1/8/09 Impact
Alex Shelley vs. Eric Young: Pretty good match.
MEM segment: Pretty good.
Awesome Kong vs. Madison Rayne: Squash.
Robert Roode vs. Matt Morgan: Not a great match.
Lethal Consequences vs. Beer Money: More of a handicap match because Roode was injured but it was very good and the two actually beat the one for a change.
Kurt Angle vs. BG James: Great match actually, which proves that Angle is still one of the best in the business.
Really good show.
Grade: A
1/15/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty good.
Sting vs. Hernandez: Decent match.
Team 3D promo: Awesome promo.
BP/Taylor/Roxxi/Governor segment: Very bad.
ODB/Taylor Wilde/Roxxi vs. Kongtourage: Pretty good match.
Grade: B
Lethal Consequences vs. Matt Morgan/Abyss: Pretty good match.
AJ Styles vs. Scott Steiner: Pretty decent match.
Pretty good show with lots of wrestling.
Grade: A
1/22/09 Impact
Chris Sabin vs. Alex Shelley vs. Sonjay Dutt vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir: Really good.
Angle/Sting segment: Really good and the PPV match is changed to a 4 way. I didn't mind 3D in the four way like many...
ODB vs. Sojourner Bolt: Not a very good match.
Petey Williams/Eric Young vs. Booker T/Scott Steiner: Pretty good.
Beer Money vs. Matt Morgan/Abyss: Good first blood match.
Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles: Really good match and the stuff afterwards was even more awesome and made me look forward to the next show.
Very good show.
Grade: A
1/29/09 Impact
Kongtourage vs. ODB: Just a squash and it didn't make me care any more about the group or the angle.
Booker T vs. Rudy Charles/Andrew Thomas: If Booker beating up the refs was supposed to make me hate him as a heel more, it failed. How am I supposed to care about guys who I know nothing about?
Matt Morgan vs. Petey Williams: Another bland Morgan match and he beats Petey who has one arm tied behind his back. Better than the last two matches but nowhere near good.
Sting vs. Team 3D: This was pretty boring as these guys just didn't click.
Abyss vs. Scott Steiner: This was good because it was actually treated like a serious match and they had weapons to work with. Suicide destroying Steiner after the match was just weird.
Kurt Angle vs. LAX: Really good match but nobody should beat an established tag team by themselves, especially cleanly.
Either the match was bad or the booking was bad. Not a good show at all.
Grade: D-
2/5/09 Impact
Opening segment: Really good.
Jay Lethal/Eric Young vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Pretty good.
Shane Sewell vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir: Wasn't a bad match at all.
Taylor Wilde/Roxxi vs. Beautiful People: Pretty good match.
Brutus Magnus vs. Shark Boy: Squash.
Matt Morgan vs. Rhino: Decent match.
Team 3D vs. Kurt Angle/Sting: Pretty good match and good hype for the PPV main event.
Really good show.
Grade: A
2/12/09 Impact
Team 3D vs. Kurt Angle/Sting: Pretty good match, great promo afterwards.
Scott Steiner vs. Petey Williams: Decent match, even if it was a pole match.
Knockouts Gauntlet: Pretty good.
Motor City Machine Guns vs. Lethal Consequences: Pretty good.
Beer Money vs. Abyss/Rhino: Very slow and bland match for the most part.
Sting/Angle segment: Very good and set up the empty arena match next week.
Pretty good show.
Grade: A
2/19/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty good.
Motor City Machine Guns vs. Lethal Consequences: Really good.
Beer Money segment: Good and made a match for later in the show. Very interesting to see who'd accept as the guy who got pinned would be fired.
Shane Sewell/LAX vs. Brutus Magnus/Matt Morgan/Sheik Abdul Bashir: Not a bad match at all.
Taylor Wilde vs. Angelina Love: Probably the worst match of the night, but it wasn't very bad at all.
Beer Money vs. Petey Williams/Eric Young: Really good match... surprised the angle in the match turned out to be reality seeing as how I was taking a break from the IWC at the time.
Kurt Angle vs. Sting empty arena: A flashback to my early teens and it couldn't have been executed any better. This feud was much better than either WM title feud.
Great show and one of the best this year. It deserved to be the most watched Impact ever.
Grade: A
2/26/09 Impact
Madison Rayne/Taylor Wilde vs. Beautiful People: Very solid match with Madison turning heel on Taylor.
Beer Money vs. Rock n' Rave Infection: This wasn't as good as the match last week but still pretty damn good. When Hoyt took the pin I wondered if this wasn't an angle after all as I couldn't see him being part of a storyline at all.
MEM segment: Really good.
Tenay/West segment: Very stupid... I thought a feud would come out of this but thankfully I was wrong.
Sojourner Bolt/Rhaka Khan vs. Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed: Very bad.
X Division ladder match: Pretty good.
