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Friday, February 19, 2010

TNA Impact 2/18/10 Results and Review Fallout From Against All Odds

TNA Impact 2/18/10 Results

Tara defeated Daffney via disqualification
Orlando Jordan defeated Samoa Joe
The Amazing Red, Generation Me, and Kazarian defeated Doug Williams, Brian Kendrick, The Motor City Machine Guns
Jeff Jarrett vs Abyss No Contest
Beer Money defeated The British Invasion
Kurt Angle defeated Christopher Daniels

TNA Impact 2/18/10 Review

The opening segment of TNA featured The Pope cutting a good promo and calling Rick flair, Dick Flair. Aj Styles came down with Rick Flair and the two exchanged words before The Pope attacked. Aj Styles and Rick Flair out numbered The Pope and smashed his leg in between a chair. This was a great throwback to classic wrestling and I liked it a lot. It’s about time we get this kind of feud. Pope is going to need help to stop the numbers game, but I like him chasing the title and eventually getting it, maybe in a cage.

Tara defeated Daffney via disqualification

This match had actual wrestling, and wasn’t half bad at first. However, Daffney hit Tara with a tool box from under the ring, forcing the disqualification. Daffney then went to the attack after the match, and it was good overall, in my view. Maybe it’s cause I think Daffney’s hot.

Backstage Eric Bischoff throws Foley a bone by sending him on a shopping spree to updated his look.

Orlando Jordan defeated Samoa Joe

Samoa Joe might have missed the title at the ppv, but he was ready to strike and got a shot at fighting Orlando Jordan. He really was on the attack after a pre-match speech by Bischoff. Joe was hitting hard, but after a quick mistake, Jordan rolled him up and got the quick win! Joe was off his game for 3 seconds and he lost. This was a shocker, but with little to no fan reaction.

The Amazing Red, Generation Me, and Kazarian defeated Doug Williams, Brian Kendrick, The Motor City Machine Guns

All of these guys can put on great matches, and it’s impressive to see them work. My only complaints about these guys come from the lack of psychology sometimes. However, they managed to mix strong style from Doug Williams and high flying spots from other competitors in this match up. Kazarian won the match for his team with a slingshot over the top rope into a ddt. Not a bad match, although it seemed a bit short to me.

Jeff Jarrett vs Abyss No Contest

Abyss had to win this match or else lose his mask. Double J had to use the barbed wire bat at some point, or else, according to Bischoff. This match was slow and Jarrett was avoiding using the bat. Abyss wasn’t just lying down either, he was taking it right to Abyss as well. Double J refused to use the baseball bat, so he called out all the heels o beat up Abyss and Jarrett. The match ended in a dq? I guess.

Post match Bischoff came into the ring while his cronies held Abyss down. Bischoff was about to take Abyss’s mask off but out came Hulk Hogan!

Beer Money defeated The British Invasion

This match was ok at best, it showed that Beer Money is still around. I didn’t think this was a terrible match, but it wasn’t exactly a technical best. This match was pretty cool for being short…although I expected more.

Post match, The British Invasion looked like they were going to break up. Big Rob was left standing with the International Belt? I forgot what it was called.

Backstage Hulk gave Abyss a pep-talk. It was boring to me.

Kurt Angle defeated Christopher Daniels

This was a very short match, and Angle made Daniels tap out fast. I didn’t think much of the match, and they just buried Christopher Daniels.

Mr. Anderson showed up and beat Kurt Angle fast, and looks like the two will be feuding soon.

Samoa Joe was leaving the arena and was literally kidnapped. It was weird. They threw him in the back of a fan and just drove off.

Kevin Nash called out Scott Hall and Sixx Pak and security bum rushed the ring and stopped anything from going down. Hogan came out to the ramp, and just watched. The show just ended with nothing. Kind of lame.

Friday, January 22, 2010

TNA Impact 1/21/10 Results and Review No Change in Sight

TNA has been preaching change for a few weeks now, and it’s interesting to see how things are going, the recap of Genesis looked actually good, I don’t know what the podcasts were talking about. Maybe It’s just cause I didn’t see the whole thing and the recap was really condense, or maybe TNA is actually moving forward for a change. We’ll see….

Tna Impact 1/21/10 Results

Hernandez & Matt Morgan defeated The British Invasion
Orlando Jordan defeated The Pope D’Angelo Dinero
Angelina Love defeated Madison Rayne
The Nasty Boys defeated Erik Young & Kevin Nash
Aj Styles defeated Kurt Angle

Tna Impact 1/21/10 Review

Ric Flair and Aj Styles arrive backstage in a limo with lots of women. I don’t mind them changing Styles a bit, but he just seems out of place, regardless.

They changed but yet they still have that lame “rapcore” music? Lame.

