BRM Reviews the 10/11/2012 Impact (great)

[Big Red Machine]

AUSTIN ARIES vs. JAMES STORM- 6.5/10
Great opener, but this is the World Champion against second biggest babyface in the company (down only to the champ himself). This should have been the main event.

AJ & KURT BACKSTAGE- AJ decides to believe Kaz and Daniels- the guys who have spent all year making up nasty lies about him- instead of his tag team partner.

HOGAN, STING, BULLY RAY, KAZ & DANIELS SEGMENT- okay

AJ STYLES vs. HERNANDEZ (w/Chavo Guerrero Jr.)- 3.25/10
AJ Styles loses clean in less than four minutes

ACES & EIGHTS GUY PROMO- bad. This didn't make any sense at all. He says that Hogan doesn't know if they locked Aces & Eights in or out... well I'm going to go with out, because if Hogan had locked them in, Aces & Eights wouldn't need to have a match in which they get access to the Impact Zone if they win.

RVD & ZEMA ION SEGMENT- LOVED IT!

HOGAN & STING (& BULLY RAY) BACKSTAGE- bad. Hogan says that didn't want to choose BUlly, but they had no other choices. Umm... RVD didn't have a match until a few minutes ago. You could have chosen him. You also could have chosen any number of other guys on the roster, including Gunner, Kenny King, Kid Kash, Rob Terry, Doug Williams, etc.

TARA & BROOKE BACKSTAGE- bad. Brooke is a douche, and yet we are supposed to like her?

KAZ & DANIELS vs. BULLY RAY & STING- 6/10
Told its story very well. I really disliked the finished, but it gives Kaz & Daniels a "win" in their book, and it does set up some possibilities down the line.

ARIES-HARDY VIDEO PACKAGE- okay

SNOW-RYAN VIDEO PACKAGE- good

JOE PROMO & SEGMENT WITH MAGUS- not good. Has every forgotten that Magnus turned on Joe and attacked him with a chair a few months ago? Because this segment made it seem like this whole thing was over the TV Title.

MISS TESSMACHER vs. GAIL KIM- 4.25/10
IMO, Tara should have come out of this with the upper hand.

JAMES STORM & BOBBY ROODE BACKSTAGE- great. Storm gets to cut a good promo and King Mo gets to actually look effective as a "special enforcer" by splitting them apart.

BOBBY ROODE vs. JEFF HARDY- 7.25/10


JEFF HARDY & AUSTIN ARIES SEGMENT- Aries heel turn felt very abrupt, but it wasn't bad. I am just a little disappointed that TNA wasn't willing to try a face vs. face main event.

Overall, a great episode of Impact, both as an episode of the show and as the go-home show for BFG.