Angle/Sting contract signing. Very good, much like the entire feud was.
Good show outside of the terrible second KO tag and the Tenay/West segment.
Grade: B-
3/5/09 Impact
Opening segment: Really good.
Alex Shelley vs. Kiyoshi: Decent match.
Beautiful People vs. Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed vs. Sojourner Bolt/Rhaka Khan vs. Roxxi/Taylor Wilde: Pretty good match.
Booker/AJ segment: Pretty good.
Matt Morgan vs. Shane Sewell: Bad match.
LAX vs. Beer Money: Pretty good match.
Angle/Jarrett segment: Really good segment.
Pretty good show.
Grade: B+
3/12/09 Impact
Opening segment: Decent at best.
Rhino vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir: Decent match.
Matt Morgan/Beer Money vs. Team 3D/Abyss: Not much of a match as it was a 10 minute elimination match and the best wrestlers in the match were eliminated early.
Taylor Wilde vs. Madison Rayne: This lasted TWO MINUTES.
MEM/Foley segment: Meh.
LAX/Lethal Consequences vs. Booker T/Scott Steiner/Motor City Machine Guns: Solid match.
Eric Young vs. Rocco: Terrible main event.
VERY boring show to cap off an excellent PPV build.
Grade: C-
3/19/09 Impact
Opening segment: Decent at best.
No Limit vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Solid match.
Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed vs. Taylor Wilde/ODB: Decent match.
Samoa Joe vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir: No match as Joe drags Bashir to the back to torture him.
Styles/Booker segment: Pretty good.
The Governor vs. Madison Rayne: Decent at best and luckily the Governor gimmick was over after she got her haircut.
Mick Foley/Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle/Sting: Not that great actually and VERY screwy at the end.
Final segment: Sting cuts a promo... Foley gets a title shot at Lockdown and next week's main event is announced... decent enough.
Decent show at best.
Grade: B-
3/26/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty decent.
Suicide vs. Kiyoshi: Solid match.
Beer Money/3D interview: Really good.
Beautiful People vs. Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed: Meh match.
Sting/Foley segment: Pretty solid though I still feel that Foley getting a title shot and winning it wasn't a good move.
20 man gauntlet: GREAT match.
Final segment: Pretty good.
Good show.
Grade: A-
4/2/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty good.
LAX/Lethal Consequences vs. Kiyoshi/No Limit/Sheik Abdul Bashir: Solid match.
Team 3D vs. MEM security: Bad match.
Angle/Sting segment: Pretty decent.
Taylor Wilde vs. Madison Rayne: Decent match.
Scott Steiner vs. AJ Styles: Good match.
Samoa Joe vs. Sting: Not much of a match but Joe carrying Sharmell out of the arena was pretty interesting.
Decent show.
Grade: B-
4/9/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty good.
Sheik Abdul Bashir vs. Suicide: Solid match.
Foley segment: He makes his match with the MCMG a first blood match.
Booker T vs. Samoa Joe: Lasted around two minutes and was very "meh".
Scott Steiner vs. James Storm: Very boring match.
Awesome Kong vs. Beautiful People: Kong wins in a bad match.
Mick Foley vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Pretty good first blood match, though Foley winning wasn't good booking.
Boring show.
Grade: C+
4/16/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty good.
Chris Sabin vs. Homicide vs. Naito: Solid match.
Beautiful People vs. Taylor Wilde/Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed: Lasted 1 MINUTE.
Abyss/Daffney vs. ODB/Cody Deaner: Not a good match.
Foley segment: He interviews Cactus Jack and some vintage (sorry Michael Cole) Foley crazyness occurs.
Beer Money segment: A vicious beatdown to ECW alumni Brother Runt and Balls Mahoney.
Kurt Angle vs. Christopher Daniels: Great match.
Good show.
Grade: B
4/23/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty stupid as Jeff Jarrett was booked in a match by Mick Foley. The owner was booked by his employee...
Beer Money vs. Lethal Consequences: Solid match.
Sojourner Bolt vs. Taylor Wilde: Pretty boring ladder match.
Beautiful People segment: Very bad.
AJ Styles vs. Kevin Nash: Not a good match.
No Limit vs. Jethro Holliday/Eric Young: Decent match, nothing more.
Jeff Jarrett vs. Scott Steiner: Good match because of the weapons.
Jarrett promo: Pretty good.
Not a great show.
Grade: C
4/30/09 Impact
Motor City Machine Guns vs. Suicide/Amazing Red: Good match.
Homicide vs. British Invasion: This is because BI attacked Hernandez backstage... luckily it was still a solid match.
Awesome Kong vs. Madison Rayne: Squash.
MCMG/Daniels segment: They accuse Daniels of being Suicide. Solid segment.
Cody Deaner vs. Abyss: Squash.
Booker T/Kevin Nash vs. AJ Styles/Samoa Joe: Decent match.