Ric Flair came down the ramp with two of the ugliest girls I’ve seen in professional wrestling in a long time. Flair cuts a classic “I Hate Hulk Hogan” promo, which was recycled from 1994. He wants to wrestle Hogan yet again. He claims Aj Styles is going to be the next Ric Flair? Lame. Aj Styles came out and sucked the life out of the room, he’s just not that over with me. Styles just has the charisma of a wet noodle, no matter who his manager is. He shouldn’t talk, let Flair talk for him.

Hogan and Angle interrupted, and I kept wondering where the change was. This seems like WWF 1999 recycled. 20 minute opening promos and what not. Hogan announces that Angle will get another shot at the TNA title! This time Ric Flair can’t interfere. The match is going to be tonight!

Hernandez & Matt Morgan defeated The British Invasion

Not a bad match, a lot of good back and forth action from both sides of the coin. I thought the British Invasion was going to win, since they are more of a traditional tag team, but they tried to cheat and it back fired, creating a rift between the team. I think Matt Morgan is definitely better than I pegged him a few months back, and it’s interesting to see him get some gold. The British Invasion looked to be on the verge of splitting up, but post match we couldn’t really get anything out in the open.

The reason for that was that Mick Foley jumped in and leveled the British Invasion with a chair, and wanted an appointment with Eric Bischoff.

Orlando Jordan defeated The Pope D’Angelo Dinero

Not a terrible match, The Pope looked strong early on, and if it weren’t for his pesky knee injury from the ppv, he might have put away Jordan. Orlando Jordan didn’t do anything crazy to impress me, but he was smart enough to go for the injured leg, so maybe this is just the beginning of better things for Orlando Jordan in TNA. I liked the match for what it was, and look forward to seeing both these guys in TNA in the near future.

Angelina Love defeated Madison Rayne

This was a quick match, with no major wrestling that I can speak of. I don’t like the fact that Angelina Love still looks like a member of the Beautiful People, but I can get behind her attacking her former friends. The numbers game catching up with Angelina was great too, and this is not half bad.

Hogan and Bischoff constantly in ring talking about change and what not is getting really tired. They once again get in there and start airing dirty laundry and talking crap, it’s boring to me. I don’t need that, I need better wrestling; Scott Hall and Waltman basically got fired during the promo, with Hogan getting both ejected from the building and saying “you don’t work here”, get out! Will they rehash their “Outsiders” gimmick now though?

Mick Foley came out to talk, but security had him escorted out.

The Nasty Boys defeated Erik Young & Kevin Nash

You know, I didn’t hate this match, and I might be one of the only fans of the Nasty Boys. I think they can cut promos and they can wrestle. Just watch their feud with the Steiner Brothers in NWA and you’ll understand what I mean. Sure they aren’t as good or as young, but they put Erik Young through the ringer and pinned him clean. Sags took care of most of the work, but this math wasn’t terrible.

Mr. Anderson comes out, and he’s not as over as he was when he was in the WWE that’s for sure. He does have potential in TNA which is something that you should consider in regards to his arrival in TNA. I liked how he used brass knuckles in his win at Genesis, and I think if used right, TNA could go far with Anderson. Heck, I’d prefer Anderson instead of Styles as not only champion but also Ric Flairs protégé. Anderson’s promo was quite good overall, and Abyss showing up to surprise him and attacking was quite good too. I liked it, this is the only bright spot in TNA’s show tonight! Well that and the Nasty Boys match, I hope the continue to do more feuds like this. Anderson is gold on the mic, and it’s nice to see him in TNA.

Aj Styles defeated Kurt Angle

I feel like TNA keeps feeding me the same thing over and over again. We blame WWE for repetition, but here we get it from TNA for months and months on end! Oh and no sign of Samoa Joe or many other talents on the roster. This feud is reminding me of HHH vs The Rock in 1998 where for 8 months they wrestled each other often to draws or interferences. It finally ended in a ladder match at Summerslam, and I hated that back then, too many repetitive matches with the same guys. Here we get it again, even if the match is good, I’m tired of seeing it. The match was going well and out of the blue amidst different counters, Earl Hebner tells the time keeper to ring the bell!

Oh man, TNA rehashes the Montreal screw job! Yep. I kid you not folks, TNA recycles a 12 year old angle (no pun intended) out of the blue. Angle then starts yelling, and Hogan comes out and Angle spits in Hogans face. Angle says he is going back to WWE!

This is seriously the worst thing I’ve seen in TNA in a long time.

Eric Bischoff comes walking down the ramp and his head is busted open, and he’s bloodied. He fires Mick Foley and that’s the end of the show.

Final Thoughts:

This show sucked. It had two moments I really liked, and the rest of the time it was just stupid. TNA talked big about change all month, and what they've done is just rehashed old story lines, made Hogan look like Vince McMahon circa 1997 and just making no sense.

