By Adit Rao on May 2nd, 2008
TNA might already know this but yours truly has to indicate that if PPV’s have to sell then they have to do so on the back of a solid main event. A main event that is headlined by a 1 on 1 match. In a wrestling PPV, you might expect something like a 3 way as TNA are doing with Sacrifice but nonetheless you have to ask the question. Will you buy a PPV with so many tag team matches? Fans might be excited about Steiner/Angle and Joe but to watch just one match will you pay for the entire show?
Opening statements: Sometimes like last week things get heated. The intention from this side was never to degrade TNA, a company whose shows I have enjoyed ever since they debuted but to point out the obvious flaws in their programming. Flaws that are definitely there and being done simply without taking into consideration the long term interests of the fan or the prospective fan. So if things like that happen then one can’t simply agree with that principle and pass it off as great TV.
The Deuces Wild is perhaps an example of such a notion but while I continue to think the idea was unnecessary my interest has been heightened by this notion of random pairings.
Most of this week was drawn out to emphasize the tag team situation in TNA and that being solved by this Deuces Wild tournament. What was surprising that they went ahead and booked the show’s main event Steiner/Petey against Joe/angle also as a tag team match. This isn’t a problem on a regular show but for this show it was the 4th straight tag team match. After watching 3 tag team matches on the trot I was craving for a good 1 on 1 match and a 2 minute match between knockouts Melissa and Haze doesn’t count as one.
The main event tag team match was acceptable; most of the match was worked by Joe and Petey. Petey of course being his team’s fallout boy eating most of the offense. Joe hit him with chops, punches and a few jab type pokes before tagging in Angle who didn’t do much just using his hands to land a few European upper cuts. Petey meanwhile co-ordinated most of the match hitting both Joe and Angle with many moves like the spinning heel kick, jaw breaker, a missile dropkick and his punches and clotheslines thrown in.
The finish with Joe building momentum and landing a few really cool power moves finishing Petey and the match with a muscle buster was well done. The after match chaos with Angle German suplexing Joe was awesome .Steiner then clocking Joe with the lead pipe and holding the title with Angle bad mouthing him from the tunnel entrance sold the main event for Sacrifice quite well.
The ever present backstage drama this week was AJ’s quest to find a tag team partner to enter the Deuces Wild after Tomko was ‘injured’ in an MMA fight in Japan. Booker T asking AJ who he was wasn’t in good taste. Not AJ. Nobody should do that to a 3 time former world champ. Can creative dig that -sucka?
Super Eric shows up as AJ’s partner to take on the Infection in the best match of the night. Very fast paced action that slowed down only when Hoyt was in the ring. AJ lands the flying forearm and the Pele. Rave sold the damage throughout the match. AJ finishes with an Enziguri and a hurricanrana setting up the DVD by Super Eric on Rave. The last minute of the match was very entertaining with even Don West appearing cool!
Tag team match #3 with the LAX against KAZ and Eric (not to be confused with Super Eric) was basically Homicide working a major part of the match setting up Hernandez now and then to hit a few of his power moves which are fun to watch.KAZ and Homicide didn’t wrestle their highflying style going instead for the grapple and hold style of wrestling. Thus we had a few locks and holds, whips and forearms being thrown. The spot of the match was KAZ spring boarding off the ropes only to be caught by Hernandez who then powerbombs him straight to the mat. The post- match conversation between Hector Guerrero and Homicide was alright.
ANOTHER tag team match featured Love and Sky also known as The Beautiful People taking on ODB and Kim. This angle was fairly well done. The commentary team kept selling the gimmick reverse battle royale with a ladder and a bald woman at Sacrifice while Love and Sky made fun of Kim and ODB as the bald chicks with photo evidence.
The part where ODB entered mocking Sky and Love was pure gold. Ask Kurt angle - he’ll probably say it was damn real. The match itself was not good though way better than a WWE divas match. The finish with Roxxi Laveaux showing up and nailing that awesome Voodoo Drop while displaying her psycho smile was also real;Damn real.
TNA’s newest gimmick: THE TERROR DOME was unveiled. It’s a dome shaped cage with a hole at the top. The one who goes through the hole first wins. Since they are talking about the X division in there, at least the match has potential. Whether it succeeds or sucks will be made clear at Sacrifice.
