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I missed the show on Thursday and found out there was no replay last night.

This week's primetime debut looks really great.

~T

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The replay is on Wednesday at 10 PM Eastern/9 PM Central. Plus there is the "Road To Genesis" special on Saturday at 1 PM Eastern and repeats at 11 PM Eastern.

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Yes, TNA did a terrible job by not doing any job mentioning the fact that the repaly would be moved. I mean it is something watched by a half a million people every week and they did know that the Ultimate Fighter Finale would be going on during the replay slot, and didn't even mention it until after the original program had ended. In fact, I didn't even know when the replay was until a few hours before the finale of TUF started.

The special does look good and I will recap it as always.

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I gave Impact a 7.5 out of 10 score the other night.

I might have gone higher but 1 thing on the show really bothered me and I really hated it.

Voodoo Kin Mafia

Seriously, I've got no problem with the idea that TNA should be pointing out the weaknesses of WWE and especially DX but these 2 goofs are the last guys that should be doing it.

Let someone young, hip and cool and that the fans actually care about do it. LAX seems to be right for that kind of role even though I like what LAX is doing now. The point is that the James Gang should be the last 2 guys talking about something being stale and not working. Minus a billion stars for that segment alone.

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I have no other thread to say this in but man do I hate UFC heavyweight champion Tim Sylvia.

He bores me, and there is no real professional wrestling equivalent. Although Sylvia would be considered a mark because he likes to sleep with his UFC heavyweight title.

So uh, TNA...Genesis, Samoa Joe Vs. Kurt Angle who's ordering it largely because of that match?

I wish I could say I were but I order all of them so really this doesn't make much difference in that fact for me but I am looking forward to this show probably more than I have since Christian won the title from Jarrett or since Joe met Steiner back in June.

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Roundtable Preview for Tonight's Show

I have not nice things to say about the VKM.

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Impact was a good show. I think they did the best with this primetime show than the other ones they've had.

I don't like VKM either. Wrong guys!

How was the PPV?

~T

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I gave the show a 6/10.

The in-ring was good, but some of the booking was just weird. Angle and Joe wasn't a 5 star classic but I think they set this up so that we could top it down the line.

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I just gave a spin to the most recent DVD release from TNA, the 50 greatest moments in TNA history.

here is my review of a DVD that would look wildly different if it were released just 2 months from now I'm betting.

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After reading all of these spoilers, I'm not sure I like how they're destroying all of the heat Joe has built up over the last year and a half. Having him Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show) doesn't sit well with me.

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I agree Todd. That was some heat Joe built up. It should've ended with him holding that title. Now with Kurt Angle in the mix, I'm afraid he's going to get lost in the shuffle.

One question: I missed the PPV. How the hell does Abyss end up with the title? They didn't want String holding on to it for a little while longer? And why Abyss of all people?

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Casey, I started a UFC dedicated thread here:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...&highlight=ufc

Let's get that going. I'm curious to know why you don't like Sylvia. Maybe you can post your feelings over there.

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Oh, then you missed a spectacular finish and by spectacular I mean freaking stupid.

In a match that involved the following things:
Crowd brawling, chair shots, baseball bat shots, managers distracting the referee, Sting being Chokeslammed in to thumbtacks, Abyss being hung upside down from Sting's repelling cable and probably more rule breaking than I can remember...

Sting gets disqualified for touching the referee.

Now since TNA has started, they've had a rule where you can lose the title via DQ. Its a forgotten rule given so few matches for the belt end in DQ, in fact this may have been the first. So Sting gets DQ'd, knocks Abyss through a barbed wire table and Abyss is pretty much out.

He is then announced as champion. As for why Abyss, well, uh I don't know. I like Abyss but he's lost too often lately for me to think of him as championship material. As for why the title change, Sting had held the belt for almost a month and in Vince Russo land that's too long.

But, for as bass ackwards as this was, the LAX booking was leaps and bounds worse.

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A new reason to hate TNA

It relates to the recently discussed Sting Vs. Abyss match finish.

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TNA's booking under Russo is some of the worst I've seen since his tenure at WCW. You never let a new guy (Angle) come in to the company and defeat the top guy (Joe) in their very first match. What does that say about your talent roster?

Here's how you handle it. You have Angle come in and say he came to TNA because he needed a challenge. You then have him lose a few close matches to some of your top guys. He then tells everyone that the talent in TNA is the best he's seen and he's definitely going to have to step up his intensity if he wants to win. This way the roster gets a rub.

In all of my years as a wrestling fan, I've never seen a worse booker that Russo. Watts was pretty close back in the early days of WCW. But Russo stinks to a whole new level.