This show sucked. Face it.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Tna Impact 12/10/09 Results and Review Kevin Nash In Charge

TNA Impact 12/10/09 Results

Chris Sabin defeated The British Invasion in a handicap match
Awesome Kong & Scott Steiner defeated Bobby Lashley & Kristal Lashley
Erik Young defeated Hamada in a global championship match
Jesse Neal, Rhino, Team 3D defeated Hernandez, Suicide, & Matt Morgan
The Beautiful People wrestled in a mud wrestling match.
Aj Styles defeated Desmond Wolfe

TNA Impact 12/10/09 Review

Kevin Nash took over the show, as Foley went to “meet with Hogan”.

Kevin Nash announced what he had in mind for the night in wrestling, and you know what? It’s going to suck. Seriously, it’s ridiculous, and over the top….a shocking night of wrestling.

Meanwhile, Foley was looking for Dixie…this story line is stupid.

Chris Sabin defeated The British Invasion

This is the impossible. Chris Sabin managed to roll up a victory and it wasn’t that great at all. The Invasion had a few moments, but it was Sabin with the surprise win. This was a terrible opening match, and really unfathomable in regards to the result.

Awesome Kong & Scott Steiner defeated Bobby Lashley & Kristal Lashley

I’m not sure why they put in Lashley’s wife, as she’s not exactly trained as a wrestler, but I guess that’s just what happens in TNA…bad ideas. Lashley got worked by Scott Steiner, and this thing takes a turn for the worse. It’s sad to see things unfold like this, and It’s even sadder that TNA has to stoop to so low. Steiner pins Kristal and does push ups on her…Edge did that to Beulah at ECW One Night Stand. Way to be original tna…way to be original.

TNA does an interview with Samoa Joe and guess what? I have that shirt! Well I have 2 button down dickies black shirts, and it looked like that’s what Samoa Joe was wearing. It looked cool. Beer Money interrupted, and that wasn’t half bad. I like interrupted interviews.

Erik Young defeated Hamada in a global championship match

Hamada was not wrestling like she was some random woman, she was proving far better than Chyna ever did, that women can wrestle. She was amazing against Erik Young. Simply amazing, she was putting on a show, but it was too little as Erik Young used the ropes and a roll up to stop the momentum. I hated it. Hamada was amazing, and yet Young wins. Hamada is a gem of a wrestler by comparison folks, the divas have NOTHING on Hamada.

ODB defeated Tara in a non title trailer park throwdown

This was essentially just a hardcore match. It seemed interesting to me, that part of the stipulation was that they had to drink a six pack of beer. Sure, you didn’t see most of this on screen, but it was still part of Kevin Nash’s stipulation.

Jesse Neal, Rhino, Team 3D defeated Hernandez, Suicide, & Matt Morgan

I got distracted during this match, but I know that Jesse Neal won. I was in the middle of purchasing Simpsons Scene It on amazon for 7.99…yep. Sorry.

The Beautiful People wrestled in a mud wrestling match.

This match confused me once all the women started getting soaked in muddy water. I guess it’s interesting, but this was nothing more than a backroom bar type of match up.

The title shot was given to the highest bidder, and that bidder was none other than Desmond Wolfe! That’s right.

Aj Styles defeated Desmond Wolfe

This match was a little slow to start, but eventually it built into a good overall match up, but was derailed by interference by Christopher Daniels. The distraction allowed Aj styles to roll up, I kid you not, roll up Desmond Wolfe, making Wolfe look like a chump.

What a terrible night of wrestling folks. TNA continually makes terrible shows, and this is yet another one.

Post match, Christopher Daniels and Desmond Wolfe fought each other to commercial break.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Tna Impact 11/12/09 Results and Review They Never Learn

Tna Impact 11/12/09 Results

Abyss defeated Dr. Stevie
Alissa Flash defeatedTraci Brooks
Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart defeated Black Machismo
The Beautiful People and Awesome Kong defeated ODB, Sarita, Taylor Wilde and Tara
Amazing Red & The Motor City Machine Guns defeated The World Elite
Beer Money Inc. defeated The British Invasion
Samoa Joe defeated Aj Styles

Tna Impact 11/12/09 Review

The show immediately opens with Hulk Hogan’s signing to TNA wrestling. Then we get a recap of the meeting that was shown last week. I’m already bored with the storyline. However, I did mark out for Super Dave! As the show goes right back into Mick Foley’s office.

Abyss defeated Dr. Stevie

I feel like we’ve had this match occur before, so I wasn’t exactly too thrilled to see it. Abyss started this match hard and fast. Stevie Reichards looked great in ring, a far cry from his BWO days. So this match was all Abyss until the lights went out. Yes, the lights went out. Both men were out cold, and Stevie managed to roll an arm over Abyss and wins the match. Daffney’s hot…fyi. A chair was thrown into the ring but Foley ran in to save the day.

The Lights went out yet again, and this time we see Raven! Raven throws a fireball into Foley’s face and then hits the Evenflow DDT! Raven is back! My favorite wrestlers from yesteryear!

