Show opens with Samoa Joe coming out to give props to Kurt Angle & Christian Cage and shoots on Sting.
The Motor City Machine Guns vs Christian Cage & AJ Styles. Is TNA's tag division in such a poor state that they have to invent a brand new team for The Guns to get a match? Sabin & Styles kicked this off and had an excellent dust up that looked really fluid and showed how well they know each other as workers. Cage was selling like hell for both The Guns and boy were they ever getting over. AJ took the win off the Styles Clash for an awesome match for both teams. The whole "respect" idea after the match smacks of a Russo idea, they've been doing this for several months now and it's not getting over and quite frankly I'm bored of it. Either include it in a PPV or just stop doing it?
6 Man Tag Contest, Petey Williams, Johnny Devine & Jimmy Rave vs The Prince Justice Brotherhood. Williams & Curry Man probably had the best of this match with Petey back on old form with lots of fast high risk moves almost like he's never recently recovered from injury. Curry Man was selling everything he was given but some "miscommunication" led to Williams taking a double clothesline from Rave & Devine for Super Eric to win off the cross body block on Williams. Not a great match but Curry Man & Williams did impress. More of "referee" Shane Sewell's push towards becoming a wrestler (sooner rather than later please TNA?).
Traci Brooks as Knockout Law sets up a 6 person tag match for next weeks Impact between LAX with Hector vs Beer Money & Jaqueline where the loser loses their manager for good.
Sting comes down to talk about respect and name checks some WCW classics.
Someone forgets to edit the Knockouts video package because they say "we don't do bikini's" only a week after the Beauty Contest that featured a bikini segment.
Booker T vs Jay Lethal. An extremely poor match where Lethal carried Booker for the large majority of it, Booker won after Sharmell hooked Lethal's ankle allowing Booker to hit the axe kick. Booker seems to be turning into a Nigerian for some reason?
Mixed Tag Match, Velvet Sky & Cute Kip vs Taylor Wilde & Rhino. Well Rhino seemed to be ok about selling for Velvet Sky after being "sprayed in the face", Wilde got the eventual win off a beautiful looking rolling leg-hold on Sky. Wilde's cross body block onto Awesome Kong on the floor was pretty amazing as well but TNA made a REAL stupid mistake by cutting to a promo segment whilst the action was still going on. By the time they came back both Rhino & Wilde had been subdued in the ring by Kong & The Beautiful People.
Jeff Jarrett comes back to majorly huge pops from the Impact Zone crowd. Jarrett tells Sting & Angle what he thinks of them to their faces (great shoot!). Angle thinks he carried the company also getting himself some seriously cheap heat by calling the fans "a**holes" and calls Jarrett a has-been, inviting him to fight. Jarrett points to the monitor and we get our first look at Mick Foley and it looks like he might be coming with the Cactus Jack mindset and may actually wrestle!
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