For years, Sting?s character has had the traits of comic book vigilantes such as The Crow and Batman. Now he has morphed into a babyface version of The Joker.
Sting, who exhibited some over-the-top behavior on last week?s episode of Impact Wrestling, appeared to be channeling Heath Ledger?s character in ?The Dark Knight? on Thursday night?s show. Not only was his face paint Joker-like, but so were his mannerisms and maniacal ramblings.
I have to say that Sting?s performance and his confrontation with Eric Bischoff that opened the show were quite entertaining, but his sudden descent into madness doesn?t really make sense from a story line standpoint ? that is, unless I missed the episode when some traumatic event caused Sting to snap.
I like the idea of taking Sting?s character in a different direction to keep it fresh and he?s doing a good job with it, but it would be a lot easier for me to buy into this angle if there had been some buildup to it.
Other thoughts on Thursday?s show:
Sting ? who attacked Bischoff and smeared his face with red paint at the beginning of the program ? continued to show his violent side during his main event match against Abyss. After taking a glove wrapped in barbed wire away from Abyss, Sting proceeded to bust him open with it (thus losing the match by disqualification). He continued to pound on Abyss? head with the glove while looking into the eyes of Mr. Anderson, who had come out on the ramp. Anderson sold concern over the prospect of having to face a much more dangerous Sting. ...
I like that TNA is announcing the results of Bound for Glory Series matches that had taken place on house shows and showing brief clips of them. That?s helps to get the BFG Series concept over and also makes house shows seem more important. ...
It was revealed that Gunner pinned A.J. Styles at a house show. Wow. Gunner now holds pinfall victories over Styles, Sting and Mr. Anderson. Who?s next, Kurt Angle? ...
The tag team match that saw Matt Morgan and Crimson defeat Beer Money was good. The story was that Bobby Roode wasn?t fully recovered from his shoulder injury, but he wrestled anyway and ended up getting pinned by Morgan. This match counted in the BFG Series standings, as Morgan was awarded seven points for scoring the winning pinfall. If only the wrestler who makes the pin gets the points, shouldn?t Morgan and Red have been trying to break up each other?s pin attempts? ...
Daniels challenged Styles to face him in the main event of the Destination X pay-per-view on July 10, and Styles accepted. Samoa Joe, who wanted to be a part of the match, was the odd man out. Apparently guys can now just book themselves in pay-per-view main events. Joe?s facial expression when Daniels and Styles excluded him was great. ...
Daniels was acting heelish when he was challenging Styles and ignoring Joe. Please don?t tell me Daniels is turning on Styles again. ...
How stupid did Kazarian look when he insulted Joe and then immediately turned his back on him to walk away? ...
Along those same lines, what did Madison Rayne expect Tara to do after she slapped her in the face? Of course Tara was going to strike back, yet Rayne just stood there. ...
After Bully Ray defeated Scott Steiner by nailing him in the throat with a chain, Steiner went crazy in the locker room and was screaming and swinging a chain at Ray, Gunner and Abyss. To get Steiner to calm down, Ray offered him a spot in Immortal. Steiner threw the chain at a locker and yelled, ?I?ll think about it!? as he walked out. Classic Steiner. ...
Steiner in Immortal seems like a good fit at this point, even though he did originally return to TNA as part of ?They? to take down the heel faction. ...
Bischoff told Jeff Jarrett that he really does have to go to Mexico because of losing the parking lot brawl to Kurt Angle last week. Bischoff tried to spin it by saying that Immortal needed to take over the wrestling scene in Mexico to gain more power. It looks as if this is going to be a story line, as Jarrett won the heavyweight title of Mexico?s AAA promotion over there last week. ...
Jerry Lynn made a cameo appearance during a backstage segment with Rob Van Dam. It looks as if the RVD-Lynn match that didn?t happen at Hardcore Justice last August because of Lynn?s back injury will take place at Destination X. ...
The three-way X Division match between guys who had never been featured on Impact was entertaining. I thought Dakota Darsow (son of Demolition Smash/Repo Man/Krusher Kruschev/Blacktop Bully) would win, but he and Federico Palacios ended up losing to Zema Ion, who earned a spot at Destination X with the victory. ...
Ion was lucky that he wasn?t seriously injured when he nearly whiffed on a corkscrew moonsault onto his two opponents on the floor. It appeared that either Darsow and Palacios weren?t in position or Ion just came up short, but he was about to land hard on the floor when Palacios at the last second put himself in harm?s way and broken Ion?s fall. ...
The no holds barred match that saw ODB and Jackie defeat Velvet Sky and Miss Tessmacher in a wild brawl wasn?t pretty, but I found it entertaining. Jackie scored the win for her team when she pinned Sky after kicking her low. Taz wondered if that move would even hurt a woman. Well, I?m guessing that a swift kick to any part of the body would hurt. ...
The non-title street fight between TNA Knockouts champion Mickie James and Winter ? which Winter won due to interference from Angelina Love ? was hard-hitting. ...
It seems as if Love is no longer a zombie. Too bad. I thought that gimmick was so bad that it was good. ...
The word "b*tch" was used 11 times on this show (yes, I counted). After a while, it just got silly and the word had no impact whatsoever. Six wrestlers and one announcer (Taz) said it at least once, with Bischoff and Steiner each using the word on three occasions. In a major upset, Sky did not say the word even one time.
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