Final segment: Was pretty good. Thought it would be Lashley hiding in the closet but it was Sting instead which was awesome.
Good show.
Grade: B
5/7/09 Impact
Opening segment: Decent at best.
Suicide vs. Consequences Creed: Decent match.
Matt Morgan vs. MEM security: Squash.
Beer Money vs. Eric Young/Jethro Holiday: Decent at best.
Awesome Kong vs. Velvet Sky: Same thing as last week's squash pretty much.
MCMG/Lethal Consequences/Daniels segment: Meh... Lethal and Creed hurt this segment with their bad mic skills.
Main Event Mafia vs. Jeff Jarrett/Mick Foley/Daniels/AJ Styles/Samoa Joe: Meh. The guys past their prime kept this from being good.
Final segment: Sting says that if he gets pinned at Sacrifice he'll retire. Pretty interesting...
Not a great show.
Grade: C
5/14/09 Impact
Opening segment: Eh... as soon as Foley mentioned "deep dark footage" I knew what to expect.
Chris Sabin vs. Daniels: Despite Daniels losing his first name all of a sudden this match was good.
Samoa Joe vs. Eric Young: Squash.
Cute Kip vs. Awesome Kong: Very bad...
British Invasion vs. Amazing Red/Suicide: Not a bad match.
Suicide/Daniels/MCMG/Lethal Consequences segment: Pretty good.
Kevin Nash vs. No Limit: Squash.
Booker T vs. Jethro Holiday: Wasn't a bad match but the winner was obvious and throwing out gimmick matches for no reason isn't good.
Foley segment: He reveals the video footage and it was what I thought it would be. I couldn't even see what was going on most of the time. Hardly "deep dark footage".
Not a great show.
Grade: D+
5/21/09 Impact
Opening segment: Very meh.
Daniels/Suicide vs. Lethal Consequences vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Very good match.
3D/Beer Money/British Invasion segment: Very good.
Sting vs. Eric Young: Decent at best.
Kong/Angelina contract signing: Wasn't bad actually.
Kurt Angle vs. Matt Morgan: Solid match.
Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Jarrett: Pretty boring squash.
Mick Foley vs. "Rocky Balboa": Foley wrestles a CARDBOARD CUTOUT in the MAIN EVENT on the LAST SHOW before a PPV. I know why this took place but to finish the show? Felt very anticlimatic.
An okay show that was hurt by the main event.
Grade: B-
5/28/09 Impact
Opening segment: AWESOME segment.
Doug Williams vs. Cody Deaner: Terrible throwaway ladder match.
Stevie/Abyss segment: RAVEN aligns himself with Dr. Stevie in a swerve.
Angelina Love vs. Sojourner Bolt: Bad match. Tara's debut bumps this up a bit though.
Foley segment: Pretty good.
Jeff Jarrett vs. Eric Young: Solid match.
3D/Beer Money segment: Another awesome segment.
AJ Styles vs. Daniels: Great match.
Awesome show.
Grade: B+
6/4/09 Impact
Daniels/Suicide vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir/Kiyoshi: Good match.
Shane Douglas promo: He may be bad in the ring but Douglas being back for a month was worth it for his promos.
Consequences Creed/Chris Sabin vs. Beer Money: Good match.
Daffney vs. Taylor Wilde: Decent match, awesome promo afterwards.
Jarrett/Young segment: Another awesome segment.
Matt Morgan vs. Jesse Neal: Squash.
Foley segment: Pretty good.
Samoa Joe vs. Kevin Nash: Good because of the weapons.
Good show.
Grade: A-
6/11/09 Impact
Opening segment: Really good.
Team 3D vs. Alex Shelley/Jay Lethal: Good match.
Nation of Violence First Blood Gauntlet: Great matches.
AJ Styles vs. Shane Douglas: Not a great match.
Tara vs. Madison Rayne: Solid match.
Kurt Angle vs. Sting: Good main event.
Good show.
Grade: A-
6/18/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty good.
Daniels vs. Amazing Red: Solid match.
Morgan/Sting segment: Decent stuff.
Raven vs. Jethro Holiday: Decent match BUT a Clockwork Orange House of Fun match was thrown away on Impact for no reason and a jobber gave Raven a fight in HIS match. Bad booking.
Awesome Kong/Taylor Wilde vs. Angelina Love/Daffney: Decent match.
Team 3D/Beer Money vs. Lethal Consequences/Motor City Machine Guns: Lasted 30 SECONDS.
Samoa Joe/AJ Styles vs. Kurt Angle/Sting vs. Jeff Jarrett/Mick Foley: Good match.
Solid show.
Grade: B-
6/25/09 Impact
Brother Ray vs. Brutus Magnus: Decent at best but a great angle.
MEM segment: Very good.
Kevin Nash vs. Abyss: Bad match.
3D/Beer Money/Booker/Steiner segment: Awesome segment and made two matches.
