Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed) vs Sojourner Bolt (Josette Bynum AKA Josie from SHIMMER) who had previously fought Kong at Slammiversary. Bolt started out with a good offensive, some good dropkicks. West & Tenay reported that "TNA & Gail Kim have parted ways" (so I guess that makes it official then?) & Kong was soon back on top. Bolt fought back with a couple of kicks to Kongs head & then went for a double axehandle off the top turnbuckle but was stopped midair by Kongs arm. Bolt managed to avoid the spinning backfist the 1st time but took the 2nd one. Kong won off the Awesome Bomb which Bolt sold very well indeed. Saeed set 2 chairs upright in the ring for another Awesome Bomb on Bolt but ODB hit the ring throwing 1 chair at Kong, the other at Saeed and then threw Saeed right out of the ring. ODB hit an excellent DDT on Kong off the top turnbuckle & this is how easily Gail Kim is replaced as TNA top babyface. Serves her right for being a greedy bitch & going with money over quality of life. Gail, you can only spend your money if your fit & healthy. Expect to job, be made to wear a stupid sexist costume & then get injured after less than 10 matches. Don't expect any title shots in WWE either.
Sheik Abdul Bashir & Petey Williams vs Consequences Creed & Jay Lethal. Bashir is still really finding his feet in TNA as he was seriously overselling to Lethal in a very bad way right from the opening bell. The match was pretty scrappy if I'm honest with Lethal getting the pin on Williams after Bashir bumped into him allowing Lethal to get the roll-up & the worlds fastest 3 count. Not at all what I expect from the X Division guys.
Karen's Angle with Abyss. Yeah, that's a great idea! Get THE least talkative person on the whole TNA roster & put them into a segment no-one watches or cares about. Gotta be a Russo idea.
Jimmy Rave vs Curry Man. Curry Man took this to Rave right over the top rope, this at least was much more representative of X Division talent than the tag match that'd previously happened. Rave was selling for Curry Man like crazy but I am worried that his gimmick is coming to an end very soon (You knew it was going to end once they started letting him speak English), Curry Man took the eventual win off the Spice Rack. This was a pretty decent match for both guys. The standard post-match beatdown happened with Lance Rock joining Rave & Christy Hemme but it wasn't long before Shark Boy & Super Eric (as the rest of The Prince Justice Brotherhood) came down to make the save.
Traci Brooks is appointed "Knockout Law" by Jim Cornette, basically putting her in charge of the TNA Knockouts to maintain order. It also sounds like Cornette is giving her carte blanche for hiring & firing of Knockouts. Loved Cornette's "you'll never drown" remark, very funny.
Four Ways To Glory Qualifying Match, Kurt Angle vs Kevin Nash. Samoa Joe joins West & Tenay at the colour desk. A very boring match, neither guy impressed me & this couldn't be over soon enough. Nash set up for the Jack Knife Power Bomb, Joe got onto the apron & distracted him allowing Angle to hit the low blow behind the refs back and get the pin off the Olympic Slam.
TNA Knockouts advert seriously shoots on the WWE Divas.
The Beautiful People (with Kip James now rebranded as Kute Kip) vs Roxxi & Taylor Wilde. Did Roxxi have a serious make-up malfunction here? Her eyelashes were looking insane, serious Panda eyes there! Roxxi & Love started this one off & Roxxi was showing her how to wrestle properly. Wilde was selling well for Love & Sky, happily putting them both over. Love took the eventual win after Sky sprayed Roxxi in the face with something. It was weird that Rhino had to come out & make the save on Taylor Wilde, I'm guessing Abyss wasn't present for the filimg of this Impact as thats been his role recently?
Sting comes out to bore us on the mic, no-one cares about the AJ Styles/Jeff Jarrett angle.
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