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TNA is coming to Monday nights.

Variety confirmed Sunday night that TNA Wrestling's weekly iMPACT! telecast will move to Mondays starting March 8.

Set to air weekly from 9-11PM, the show will enter direct competition with WWE's RAW program every Monday. A formal announcement was to be issued by TNA by Monday afternoon.

The move, which some had speculated became inevitable the minute Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff joined the company, became an absolute certainty when the show's Monday special on January 4 posted strong ratings.

For the time being, the iMPACT! telecasts will air live every other week. According to the Wrestling Observer, the current plan calls for TNA to tape a live show every other Monday, taping the alternating week's show on the subsequent Tuesday.

WWE downplayed reports that TNA's move posed a threat, with Robert Zimmerman saying, "We're not too concerned...we're in good shape."
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This should be funny.
 
Well, they actually are going to keep Pope in the title picture. I wanted Joe to win cause AJ will always be a face to me. I wish Kurt would go sit down somewhere cause he doesn't need to be champ again.
 
TNA's streak of bad PPVs in the Hogan/Bischoff regime continued last night. Wolfe-Pope was good, but short. Morgan-Hernandez have zero chemistry as a team and less as opponents, and I'm not a big fan of having Morgan go over, but it made more sense for him to face Pope than Hernand-i! Angle-Anderson was quite good, but not as good as Jarrett-Anderson from Impact, or just about every other Angle PPV match in forever. Still, I liked them moving a new TNA guy up the card and giving Anderson something to boast about in promos.

Then it was time for Abyss-Foley. Jesus Christ was this terrible. While it wasn't as outright stupid as their BFG '09 match that BEGAN with a fall off the stage, it was still a bad match. Foley needs to re-re-re-retire because every new match he has just causes whatever legacy he has left to drop. Abyss beat him after a black hole slam into tacks and it meant nothing. The tacks weren't played up as a huge deal - and even if they were, that gimmick's been killed dead in TNA thanks to Abyss, and it wasn't played up that Abyss pinning a legend like Foley meant anything either.

After this, it was 3D-Nasties, which was even worse. Knobs was out of position for seemingly every single thing he had to do, and couldn't bump. This went way longer than the KURT ANGLE match before it on the card, which is just wrong. Jimmy Hart came back and helped the Nasties win, which means that this feud has to continue until at least Lockdown for the blowoff with 3D winning. Hopefully they make it short, however, I do commend TNA on actually saving matches that would deserve cage matches for the all-cage show.

Pope-Morgan was nothing special, but I dog the ending with the flash DDE off the ropes and not off the opposite buckle. That certainly helps the move get over as something more than an uber-flashy deal that takes forever to set up. Abyss-Anderson went on forever and like their first one, wasn't anything special. I liked having Anderson change his gear after every tourney match, ala Savage at WM IV.

AJ-Joe was easily the best match on the show, unsurprisingly. I loved AJ's new Flair-style robe/hoody, not digging the blonde highlights as much though. Eric was a fine ref here, and I didn't notice him other than when it was needed for the story, or whenever they showed his new gut. Reviving the Flair-Bischoff rivalry is...something. I love the interplay between them, and they'll have some awesome promos, but I hope they don't do a match - at least not as Flair's first one on US soil since WM 24. Joe and AJ had every match they've ever had, only with a sleeper suplex thrown in. Thankfully, that was the only insane bump that AJ took in this match. Joe got a visual win, and would have had the actual win if it wasn't for his temper, which once again cost him big. Eric stalling as much as possible on the 3 count was well-done, and made AJ's win seem more important.

Pope-Anderson was a fine injured face vs. cocky heel match. It went on a little too long, but had a hot ending with Anderson hitting the Finlay roll, but missing the Kenton and then taking the DDE. I liked them having basically a homegrown TNA guy, at least as far as this gimmick, and actually being a total package, goes, beat a guy doing his WWE gimmick. It gave me some hope that they'll put some guys who've been lost in the shuffle, like Wolfe and especially Daniels in prominent roles again. I can't believe Daniels wasn't on this show but the damned Nasty Boys were. Anyway, I'm looking forward to Pope-AJ at Lockdown, and can't wait to see the Pope-Flair promos leading up to it.
 
I hope that TNA still replays on Thursday after the move. I can only record 1 program while watching one and without fail the wife is recording SOMETHING while wrestling is on.
 
