Monday Night Exhibition

Last Monday, Jan 4, TNA waged war with WWE. Or did they? The product put on Monday night, while reminiscent of the late 90's because of the talent, was not of the same quality from those times. Meaning: they both sucked and they both had some good spots.

Besides the Bret Hart segments, RAW was nothing special. I really hope that RAW does away with the guest hosts, as I haven't liked them from the beginning. RAW just seems like one big commercial nowadays. The guest stars are plugging whatever they've got coming out. DX is plugging a WWE product. Where's the excitement? I know wrestling for me will never be like it once was mainly because of the internet.

There wasn't one person on the TNA payroll who wasn't hyping Monday Night Impact! Vince Russo blogged that lives would be changed forever... Maybe Vince should go write soap operas instead. Impact was such an oddity that I feel like I can even review it. Everything seemed smashed together. Nothing flowed. They had some nice surprises like Jeff Hardy and Hall & Syxx. And it was cool to see the Outsiders together again. BUT, why did we see it? It wasn't like we haven't seen the nWo reunite before. It's been 2 years since Hall was in TNA. It's been 12 years since Bret was in WWE. For anyone to say that that is anywhere near comparable is ludicrous. The sad thing is that TNA fans are drinking the kool-aid, and it's the crappy orange kind. Oh yeah RIC FREAKING FLAIR showed up! Instead of addressing Russo, Hogan, Bischoff, or any of the other new faces, he just walked around. That's one appearance gone that you wasted, TNA. What I don't get is that I can write stories 1,000,000 times better than that, but Russo is piggy backing off of the Attitude Era, an Era mind you where the wrestlers were encouraged to come up with their own promos and characters. I'm tired of Russo taking credit for Stone Cold and The Rock's brilliance to connect with a crowd. Then when Russo gets his shot, he produces crap. How many do-overs does this guy get?

Enough about wrestling. The NCAA Football National Championship game took place yesterday, and I thought it was the best bowl game yet. So much drama. So much intensity. Texas lost their Heisman candidate QB early in the game. The true freshman backup stepped in and was shaky, at first, but then started to get comfortable with the offense. I was really disappointed in Texas' O-Line and their redzone offense. Colt McCoy is a good QB, and deserves to be taken high in the draft. Alabama just wouldn't quit. Their run game was deadly, and Sabin knew he just needed to stick with that. Their defense was ok. They made big plays as well as gave up some. But the safety from Bama, Anders, his stock just skyrocketed.