Show opens with Mike Tenay at the colour desk on his own & it is announced that Don West has moved from calling colour to merchandising - a rather massive step downwards & sideways in my opinion. This really was a bad way to write him out of the show, with his recent heel turn they should have really made the most of that and had him turn up pretending to be stinking drunk and ragging on Tenay and drooling over all the women until Cornette or Foley appeared and "fired" him on air. The new colour announcer is introduced and it is Taz. The MEM come out to speak but Matt Morgan comes out with a kendo stick to interupt them.
Non-title Street Fight, The British Invasion vs Beer Money - Before this even got started Ref Earl Hebner sent Big Rob, Kiyoshi & Sheik Abdul Bashir back to the locker room to prevent interference. Beer Money entered from the crowd carrying weapons but Williams & Magnus were expecting them from the tunnel and were caught off guard. The match itself was pretty weak in terms of action, the hardcore stuff was ok with Williams & Roode getting cut but Beer Money got the win with Roode taking the pin off Magnus from the DWI.
Backstage segments, The Beautiful People, Cody Deaner argues (quite rightly too) that he should be Knockout Champion as he made the pin and Abyss gets given a Blue Flannel shirt by Mick Foley.
Madison Rayne vs Angelina Love - Rayne was jumped at the bottom of the ramp by Love who appeared from out of nowhere. Love was looking for payback after Raynes f**k up that cost her the belt and Love took a fast and pretty easy win, Velvet Sky came out and they put the brown paper bag over Raynes head then Tara & Christy Hemme ran down to make the save. I hope they are considering putting Tara & Hemme together as a possible tag team as they would be outstanding.
X Division Championship, Homicide vs Samoa Joe - Not a bad match, action picked up in the second half but it wasn't brilliant. These 2 guys were very evenly matched here & both had a good chance but Joe took the eventual win off The Muscle Buster to retain his title.
Backstage segment where Lauren announces next week there will be a tournament to crown the TNA Knockout Tag Team champions so it looks like Hemme & Tara ARE going to be tag partners!
4 Way Knockout Match, Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed) vs Traci Brooks (with Sharmell) vs Sarita (with Taylor Wilde) vs Christy Hemme (with Tara) - Kong took out Brooks & Hemme with splashes in seconds leaving only Sarita who tried a Hurricanrana but Kong just powered her off. Kong took a bump over the top rope to the floor and Sarita hit an ok flying headscissors into a pretty sloppy hurricanrana on Brooks who didn't sell it or even try and help execute it either, Hemme & Sarita kept Kong out of the ring with a nice double dropkick.
Brooks took it out of the ring sending Hemme to the guardrail only to be posted by Kong who got a facefull of Sarita hitting a wicked flipdive over the top rope. Kong got a few doubleteams off everyone else but Hemme hit a lovely inverted DDT on Brooks then dropped the FFG only to take an Implant Buster off Kong. Kong went up high to do something but Brooks snuck in to take a quick pin off Hemme who Kong had already leveled.
Excellent quality match and it really bodes well for next week and the future of TNA (especially for its women) in general. Could this be the idea that kills WWE?
Consequences Creed (with Jay Lethal) vs The Pope D'Angelo Dinero - Tenay said there had been "weeks of hype" promoting Dinero but thats utter b***s**t, the only promo TNA ever ran was the Impact before Hard Justice to say he was coming. Creed got an ok start but he was only ever on top for about 2 minutes before Dinero took over and Creed had to job to aid Dineros push, Dinero hit a nice elbow drop before rolling down his knee pads and hitting a double flying kneelift to Creeds back to take his 1st win on Impact.
AJ Styles comes out to the ring looking VERY emotional and upset to make an announcement which is that he quits because he wants to spend more time with his family, Sting then comes out to shares some wisdoms of experience saying he wanted to pass the torch to Styles. After a brief attitude adjustment it appears AJ might not be quitting then. Bobby Lashley comes to join the colour desk & Dixie Carter will be making an announcement about his role in TNA next week.
Tables Match, Team 3D vs Matt Morgan & Kurt Angle - Angle came down & piefaced Lashley only to get a wicked punch that put him on his back, security had to keep them apart taking Lashley backstage. No-one was sure how Morgan felt about this match after their PPV match as Taz managed to f**k up on his commentary calling Brother Ray Bubba but correcting himself and explaining the flub.
Clearly its going to take Taz a while getting used to not calling Ray Bubba as he did it several times during this match. He also managed to get the number of wins Team 3D have had wrong as well. He's not doing well for his 1st outing is he? Ref Slick Johnson had to very quickly think on his feet when Devon stepped aside leaving Morgan to put The Carbon Footprint into an upright table making the call that it didn't count as "going through a table" despite the fact thats exactly what Morgans foot did and Taz had to follow the call to back it up.
Morgan had obviously hurt himself breaking the table with his foot (unless it was a seriously good sell) and Team 3D should have had this after the double suplex on Morgan partially broke a 2nd table so it was clear where the win on this was always going after Team 3D were screwed on a 2nd call by Slick. Angle went to look for another table and there weren't any more under the ring, Ray badly flubbed a big boot on Angle (it looked f**king atrocious) and had to be given a table from backstage due to Slick Johnsons 2 bad calls.
Devon got worked over by Angle and Morgan as they argued over who was going to go high risk to put Devon through the table with Angle winning & the injured Morgan was sent to the top turnbuckle, Angle got pushed away by Ray and Team 3D took the win after hitting a double throw putting Morgan through the table and quite frankly I was stunned Team 3D did win this as it appeared Ref Slick Johnson had been told otherwise.
I'm pleased about the Knockout tag division and to be honest I had been asking about that months ago, I wasn't surprised Dinero was put over on his 1st outing on Impact and they even set him up for a feud with Suicide but I am quite annoyed we didn't see the promised debut of Ayako Hamada so I am wondering when that will happen. It'll be interesting to see how they use Dixie Carter next week as she has never appeared on tv before (I think she has appeared once or twice at some PPV's) and I think they are setting up Abyss to be the new Mick Foley. I guess we'll see what happens next week.
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