"TNA iMPACT!" 08-03-06 Talkback (Spoilers)

[Condiment King]

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STING WILL ANSWER CHRISTIAN CAGE
This Thursday night on “iMPACT!”, Sting will answer the offer from Christian Cage to be in his corner at the “Hard Justice” Pay-Per-View when he faces Jeff Jarrett for the NWA World Heavyweight Title! What will Sting’s final decision be? Will he bring backup in the form of Cage to the PPV? Plus, what will Jarrett and Scott Steiner have to say about all this? Tune in and find out!

TNA MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR JIM CORNETTE TO APPEAR
Also on the broadcast, TNA Management Director Jim Cornette will appear, and rumors are he will have some major announcements to make concerning the “Hard Justice” Pay-Per-View on Sunday, August 13! Also, Cornette has told TNAwrestling.com he plans to address the Jeff Jarrett vs. Sting match for the NWA World Heavyweight Title!

WHO WILL MANAGE THE CAREER OF BOBBY ROODE?
Following the break-up of Team Canada, “The Canadian Enforcer” Bobby Roode has become one of the hottest free agents in wrestling. According to TNA management, several names have inquired about leading his career in recent weeks. It was revealed that the interview process to determine who manages Bobby Roode will start Thursday night on SpikeTV!

In addition – “The Franchise” Shane Douglas promises a bigger, much more important test for The Naturals, The Latin American Exchange will be in action and the stars of TNA’s X Division will hit the ring with their high-flying, daredevil moves!

Also appearing on the broadcast will be all of your favorite TNA stars including NWA World Tag Team Champions AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels, Samoa Joe, Rhino, Abyss, The Alpha Male and many more!

Also this Thursday night, more matches will be announced for the August 13 “Hard Justice” Pay-Per-View event! Check back to TNAwrestling.com on Monday afternoon for the official match rundown for Thursday’s broadcast on SpikeTV!

[Condiment King]

The Latin American Exchange's feud with Styles and Daniels is one of the most hilarious things of all time. Konnan rips another hilarious diatribe on the two "gringos" as the team beat down Chasyn and "Mr. 630" Jerrelle Clark. Then, of course Styles and Daniels interrupt. Styles is hilarious here with his facial expressions as well as his desperate attempts to vent anger on his opponent.

BREAKING NEWS from Jeremy Borash that Sting had accepted Christian Cage's proposal. Who cares? Then, Jeff Jarrett and Scott Steiner just happen to be there. What a coincedence. Slick Johnson shows up for no reason.

Another good Bobby Roode promo, but I wish he was just wrestling.

AMW vs the Naturals was alright. What wasn't was Jeff Jarrett and Scott Steiner coming out, and then the whole ordeal with Larry Zybesko. Zybesko sounded almost like a robot here. It was downright grating. Furthermore, I thought Zybesko was a heel. On top of that, why are guys like Zybesko and Slick Johnson getting face time over some other guys on the roster? Dumb.

Wow, forget what I said about Zybesko's promo. Senshi's promo was downright abysmal and confirms for me that his mic skills are terrible. He sounded just like a robot as he said with the charisma of someone reading, things about his opponents. And what he was saying was stupid as well, really hollow things like "Shelley should pay attention to everything, not just what is in front of his camera!!!" I'm still having a hard time digesting that the belt came off Samoa Joe the second time around in that triangle match with Senshi and Sonjay Dutt. What a step down from AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels earlier.

A great....five-way. They might as well have just had a 3 vs 3 and thrown in Johnny Devine. I'm glad that Petey Williams won this match, and that he continues to get built up, even if he's getting zero mic time.

Sting hypes up his match with Jarrett. These solemn promos are alright I guess. Jarrett's from last week was actually some of his better mic work.

Good segment with Jeremy Borash and Eric Young, which is really shaping up to be a comedy duo. I like how JB digs at Eric Young, "Tough luck, Eric!" Then, Eric's line to Christian Cage later: "We're Canadians." Great stuff.

Cornette's emergency meeting was lackluster. He announced a bunch of matches that we all figured were happening already anyway. Well, except the fatal four way with the tag teams. Might as well have just had Tenay or West announce them. Steiner's promo in the ring was just bizarre (Canada = Mexico NORTH??), but that's pretty par for the course from Steiner. Christian in the two segments he was in was probably the best mic work from him in weeks.

Finally, I find myself flabbergasted at TNA's ability to make something so simple be so complicated. They did it with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at Slammiversary and No Surrender. They do it here with this Christian-Steiner nonsense. It could have easily just been Christian vs Steiner at Hard Justice with a stipulation on the Jarrett vs Sting match being that noone was allowed at ringside. It could have easily been just, "well, Christian will be in Sting's corner and Steiner will be in Jarrett's corner" as an afterthought. But no, we've went through all this about virtually nothing. Well, at least we have a main event next week instead of just a closing segment. Kudos for the Sting fan spot at the end though. That was funny.

