Some things in TNA are simply amazing others meanwhile show a fundamental lack of common sense. This week’s show was an example of the latter. I’m trying really hard to be positive so if I sound otherwise bear with me because some things on the show were simply way too overbooked and at times frustrating to make sense of.

The entire show was built on Kurt and Karen renewing their wedding vows and AJ Styles’ discontent with the whole thing (because he wants Karen),so while the backstage skits were entertaining and so was the closing of the show, there was nothing of interest apart from LMAO at the ending which was the ‘marriage’ of AJ styles and Karen Angle caused by the visually impaired minister dropping his glasses exactly when the time came to pronounce Kurt and Karen husband and wife, thus marrying the wrong two people.

Then it hit me, we would have to live through the next few weeks hearing Don West and Mike Tenay trying to make sense of this whole angle (pun intended).Occurring at the same time will be a title match build between Samoa Joe and Kurt angle at ‘Destination X’. So please expect all the characters from the ‘Against All Odds’ main event to once again interfere at ‘Destination X’ and that would mean apart from Joe and Angle:-Karen Angle, AJ Styles, Tomko, Kevin Nash and maybe Christian.

There was no explanation for the Tomko heel turn at AAO. It would have made sense to have him start a feud with Christian but that didn’t occur. We instead had a few lines from Tomko at the back that sounded good but weren’t impactful. Christian didn’t try to get an explanation from Tomko either instead TNA (they are wrestling) put him on the mic asking Joe for help against bringing down the alliance while Cornette was trying to get Joe to sign his new contract.

The contract signing ceremony was entertaining with Cornette explaining to Joe the absence of Morgan and the table. Joe and Christian were both good on the mic, what they said sounded real but there wasn’t anything new. A match was made for later in the night between Joe and Cage against Tomko/Styles. With Christian laid out in the back, Nash replaced Cage. The match when it finally happened was carried on the backs of AJ and Joe. Pretty decent match with most ring time being occupied by Joe and Styles. Both used their standard moveset of clotheslines, facewashes, chops to the body, kicks, etc, etc.

The Angle distraction allowed Tomko to hit his finisher on Joe that got him the pin. The backstage promo by Joe after the match was really good. Joe sold his anger for the interference and set up the situation for his ruining the wedding vow renewal later which when it happened was funny simply because it was awesome to see Kurt Angle running around in a really weird pair of boxer shorts.

As far as the wrestling for the show went, it was clearly substandard at least as far as TNA is concerned. Every single match was placed only to sell the storylines which is not always a good thing. Only 1 match had a clean finish but that was a basic gimmick squash of Eric Young by the backwards killer RELLIK .This angle is either filler or a feud that’ll end up on PPV.

The woman’s division street fight between ODB and Awesome Kong wasn’t as good as the one between Gail Kim and Kong a few weeks ago on impact. There was hardly any use of the street props and the match once again ended with interference from Gail Kim that led to ODB wrongfully punching Kim out instead of Kong which Kong later capitalized on with her implant buster on ODB to get the win. The post match push and shove of Kim was sold well by ODB (who had dressed up in jeans for the fight) only to be broken up by Love and Sky.

The triple threat match between Jimmy Rave, Homicide and Sabin was short& boring simply because the object of the match was for us to realize that TNA has a working relationship with NASCAR. Thus we got a lot of sentences with the word NASCAR in them from the commentary team joined by Jimmy Spencer. A lot of noise from the NASCAR dudes at ringside and interference from Juan Pablo Montoya finally helped homicide pick up the win. Whatever.

The tag team match between Curry Man (I don’t know who he is) and Sharkboy against Team 3d which was reduced to a handicap match because Ray weighs more than 275lbs was one of the better matches though not great. Sharkboy and Curry Man had to work around D Von (oh his brother, testify!).They landed a couple of spots but finally lost due to interference from Ray that led to Curry Man being laid out with the scale. The match was entertaining in terms of whole value. Ray repeatedly taking of his clothes to make the scale until he was begged not to anymore by the ref was funny and so was the stunner on Devine by Sharkboy.

The Steiner /Abyss segment was the best part of an otherwise bad show. Abyss walked away from the match and dropped his mask off near the tunnel entrance. I like that they’re trying something new for him, hopefully it won’t be stupid.

Steiner then cut a really awesome promo on the mic. Even though he botched a few sentences it was cool to hear him say that he’d run the show from now on. It was also really cool the way he laid out the open challenge by saying that he came to kick some a**.The challenge was answered by Petey Williams whose own promo was dwarfed by Steiner’s but was all right for selling an impromptu match. The match was athletic though not the standard of the PPV; was filled with chops, clotheslines, kicks and Steiner’s usual pushups, suplex and elbow drops. Petey also landed a very good looking tornado DDT and a hurricanrana variation on Steiner.

Steiner’s suplex, powerbomb and the Angle slam type suplex from the second rope finisher looked good. The match was once again pushed with the intent of trying to establish that Steiner is still a face with him patting Petey’s back after the match and that his new freak Rocha Khan will hang around him for some time to come. Entertaining.

The overall show had simply too many comedy and drama type angles thrown in. It is alarming to see that this arc of AJ and the Angles will be developed seriously. Rhino’s return promo ended with him saying gore 3 times and challenging James Storm to the Elevation-X match. The last Elevation-X match between AJ and Rhino sucked big time. I don’t know if this will be different.

Booker T didn’t wrestle on the show and hung around outside the impact zone throughout the show hoping he could whoop Robert Roode’s punk a**.Cornette then shows up after the show’s last segment and books Booker v Kurt Angle for next week’s main event. That was the end of a disappointing show.

It is easy to understand where the TNA hate comes from. Stupid soap opera like angles aren’t entertaining. They’re just pathetic. Even if this show garners a good rating, constant overbooking like this will hurt TNA in the long run.

Guaranteed.You needn’t be a smark to know that.

Tags: Curry Man, Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Scott Steiner, TNA, TNA IMPACT