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My Weekly (6/24) TNA Notebook
The Kingfish Arnie Katz provides insight and analysis based on the 6/24 episode of iMPACT.
iMPACT continues to provide some of the best sports entertainment on television. The program packs a lot of information into its two hours, though the actual amount of ring action has declined significantly in the last six months to a year.
Let’s look at some of the major aspects of TNA, as presented on iMPACT.
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My Weekly RAW Notebook!
The Kingfish Arnie Katz delivers his and analysis of the 6/21 episode of RAW.
RAW continues to steer a helter-skelter course. It fires off angles and gimmicks at a great rate, but without a lot of thought about how they will develop down the road.
The promotion isn’t doing much long-range planning, according to internal WWE sources, which sometimes results in gimmicks that look great at first, but then become ineffective, o even downright embarrassing, a little farther down the road.
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My Weekly (6/17) TNA Notebook
The Kingfish Arnie Katz provides insight and analysis based on the 6/17 episode of iMPACT.
The 6/17 iMPACT, taped two days after the highly enjoyable Slammiversary, hit the heights and plummeted to the depths. That’s why this edition of my TNA notebook could (and is) subtitled…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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Nobody Asked Me about TNA, But…
The Kingfish Arnie Katz continues a “Katz Files” tradition with hard-hitting answers to some ticklish questions inspired by watching the 6/13 pay per view, Slammiversary.
Slammiversary VIII delivered some excellent action, spun a few mysteries and inspired some questions that no one actually asked me.
Nobody asked me, about TNA and Slammiversary, but…
… Wasn’t about the first half of B4 the Bell a nice job? It was all pre-recorded video, possibly owing to an audio problem at the venue that prevented remote broadcast until the actual start of Slammiversary VIII
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Slammiversary Results & Analysis
Slammiversary was a very good-to-excellent card from top to bottom, though the booking did undercut a couple of the contests, especially Hernandez versus Morgan.
Let’s examine what happened in the matches. I’m reprinting my predictions, verbatim, so you can see how my prognostications and suggestions stack up against what actually happened.
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Slammiversary Preview & Predictions
The Kingfish Arnie Katz gets you ready for TNA’s eighth anniversary celebration, TNA’s second-biggest pay per view of the year.
It’s Slammiversary time! No one can accuse TNA of setting up one of its infamous “throwaway” pay per views, though it is unlikely that we’ll see a buy-rate breakthrough, either.
Even though the World Tag Team Championship match got scratched, it’s a strong card. There are a some competitive title contests as well as a few grudge fights. The Band isn’t on the card, which eliminates a good spot for a refrigerator or bathroom run, but the trusty DVR can take care of that.
Let’s look at the matches:
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Rating the TNA Roster 4
The Kingfish Arnie Katz concludes a new, monthly series that rates TNA wrestlers’ recent performances, analyzes strengths and weaknesses, and even charts future courses for major TNA stars.
Part 4
Slammiversary is always a watershed for TNA. It is one of the year’s two biggest pay per view events. If TNA is ever going to make a breakthrough in its PPV buy-rate, it will most likely come with either Bound for Glory or Slammiversary.
While that breakthrough is unlikely to occur due to Slammiversary VIII, the late-Spring event offers a good opportunity to rate the men and women on the TNA roster.
This is the last of the four columns rating TNA talent. Next week, it’ll be the turn of RAW and then Smackdown
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Rating the TNA Roster 3
The Kingfish Arnie Katz continues his monthly series that rates each TNA wrestlers’ recent performances, analyzes strengths and weaknesses, and even charts future courses for major TNA stars.
Part 3
Check the first two columns in this series for the long-winded explanation if you haven’t yet read it.
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Rating the TNA Roster 2
The Kingfish Arnie Katz continues his monthly series that rates each TNA wrestler’s recent performances, analyzes strengths and weaknesses, and even charts future courses for the hole roster.
Part 2
TNA Week continues here at “The Katz Files.” As the promotion barrels towards its next pay per view, here’s how things lo0ok as of mid-June.
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Rating the TNA Roster: June, 2010
The Kingfish Arnie Katz continues his monthly series that rates each wrestler’s recent performances, analyzes strengths and weaknesses, and even charts future courses for major TNA stars.
Part 1
This is definitely going to be “TNA Week” here at “The Katz Files.” I’ll have a column every day, leading up to one of the promotion’s major annual events, Slammiversary It’s starts today, with the first section of my monthly roster review and will finish up on the weekend with my Slammiversary preview and predictions.
