Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

One person on a message board described Global Impact vs Impact as being the difference of night and day.  And it's true, it's damn true.  Global Impact is what TNA ought to be: a true difference in presentation of pro-wrestling from the WWE.  TNA's modus operandi is to be the standout product in pro-wrestling in America; however, while they wish to be the anti-WWE, many of their shows suffer from copying many ideas from the WWE.  And not the good ideas either.

However, Global Impact was a warm welcome of doing the right promotion of pro-wrestling.  No insulting of the Japanese promotions.  No stupid angles.  Just showing good wrestling, promoting with how people really felt and attempting to educate rather than preach what pro-wrestling can be.

Kurt Angle vs Yuji Nagata was one of the best pro-wrestling matches for free TV in TNA.  It ended clean and was a decent match.  It also got Angle over as a world-class athlete.  Not him as the conniving rat, but the bad-ass wrestler with a ton of confidence.  This is the Kurt Angle I think people want to see as the top dog in TNA.  If TNA would only promote Kurt Angle in this manner, there would be a huge amount of respect for him as the champion and that they would make the TNA championship more legitimate.

This show made me to see more of this feud between TNA and New Japan Pro-wrestling because it did a good job of giving people a good taste of pro-wrestling in Japan in the way it should be presented.  Mike Tenay and Don West did a better job, especially TNA who is better as a fact based, wrestling historian rather than a used cars comedian salesman that he's being line fed in TNA at the moment.

What I think this show also made clear is that the current booking committee needs to be fired, restructured and/or given no more authority on doing the booking and storylines in TNA.  I have no problems with the core talent in TNA; they actually are good wrestlers when you take away the garbage that the bookers try to sell.  The problem has perpetually been the fact that the booking/story writing committee is utter crap and need to be held accountable for not increasing the growth of the promotion.  TNA has made some decent business decisions like partnering with Japan, promoting the Knockouts division, getting certain talent like Christian (who is the best pure wrestler in the promotion at the moment), managing to expand their TV slot and holding more shows outside of Florida.  This has allowed TNA to grow their audience.  However, from a TV point of view, their audience is stagnate.  The potential growth they could receive has been stunted by the lack of competence from the booking committee.  Now, something must be done in the near future to correct these actions.