But you have to sell the claw. She put it on 1950s style on Sarita, who sold well, but it’s too boring. Tenay and Tazz have to sell how LVE inherited an inhumanly strong hand from her father and grandfather. I’d have actually lift the wrestler off the mat during the move with one hand on her head (the girl just jumps into it), and although the TNA and WWE women don’t blade, you could always pull out the bloody towel and cover the victims face. I also like using a breakable wall backstage, and having LVE put on the claw and slam someone’s head through the wall.
The ckaw just needs to be updated a bit.

:D

I still haven’t watched the match between Traci and Christy and to be honest I don’t intend on watching the match. Christy, in my opinion, is still not an incredible athlete despite her being a better wrestler than before. Traci Brooks, in my opinion, is decent [like Christy]. However, putting two decent wrestlers in the same ring with one another seems like a weak match. As for the Lacey debut, I was obviously disappointed with the clothesline. However, ‘the claw’ was epic, in, uh, my opinion. But at least, Angelina [if she returns] will have a babyface role rather than that of a heel. I’m interested [if she returns] in seeing how she is as a babyface. I’m so use to her being a heel it would be like seeing Maryse’s character turn heel and in my opinion, watching Melina [WWE] go babyface – not the same.

Angelina didn’t even pin Kong to win the belt. Months later she got flattened in seconds by Tara, who debuted two weeks before the match. I like Angelina a lot, but she had two weak runs as champ because the writers would never put her over convincingly. Maryse at least had one solid title defense (granted it was against Gail waaaaaaay back on SD), plus two cookie-cutter defenses versus Kelly (bad wrestler, but has biggest pop of any diva).

It’s pretty sad that ODB had to ‘win’ her belt from Cody Deaner. They need to distance her from that awful angle if they’re going to sell her as a solid champion. At least she has a better finisher than a claw.

i’m not even going to comment on the plyaboy match

Lacey is BEYOND GORGEOUS,shes so HOT!!!!Sarita sold that claw perfectly and in time,i think Lacey will improve,i’m not going to bash her into pieces just in her first appearance like some diva dirt commenters who don’t give anyone a chance.I looking forward to seeing lacey in the future,she definitly has the look,now she just needs to improve

But Angelina is a heel, heels rarely get clean pins over face champions unless they are monster heels like Kong. ODB however is a face, so that makes a big difference.

But I don’t know if it’s enough. Velvet needs to stand out as leader (she’s easily the best wrestler of the three). Problem is Lacey stands out more and is actually too beautiful for TBP.

@Mikas:
I’m not a fan of ODB, but in her defense, Angelina never had a clean win over Kong. And most of Angelina’s wins were due to interference & hairsprays. That said, I do see your point of ODB not looking credible. Kong, Tara, and Sarita are the only 3 Knockouts I see as championship material (though I’d love to see how Daffney would fare as an evil scary heel champ).

TNA Knockouts Title Match: I loved it, ODB is certainly becoming one of my Favorite Knockouts & ODB was great to but the storyline is getting boring just like the Melina vs Michelle feud.

Lacey Von Erich’s TNA Impact Debut: I agree it wasnt one of the best debuts eve but i will give her time cause she hasnt wrestled that much on TV.

she fits in well with the beautiful people and at least they have a team pose now (with madison)

TNA should take advantage of this, and have some Knockouts make fun of her in backstage sketches, and then send ODB on a “quest to prove herself”, that would actually be interesting to watch. But i doubt TNA is that creative (at least not anymore).

So lets hope we get a ODB-Tara-Kong match where ODB either pins Kong or Tara cleanly, but probably she will just only “finish” Tara or Kong with a pin without doing actual work. Either way, i doubt she will loose the title at the next PPV.

I wouldn’t write Love off yet.Not longer than a few months,necessarily.Yeah,many want her back.But depending upon what the exact details of her situation are,I’d think there’s a reasonable possibility she could return unless TNA leadership has taken leave of their senses.Why hang around Florida and TNA tapings if there’s no possible future?

Anyway,I haven’t been spending money on TNA since the whole Angel thing broke,and last night pushed me further away from them and closer to other sources like the WWE or indies for my fix.If Vince,AAA,or whomever beats TNA to the punch and brings Angel aboard,I’ll cut TNA out from all my viewing too.Can’t say I watch with much passion anymore anyway.

Playboy — tacky. ODB/Kong didn’t set the world alight. I’m actually already quite bored of this whole ODB/Kong/Tara thing and it hasn’t even really gotten out of first gear. They haven’t actually developed it into a storyline yet. Just random staredowns and brawls. Very WWE-esque uninvolved booking.