Alissa Flash defeated Traci Brooks

Alissa Flash took it to Traci Brooks and really did a good job. I thought it was interesting to see how intense she was, as she was really going after Brooks. Mike Tenay, mid match announced that Traci Brooks’ arm was crippled since birth and Flash just kept attacking it. Alissa Flash one via submission, and to cement the storyline, Brooks attacked her after the match.

Flash is good in my view, but she needs better competition. Traci Brooks sucks. A bad arm? That’s the excuse for her lackluster in ring work? She’s not Paul Orndorf, so I’m not buying the excuse. But then again, what do I know?

Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart defeated Black Machismo

This is a bad idea. Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart looks out of shape, really out of shape. This match was back and forth, albeit, short. The match went forward and Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart hit a huge powerslam to pin, and won. Yes, he defeated Black Machismo! So much for that story line huh? What a joke.

The Beautiful People and Awesome Kong defeated ODB, Sarita, Taylor Wilde and Tara

These ladies really put ona good show. They didn’t do anything super crazy, but they had enough moments to make it interesting. While it was just a spot fest when you boil things down, it still had a bunch of good shots. Of course, Awesome Kong won with her implant buster, and it’s picture perfect.

There was a hotel room beatdown with Lashley beating up a rapist-like Scott Steiner. Sadly, this was insane.

Kurt Angle was in ring in a suit, talking about Desmond Wolfe. A video showed Desmond at a different location and he showed up and attacked Angle, however, Angle fought back and started to make good on his promise to fight back. However, Desmond got the better of him and hit a nice DDT and then hit a chair shot. Meanwhile the video kept looping, which made for a terrible promo.

Amazing Red & The Motor City Machine Guns defeated The World Elite

This match was suppose to be high risk and great overall. Instead it was half speed and featured some botch’s that no one really commented on. The Machine Guns and Red were pushing a great amount of offense and if there is a great part of this match up it was the spots done by Amazing Red. The World Elite just didn’t seem to have it and really lost it. Oh and Homicide got ransacked by security for trying to introduce a barbed wire bat to the match.

Beer Money Inc. defeated The British Invasion

This match is a good example of what WWE is missing. They are missing real tag teams. Not just hot spotted tag teams thrown together at the last minute, but legit tag teams that don’t necessarily wrestle singles matches often. That being said, this match was great in terms of tag team action. It’s not the most amazing, technical match, but it had double teams, hot tags, high spots and good overall rhythm. That’s what the tag team division should aspire to in wwe, but doesn’t. Beer Money had this match swinging their way but it seemed that the British Invasion had one step ahead each time this thing looked over. But the british invasion couldn’t get the final pinfall and lost to Beer Money.

Samoa Joe defeated Aj Styles

This was a fast match, and really wasn’t all that great. Towards the middle of the match, Christopher Daniels came down to ringside to interfere, and that cost Aj Styles the match. Samoa Joe choked out Aj Styles, in a somewhat lackluster match.

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Friday, November 6, 2009

TNA Impact 11/5/09 Results and Review The Hogan Era Week 2

TNA Impact 11/5/09 Results

Beer Money Inc. defeated The British Invasion
Desmond Wolfe defeated Cody Deaner
Christopher Daniels vs Aj Styles no contest
Tara defeated Hamada
Bobby Lashley defeated Homicide
Taylor Wilde defeated Madison Rayne
Aj Styles defeated Daniels
Matt Morgan & Hernandez defeated Team 3-D via disqualification

TNA Impact 11/5/09 Review

The show opened up with a meeting that took place earlier with Dixie Carter and the whole TNA roster. She basically was giving that “I’m the boss” speech to all the guys, and it was now airing for the public. I’m not sure if it was a work or a shoot, but it sounded ok…I’m not sure what’s going on, nor do I really care.

Aj Styles opened up the real show, and Styles wanted answers to who is beating him up. Daniels came down…and he started to confront Aj Styles.

Beer Money Inc. defeated The British Invasion

This sloppy match really disappointed me. Both teams didn’t have any major offense, it was just half speed to the end. I hated this match. Beer Money won but who cares? The ref is an idiot. Erik Young introduced a world title and the ref literally put his arms up and said “uh oh!” and looked like an idiot. This match sucked.

Post match there was a melee, and on the ramp out came The Motor City Machine Guns, and security stopped things. This crap didn’t work in WCW, it’s not working now.

We now get twenty to thirty minutes of just backstage stuff. ODB gets beat up, Black Machismo gives an interview, Foley talks smack about Abyss, and that’s about it.

Desmond Wolfe defeated Cody Deaner

Desmond wins with a clothesline…that’s it. I hate this type of wrestling, and was bored. This is dumb.

Christopher Daniels vs Aj Styles no contest

Daniels was set to wrestle Styles with Samoa Joe as special guest referee, but backstage Aj Styles was attacked, meanwhile in ring Daniels got attacked by Joe. The match didn’t really happen.