Taylor Wilde vs. Daffney: Kind of a boring 10,000 thumbtacks match and it was only 3 minutes long.
Scott Steiner vs. Robert Roode: Boring match.
Booker T vs. James Storm: Bad match.
Final segment: Great promo.
Typical WWF 1999-esque show. Great talking and storyline advancement, not much quality wrestling.
Grade: C+
7/2/09 Impact
Opening segment: Decent enough although nothing special. The lack of any younger talent in the main event was starting to get to me at this point.
Amazing Red vs. Cody Deaner: Not a good match at all.
Eric Young vs. Rhino: Very short and boring... Young beating Rhino so quickly, nothing interesting happening in the match, and the storyline between Rhino and Jesse Neal are all reasons for the grade it gets.
Tara/Awesome Kong vs. Beautiful People: Very short and the match was really bad whenever Velvet was in the ring. The spider stuff afterwards was good though.
Team 3D vs. Booker T/Scott Steiner: Meh... the match was VERY slow.
Abyss segment: He destroys some jobbers until Stevie shows up on the screen holding Lauren hostage... very badly acted by Lauren. Abyss wasn't that bad in this for the most part though.
Kurt Angle/Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles/Jeff Jarrett: This match was pretty good.
Not a great show.
Grade: D
7/9/09 Impact
Opening segment: Okay at best... Foley/Jarrett was just getting tiresome at this point.
Homicide vs. Doug Williams: A two minute ladder match. Two minutes!
Suicide Interview: It didn't make much sense.
Sting/Joe segment: Pretty good.
Beer Money vs. MCMG: Solid though not as good as it could have been.
Tara vs. Velvet Sky: Very short and it wasn't that good.
Tara vs. Angelina Love: Match was still short but it wasn't bad though. The title switch may have been too soon though as it did feel a bit rushed.
Kevin Nash/Matt Morgan vs. AJ Styles/Daniels: Pretty much a carryjob on behalf of the babyfaces.
Kurt Angle vs. Mick Foley vs. Jeff Jarrett: Solid enough main event.
Show was very hit/miss.
Grade: C
7/16/09 Impact
Opening segment: Decent enough.
Samoa Joe vs. Amazing Red: Squash.
Chris Sabin vs. Suicide: Good match and Homicide cashing in was good though not as good as when Petey cashed in.
Jenna/Sharmell interview: Very bad.
Beautiful People segment: Angelina cut a terrible promo in a beekeeper suit. She also freaks out when Tara mentions that her spider Poison's in the suit. It was a pretty lame segment.
Sarita vs. Alissa Flash: Very good match.
Main Event Mafia vs. Beer Money/AJ Styles: Kind of a slow match considering that the heels are all past their prime and Styles, the best at bumping, was eliminated first. Roode's offensive spurt at the end was the best part.
Kurt Angle vs. Sting Six Sides of Steel: Good match but throwing a gimmick match like that on Impact?
Not that great of a show actually.
Grade: C
7/23/09 Impact
Samoa Joe vs. Homicide: Decent match.
MEM segment: Pretty good.
Kevin Nash vs. Amazing Red: Squash.
Scott Steiner/Booker T vs. Mick Foley's security: Bad match.
Knockouts Battle Royal: Pretty good and while Traci, the ref, won, it was an interesting development.
Beer Money/AJ Styles/Daniels/Eric Young vs. British Invasion/Sheik Abdul Bashir/Kiyoshi: Good match and Eric Young turns heel.
Kurt Angle vs. Mick Foley: Boring keys on a pole match.
Okay episode. Decent wrestling but very screwy in parts such as the pole match and a referee winning a battle royal.
Grade: C+
7/30/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty good.
Hernandez vs. Samoa Joe: Good match.
Matt Morgan vs. AJ Styles: solid match.
Beautiful People vs. ODB/Awesome Kong/Tara: Solid match.
World Elite promo: Really good.
Team 3D vs. British Invasion: Decent tables match.
Kurt Angle/Kevin Nash vs. Mick Foley/Bobby Lashley: Not a great match.
Solid show.
Grade: B+
8/6/09 Impact
Opening segment: Really good segment that started an alliance between World Elite and the MEM.
Daniels vs. Eric Young: Really good match.
Beer Money/Team 3D vs. British Invasion/Booker T/Scott Steiner: Pretty good tag match.
Backstage riot: One of the best segments TNA has ever done. Didn't feel scripted at all and was very violent.
Traci Brooks/Alissa Flash vs. Sarita/Taylor Wilde: Really good match. Better than I expected as well.
AJ Styles vs. Matt Morgan: Pretty good match...
Sting vs. Brutus Magnus: Solid main event, though not spectacular by any means.
Excellent episode of Impact. Good wrestling all around and even better storyline progression. Can’t think of one flaw either…
Grade: A
8/13/09 Impact
Christy Hemme vs. Sojourner Bolt: Very bad match to open the show.
