Firstly, thanks for the review D, great to hear from someone who was there.

Personal thoughts -

Pros

Joey Styles and Foley on commentary. Made such a great change listening to someone call moves and talk about competitors history instead of talking about something that happened earlier or will happen later all the time. When WWE do this they're basically telling you "whats happening at the moment is completely unimportant". Styles rules.

Storm was a tiny bit off his usual pace (only to be expected) but it was great to see him back in the ring. How WWE didn't see anything in this guy compared to others that get pushed there is amazing. Good bit of nostalgia to see Impact Players back in the ring together and nice to see crowd reaction to Jericho too.

They've done better with longer in the past but the Cruiser 3 way was very exciting too. Super Crazy came over as the stand out performer which, since WWE have apparently signed him, is probably as it should be.

RVD promo was cool to see. Good reminder of what he is capable of and made me chuckle to hear him say it's nice to be able to say more than "cool" or "whatever".

Awesome & Tanaka. Agreed with pretty much everyone else here, this was fantastic. My personal fave match. Those who saw them go at it five years ago were probably, like me, not expecting them to be able to come close to what they used to do. The fact that they did made it very special. Interesting to see people are saying Awesome should be signed. When he first went to WWE a few years back wasn't he de-pushed almost immediately because 'Taker allegedly said Awesome couldn't work a match? That could be interesting if he returns then. Having said that huge props to Tanaka (maybe more so) because although it's Awesome looking great out there, it's Masato's bumping that is helping him look so fantastic. Can't think of too many Smackdown or Raw guys that will allow Awesome to throw them around like a rag doll like that.

Paul Heyman's promo was excellent too. Enjoyed his comments to JBL, very watchable!!!

Taz choking out Angle!!

Cons

Okay I'll be controversial, Benoit & Eddie's match left me a little blah. Just couldn't really get into this, maybe because we see them both so much anyway....I don't know. Match just didn't spark with me like these two usually do.

The whole invasion thing was just annoying. I don't have a problem with WWE guys being there, but it just took up so much time on the PPV with their slow arrivals and their mic spots, and the stupid thing with the Bischoff beat down at the end (yes Vince we get it...he used to beat you and you like embarassing him now). I was also very lukewarm toward the whole SCSA thing. The guy was in ECW for about twenty five seconds and was recovering from injury pretty much throughout the short time he was there. To have him show up at the end wasn't too bad a thing, but to give him loads of mic time and concentrate the camera on him for so much of the last fifteen minutes or so was just meaningless for me.

Everything else on the show was also damn good, but not good enough to get in my "pros"!!

Edit....In addition to the other Pro's I got to see my first wrestling fantasy object Beulah again, mmmmmmmmm!!!

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