My Weekly TNA Catch-up, Impact 27th Aug 09 reviewed

Daniels joins Taz & Mike Tenay at the colour desk.

Non-title X Division Match, Suicide vs Samoa Joe - This match was s**t and got worse when D'Angelo Dinero strolled down the ramp distracting Suicide, clearly Russo had a brainf**t thinking it was a good idea. The distraction worked allowing Joe to hit Suicide with a big boot that sent him to the floor where Dinero jumped him, Joe came out to take advantage but Daniels left his seat and jumped on Joe. The bell was rung and I assume this was some kind of DQ finish but the announcer said Earl Hebners call was this would become a tag match later in the show with Joe & Dinero vs Suicide & Daniels.

The World Elite waffle on the mic, Hernandez comes down & refuses to join them.

1st Round Match TNA Knockout Tagteam Title Tournament, Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs Traci & Sharmell - Traci bailed within seconds of the bell tagging Sharmell in & neither women wanted a piece of Kong after last week. After it was clear neither of them was going to work her Kong tagged in Saeed but Sharmell bailed in seconds after being on the wrong end of a pushing match. Kong eventually came in hitting a wicked looking splash on Traci that took Sharmells interference to stop the 3 count. Sharmell bailed again and Saeed tagged herself in as Kong stood guard by the ropes allowing Saeed to make the pin and their team progress in the tournament. Kong didn't look too happy about having yet another win stolen from under her nose though.

Teacher vs Student, Jesse Neal vs Rhino - Neal got no intro as he was already in the ring when this started, I expected absolutely NOTHING from this match and wasn't disappointed at all. Rhino was on top from the bell eventually hitting a Spine Buster taking the quick win off a nice bridge hooking the leg. After hitting the Gore post match the ref reversed his decision and Jesse Neal records his 1st win in TNA because Rhino is a dickhead with a short fuse, Rhino started stomping on Neal until Devon ran in to make the save.

$50,000 Bounty Handicap Match, The Motor City Machine Guns (with Dr Stevie) vs Abyss - The Guns had an ok match with 2 decent aerials but Abyss took the win off The Black Hole Slam on Chris Sabin. Stevie tried to beat down The Guns but they put him down and let Abyss go in with a chair until Kevin Nash came out to accept the bounty at a future date.

No DQ Knockout Contest, Daffney vs Hamada - Finally Hamada is making her debut, Daffney was on top very briefly before Hamada let fly and was looking good. TNA took a bad break so Daffney was back on top as they came back from commercials, Daffney made a nice elbow drop and we were told a table had been set up outside the ring during the break. The Impact Zone fans were seriously marking out for Hamada and she is well over already but Daffney bearly kicked out of a pin after a nice Jumping DDT, Hamada also had a close kick-out after Daffney hit a nice kneelift to the chest on Hamada. Daffney took it to the floor missing a chair shot but took one to the head herself after Hamada wrapped the chair around Daffneys head and posted her. Hamada called for the table setting Daffney up on it she nailed an AWESOME reverse Moonsault off the top turnbuckle putting Daffney through the table with the ref having to check on both women afterwards. Hamada brought it back into the ring as the Impact Zone Fans chanted "This is awesome", moments later Hamada hit the Hamada Driver to take the win in a seriously excellent match.

The other teams for the Knockout Tag Tournament are revealed:- Taylor Wilde & Sarita vs Daffney & Alissa Flash (so Wilde & Sarita will win that as Saeed can't fight against herself).
The Beautiful People vs Madison Rayne & a mystery partner.
Sojo Bolt & Hamada vs Tara & Christy Hemme.

Tagteam Grudge Match, D'Angelo Dinero & Samoa Joe vs Suicide & Daniels - This was the match made by Ref Earl Hebner after Dinero & Daniels interfered in the 1 on 1 match at the top of the show. This one was left to Dinero & Suicide after Daniels took out Joe with a wicked springboard split leg reverse moonsault to the floor, Dinero went for the double knee stab but Suicide had it scouted and took the win off a slingshot into a small package. This was an ok finish but it wasn't a very good quality match.

Backstage segment in one of the offices, TNA President Dixie Carter & Bobby Lashley have a sit down chat with Jeremy Borash. Dixie tells us TNA is scoring higher ratings than all 3 of WWE's shows in the UK. She confirms TNA have signed a 3 year deal with Spike TV, it sounds like they will be putting Lashley over and he won't be losing to anyone so he isn't made to look bad to the MMA companies. Lashley will meet Rhino at the next PPV.

6 Man Tag Match, Matt Morgan, Scott Steiner & Booker T vs Hernandez, AJ Styles & Sting - A match so dull I actually had the time to wonder why Sting kept his t-shirt on. Chaos broke down and it was Hernandez with Morgan until Steiner came in with a chair, Morgan was convinced Steiner was there to bean him and Hernandez took advantage bumping Morgan head first into the chair sending Steiner out of the ring, Styles made a nice springboard cross body block and took the win for his team. Post match Steiner & Booker were arguing with Morgan claiming it was a misunderstanding until Morgan took them both out and the show ended with Morgan giving signals to Kurt Angle who'd been at the colour desk that his turn is next and his neck is on the line.