- This afternoon that the Federal Government has arrested Yonjo Quiroa, 28, on one count of criminal infringement of a copyright and is attempting to seize 16 websites that Quiroa ran, streaming copyrighted material owned by a number of entities, including WWE, TNA, UFC as well as number of major sports franchises, including the NBA, NHL and NFL.

wow Impact playin in a huge venue with a really loud crowd is way more exciting.

TNA should move to London like Ring Ka King in India. I know they can't but it's the only way they will ever look like a major company.



Impact Wrestling

Fuck Me! TNA's never looked better than it looked last night. They didn't even have that good of a entrance set up, but it looks like one of those old WWF PPVs from the 80s where its just a screen, a entrance way and a shitload of fans. Wrestling arenas always look better when it looks like the fans are surrounding the wrestlers. Shame it cant always look like that

Tremendous show-opening video that not only put over that they were in England, but that it was going to be an exciting show with all the fast-cutting of venues and then match clips. Loved Bully-Roode's promo, and man did Sting ever have a lot of energy. I love Sting announcing everyone in main events as "YOU!". EY starred in a new, amazing Valentine's Day ad with ODB, although his trunks were a tad too small.

Magnus got the pop of a lifetime coming out with Joe. Tenay and Taz had a great exchange regarding Magnus's hometown, and then the crowd booed the tag champs. Tag champs versus Joe/Magnus in a Buckingham Brawl that gave the winners of a coin toss the chance to just double-team at will. The commentary was hard to hear here with the noisy ticket graphics playing over it. Tenay actually got to be the professor here with some of his knowledge on Magnus. Morgan got a ton of boos for doing anything. Kudos to TNA for not editing the audio there, because it's something they can use in the future to break up the team. Hopefully soon. Morgan missed the Carbon Footprint by several miles since Magnus moved long before Morgan even headed towards the corner, but this began the finishing sequence that saw the crowd get beyond hot. They really should've changed the titles here because the crowd would've gone crazy - they already cheered loudly and counted along with the pin when Magnus won.

EB came out to cut a promo on Garett, leading to him coming out to close-ups of loud cheers from other parts in the show while they edited in cheers since no one visibly cheered for him. Halfway through the Eric-Garett exchange the audio quality changed a bit, I guess due to the sweetening. Garett said his trainer was HERE AND WE'D SEE HIM...later. What a tease. They ran through tonight's card, which includes Roode-Storm in their first singles match in months which I forgot about, and Aries-Haskins which they just brought up here. Lots of HOGAN chants and more hints that Hogan would be coming back on this show. Very odd to basically give things away but not quite do it. Clearly they wanted to hype that he'd be here for ratings, but not give away the finish of the trainer deal, but doing things this way still seems odd. Another TNA figure ad aired. Kaz's is available - presumably in the hair care aisle.

Tremendous Mark Haskins video aired that made him seem like THE next big deal in TNA. Then Taz knocked him for putting over his home country in the video...and the crowd mainly cheered Aries a ton, with loud chants throughout the match. And then Haskins Brock'd an SSP. Not his night. Landing sure looked like it hurt like hell, and that really should've been it. Not sure why Aries hit the punt, the brainbuster, and then put on the Last Chancery given that the kid might've seriously damaged his neck right before them. Sure, you've got to get a finishing sequence over, but could you perhaps do it on a guy who didn't just brain himself on a move?

They announced Storm-Roode in the first main event of the night...wow. So much for boosting Lockdown's buyrate with that match. New Direct ad with Morgan being a goofball and bully aired. Not nearly as entertaining as the first two or the one with him and Crimson just happening to pay their insurance at the same time, I guess while in Orlando for a taping and figuring "hey, lemme pay my car insurance now!". Also, instead of watching the Super Bowl on a big screen, you can also watch it ON YOUR PHONE. Somehow, I doubt that'll be as fun. Brooke video aired of her in a bikini.

Bischoff bitched about getting a cab before Sting lured him away - Eric was an awesome complainer here. Storm-Roode didn't even get the big JB intro here. This match just felt rushed and awkward. They JUST got back into things together on a tertiary level a few weeks ago, and now BOOM one-on-one match, no big intro, and Storm for some reason wrestling Roode's kind of match. More technical, and not nearly enough brawling to start in their first real singles match since Roode brained him with the beer bottle. Instead of just punching the shit out of him, he just wanted to win the hammerlock exchange. I get the whole "working a world title match style" deal, but this wasn't the time for it. They sacrificed this, the one feud they've had that really clicked so Garett Bischoff could main event the show instead of just keeping him to his own segment where it would've made sense to reveal the trainer.

Next week, it's the STAR WARS EDITION OF IMPACT! Oh I cannot wait for the Sarlac Pit match. Loser gets chained to Jabba the Hut. Knockouts Match where the loser wears a slave outfit. No wait - they're just going to use ILM to try and edit out Velvet's botches.

FINALLY a punch exchange broke out, and a great one, with a dueling U-K! chant during it. One upside to doing this match here is Roode and Storm get to have a match in front of the biggest crowd in Impact history (not counting the New Japan shows), but man does it just rush things along too much. The massive crowd heat helped too - they lost it during a near-fall with the flying elbow off the top from Storm, and an earlier super-rana that I don't remember him ever doing before. I liked Storm escaping from the crossface, attempting the Eye of the Storm, and then kickout of the Payoff. Finishing sequence of the belt shot tease>Codebreaker/Closing Time, and then Bully Ray's interference leading to a spear. Storm shouldn't be doing clean jobs. Liked Bully doing the uranage on the belt and actually hitting though. Sting made the save and then Tenay reminded everyone that this is just the first of 2 matches for Storm, which I'd completely forgotten. After hearing that, my thought went from "well, they're idiots" to "this'll just wind up like Bret at WM X - lose the first, win the second). And having Bully get involved nicely set up their match later, while the uranage set up more of a come-from-behind aspect for Storm's win.

