Show opens as Jeff Jarrett announces the "greatest aquisition in the history of TNA", Mick Foley who will be in the Impact Zone next week. He's interupted by Kurt Angle who furthers his own heel push.
The Rock & Rave Infection vs Matt Morgan & Abyss. Rave & Abyss kicked this one off but Rave bailed quickly after realising he couldn't do anything against Abyss. Morgan won off the Hellavator on Rave in a supremely weak match.
Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed) vs Mercedes Steele (aka former World Women's Wrestling Champion Lexxus, who had been recommend to TNA by Roxxi). Obviously some of the Impact crowd already knew her and were chanting "Lexy". Steele took some good bumps, selling everything for Kong big time. This was always going to be a job by Steele and Kong won off the Awesome Bomb. I'd guessed that it was Roxxi dressed as Raisha Saeed who beaned Kong across the back with the chair because I recognised her distinctive walk. Apparantly Steele has signed with TNA so we can add another name to the Knockout roster.
Karen's Angle with Christian Cage. Better known as the "bathroom break" segement.
Bookers shit "African" angle. "Where I am from in Africa", that'd be South Park in Houston wouldn't it Mr Huffman? F**kwit.
Non-title 6 Person Tag Contest - LAX & Hector Guerrero vs Beer Money & Jaqueline and the losers manager must leave their team forever. LAX were the better team but Beer Money took win after Robert Roode hit Hernandez with the football helmet and it looks like Hector will be going back to the Spanish Announce desk.
Sting comes to the ring to answer back to Jeff Jarrett. I was loving the "over-rated" chant as Sting talked about Hogan.
Non-title match Sheik Abdul Bashir vs Samoa Joe. Joe was working this match with a great black eye. I'd class this as Bashir's first proper match at last. Bashir did at least show he is capable of a decent offence and both guys sold well for each other but I think the ref gave Bashir a HUGE amount of leeway after being manhandled not once but twice by him which could have easily earned him a DQ. Samoa Joe took the eventual win off The Muscle Buster.
Booker T vs AJ Styles. It is quite surprising that when you watch Booker T and you finally realise how few moves the guy can actually do for someone whose been a champion so many times. This was a really s**t quality match, normally Styles can carry any opponant no matter how bad they are but this stunk to high heaven. You could tell they'd run out of ideas when Styles made his ref bump (TNA, how many times do you need telling? ALL ref bumps are s**t!). Booker T got the pin after clocking Styles with the briefcase. This shows how s**t Booker T really is, if you can't have a good match against AJ Styles then its time to retire. No doubt the whole "miscommunication" thing with Christian cage is to further this "respect" theme they've been running with over the last few weeks which I'm hoping they'll get over and done with soon as it's utterly s**t.
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