Deuces Wild showed up again in the last segment with Cornette announcing The Egotistical Eight. Faces at the face tunnel- Sting, Booker-T, B.G James and Matt Morgan. Heels at the heel tunnel -Robert Roode,James Storm,Kip James and AWESOME KONG but dude, she’s a chick.
With Kong in the tournament things should get more interesting.
Done with Awesome Kong and speaking of the Awesome Bong-The dudes are back. “Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay” released over the weekend and is damn funny plus GTA 4 is here; just in case you get bored with wrestling.
Here’s a list of all the funny match names TNA has come up with over the years:
1. Texas Blindfold Match
2. Raven’s House Of Fun
3. Last Rites Match
4. Doomsday Chamber Of Blood
5. Fish Market Street Fight
6. Hangman’s Horror Match(Dog Collar Match)
7. Match Of 10,000 Tacks
8. Shop Of Horrors
9. First Blood Steel Chair On A Pole Match
10. Serengeti Survival Match
11. Full Metal Mayhem Match
12. Prison Yard Match
13. The Terror Dome
Phew!
Tags: Deuces Wild, Kurt Angle, Little Petey Pump, Samoa Joe, Steiner, terror dome, TNA, TNA IMPACT
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 am
Happy trees, actually helped me enjoy this show, even though I thought there were to many tag matches it was a decent show. I only have 3 points I would like to make.
1.Do Not have Scott Stenier and Petey breakup a good tag match for no reason, that made no sense to me and kinda pissed me off, because it is rare that I can see MCMG get to finish a match without some kind of BS ending.
2. Scott Steiner + Math=Me laughing my ass off. Funny Stuff
3. Yay Dazee Haze and Cheerleader Melissa, glad they are still pushing the Knockouts Division
4. AJ Styles and Super Eric, I get the idea they both are a little off, have great ability, etc. However am I the only one who thinks this would have been an amazing to bring back Abyss!!! Think him ans Styles are former Tag Team Champs, he has been of TV for a while and that would be an amazing combo.
Anywayz enough of my rant, decent show, great blog by Adit. Peace
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:36 am
4 points
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
I agree 100% with what you said last week.I can finally leave comments on here through my cell phone,so here are my opinions.TNA has some of the best athletes and performers in the world,but instead of utilizing them to their max potential…they are booked improperly.Yes,WWE/F have done some stupid angles/gimmicks/matches,(remember Katie Vick,and the Kennel From Hell match ideas?)but they moved away from them.If TNA did things the intelligent way from a booking standpoint…we as fans would be in awe.I wasn’t too fond of Impact this week.The whole Dueces Wild thing is annoying.At Sacrifice I expect something like A.J.Styles/Super Eric vs Kaz/E.Y.The main euent was good though.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Bob-thanks for the kudos!
Happy trees- you must have seen Harold and Kumar 2
James- are you twittering?
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:20 am
I honestly have no clue what twittering is
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Don’t worry then,it’s just something new in the world of the web that’s becoming quite big.
Really useful to run a blog with it.
Anyway,if that eric’kaz vs AJ/super Eric happens,we’ve got to see the fun there but Eric isn’t in the Egotistical eight and he and Kaz lost this week so they’re out leaving only Super Eric and AJ to compete in the Deuces wild.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
I forgot all about them losing,my bad.But with the erratic booking of TNA,it still may happen.Oh,and as for the twittering thing,I checked in wikipedia and as the answer is no.I broke the computer,and the only internet I have is on my Helio phone.You write good blogs Adit.I enjoy reading everyone’s blog on here.
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Thanks dude!
May 2nd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
james, the reason for the awful booking is no-one above russo to water-down his ideas. have you noticed that they had many good ideas spoiled because of booking? for example. give me the stiener-petey “controlling the landscape of TNA” thing & ill do magics with it. & guess what, they have about half of NWO in there, gain some prestige on that & do what WCW did in 1996-1997 when it was still bearable but make it a face hostile takeover, controlled by sting & promises a better product if they control, so have joe, sting, booker T, Kaz & christian (from the top of my head) against AJ as the X-div champ & lead of the group (you cant get TNA-er then that, btw, why didnt they give AJ the win with a clash but instead had a roll-up???)
