The Final Countdown

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25170" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Without Bubba or Cow they're done.</div></blockquote><p> <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> </p><p> Yep, I'm sure that if there were a "Destruction of TNA" DVD, the firing of BTLS will be pointed to as the beginning of the end.</p>

Could just be personal preference, who knows? All I can say is that Melina's never really impressed me. Mickie has her screw-ups, sure (so do the vast majority of the women in WWE, Melina included) but I've definitely found her to be more entertaining than Melina. I have nothing but respect for Bret, who is one of my childhood heroes. But I could not disagree more with that quote, particularly the last sentence. Seriously, Bret?

I'm with you on Beth, but Melina? No way is Melina any better than Mickie, IMO.

I thought she did better work on the indies than she did in WWE, to be honest. She seemed a lot more prone to screwing stuff up in WWE. The same seems to be true of Gail Kim, though. Maybe they put something in the water.

I completely disagree with that. Say what you like about her in-ring performance, but it always seemed to me that Mickie got the strongest crowd response of any of the women post-Trish.

Oh, I assumed it was blown out of proportion; most of those types of things are.

As if I needed another reason to hate Batista...

Bit late to change it now.

Matsui is the reigning World Series MVP, isn't he? He may not be one of the very best, but he's pretty darn good. But yeah, there are definitely more great players from South America than Japan. South America may even have the US beat.

Why would they refuse to release Homicide, but cut Daniels loose? Homicide's been going nowhere for quite some time, while Daniels main evented multiple PPVs at the end of last year. Mind boggling. Oh well; thanks for giving us the Fallen Angel back, Dixie. Feel free to send The Notorious 187 back as soon as you're done jobbing him out to the jacked up Brit who can't even throw a boot without tripping over his own feet.

How'd that work out for MVP? Wasn't he far more over before the losing streak than after? If he were still having competitive matches and just having bad luck at the finish, like he was earlier, I'd agree. But his matches are becoming less competitive (and shorter) as the show goes on.

Baseball's pretty popular internationally, actually. It's big throughout Latin America and Japan. Just because something isn't popular in Europe doesn't mean it isn't popular elsewhere.

When he was going against established guys like Jericho and Regal (or even Khali), fine. But when he gets pinned in just over a minute by Skip Sheffield?

Yeah, the booking of "Daniel Bryan" makes no sense. They always say, "He's really talented, but has no charisma." Well, if he's so talented, why does he get beat in 3 minutes every week?

Yes, I certainly do. Of course, I also don't book Nigel/Desmond to lose in 3 minute matches... I didn't think Impact was anything special, but I still enjoyed it far more than Raw. I don't know what it was, but Raw just bored me to tears. Punk and Bourne had a pretty good match, and I enjoyed seeing Ziggler put Hornswaggle to sleep, but other than that, I was just waiting for the show to end. Impact at least managed to catch my interest a few times.

It's "commas", by the way. Unless they drop the second 'm' in other countries and I just don't know about it...

I did not say anything about her being a more valuable pickup than Mickie, so I don't know why you even threw that in in response to my post. I definitely think Mickie has more to offer TNA than Katie Lea, so as long as she's still motivated. But it doesn't have to be an either/or proposition; they could easily bring both in. I don't think Katie Lea would be all that expensive. Their KO division is looking a little thin anyway, especially considering they have both singles and tag belts. Are there more talented women in SHIMMER? Sure. But we all know TNA loves to pick up the WWE's cast-offs, and even though Katie Lea didn't really do anything of relevance in WWE, she's still far more well known to the average fan than anyone from SHIMMER.

If that's all you've seen of her, you're in no position to judge what she can do.

Just saw some things Matt Hardy posted on his Twitter that would seem to suggest he's on the way out as well. So we may not be done with the "future endeavors" just yet.

I said to a friend just a few hours ago that I couldn't believe Knox survived this round of house cleaning. Guess I jinxed him.

Tebow to the Broncos. Color me surprised.

When did this happen?

No, you aren't. We're in this together, brother! I like what Josh is doing tonight. Stockpiling draft picks is a good approach, I think. As long as they use the picks wisely, of course, but that should go without saying.

I read that that was a possibility in the Observer last week, but they seemed to think it was a dwindling one. Hopefully this is true, and they just let Heyman do his thing (from a creative standpoint, I mean. Don't let the dude anywhere near the financial aspects of running the company.)

...Didn't we already go through this same exact argument, like, a week ago?