much of anything else… and to tell you the truth, there wasn’t much on this show that really stuck out to mind other than a pretty good match between Jordynne Grace and Savannah Evans as well as the stuff between Kazarian and Eric Young.

Oh, and the Crazy Steve/Rhino match for the Digital Title was pretty fun stuff too.

I’m probably doing this show a disservice by giving it a half-hearted write-up, but thankfully, this isn’t a regular review gig and I don’t get paid for it. So I’m not worried…

I do miss my friend, though.