Tara defeated Hamada

Tara was not getting a whole lot of offense in this match up. Hamada was really impressive in this match, and was quite good overall. However, Tara winning was a bit of an understatement of her abilities. The Widows Peak looked good, but that’s about it. Hamada looked to have injured her knee after a sick moonsault miss, but the match was somewhat short and really not that great.

Post match Awesome Kong came down to mop up Tara, but Tara leaped off the top rope in a sick swan dive into Kong and a body of security guards. You know something is wrong when your best spot in a match is after it’s over! Tara and Kong in the six sides of steel should be interesting…someone’s gotta blade though.

Mick Foley wasted about 20 minutes of time with talking to Abyss, and Scott Steiner was backstage talking about Hogan….I’m bored.

Bobby Lashley defeated Homicide

Homicide basically got pwned by Bobby Lashley. Lashley took a few hits from Homicide but then got worked and beaten fast. Lashley sucks.

Backstage Steiner was hitting on Lashley’s wife, he ran back there and there was a backstage brawl…man, who’s writing this bs?

Homicide attacked a ref and Amazing red came out to beat up Homicide.

This night of TNA was sucking big time…lame.

Taylor Wilde defeated Madison Rayne

This match was so short that when I got up to get coffee the whole match concluded. Post match The Beautiful people attacked, and a melee broke. It’s funny that although there is a big beatdown there’s no security…meanwhile earlier in the show there was a swarm of security for Awesome Kong and Tara’s melee….this sucks.

Aj Styles defeated Daniels

Even after the beatdown earlier, Styles and Daniels put a match together. This match was not given enough time to develop at all. This match was half speed, and eventually Styles was able to win. However, this match was just a trash match to say the least. Samoa Joe choked out Daniels.

Matt Morgan & Hernandez defeated Team 3-D via disqualification

Bubba Ray Dudley is getting fat again, he’s already large, but he’s putting on pounds. Hernandez was definitely getting the best of 3-d in this match up, as he had some great offense against the big time tag team. It wasn’t like Team 3-D was lying down, but man, they weren’t as intense as I’ve seen them in the past. This match turned out to be a dq with some lethal chairs, and a little help from Rhino. This match was building up quite well, then poop….I guess that’s TNA for you.

This night of wrestling sucked. Hogan wasn’t even on the show! What the heck? TNA sucks…screw it.

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Friday, October 16, 2009

Tna Impact 10/15/09 Results and Review The Super Impact 3 Hour Show

Tna Impact 10/15/09 Results

The Beautiful People defeated Tara, Awesome Kong, and ODB
Amazing Red vs Suicide No Contest
Hernandez defeated The British Invasion in a gauntlet match
Daniels defeated The Pope
Hamada defeated Alicia Flash in a falls count anywhere match
Lashley defeated Rhino in a stretcher match
Kurt Angle vs Aj Styles Time Limit Draw

Tna Impact 10/15/09 Review

I’m not sure what happened in the past few weeks with TNA, but this edition of TNA Impact was supposed to be a Super Impact Show! The show was titled “Angle’s Revenge” and really frustrated me from the get go, because I think the how shouldn’t have titles and crap like that, but that’s life. So here we go, TNA Super Impact, 3 hours of wrestling…wow….I’m going to need a nap after this review.

The show opened up with Kurt Angle and the main event mafia in the ring. Angle was in wrestling gear and said he wanted to do things different tonight, and he wanted to make sure he was ready for Aj Styles tonight. Angle started rambling to the rest of the members of his mafia, and it was random, and well…boring. Aj Styles came out with Matt Morgan and the rest of the good guys that will face the mafia at bound for glory. They then ran down and started fighting the Main Event Mafia, and things were going nuts. Once again, this was just like the old Nitro days with the New World Order, making me wish I didn’t review TNA…but I can’t help it I guess. Security ran down and got things back to normal, somewhat, but this was just stupid to me, I haven’t seen TNA in a while, but I know that the last time I did, this sort of crap was all over the show.

The Beautiful People defeated Tara, Awesome Kong, and ODB

Awesome Kong and Tara were fighting outside of the ring, meanwhile ODB was fighting The Beautiful People alone. Awesome Kong then started to walk away up the ramp, leaving her two partners to fend for themselves, and it was somewhat brutal. Well, as brutal as the current state of the knockouts division could be. The Beautiful People are a half step slower than ODB and Tara and this was painfully obvious. This made me not like the match too much, even though it was watchable. It’s still better than the divas match up. Even Tara’s superkick was terrible, but whatever. Tara had a disagreement with ODB, superkicked her, and the Beautiful People got the pinfall.

The Pope gimmick sucks. Seriously, the worst gimmick I’ve seen TNA come up with in a long time. Whatever…this sucks.

