I dont get all the praise.
The one thing I can appreciate is the lack of sportz entertainment. There were a couple of interviews, but they amounted to "I am the best, and Im going to beat you", the kind of angles we were looking at in the 80's.
The in ring product hower, was pretty week. There were a few nice looking moves, but most of them were flubbed pretty badly, and everyone on that show seems to really enjoy reversing moves.. I mean, a reversal is cool, but its like playing DOA after a while, reversales get reversed, just way too much shit. Also, these guys oversell. the matches are set at 10 minutes (an intresting idea, with Rhodes picking the winner if time runs out) and these guys start selling like they have been in HITC with trips smashing them with a sledgehammer for an hour. Moreover, the selling isnt very good.. they sell like they are dying, but in an unconvincing lita kind of way.
Im going to try out another one of their PPV's shortly because the one I have seen was much better than Impact! was today.. they seem to sprinkel their talent thinly on Impact, which is a shame as they could really use a big hit here.
Overall: Didnt see a memorable match, just about everyone does a ton of high flying Rey Rey/RVD type of moves, but not nearly so well (and it gets old with so many people doing that kind of stuff).. the big plus is the lack of Sportz entertainment bullshit.. it would be nice on Raw if I could just have Kane attack Matt Hardy one day a month ago and have the two of them fight for 10-20 minutes a night instead of all this lita bullshit.. but at the end of the day, the in ring product just doesnt stack up.. at all. So while I aplaud them for more in ring product in an hour show than the WWE gets in a two hour time slot, what I saw wasnt worth my time.
The one thing I can appreciate is the lack of sportz entertainment. There were a couple of interviews, but they amounted to "I am the best, and Im going to beat you", the kind of angles we were looking at in the 80's.
The in ring product hower, was pretty week. There were a few nice looking moves, but most of them were flubbed pretty badly, and everyone on that show seems to really enjoy reversing moves.. I mean, a reversal is cool, but its like playing DOA after a while, reversales get reversed, just way too much shit. Also, these guys oversell. the matches are set at 10 minutes (an intresting idea, with Rhodes picking the winner if time runs out) and these guys start selling like they have been in HITC with trips smashing them with a sledgehammer for an hour. Moreover, the selling isnt very good.. they sell like they are dying, but in an unconvincing lita kind of way.
Im going to try out another one of their PPV's shortly because the one I have seen was much better than Impact! was today.. they seem to sprinkel their talent thinly on Impact, which is a shame as they could really use a big hit here.
Overall: Didnt see a memorable match, just about everyone does a ton of high flying Rey Rey/RVD type of moves, but not nearly so well (and it gets old with so many people doing that kind of stuff).. the big plus is the lack of Sportz entertainment bullshit.. it would be nice on Raw if I could just have Kane attack Matt Hardy one day a month ago and have the two of them fight for 10-20 minutes a night instead of all this lita bullshit.. but at the end of the day, the in ring product just doesnt stack up.. at all. So while I aplaud them for more in ring product in an hour show than the WWE gets in a two hour time slot, what I saw wasnt worth my time.
