Show opens & after arranging a meeting with Hulk Hogan for Mick Foley Kevin Nash is running the show & making the matches tonight.
3 On 1 Handicap Match, The British Invasion vs Chris Sabin - Its the 1st match that Kevin Nash booked, he announced all these at the top of the show. Not a very good match at all, Sabin took the eventual win off a Tornado DDT into a Roll Through off Big Rob.
Backstage segment with Scott Steiner, it appears Christy Hemme has been demoted to interviewer?
Mixed Tag Match, Bobby & Kristal Lashley vs Scott Steiner & Awesome Kong - I didn't expect any kind of match but once Kristal was tagged in this was always going to get ugly, Kristal took a Bodyslam (well sold by her by the way) & as Kong went up for the Banzai Drop Steiner made the cover off Kristal to take the win.
Video segment on UFC of the Hogan debut (on Jan 4th 2010) announcement.
Intergender Match for the TNA Global Championship, Hamada vs Eric Young - At Nash's bidding Young has gone against 1 of his preset rules & is defending his title on US soil which he stated he would never do. After powering Hamada to the turnbuckles & tousling her hair twice she decided she wasn't going to be treated like that & hit Young in the head with one of her excellent Spinkicks sending him to the floor where she followed up with Chops & Headbutts, cutting her off with a big Boot got Young another Spinkick to the head & he was sitting on the top turnbuckle at the time so no mean feat by Hamada there!
Hamada hit a badly sold Hurricanrana (I think Young was either unwilling or didn't fancy putting her over by selling it) but Young kicked out of the pin, Hamada caught nothing but air off her Moonsault & Young took the win with the help of the middle ropes for leverage that was missed by the ref.
Trailer Park Throw Down Match, Tara vs ODB - Basically its a no holds barred Hardcore Rules Street Fight but both women have had to sink a 6 pack of beer prior to the match so this one is definately in ODB's area of expertise. They went straight to the weapons with ODB getting the worst of it outside the ring & Tara took a Irish Whip into a ladder but the Splash by ODB off the tiny stepladder was a bit too silly to be honest.
Tara screwed up her 1st trashcan lid shot (by letting go of it) but ODB was savvy enough to pick up another, hit Tara then let Tara snatch it out of her hands & ODB took a whole bunch of trashcan lid shots to the head & back. Tara either took a bad landing or oversold the landing of her Standing Moonsault onto the trashcan lid she'd positioned on ODB's body, After Tara slipped off the ropes ODB choked her out with a chain before hitting a face first Facebuster into a chair which led to ODB taking the win.
Further video segments of Mick Foleys trip to Tennessee to find Jeff Jarrett (which he does, in a bar). They schill some "shocking" footage of Abyss, Daffney, Raven & Dr Stevie that TNA won't let them show on air & tell you to go look on the website after the show.
8 Man Tag Match, Rhino, Team 3D & Jesse Neal vs Matt Morgan, Hernandez, Suicide & D'Angelo Dinero - Jesse Neal came to the ring wearing Dineros jacket & Brother Ray was carrying his mask & announced Dinero wasn't going to be joining them in this match so clearly they'd jumped him backstage before the match started. So the person who gets pinned in this match will end up working alone for 5 minutes in the elimination tag match at the upcoming PPV. The problem with this match was it was zero action until the last few minutes where almost everyone hit their finishers but Jesse Neal took the eventual win off a Spear on Hernandez. They made a partial beatdown on Hernandez but a heavily bandaged & strapped up Dinero ran in to make the save.
Afterwards they aired a video package heralding the return of Tomko. PS, we already KNOW he's the mystery guy in black who had been jumping AJ Styles.
Mud Wrestling Match, Velvet Sky vs Lacey Von Erich - with Madison Rayne as guest referee this is the worst kind of Russo gimmick imaginable, obviously it was a complete farce with Rayne getting her fair share of the mud but Sky took the win off a Schoolboy Roll-up.
World Heavyweight Championship Match, AJ Styles vs Desmond Wolfe - Nash had thrown this one completely open by saying whoever paid him the most money could have the title shot tonight so it appears Wolfe has the biggest wallet. Angle came down to join the colour desk as he was the 2nd highest bidder for this match. All the aerial stuff came from Styles who seemed happy to let Wolfe stick with his usual ground based technical match, Styles was definately more over with the fans but Wolfe did have his own cheering section too. Styles hit a nice Springboard Flying Forearm but took a nasty low blow off Wolfe who had blood in his mouth, after a distraction from Daniels Styles made a Roll-up into a Bridge to take the win & retain his title.
The show closed with Foley persuading Jeff Jarrett to come back to Impact and having checked the "shocking" footage of Abyss, Daffney, Raven & Dr Stevie. it was a rehearsal of their match with Abyss being set on fire by them, the website claims he received burns to his leg so was hospitalised & this match never happened.
This weeks Web Match, Consequences Creed vs Sheik Abdul Bashir - And after watching it I can see why they were giving it away for free online, it was complete s**t. Creed took the win after dropping Bashir onto his knees. I think that'll be the first and last web match I review.
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