Slagaholic

How could this terrible storyline possible boost ratings? Or are you thinking it's all the people who didn't catch the PPV watching? How about I push that back a week? Oct 21st Impact over/under is .5

Those definitely speak for all TNA viewers. I can't wait to see the Impact ratings next week. I'm putting the over/under at .5

When I say attitude era withdrawal I mean the emotions (and money) that the attitude era gave them. It's not about what you like to see, it's about expectations being much higher than they should be. There are many fans who watch wrestling as if they turn it on and say "impress me." I don't believe that one can look at any form of entertainment that way. I can't control how fans should look at wrestling nor do I wish to. I'm just saying that from my observations that's part of why so many in the IWC in particular are constantly disappointed by booking. I wonder what this does for Impact's ratings. Who knows, maybe this could end up being a hot angle. It's not like they turned a nobody. I'm not ready to write this off as a bad payoff business-wise.

Most of wrestling and wrestling fandom are currently going through Attitude Era withdraw. This sports entertainment methadone isn't working. Wrestling isn't dying out, non-WWE 'sports entertainment' is. WWE went through some dark ages but figured it out and have moved on.

If this was 2009 this would be shocking. This wasn't so bad I'll never watch TNA again. I'll watch Impact to see how they explain this.

Double ankle lock all the way!

Oh boy...Angle's got 5 o'clock shadow...You know what that means.

Anyone hear Hardy's new theme? I heard it was debuting tonight, it's gotta be better than his old one right?

To get a spot out of the way!

Brian Kendrick's meditation on top of the cage was the most entertaining part of that match.

TNA really needs to get out of that sound stage. It's amazing what a few hundred extra square feet can do to the look of your product.

1. True. I shouldn't have put words in your mouth. 2. What does Jeff Hardy have to do with this? 3. See: 4 4. Neither have I, which is why I think your 3rd point is meaningless on it's face. 5. Who knows, maybe he will? Maybe he'll never get a title shot his entire time in TNA? We both assumed he would get a shot because he attacked Lethal but nothing has been confirmed at all. So we shouldn't work on that assumption until we KNOW he's getting a shot.

The stage for BFG is pretty cool looking. A different take on the TitanTron using two different videos. Would be nice if they didn't have the same random 10 second videos on loop.

"I've been cheating on you Dixie...with Janice!" SWERVE~!

We don't even know if he'll get a title shot yet. Let's stop working off of that assumption.

An X-Division title shot (that none of us know for sure he'd get) = major player? Really? Is Shannon Moore a major player?

You were the first to make personal attacks when you used a personal attack on Robbie G a character played by a person you don't know at all who is in a business that you think you know everything about but you really don't. So he should be fired and the character scrapped before he has one single match. Bad debut? Here's a pink slip! If TNA fired everyone who has a segment that bombed to the IMPACT zone fans they would have a dozen members of the roster. You seem to have either ignored my point or you're just a silly goose. You don't know a thing about behind the curtain so making any determination about what ANYONE deserves "behind the curtain" shows just how conceited you are.

Because it annoys me when people are calling for a WRESTLER to lose his job due to a ****ty gimmick when he hasn't even had a single match yet. His character "sucks" but he's had exactly 1.2 promos in his time. You hate the character but you're supposed to hate him. I've already explained how they give him a title match. You're acting like he's main eventing WrestleMania for chrissakes. It's the X-Division title and it's not 2005. Giving Robbie G a title shot isn't an affront wrestling.

That's the point of the attack. It gets him a title shot that he definitely doesn't deserve. It's not like this has never been done in pro wrestling before. Heel shows up, attacks face champion to goad him into giving him a title shot. Who the **** are you to make that determination? Do you know Robbie G personally? Do you know a damn thing that goes on in the TNA locker room that isn't from the dirtsheets? If you do and know for sure that Robbie G doesn't work his ass off or is a problem in the back, I'll take this post back. If you're throwing statements like that around when you know the same things about TNA's backstage situation and Robbie G's personal life that anyone with a browser and 15 free minutes can find out, shut the **** up about what any wrestler deserves when you don't know a damn thing about them for sure.

Why does Eric Bischoff love promo videos of Sting in the rain? He did the same thing in basically every WCW Sting PPV match promo.

That was by far the best Abyss vs RVD match. Too many spots to expose either guy's weaknesses like their previous encounters did.

As far as making sense of him getting a title shot, they sure did that tonight. It's not like he debuted and then on the next Impact is challenging Lethal for the X-Division title.

Someone not named Abyss or Mick Foley taking a barbed wire bump? WHAT!?

Yes. The guy without a single match that had promos for months leading to his (very chilly) debut is higher on the card than a comedy duo that together hasn't won a match since god knows when. I think if Shore was debuting in the segment tonight he would be much better off.

And a horrible crowd reaction on a debut means you get rid of the guy? Give him at least a match. That's all I'm saying.