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Wow, some dyed in the wool wwe types here

would a big feud between rvd and styles have been better? Maybe.

However for me - sod the ppv, stop treating the weekly shows as 2hr adverts, 90% of TNA fans have never seen a TNA ppv - and never will unless impact is so good they are willing to hand over cash

pointless building up to something only a few thousand will see

get impact up to 1.5 and then worry about ppv

TNA did what they needed too - they don't have the luxury of waiting for wrestlemania!

I have no problem with TNA trying to build up impact. The point i am making is that this fued and these matches could of done just that - instead they blow it all in one night.

TNA desperatly want to try and attract middle of the road viewers, people who have only ever watched WWE. RVD Vs Hardy and RVD Vs AJ as the top homegrown TNA guy are both fueds and matches that could do that. Jeff Hardy was probably the most over guy last year in the WWE and RVD is over with the WWE crowd aswell. Now in order for people who currently watch RAW to be poached over to impact by TNA they need to promote these matches. Announce them the week before and promote it like hell, so that those WWE fans sitting down on monday to watch RAW might flick over to TNA.
What you have instead is no promotion, so only the normal TNA viewership will have watched mondays impact - no ratings gain whatsoever. If WWE fans have heard about it or watched the repeat and think they might choose impact this week, their first experience of TNA isnt going to be RVD/Hardy or RVD/AJ, its going to be Ric Flair/Abyss and some run of the mill matches. That right there could be the differance between them sticking with TNA or turning back to RAW. They could of at least had RVD/Hardy on monday and RVD/AJ this monday, with a heap of promo in between.

I prefer Impact, but the WWE arnt stupid. When people talk about it being a machine, it partly because they understand promotion down to an art. Weekly free TV should be all about creating an exicintg show with good matches, continuation of fueds but clever booking that avoids the pinnacle of the fued until its PPV time. People will start buying the PPV's if the fueds are hot enough.

Another thing that is abit weird about monday impacts and the title change was the fact that AJ lost the belt to a guy doing double duty. Jeff Hardys probably seen as one of the top guys in the company, RVD has to wrestle him and then AJ 45mins later and still wins? It was his 4th match in 48 hours. Just seems to make AJ look really weak. Still, it made for a good show, if not good business!