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Yeah, the crowd just kept chanting for Joe. At one point I heard an awkward, single "Lets go crimson!" chant and the rest of the arena was quiet. Was it me, or when Joe had the single leg on him was the fans chanting "Tap! Tap! Tap!"?
No, that awkward single chant was in the sting match when that girl started yelling stings name by herself.
 
Idk man I think Crimson is pretty shit. I think his generic 'undefeated streak' gimmick is lame (not even a # to the streak to help add some mystique to it) I think he is way to fucking A.) green and B.) generic to warrant the push he is getting.

His look is pretty much all he has being ginger and tan and muscled and tatted. outside of that he is awful in my opinion

edit: not to mention Joe is being completely wasted in this feud by putting him over. Joe is the 2nd most over guy on the TNA roster behind AJ so he shouldn't be dwindling away in some pissant feud. The guy is 32 and can still go



The big 3 are this lockdown and bgf
Agree. I don't get the Crimson love in this forum. Anyone that is on the Crimson band wagon needs to watch that match again and see how bad he was botching things up. I couldn't help but think if this kid was wrestling a ppv match like this back in the old days against someone like Haku, Rick Steiner, or Bob Holly how fucked he'd been in the ring.
 
Yeah, the crowd just kept chanting for Joe. At one point I heard an awkward, single "Lets go crimson!" chant and the rest of the arena was quiet. Was it me, or when Joe had the single leg on him was the fans chanting "Tap! Tap! Tap!"?
Yeah, Joe was really over in that match. Even though he lost, Joe definitely showed signs of his former self who terrorized TNA 5-6 years ago.

Also, Ray looks to be in the best shape he's been in for years. That LMS match was sick and AJ stole the show like he always does.
 
The one part of the show that I was worried about, Sting/Anderson, had decent brawling.

It was about as good as you could hope from a Sting/Anderson match and the right guy won. I know I want to watch this Thursday to see what develops from it.

I did learn one thing: A top 3 PPV for a company needs better commentary and a better venue. If they could have went on the road, got a venue that could hold 4 or 5 thousand people, and pack it the PPV would have gone from a really solid and enjoyable 3 stars to a 4 star PPV.

You don't notice how much commentary and crowd adds or detracts to a PPV until you see Impact do a nice PPV to 1000 people just barely giving a damn. Lockdown, Slammiversary, Hard Justice and Bound for Glory should NEVER be in the Impact Zone.

One of the first orders of business should be finding, at a minimum, a quality 3rd man in the commentary booth, if not firing both Tazz and Tenay and starting fresh with a new 3 man crew.
 
Not a good show at all.

Not to say it was devoid of merit - The opener was decent, AJ/Bully Ray was very, very good, and Angle/Jarrett was a good match too.

However, there was about a 90 minute period that was absolutely terrible. Steiner/Morgan was bad, the three way match was so fucking ass backwards it completely killed the crowd and was impossible to enjoy, Mickie and Angelina blew, and Samoa Joe and Crimson was, and I hate to say this, but it was fucking abysmal. Sting/Anderson started well then flatlined, and there is too much bullshit in this company to get away with a finish like that, especially when there is no emotional attachment to this belt or the guys involved given the booking.
 
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