Shelton Benjamin doing color was hilarious. The best comment was when he compared Kofi to "monkey man" from the movie Bloodsport. You could hear the crickets chirping next to Tazz and Adamle. Now that was comedy!!

Pretty sure either Taka or Gillberg (or both) won the Cruiserweight belt on the show as well.

Skids can only see wrestling through the eyes of WWE. Hence why a long history of calling fans from the crowd to wrestle is Chris Masters' gimmick instead of a gimmick used a dozen times before Masters' appropriated it in one of the worst ways ever. I mean, Angle and Rodney Mack both did the same gimmick within like the same year. Santino debuted in this fashion. And hence why a former WWE wrestler reprising a gimmick he had in WWE 6 months ago and which the fans wanted to see badly is someone TNA stealing from WWE and akin to Stone Cold Sharkboy.

And I vote for the girl on the right. Definitely looks like her to me. And she took that bomb like crazy. I don't want some long drawn out thing with this but I do think its kind of cool to have Kong be all "I kicked all their asses so who's next?!" And its predictable but it can work. Sooner or later you debut a new Knockout to take it to her. I just hope that (a) this doesn't go more than a few weeks and (b) they don't feed us that tired wrestling story of the woman that does step up being a true amateur. Either have the woman come out from the entrance or just tell the story that after a few weeks of Kong making this challenge talented female wrestlers started attending Impact in order to challenge her. Because really, isn't that what you'd logically do if you were a female wrestler who thought she could cut it with the Knockouts and wanted to make a splash in TNA?

And I too loved the end of the show beatdown. Really, I don't mind predictable as long as it worked. I mean, if you tease something shocking and deliver exactly what we expected then that's lame. But if you have a story pay off as it naturally progressed? Well, that's just proper storytelling. Russo's greatest sin has always been that he likes to pull illogical swerves. We got natural reactions and storytelling. AJ has enough and as he's seemed to grow more independent and confident for months he stands up to Tomko and becomes his own man as Tomko once did. Tomko doesn't like it and screws him. Karen gets her husband to help him as he is the closest thing AJ has to a friend and they have Karen in common. Kurt sees Karen care for AJ and the green eyed demon takes control since he's already suspected them of being too close anyway. AJ has no friends and just suffers. It all made perfect sense and worked.

I think I'm happy to believe that the "King" Booker at King of the Mountain thing is a very good red herring. Booker can spend a few weeks saying "King" without being sued and establishing the character, we go into Slammiversary wondering if Joe really will lose. Joe can still win but it doesn't seem as inevitable as Steiner/Angle/Kaz did. There's actually some drama, especially with Nash and Booker's new Court.

You're right, though. He won quite a bit and was undefeated for a long time until after the Wrath/Mortis/Miller story had played itself out and proved to suck.

But this is the same article that listed a Hall of Famer at #1, one of my favorite parts of wrestling in the last decade at #2, and cleverly wrote all the articles in a way to suggest it was Regal's idea to be a "Man's man" and not WWF/E's.

That wasn't bad. I don't know how I feel about the threat of "banishment." Were they scared people would be too worried Edge might win otherwise? But whatever.

Batista v MVP was extremely random, but not a bad match at all.

Finlay pulled a better match out of Palumbo than I would have thought humanly possible.

I even found Kozlov oddly watchable. Nunzio's hope spots were fun, anyhow.

The main event didn't thrill me, though.

Kingston and Shelton are kind of a weird deal. I love their wrestling, but I never actually love their matches. And it's not like they haven't had plenty of chances. Do they just need more time? Or what?

I liked Foley's comparison of Kingston with a young Steamboat. They're both...springy.

Has Hornswaggle been GM already?

stripping or just looking pretty...yes...wrestling...noooooooooo

I hope we get a month or two of Ted DiBiase as GM, then if he wants to keep the role (and assuming he's good), let him keep it. If they're serious about Regal again, just bring him back as the king - having DiBiase in charge when Regal comes back would be perfect - because EVERYBODY has a price, and Regal could just buy his way back onto the roster.

Crispen Roy. Shhhhh.

AAA is a lot of fun, only they have some trouble advancing angles sometimes. I mean, you'll go through five weeks of programming where the main and semi-main events are almost identical. Still, it's fun to watch, and quite a contrast to stuff like the WWE and TNA.

