TNA started 2006 off great
 

I thought Impact was sweet tonight

-Homicide

-Joe finally cuts a promo

-Truth vs. Bobby Roode

-Homicide

-The "Tribute to Sting"

-The 6 man war with AJ/Daniels/Sabin vs. Shelley/Strong/Aries...also known as


GENERATION NEXT

solid start to 2006

The 6 man was great. MOTY :shifty:

I thought the show had its moments, but it was largely shit.

^^^^^

Greatness

Greatness was also the Rock Bottom/Reverse DDT combo from Fallen Angel

And the Skullfuck on TV

James Storm, Monty Brown, and Eric Young in the same ring is guaranteed hilarity.

Storm in the chicken suit was awesome, and Harris looks a lot like Crow Sting

Can someone upload Impact?

Monty Brown's sendup of Sting was actually funny. The one time he actually ever was, intentionally... that voice of his, LMAO!

Hooray for a tribute by people who have never met him. Feh.

Who's the douche with the wave cap?

Were you watching Smackdown?

CM Punk should've seriously been in that stable.

I said I thought it had its moments, so clearly not. ;)

Punk is the 2nd City Saint, and him beating up Gen Next ended the Steamboat feud and began Punk's face run, so no he shouldn't have.

I thought it was a pretty good ep of Impact. And that six man tag was the stuff greatness is made of.

And of course Brother Ray was funny when describing their WWE tag team title runs.

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I love the fact that the only thing they'll boo consitently ios the WWE.

and JJ

It was just a Pepsi joke.

6 man rocked, and honest to god that was my first time seeing Joe cut a promo, and i was way impressed. The Sting tributes were annoying though, IMO.

I believe Chris Harris was at one point an Impostor Sting. Can someone confrim this for me?

Very good Impact Saturday night (just got around to watching my tape of it).

That six-man match is what the X Division should be. Yes, there were some awesome high spots, but the match flowed in a logical manner. I've been a Sabin mark for a long time, and now I'm sold on the G-Next guys. I always liked Shelley and hadn't seen much from Strong or Aries, but those three guys worked really well together and have a lot of charisma to go with their in-ring abilities. Hopefully, life will imitate art, and these guys will start getting better airtime.

I know they're saving the Sting debut until Final Resolution, but the teases are starting to get old. Don't get me wrong, I loved Eric Young, AMW, and Monty Brown's segment. I just think it would have been better to end it with, for example, Cage pointing to the big screen to show James Storm laid out in the back. Jarrett and company turn to look at the chicken, who removes his mask to reveal Sting. It would have been totally unexpected, but you're still saving his actual return match until FR. Ah, well. Still a well-done segment.

I was disappointed in the Homicide/Apolo segment. I've been hearing good things about Homicide, then they make his in-ring debut a minute-long DQ? Yeah, it builds up the Latin American Exchange as a group of badasses, but...eventually, they'll have to actually wrestle.

And I'm still not totally sold on Samoa Joe, but his promo on Christopher Daniels was very good. Not at all what I was expecting from him.

Damn. That was pretty good. :y:

Homicide is nursing a really bum shoulder, putting off surgery.

Ah. I didn't know that. That was probably the right thing to do with him, then.

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So, it's Strong, Shelley, Jack Evans, and Aries? I don't know what Evans looks like (never seen him), but I seem to remember that he was the other Generation Next member.

Here is the current lineup

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Matt Sydal, Austin Aries, Roderick Strong, Jack Evans

fuck tna!! it sucks, the announcers suck, the announcer who does soccer is better, i hate that mike tenay guy, raven needs to ddt him through a table.

Innovator botches Arrows :nono:

I thought Christians promo was........lacking.[/strongbad]

TNA is always the same to me. They have some entertaining matches, but I just dont see anything that will get them to that next level.

Their biggest stars to me are the X-Division guys (Joe, Daniels, Styles), and thats what makes them unique. However, the top of the card is always occupied by WWE rejects and mid card guys. And I'll stake my reputation on the line (not worht much, but still) that with Jarrett on top the company will never draw a dime.

Even guys like Christian who I find entertaining, I just dont buy him as a main event guy. He's never had that major program to establish him as a top guy, and for some reason Monte Brown isn't the guy to get that done.

The other major problem I see is that too many of their guys work that high flying gymnastic exhibition, that too me diverts too far from what wrestling is. IMO a wrestling match should have some resemblance to a fight. Maybe I've been watching too much MMA, but a TNA match looks like guys jumping on a trampoline. I dont think that will ever draw in the US and Canada. Obviosuly all wrestling has some elements of things that would not be done in a real fight, but the matches look more like a fight than TNA guys do.

If one of these guys can sell out an arena or do 200,000+ buys on PPV I'll eat my words, but I just dont think it will ever happen.

I think TNA will always appeal to that very tiny fanbase that love workrate and is disinfanschised with WWE. Of course my favourite thing about tNA is that when one of these washed up WCW/WWE guys comes in they get bigger pops than the TNA built stars. Which puts TNA's place in the business in perspective.

Then there's Sting.......hey if he's the trump card in yor deck.....well you really should fold quickly.