I've just read a description of the main event. It sounds hilariously bad.

how fat is tomko

Really gone downhill now, if I was running TNA i'd fire him. He might then try to get in shape to get one last run in WWE with Christian perhaps.

he never has struck me as a guy who would go to the top of wrestling

six days to go till mania

Can't wait either bud.



C'mon Taker and HBK, let's have another match of the year from you guys.

Cookie-cutter look, no charisma, no personality - could have predicated it 5 or 6 years ago to be honest.

Thoughts on MITB? I reckon the winner should be either Christian or Kofi.

Would prefer Christian to win personally.

Fantastic worker who has carried "ECW" for the last year and never complained (even though he should have been getting a push on Raw or SD).
Underrated by some, but those within the business respect him as extremely talented, time for a major Christian push IMO.

My breakdown of the guys in the MitB match:

Kane: Ladders are hardly his thing. Will most likely be used to help with spots as he's probably the strongest guy in there

Kofi Kingston: Spot Monkey

Evan Bourne: Super Spot Monkey

MVP: Perennial mid-card guy. Making up the numbers

Christian: The only guy I can really see winning this match. He was pretty much carrying ECW while champion and as the MitB match is usually used to spring-board a midcarder up to world title level I think this will be his year

Dolph Ziggler: Space filler

Shelton Benjamin: This guy baffles me. A few years ago he had the world at his feet but he's clearly upset the wrong people backstage as he constantly seems to flounder round the bottom of the midcard which is a shame as he's very talented in the ring.

Jack Swagger: Yeah.....



Matt Hardy: Desperately wants to get away from the fact he's Jeff's brother. Is still popular with the fans, but buggered if WWE want to acknowledge this fact or that they don't know what to do with him.

McIntyre: I know this guy is IC champ but that's likely as far as he'll get

The guys who may have half a chance of winning it out of that lot are Kingston, Christian, Ziggler and Mcintyre.

C'mon everybody - HLA! HLA!





Christ I'm bored.

kofi or benjamin for me

We always do a sweepstake for MitB, Everyone puts in £5, pick a wrestler out of a hat, winner takes all.

Adds a bit of spice to the match.

Christian to win.

He is obviously a main eventer and only Edge beats him in terms of Charisma. Its time the WWE let bygones be bygones in respect of him going to TNA and puts him back where he belongs.

Christian has served his apprenticeship once again. He was never going to walk back into the WWE at the top of the card and he has earnt himself the right to go and feud with the top guys now.


Roofaldo, do you not think that McIntyre could move higher up the card in the years to come? I find him a lot more appealing than Sheamus, for one. He looks like a heel in the mould of Orton and I think there could be space for him to move up to the main events as McMahon's Chosen One.


It would be a nice touch to see Matt Hardy win MITB, but let's face it, he's no main eventer. His moveset is limited, his mic skills are awful, and he'll forever lie in the shadow of his brother due to the spots Jeff can pull off.

Hmm, have to partly disagree mate - not seen anything of him lately, but he was very funny and entertaining during his Version 1 days (around 2003-04).

his mic skills ain't too bad, its just his thick carolina accent that makes him hard work.

Only just got round to watching the Styles v Jeff Hardy match last night, not bad by any means, but imagine would it could have been as a PPV headliner and with proper build-up.

Don't rate Abyss at all as a main eventer (wtf is that ring angle all about?

), and Flair is only going to lose more of his legendary status the longer he stays in the wrestling business (if I was Shawn Michaels I'd feel very offended and upset, as the retirement match clearly meant f**k all to Flair).

Now, with the those bad points out the way, having seen more of Styles both on TV and live over the last few months, I am certain that he is [i[uthe[/u[/i future of TNA - the guy has everything, my only problem at the moment is him been made to act like Ric Flair. Let the guy be his own character, get Flair away from him because IMO he won't help Style's development, only take away from him for his own interests (e.g. when do you ever hear Flair big Styles up or put him over like he should be doing?).

Wolfe and Pope are another two guys who, along with Styles, should be headlining TNA over the next few years. All 3 guys have the look, the wrestling ability, the charisma, you name it.

Foley, Flair, Hogan, Nash, Hall etc need to step right back and let these kinda guys (along with the X-Division, Knockouts Division etc) lead the company. For all TNA's faults, these areas WWE cannot touch them on, so they should use them to offer fans a true alternative to WWE (which is why I still feel losing the six-sided ring was a mistake).

Oh, and fire Russo ffs!

You're right - the problem is with the Flair/Styles partnership is that Flair seems to be doing all he can to hog the limelight.

And unfortunately mate I can't see that changing - in real-life Flair is on the verge of been seriously skint (how after the money and celebrity he's enjoyed I'll never know), so in his mind he probably thinks more mic/camera time in TNA = more desperately-needed cash.





People slag off The Honky Tonk Man, but everything he says about Flair is right IMO.

Mainly down to a combination of him living his jet-set lifestyle gimmick and a bunch of ex-wives, I believe

TNA iMPACT! is going to start 1 hour before RAW on 5th April in the US at 8 (7 central) on that week they are doing it so they don't clash with the NCAA Basketball Final.

If I was TNA I would start 1 hour earlier every week to gain the unopposed audience for their first hour, and then their second hour including the main event would be against WWE's first hour.

with Mania I can see Christian winnign the MITB match & if he doesn't cash it in v Jericho on the night then it makes a great long term angle with edge.

There's enough being said about the Taker HBK match to make me think there is enough smoke there to sya Michaels will retire on Sunday. Whether that's a proper retirement of a "Westling" one remains to be seen. A given is that Bret will win by sharpshooter. Nice they have this as no hold barred, meaning neither has to do much actual wrestling.

Mysterio v Punk should be top drawer.

Edge v Jericho can go either way & both are decent enough for it to make little dirfference who wins. Cena/batista, tag titles, womens thing, HHH/James hetfield, Orton/Dibiase/Rhodes, to be honest are fillers & I really couldn't care less.

TNA continues to be bolloxed by Hogan turning it into the WWE graveyard. Push the talent as you said you would or straight off.

Having said that, if they went head to head this week would you rather be watching HHH & Orton v Legacy/Shamus, or watch Beer Money v RVD/The soon to be South Carolina custodial institute heavy weight champion. If TNA gets it right it could be big. Having Hogan & Bischoff continually hog the screen with their crap will kill it.

Just remembered, cringed big-style when Hogan (stood on the ramp) had the camera focus on a guy with a sign saying 'Vince who?' on last week's Impact!

Erm, sorry Hulk, but as much as I like TNA, the company you & Flair once felt you were too big for is extremely small-time still compared to Vince McMahon & WWE (and that's coming from a TNA fan).