NWA-TNA's 'Impact' debuted on Fox-Sports last Friday. It's the first non-WWF national wrestling show since Vinnie Mac bought the major competition and ECW folded.
They've been hyping how this will be a new evolution of wrestling product, something different than the WWE, complete with futuristic laser lights and a six-sided ring.
What it actually reminded me more of was WCW Worldwide.
The new ring is interesting, but no-one on the debut show really did anything special with it. I also don't really see how doing the PPV's every week from Nashville in the regular ring, while doing something physically very different on Friday is going to work.
On the debut show we had a six-man tag match between Team Canada and Team International. It was about a six minute spot fest. Average X-match.
Abyss squashed Shark Boy, AMW (Kitten and Jim) defeated Kid Kash and Dallas for the tag titles, and AJ styles won a number one contender's match for the X-title.
All fine and good and quite a bit better than the regular editions of Explosion, but I still couldn't shake the feeling that I was watching a WCW product, and after the final years of that company, that isn't a good thing.
I just didn't see much innovation, other than cosmetic differences.
Maybe in the coming weeks we'll see something different, but I really don't see this show inspiring that many people to buy the PPV's.
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