This weeks show is 3 hours long and has been called Super Impact, show opens with The MEM yakking on the mic, they are interupted by the faces and it devolves into a fist fight between Samoa Joe & Bobby Lashley.
6 Woman Knockout Contest, The Beautiful People vs Tara, Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saeed) & ODB - The match was announced as having a 10 minute time limit and I must say Lacey Von Erich is either VERY brave or has really good tit tape as she came out wearing a strapless tube top with nothing under it and I could see a costume malfunction on the horizon. At the bell Kong jumped ODB & Tara so Sky, Rayne & Von Erich took advantage as Kong bailed on them totally until Tara left the ring so she jumped Tara again sending her back first into the guard rail.
ODB was being doubleteamed by Sky & Rayne as Tara made it back to the apron but ODB eventually managed to get some respite after flooring Rayne with a nice Clothesline, Tara eventually came in but Sky totally took too long to sell (or no-sell rather) a fist to the back, Tara was going for something off the ropes when ODB tagged herself in and the 2 faced off with Tara eventually nailing ODB with a nice Superkick allowing Sky to pin for the win.
Very poor match which has done a bad job creating heat for the PPV. I assume Lacey Von Erich had similar concerns about her costume hence her not getting into the ring for the match at all.
X Division Championship Match, Suicide vs Amazing Red (with Don West) - Another match with a 10 minute time limit so Russo is well & truly at the helm as far as match booking goes at the moment. Really good match, highlights being Reds Twisting Corkscrew Body Block over the top rope into Suicide on the floor, Reds Spinkick to the head of Suicide & Suicides Springboard Legdrop. Suicide had gone high risk when Russo decided it was the perfect time to ruin the match & D'Angelo Dinero did a run-in to push Suicide off the top rope so the ref called for the bell calling the match a no contest with Red making a save on Suicide stopping Dinero hitting the DDE.
Run The Gauntlet Match, Hernandez vs Doug Williams (Match 1 of 3) - Eric Young joins the colour desk, Williams was on top for most of this until Hernandez took the win off a Shoulder Tackle.
Run The Gauntlet Match, Hernandez vs Brutus Magnus (Match 2 of 3) - Williams hadn't left the ring & jumped Hernandez allowing Magnus to get the upper hand, not a very good match really either. Hernandez took the win off The Border Toss.
Run The Gauntlet Match, Hernandez vs Big Rob (Match 3 of 3) - Hernandez took the win off a Sitout Powerbomb and as expected Young left the colour desk to jump Hernandez with a Kendo stick.
D'Angelo Dinero vs Daniels - As Dinero had already jumped Suicide tonight you could hardly expect this match to have a clean finish either, this match was going nowhere with nothing much happening either until Daniels took the win off The Angels Wings pretty much out of nowhere. Daniels victory celebration was interupted by Suicides intro music but when the smoke cleared "Suicide" was far too small & stocky to be Frankie Kazarian who is usually in the costume, all was revealed once "Suicide" nailed Daniels with The Gringo Killer as he unmasked to reveal Homicide.
Mick Foley comes to the ring with Popcorn and a home made cardboard Abyss mask to further their storyline.
Falls Count Anywhere Match, Hamada vs Alissa Flash - Flash didn't even get an intro as she jumped Hamada as she was being introduced, Flash punted Hamada all the way down the entrance ramp then set up a table against the ringpost. Hamada reversed a Slingshot nailing a nice Spin Kick on Flash putting her down. Flash & Hamada traded Forearm shots back up the ramp until Flash was pushed off 1 side before Hamada dived off the ramp hitting Flash with an Inverted Cross Body Block getting a 2 count, this allowed Hamada to set up the table by the side of the ring flooring Flash with another wicked Spin Kick. Flash was laid out on the table & Hamada went to the top turnbuckle but Flash cut her off trying a Suplex into the table which Hamada blocked then Hamada hit Flash with a DDT driving her into the apron as she jumped to the floor, Flash was laid out on the table once more with Hamada nailing a Reverse Moonsault to make the pin for the win in this excellent match.
Stretcher Match, Rhino vs Bobby Lashley - I really didn't want to watch this as I can't personally stand either guy, I assume the rule was the winner is the man who puts his opponant into the ambulance on the stretcher? Lashley took the win, VERY boring.
Kurt Angle vs AJ Styles - This match had a 20 minute time limit just to make things different, the opening section was pretty dull until Angle decided to nail Styles with a Flip Dive over the top rope to the floor, things got slow again with Angle keeping it on the mat then the match stayed dead until the last 5 minutes. Each guy was hitting move after move but this one went right down to the wire with Angle getting the Ankle Lock as the bell went Angle thought he'd won as the time limit had expired the match was called as a draw.
With just under 30 minutes of show left I did wonder what they were going to do to fill it, Sting came down to speak to Styles in the ring then they just ran an extended video package advertising the various matches for this weekends PPV. Considering this was billed as a 3 hour show 54 minutes was adverts and 30 minutes was wasted at the end running down all the matches for the PPV. Russo was obviously running tonights show as every match had a time limit and that is one of his big gimmicks from the old TNA Asylum days.
We only got 7 matches (9 if you count all of the Hernandez Gauntlet matches as individual bouts) only 2 of those didn't have actual finishes (1 no-contest & 1 draw) but TNA really shot themselves in the foot by building this up so much then having so many short matches with so much other c**p that wasn't wrestling but either video packages or backstage c**p. Even if all 7 matches had gone to their time limits they would have only filled 1 hour & 20 minutes so not even half the show was wrestling.
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