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TNA Final Resolution – One Shot Reactions

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Ryan Kester (Twitter - @TheRyanKester):

Show Grade: C-

• The Imact Zone crowd did this PPV absolutely no favors. They sat on their hands the entire night and that took away from several matches that would have otherwise been good.


• Unfortunately, during some of the matches I could understand why the crowd was quiet. TNA did a terrible job of hooking me tonight and I found myself constantly getting distracted because the show simply didn't feel important.


• Kurt Angle vs. James Storm was every bit the entertaining match I thought it would be. This was one of the matches that could have used a hotter crowd, but I have to give credit to both men for the effort they displayed this evening. 


• Similarly, Austin Aries and Kid Kash put on a great show The crowd was unable to really get into a heel vs. heel match as I feared, but the match Aries and Kash delivered was unique and fun.


• TNA did their fans a disservice with the end of the PPV. The iron man match was going great but it ended ona  sour note with the lukewarm draw and the end result left me feeling like I wasted the past thirty minutes of my life. That's not the feeling a company wants to leave its most loyal customers with at the end of a PPV.

• I thought the cage match was a pretty good cage match by TNA standards. Once you accept that even though a cage was designed to prevent outside interference, there is going to be outside interference, it gets easier. This was minor interference, and I thought both Jeff's worked hard enough for this to get a pass. Even if the story itself is stupid.


• Roode and Styles delivered a good iron man match that suffered from a dead ass crowd (see above) and a very uninteresting AJ Styles character. This was the crispest match of the night by far. AJ's springboard 450 was especially nice. But as I have said many times, work rate alone won't get you there, no matter how good it is.


• TNA has to get out of the Laser Tag Arena™ for PPVs. This felt like I paid $40 for a house show (or whatever it cost), which would be a ripp off. At least at house shows I don't have to listen to Tenay and Tazz.


• Gail Kim and Mickie James weren't given enough time to do anything special, and the match suffered greatly from yet another cheap finish. That's a shame. They seemed to be on their way to a passable match that I would have accepted, assuming it was the beginning of a longer feud.


• Storm vs. Angle was good, though Storm seemed to be winded, if not completely blown up, by the end. Once again the ending on this one wasn't right. Angle should have gone over to keep the feud alive, and Storm's superkick just didn't feel like a finisher there.

• RVD and Daniels was a good opener, but I really don't see why RVD is relevant in 2011. He's the same guy he was in 1998, and not really in a good way.


• The Knockouts match was an exercise in how good matches go wrong. Gail Kim looked like she's going to have a pretty nice thigh bruise tomorrow, but she wrestled competently. Mickie also had good moments in the ring aside from whatever she was wearing, and in the end neither woman was put over in any meaningful way. Madison was late and Mickie had to wait for her, and it gave away the finish earlier than necessary. Never mind that the finish was lame in the first place.


• James Storm and Kurt Angle wrestled a very good match with a clean finish. If there is anything to pick on it's that Storm looked to run out of gas mid match and didn't get his second wind until late. Luckily he got it back together and finished the match strong.


• Cage matches aren't bad in and of themselves, but they always put wrestlers in the position of having to do ridiculous things. There were several moments in this match where in any sane world someone would have just walked out of the cage, and it sucks you right out of the show. It's not either guys fault, it's just the nature of ridiculous precedence of the way cage matches have been booked in this era.


• Roode and Styles put on one hell of a wrestling exhibition, but the lukewarm nature of their feud and the quiet crowd led to what felt like a match without suspense. I enjoyed it because I love good wrestling, but in the end I didn't feel like I was watching a major spectacle, and that is a shame.

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