Tenay repeated that February is the BIGGEST MONTH IN IMPACT HISTORY! for the billionth time without citing a reason for it. I loved Taz saying that Tara-Gail didn't need to happen here after just calling what should've been a PPV main event in Storm-Roode. Loved Gail getting an edge via kick to the ass. The stupid ticket graphic first covered up Tara's ass, then her whole body. Gail used a stretch muffler on Tara, which I'm guessing will be renamed the stretched muffler by Russo. This was one of the better knockouts matches in a while - it actually felt like a match as opposed to just a bunch of stuff happening. Tara won after the Widow's Peak - good for her. Wouldn't mind her winning the KO's belt again. The Soul Calibur V ad has dubstep...wow...

Part 2 of tonight's epic Garett-Eric saga continued with shots of crowds not giving a shit about him. They tried to edit all the boos, but some slipped through during his promo. Hogan came out not in red and yellow, but beat up Gunner with Garett. Hogan's punches looked a billion times better than Garett's. Bischoff and Gunner ran off, while Hogan mugged for the camera for a while. Oh yeah, and Garett was out with him too. This felt underwhelming not just as a payoff to what they set up earlier in this show, but also as a payoff to a months-long angle. Hogan cut an awesome promo about whooping the ass of Bischoff and TNA being ON THE VERGE, THE CUTTING EDGE, OF ROLLING RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN ONTO WHAT WE CALL THE GREATEST COMPANY OF ALL-TIME. THEY'RE DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT! IF I GOTTA BE THE GUIDE, I CAN SMELL THE GREATNESS, AND IF THEY CAN'T, I'LL TAKE THEIR HEADS AND STUFF THEIR HEADS IN IT! This made little sense for a million different reasons, but was memorable. Kinda like his coked-up '80s stuff. I love that in a promo putting over TNA on a show with their biggest TV taping crowd ever, he still basically said another company was better.

Storm-Ray was really great. I loved Ray constantly yelling about the ribs of Storm being injured after the first match. Loved the rib tape all but evaporating when Bully tore it off - that must've been some shitty stuff. Loved Sting trading in his black bat for a black cricket bat. They plugged this being the biggest month ever, plugged the Star Wars deal again and it hit me - WRESTLING STAR WARS returns next week eons after the death of WCCW. Loved Sting smacking the cricket bat on the apron to encourage Storm to soldier on. Loved Tenay acting shocked that Bully was going up top for the senton which, like Angle's moonsault, missed for the trillionth time. I think Sting might have better luck with tag partners than those guys have with those moves. Loved Sting preventing Roode from interfering leading to the superkick, which Bully sold by falling like a tree. I loved this match - enjoyed it more than Storm-Roode. This was a home run as far as TNA seeming major league - it showed that they could run in a major venue, and perhaps one day, they'll be able to do that regularly.


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that SSP landing face first is hard to see even in screen shots.No idea how he got up after that.

There is “strong talk” within WWE that Chris Jericho will only appear for the promotion through April or May before taking another hiatus to tour with Fozzy in the summer.

John Cena has responded to The Rock’s latest attack on him – suggesting The Rock has a problem with gay people and needs better material.

The Rock tweeted on Friday:

“@JohnCena I was electrifying Topeka when you were sucking on yum rockets in college. My boot. Your ass. #Wrestlemania”

Cena, who got some heat from the GLAAD organization last year for comments he made on RAW that were deemed homophobic, responded to The Rock with the following:

“So its apparent that my actor buddy Dwayne doesn’t like homosexuals or secondary education. Very classy. Tell Brian to write u better stuff.”

The the “Brian” that Cena refers to is WWE creative team member Brian Gewirtz, who writes a lot of the promos for WWE’s top superstars.

I think it's really cool for Undertaker to do that since he's always seemed to try and keep kayfabe during years when he's the Deadman. Knock the WWE for a lot and, some of the time, rightfully so, but to do that for those kids is very classy.

Sheamus was the last man standing at Sunday’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view, earning himself a title shot against a champion of his choosing at WrestleMania 28. While Sheamus winning the Rumble sets up a series of interesting scenarios for the next several months of WWE television, it was actually Chris Jericho who was originally scheduled to win the event.

Triple H, who has gained even more influence behind the scenes in recent months, made the call for Sheamus to win the Rumble just days before the event took place. The two have been close friends (and workout partners) since the Irish grappler’s promotion to the main roster in the summer of 2009.

In an interview with Power Slam magazine, Triple H singled out the Celtic Warrior as a wrestler with big potential:

“The closest to me is probably Sheamus, because we always train together on the road. But I try to watch all the young guys’ matches and give them advice, if they want to hear it. If they take advice to heart and really want to improve, then I’m wanting to help. As for seeing some of myself in someone? That’s tough. Sheamus just the other day showed up at a show he didn’t have to be at. He does whatever he’s asked to do without complaining, he goes to every show and is always wanting to work: he does it all, goes above and beyond. That’s what I was like.”

- Peter Orlov, Calvin Raines, Marcus Owens and Leroy Parks were all removed from the FCW site, which usually signifies they have been released from their WWE developmental deals.

Little tiny AJ standing up to Big Show....This could go so many ways.The farting Natty joke seemed to have to purpose.