TNA notes:
so the show was pretty good through the first hour and 50 minutes.
let me say, I skip a lot of TNA promos. Not all of them, but there are some people I just can't listen to.
Cornette came out and announced that there will be duel main events at lockdown. Foley vs sting (Eh) and a 4 vs 4 elimination style match. Impact's main event will be a 20 man battle royal where 2 men will start out in the ring with someone coming in every 2 minutes. The remaining two wrestlers will be team captains at lockdown. angle talked smack, jarrett talked smack, punches were thrown. Been there, done that.
suicide beat kiyoshi in an x-division title match. If you've seen an x-division match before, you've seen this one. Tons of innovation but everyone works too quick.
side note: like 100 people in the impact arena had suicide shirts. this guy can't be that popular, can he? He's just a mask that pulls all the same stunts as everyone else. They must have been free handouts. Suicide's finisher is awful, btw.
the beautiful people cut what was likely an awful promo. skipped most of it.
beer money and team 3-D gave a sit down style interview. can't stand beer money. skipped it.
side note: man, team 3-D have gotten fat. They were always big guys but it's a little out of control.
Beautiful people vs Kong and Saeed. It was good, well paced. The storytelling didn't make sense, whatever. Love Kong. TBP won.
Sting/Foley Promo. Both guys can work the mic. It's just not a match I want to see.
Side note: Drinking game. Take a shot whenever you hear Foley say "stinger" or Sting say "Mick" during this promo. You will get fucked up.
Side note 2: Foley says "people aren't talking about that other show in april, they're talking about lockdown." That was mildly (5%) true until Raw tore it up on monday.
Side note 3: My roommate (somewhat) randomly asked if I wanted to go in on Mania this year. Gonna do it if I can manage to get a third person in.
Main event:
The good:
*It got 45 minutes and no commercial breaks during the last 15.
*A lot of young talent. Used well for the most part. Pretty decent story telling through out.
*The mafia (angel, steiner, booker) actually came across as not being useless.
*Matt Morgan lasted 1:30.
The bad:
*The first half of the match was used to show off young talent, the back half was used to put over the mafia (especially angle). That wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that they buried guys like eric young and hernandez in the process. Eric young was showcased in the main event 2 weeks ago. He was left off of Impact last week (if I remember correctly) and this week he was given 1:30 in the main event. And Hernandez? They want to build him towards a title shot. Another guy, 1:15.
*The finish was bogus. So Jarrett gets knocked out of the match by Angle before reaching the ring. However, when the timer counts down, Jarrett walks to the ring and it appears that he is given a "2nd chance." At this point, the timer stops running. No more participants. Jarrett eliminates Steiner, so that means (surprise, surprise), Jarrett and Angle are the winners. But the match keeps going and Angle pins Jarrett.... I guess, but it doesn't really matter. But then after the pin, Samoa Joe comes to the ring. Turns out, he's the real 20th competitor but he came down like 3 minutes after the timer was up! He literally co-won the match before entering the ring. How is he allowed to do that? So Joe fights Angle and guess what? He no-sells the angle slam. I mean completely no-sells it. Just stands right up. The same move that finished off a fresh Hernandez. Bullshit! So he pins Angle but, like I said, it doesn't really matter cause he was going to be co-winner no matter what.
Angle cuts an angry promo for no reason.
Joe cuts a promo where he says "I'm not interested in being a captain.... my only purpose for being here is to torture...." So, guess what, it doesn't matter that he co-won the main event since Jarrett is most likely going to be the captain at lockdown anyway.
Awful, Awful, Awful.
