Impact Tapings in Ottawa...

[groovyphoenix]

I won tickets (honestly one of the only resons I went to the show) so I checked out last night show, overall? Lots of room to improve, and I say that in the best possible manner!

I mean I'll give the perfect example.

EC3, Some guy and "Fah Bah?" I think is his name wrestle in a 3 way 3 round 3 minutes, if there is a tie it goes to the judges...

So Round 1 goes to Fa Bah... and all I could think of was "Bah bah black sheep have you any whool"?

Round two goes to EC3...

Round 3... SHOULD have gone to the other guy in the mix, and they sure a hell made it LOOK like he was the clear dominant guy in ring knocking around EC3 AND Fah Bah, right down the the "2 second 3 count pin" where you know time JUST runs out... It goes to the judges, Clearly this round should be to that guy (I didn't get his name and he's not famour to me)

So to me? I see it this way "3 way tie, its a clear draw AND Ec3 would retain based solely on the fact you can't exchange on a draw... Move on build up TWO possible feuds...

Instead they stupidly declare EC3 winner of round 3 (he spent most of the 3rd round on his ass taking an ass kicking) but SOMEHOW he wins the round AND the match... NO FUCKING SENSE!

I'd have prefered to see a draw that would allow 2 guys to be elevated to the next matches...

TONS and I mean TONS of "misses" that even my son who is NOT an avid wrestling fan commented "Is it supposed to be obvious they didn't hit him?" I just chuckled and shook my head. if a guy like my son can spot it, then they are missing by a country mile and its obvious... NOT GOOD!

Womens division... Knockouts (if you can call them that) have returned to the days of yore where T&A and Hair pulling punching and kicking is the norm, 1... yes /1/ wrestling move in teh match the rest was a roll in the hay boring as fuck match. I have seen indy talent better in Ottawa do TONS better.

Overall? Impact needs to get someone who knows HOW to book and tell a COHERENT story!!! Then, they need to build their talent. I am willing to overlook a few whiffs for the sake of improvement but this is just putrid at this point.

[Christian Small]

Personally I've given up any hope for this company. They've been running for over 15 years now, if they don't know what they're doing at this point they just won't at any point.

[groovyphoenix]

Nov 10, 2017 14:21:27 GMT -5 Christian Small said:

Personally I've given up any hope for this company. They've been running for over 15 years now, if they don't know what they're doing at this point they just won't at any point.

The problem isn't the talent (though a lot of it is still green) it's the direction, stupid finishes, booking that also makes no sense, the insistent desire/need to copy WWE or hire WWE ex talent instead of hiring new fresh talent is what's killing them.

When they hired Hogan and Bischoff it went downhill. Hogan fed them a bunch of bullshit and they bought it hook line and sinker.

[Christian Small]

Nov 13, 2017 11:30:12 GMT -5 groovyphoenix said:

Nov 10, 2017 14:21:27 GMT -5 Christian Small said:

Personally I've given up any hope for this company. They've been running for over 15 years now, if they don't know what they're doing at this point they just won't at any point.

The problem isn't the talent (though a lot of it is still green) it's the direction, stupid finishes, booking that also makes no sense, the insistent desire/need to copy WWE or hire WWE ex talent instead of hiring new fresh talent is what's killing them.

When they hired Hogan and Bischoff it went downhill. Hogan fed them a bunch of bullshit and they bought it hook line and sinker.

We've been hearing the same thing for years now. I feel I've said the exact same thing. They have the talent, it's the overall running of the company that's the problem.

[Milky]

I watched BFG and was hugely disappointed. Not by the in-ring, but yeah by the booking. Hardly any faces won, hardly any titles changed hands, and hardly any matches ended with a clean finish.

[groovyphoenix]

Nov 13, 2017 13:37:47 GMT -5 Christian Small said:

Nov 13, 2017 11:30:12 GMT -5 groovyphoenix said:

The problem isn't the talent (though a lot of it is still green) it's the direction, stupid finishes, booking that also makes no sense, the insistent desire/need to copy WWE or hire WWE ex talent instead of hiring new fresh talent is what'
s killing them.

When they hired Hogan and Bischoff it went downhill. Hogan fed them a bunch of bullshit and they bought it hook line and sinker.

We've been hearing the same thing for years now. I feel I've said the exact same thing. They have the talent, it's the overall running of the company that's the problem.

Sadly it's all we can hope for, they have lost tons of talent at this time and at this point I would think almost any Indy darling will stay away from them for a while, which means they need to rehash and rebuild. Wht I do know is, what I saw was ok, nothing stellar for certain and the story lines (or lack of an real cohesion) made zero sense to me things happening for no reason other then to get an influenced reaction from the crowd.

[siredger]

Am I the only one who spotted Franky the Mobster during the Grado/Joseph Park segment last week?

(Sorry, big fan of Franky I am so that's the first thing I noticed lol)