The Critic

Winners bolded below: The Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels - (It would be stupid to kill the streak at this point.) Bret Hart vs. Mr. McMahon (There is a suspicion that another "screwjob" could be in the works, but I don't think Bret would agree to it at Mania) Batista© vs. John Cena (SuperCena strikes again!!!) Chris Jericho© vs. Edge (It's time for Edge to wear a belt again) Big Show & The Miz© vs. John Morrison & R-Truth - Unified Tag Team Championship (You can't have too many title changes on one PPV) Triple H vs. Sheamus (Trips seems to put guys over on PPVs, so I think he does so again) Randy Orton vs. Ted DiBiase vs. Cody Rhodes (Rhodes steals the win from DiBiase, and let the Legacy feud begin!) CM Punk vs. Rey Mysterio (Mysterio joining the SES keeps him on TV while his injuries heal up) Money in the Bank Ladder Match: Drew McIntyre - (I think McIntyre's closer to a title run than anyone else in the match other than Christian or Kane)

Jimmy Howard and Pecca Rinne were HUGE tonight in Nashville. Scoreless tie through regulation and OT, and 11 rounds of shootout lead to a 1-0 Detroit win.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 27, 2010 -> 09:06 AM) The Ultimate Warrior is such a little b**** That guy is seriously in his own little world.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 27, 2010 -> 08:49 AM) You make me sick. oh, I almost forgot.....Go Pack!!!

Detroit looked good again last night. After Howard gave up a softie to let the Wild back in the game at 4-2, the Wings promptly scored twice in 2 and 1/2 minutes to get the breathing room back. Dan Cleary aggravated his groin injury and left the game - if he has to miss any time, that could hurt them. Otherwise, they're healthy and scary. I wish they had some time to rest before playing Nashville, but that's tonight in Tennessee. Go Wings!!!!

QUOTE (T R U @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 06:32 PM) Not gonna lie, I didnt really notice any no selling there It wasn't no-selling like the Bruiser Brody/Lex Luger cage match (look that one up if you want a laugh), but Regal resisted Goldberg's offense enough to make the match real sloppy and make Goldberg look weaker than usual. Regal had more offense in that match than probably any Goldberg match before or since. Regal imposed his will during the match, but went along with the scheduled finish.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 25, 2010 -> 03:05 PM) Regal potatoed Goldberg to boot. LOL one of the many reasons I love Regal, his mean streak. Good Lord he was in horrible shape when he was in WCW though. He looks like Adonis now compared to what he looked like then He looked like Adorable Adrian Adonis when he was in wCw.

So now there's talk of a Four Horsemen type stable in TNA with Flair as the leader/mouthpiece. Styles would obviously be in the group, but who else do you think would fill out the lineup? My guess: Styles Wolfe Morgan Anderson, only to later butt heads with Flair and do a face turn dark horse: Sting

Monday’s TNA Impact drew a 0.9 cable rating, which was rounded up from a 0.86. The rating is up slightly from last weeks 0.84. Here are the quarter-hour ratings for Impact television show. Q1: 0.79 rating – Eric Bischoff guitar solo, Jeff Jarrett and Bischoff verbal exchange Q2: 0.85 rating - Foley and Jarrett backstage, Beautiful People and Daffney vs. Tara, Angelina Love, Taylor Wilde, and Sarita, Ric Flair and A.J. Styles arrive Q3: 0.93 rating – Hulk Hogan and Abyss promo, Flair and Styles interrupt, Sting and D’Angelo Dinero get involved Q4: 0.76 rating – Continuation of the previous angle, Rob Terry vs. Tomko, Jarrett and Foley promo, multiple commercial breaks Q5: 0.85 rating – Jarrett vs. Foley with Beer Money as refs, Bischoff on commentary Q6: 0.97 rating – Conclusion of Jarrett vs. Foley, Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy save, Foley says goodbye and roughs up Bubba The Love Sponge, Bischoff and Hogan backstage Q7: 0.89 rating - Matt Morgan vs. Hernandez match and injury angle Q8: 0.85 rating - Hernandez loaded into the ambulance, Hardy and RVD vs. Beer Money, Overrun: 0.81 rating – Main event conclusion, Eric Young hypes next week’s main event Still not good at all. Yikes. But WWE shouldn't be crowing - the final Raw before WrestleMania did a 3.24, down from 3.7 last week. I'm not surprised at the ratings - neither show had much worth watching this week.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 01:31 PM) Im wondering what the numbers are going to look like this week. Jarrett hitting Bischoff with the guitar wasnt the *pop* opening I was looking for. Although I am sad I missed foley blowing up Bubba the Love Sponge I wonder if there's any way to determine exactly how many people tuned out while Eric Bischoff pretended to play guitar for FAR too long.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 11:10 AM) That sir, was the best promo cut in this thread all year. Could of used a Flair like ripping off of your sportscoat and an elbow drop onto the floor. DANCING WITH THE STARS......I HATE YOU!! I HATE YOU!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! YOU MAKE ME SICK!!! YOU'RE NOT STARS!!! I'M A STAR!!! AJ IS A STAR!!!! [takes off sportcoat to reveal extremely sweat-stained dress shirt] YOU WOULDN'T KNOW A STAR IF SOMEONE HIT YOU ON THE HEAD WITH A HAMMER!!!!! WHOOOOOOOOO!!!! WHOO! WHOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...... [elbow drop] [hits self on forehead to open existing head wound] HOGAN!!! YOU SHOULD GO ON DANCING WITH THE STARS!!!! CUZ YOU'RE NOT A STAR, EITHER!!!! WHOOOOO!!! AND MAYBE IF YOU WIN, YOU COULD GIVE YOUR TROPHY TO ABYSS!!!!!! CUZ HE LOVES COLLECTING YOUR TRINKETS!!!!! ........wwwwwwWWWWWWWWWWWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! how's that?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 23, 2010 -> 09:32 AM) you were not required to admit that. you could of said you missed it because you were pumping iron or welding metal or something ...or you were late coming home from the batting cages, or you had to beat the s*** out of some dude for lookin' at you wrong... ANYTHING but Dancing With What Passes For Stars These Days. My wife told me to turn to DWWPFSTD to look at Pam Anderson, and I was like "if she's still on when the commercials come on, I might....". THAT's how you do that!!!!!

