At this point, even though he’s been there for about one year, I do begin to wonder if Billy Corgan is beginning to have more influence on how TNA tells its stories. The pace of the storytelling is much improved and everything featured on the show has meaning. Everything has a storyline. There is very little waste involved, and even the midcard wrestlers have some sort of storyline purpose when they are on the screen.

Basically, there is no filler. Every segment is featuring something and there is progression that’s slow enough for the viewer to follow, but also filled with enough action to keep them hooked and interested. The audience numbers aren’t great, but that has more to do with the show falling victim to two network moves in the past year, and less availability. Neither network is as wide-known as Spike TV.

But TNA is carving out a good niche for itself, and the shows have been really good since moving to Pop. The central focus of the show, in the main event picture, is the World Title and that’s always the most important thing. They have made the Tag Titles feel important as well. The only titles that haven’t been featured much are the King of the Mountain and Knockouts Title.

We’ve written this in the past, but TNA is also doing a good job making the audience miss certain people. They aren’t cramming every wrestler on the show every week. For example, this week we missed Trevor Lee, the new X-Division champion. My guess is he’ll be on the show next week, because they don’t leave them away too long for people to speculate their whereabouts, but the product isn’t watered down in the least.

Match Results

1. Eric Young and James Storm fought to an apparent double count-out.