Hernandez vs. Doug Williams: Decent match to give Hernandez momentum going into Hard Justice.
Rhino/Jesse Neal vs. Eric Young/Sheik Abdul Bashir: Not much of a match, more of an angle. The Rhino heel turn was very rushed but still very interesting.
ODB vs. Awesome Kong vs. Tara vs. Angelina Love: Very good match.
Scott Steiner vs. Brother Ray: The weapons and the storyline saved this. If it was a regular match it would have sucked.
Foley/Nash contract signing: Pretty good actually. Nash wouldn’t put Foley through the table because he wasn’t getting paid to do it so Foley’s crazy self put himself through the table. Quite awesome.
Matt Morgan vs. AJ Styles: Good match and probably the best in their series.
Morgan/MEM segment: Great segment that added intrigue for the PPV and teased a Morgan face turn.
Not as good as last week but still really good. Wrestling was still solid and the storyline progression remained excellent.
Grade: B+
8/20/09 Impact
Opening segment: Really good segment that started the build to Angle/Morgan.
Beer Money vs. British Invasion: Really good street fight.
Angelina Love vs. Madison Rayne: Meh, more of an angle than a match.
Samoa Joe vs. Homicide: Pretty good.
Awesome Kong vs. Christy Hemme vs. Traci Brooks vs. Sarita: Really good match and Traci stealing the pin on Christy after Kong splashed her off the turnbuckle was awesome.
D'Angelo Dinero vs. Consequences Creed: Pretty good match to build Dinero.
Sting/AJ segment: Pretty good and started the build to Sting/AJ.
Kurt Angle/Matt Morgan vs. Team 3D: Not a bad main event.
Another excellent Impact. The Angelina/Madison squash match was the only real flaw and the good wrestling and storyline progression continued.
Grade: A
8/27/09 Impact
Samoa Joe vs. Suicide: Wasn't that bad, starting with a match is fresh, and the run-ins gave the X Division some focus and made a tag match for later.
World Elite/Hernandez segment: Pretty good. Bashir and Eric Young’s mic work was great and Hernandez played a great babyface throughout.
Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed vs. Traci Brooks/Sharmell: Was actually pretty good because Sharmell didn't wrestle in this at all. Kong and Saeed advance in the KO tag title tournament.
Rhino vs. Jesse Neal: Just a squash but heel Rhino is still awesome nonetheless.
Abyss vs. Motor City Machine Guns: Didn't care for the result at all but this wasn't a bad match at all.
Hamada vs. Daffney: AWESOME debut match for Hamada.
Samoa Joe/D'Angelo Dinero vs. Daniels/Suicide: Pretty good match.
Carter/Lashley segment: Pretty good. Lashley is more interesting in TNA than in WWE because he doesn’t speak as much, isn’t pushed super hard, and is allowed to be more than a black version of Goldberg.
Booker T/Scott Steiner/Matt Morgan vs. Hernandez/Sting/AJ Styles: Pretty good main event.
Pretty good show though not as good as last week. The good wrestling and storyline progression continues.
Grade: A-
9/3/09 Impact
Sting vs. Rhino: Pretty good match. The stuff afterwards made Rhino more interesting than he's been in a long time.
AJ Styles vs. Chris Sabin: Very good match. Shelley's commentary was awesome too.
Joe/Daniels segment: Very good. Note to Raw writers, THAT is how you push midcarders!
Doug Williams vs. Suicide: Really good. Suicide/Dinero feud continues too.
Tara/Christy Hemme vs. Sojourner Bolt/Hamada: Pretty good match. Christy/Tara advance in the KO tag title tournament.
Hernandez vs. Homicide: Pretty good match.
AJ Styles vs. Doug Williams: Very good match. Longer than both of their matches earlier in the night and was better too.
Sting vs. Hernandez: Good for what it was. Hernandez/World Elite was advanced and Sting advanced while Hernandez remained protected. Eric Young dressed as Homicide was awesome.
Final segment: Another awesome brawl though not as good as the backstage riot.
This show was awesome from start to finish, both wrestling-wise and storyline-wise. I can’t think of a single flaw in the entire two hours so it gets a perfect score.
Grade: A
9/10/09 Impact
Booker T/Scott Steiner vs. British Invasion vs. Team 3D vs. Beer Money: Pretty good match.
Angle/Morgan/Sting segment: Pretty good and built both Angle/Morgan and Sting/AJ.
Sarita/Taylor Wilde vs. Daffney/Alissa Flash: Pretty good match and Sarita/Taylor advance.
D'Angelo Dinero vs. Jay Lethal: Solid match to build up Dinero.
Beautiful People vs. Madison Rayne/Roxxi: Decent match, nothing special. BP advance.
Abyss vs. Dr. Stevie: Not a bad match at all and it being short was probably a good thing...
