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Dixie is now also stealing Steph's clothes. Remember the roll-neck jumper and leather skirt of power? That exact look.

I'm kind of hoping that Samoa Joe becomes the next big hero to stand up against Dixie but I doubt it.

Oh god, Storm just mentioned AMW. My heart squeaked. Also, James Storm, quit yer whinging (on this occasion).

Oh Dixie is sneaky evil.

I like EC3's trunks.
Oh Spud, you're doomed. Joe's gonna try to kill you.

Sam Shaw does a good ravening psycho. By which I mean, he's doing a good job but I don't get why they're doing this? Also, why is interview guy antagonising him?

I'm not sure they know what they're doing with James Storm. Because he was definitely a bad guy last week, and whingy person this week, but the backstage-y bit with Kurt Angle is definitely good guy stuff. I'm in favour of shades of grey, particularly with my guys, but ...

I love Samoa Joe. (And Dixie is brilliantly evil, because she's slowly damaging the people most likely to come rescue AJ.) Also, they've just put Storm in the category of "decent people who support AJ", which causes me yet more confusion as to whether or not I'm supposed to be booing him or cheering him.

I love that Sting is still trying to see the best in Dixie and convince her to return to the light side of the Force.

I love Bobby Roode even though he's evil. And I love that Kurt Angle's response to Roode showing up was a giant smile.

Apparently only one of Kazarian and Daniels are allowed a first name at any given point in time, seeing as how Francois was just intro'd as "Kazarian".

Bully Ray is legit terrifying. I still disapprove of bringing Anderson's family into it, but I grant Bully Ray is once again doing his best.

(Okay, just from that flashing second in the main event, I want it known that I would do many, many terrible things for a Style vs Ion match.)

The referee has done had enough, and it was Bad Influence that drove him to it. (Also, Earl Hebner just smacked Spud and sent him flying, I think we know where Spud stands on the to be beaten up pecking list.)

Damn it Bobby Roode, you're a fiend! (Um, okay, fine, fine, I got caught up in the match despite everything.)

You know what, if that was Styles's last match in TNA, they gave him one hell of a send off. The man who nearly beat unbeatable odds. It was like a cracked out highlight reel of AJ's TNA era. Complete with lots of Daniels.


I have no idea what TNA is going to do without AJ Styles.

There's part of me that thinks it might be good for them because they can't keep relying on "have written ourselves into a hole, throw in a Styles match and it will be okay". But at the same time, as long as they had him, that was 15 minutes at least on each PPV sorted, plus TV time.

And he was the face of the company. Grab a wrestling fan, ask them to name the firsts thing that comes into their mind when you say TNA, after clustercuss, and I'll bet you a penny to a pound that Styles's name will come up. That's despite the last two years having mostly been wasted on two angles of great sucktitude.

It's going to be a weird few months getting used to this.