The first week of AAA on Galavision that I ever saw was the week that Mesias took over La Secta and booted Cibernetico. Oh my lord, I can't remember the last time I saw someone take a beating that bad from that many people. Cibernetico got his ass handed to him by something like seven or eight guys, and the ass-whoopin' flowed from the ring down the ramp to the back and out onto some parking garage loading dock. The whole thing was like a 45 minute, two-commercial-break event and it NEVER got old because it was so intense.

Just went over there. Not much being said at OO either. Poor WWE. A PPV weekend and they'll probabaly still get smoked in the 6-Pack by TNA's women.

I love Gail/King, but I'm hoping for some Roxxi/Kong at some point, where both are given free reign. I've seen some shimmer bouts between these two, and they can be really, really good off each other.

And ever for my heel love of Kong, though, I have to say that right now Love is becoming the number 1 heel in the women's division. First she causes Roxxi to be shaved, then she "injures" Gail. Me likey.

Rest of the show was pretty good, except for Roxxi's outfit. She went from voodoo to Goths R Us? I'll take the voodoo any day.

You mean the random, unmotivated shots at pretty much anybody who gives me a straight line? Nah, those come with the package....

I loved the logic of both faces and heels being upset about the Championship Chase being a big setup.

Other than that, this show was a whole lot of nothing.

Heh, cool promos, but am I alone in thinking that Raven looked a little more like Gabe Kaplan (Mr. Kotter) in that hairstyle?

Maybe you're right.

I'm going to hold off on arguing this point further until/unless I see her work with some different opponents.

Tie'em.

That came out dirtier than I meant it to, but I'm alright with it.

Queering is not a big truck.

It's a series of youtubes.

In the ROH Newswire, they announced a one night tournament for the vacant tag team titles on June 6 in Hartford, CT. Already announced for the tournament are Kevin Steen & El Generico and Jimmy Jacobs & Tyler Black. I think you can pencil in Danielson & Aries, Pearce & Hagadorn, Hero & someone (Del Rey? Eddie Edwards lives in New England), maybe even Delirious & Pelle since they won the scramble at Hammerstein. That makes six. Maybe Albright & Stevens since Albright turned face. Rocky Romero & Davey Richards need to be in since they were the last champs prior to the Briscoes, but they're not listed on the talent roster.

I do assume some new names will be added due to the tournament. Jason Blade lives in New England, and he and Kenny King are the FIP Tag Team Champions, so I could see Gabe putting them in it.

That still leaves Nigel, Jay, Necro, and Roderick not in the tournament. ROH would likely do a 4 Corner Survival, but I would prefer Nigel defending against Jay right before intermission (after the first round) and Roderick vs. Necro between the semis and finals.

recap is finally up OOver there:

www.oowrestling.com/features/20080506.shtml

Man, last week SD! sucked donkey cock, but it sure turned around this week. Three of the five qualification matches were very entertaining, which isn't a bad ratio. The main event was pretty fun and dramatic, too. The ending was cheap, but I didn't really want to see Batista vs. the Undertaker again anyway.

I suppose we've seen Edge vs Undertaker a lot lately too, but Edge can play it up that 'Taker has only ever beaten him with the googolplex (or whatever) and now that's been taken away from him.

I enjoyed Punk vs Matt (again) and Batista vs. Nitro quite a bit. But the match of the night (and a match that TNA will have to work very hard to top on Sunday) was definitely Finlay vs. MVP. Hard-hitting, back and forth, with great ring psychology, and some pretty sweet reversals. I've loved Finlay from day one, but it's been an uphill battle for MVP to win me over, and he finally has.

Lucky: It was for the cool visual of the title in a glass case at the top of the ramp.

Both when Don West said it on Thursday, and When Skids posted the comment here, I had to laugh to myself. I mean I know DVon is a Stiff worker, But I wouldn't describe him as concrete. You know since that's where Christian got border tossed and all.

But all kidding aside, I loved the LAX beat down, I am really pumped for the deuces wild tournament. There is so many possibilities for the outcomes. I also love that every single match on the ppv is somehow directly related to one of the titles. I really enjoy when the belts become the focus and not forgotten props.

He wore sunglasses for the promo.