TNA Impact was better than Monday Night Raw. It wasn’t fantastic, but it surely topped Raw. Raw featured a replay of the same storylines we’ve seen for years, with the teased return of Degeneration X and the return of the dreaded Super Cena. The mid-card has the sad wasting of Chavo Guerrero on the long running Horsnwaggle feud and actual booking going backwards as Evan Bourne was crushed by Jack Swagger one week after upsetting him. It was a boring and lifeless show.
Impact on the other hand, added a fairly interesting twist to their Main Event Mafia angle. With the faces closing the gap against the legends, the Mafia have allied themselves with the World Elite, a group of pretty good wrestlers who now get the rub from legends and can afford to job to the faces before big blowoff matches, keeping them from being burried. The mid-card is dedicated to elevating wrestlers, with Homicide and Hernandez both looking great in new roles, while Matt Morgan and AJ Style get a mini-feud based around straight wrestling and card placement. The Machine Guns may still sound retarded, but at least they got to stand tall, leaving a lot going right with TNA’s show- a lot more than WWE’s flagship. Even if this only lasts a week, it’s another step in the right direction for TNA.
They did mess up by placing their excellent riot mid-show, but even that can be forgiven given that they let Cornette book it!
