Apologies for the lateness of this weeks catch-up, I've been playing the new chapter of Oddpawn and I just HAD to complete it before doing this. It seems from feedback no-one remembers the old catch-up so I'll have to start doing the caveat again.
The views contained are my own, I have no loyalty to TNA. If I like something I'll say so, likewise if I don't like it I'll probably say even more. If I consider an item unlikely to help the forwarding of TNA as a brand then I reserve the right not to discuss it at all.
Knockouts Match - Angelina Love (with Velvet Sky & Cute Kip in tow as usual) vs ODB. Love jumped ODB as she was coming through the ropes and was on top for a few minutes before ODB used her power but ODB was stupid enough to let Kip and Sky distract her, letting Love back on top. ODB was fighting both Love & Sky with either Love or Kip distracting the ref away. ODB managed to get herself back into the game when Love took too long to celebrate. A combo of a splash and the fallaway slam needed Kip to distract the ref (again?) for Sky to spit the flask contents into ODB's face getting Love the win off the Lights Out.
Jeff Jarrett comes out to address issues with Kurt Angle, showing Angle's shoot on Vince.
Monsters Ball Qualifying Match - The Motor City Machine Guns vs LAX. This was taped in the week? So why didn't they stop & reshoot when the announcer f**ked up the intro for LAX? Not a great match. It seems there's a pattern to how their using The Guns recently, Shelley & Sabin are now very entrenched in the role of Jobber & Salesman. Hernandez took the win off the powerbomb on Sabin to win for LAX. I'm now officially sick of seeing Shelley & Sabin lose and job to teams constantly. Get them back as faces soon?
3 Way X Division Championship - Jimmy Rave vs Eric Young vs Sheik Adbul Bashir. Young & Rave MADE this match. They were all about the X Division ethos, be fast, be fluid and be entertaining. I know I'm not supposed to like Bashir because he's a heel but that's just not why. I don't like him because he's not shown any kind of talent worthy of the title he holds and he lessens it for that very reason. Bashir showed me 2 things in this match. He can sell & he can bump. Bashir took yet another win (off a kneeling DDT they call the Weapon Of Mass Destruction or WMD) on Eric Young he didn't deserve in yet another match he barely contributed to.
6 Man Tag Match, Team 3D & Booker T vs Jay Lethal, AJ Styles & Christian Cage. Lethal is STILL running the sh**y gimmick? I thought he'd have binned it once the SoCal Val stuff was over and done. Booker & Lethal kicked this off. Lethal impressed as he usually manages to, Cage gave a good account of himself too. Otherwise it was an astonishingly shitty match with a piss poor ending. Booker T took the win off a roll-up on Cage after Styles accidently nailed him with a springboard clothesline furthering their "miscommunication" storyline that it looks like Russo is going to play until it dies a death. Styles did NOTHING else.
Beer Money come out to yack. Roode tries to make it seem that Beer Money made Salinas leave TNA. We know otherwise Bobby boy.
Knockout Tagmatch, The Beautiful People (with Cute Kip) vs ODB & Rhaka Khan (getting an actual match for a change!). ODB & Sky started this one off with Sky trying to jump ODB and earning herself an elbow in the face. Rhaka Khan made a nice initial showing and damn is it me or is that girl a black Christy Hemme with her freak on? ODB sold a great double team from The Beautiful People. Love & Sky were both overselling for Rhaka Khan (clearly their not used to working anyone that damn tall) and that looked pretty scrappy. Rhaka Khan took the eventual win off Sky with some weird legdrop/legpress. Predictable postmatch beatdown & save by Rhino.
Mick Foley makes his Impact Zone debut, I wonder if he's gonna fill the last 11 minutes of the show and he does. Kurt Angle gatecrashes the speech just after Foley gets his chance to shoot on Vince McMahon. Angle's statement on Jarrett's wife are a bit of a lowblow. All the WWE names Foley mentions get booed. Foley announces he'll be Special Enforcer for Angle's match at the up coming PPV.
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