Non-Title match, Roxxi vs ODB - Well its very nice to see Roxxi back again but like before you have to wonder how long she's back for, Roxxi had a decent enough match & both of them got plenty of time on top. Both women seemed happy to sell & put each other over but ODB kicked out of the Voodoo drop. Roxxi kicked out of the Roll-up & ODB kicked out of Roxxi's Bridging Roll-up but Roxxi took the win off an excellent Roll-up & it took Tara to save Roxxi from the beatdown.
Video segment, exactly as predicted Mick Foleys meeting with "Hulk" turned out to be with Lou Ferrigno which cost Kevin Nash a serious beating at the start of the show.
Lumberjack Match, Brother Ray (with Devon, Jesse Neal & Rhino) vs Matt Morgan (with Hernandez, D'Angelo Dinero & Suicide who eventually runs out from the back) - A really c***py quality match that obviously broke down as expected with interference from the Team 3D wrecking crew as they've been dubbed, Morgan was set to hit the Hellavator when Devon distracted the ref & Jesse Neal dived in to nail Morgan with a low blow from behind which allowed Brother Ray to take an easy win off a DDT.
Lumberjack Match, Brother Ray (with Devon, Jesse Neal & Rhino) vs Matt Morgan (with Hernandez, D'Angelo Dinero & Suicide who eventually runs out from the back) - A really c***py quality match that obviously broke down as expected with interference from the Team 3D wrecking crew as they've been dubbed, Morgan was set to hit the Hellavator when Devon distracted the ref & Jesse Neal dived in to nail Morgan with a low blow from behind which allowed Brother Ray to take an easy win off a DDT.
Team 3 Knockdown Non-title Tag Match, Lacey Von Erich & Madison Rayne (with Velvet Sky) vs Hamada & Awesome Kong vs Sarita & Taylor Wilde - During this match Mike Tenay announced there will be no Impact next week but instead they will have a 4 hour show on New Years Eve. Sarita made possibly the move of the match with her awesome Head Scissors on Hamada where she made 3 crazy revolutions. Hamada made a nice Reverse Moonsault off the top turnbuckle into Sarita, Wilde & Sky but Awesome Kong was in-ring working Rayne who wriggling out of the Awesome Bomb only for Kong to take the easy win by hitting the Sit-down Splash.
Black Machismo Invitational Match, Jay Lethal vs Tatanka - TNA, really? The biggest criticism made about TNA by fans & haters alike is they hire WWE cast offs. And look who they invite to this match, Tatanka. The guy was a decent worker in his day (which incidently was the 80's) & he got a bit of a push before WWF as was decided his face didn't fit & they canned him. As far as this match went Tatanka hit a nice Clothesline followed by a couple of Legdrops, Lethal got off some offence hitting a Knee-lift to the back of Tatanka that sent him to the turnbuckle. Lethal nailed the Flying Double Axehandle but Tatanka kicked out, Lethal sold some hard looking Chops off Tatanka who made a nice high Back-bodydrop which Lethal sold well too.
Lethal barely kicked out of the Flying Tomahawk Chop but Lethal recovered enough to make a Reverse Neckbreaker, Tatanka took the eventual win off the Indian Deathdrop. Not a bad match from the veteran to be honest, he might have looked a bit big around the midriff area but he worked pretty well. I am hoping if they do another of these they can persuade Randy Savage to come out (hopefully with Gorgeous George?) in the full Macho Man outfit & hand Lethal his ass on a plate.
Backstage segment with Jeff Jarrett & Dixie Carter who mentions the whole nasty Karen Angle affair.
Daniels vs Desmond Wolfe - This was slow & VERY dull with lots of holds, reverses & technical mat wrestling. Both men had their own cheering sections who were equally loud, Taz paid Daniels quite a massive compliment by comparing him to Dean Malenko. Daniels picked it up a bit towards the end with a nice Split Leg Moonsault off the ropes, both guys really went for it in the dying minutes as far as submission holds & pin attempts went but as they were jockeying for position to pin off the Small Package the bell went after the time limit had expired & this one was called as a draw.
Backstage segment, Jeff Jarrett goes to speak with Kurt Angle & he apologizes to him.
10 Man Tag Match, Scott Steiner, Raven, Dr Stevie, Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams (with Big Rob) vs AJ Styles, Tomko, Bobby Lashley, Abyss & Kurt Angle - Selling his "burnt leg" with a limp Abyss kicked this off by laying into Raven & Stevie which ended up with Abyss battling with Raven & Stevie out to the backstage area leaving Steiners team seriously outnumbered. Steiner & Lashley also started going at it out of the ring & fought up along the side of the entrance ramp, when we came back from the commercial break Steiners team was just down to The British Invasion as Lashley had clearly taken Steiner out of the arena & it was Magnus & Williams vs Styles, Angle & Tomko so it was the waiting game to see if or when Tomko would make his move & jump Styles from behind yet again to finally reveal himself as Styles' mystery assailant.
The match was deadly boring with Angle & Tomko keeping Styles out of the ring & it was actually so dull the camera truck cut to Lashley whaling on Steiner & Abyss beating the crapola out of Stevie & Raven, we did go back to catch Angle sending Williams for a ride off the Angle Slam & Big Rob yanking Tomko off the apron which finally allowed Styles to get tagged in. He had a little run of beating on Magnus & Williams but took the win off a Small Package on Magnus after Tomko made an assist & pulled Williams off the turnbuckle.
Styles & Angle went at it after the match but that was soon broken up by Daniels jumping Styles & Desmond Wolfe jumping Angle but considering what happened last week Wolfe & Daniels seemed pretty chummy at the close of the show.
In closing just to remind everyone there will be no Impact next week but instead they will have a 4 hour show on New Years Eve.
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