TNA News: Impact Matches Announced, PPV Mocked And Recapped

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TNA has a preview of Thursday’s Impact:

Abyss and Mick Foley vs. Scott Steiner and Booker T. for the TNA Tag Team titles
Sarita and Taylor Wilde vs. ODB and Tara For the TNA Knockouts Tag Titles
Suicide vs. D’Angelo Dinero
Bobby Lashley vs. somebody in his first real match on Impact
AJ Styles title celebration

PW Torch’s James Caldwell has some thoughts on the announced matches. Well, on one of them:

The key is whether TNA blows through the storyline in typical fashion and goes right to a match between Foley and Abyss in Week 2 or if they take their time and try not to give away the end of the story before the story has even had time to develop.

Elsewhere on the Torch, we get a guy on the internet dislikes TNA PPV and promotion as a whole shocker! This time it’s Shane McKinley:

-TNA PPVs are not worth buying. TNA Impacts are not worth watching. It’s time for a reboot. And it can come in the form of Bound For Glory. What does that mean? A PPV main event that’s one vs. one. No more of this “lump everybody together” nonsense. I’m thinking A.J. Styles vs. Kurt Angle, Sting vs. Matt Morgan, Mick Foley vs. Abyss and …Kevin Nash giving out the $50,000 to the crowd. I was surprised to hear that the PPV crowd was “The Impact Zone,” considering how nonplussed they were.

PWI’s Richard Trionfo has a detailed live report of last night’s PPV. He was more complimentary of it than the previous guy:

To start off with a feature from the post show audio, my recommendation for the pay per view would be a thumbs up and if you are on the fence about getting the replay you might want to consider it. I thought this was the best pay per view offering from Orlando this year.

He also makes a good point re: Abyss’s roasted crotch:

I was expecting to see Mick Foley use the barbed wire bat on Abyss instead of Nash using the taser on Abyss’s nether regions. Couldn’t the referee have heard the sound of the taser to know that it was being used (and the residual smoke coming from Abyss’ crotch?)