[Hyper Shadow X]

The five way what I saw of it was great i really like those type of matches.

[MGFanJay]

The five way had the cool stuff, the rest of the show was just... there.

[The Penguin]

I hate the way Jeff Jarrett always picks on the non-wrestlers. It’s just stupid that he’s so paranoid that he constantly accuses the announcers, referees, etc. of knowing everything. Why the hell is a referee going to be in an official position to know where Christian is? It’s possible that he could know, but Double J always asks like a big secret is being kept from him.

Cripes, LAX has their own entrance area now? This is just ridiculous. So was how short that match was.

“Let’s make one thing straight?” Great work, K-Dawg. :rolleyes:

Something about Samoa Joe in a polo shirt just isn’t very intimidating. I know it sounds stupid, but it just made him seem too normal. Not the killing machine that wears a towel around his neck.

I wouldn’t mind Traci with Bobby Roode if they won’t put her back with Bentley, but is Roode really going to turn down men the caliber of James Mitchell and Shane Douglas (and I guess, Simon Diamond) in favor of a hot chick?

When their win was followed by a beat down, I gotta say, the ‘newly Franchised’ Naturals looked a lot like the old Naturals with the outfits and the Shane Douglas intro being the only difference.

“You think you have what it takes, I dare you to take what’s mine.” I must admit, I wasn’t feeling Senshi’s promo at first, but it got better as he went on. It really felt like it was just fed to him and he read the lines though.

Good to see Petey Williams win the number one contender match, I am officially looking forward to seeing how this all comes out.

His clever (and true) McMahon comment aside, Jim Cornette already doesn’t feel that special. His announcements were neat, but the stories laid out most of that stuff for him (ooh Runt vs. Abyss) that Mike Tenay could almost make these announcements during commentary (great minds think alike, CK). For the life of me I couldn’t figure out if Christian and Steiner are facing each other for the right to be in the corner or if James E. was just giving them permission to take the other man out.

Jeff Jarrett in disguise was cool one time and one time only—when he was one of the Villanos in the early days of the New Blood in WCW. And based on Zbysko’s comments from earlier in the night, Jarrett should be fired.

[VCXZX]

Lax's entrance was great. And Konnan was better than Mike Tenay as announcer. he should be the new full-time announcer. I'm getting sick of tenay and West, and those awful confronations with everyone.

And the hilarius LAX/Styles-daniels feud continues. http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif at "Los pantolones" Daniels must have failed Spanish in high school. http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif At least Styles did a great job selling that finisher, with the neckbrace.

I don't get how Eric Zybseko is a face after months of heeling it up. Also, I like how they played Jarrett's awful theme even after being kicked out of the building. http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif What a stupid promotion at times.

Senshi's promo was hilarious as well. He would make a great stand-in for the TNA announcer. http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif

I like the Borash/Young segments as well. I do wish Young gets paired with a more sympathetic personality than Borash.

Cornette was good, but most of the last segment fell flat. and why is Joe standing with the other heels instead of the faces? More nonsense from TNA. Steiner did have a great line here "And I apologize to all the Mexicans out there." http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gifhttp://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gifhttp://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif http://67.18.37.14/html/emoticons/laugh.gif If Steiner had hilarious promos like that when he was with the WWE, maybe his wouldn't have had a disasterous run there.

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I don't get the hating on Senshi's promo. Yeah, it was kind of awkward, but he seemed more unpracticed at it, unlike AJ who, for the last two weeks anyway, is just laughably bad.

[Mr.HeathBell]

Im tired of Slick Johnson being given a personality. Wouldn't it make more sense to have Larry running around all over the place sending out Jim Cornette's word since he is supposed to be punished?

LAX is great. The work stoppage gimmick was stupid but now that LAX is going around being extremely disruptive it is great. I think we'd all rather listen Konnan and Moody Jack are much better than West/Tenay. It's hilarious to hear Konnan calling Jerelle Clark a white boy. The feud with Styles/Daniels is absolutely hilarious. AJ is such a hick and it shows. AJ and Daniels just come off as complete dorks.

Joe is talking way too much. Once a month would be a good limit.

Naturals vs AMW was ok but I don't see the point of the AMW problems. I completely forgot Sirelda existed and I look forward to forgetting she does after Hard Justice.

The Senshi promo was awful. It just boring and downright bland. The 5 way match was nothing special. It was the usual circus X division match, everyone showed off their moves and that was that.

Christian Cage and Eric Young is funny stuff. The "We're Canadians" line was great.

Company meeting whatever boring.