TNA iMPACT! last night was built around the return of the Champions Challenge, and on paper, that should have made the episode feel like a major turning point on the road to Slammiversary. The concept is strong. Champions are placed in danger. All-Stars have a chance to earn future title opportunities. The stakes are easy … Read more
TNA Slammiversary should feel bigger than this. That is the part I keep coming back to as a longtime TNA Faithful watching the company one month away from its biggest show of the summer. Slammiversary is not just another pay-per-view. It is TNA’s anniversary event. It is supposed to be the show where the company … Read more
TNA iMPACT! arrives tonight with a card that looks busy on paper, but the bigger question is whether any of it will finally start making TNA feel like a company one month away from Slammiversary. Sunday, June 28th is not just another date on the calendar; it is TNA’s anniversary show, its biggest show of … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT was a show built around the women’s division carrying the night, a new challenger emerging for the Men’s Speed Championship, DarkState trying to explain why it cut out one of its own, and Tony D’Angelo suddenly finding himself in the middle of a title picture that has multiple bodies circling him … Read more
WWE NXT returns tonight with a show that has to do more than simply put matches on the board. Last week’s episode was built around new faces making statements, champions being dragged deeper into trouble, and a tag team main event that ended with DarkState kicking Saquon Shugars out of the group in one of … Read more
Last night’s episode of WWE LFG felt like the cleanest example yet of why Season 3’s format change has been the right move. The show is no longer bogged down by team points, forced reality-show tension or coaches trying to win a competition against each other. It is now exactly what it should have been … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt like one of those episodes where the brand was clearly trying to reset the board while still pushing several new faces into bigger spots at the same time. It was not a perfect show, and there were definitely moments where the promos felt forced, the pacing felt a little uneven, … Read more
WWE NXT comes into tonight’s show feeling like a brand caught between a reset and a full-on identity test. Last week’s episode was not perfect, but it did a strong job of showing where NXT is creatively right now: fresh faces getting real TV time, established names trying to hold their spots, the women’s division … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt like another step in the brand’s current reset, but it was also a show that proved NXT is still trying to figure out exactly which stories are ready to carry the summer and which new faces need more time to breathe. The episode had a lot going on: Naraku finally … Read more
WWE NXT enters tonight’s episode feeling like a brand that is being rebuilt in real time, and that makes this show more important than the average week at the Performance Center. Last week’s episode was chaotic by design, with Tony D’Angelo surviving Tavion Heights in the main event before Mason Rook laid out the NXT … Read more
