The Impact Before Lockdown and Lockdown
Mar. 18th, 2014 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99The only thing I'm really going to say about the Impact before Lockdown is that it nicely set up Lockdown, and that it made Davey Richards (if I've got that Wolf's name right, when I say I call the American Wolves "little wolf" and "big wolf", I am not joking) look a million dollars.
Oh and it turns out the way to get me to like Anderson is to get him to actually do something to actively be a good guy, like defending Christy Hemme.
Lockdown:
Now I know I always say I hate cage matches because of the level of danger, but I do like that they've gone back to Lockdown being all cage matches because what's the point in calling your event "Lockdown" if they're not all going to be locked down.
I approved of the Wrestle-1 crossover matches, even if I could have done with the X-division title change actually being announced before the match. I get what TNA are going - 'go to our house shows, stuff happens' but I'd like to have actually seen Aries vs Sanada. It was also quite clever to put the guys who have experience of wrestling in Japan in the match.
The Sam Shaw match set its shenanigans up quite early on even if it was at the worst possible moment, the bit where he went "there's no point threatening to jump off that cage, it won't kill you and you'll probably just break an ankle and look even stupider than you do now." Wrong, horribly wrong, but very funny.
Hello there new masked people and hello there Manik. Flippy flippy nonsense of the good kind.
Loved the Gunnar vs Storm match, especially Storm's new evil music. The Knockouts match was also good, as was the little bit with EC3 and the surprise return of Bobby Lashley.
That was where the goodness ended.
The Samoa Joe vs Magnus match had the stupidest ending! We're talking back to the terrible Jarrett endings back in the day. It was going so well and everything, and then suddenly Joe gets sucked under the ring by a mysterious hand. Which, of course, is Abyss. Who has decided for whatever reason to do Magnus out of the title.
It is beyond stupid and there is a good reason why the crowd were chanting "bullshit".
Of course, with one of the main events ending in stupidity, you can guess that the second one did. Not as much stupidity but you can imagine, I was not in the mood for it.
I can't complain too much, it's TNA, land of enjoy the under-card and try to forget the main event.
Oh and it turns out the way to get me to like Anderson is to get him to actually do something to actively be a good guy, like defending Christy Hemme.
Lockdown:
Now I know I always say I hate cage matches because of the level of danger, but I do like that they've gone back to Lockdown being all cage matches because what's the point in calling your event "Lockdown" if they're not all going to be locked down.
I approved of the Wrestle-1 crossover matches, even if I could have done with the X-division title change actually being announced before the match. I get what TNA are going - 'go to our house shows, stuff happens' but I'd like to have actually seen Aries vs Sanada. It was also quite clever to put the guys who have experience of wrestling in Japan in the match.
The Sam Shaw match set its shenanigans up quite early on even if it was at the worst possible moment, the bit where he went "there's no point threatening to jump off that cage, it won't kill you and you'll probably just break an ankle and look even stupider than you do now." Wrong, horribly wrong, but very funny.
Hello there new masked people and hello there Manik. Flippy flippy nonsense of the good kind.
Loved the Gunnar vs Storm match, especially Storm's new evil music. The Knockouts match was also good, as was the little bit with EC3 and the surprise return of Bobby Lashley.
That was where the goodness ended.
The Samoa Joe vs Magnus match had the stupidest ending! We're talking back to the terrible Jarrett endings back in the day. It was going so well and everything, and then suddenly Joe gets sucked under the ring by a mysterious hand. Which, of course, is Abyss. Who has decided for whatever reason to do Magnus out of the title.
It is beyond stupid and there is a good reason why the crowd were chanting "bullshit".
Of course, with one of the main events ending in stupidity, you can guess that the second one did. Not as much stupidity but you can imagine, I was not in the mood for it.
I can't complain too much, it's TNA, land of enjoy the under-card and try to forget the main event.
