Impact wrestling thread - It's a Don West tribute thread now!

[CTXRussomark]

Steiner looked like a star (of course) but that whole segment seemed totally backwards. Heel getting the surprise pop spot, babyfaces doing the ridiculous overselling and running away, badass heel chasing them out of the building. Hardly makes me want to root for the good guys. 

[tiger_rick]

Jesus, that was terrible. The crowd don't appear to know who he is. Parks overacting is embarrassing and JB's bug eyes are no better. Steiner looked good and whacked a plant but those fuckwits ruined it.

[ColinBollocks]

Aye. Steiner is one of the few people I'd bother changing the channel for, but that entire production has put me off. Came off as so bad.

[garynysmon]

Tiger Rick, you are right of course. I'm going back a few years now, but I could swear there wasn't as long a gap when they used to tape in the Impact Zone before starting those costly 'on the road' tapings.  Can anyone recall?

[Guest]

Love me some Big Poppa Pump but fucking hell, ZERO reaction he got there. Dreadful stuff

Exhibit A why I don't watch this show. 

Edited May 27, 2017 by sj5522

[Chris Brooker]

Probably for the best that the viewing party in Manchester on Friday didn't go ahead.

That could have been embarrassing.

[Jon-Carr_92]

I recall that thing of missing tapes happened during its short lived stint on that Virgin 1 channel. Anyone else remember that? It only lasted about 6 weeks.

[Jazzy G]

That period on Virgin 1 was during that spell where Russo hit the reset switch and was booking some surprisingly coherent stuff.No swerves, no stupid angles, just surprisingly straighforward wrestling. Things were looking interesting for a few weeks then the Hogan-Bischoff era started and threw it all out of the window again.

[Really Big Shoe]

Have Spike UK aired the correct episode yet or will it be shown this Friday?. 

[Egg Shen]

went on My5 last night to watch it, the last episode on there is the one aired on the 20th, dopes.

[air_raid]

I tried to watch it the other night. Up first was a tag match with I assume Hector Garza's kid and a lad I didn't know against two lads I didn't know, managed by Homicide and calling themselves LAX.

Thought I'd try and stick with the show until I saw something approaching a direction featuring what would obviously be the more important characters... in the very next segment I got Magnus arguing about whether he'd get a title shot... with Bruce fucking Prichard. That was enough for me. That one segment told me "it's not for you, raid" so I gave up on wrestling for another night. Bruce fucking Prichard. No.

[Jon-Carr_92]

He's his nephew. Did Hector have any kids? Remember him appearing a few times for TNA as well.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

TNA's always going to have that WWE C show vibe to it isnt it? The funny thing is, their producer Kevin Sullivan, director Keith Mitchell and Jeremy Borash are really fucking clever with the technology and editing. The backstage stuff on a shoe string is wonderful. Borash was shooting for Konnan's Crash promotion in 4k the last month and it looked great. Their backstage stuff looks very slick, but they you have the disconnect of the same of shite storylines they were doing at the Fairgrounds back in 2002 with the feuding announcers and world champions who get stripped of the belt and the referees bumping all over. They could have a cool show on their hands if they had better ideas and a better structure to the program.

[Egg Shen]

I'm really enjoying Impact at the moment. It's probably down to the fact that it's been a while since ive followed a weekly show and that im bored senseless with the WWE. It's a decent 90 minute watch, especially with the random nature of the programming at the moment.

Following on from what Ian said though, the pre-tapes and video packages are really good, there's some shite in there but im enjoying the variety across the show.

[eugenespeed]

Double bill of Impact this Friday on Spike to make up for their error last week.