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Friday, April 10, 2009

My Weekly TNA Catch-up, Impact 9th Apr 09 reviewed

Show opens with the MEM coming out to have a chat with Jeff Jarrett. TNA reports last weeks Impact got the highest audience figures to date which is one in the eye to all those who say the show is losing viewers.
Sheik Abdul Bashir (with Kiyoshi & No Limit) vs Suicide. This was a non-title match and its still Chris Daniels inside the costume subbing for Kaz who is still recovering from an injury. Weak match with no decent spots, Bashir took the win after nailing Suicide with the title whilst one of No Limit distracted the ref.
Backstage segment with Rhino and "Petty Officer 3rd Class Jesse Neal" (actually a graduate of the Team 3D Wrestling Academy according to 411Mania.com) who did a ring introduction at the Destination X PPV talking about how Neal wants to become a wrestler, The Beautiful People attack Raisha Saeed backstage and give her a haircut. Rough Cut Segment about the Team 3D Wrestling Academy. Interview with Sting. Interview with Abyss. Mick Foley speaks. Booker T talks about how he feels.
Lethal Lockdown Advantage Challenge Round 2 - Booker T vs Samoa Joe. This was pretty much all Joe and really as such was his 1st real actual match since coming back to TNA. Joe took the win off a simple powerslam which put the competition at 1 win each.
Video segment of ODB & Cody Deaner at the fair (the rides on the Universal Studios lot where Impact is filmed).
Scott Steiner (with Kevin Nash) vs James Storm (with Robert Roode) - Team 3D were at the colour desk for this one, it was pretty even and actually clean until Roode was about to hit the Super Kick and Nash hit him with the steel pipe from outside the ring. The ref called for the bell so I guess this had gone to Storm by DQ on outside interference. Roode came in to save Storm from a beatdown off Steiner with the pipe and Team 3D intervened to save Storm and Roode.
Handicap Knockout Match - Awesome Kong vs Madison Rayne & Velvet Sky (with Angelina Love), Kong powered out of a DDT attempt by Sky & Rayne made a very scrappy looking Missile Dropkick. Kong had Sky up for the Awesome Bomb but Rayne helped with a push which allowed Sky to hook the leg but Kong powered it over to reverse it for the win. Rayne, Love & Sky tried to give Kong a haircut but Taylor Wilde made the save.
First Blood Handicap Match New Japan Junior Tagteam Title Match - The Motorcity Machine Guns vs Mick Foley with Special Enforcer Sting. I guess this is what Foley meant then, turning the handicap match into a title match for The Guns. This was an average match at best, for some unexplained reason Sting took out Chris Sabin with a nice DDT outside the ring. Foley hit Shelley with the Mandible Claw which drew blood but refused to take the win and went into the ring with the barbed wire baseball bat, Foley started to use the bat but Sting beaned him with a chair from outside the ring, Foley bladed very quickly off camera and the ref called for the bell and The Motorcity Machine Guns took the win & retained their title. Foley & Sting fought post match and Security broke it up several times as they whaled on each other.

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