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Not surprising AJ & Joe stole the show. Their work together in ROH was always good.
But reading through the results, the only thing I can think is that this is eXACTLY why TNA has only beena marginal success up to this point: Jeff Jarett. Jarrett opened the show, had two segments in between matches, and even had Chris Daniels doing an interview where he talks about him off camera. Oh yeah, and his attempt to get a title match was the centrals storyline. And he main evented.
Did I miss the huge outcry of TNA fans who demanded more JJ while he's been off air for the last couple of months?
Listen, when Triple H drops the belt but is still the focus of Raw, at least you can sort of see the justification: He's a big name. He's over. He's establshed. Even if you disagree, you see the reasoning. Is there anybody outside of Jeff Jarrett's family who can reasonably say that he's more over than Raven or Chris Daniels or AJ Styles or Samoa Joe or Sabu or Jerry Lynn or Waltman or Jeff Hardy or Rhyno or the 3LK...do you get where I'm going here? There are TNA midcarders getting bigger reactions than this guy yet this PPV could've been called "Jarrett Knows Best."
Great wrestling. (Some of my friends watched this and they were blown away by the Waltman/Lynn match.) Unforunately, piss-poor booking. The exact same formula that got TNA to where its at: No live revenue, a show that got worse ratings than professional darts and a second show that will air late on a Saturday night on a network that said it "hated" wrestling.
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