Coming from The Tokyo Dome in Japan, last years Global Impact was on 4th Jan 08 & aired on 17th Jan 08 a mere 2 weeks later. According to the date on the billboard we saw this event happened on Sunday 4th Jan 09 yet is being aired on 8th Oct 09 so thats 9 months & 4 days later. I think it was pretty stupid of TNA to hold back the broadcast of this for so long as TNA now is completely different to what it was in January this year (Don West was still on commentary & Sting was mentioned as still being a MEM Member).
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Championship Match, The Motor City Machine Guns vs Tetsya Naito & Yujiro (No Limit) - At some point near the start of this match Shelley took a blow to the face & spent the rest of the bout bleeding from the mouth or nose, a pretty decent match but the pace was up & down so the match felt very weird to watch. Shelley hit Sliced Bread as Sabin nailed a Powerbomb on Naito to take the win & The Motor City Machine Guns became new IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Champions.
8 Man Tag Match, Giant Bernard, Karl Anderson, Takashi Iizuka & Tomohiro Ishii vs Rikki Choshu, Masa Chono, Kurt Angle & Kevin Nash - A fairly boring match that was really just a time filler, Angle took the win after Anderson tapped out of the Ankle Lock. Really this was just TNA giving some Elder statesmen of Japanese wrestling the chance to appear on a tv show.
IWGP Heavyweight Tag Championship, Team 3D vs Togi Makabe & Toru Yano - Yano came carrying a steel chair & Makabe had a steel chain around his neck so these 2 guys clearly meant business, there was only ever going to be about 7 minutes of action as thats all the time that was left in the show so I wasn't hoping for much here. We had a couple of tables being broken (Brother Ray was Slingshotted face first into one & Makabe was Powerbombed by Ray into the other) but this match wasn't very good, Brother Ray took the win off Makabe after hitting the 3D and Team 3D became new IWGP Heavyweight Tag Champions.
I guess I can see why they held off so long showing this now, it was utter s**t.
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