World Elite segment: Really good segment involving Eric Young and Hector Guerrero and built up the final segment really well.
Tara vs. Cody Deaner MMA match: Pretty bad but at least Deaner is so bad it's funny, unlike Hornswoggle vs. Chavo which is just plain shit.
Samoa Joe/Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles/Christopher Daniels: Pretty good match.
Hernandez/World Elite segment: Really good and Homicide's heel turn was very well done.
This show wasn't as good as last week but it was still really good. The wrestling and storyline progression were good once again and only the faux MMA match was bad.
Grade: A
9/17/09 Impact
Beautiful People vs. Christy Hemme/Tara: Angelina's last match and it wasn't a good one. BP advance to the finals.
Suicide vs. D'Angelo Dinero: Solid match.
Rhino/Devon promo: Once the insider references stopped this was a very good promo.
Hernandez vs. Kiyoshi/Sheik Abdul Bashir: Squash...
Alissa Flash vs. Cody Deaner: Very stupid match.
Mick Foley vs. Kevin Nash: Nothing but punches, elbows, and kicks pretty much.
Awesome Kong/Raisha Saeed vs. Sarita/Taylor Wilde: Decent match. Sarita/taylor advance to the finals.
Samoa Joe vs. Matt Morgan: Very bland and short.
Very disappointing show. The last several weeks were full of good wrestling while this was mainly squashes and stupid matches. The PPV build was good but this show felt underwhelming in terms of a show as a whole.
Grade: D+
9/24/09 Impact
Opening segment: Pretty good and a stable war between MEM and World Elite.
Suicide vs. D'Angelo Dinero: Really good street fight.
Brother Devon vs. Rhino: Good match and good angle afterwards with Rhino goring Brother Ray.
AJ/Sting segment: Very good segment to build to the BFG title match.
Sarita/Taylor Wilde vs. ODB/Tara: Solid match that was well booked with Kong getting Tara’s attention and ODB being mad at Tara for losing the match.
Samoa Joe vs. Homicide vs. Daniels: Good match.
Kurt Angle/Eric Young vs. matt Morgan/Hernandez: Solid match.
Alissa/Hamada segment: Awesome with Alissa beating on Hamada on a set of bleachers.
Bobby Lashley vs. Jethro Holiday: Boring squash match...
Abyss/Mick Foley vs. Booker T/Scott Steiner: Decent match, even better stuff after the match starting the Abyss/Foley feud.
Very good show. Lots of good wrestling and it started the BFG feuds very well.
Grade: A
10/1/09 Impact
Abyss/Foley promo: Awesome segment.
X Division title #1 contendership ladder match: Good match for what it was due to Red tearing the house down.
Kevin Nash vs. Dr. Stevie: Decent match actually.
Christy Hemme vs. Traci Brooks: Terrible match.
ODB vs. Awesome Kong: Good match.
Kurt Angle vs. Hernandez: Decent match.
Beautiful People segment: Decent at best...
Matt Morgan vs. Eric Young: Very boring match.
Bobby Lashley/Team 3D vs. British Invasion/Rhino: Decent match.
Good show. Not as good as last week but the show flowed really well and the wrestling was good once again.
Grade: B
10/8/09 Impact
Opening segment: GREAT Abyss/Foley promo.
Hernandez vs. Kevin Nash: Meh... they didn't click in the ring at all.
Samoa Joe vs. Amazing Red: Surprisingly enough, this didn't work for me. Lashley came out just as the match was getting started and it was mainly all angle from there.
Homicide/D'Angelo Dinero vs. Suicide/Daniels: Solid match.
Tag title match contract signing: Decent at best... the brawl is really starting to get overused.
8 knockout elimination tag: Best match on the show so far.
Sting/Angle segment: Pretty good.
Joe/Lashley brawl: This was pretty good.
Tara vs. ODB: This was pretty boring and I blame ODB.
Kurt Angle/Mick Foley vs. Abyss/Matt Morgan: Boring main event.
Not much in terms of action but a great show for hyping the PPV. Still a bit underwhelming though.
Grade: C+
10/15/09 Impact
Opening segment: Really good and hyped all the MEM feuds very well with the big brawl.
Beautiful People vs. ODB/Tara/Awesome Kong: Not much of a match.
Suicide vs. Amazing Red: Solid match and great build for the X Division title match.
Hernandez vs. British Invasion gauntlet match: Pretty good.
Tag team brawl: The second brawl of the show but both worked.
D'Angelo Dinero vs. Daniels: Good match and Homicide as Suicide was awesome. Great build for the X Division title match.
Foley/Abyss segment: Really good and built up Abyss/Foley very well.
Hamada vs. Alissa Flash: Really good match.
Rhino vs. Bobby Lashley: Pretty good ambulance match.
Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles: Awesome main event that was booked perfectly as neither guy could afford to lose at all heading into marquee matchups for their biggest PPV of the year.