[quote name='Brak']Sheamus is such a shitty champion.[/QUOTE]

The worst I can recall including luminaries such as the Great Khali and Sid. Zero presence, zero mic skills, limited wrestling ability... I have Raw on in the background but I'm certainly not going to pay attention to it until his ass is off the screen.
 
:rofl: @ the main event.

Alright. I'm done with work... I'll play a videeya game when I get home.
 
alright guys... here's the question: when TNA has a Nasty Boyz match on while WWE simultaneously has on a Sheamus match, which are you guys picking?
 
As much as I hate Sheamus, at least he's contemporary. The Nasty Boyz barley mattered 20 years ago, so what does that tell you about their presence now?
 
What the heck are they thinking with this Bret Hart storyline? It should be epic, but instead they're making it stupid!
 
[quote name='Chuplayer']What the heck are they thinking with this Bret Hart storyline? It should be epic, but instead they're making it stupid![/QUOTE]

Look on the brightside: Wrestlecrap fodder
 
[quote name='diddy310']This was approaching the Jackass segment in how terrible it was until Santino's Grandmaster Sexay line.[/QUOTE]
I laughed pretty hard at that.
 
hornswoggle was eating that yum yum...he went up to her kitty
 
I'm not going to lie, I found it entertaining in how bad it was. But it was pretty bad that I was expecting Masters, Khali, and Hornswaggle. Especially Hornswaggle. He's played out, get him off my TV.
 
:rofl: Santino made that segment. That Grand Master reference was hilarious.
 
[quote name='Blackout']:rofl: Santino made that segment. That Grand Master reference was hilarious.[/QUOTE]

Agreed. It was the only bright spot in perhaps the worst segment of the "guest host" era.
 
"This may be the worse night in the life of Bret Hart"

Really, Michael Cole? Really?

Just off the top of my Head (The events not the dates... had to look those up):
May 23, 1999 - Death of Owen
June 24, 2002 - His stroke
November 9, 1997 -Montreal Screwjob
December 19, 1999 - Starcade 99
 
[quote name='Purple Flames']As much as I hate Sheamus, at least he's contemporary. The Nasty Boyz barley mattered 20 years ago, so what does that tell you about their presence now?[/QUOTE]

Right. It's like a big concert festival today (think bonnaroo or one of those other festivals I can't think of) getting EMF and promoting them as a big fucking deal.

Based on y'alls reactions to the show tonight, I guess I'm glad I went out to a bar and discovered that Albany is where NY hides all its hillbillies.
 
Wait....someone explain the logic of this crap to me

1) A woman is parked behind...a limo
2) The woman doesn't notice two people and probably 3 cameras behind her
3) The woman stays in reverse until Cena leaves
4) The woman then proceeds to back up into the limo
5) The woman then stay in park while asking if he's alright, while common sense would suggest...
5a)The woman did not think about moving forward after hitting the limo
5b) ....I don't even feel like even thinking about this shitty plot line anymore!


Come on! That's like if you were walking out burger king and I proceed to walk through you pushing you back into the building and when I enter I go "Hey, are you ok???"


I'm tired of WWE. I loved watching it live last week...but I'm glad I didn't have to watch the screen to see that shit
 
RAW has been absolute shit tonight. The Bret Hart storyline was fucking retarded, and the Jerry Springer shit has been "Mae Young birthing a hand" bad.
 
^^Also, it doesn't even look like she moved the car up. Plus, it looked like the brake lights were on. Maybe Cena overcame the odds and pushed it a foot.
 
So how bad was the Bret segment? Are we talking Rock gets destroyed in an ambulance bad? I was watching 24.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Right. It's like a big concert festival today (think bonnaroo or one of those other festivals I can't think of) getting EMF and promoting them as a big fucking deal.

Based on y'alls reactions to the show tonight, I guess I'm glad I went out to a bar and discovered that Albany is where NY hides all its hillbillies.[/QUOTE]

At least drunken hillbillies can sometimes be entertaining.
 
I noticed the "worst night of Bret Hart's life" thing too. Stay clueless and classy Michael Cole.

Here's the thing about Cole. I remember when he first showed up as a WWE announcer, I think when JR had his first major palsy episode. He fucking sucked but it was like, "Okay, he's new, this was unexpected due to JR's injury, I'll give him a pass". That incident was like ten years ago! Aside from a few funny bits with Taz over on Smackdown, he has not improved at all in ten years. How the hell is that even possible?! How can a living, breathing, not mentally handicapped person do the same job for ten years and never get better at it?
 
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