TNA Impact 1/15/09 Review and Results When Icons Collide

Kurt Angle came out to run his mouth. It was a long winded diatribe about how the Main Event Mafia is going to end the war. It wasn’t all that great. Hernandez came out and cashed in his world championship title shot! That’s right, he is going to face STING later tonight

Hernandez defeated Sting via disqualification

Sting came out strong against Hernandez. However, it took some time, as Hernandez really try to make a name for himself early on, but the veteran made sure to pace himself, turning the tables around and forcing Hernandez to wake up. The main event mafia was at ringside, so I didn’t think that Hernandez had much of a shot to win this one. Right after I typed that, the mafia jumped into the ring and forced the disqualification. Homicide ran down to help him out, but the Mafia’s numbers were just too much for him, and they eventually got the upper hand. Aj Styles ran down to help, but he too couldn’t overcome the numbers game and the Mafia was looking like the N.W.O of old! Brother Ray came back and things were looking all new as he was taking out everyone in the mafia!

Roxxi , Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi defeated The Kongtourage

The women of TNA once again come out and put on a show for those of you that saw it. I admit, I’m getting tired of seeing six man tag matches between these women. (More like six women tag matches, right?) This match overall was your standard match between these women, as they are no strangers to each other. The action spilled to the outside of the ring, an things were getting bad, but eventually ODB and Sojourner Bolt ended up in the middle of the ring and it didn’t look good for ODB as she was getting dominated in this match up, towards the close. I really liked Roxxi in this match up, she was really showing off as she was dropping bombs and haymakers on Kong’s team. Rhaka Khan was set to Chokeslam Roxxi but Roxxi turned it into the Voodoo Drop for the pinfall! That movie looks so good! Great match, I love the women of TNA, screw the divas, TNA has the best women wrestlers!

Lethal Consequences defeated Abyss & Matt Morgan

Once again Matt Morgan teamsup with Abyss, which was kind of weird considering what went down at the ppv on Sunday. This was the Matt Morgan show, as Matt Morgan would not tag in Abyss for the early moments of this job. He was dominating this match up with ease. Abyss got hit in the face immediately with a big boot, and the former tag champs were in sync to getting Abyss pinned and Morgan rocked! A double suicide dive took out Matt Morgan on the outside of the ring, Abyss was back inside getting assaultd via all sorts of offensive fury, and this was looking like a dream match. Matt Morgan dropped Creed with a fallaway slam ala Scott Hall, but Abyss dropped Jay Lethal with a powerbomb right on top of Matt Morgan! Lethal pinned Morgan getting the pinfall victory!

Post match, Matt Morgan fights Abyss, but out comes security! Where was security when the Main Event Mafia was killing people in the opening parts of tonight’s Impact? This is lame. Speaking of security, remember when Bam Bam Bigelow invaded WCW, to attack Bill Goldberg? That was awesome.

Aj Styles defeated Scott Steiner w/ Mick Foley as special Enforcer

The main event was supposed to be Kurt Angle and Aj Styles, but because Angle got beat down and thrown through a table at the beginning of this show, Aj Styles was out there fighting Scott Steiner. Steiner and Aj put on a mediocre match. Styles tried to carry the match, but Steiner isn’t that good, he hasn’t been good since the early 90’s when him and Rick Steiner put on shows left and right in WCW. Mick Foley was at ringside positioning himself as the enforcer. This match bored me after a while. Steiner’s power moves really limit Aj Styles from doing anything too great. There was a great bridge suplex towards the closing moments of this match, but it wasn’t the end all. Aj pounced on the ref, and Foley was forced into getting involved with the match. Steiner hit Foley in the back of the head with a lead pipe, knocking out Mick Foley. Then Steiner used the lead pipe to knock out Aj Styles but couldn’t get the pinfall! Steiner cinched in the Steiner Recliner and it did not look good for Aj Styles at this point. Petey Williams ran out to ringside and delivered a Missile Dropkick on Steiner, Aj got up and took advantage and won this match up via pinfall!

TNA Impact 1/15/09 Results

Hernandez defeated Sting via disqualification
Roxxi , Taylor Wilde, and Roxxi defeated The Kongtourage
Lethal Consequences defeated Abyss & Matt Morgan
Aj Styles defeated Scott Steiner w/ Mick Foley as special Enforcer

Overall this night of Impact sucked. I liked a couple of things, but it just seemed like the TNA people don't want to put on a good wrestling show. They spent the first hour with only one match, and the second hour rushing through spots to get to the main event. I'm not fascinated by the wrestling of TNA. They should switch back to the four sided ring, and stick to simple wrestling formulas. Not this NWO crap they are mirroring right now.

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