Welcome to the newly remodelled Impact Zone that now only has 1 entrance ramp but 2 different tunnels for faces and heels at the top of that ramp, I assume they removed the 2nd ramp to allow more floor space for the audience? The shows kicks off with AJ Styles & Samoa Joe making a stand against The Main Event Mafia.
Knockout Tag Match - The Beautiful People (with Cute Kip) vs Christy Hemme & ODB. Sky & Hemme started this off with a bit of miscommunication near the start with that awful looking takedown where both women had to take responsibility for what looked like a complete clusterf**k. ODB & Love both came in and Love sold a nice looking droptoehold. I certainly didn't rate the "nice spinkick" that West & Tenay were oozing over, personally I think it looked very sloppy, poorly executed and very hard for Hemme to sell. The cameras were in a very bad position for Love's c***py looking knee to the midsection. ODB took the win off a wedgie variation on the chokeslam. Love & Sky need more ring practice it seems as this match made them look like rank amateurs at times, fortunately for them Hemme & ODB carried this match well.
James Storm vs Eric Young. One of Storms better matches for a change (it seems he's much better as a singles competitor if I'm honest) and Young had a very good match as well especially his ability to sell for Storm. Young took the win off a Schoolboy (have this lot been watching Hogans Wrestling show?) and The Motor City Machineguns saved him from the post match beatdown from Beer Money.
Tag Match - Hiroshi Tanahashi (representing New Japan Pro Wrestling) & Volador (representing CMLL) vs The Motor City Machineguns. Volador & Tanahashi jumped the Guns from the bell with Volador hitting a nice headscissors then suicide dive on Sabin. Tanahashi did flub the landing of his forward rollthrough (or Shelley had an arm or hand in the way). During his commentary did Bashir call Volador Voldemort? Sabin got the eventual win off the Cradle Shock on Volador. A very good match, this is a classic example of why TNA can still impress.
Tag Team Grudge Match - Booker T & Kevin Nash vs Samoa Joe & AJ Styles. So basically this is 2 of TNA's best versus 2 of TNA's worst in terms of talent and wrestling ability. Well if anyone can carry Nash & Booker its certainly Joe & AJ. If they can't carry you in a match then your REALLY s**t. Styles and Nash started things off in this, Styles was certainly selling the punches from Nash. Styles got the eventual win off the Pele out of nowhere on Booker. Great match for Styles & Joe, Booker looked VERY scrappy especially his knees and kicks. It seems every time he uses his legs he looks like a drunk giraffe.
Someone STILL hasn't fixed the Sting video segement in the "Cross The Line" and it's STILL raining upside down!
Mick Foley comes out to talk to Sting.
Kurt Angle vs Abyss. This was mainly Abyss pushing his power and strength until Angle had his little comeback taking out Abyss' leg. Abyss spent a lot of the 2nd half of the match adjusting his mask to try and keep it on, Angle had a bad landing (hitting his neck) when Abyss hit the powerbomb. The ref stopped this with a DQ on Angle after hitting Abyss with a chair outside the ring. Matt Morgan eventually made the save with the Carbon Footprint (a big boot). Morgan was beaten down when Nash & Booker came out to help Angle but it took Styles & Joes troops (The Guns, Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed, Eric Young, Petey Williams) to run them out of the ring only for Scott Steiner to get into the ring behind them and laid most of them out with a steel pipe so it seems that Scott Steiner is the fifth and newest member of The Main Event Mafia.
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