Amazing Red vs Suicide No Contest

The Amazing Red, always impressive, is now the X Division champion and was facing the stupid wrestler Suicide. Both wrestlers were going for the exact same moves, and it was a stalemate in the early goings of this match up. Red hit a sweet corkscrew plancha to the floor by Red, and it was just impressive to see Red’s timing. Suicide had a strength advantage, carrying Red and catching Red at times, but it was mostly Amazing Red and his flurry of high spots. Suicide’s rolling slam to guillotine leg drop from the apron was impressive, and it was nice to see the x division getting a good thing going. Suicide was attacked by The Pope and the match was thrown out. Oh well…

Erik Young joined the broadcast team for a little color commentary.

Hernandez defeated The British Invasion in a gauntlet match

Hernandez had to wrestle the whole British Invasion in a gauntlet style match up. Initially he started off with Doug Williams and was doing quite well initially. However, it was Williams that proved impressive, turning around the power moves of Hernandez into a more stable match up. Hernandez turned this thing around and won this one clean.

Brutus Magnus ran down as the second opponent for Hernandez, and was taking advantage of the winded Mexican, getting some pinfall attempts in within a few moments of his match starting. Hernandez put away Magnus with the Border Toss and it was quite well.

The third man of the British Invasion came in, and man, he’s got to be on the roids. Big Rob is massive, and he took it to Hernandez from the get go. He was hitting hard and was wearing out his opponent, with what seemed like ease. While Big Rob was gloating a little, Hernandez hit with a huge powerbomb out of the corner and won this match with ease.

Post match, Erik Young ran down with a Kendo stick and started to mop him up. The British Invasion than hit their finisher, and left the big man laying in the middle of the ring writhing in pain.

Backstage there was a four way interview and that led to the cameras cutting to Lashley and Joe and other fighting backstage. We then got a commercial, then an interview with Kurt Angle, then another commercial, then an interview with Aj Styles. All in all a lot of time wasting by TNA, which bored me and I’m sure bored you too.

Daniels defeated The Pope

Christopher Daniels hasn’t been the same since he gave up his Fallen Angel gimmick. I don’t think he’s that effective as a wrestler any longer. The Pope is interesting, he’s fast and he’s got some skills. He’s another WWE reject, and by the looks of his timing in ring, you wouldn’t know that. In fact, he is like a lighter R Truth in this match as he was taking it to Daniels early on in the match up. Daniels couldn’t really get his offense going, and was actually having problems with The Pope’s constant follow up. Daniels looked like he was done, and it was interesting to see how daniels would fix this, and eventually he made it work, after hitting The Angel’s Wings, Daniels won this match up.

Post match, out came Suicide, so we thought, but it was none other than Homicide dressed up as Suicide, to complicate things further. The match was standard, with the only cool parts being Daniels hitting his finisher, that’s always impressive, at least to me.

Mick Foley came down to ringside to talk about random crap. He sat down on a lazy boy of sorts, had some popcorn and was talking about Abyss. Abyss came out and attacked Foley. Foley then turned on the screen to show Steven Richards look creepy behind a blonde haired woman…most likely Abyss’s girlfriend or something. This segment was just another time waster.

Abyss ran down backstage. We got back to commercial break.

Hamada defeated Alicia Flash in a falls count anywhere match

Alicia Flash and Hamada are two women’s wrestlers that impressed me previously. I think that these two women could really get some good action going, and it’s interesting to see that TNA wanted to make this a falls count anywhere match, which seems odd to me. This was like the old ECW days for sure, this match was interesting, with both women hitting some high risk moves, high spots, and making the most out of the opportunity to have this falls count anywhere match up. It really was impressive to see two women put a match on like this, considering no one really does this type of wrestling anymore. It wasn’t just a plunder filled match up, it was a well balanced wrestling match with the stipulation allowing for a little extra. Hamada hit a nice a jumping ddt on the apron, and went to the skies for the finisher! She hit a picture perfect moonsault off the top rope through a table and Alicia Flash, winning this match, wow, this match was rad. I loved it.

Lashley defeated Rhino in a stretcher match

Lashley is being called, “The Boss”, and he seemed somewhat hurt with his ribs wrapped up. Rhino was attacking Lashley mercilessly throughout the ongoing of this match up. This was also given the stipulation of being a stretcher match, and Rhino was taking advantage of the fact. He was ruthless and showing off greatness against the former WWE star. The match turned around and Lashley seemed to have forgotten about his ribs and was hitting Rhino with some hard shots. Lashley was the only one really moving the stretcher, taking control of Rhino for a good portion of the match up and eventually moving to the back of the arena. Lashley hit a huge slam on Rhino onto a Guard Rail, and I thought this was over, and it most certainly was, Lashley threw Rhino stretcher and all into an Ambulance and this match was done. This was a terrible match up…terrible.

