Its the 1st proper Impact of the year, I'm not sure if this was live or recorded last week. The show opens with a look at the card for Sundays Genesis PPV.
X Division Championship Semifinals - Alex Shelley vs Eric Young. With Shane Sewell as referee anything could have happened here, I must admit my prediction was Shelley to take the win purely for the rather cool idea of a Shelley vs Sabin final. Shelley had a great match with his spike DDT on Young which looked excellent. Rather predictly and as I said Shelley took the win (with an assist from Sabin). I do wonder if this is a possible split for their team at last? Bashirs beatdown on Sewell after the match was rather predictable too, am I the only one who thinks Sewell looks a bit like a young Paul Orndorff. Cornette's firing as a ref then rehiring of Sewell as a wrestler angle was an excellent swerve even if I did predict it a while back.
The MEM come out to yak on the mic, I assume Booker T doesn't smoke as he had no clue how to hold that cigarillo in his mouth.
Non-title Knockout Match - Madison Rayne vs Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed, Sojourner Bolt & Rhaka Khan). Rayne is Ashley Lane, half of the tag champions from SHIMMER so she shouldn't be a total pushover here. Rayne had all of 20 seconds worth of offence before being made to sell and job, Kong hit a shortarm clothesline then took the win off a well sold Awesome Bomb.
Robert Roode vs Matt Morgan - Roodes knee injury was utter bollocks, Rudy Charles should have called a win to Morgan by countout instead of the win by stoppage. Jay Lethal & Consequence Creed come out and cash in their Feast Or Fired Tag Title shot.
Tag Team Championship - Beer Money vs Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed. Basically this was James Storm on his own after Roode had "injured" his ankle in the match against Morgan. Not a great match but I never expect one when it involves Beer Money, Creed sold a good beatdown fron Jacqueline outside the ring (so she is still involved to some degree), Jay Lethals Lethal combination looked awful (I'm not sure if it was the camera angle or Storm not selling it) but Lethal took the win after nailing Storm with the briefcase that had contained their title shot, Lethal & Creed are new tag champions (can we PLEASE call their team Lethal Consequences? It sounds brilliant!) and I guess Abyss & Matt Morgan will be facing them at Genesis instead? (Nope, the revised match is now a 3 teams match)
BG James vs Kurt Angle - It was nice to see BG back in action and this started in a great way with him jumping Angle on the ramp serving him a great beatdown outside the ring before the match even ever got inside the ring and started. Angle turned it around after an eyerake and BG did a blade job after a "post shot", BG was selling like crazy to get Angle over in this new violent mindset. BG had a great comeback hitting an excellent pumphandle slam though Angle was right back on top again (have they renamed the Olympic Slam now, they were calling it the Angle Slam?), BG sold the German Suplex well but West & Tenay suddenly mentioned this match was no DQ when Angle had the ankle lock on. I found it odd that the guy doing the ring introductions failed to mention that bit of information. Angle won after BG tapped out of the ankle lock and the beatdown on BG by the MEM after the match was predictable but utterly pointless and earnt them no heat at all and it just left me wondering how they were going to fill the last 9 minutes of the show and I was very disappointed that they went the talking and recaps way.
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