6 Ups & 3 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling (2 Dec)

1. Thursday Night Raw

Subjectively, Moose and Matt Cardona's show-opening promo was great. Cardona was fired up just the right amount to justify how this played out, while Moose got a few cheap pops from the audience to get the story over.

But this felt too much like a mediocre WWE Raw segment.

Moose ran down Cardona's past, noting his incredibly short Intercontinental Title reign and how he'll forever be a mid-carder (mid-Cardona got a cheap pop out of your writer, admittedly), though this easily could have been a segment from 2011 WWE programming. Given his impeccable run in GCW, Cardona's misuse in IMPACT has never been more visible.

The worst part, though, is that set up the main event for the evening. W. Morrissey and Eddie Edwards aided Moose and Cardona, respectively, resulting in Scott D'Amore creating a tag team main event. D'Amore literally stated that IMPACT needed a main event for that night's broadcast, meaning that, had a brawl not ensued, IMPACT would have been without a show-closing contest.

WWE relies on this trope far too often for their weekly programming, and it never, ever gets over. The same can be said for IMPACT Wrestling now. Let this never happen again. IMPACT is traditionally better than this.