My Weekly TNA Catch-up, Impact 6th Aug 09 reviewed

Show opens with MEM coming out to bleat about the loss of the Legends title. Eric Young and The World Elite come out join them.

Daniels vs Eric Young - Young had Kiyoshi & Sheik Abdul Bashir with him and Daniels "had" The Motor City Machine Guns with him, to be honest this was pretty boring. Young is now is his new heel character with short hair and new ring clothes. Daniels missed the BME when Young rolled out and Daniels then went for the Angels Wings but Bashir distracted the ref allowing Kiyoshi to spit the red mist into Daniels' eyes and Young hit a Piledriver to take the win. Seriously poor match from guys this talented.

8 Man Tag War, The British Invasion, Scott Steiner & Booker T vs Beer Money & Team 3D - Rob Terry worked this match (being introduced as Big Rob) instead of Brutus Magnus who did come to the ring with the IWGP title that we discovered was an unsanctioned match by New Japan so those titles will have to change hands again soon. This match broke down into chaos pretty quickly and The World Elite made a run in which was stopped by Daniels & The Motor City Machine Guns looking for some payback from earlier in the show. Kevin Nash was sent out as well (although exactly how believable any blows he made with a bandaged hand were always going to be questionable) but Mick Foley came out to stop him and Kurt Angle was down at ringside with Sting coming out to stop Angle then Samoa Joe trying to stop Sting and Bobby Lashley coming out to stop Joe.

Bobby Roode had been up on the top turnbuckle but Traci Brooks pushed him off into the ring, Big Rob hit a chokeslam on Roode and took the win for his team. This carried on post match and it's a shame that all the ringside & backstage action was better than the actual match. It seems now Cute Kip is off tv he is working as part of Security as I noticed him trying to keep Joe & Lashley apart in the locker room.

Eventually "The Police Department" (unmarked cars with flashing blue & red lights so probably Universal Studios Park Security at most) arrived to break it up (with hand batons? F**K OFF!) and everyone stopped. Its only a crying shame that what happened was the most exciting thing TNA have done as far as fighting or wrestling goes in the last 2 or so months.

Knockout Tag Match, Alissa Flash & Traci vs Taylor Wilde & Sarita - I get the feeling that I know whats going to happen in the near future after having seen Flash today. We are going to see Raisha Saeed in a match and she will get her burkha ripped off to reveal Flash underneath, I'm predicting it now because Flash was wearing the Saeed eye make-up as a future teaser I believe. You heard it right here first!

Wilde & Brooks kicked this one off, it was a really good match and everyone worked well. I am liking Flash and her character and style, she is just all power and strength. Traci is a lot better than I remember, I actually expected her to be really rusty having been away so long but I assume she was working somewhere else. We didn't see much of Sarita but what little we did see was fast, fluid and quite frankly brilliant. Sarita took the eventual win off a Flying Armbar into a Small Package.

Best Of 3 Series, Matt Morgan vs AJ Styles - I assume to make this appear interesting (as no-one cares about Morgan or wants to watch him) Morgan will win this week so they HAVE to have the 3rd and final match. Styles gave a really good account of himself but Morgan took the extremely predictable win off The Hellavator making this 1 match each.

Brutus Magnus (with Doug Williams & Big Rob) vs Sting - Sting got a gigantic pop for his intro and the crowd were going mental for him. I'm not exactly sure what the point of this match was with no title interest or any particular storyline to further. Slick Johnson sent Terry & Williams back to the locker room then this one got started. Magnus did a lot of running before trying to take out one of Stings legs but Sting took a really fast win after Magnus tapped out of the Scorpion Leg Lock.

I was wondering how they were going to fill the final 4 minutes of tv time but Magnus tried to jump Sting who started to defend himself until The British Invasion & The World Elite did a run-in to beatdown Sting. Lashley & Foley came out to help Sting and they were cleaning house bigtime until Angle, Joe & Steiner came out to put a stop to it. Hernandez totally cleared the ring by coming down swinging a steel chain and its sad that 2 post match beatdowns actually were better quality than some of the recent actual wrestling matches TNA have booked & staged.