Friday's Impact Wrestling Card, News, and Notes

[cero2k]

Source: pwinsider.com

Matt Hardy will be the guest on this week's episode of Taz's podcast.
Scheduled for this Friday's TNA Impact Wrestling:

*TNA champion Bobby Lashley vs. MVP - Streetfight on the streets of NYC.
*Low Ki & Eric Young vs. Kurt Angle & Bobby Roode.
*Matt Hardy vs. TNA Tag Team champion James Storm.
*EC3 vs. Jeremy Borash.
*Koya vs. Tigre Uno.
*Havok vs. Gail Kim.
*Feast or Fired: Samuel Shaw vs. Crazzy Steve vs. The Bromans vs. Rockstar Spud vs. Gunner vs. The Wolves vs. Bram vs. Magnus vs. Austin Aries.

There will be two new episodes of TNA's Greatest Matches as well:

Friday 1/23 at 1 PM - Best of TNA Knockouts:
*Tara vs. Mickie James - TNA Final Resolution 2010.
*Angelina Love vs. Madison Rayne - Victory Road 2010
*Mickie James vs. Madison Rayne - Against All Odds 2011.

Saturday 1/24 at 12 PM - Best of Samoa Joe:

*Samoa Joe vs. Sting - Victory Road 2009.
*Christopher Daniels vs. Sting - No Surrender 2009.
*Samoa Joe vs. Pope Dinero - Lockdown 2011.

Destination America will be replaying the Best of Sting episode Friday at 2 PM. They will air the Best of Kurt Angle Parts 1 and 2 on Friday at 3 PM and 4 PM.

At 7 PM this Friday, Destination America will replay the first episode of Impact Wrestling: Unlocked.

TNA will be returning to German TV ON DMAX this March, airing a 90 minute version of Impact Wrestling. There will be a six episode test run before the Network decides whether to go forward. Discovery put the deal together.

[Big Red Machine]

Source: pwinsider.com


There will be two new episodes of TNA's Greatest Matches as well:

Friday 1/23 at 1 PM - Best of TNA Knockouts:
*Tara vs. Mickie James - TNA Final Resolution 2010.
*Angelina Love vs. Madison Rayne - Victory Road 2010
*Mickie James vs. Madison Rayne - Against All Odds 2011.

Saturday 1/24 at 12 PM - Best of Samoa Joe:

*Samoa Joe vs. Sting - Victory Road 2009.
*Christopher Daniels vs. Sting - No Surrender 2009.
*Samoa Joe vs. Pope Dinero - Lockdown 2011.

WHOA! The idea that the Angelina-Madison match or the Mickie-Madison match are on a "Greatest Matches" show is almost silly, and the idea that they would put ANYTHING from Victory Road 2009 on anything called a "Greatest Matches" show is completely offensive to me as a fan.
These aren't "best matches," they're matches, and if you put on a "best matches" show that features a bunch of mediocre stuff, people will assume that your best matches are just mediocre.

[cero2k]

Source: pwinsider.com


There will be two new episodes of TNA's Greatest Matches as well:

Friday 1/23 at 1 PM - Best of TNA Knockouts:
*Tara vs. Mickie James - TNA Final Resolution 2010.
*Angelina Love vs. Madison Rayne - Victory Road 2010
*Mickie James vs. Madison Rayne - Against All Odds 2011.

Saturday 1/24 at 12 PM - Best of Samoa Joe:

*Samoa Joe vs. Sting - Victory Road 2009.
*Christopher Daniels vs. Sting - No Surrender 2009.
*Samoa Joe vs. Pope Dinero - Lockdown 2011.

WHOA! The idea that the Angelina-Madison match or the Mickie-Madison match are on a "Greatest Matches" show is almost silly, and the idea that they would put ANYTHING from Victory Road 2009 on anything called a "Greatest Matches" show is completely offensive to me as a fan.
These aren't "best matches," they're matches, and if you put on a "best matches" show that features a bunch of mediocre stuff, people will assume that your best matches are just mediocre.

i was wondering about this and i just plain don't think that they're actually doing 'best' matches, and if they are, they're considering that they need to run this show for a long while and may want to keep some matches for later dates, otherwise i don't see how any Joe vs 'Pope Dinero' would be any better than Joe vs Angle. Same with the KOs

[Big Red Machine]

Source: pwinsider.com


There will be two new episodes of TNA's Greatest Matches as well:

Friday 1/23 at 1 PM - Best of TNA Knockouts:
*Tara vs. Mickie James - TNA Final Resolution 2010.
*Angelina Love vs. Madison Rayne - Victory Road 2010
*Mickie James vs. Madison Rayne - Against All Odds 2011.

Saturday 1/24 at 12 PM - Best of Samoa Joe:

*Samoa Joe vs. Sting - Victory Road 2009.
*Christopher Daniels vs. Sting - No Surrender 2009.
*Samoa Joe vs. Pope Dinero - Lockdown 2011.

WHOA! The idea that the Angelina-Madison match or the Mickie-Madison match are on a "Greatest Matches" show is almost silly, and the idea that they would put ANYTHING from Victory Road 2009 on anything called a "Greatest Matches" show is completely offensive to me as a fan.
These aren't "best matches," they're matches, and if you put on a "best matches" show that features a bunch of mediocre stuff, people will assume that your best matches are just mediocre.

i was wondering about this and i just plain don't think that they're actually doing 'best' matches, and if they are, they're considering that they need to run this show for a long while and may want to keep some matches for later dates, otherwise i don't see how any Joe vs 'Pope Dinero' would be any better than Joe vs Angle. Same with the KOs

That still stands to my point, though: By calling a show "best of" and then presenting mediocre crap, you're just telling people that your "best" is mediocre. This is a company with a long history. Between years of great X-Division stuff, Gail vs. Kong matches, AMW vs. Triple X, LAX Title defenses, etc., they could easily be putting on shows that much better represent the "best of TNA" with a lot of history left to spare for the future (and, you know, presumably they are always making more great matches, too, which they could use as future fodder for this show).