Backstage Mick Foley had fun beating up Abyss with the help of Stevie Richards and Daffney. It was somewhat boring, but oh well, what are you going to do? We then get yet another commercial break, and it was kind of tiring to note. TNA also teased the main event…Styles and Angle, after the break. This show is way too long, and I wanted to give up on the review, but I’ve come so far….

On a sidenote, Shane McMahon just resigned from the WWE…just a quick FYI.

Kurt Angle vs Aj Styles Time Limit Draw

This match was touted as the main event, and it was started at the end of the second hour. I figured this match was going to go at least an hour, but that didn’t make a lot of sense considering that these two have a match his weekend…then I remembered; TNA Impact is taped two weeks prior to air time, so this match happened a while ago. Anyways, this match started out quite good, Angle kept trying to keep the match on the mat while Styles kept getting away from Angle and hitting some sick moves. A nice dropkick from Styles made Angle second guess his strategy, and the two went back to work with counters and simple moves to try and isolate each other. Styles seemed to get the edge early on, forcing Angle to go outside of the ring and rest, rethinking his next move before things get out of hand for him. Angle finally got the upper hand by sidestepping one of Aj Style’s over the top rope moves, and the pain was on. Angle isolated Styles with a lot of rest holds and submission attempts, and Aj styles looked out. However, Styles was able to turn things around for a moment or two, but it wasn’t enough to put away Angle. Angle kept on the pressure, turning from rest holds to high impact moves like the release German Suplex and reversing the Styles Clash as well. There were several near falls and I thought this thing was going to favor Angle, but Styles kept kicking out at around two and a half. Angle started to appear frustrated, especially after a top rope belly to belly suplex didn’t put away Styles. Styles managed to even hit the Styles Clash, but it didn’t put away Kurt Angle. Kurt Angle barely kicked out of the Styles Clash. Angle was able to hit his patented Angle Slam and Styles kicked out. This match was headed into a stale mate fast. Angle went for the top rope moonsault, but Styles moved out of the way, and was out cold. Styles hit an impressive 450 splash off a springboard, and wasn’t able to get the win, as Angle managed to muster up enough strength for a kick out. Angle put on the Ankle Lock and the bell started to ring! Angle thought he won, but nope. The time ran out That’s right, there was a time limit, and the time ran out! The referee ruled this a time limit draw! What a load of crap. I can’t believe I sat through this for nothing. This isn’t the 1980’s there shouldn’t be a time limit draw!

The rest of TNA was just build up for the ppv that’s coming up. Nothing major, no more matches and I was finally ready to call it a day, that’s for sure.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

TNA Impact 8/6/09 Results and Review More Junk From TNA

Tna Impact 8/6/09 Results

Erik Young defeated Christopher Daniels
The British Invasion, Scott Steiner & Booker T defeated Beer Money & Team 3D
Sarita & Taylor Wilde defeated Alissa Flash & Traci Brooks
Matt Morgan defeated Aj Styles
Sting defeated Brutus Magnus

Tna Impact 8/6/09 Review

TNA opened up with a flashback of Erik Young and Kurt Angle arriving at the arena.

The show officially opened and of course it was Kurt Angle and the main event mafia in ring babbling about random crap. It wasn’t exactly the most thrilling of things, and to be honest, it was quite boring to me. Kurt Angle comes out and whines every single week and this wasn’t any different. Kurt Angle announces that he’s struck a deal with the British Invasion.

This is the WORST thing that could happen. The Main Event Mafia is now N.W.O 2009! That’s right, the N.W.O and the Main Event Mafia is exactly the same now. Too many members, so boring, and all older guys that should be letting the young guys in; I wanted to just quit watching TNA at this point, I am so sick of this N.W.O cloning, and I’m sure others are also tired…TNA is really blowing it, worse than WCW ever did.

Erik Young defeated Christopher Daniels

Christopher Daniels started this match fast, and Erik Young needed help from the outside in order to slow things down, however it was to no avail as Daniels leaped through the ropes and hit Young on the outside. However, the distraction caused Daniels to lose his focus and never really recovered. Sheik Abdul Bashir and Kiyoshi kept running into the match, distracting the ref, and really not helping Daniels stay on top of his game. Erik Young eventually picked up the victory after a nice looking piledriver. This match was ok at best, kind of standard, Daniels jobbing hurts, cause he has so much talent. I remember his feud with Samoa Joe for the x-division title, 4 star matches, but now? He’s jobbing, and that’s sad.

The British Invasion, Scott Steiner & Booker T defeated Beer Money & Team 3D

I swear one of the guys on the British Invasion is juicing hardcore. Other than that observation, I didn’t see this match as that great. Team 3D were starting this match with back and forth tags, good overall offense, and really putting forth effort in an otherwise overly crowded match up. The match eventually had a slight turn for the British guys, but it was short lived as Team 3D was controlling every aspect of this match up. That is until Erik Young, Bashir, and Kiyoshi came down. That prompted the Machine Guns and Daniels to run down to ringside, and this match was a complete cluster. Kevin Nash came down, and this was worse than WCW 2000, seriously this is a load of crap. Foley came out, and now there were bout 10 or 12 wrestlers down at ringside fighting and brawling, the match was apparently not thrown out at this point This seriously mirrored Nitro, and I really wanted to stop watching this, this is such a stupid show. TNA SUCKS! I HATED THIS! The match continued and Big Rob (the most juiced wrestler I’ve seen in a long time) pinned Robert Rude and that was that. This match sucked, I hated the way this turned out. This was seriously one of the lowest points in TNA history for me.

