FINAL THOUGHTS
I was entertained by all eight matches at Turning Point. Even Jesse from Big Brother did a fair job in his mixed tag team match, and the return of Eric Young made that worth watching. However, until the tag team championship match, nothing really stood out as pay-per-view quality. Again, nothing was bad and there were some fun stories told in each of the contests. But too many of them, while worked competently, were generic and not worth writing home about.
The two matches you would expect to be the best were – the main event and the contender’s triple threat – but the rest of the card could have been any old week on Impact.
My biggest problem with the show wasn’t actually the matches, but the lack of progression I felt coming off Turning Point. We’ll have to see what the next few weeks of Impact Wrestling hold for us, but TNA needs to re-find their groove and have both good wrestling and a continuation of stories. Since the Aces & Eights angle began months ago, I feel like TNA has been settling for either one, or the other. The World Title scene is the only thing I really feel made a step forward; there should have been some progress with the Eights. With Park losing and Angle winning, the attempted effect was realized: a draw. Wrestling fans – or at least I – don’t want to see a stalemate each and every week.
TNA Turning Point wasn’t a win or a loss for the company. You have to take big risk for big reward; that principle is true for just about anything in life. Instead, TNA once again played things safe, and they just broke even.
FINAL RATING: C+
