I suppose it's no small coincidence that with Russo no longer being in charge of creative, the quality of the action is on an upward slope.

That looks more impressive but it's much less dangerous, it's just onto a glorified crash mat which absorbs the impact of the fall. His Swanton off the cage was different as he landed hard on the mat with nothing to break his fall.

Still, the best cage dive of all-time goes to Rikishi, who squashes poor Val Venis. One of the most underrated bumps of all-time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHR36wY0e6c

Can't believe Val Venis agreed to that, Rikishi legitimately could have killed him!

Holy crap man! I've not seen that so it is very underrated, like you say gotta appreciate Val Venis for taking that.

But that Hardy one was like 30 feet, still is only beaten by the infamous Mankind for me.

edit: I forgot Shane Mcmahons! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zEvf_hye7k

Shane O'Mac's is my personal favourite as well. WWE always exaggerate heights, but Shane jumped from at least 30-40ft. Sure, he had his fall cushioned, but it was just insanity. He'd done a Titantron bump before at Summerslam 2000 but it wasn't anywhere near that height. I don't think we'll ever see someone do that again.

And don't forget this, a few years later.

Another good bump but not the same height and a bit too obviously crash-matted, plus it lacked the "Holy shit!" factor of the first time.

Thank god Karen Jarretts gone, might get the Knockouts back to normal now, as when she took them over, they became an effing joke.

I think that Karen Jarrett is one of the best characters in Wrestling, and by far the best heel in TNA. Outstanding talking wise and her and Jarrett are so funny together. The iMPACT showing was pure class.

Fun part of the show with Jeff and Karen throwing each other under the bus to Sting.

Good Impact as well.

She needs to stop butting in on people's words. It makes the segment trashy.

Gob almighty.

Maybe no-one knows or cares, but I was wondering if any of you can tell me what happened with that Knockouts match on Impact.

Traci kicked out from a Madison move (was that her finisher?) but then took a kick to the head and got pinned for the 3 count. Was that how it was supposed to go?

Yeah I wondered about that myself, why get her to kick out of a finishing move when she is going to get pinned with a simple kick to the head?

I take it Jesse Neal's taking away of on a stretcher at the hands of Gunner is because

And isn't it ironic, the best part of iMPACTS last show and amongst their best work in memory (JeffJarrett and KarenJarrett's backstage segments with Sting) was all down to VinceRusso. So big props to him for making that masterpiece.

Yip. Props to him on that.

List of the Ring Ka King- TNA India- roster:

Matt Morgan (Ring Ka King Heavyweight Champion)
Luke Gallows
Chavo Guerrero (Ring Ka King Tag Team Champion)
Chris Masters
Harry Smith (Ring Ka King Tag Team Champion)
Nick Dinsmore
Alissa Flash
Arya Daivari
Jimmy Rave
Joey Ryan
Cliff Compton
Abyss
Sheik Abdul Bashir
Sonjay Dutt
Zema Ion
Harv Sihra
Gurv Sihra
Trevor Murdoch
Scott Steiner
Magnus
Mickie James

They are taping 26 episodes of this in Pune, India. Apparently Steiner caused a legit near riot at the first taping with his shenanigans.

Was Alissa Flash acting as a manager? Because Cheerleader Melissa is hot and all kinds of awesome. Ridiculous how little TNA used her, and kept her covered up like 95% of the time.

Dunno, it's for Indian tv, will presumably be in Hindi, and as such unlikely to be shown elsewhere.

Steiner's craaaaaaaaazy.

Ah ok, thanks mate.

Well not really irony though, no. As he's still part of creative he'll obviously still be responsible for bits here and there, but, thankfully, he won't be responsible for the overall direction of the product and this is what's really showing currently.

But he never really did have full creative control. Kurt Angle was interviewed and said Russo would write the scripts then about 10 others would re-work them, add bits here, take bits away there, so it looked virtually nothing like what it had started off as.

Wow, the set for the show looks amazing:

http://www.wrestlingforum.com/10759414-post1.html
http://www.wrestlingforum.com/10773016-post96.html


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That set looks exceptional. I've a friend whos attended and said it was spectacular and they put on one hell of a fun show. Brilliant stuff from Jarrett and co.