By Will Pruett

- Eric Bischoff actually entered to decent heat this week. I don't know if he riled up the crowd beforehand or if they just got lucky with the crowd in the Impact Zone that night. Either way, good for him and good for TNA.

- Team Eric Bischoff, as introduced at the top of the show, would be a fantastic Lethal Lockdown team. Bully Ray, Kazarian, Daniels and Gunner make a formidable heel contingent. Without the eventual fifth member being added, this would be a great team.

- I don't appreciate the booking of the Lethal Lockdown match to have nothing on the line for anyone but the Bischoff men. Why not guarantee a title shot to the winner of the match, just to assure that everyone has something to fight for?

- Is there really a reason to protect Mr. Anderson? I know he is a Hogan guy and has been ever since the Hulkamania Australia tour, but he has meant nothing to the company for two years. It's choices like the odd disqualification that lead to Gunner winning this match that make me question what TNA's creative team is doing.

- With Joseph Park being told to go after Immortal, will he actually advance his storyline at or after Lockdown? He has been interesting, but he really needs to move forward to keep from being stale.

- Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley did a really nice job of reminding everyone just who they are and what their history is. They also spelled out their motivations and the reasons why they deserved a title shot very well.

- Magnus is one of the best promos in TNA. We've all known about his potential for a while, but it is quite surprising to see him really stand out the way he did on this show. Magnus and Joe vs. The Motor City Machine Guns was explained and built nicely as a babyface tag team encounter on this show.

- I wish the Tag Team Championship match was not occurring inside of a steel cage. The match would make so much sense as just a standard tag team affair.

- Mexican America randomly interrupting this show worked as a comedic device, but I didn't appreciate the story-telling elements of it.

- Austin Aries, as a recently turned babyface, is a another good addition to the babyface Lethal Lockdown team. I appreciate the effort to run with him, without completely changing who he is as a character.

- Aries and Christopher Daniels had a fantastic match. It was the best match on the show and a great treat for fans of great wrestling. Aries is on a crazy good hot streak in the ring and on the mic. His style translates well into a babyface style and Daniels mixed with him perfectly. This would be a great upper-mid card rivalry.

- Jeff Hardy's short promo did a decent job of selling a match that is already sold for a lot of fans. His match with Kurt Angle at Lockdown will be a spectacle. The announcers hyping it by questioning what risks Hardy will take reinforced that. I do sincerely hope that Angle will be safe in that match instead of the near-death experience we saw in his match with Jeff Jarrett at Lcokdown last year.

- James Storm is being promoted as the Nashville hometown star and (if the fans attending the show actually watch Impact weekly) that should do him some good at Lockdown. TNA has the rare opportunity to create a major moment with this match and I hope they take care of it instead of throwing it away (like they did with Bobby Roode at Bound for Glory).

- The Eric Young and ODB wedding will be one of those segments that people watch on YouTube for years due to the sheer absurdity of it. It will also never actually make money for a promotion. I understand that sometimes comedy is necessary, but this felt more like a writer trying to create a YouTube sensation than a good wrestling segment.

- I wish Sarita would have had to do her striptease segment in the silly mask she was forced to wear a few months ago.

- The parody of all wrestling weddings would not have been complete without an interruption. It lead to a rather silly moment that I was not a huge fan of with everyone stripping, but the interruption itself was necessary.

- Bully Ray and A.J. Styles had a decent little match going until it fell apart with outside interference. Of course, given the match they're headed into, that is the only way the match should end.

- Is anyone surprised that the heels will have the man advantage in Lethal Lockdown? The backstage coin toss from War Games would be a much better way to accomplish this, as much as I enjoyed the individual matches on this show.

- Hulk Hogan should know that you never say "three minutes" to Eric Bischoff.

- Rob Van Dam is a fine addition to the Lethal Lockdown match, but where does he go afterwards? With the lack of motivation he has shown in TNA, I would not trust him anywhere near the main event scene.

- The video package shown about James Storm and Bobby Roode was absolutely fantastic. It must be seen to be believed. TNA's production team did a great job interspersing clips with promo and enhancing this feud in the process.

- The Knockout's tag match felt out of place between the main event segments. There was a nice flow from the Lethal Lockdown announcement to the Storm and Roode package. It easily could have carried over to the main event promo segment as well.

- Velvet Sky got the pin on Gail Kim, but the real test comes on Sunday. I have doubted her in-ring work, but I am willing to give her a shot on Sunday. Hopefully she and Kim can put together a match that doesn't come off as bad as most Velvet matches do.

- Bobby Roode and James Storm had a great exchange to close this show. Beginning with a review of their history together and ending with a deeply personal insult, it all worked. They captured what we have all wanted to see from them since the initial breakup of this team. Beyond all of the cheap victories, this is the feud fans want to see.

- There is an intensity to Roode and Storm that definitely justifies a steel cage. While the booking in the last few months has not backed that up, these two great performers certainly brought that in their closing promo.

- I could say more, but I am just going to encourage you to go watch the show-closing Storm and Roode promo for yourself. It's worth your time.

This was a pretty good go-home show. TNA really tuned up the intensity and they also did their best to make the Lethal Lockdown match mildly attractive. The focus of 75% of this show was on Sunday and it is hard to complain about that. It did get silly with the wedding segment, but that wedding did not ruin the show, although it did get long.

In the end, I'm walking away from this show more excited about Lockdown on Sunday than I was when I started watching it. Isn't that the major point of a go-home show?

Let's do some good old fashioned talking about this show! Feel free to email me at itswilltime@gmail.com or to follow me on twitter at twitter.com/itswilltime.

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