Jay Lethal officially has a contract with the company now. It also looks like Matt Morgan is probably coming in at some point. Norman Smiley has also been hanging around a lot lately but hasn't been signed for any kind of deal.

Against All Odds Card:

NWA World Heavyweight Title Match:
Jeff Jarrett © vs. Christian Cage

Team 3-D vs. winner of online poll

NWA X Division Title Match:
Samoa Joe © vs. AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels

James Gang vs. Konnan and Homicide

WOW that 3 way for the x-division makes ZERO fucking sense.

I thought this was common knowledge, but TNA isn't known for its booking. Generally, this is the PPV top matches...

Jarrett vs. Random Opponent, usually someone recently signed

or

Jarrett/Tag Partners vs. 3 Top Babyfaces of Random Choice


AMW vs. Flavor of the Month

Random X-Division Match, except no Alex Shelley, because apparently he isn't good enough to challenge for it instead of yet another Daniels/AJ/Joe combination.

I'm all for that three way, although I agree it makes no sense. It's better than AJ vs. Shannon Moore or Petey Williams.

Plus, it's no different than WWE running the Wrestlemania 20 rematch one month later at Backlash...

Rematches generally makes sense, especially of the champions just lost the title.

According to the the tapings Daniels is really pissed off at Styles for throwing in the towel in their match. It will probably make more sense on tv since the Impact spoilers are notorious for not being a good representation of the shows.

Wait... THROWING IN THE TOWEL? Oh god, they're stealing WWF's booking for Bob Backlund in 1994. It worked then, but Backlund lost the World Title after 5 years. Daniels lost a title match, and he's gonna get about 500 more.

It's still a cool touch with Joe's bloody towel and everything. The angle these three have been involved in is so much better than anything in WWE, too. Plus the wrestling's actually, you know, good.

Hey. what's up with Sting quitting at the tapings? Anybody know?

It's only leading to him...

1. coming back at the PPV and turning heel.

2. coming back at the PPV to help Christian win.

Most likely.

He can't work the PPV for some reason so it's a storyline to keep him off the show. I imagine it'll be him coming back shortly after with Christian and company convincing him that he still has it.

They're also interested in Christy Hemme and Harry Smith as well. I think both would be good signings for them. Smith could be a star with the right push and Hemme seems eager to become a good talent.

Everyone knows my stand on womens wrestling in america, so I'll ignorer Hemme. Harry Smith sounds like a good pick up, but they'll probably be pushing his fathers legacy instead of him on TV.

I think Morgan would be a better pickup than Smith would be. I think Morgan would be huge for TNA.

While I agree that Morgan could be a big star, I disagree with signing him. TNA is packed with too many people as it is. Throwing more people in is insane, unless they get more TV time. To develope a young wrestler into a star needs lots of TV Time, not 1 minute squashes and 30 seconds of grunts.

You could just bring him in as Jarrett's bodyguard in the current storyline. I think when Lesnar's case is over next month and can work anywhere that he needs to be in TNA in March. I know they only have an hour a week but they need heavyweight talent. And I imagine they'll probably see a second hour sometime in 2006.

You proved my point with Morgan... why does every top heel have to be associated with Double J? The guys a midcard loser and no one buys him as a main eventer, no matter how many people he has protecting him.

He only appeared on WWF tv for about two months and they saddled him with an awful stuttering gimmick. He was massively over in OVW and TNA has proven in the past that they can take forgotten WWF talent and turn them into main eventers that people buy into.

But not with zero time. Ron Killings was pushed during their weekly 2 hour PPV's and when they had about 4 people with talent. Now they have a roster much too large for their promotions size and TV deal, and the only people they bring in are established Indy guys that ROH gets over.

Killings got over on the strength of 1 promo he cut. He got a huge reaction the next week, was given a title shot and then won it a week or two later. Rhino got hugely over based on 1 video package they made about him before Turning Point. Raven created the biggest TNA program ever by DDTing Jarrett.

But you need to advance on those instances. They did that with Killings and with Raven. Raven got 20+ minutes a week on the PPV's, and Killings became World Champion with a 3-4 month reign. Rhino is dead in the water as far as I'm concerned. He got a lame duck reign for 2 days and has been in the midcard ever since, doing random stuff.

Yeah, but Rhino's also probably the most over face on the roster right now too. He gets huge reactions whenever he appears and most importantly he seems to be more motivated than at any point in his career.

They've also built Samoa Joe into something special by just giving him wins, wins and more wins. He's cut 1 promo since then and that was less than a minute and probably better than any promo that will get cut in the WWF this year. BG James also cut an amazing promo in less than a minute. The whole LAX/James Gang feud has been amazing and none of those segments have ever gone longer than 5 minutes.

You can easily build people up. It's just we're used to the WWF where everything takes 20 minutes.

Please don't take this as an offending response, but big fuckin' deal that Rhino is "over" in front of the same 800 people every week. So is Lance frigign Hoyt, and he sucks ass. TNA needs to travel before crowd reactions mean anything. Also it doesn't help that they are a bunch of marks who cheer everyone except Jarrett and Canada.

I understand that but you have to gauge crowd reactions to a point. I have the Killings show and he got the title because of the crowd. But then Shamrock was a dud as champion.

See? Also Ron Killings got over because he was good. His first appearences on TNA PPV he got very little reactions and was feuding with a NASCAR Driver.

Honestly, Scrooge, Rhino is FUCKING OVER with marks. Every mark I talk to LOVES Rhino. They're always disappointed that WWE didn't do more with him, and are stoked when I tell them he's still wrestling. I don't know what it is, but I think it's the fact that he has a "don't fuck with me" look. The dude is a fucking tree, after all.

Damn right, Rhyno is the man.

::Goes back to booking my EWR game where Rhyno has been champion for over a year::

Bah, I've never liked Rhino/Rhyno, and not because he's in TNA. It's no surprise I've never been a fan of the ECW guys, but that's not wht either. Rhyno rarely did anything in WWE from 2001-2005 that made me go "this guy is pretty good." His matches were never bad, but they didn't stand out either, and after the neck surgery, his good matches were fewer and further between.

See, match quality doesn't matter as much to the marks. They just want a badass who looks like he's gonna kill someone. And that's what Rhyno is