I wasn't sleeping (no shock there, I doubt I'll sleep before its daylight here) so I wrote the catch-up.
Show opens with Kurt Angle venting his spleen against Jeff Jarrett. Mick Foley & BG James prevent him from entering the ring and Foley tries to be the voice of reason to Angle.
Sheik Abdul Bashir vs Rhino. Well we were 15 minutes into Impact before even getting a sniff of the 1st match, little wonder theres only around 30 mins of actual wrestling each week. This week I won't be bothering to do the sums or log match durations. Don West comes out to take his place on the colour desk not long after this kicked off as Tenay was already on his own. Rhino took a fairly quick win off a schoolboy roll up.
6 Man Tag Match - Matt Morgan & Beer Money vs Abyss & Team 3D. No stipulation was made about this being an elimination match but Devon was eliminated by James Storm, Storm got himself DQ'd & Robert Roode was eliminated by Brother Ray hitting a nice sit out powerbomb. Ray was eliminated moments later when Matt Morgan made a very good chokeslam. Both Morgan & Abyss made fairly scrappy looking chokeslams on each other and neither did a very good job is selling them either, Morgan took the win off The Carbon Footprint.
Don West walks out after Tenay dares him to.
Madison Rayne (With Cute Kip & The Beautiful People) vs Taylor Wilde (With Roxxi & The Govenor). It was nice to see Traci Brooks back on tv as referee in this match, Mick Foley had come out to join Mike Tenay at the announce desk. Rayne was getting herself some great cheap heat & the Impact drones were booing her like crazy. Wilde got the win off a roll-up with slight assistance from Traci after Rayne tried to hold onto her several times then Traci pushed her down. Nice save by Roxxi & The Governor (it really is good to seem them letting Daffney work in-ring, if only it was under her own name) after crotching Cute Kip who sold well for them. Also a nice fluff by Foley forgetting Kips character and calling him Kip James before correcting himself quickly.
Booker T comes out to gob off at Foley before leaving which allows Steiner to jump Foley with the lead pipe.
8 Man Tag Match - Lethal Consequences & LAX vs - Scott Steiner, Booker T & The Motor City Machine Guns. The Guns were pretty much showing where their loyalty lies here by teaming with the MEM against half a Front Line team. Hernandez took the eventual win for his team with a Border Toss on Chris Sabin.
Rocco (with Sal & Kurt Angle) vs Eric Young (With Sting) - If Rocco looks a bit familiar but your struggling to place him he used to be Big Tilly, one half of Phi Delta Slam (who have worked in TNA before but are better known from WWE). Sting even came out of the faces entrance with Young showing he is now more a face than a heel. Young made a good win off the Death Valley Driver. Dull and predictable post match beatdown on Sting where Foley tries to make the save only to be jumped by Steiner. Jarrett comes out & beans Sal & Rocco with chairshots then Sting physically saves Nash and Steiner from getting creamed. Jarrett calls an end to the madness by saying he will be special guest ref at this weekends PPV and Foley will be special guest enforcer.
No summary this week, I think everyone already knows how I feel about too few matches that don't last long enough.
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