My Weekly TNA Catch-up, Impact 11th Sep 08

Show opens with Samoa Joe coming out to let us know whats on his mind. I didn't listen because I don't care about storylines.

Open Challenge Match - Abyss vs Christian Cage. This was an incredibly weak match that not only never got started, it never finished either. Cage had hit the Unprettier and was about to take a 3 count when Kurt Angle ran in to stop it (I'm assuming the match was stopped on a DQ for outside interference, you can give the win to Cage then) and was then joined by Booker T hoping to take Cage out of the upcoming PPV. Angle gave Abyss the chair who hit Angle. Angle & Booker beat Abyss & Matt Morgan made the save.

Beautiful People Beauty Challenge. Acting as Judges were Shark Boy, Curry Man & Super Eric. Angelina Love vs Taylor Wilde.

Evening Gown Competition which Wilde wins by 2 votes to 1 with only Curry Man voting for Love.

Karen's Angle with guest Sting. Didn't listen, don't care.

AJ Styles calls out Frank Trigg. At long last that baldy f**ker is going to fight!

Beautiful People Beauty Challenge, Bikini Contest section. Angelina Love wins by 2 votes to 1 with only Super Eric voting for Taylor Wilde.

Knockout Bimbo Brawl, Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed) vs Roxxi. After a short battle in the crowd this got back in the ring where Roxxi was on top for a while. Kong totally refused to take the drop toehold into the chair not only no-selling but refusing to even make contact with the chair though she totally sold the bulldog into the chair. Roxxi sold a nice scoop slam into the chair and Kong was quickly back in charge but Roxxi played possum and when Kong went for the splash on the chair no-one was home. Roxxi did an excellent (and very quick) blade job after taking the chair to the head and Kong took the win off the Awesome Bomb. Excellent match for both women, this also shows (and Russo, please pay attention to this fact!) that Awesome Kong CAN have a good match without Saeed interfering.

Kevin Nash's Triple Challenge, Johnny Devine vs Samoa Joe. I didn't expect Devine to last long & Joe took a fast pin off a modified Muscle Buster.

Lance Rock vs Samoa Joe - Joe took another pretty fast win off the rear naked chokehold.

Tomko vs Samoa Joe - For a guy people claim has left TNA Tomko is still a pretty active participant, isn't he? This was a good fast paced match, both guys were working each other hard. Both guys sold well, both of them were getting over in a big way. Joe took the win off the Muscle Buster which Tomko sold seriously well. Excellent match despite being fairly short.

Beautiful People Beauty Challenge, Talent Competition. Angelina Love does a "poem" (actually it was a limerick) and sings (very badly) row, row your boat. Taylor Wilde plays the drums. Damn well too! Taylor Wilde wins by 2 votes to 1 (Curry Man the only one to vote for Love) and wins that round and the whole contest. I think it was pretty sad that TNA have had to stoop to the very low level set by WWE to put their female talent through this "lack of Talent" contest. Yes, it fits the characters of The Beautiful People but its NOT the way to showcase the female TNA talent especially when you know how well they actually wrestle.

Booker T & Kurt Angle vs Matt Morgan & Abyss. Well, I'd been predicting this tagteam for the last few weeks and now it has come to fruition. Sadly it was a pretty crap match, after interference by Team 3d (hitting Abyss with a chair) Angle cheated the win.

Sting comes to the ring to call out Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett finally does make an appearance.