Wow, who was the fat guy dressed like Tomko? He gained quite a bit of "insulation" since he was there last.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 22, 2010 -> 08:28 PM) The 8 tag match with the Knockouts was actually pretty god. Damnit, Velvet! Why can't we meet so I can be too afraid to talk to you? Yeah, it was better than most Knockout matches since Gail and Kong are gone. And when Lacey and I meet, neither one of us would be able to speak. Me from nerves and her.....well, she can NEVER speak too well.

And they start the show with Bischoff pretending to play guitar???? f***ing morons.

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 22, 2010 -> 06:31 PM) Everyone knew the Nash heel turn was coming, but t he execution of it during the match was awful. You could see it coming 5 minutes before it happened. Crowd didn't care. Great idea by TNA to NOT book RVD for their PPV! Why would you want the most over guy you have on the show? Where is Samoa Joe? A heel Joe vs. RVD match? I may actually watch that and I'm far from a Joe fan. RVD even showed up, because he thought the 22nd was Sunday (marajawonna's BAD, mmmmkaaaayyy?), so TNA had him in the building and STILL didn't use him. And they couldn't use Joe, cuz he's still KIDNAPPED, remember??? Stupid.

Yep, looks about right - they're all on the roster!

QUOTE (Brian @ Mar 18, 2010 -> 02:10 PM) I love her Outstanding.

One heel turn down, one to go. Shocking.

QUOTE (SnB @ Mar 21, 2010 -> 03:46 PM) thank you for entertaining me for 10 minutes kind sir. I'd never heard of that either. I saw it when it happened. My brother was a huge Dr. Who nerd and he called me into the room when the guy hacked the signal. Of course, my comment was "finally, something interesting happened during Dr. Who".

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 19, 2010 -> 02:10 PM) This is about 15 years too late. This = closing the barn door when the horses are 1,000 miles away. f***ing idiots saw this coming when downloading started becoming popular and decided a better plan of action would be to prosecute people rather than giving them viable alternatives, such as workable, affordable downloads and lower-priced physical media. After years of gouging fans and giving has-beens enormous "lifetime achievement award" contracts while giving new acts literally pennies per sale, f*** the recording industry. I feel no sympathy for them whatsoever. I haven't purchased a "hard copy" of any music in at least three years other than independent local bands.

QUOTE (JDsDirtySox @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 11:28 PM) Foley already starting to point to the Olympics as the reason our boys are collapsing. So now the Olympic hockey tournament ISN'T the greatest thing to ever happen in the history of sports any more, Pat? No one gushed about the Olympics as much as Foley. He wouldn't STFU about it for a week afterward. It was sickening.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 05:10 PM) Apparently don't want to play Niemi in back to backs on the West coast, so Crawford takes the easier game. This isn't an audition. If Huet wasn't sick, he'd be starting tonight. Relax. Agreed. I'm interested to see if Crawford can give them a decent outing tonight.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 17, 2010 -> 03:23 PM) Im actually thinking after Mania, when a lot of the superstars take time off, we will start seeing the NXT guys in the mix and some of the callups that everyone has been hearing about like Dibiase and Hennig and the Hart kids. I actually am looking forward to that. That would be great, actually. I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of "off-season" for the older guys, to rest their old bones and give some new guys a shot on the major shows. Not sure how paranoid guys would be about "their spots", but as a viewer I'd like to see something new.

Different sport, obviously, but it amused me greatly when I saw Sergei Krivokrasov and Patrick Poulin jerseys at the Hawks game last Sunday. My cousin, who has followed the Hawks almost as long as I have, couldn't remember who Patrick Poulin was. I told him, "I wish I didn't remember him either..."