Block 3:

Taz welcomes Mike Johnson from PWInsider to the show.

Johnson mentions that Impact is preparing to pay people $12.50/hour to attend this week’s television tapings in Ottawa. He points out that they’re looking for 75 people to fill seats and at that rate, that adds up to roughly $20,000 in total. Johnson says that maybe they should have just sold the ringside tickets and made the other seats free, and then they could have spent that $20,000 on bringing in more of their contracted talent for these tapings.

Johnson says that he was very dissapointed with the screwjob finish that concluded the Bound For Glory PPV. He feels that Impact really needed to reward the audience that has stuck by them over the last couple of years by giving them a good main event with a real finish.

Instead, Alberto Del Rio interfered and he believes this finish was a slap in the face to their fans. As a fan who spent $40 to watch the show, Johnson was very dissapointed, and Taz says that issues like this are the reason he didn’t buy the show in the first place.

Johnson also informs that Smackdown Live talent, The New Day, are working RAW live events for the next couple of weeks. Apparently WWE is determined to further the New Day/ Shield storyline as we move closer to Survivor Series, and having New Day work RAW live events is an easy way to make that happen.