Before I start talking about this I have to say, Jeff Jarrett, why do you have to be on my screen during PPV time, doing a segment where your trying to get over Jeff Hardy that could have been done easily on a tapped Impact, why?
The man who's built a career on backstage politics once again had to get his TV time.
Onto the Main Event, and even though it wasn't "The Main Event," Hogan/Sting was the match you bought this PPV to see.
I'll say this, I was the most focused on this match more then any other, maybe because I felt a train wreck coming months ago (see my articles six months ago on TNA for more information). Maybe because it was, potentially, Hogan's last match, and maybe because it was, just as I predicted, a train wreck, an utter disaster of a match.
Before the match starts Flair comes down the ramp, ready to interfere if needed.
Let me give credit where credit is due, Hogan can control a crowd. He pulled the strings on the Smark-filled Phily crowd and they were marking out and going wild. It was the only match where the crowd was involved from the beginning to the end, and so I wonder, were we watching the same match?
I mean look, Hogan isn't my favorite guy in wrestling, but I sure as hell respect the guy, but why are we going wild for headlocks and slaps. Then I realized, it's because Hogan is that good at playing a crowd.
They got back in the ring, Sting hit super, super weak splashes and then they finished it with a terrible Scorpion Deathlock.
The match was slow, boring, terrible, but at the end of the day I sat there, mesmerized by what I was seeing.
Honestly I don't know how to rate this match. It was a bad match, but for some reason it was watchable, albeit a trainwreck. So I find myself in the odd position of assigning a grade to something I can't grade. Because of that I have to just shake my head, give this match a pass and say I'll grade it several ways.
Winner: Sting via Submission by Scorpion Deathlock
Predictions: 6-1
Technical Match Rating: * (One Star)
Enjoyment Match Rating: * (One Stars)
Wachability of This Match: ***** (Five Stars)
Crowd Match Rating: ***** (Five Stars)
Overall Rating: Who Knows? Was it good, was it bad, mediocre, I just don't know.
I just don't get it. Add to all that the Crash TV face turn at the end and it was everything I dislike in wrestling before my eyes like some kind of Human Centipede of Wrestling, and I just sat and watched.
Hulk Hogan going babyface got the biggest damn pop of the night, and I just don't get it. Has wrestling got so bad that this is what fans want to see. Is this why TNA has so many old guys at the top? I am baffled and I just need to get away from this match as quickly as I can because if I dwell on it too long I might explode.