Great show. The wrestling was good and a match that is probably the best Impact match ever was the main event. Great storyline progression too.
Grade: A
10/22/09 Impact
Opening segment: Very good segment that turned Angle face and explained that the MEM is no more.
Homicide vs. Amazing Red: Solid match and Homicide’s the new #1 contender.
Matt Morgan vs. Scott Steiner: Pretty bad match though it started a really entertaining Steiner/Lashley feud.
Kevin Nash/Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles/Daniels: Good match.
Awesome Kong vs. Raisha Saeed: Decent match actually as it wasn't a squash and it did its job of writing out the Raisha Saeed character.
Hernandez vs. Rhino: Solid match that furthered the conspiracy theory angle.
Motor City Machine Guns vs. Lethal Consequences: Very good Ultimate X match and MCMG are #1 contenders to the tag titles.
British Invasion vs. Beer Money: Great Six Sides of Steel match.
Final segment: Very good. I generally don’t like wrestlers being rushed into title reigns, but if Desmond Wolfe isn’t champion by this time next year, something is very wrong. This was an awesome segment.
Excellent Impact. The whole show felt like the beginning of a new era with new bar graphics containing the wrestlers’ height, weight, finisher, years pro, etc., and the wrestling and booking was excellent as well. The only bad part was Morgan/Steiner but even that had something redeeming about it so…
Grade: A
10/29/09 Impact
Opening segment: Great Angle/Wolfe promo exchange and it made the main event too.
Tara vs. Alissa Flash: Solid Knockouts match and Kong lays out Tara after the match.
Motor City Machine Guns vs. Team 3D: Solid match with the aftermath building up the conspiracy theory angle very well.
Eric Young vs. Bobby Lashley: Complete squash until Steiner attacks Lashley for the DQ.
World Elite segment: Pretty good segment that built up the Nash/Young and Beer Money/British Invasion feuds well.
Beautiful People vs. Hamada/Christy Hemme/ODB: Decent knockouts tag match.
Abyss vs. Dr. Stevie: Pretty decent No DQ match for what it was.
Matt Morgan vs. Rhino: Very bland match that furthered the conspiracy theory angle.
Kurt Angle vs. Desmond Wolfe: Pretty good main event that put Wolfe over VERY strongly.
Another good Impact. Not as good as last week but the matches were still very solid overall and the PPV build was top notch.
Grade: B+
11/5/09 Impact
Opening segment: This was Dixie addressing the roster in the Impact Zone before the show... not a very good segment as it felt pointless and was pretty boring.
Styles/Daniels/Joe segment: Very solid promo exchange between the three to build their feud and made Styles vs. Daniels for later with Joe as guest ref.
Beer Money vs. Rob Terry/Eric Young: Very boring match.
Desmond Wolfe vs. Cody Deaner: Absolute squash although Wolfe's promo afterwards was brilliant.
AJ Styles vs. Daniels: Didn't happen due to the mystery attacker attacking AJ.
Tara vs. Hamada: Decent match though quite short.
Foley/Abyss segment: Great promo exchange between the two and a match is made for next week.
Bobby Lashley vs. Homicide: Absolute squash... not the way to use the #1 contender for the X Division title.
Taylor Wilde vs. Madison Rayne: Ridiculously short women's match.
AJ Styles vs. Daniels: Solid match though it only got 5 minutes.
Matt Morgan/Hernandez vs. Team 3D: Not a good main event.
This show felt very rushed and thrown together.
Grade: D
11/12/09 Impact
Abyss vs. Dr. Stevie: Not a good match outside of Raven's return.
Alissa Flash vs. Traci Brooks: A squash match though Flash working on Traci'shandicapped arm was excellent ring psychology and a great heel move.
Jay Lethal vs. Jim Neidhart: Not a good match at all.
Awesome Kong/Beautiful People vs. Tara/ODB/Sarita/Taylor Wilde: Pretty good KO tag.
Angle/Wolfe segment: Awesome segment to build to their match at Turning Point.
Amazing Red/Motor City Machine Guns vs. World Elite: Pretty good X Division tag match.
3D/Rhino/Morgan/Hernandez segment: Another great segment where Dinero's announced as Morgan and Hernandez's partner for their six man tag at the PPV.
Beer Money vs. British Invasion: Pretty good tag match.
Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles: Solid main event although quite short.
Pretty good show. The matches were good for the most part and the PPV build was even better.
Grade: B
11/19/09 Impact
Opening segment: Very good promo exchange between Foley, Abyss, Stevie, and Raven and a match is made for later.
Scott Steiner vs. Amazing Red: Red gets squashed pretty much, and he's also the X Division champion. Bad booking...
Motor City Machine Guns/Beer Money vs. World Elite: Pretty good tag match.
Hamada vs. Taylor Wilde: Very good Knockouts match.
Raven/Dr. Stevie vs. Abyss: This was a pretty good match actually.
