Due to an extremely busy week that including helping fellow Wrestlementary writer Dave Parrish film a video for his NGO Operation Save the Earth (check out his website: http://www.operationsavetheearth.com)' I didn’t get separate reviews for Impact and Smackdown posted.
Therefore, I will include brief reviews of both shows in this week’s Week in Review.
WWE – Road to Night of Champions.
Ok, so apparently WWE doesn’t want anyone to watch this show, for just $9.99. Why else would they put on a pathetically week Raw and Smackdown on the air?
RAW was a 5/10 show and I think that was generous.
SMACKDOWN was better, with better overall matches, but suffered as well. Watching Smackdown without already knowing Night of Champion was Sunday, who would have known?
Neither show was good. As broadcasts to hype up Night of Champions, they were poor.
SMACKDOWN RATING: 5.5
MATCH OF THE NIGHT: Heath Slater versus Adam Rose.
WRESTLER OF THE NIGHT: There wasn’t one.
IMPACT OF THE NIGHT: There wasn’t one.
TNA
This past Wednesday TNA Impact Wrestling lived up to its name for the first time in a long time. This show was Total Non-Stop Action that made an Impact.
One In-Ring Promo to open the show and 5, yes 5 matches. Three of them title matches and one with title implications.
Perhaps it was that this was the No Surrender broadcast. As Mike Tenay said, ‘PPV quality on TV.’ Of course, I think every broadcast should follow that formula.
This was without any doubt the best TNA Impact Broadcast in a long, long time. That is something, considering that the last month TNA has been putting on good shows and have turned a corner.
I only really have two complaints: 1) there was no EC3. So, his streak as the best part of Impact is broken.
2) This was one of the last, if not the last, Impact taped at the Manhattan Center. I think the venue, the fans, the energy and just the great vibe went a long way to affecting the show on a positive level. Even the talent seemed to be on a high in NYC, where many seemed disenfranchised before.
I am curious to see if they continue this level of quality. Also, how the fans will be in the Impact tapings from Bethlehem, PA
Rating: 8
Match of the Night: Three-Way Ladder match between The Wolves, The Hardys and 3D.
Wrestler of the Night: Bobby Lashley.
Impact of the Night: Impact Broadcast itself.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Last night, Chris Rose, Dave Parrish and I attended the local AWF (Arizona Wrestling Federation) show. It was an awesome show that blew away what the WWE put out this week. Full throttle action, great matches, two great women wrestlers and a great crowd.
A full review is planned for this coming Wednesday.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Impact ruled the airwaves this week. Their Broadcast far and away surpassed Raw and Smackdown in pure quality and it has been a long time since I felt like that.
WWE should have step it up on doing the go home shows, but instead it feels like no one on the company realized Night of Champions was THIS weekend.
MATCH OF THE WEEK: MAJOR UPSET – Match of the week is Chris Evans versus Alex Sinister from AWF Retribution.
WRESTLER OF THE WEEK: BOBBY LASHLEY
IMPACT OF THE WEEK: The Impact Broadcast itself.
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