It's coming in 2 weeks, October 1st at 11pm with a replay Mondays at 12PM. Jarrett has won the title from Raven in Canada with the help from AMW so that's a little dissapointing but still, TNA is gonna give us one hell of a show!

More on TNA: www.tnawrestling.com

Yeah, I hope this doesn't dissapoint. I guess TNA is doing retrospectives leading up to the first Impact show, which you can see on their website.

As long as they feel like they don't have to educate all over again, I will be happy. Looking forward to seeing how they handle this next step in their existance.

Roderick Strong (ROH) and The Dudley Boyz have just been signed!

AJ Styles vs Roderick Strong will be the first match! At Bound For Glory, the next PPV, 3 matches are announced right now.

AJ Styles vs Christopher Daniels 30 min iron man match
Samoa Joe vs Jushin Lyger
Chris Sabin vs Matt Bentley vs Petey Williams in a Ultimate X

FREAKING AWESOME!

Abyss vs. Sabu vs. Rhino vs. Jeff Hardy in a No DQ Anything Goes Monster's Ball 2 match has just been added to the Bound for Glory Card

Jeff Hardy vs Rhino will be the main-event for the first Impact on TNA!

I commented on the WWE thread (in the Soap Operas forum) how excited I am about the TNA premiere on Spike. I haven't seen any of their previous stuff, but I'm very excited about seeing some good wrestling matches on TV again. I hope they do well for themselves, and maybe even give WWE a shot in the arm to make them suck less than they have for the last several years. I live near Orlando, so I plan to make it to one of the free live TNA tapings at Universal Studios one of these weeks.

It's tonight people!

Check this out people, that's the ending of Impact that Spike didn't air!

I thought the Styles-Strong match was far too short, otherwise it was a solid show. The videos telling us who all the wrestlers are is going to get old fast though.

Nash-Jarrett to headline Bound for Glory? Eh? It's worth getting the show for Liger-Joe and the Iron Man match. I guess this is their shot at throwing out the 'big name' to get viewers.

The Ultimate X will be something special too and the Monster's Ball, excluding Hardy should be good.

FWIW, the following is a copy of the review I posted on another board:

Looks like most everyone here is giving a thumbs up to one degree or another. I gotta say ... since I just finished viewing the tape, I'm disappointed.

I should explain that my knowledge of TNA is based on the Wednesday night PPVs that are being aired weekly on ESPN Classics Canada. I'll catch it maybe twice a month. Right now, I think they're at the end of 2003 or early 2004. That is as far as my TNA education goes.

Lord knows, I'd love for someone to come along and cause Vince some sleepless nights; and TNA may yet prove to be the answer. They certainly have a fair amount of talent and athletes that can work. The fans were bouncing off the walls much of the time. There were some nice, creative moments and for a first show, it could have been a lot worse.

But I have to tell you, in watching "Impact" tonight I found myself getting increasingly annoyed. First and foremost was the pace of the show. It started out at a fever pitch and continued trying to kick it into a higher gear with each match. I would have liked it so much more if TNA had taken a break every once in awhile and given us some background details without a lot of screaming. Toning it down in the right spots is not a bad thing; it makes the genuinely exciting moments scream-worthy. I firmly believe that to truly be effective, especially with a new audience watching, you have to give the people time to occasionally catch their breath, reflect on what they're seeing and make sense of it.

Instead, most everything came across (to me) as a rush job, orchestrated by someone with an advanced case of Attention Deficit Disorder. Every five minutes or so, a different wrestler would appear to quickly display his best moves. Before we could get involved in any way and perhaps learn a little something about him, we were breathlessly whisked off to the next act.

It certainly didn't help that the audio wasn't balanced very well; all the way through, the crowd was as loud or louder than Mike Tenay and Don West. It took a real effort to make out what they were saying, which means that a lot of relevant information wasn't getting through to the viewers. I eventually gave up trying to follow the impossible-to-decipher storylines. Again, nice demonstrations of acrobatics and some very hard bumps, but it all came off without much of a point behind any of it, so far as I could tell.

Again, I'd like to see TNA succeed, but I don't think it will happen if they're going to continue like this. In one big regard, they reminded me of WWE: there was little or no buildup.

The show is well-named. It offered impact all right, but it was done without purpose or meaning. Wrestlers seemed to show up right on cue in order to demonstrate a few hot maneuvers and then go away. As a semi-new viewer, I gave up trying to make an emotional investment because there was no perceptible reason, visually or aurally, why I should. I admired some of what the boys were doing, but it never made me care about them in the least. Which is also one of WWE's main failings.

Run-ins and screwjobs (I counted two) are again reminiscent of "that other group." Because so little of what was taking place mattered (to me), I give them a D in getting their storylines across. Angles seemed to be tossed at us left and right without explanation. Before it was over, the show began to feel like a video game on maximum overload.

This is not intended to rain on anybody's parade. There were enough hints of what may come that suggests there's a future here. But ultimately, this first episode struck me as a lot of sped-up snippets that didn't add up to very much. Hopefully next week, TNA will be a little more organized in its overall presentation.

I hadn't seen much TNA before; I think I caught their old show on Fox Sports Net once and that was it, but I saw this and thought it was OK.

I thought AJ Styles was pretty impressive with his athletic moves. I'm still not sure what the "X Division" is though. Can anyone wrestle in it? Do the X Division matches have different rules? Mike Tenay talked about how in the 90s the cruiserweight division was the place to be for high-flying moves (referring, I suppose, to WCW's old cruiserweight division), but now it's the X Division blah blah blah. At least the cruiserweights had an easy to understand criteria for participation, but the constant mentions of the X Division without an explation of what it was (or if there was one, then I missed it) was just kinda annoying. And didn't the WWE have an "extreme division" with its own belt at one point? I seem to remember Crash Holly being the champion of it, but perhaps I'm delusional.

Oh, so I hadn't seen Raven since his WCW days. He looks a bit worse for wear. Double that for Sabu (but I saw him on the ECW PPV this summer, so it's not quite as noticable). Kevin Nash is looking older as well, but not that bad. It was cool to see the Dudley Boyz, though a bit weird to see them in different outfits and with different music. Does WWE have the rights to their old stuff?

Anyways, it was an interesting mix of people I was familar with and people I wasn't. I'll watch it again.

Oldtimer, you've got some good points. It really did feel like they were trying to work too much into the show.