My Weekly TNA Notebook

The Katz Files – Arnie Katz
My iMPACT (5/28) Notebook
The Kingfish Arnie Katz highlights the major developments and discusses what they mean.

A Note from the Kingfish
Trying new things is part of the fun of doing a column like that. As an experiment, I am overhauling the format of the Notebooks to highlight the key points instead of embedding them in a recap.

There are lots of recaps, including one right here on OWW by Jay Shannon, so no one who wants one will go without,. On the other hand, there’s very little intelligent analysis; that’s the aspect I’ll stress in the Notebook series.

<Ultimate Sacrifice Fall-out
YNA trumpeted Sacrifice, especially the “Ultimate Sacrifice” main event, as something that would “change the landscape” of TNA.” You can’t have a wrestling promotion without hyperbole, but it made me wonder how the May pay per view could alter the promotion.

As was obvious on the 5/28 iMPACT, TNA is doing a very smart thing by utilizing the outcome of the Ultimate Sacrifice four-way to restructure ad revive some elements of the show.

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