LAW March 8 Update - Head to Head Tonight
**Click here to download The LAW from Sunday night featuring former WWE creative team member David Lagana, who is now a producer for Ring of Honor and they will be up in Mississauga, Ontario on March 20th. Plus Dave Meltzer joined the show to chat about the passing of Angelo Poffo and tonight's head to head battle between the WWE and TNA and tons of calls.
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**Tonight is the official kick off of the Monday night battle between the WWE and TNA with both shows going head to head at 9pm EST in the United States (TNA will have a 15 minute lead time on ‘Raw' in Canada). TNA is going into this show with the same mentality of January 4th and a mindset of surprising the viewers and getting the most talk coming out of the show, however that mindset is offset by a limited amount of talking going into the show, which are the two elements a good show wants to achieve. TNA is now promoting Sting will be on the show on their website and begs the question why there could not have been an insertion into last Thursday's show. The two big surprises are expected to be Rob Van Dam and Jeff Hardy as well as a video the promotion put together about a big angle that will be shot in the first five minutes of the show. The positive is that TNA had the more newsworthy and exciting show on January 4th and with the idea that they are going head to head and returning to Monday night you will definitely get more curiosity viewers tonight but the goal is to retain that audience each week, which they failed to do post January 4th on Thursday nights.
**TNA ‘Impact' is headlined by the tag match with A.J Styles & Ric Flair Vs Hulk Hogan & Abyss. This is Ric Flair's first free TV match since March 24th 2008 where he faced Vince McMahon on ‘Raw' while Hogan has not wrestled on free TV since July 4th 2005 on an edition of ‘Raw' in a tag match. The whole show has been built around this match along with the internet promotion of the first five minutes of the show and Sting returning. It has also been announced that Kevin Nash & Eric Young will address Scott Hall & Sean Waltman, which is likely to set up a tag match on tonight's show. I would also expect Samoa Joe returns tonight with whatever new look or gimmick they will be giving him. In addition they have the ‘Destination X' event on March 21st, which currently has three matches announced and if it weren't for the contracts with the cable outlets, this would be a show to cancel and focus on ‘Lockdown' in April. The ratings will tell the story of just how much of a detriment running head to head is as opposed to going 8-10pm EST and guaranteeing a strong hour to average out the overall number but it has always been the belief of Eric Bischoff to run head to head rather than capitalize on an unopposed hour and that dates back to when he was attempting to purchase WCW in early 2001 when ‘Monday Nitro' was running 8-10pm EST as one of the changes he wanted to make back then.
**WWE ‘Raw' takes place in Portland, Oregon tonight at the Rose Garden headlined by John Cena Vs Vince McMahon as well as Randy Orton Vs Ted DiBiase & Cody Rhodes with Criss Angel serving as guest host. It's a show that has not been designed as a show that is going head to head with competition nor are they in a vulnerable position though putting Vince McMahon in a match is at least something on their part, but which promises to be a smoke and mirrors match with some Batista involvement one would imagine. The WWE has already announced that The Undertaker will open up the show tonight.
**Here are the matches on
Ring of Honor tonight at 8pm and 11pm EST on HD Net:
*Claudio Castagnoli &
Chris Hero Vs The Bravado Brothers
*Rasche Brown Vs Caleb
Konley
*Kenny King Vs El Genercio
in the Quarter Finals of the TV Title tournament
*Kevin Steen Vs Rhett
Titus in the Quarter Finals of the TV Title tournament
**The WWE will be releasing another DVD on The Undertaker on June 6th entitled ‘The Undertaker's Most Dangerous Matches'.
**Fight Network Radio has returned after studio renovations. On today's program I chat with Ariel Helwani of MMAFighting.com on the WEC 47 event from this past weekend, the UFC Primetime series that debuts this Wednesday and much more, click here to download the show. J.P Parsonage (formerly Johnny Devine) will be my guest on Tuesday discussing the fall out of tonight's WWE Vs TNA battle.
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