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
The Terror Dome was first unveiled and used in AAA,a lucha company in Mexico that also usually uses 6-sided rings and sometimes 4 side rings.They call it Domo de Muerte(I think) or The Dome of Death.It usually has 6 to 10 participants.AAA did use a six-sided cage earlier this year for the 1st time though +TNA and AAA used to have a partnership but that ended unfortunately.
Does anyone remember when Konnan led LAX and they had a short fued with Hector Guerrero?I smell a heel turn for LAX in the next couple of months after they turn on Hector.
I wonder what TNA has planned for Awesome Kong in Deuces Wild.They must have something planned.
The Knockouts match at Sacrifice, if booked properly,can be good or horrible.
And personaly,I think Deuces Wild is just a tournament to fill Sacrifice and give the wrestlers something to do.The winning tag team will obivously have an unlikey pairing and end up having a MVP-Matt Hardy like fued but not for a title.
Sorry my comment was long,lol.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
The Terror Dome (they couldn’t have come up with a worse name btw) looks to be cool, with high spots galore. At least its not complicated, that’s the trouble with TNA, they make those complicated matches, like the reverse battle royal, and now the deuces wild tournament. What I would have done is have two established tag teams (LAX and MCMG) compete in a tournament with 4 random guys. That’s less complicated, and you have fewer tag matches. Meanwhile, you do a singles tournament of 4 guys for the #1 contender-spot.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
That gives you 6 matches. Then you add Joe/Angle/Steiner, and the Terror Dome match. That’s 8 matches, that’s plenty for a PPV. Now you have 7 matches in the deuces wild tournament (7 tag matches, that’s alot!), the terror thing, and the main event, that’s 9 matches.
I just thought of a better name for the Terror Dome: The Ultimate Cage
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 am
Dchamp- either that or they just added another member to LAX though I think you might be right about the heel turn.
Fudge-don’t even start with the wacky names!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:27 am
I guess it’s too hard to do a blog, you know, in the order of things actually happening.
One moment that stands out to me is when AJ Styles is looking for a tag team partner and he goes to Booker T. Booker T basically insults him in a way that makes Styles & TNA look like the minor leagues. It’s pathetic. Later on, Styles talks to Nash about being his partner. Then Nash, a guy who was known as a tag wrestler, says the money is in the tag belts. Why the hell have a tournament since they’ve buried those belts? They’ve buried the X belt and now the tag belts. I wonder how they’ll bury the World Heavyweight Championship.
The entire Deuces Wild stuff is retarded. Why the hell pair guys together if they’re just going to feud & turn on each other? You’ve got Super Eric pairing with AJ. Didn’t they just fight for the belts a few weeks ago? What happened to Eric/Super Eric and Kaz?
Why the hell are Joe & Angle teaming together in the first place? I mean, WTF!?
I feel bad for Adit having to recap this bullshit. I get a worse headache trying to make sense of this blog than I do from Impact.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm
What can I say about the show? Other than a very negative DAMN. I didn’t know TNA had hired the screenwriters of the Teletubbies show. Good to know.
Oh yeah, and Parks, you’re damn right about something, anyway.
May 4th, 2008 at 7:17 am
This isn’t a recap so it doesn’t need to follow your format and it’ll continue to be that way irrespective of what you say ,think or write.
Take an aspirin ,that’ll clear the headache.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Neither is mine. I do mention what happens in the order and then my opinion. You on the other hand just go every which way and throw junk in there.
But hey, thanks for responding to my comments and questions. Wait, you didn’t!
May 4th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Adit, you’re still the best.
Luke: does anyone even read your blogs anymore? Get over yourself already.
May 4th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Yes, they do. I am the King of the Blog Spot!
May 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Tbone-Thank you!
May 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Lol been away for a bit XD Cool blog =) I really try and stay away from saying how one should write their blog, but hey, what makes the blogspot cool is that all the blog related shows have their own unique style and contrast that one way or the other works well with the others…