TNA Against All Odds 2007 Final Card

[bmurderh8s]

If he'll admit he's a WWE mutant I'll admit I'm an ECW mutant.

Only difference is I mark for a company that died 6 years ago so I have no fear of the competition.

[swarm]

The difference is TNA sucks balls so when you get a positive review you know it's a mutant.

I don't know if you guys know this but the WWE is factually hotter right now than they have been going into any Wrestlemania in over 5 years.

Numbers don't lie. WWE rules TNA drools.

[Aquinas]

The Grammies will likely be the most watched show of the week....doesn't mean that that pile of crap is better than all the other shows on network television.

[Wildfire]

Just for the record DMK, Swarm often quotes stuff from the Observer, and usually mentions it is so... as such, I (and probably many others) assumed that's where it came from, I don't think he was trying to imply any insider-ness.

To me, the biggest indicement on the show is when Crimson Cross, pretty much JUST posts to hype TNA, says the PPV 'could be better', one can definitely assume it wasn't that great.

I actually didn't see any really bad booking decisions on this one (as far as wins and losses go, that is), it just was a card that didn't do anything for me, and checking the results further made me think 'meh'

On the plus side for TNA, I'm sure that got a Sports Center mention with the Torborg-Hoyt thing.

[swarm]

aquinas said:

The Grammies will likely be the most watched show of the week....doesn't mean that that pile of crap is better than all the other shows on network television.

Ok you're right man. WWE sucks. The highest ratings and income draw in 5 years has nothing to do with it.

You guys are brilliant.

[Vidtek]

Hey, my buddy Hoyt got a win...OK so it was over Dale Torborg but still a W is a W.
Swarm hates on TNA, I'm getting used to that. He'll never say anything positive about the company. Don't try to get him to. He's been drinking the E's kool-aid for too long.
And for anyone who thinks that Vince can't put on a bad PPV...I give you the month of December...
Big Time

[swarm]

You want me to say something positive about TNA? Sooner or later they will be off of my TV since they suck they cannot possibly stay on spike. There.

[swarm]

Here is a whole page of reviews on this crappy show. I'm sure all these paying fans are drinking WWE kool-aid too.

2/12/2007 2:21:00 PM
More TNA Against All Odds feedback



Best Match: THE Austin Starr vs. Senshi
Worst Match: Christy Hemme vs. Fat Naked Oily Guy

Thumbs way, way down on this show. The only reason I purchased this
show was because I had the feeling that the crowd would turn on it at
some point during the Hemme/Oily Guy match, and I love it when that
happens. So, I paid them my $30 for that, and the crowd delivered by
chanting rather derogatory remarks toward one Vincent Russo. THAT WAS
GREAT~! Besides that, there was absolutely no reason whatsoever to
purchase this show.

Also, Senshi not breaking kayfabe on Observer Live last night also a
thing of beauty and probably my second favorite thing of the evening.

That is all.

-Chuck Humphreys

Thumbs Down

Best Match: Cage/Angle

Worst Match: Hemme/Big Fat Oily Stripper Guy



This is first TNA pay-per-view I have ever seen live, and after this, it will probably be the last. The Christian/Angle match was actually a really good match, stupid run-ins aside. The only problem was the rest of the card was so full of gimmicks, chair shots, table dives, pizza slicers, cheese graters, chains, nightsticks, dumpsters and prison cells that the crowd was just burnt out by the time of the main event. The booking in this promotion is absolutely atrocious, plain and simple. TNA has so much potential that it’s just sad to see how bad this show is. Whatever Vince Russo had in 1998 that made him successful, he no longer has it or that same formula no longer works.



Here’s what Against All Odds WAS successful at: burying the X Division even further, making Samoa Joe look like and idiot since he was the ringside enforcer and Angle lost by interference, continuing a gimmick with Bobby Roode that was outdated in 1994, making a table spot seem so commonplace it’s no longer a big deal, continuing the unexplainable push of Lance Hoyt, burying the Pierzynski/Eckstein match-the only thing that could get them any mainstream press-on a card full of stupid gimmick matches- and making it almost positive that I’ll never get a TNA pay-per-view again.

Jason London

Best Match: None in particular

Worst Match: Team 3D vs. LAX

Position of my Thumbs: Thumbs Down

Well, it's official. Vince Russo's incompetence has not only ruined TNA's weekly TV show, but it has also ruined TNA's monthly PPVs. Even with the horrible TV shows of the past few months with three-minute-long matches and endless amounts of terrible skits straight out of 1999, at least I could look forward to seeing a few of TNA's stars have a good wrestling match or two on PPV every month. Well, that's no longer the case.

Where were TNA's three best in-ring workers? Samoa Joe was a damned "ringside enforcer," AJ Styles was in a chain match, and Christopher Daniels wasn't on the show at all. So, we didn't get much in the way of quality wrestling (watching an addict push himself closer and closer to the edge of the cliff does not count), but we did get plenty of horrible skits, overbooked matches, and just plain stupid finshes.

Russo's incompetence almost makes Stephanie McMahon look competent by comparison, which is a very difficult thing to do. Jarrett, Russo, and Co. managing to con ignorant, naive Dixie Carter into thinking that Russo is anything but the absolute worst of pro wrestling bookers may very well be one of the great con-jobs of recent years in any business of any kind.

But hold on, I can't wait for the scaffold match next month! (Actually, yes I can.) I guess I'm going to be buying more Ring of Honor DVDs in the future if this is the kind of garbage that TNA is going to be producing.

Sincerely,
Ivan Trembow

Thumbs Up
Best Match: Lynn vs Sabin
Worst: Tuxedo Match (This was even worse than watching Walter Johnson work years ago, and that's really saying something).
The pre show match and the first two matches were all good. Then came time for "The Kiss Of Death" Show, courtesy of Russo. The tuxedo match...the horrendous skit...the video with Eric Young...WOW. What a way to put the brakes on early. This crap just about killed the rest of the show for me. How can Russo still hold that job? It's unbelievable. TNA is doomed if Russo is allowed to stay.

Tom Hankins
Los Angeles

[Aquinas]

I never said WWE sucks. I watch ALL their shows. Smackdown is my favorite.

I'm just saying your opinions on the matter of TNA are dubious. If it's SO wretched that you want it gone, why go on and on and on about how bad it is? You're kinda obsessed with something you hate so much.

TNA's pay-per-view didn't seem that good....Russo has seemingly brought their quality down....but it's far from worthless. Their upper tier is on par with a lot of guys getting weekly time on the WWE shows.

[swarm]

I watch it for the same reason anyone else would. I am a wrestling fan and would like to see a good show. Not my fault they suck balls. I don't write that crap.