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Don't ask me how in the hell TNA managed to pull this off but considering the night considering they were up against an NFL game that's a success.

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Must be the star power TNA is acquiring. They need to step up the plot lines and get rid of Russo.

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Oh God

Why is it that TNA puts a little thought in to the lamest angles in the company and puts no thought in to the angles that actually could be cared about by their audience?

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What's the deal with TNA getting involved directly with the WWE? This has to be a first right?

And when did the James gang change their name to Voodoo Kin Mafia?

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If by first you mean, complete rip off of an old DX angle with TNA in the role of the then WWF and WWE now in the role of the then WCW then yes it is a first.
In 1998 DX declared war on WCW including doing some skits where they went to 1CNN Center in Atlanta (even though the WCW offices weren't actually in that building) and a few skits when they went to the city that Nitro was supposed to be in (only DX filmed their skits like the week before WCW was actually there) and just made jokes about it. I think they even blew up CNN center in 1 skit where they were driving a tank.
So now its 8 years later and Vince Russo stupidly thinks this will work again but only God knows why Russo feels that way and even God might not be completely certain.
I hate this angle so much, I am not against the idea of TNA point out how stale and rehashed DX is, but they picked the 2 worst possible people to do it because Kip and B.G. are even older and more rehashed than DX. If it had been a fresh hot act in this role I would have no problem with it, switch the Voodoo Kin Mafia with LAX and this works a hundred times better.
That's just 1 of several reasons to hate this angle.

Now, as for why they changed their name and when. It was on the 2-hour move to Primetime, and they changed it to Voodoo Kin Mafia because that = VKM just like Vincent Kennedy McMahon = VKM so its like VKM is feuding with VKM bwahahahahahahahaha don't you just want to stab Vince Russo with a fork right now?

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Are you fuc...ing kidding me?
Where's that damn fork??

When I read the article, I thought that it was a done deal that VKM was having a match against the Hardy Boys but after re-reading more carefully, it just says that VKM acepted an open challenge but there's not going to be a match between them. That's why I thought this was going to be a first: A WWE tag team against a TNA tag team. I don't even know if that is contractually possible.

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No, I wish I were.

No, VKM won't be wrestling the Hardy Boyz this weekend or any other, WWE would never give credence to this stupid ass angle and pretty much just pretends TNA doesn't exist.

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TNA is a wreck right now. I'm at a loss.

And I think this will be a great time for you folks to discover the greatness of Ring Of Honor.

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Its time to vote in the TNAWrestling.com year-end awards. You can vote Here

and if you can't decide how to vote, I look at each candidate in each category and reveal my picks Here much swearing abounds especially for some of the weird picks in these categories.

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TNA needs to get rid of Russo quick.

These past few weeks have been a mess.

VKM? Was that stuff supposed to be funny?

Christian is fine on his own, why bring Tyson Tomko in?

Hate these shorts matches.

Didn't bother watching "Russo's throw a bunch of big stars together into a match, and create new rules" main event tonight.

They need to stick with one taped interview style.

~T

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I didn't even bother watching the show this week. TNA may very well have lost me.

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In fairness, Christian was behind this move as he liked working with Tomko and felt they had a good chemestry.

Here's the thing about TNA lately. There has been a lot of bad, and a few things to like. One thing that I do like that is no doubt Russo's doing is that Abyss is becoming more of a character instead of just a guy. I also kind of have dug AJ Styles as a hot-head lately and that's also likely Russo's influence.

But...VKM just makes me want to well, kill a bunch of people or maybe just 1 person a bunch of times.

But it could be worse, TNA could be ECW.

This Sunday's PPV should have some good wrestling on it. I expect Joe/Angle to have a better match this time around. On the last PPV, the match was supposed to go 25-30 minutes but Angle called for the finish early as he was fatigued...the spot where he gave Samoa Joe the 3 Germans was supposed to be 10 but he couldn't do it anymore after the third. I chalk this up in part to that being his first real high-intense match since he returned to the ring. Also chalk part of it up to his being well, Angle.

Sting/Christian/Abyss has the potential to be way over-booked. Christopher Daniels Vs. Chris Sabin should be very good once again and Rhino Vs. AJ Styles could be a sleeper. It may end up being like last month where you have good wrestling and terrible booking.

Here's a story on Russo and iMPACT as told in this week's Figure 4 Weekly Apparently, Vince Russo thought all of the episodes of iMPACT in Prime Time would be 2 hours long. So a lot had to be edited the past 3 weeks which is why the shows seem to be on speed.

Scott D'Amoore yelled at him for being so stupid.