My Weekly TNA Catch-up, Impact 3rd Dec 09 reviewed

Show opens with Desmond Wolfe waffling on the mic inside a steel cage that he'd locked himself inside only to be interupted by Kurt Angle in his wrestling gear who comes down, climbs in then gets a facefull of brass knucks from Wolfe as well as a beatdown.

Doug Williams (with Brutus Magnus & Big Rob) vs Alex Shelley (with Chris Sabin) - Williams was on top for all of the opening second before Shelley got going, Williams had a pretty good comeback that was very stiff and I must say that this was one of Williams' best matches I have seen him in for a very long time but Shelly made his own major comeback & got the eventual win off Sliced Bread.

Homicide vs Suicide - An interesting opener in that Homicide didn't seem overly willing to sell the Side Headlock Takedown, both guys had a decent run on top and both had nearfalls too but Suicide took the win off a Back Slide. Homicide tried to unmask Suicide but D'Angelo Dinero made the save.

Trash Talk with ODB, Tara as guest. A lot of fuss was made about this in a couple of newsgroups but they failed to see it for the complete work it was.

Jesse Neal vs D'Angelo Dinero - This is the 1st proper Impact appearance for Neal the heel under his repackaged look, not very impressive from either guy with Dinero selling for Neal big time but Dinero took the win off the DDE. Neal jumped Dinero post match but the lights went out then came back up to reveal Suicide making the save on Dinero with a Missile Dropkick off the top turnbuckle.

Tag Match, Eric Young & Kevin Nash vs Beer Money - Extremely dull & exceptionally poor quality match, Young took the win off a Piledriver on James Storm.

Bobby Lashley comes out with Kristal to not say anything on the mic.

Daniels vs Abyss - AJ Styles had come out to join the colour desk but left to scout Daniels during the match, quite frankly this was going nowhere fast & Abyss had Daniels goozled but Daniels made a hand signal and the big screen showed Lauren being beaten up by The Beautiful People so Daniels took advantage of Abyss with his back turned and rhoshambo'd him. Daniels made some weird Side Roll to take the win.

Post match Daniels invited Styles into the ring but Styles was jumped from behind yet again by the mystery man in black.

Mike Tenays sit down interview with Dixie Carter:- Jeff Jarrett is on "leave", Stings future is open, Hogan will be "helping in every aspect of the company". Backstage segment with Mick Foley on the phone to what turns out to be Jeff Jarrett who said "I was done 4 months ago and I'm twice as done now" and "screw you and TNA", a shoot or does Jeff mean it? Personally I think they are building a distraction so when Jarrett comes back it'll be when we least expect it.

Hamada vs Sarita - This was an outstanding match, Sarita hit a wicked Hurricanrana before Hamada nailed her in the head with a Super Kick then Hamada made a nice Missile Dropkick that Sarita bearly kicked out of. Sarita managed to wriggle out of the Hamada Driver turning it into a Roll up which was also a near fall before hitting a great looking Floatover DDT, both women went for technical submission pins that looked great but Hamada hit Sarita twice with the Spinkick (that 2nd one looked a bit TOO convincing judging by Saritas reaction) but Hamada took the eventual win off the Hamada Driver.

Kurt Angle vs Desmond Wolfe - Or so we thought, before Wolfe came out Mick Foley came down and bitched that Angle hadn't told him all he knew about Hogan coming to TNA so Foley tweaked the match so Angle vs Wolfe never happened.

Handicap Match, Kurt Angle vs Raven & Dr. Stevie (with Daffney) - Initially this looked it was going be Angle getting the s**t kicked out of him and for the 1st 2 minutes it was until he got a 2nd wind, Stevie bailed up the ramp only to get a Black Hole Slam from Abyss which distracted Raven long enough for Angle to hit the Ankle Lock & Raven tapped out in seconds so Angle got the win. Only to take some sort of modified DDT from behind off Desmond Wolfe post match.

Having watched Dixie Carters whole interview she states the announcement of Hogans Impact debut is "days away", there is a high chance of a World X Cup match in 2010 and that Hogan coming won't mean newer wrestlers get pushed less because of it.