Welcome back to your weekly dose of “TNA Impact” feedback, with your usual Thursday night crew. Tonight brought us all another taped episode of “Impact,” with some high-profile tag bouts, hard-hitting entries in the Knockouts division, and further setup for the world title picture (while continuing to devalue the Feast or Fired stipulation). TNA Wrestling

“Do you wanna know something?” Alisha Edwards is staying in TNA. For weeks, the former one-time Knockouts World Tag Team Champion was at a crossroads after seeing her husband and former alliance in The System turn vile. Thinking they might be righting the wrongs from what they did in the past, Edwards just can’t seem to return to her old vicious ways, which is fine. However, since distancing herself from her former family, she walked into tonight’s office defeated, and ready to leave the company for good. Until Moose came to her aid and convinced her to stay.

It was a sentimental moment because Edwards has contributed a lot to TNA. She was a shoo-in with her appearances through “Wrestle House” some time ago (gosh, I wish they’d bring that back in the fall), and her boisterous energy gets any and all reactions from the crowd. My hope is that we see her continue wrestling. Sure, it looks like the path she’ll take now is to be alongside Moose’s newfound journey after their post-System days, but it would be cool to see what she could do in the ring again.

Despite only carrying one title in the company, she is a firecracker to watch. And TNA certainly needs more pops than crackles at this point. She can bring that pop.

Written by Brie Coder

So from watching TNA weekly I get the idea that the System is supposed to be the top heel faction, I get the idea that the Hardys are supposed to be on a tag team renaissance in TNA, effectively enjoying what should be the final stretch of their legendary run. They hold the TNA tag titles, and the System wants the tag titles to assert their dominance as most factions who realistically can’t yet win the brand’s top title do. See also: the MFT and Dark State.

But what I don’t get is the decision to have the System’s Eddie Edwards, Cedric Alexander, Brian Myers, and Bear Bronson face the Hardys and the Righteous in this week’s main event. For whatever reason the decision was made for the Righteous, who had already turned on the Hardys to make their own pursuit of the titles, albeit failing, to then again team-up with them. And personally, one single backstage segment on the night feels a little too shallow for any reasoning.

It feels like an indictment on the company that the aforementioned names comprise the main event of its weekly show having only just secured a touted network deal. It’s confusing to just throw rivals together again with little to no connective tissue. And there just doesn’t seem to be any form of plan or hook to compel one to watch the next week’s show.

It’s a shame for someone who used to fly the flag for TNA and really wants to see them succeed. But even beyond the main event, there was Steve Maclin cutting an advertised promo segment weeks after he was “fired” from the company, showered with jeers from the crowd calling for him to go away and wrap things up.

The show itself was actively uninteresting. And the main event just capped it all off, putting a collective of aging and already unimpressive wrestlers at the show’s close, only to also have the heels win because and close out the show with a beating – stopped by Moose, only for him to also get beaten, then that beating was stopped by Alisha Edwards. Just an uninteresting mess that really does nothing but cement the System as TNA’s House of Torture. Which may be the point, but then the question has to be asked: Why?

Written by Max Everett