Alissa Flash vs. Sarita: Another good Knockouts match.
Team 3D/Rhino vs. Matt Morgan/Hernandez/D'Angelo Dinero: Pretty good street fight although Jesse Neal returning with THAT look was just bizarre.
AJ Styles/Kurt Angle vs. Daniels/Desmond Wolfe: Very good main event.
Very solid show outside of Red being used as fodder for Scott Steiner. Good matches and started a lot of new storylines.
Grade: A
11/26/09 Impact
Bobby Lashley vs. Abyss: Pretty good match.
Desmond Wolfe vs. Suicide: Pretty good match.
Kurt Angle vs. D’Angelo Dinero: Pretty good match.
Homicide vs. Robert Roode: Pretty good match.
Knockouts battle royal: Pretty good match.
Bobby Lashley vs. Desmond Wolfe: Pretty good match.
Kurt Angle vs. Robert Roode: Pretty good match.
Styles/Daniels promo: Pretty good.
Bobby Lashley vs. Robert Roode: Pretty good match and Lashley’s #1 contender to the TNA title.
No real storyline progression (hence why I didn't expand upon much of anything) but this was a Thanksgiving episode and everything was good so…
Grade: A
12/3/09 Impact
Opening segment: Very good promo exhange between Angle and Desmond Wolfe to build their feud.
Alex Shelley vs. Doug Williams: Very solid match.
Homicide vs. Suicide: Very good X Division match.
Trash Talkin' With ODB: Not a very good segment due to the mic work, but I do understand what they were trying to accomplish with it.
D'Angelo Dinero vs. Jesse Neal: Pretty bad match.
Beer Money vs. Eric Young/Kevin Nash: Very boring tag match.
Lashley segment: Decent segment, mainly because Kristal did all the talking in it.
Daniels vs. Abyss: Pretty bad match.
Dixie interview: Meh... this was just more Hogan build that took place during a build to a PPV that was very lacking.
Hamada vs. Sarita: Pretty good match.
Kurt Angle vs. Raven/Dr. Stevie: This main event was basically a handicap jobber squash. Very anticlimatic finish.
VERY boring show... it got off to a hot start but after the first half hour it really colled off due to substandard matches and excessive Hogan promotion.
Grade: D+
12/10/09 Impact
Opening segment: Nash was great in it but it gave me the feeling that I'd be in for a long night.
Chris Sabin vs. British Invasion: Match was good but Sabin beating three guys?
Awesome Kong/Scott Steiner vs. Bobby Lashley/Kristal: This was what I expected pretty much. Not much of a match.
Hamada vs. Eric Young: Hamada was VERY impressive but the match was rushed and Young still looks weak by needing the ropes to beat a girl. Any casual fan checking out the show would not take him seriously, and he's supposed to be a big deal too which makes it worse.
ODB vs. Tara: Despite the stupid gimmick this match was probably the best on the show.
Handicap tag match: Solid but Neal pinning Hernandez was just dumb. Neal still looks very unmarketable with his new look, not to mention that he's still very inexperienced, and he pins the guy who had tons of momentum two months ago after an unimpressive spear. Terrible booking.
Velvet Sky vs. Lacey Von Erich: This mud wrestling match was what I thought it would be.
AJ Styles vs. Desmond Wolfe: They gave this match away for free in a 5 minute main event. The action was good but they really should have waited till a later PPV or given it a few more minutes.
It was better than the spoilers made it out to be but it still wasn’t a very good show. Being wacky for the heck of it isn’t a good idea when you have a HUGE show coming up in a few weeks.
Grade: C-
12/17/09 Impact
Opening segment: This advanced the boring Foley/Nash stuff and the brawl made TNA look very low rent.
ODB vs. Roxxi: Solid match, badly booked… Roxxi beats the KO champ cleanly before her PPV match. Way to make the champ look strong!
Brother Ray vs. Matt Morgan: Boring match with Ray actually winning.
Beautiful People vs. Hamada/Awesome Kong vs. Taylor Wilde/Sarita: This lasted two minutes and was sloppy for much of it. Ugh…
Jay Lethal vs. Tatanka: Better than the match with Neidhart but still not great and this challenge being monthly means that it can’t gain any momentum.
Dixie/Jarrett segment: BORING! Dixie has zero charisma and this Hogan stuff is getting more focus than the PPV build.
Daniels vs. Desmond Wolfe: Great match that was well booked, BUT they’re giving this match away already?
AJ Styles/Abyss/Bobby Lashley/Tomko/Kurt Angle vs. British Invasion/Scott Steiner/Raven/Dr. Stevie: Decent enough match but a lot of the focus was on the outside and this just didn’t do a good job of selling the PPV.
VERY boring Impact in a string of lackluster shows. WAY too skit-heavy and it feels like they’re just phoning in the shows until Hogan comes in. Ugh…
Grade: D
No comments:
Post a Comment