TNA= Total Non-stop 3-ways

Oh Vince Russo, your booking is so predictable. If you're not sticking things on poles or creating matches with convoluted stipulations that no-one understand, you're relying on 3-ways to get over the fact you can't decide (or perhaps won't decide) which of your stars gets to take the pinfall!

Last week on Impact saw the ridiculous rush-booking of Samoe joe becoming X-Division champion and this week saw Kurt Angle take on Christian Cage and Rhino. There's more 3-way action in TNA these days than on most late night cable porn. The X Division match the week before was a cop-out and a hotshot angle straight out of the Russo playbook. However this week's world title match was from just the same playbook, just from a completely different section. Although this felt like a pay-per view match (and it was certainly booked in the crazy way that TNA lke their pay per view matches to be) this was actually the perfect TV world title match. OK, so it was over-booked nonsese with a million and one run-ins and about 18 different angles interjecting themselves, but this is a TV match and that is what TV matches should be all about. From this one 40+ minute match, TNA have set-up their main event as well as 2 or 3 undercard matches, all the while making a great episode of television along the way Oh, and perhaps more importantly, the only people who had to pay to watch this are the TNA executives who finance the show!). Fortunately the crazy angles were backed up by the usual high standard of work from the TNA roster, and just like John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels from a couple of months ago, this format of a longer match on TV has the potential to not only create a buzz of interest about an increasingly stale product, but also to create a potential match of the year candidate for TNA - something they have thus far, failed to do on pay-per-view in 2007.