IMPACT Wrestling LD for 01.05.12

[GI Cake]

A couple notes.

Hardy looks like he lost a lot of weight. And Roode botched Hardy's finisher.

 

[Gelgarin]

Boo.

 

[Harthan]

Completely standard six man tag. The double DQ finish with post match brawl is nice. Good booking decision.

 

[GI Cake]

I love how they were breaking up each others finishers. Great booking so far.

 

[Chrome]

Okay that was pretty awesome lol

 

[Gelgarin]

No prizes for the close, but a solid show. Needed more Scott Steiner.

 

[GI Cake]

Oh hey, a Manswer's rerun.

Really good Impact. This might be the first time Impact had better booking than RAW.

 

[LSN80]

It allowed Joe and Magnus to go over Kaz and A.J without making anyone look weak. And beyond that, A.J and Kaz can settle some beef next week after the PPV. I thought it was good booking overall.

How is giving up a title shot, especially when you're freaking Kaz, good booking? I understand the "Not wanting to make the established team look weak" argument, but there's something to be said about making challengers look strong, and giving Magnus and Joe a clean win would have done that.

Further, if he's going to sacrifice a title shot and walk out on AJ there better be a darn good explanation, and this better not be a "beef to be settled next week." If they wanted to do this, they should have lost in the first round and fleshed this out. They might next week, and this may be decent. I'll reserve judgment on it overall until it plays through, but this seems like a PPV storyline that they introduced on a go-home show. I don't like that aspect of the booking.

 

[GI Cake]

No prizes for the close, but a solid show. Needed more Scott Steiner.

Every show can use more Scott Steiner.

 

[klunderbunker]

Review is up.

Dig Those Combined Feud Matches!

 

[Harthan]

Manswers. What an interesting television show.

I'd love to be the engineer working on this.

 

[Y-2-Jay]

Very solid show tonight great go home show it did what it supposed to and thats wanting me to watch the PPV.

 

[Gelgarin]

Storm v Angle completely overshadows everything else on the card for me, but I think that has just as much to do with me being really into that match as it does me not bring massively invested in most of the other matches. The biggest draw of the title match is seeing how the result is going to affect James Storm.

I wouldn't mind seeing Hardy take the belt in one of those 'lose it next Thursday/month' deals. No doubt Hardy winning would be a great moment, and I want Storm vs Roode at Lockdown, so they've got to do something to kill time up until then.

 

[It's Damn Real!]

Another solid week and a great go-home show leading into Genesis!

 

[Remy LaCroix]

Good episode last night.