My Weekly TNA Catch-up, Impact 23rd Apr 09 reviewed

Jeff Jarrett comes out with the TNA Heavyweight Title to present Mick Foley with the belt, Jarrett books Foley to defend the title at the Sacrifice PPV in a 4 way match and Foley books Jarrett against Scott Steiner for later on in the show. Team 3D announce a tag tournament to earn the right to compete against them for the TNA Tag Titles as a well as winning a trophy and a cheque for $100,000.

3D Tag Team Invitational Quarterfinals - Beer Money vs Lethal Consequences. Lethal & Creed pretty much owned this match from bell to bell, sadly Beer Money took the win off the DWI on Lethal.

LOTS of video packages and backstage c**p.

No DQ Knockouts Ladder Match - Sojourner Bolt vs Taylor Wilde. Its a standard ladder match, whoever gets the contract from the ladder wins a shot against the current Knockout champion Angelina Love. Wilde was on top at the start for a very short time, Bolt tried but Wilde reversed the Back Whip into the ladder that Bolt sold well. Wilde was suplexed from halfway up the ladder, Wilde sold like she landed on her neck but a check on slow-mo showed it was all shoulders. Wilde hit Bolt with a nicely sold backdrop from her shoulders and Bolt took some brass knucks from her bra (lots of bra to hide that in!), Wilde gave a volley of punches but Bolt used the knucks once and Wilde took a dive from the top of the ladder to allow Bolt to get the contract to take the win and we will see Sojourner Bolt compete for the Knockout Title at some time in the near future.

The Beautiful People celebrate Angelina Loves win and Madison Raye is officially a member of the Beautiful People, they celebrate with male strippers (who dont get very far) but Awesome Kong comes down and the Beautiful People run for it. One of the strippers gets an Awesome Bomb for his trouble so they were clearly all local jobbers.

Legends Championship - Kevin Nash (with Jenna Morasca whoever she is) vs AJ Styles. As a match this was pretty even with all the good action coming from Styles which is no surprise, sadly once Sharmell came down to distract the ref away from Booker T coming in hit the axe kick on Styles it kind of proved they didn't really know where they were going with this match hence the unneccessary interference. Nash went to hit a Powerbomb but the ref stopped it and called for the bell having seen Booker getting out of the ring so the win went to Styles off a DQ by outside interference.

3D Tag Team Invitational Quarterfinals - No Limits (with Kiyoshi & Sheik Abdul Bashir) vs Jethro Holliday & Eric Young. This was a pretty good match, nothing super special but it was nice to see someone new in TNA in the shape of Holliday who I know nothing about and sadly can't do any internet research on as my f**king broadband connection is down YET AGAIN! (Now its finally back up 3 hours later I found its Trevor Murdoch formerly of WWE) Young had a good match and No Limit were both excellent as usual, Young took the win off the Crucifix Drop even with the interference from Bashir & Kiyoshi.

Interview with Christopher Daniels.

Cactus Jack Smack Attack Match - Scott Steiner vs Jeff Jarrett. Mick Foley came to join West & Tenay at the colour desk to get a close up view of the match he'd booked Jarrett into at the top of the show, essentially its a hardcore weapons match and there was barbed wire on the ropes of one side of the ring.

Jarrett went right to work using a kendo stick and only then did I notice they had foam rubber all over the ring ropes where the barbed wire was meaning anyone getting sent back or face first into those ropes were never going to touch the barbed wire. The fan who had written "Use My Sign" got his wish (I'm assumming he was a plant as it turned out to be a Dead End street sign with the paper message over it) and Jarrett beaned Steiner over the back with it twice.

The match had jumped the shark once Steiner was clotheslined off a pogo stick (possibly THE funniest thing I've ever seen in wrestling ever) and Steiner started hitting Jarrett with a plastic Santa Claus garden decoration also hitting Jarret with a great suplex into a garbage can on the floor which left both guys grabbing at their elbows. Coming back from commercials they'd managed to get back into the ring and Steiner got sent head first into a chair then took a shot to the head from a garbage can lid before Jarrett hit a nice double underhook DDT into a garbage can.

Steiner levelled the field from a good belly to belly suplex & as Jarrett set up for the Stroke into a chair he & Steiner briefly exchanged words as to what moves they were going to do next before Jarrett was sent face first into the chair. Jarrett hit a lowblow then nailed The Stroke but Steiner kicked out, Steiner got a 2 count after hitting a good backdrop off the 2nd rope then locking the Steiner Recliner onto Jarrett who came back by hitting Steiner with another good backdrop off his shoulders.

After beaning Steiner with the guitar Jarrett hit the Stroke yet again this time to finally take the win. Angle came down and hit the Angle Slam whilst Jarrett was celebrating (I had wondered what they were going to do with the 4 minutes of air time they had left) and hooked the Ankle Lock as Steiner synched in the Steiner Recliner which finally got Foley out of his seat to make the save by swiping Angle across the back with a chair (possibly one of the lightest chairshots I have ever seen) which sent Steiner running out of the ring and Foley also nailed Jarrett in the head with the same chair.

Jarrett shoots on Foley and tells him he's going to fire him, we then have the overly long intro for Bobby Lashley and it seems he might be coming in as a friend to the MEM.