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Clearly, the major impact moment of the night was the arrival of Hulk Hogan and his supporting cast of characters. We saw Hulk Hogan, Bubba the Love Sponge, Jeff Hardy, Shannon Moore, Eric Bischoff, Ric Flair, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, Orlando Jordan, The Nasty Boys, and Sean Morely make their TNA debuts tonight. That’s a pretty impressive list of attendees for tonight’s show! In honor of the amazing momentum and hype surrounding not just tonight’s edition of iMPACT!, but around the battle between TNA and WWE tonight, I thought that I would use this week’s Major Impact column to provide my thoughts in a stream of consciousness style as I watched iMPACT! on Spike TV.

And let the stream of consciousness…begin!

They moved the announce table – thank God. That’s a good move already to begin the show. It moves fans closer to the ring, which is necessary for the television production aspect of iMPACT!

Taz’s orange colored blazer is awesome. I’m a fan of little things like that which help to round out the show.

I’m a big fan of Bubba the Love Sponge – that’s AWESOME that he’s part of the announce team!

Steel Asylum Match
Favorite tag team comes out – Motor City Machine Guns

Major Blunder using that steel cage – you can’t see through it! Damn it! Creates poor camera angles and removes the audience at home from the action – not a good way to get the fans who want interaction involved in the biggest show in TNA history.

Bad move declaring a disqualification in the first match and Homicide made an ass of himself not being able to get out of the cage. I know it was planned, but it looked pretty damn bad. Gotta love the fans chanting “This is bullshit!” And you’ve also gotta love the Spike TV folks taking out the “shit” part of the chant.

Jeff Hardy Appears
Nice entrance for Jeff Hardy – good to see this guy back on a wrestling show and, thank goodness, on a show where he can put his natural high-flying wrestling abilities to good use. Great camera shot of Hardy sitting at the top of the Steel Asylum cage.

Good promo by Kevin Nash – he seemed a bit off of his game, but I expect that it was the excitement of the event that shook him just a little bit.

Ric Flair Makes An Appearance
Wow – They actually got “The Nature Boy” Ric Flair to appear on iMPACT! Sorry folks, that trumps Bret Hart on RAW for this wrestling fan. Honestly, between Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair debuting on iMPACT! tonight, I can’t imagine who else these guys have in store that could make this show any bigger!

At this point in the show – 30 minutes in – I’ve got that “big time event” feeling already. Also, up until this point in the show, I have to admit that this thing is being written pretty well. Good job by whoever is in charge of tonight’s writing.

The Mick Foley segment was okay. I could have done without it, but since this is part of the longer, on-going storyline that is being built around Hogan’s arrival, I can deal with it (plus, it was short and sweet).

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