The show continued to focus on backstage brawls, antics and random crap that we saw in the failing days of N.W.O in WCW. It’s a shame that TNA is writing such terrible wrestling shows, because they had some potential in the past weeks. The whole roster was fighting each other, that’s it.

Sarita & Taylor Wilde defeated Alissa Flash & Traci Brooks

Alissa Flash once again shined in this match, despite Sarita’s offensive control early on. Flash is a well tuned wrestler, but more impressive was Sarita with a dazzling display of Lucha Libre style dives and top rope offense. Flash of course contrasted the style with hard mat wrestling against Taylor Wilde, showing off her skill set and strong style, which isn’t seen often in women’s wrestling. The weak link here was Traci Brooks, her large breasts were getting in the way of her wrestling, and she was obviously two steps slower than the other competitors in this match; she was moving half speed compared to the other three women in this match up. She also missed a lot of moves, and was botching things left and right. Sarita was the one that got the better of the women with a roll up and a nice array of Lucha Libre moves. I think Flash and Sarita are great wrestlers and not just divas. Traci Brooks, though, is a terrible wrestler.

There was an interview with Hernandez and Mike Tenay. It was kind of boring.

Matt Morgan defeated Aj Styles

Aj Styles beat Morgan last time, so I naturally knew that Matt Morgan would get his payback for this best of three series. Styles had a lot of speed in this match and while Morgan is a fast big man, he’s not faster than Styles and it painfully showed during this match up. Morgan used hiss strength to ground Sttyles though, and it was obvious that Morgan wasn’t going to just let Styles run circles around him. Morgan was ready for Styles every move and eventually hit the Hellevator and won with an impressive set of offensive. This was really good, considering the match was a little short. I guess seeing such a bad opening and first hour made this match seem better than it really was. Morgan is getting better, but I don’t think he can do it without being carried by a veteran like AJ Styles.

Sting defeated Brutus Magnus

Well, I was ready for bed, but apparently TNA wanted to throw one more match at us. I had to sit through yet another Sting match, and I'm not sure I was ready for it. The British Invasion was thrown out of ringside, so it was Sting solo with Brutus Magnus. Sting started this match with a clinic of old school wrestling. After many arm drags, hip tosses, and throws, Mangnus was thrown out of the ring to regroup and it was Sting that looked like the young buck rather than the veteran that he is. After a slight regrouping, Magnus was focusing on the legs of Sting and was really taking a page out of Bret Hart's book, with sole focus on the leg of Sting, setting up for a submission ending later, for sure. We cut to commercial and it was just a reversal as Sting cleaned up, put Magnus into the Scorpion Death Lock and made Brutus Magnus tap out with ease.

Post match The World Elite came down and tried to fight Sting, but Sting seemed to have most of this in control, until all 9 people attacked Sting. Once again, this was a reminder of NITRO with a TON of guys on one guy....sigh....Tna ruined this show. Lashley & Mick Foley ran down and fought off all comers, Lashley is now Goldberg 2009...TNA sucks, i'm sorry I'm going to bed...this was a terrible night of wrestling.

Oh and if you think I'm overly critical, get yourself the ending of this night of wrestling. 20+ guys in the ring beating up 3 guys. This was NWO all over again, it was so lame. Seriously, what a load of crap.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

TNA Impact 7/30/09 Results and Review The 200TH Episode

TNA Impact 7/30/09 Results and Review The 200TH Episode

**NOTE***

The optometrist dilated my pupils, so I couldn’t see that well. I had to try and write this review with blurred vision. If you see mistakes, misspellings, errors, and overall syntax screw ups, it’s because my eyes didn’t adjust just yet. So please cut me some slack as I review the 200th episode of Impact!

Tna Impact 7/30/09 Review

We’ve come 200 episodes into this program and they still don’t know how to do it properly. Out came the Main Event Mafia, as usual, hitting the ring. Kurt Angle starting whining about Lashley and how he hit the Mafia last week, and that he’s demanding answers asap. Lashley came out and tried to do his best on the mic, something he couldn’t do in WWE. Foley came out, and once again this thing was another cluster of random mic’s yelling at each other. Foley set up a match where him and Lashley could win the Legends Belt or the World Title Belt…so lame. Every match has a dumb stipulation attached to it.

Hernandez defeated Samoa Joe

Samoa Joe follows up his loss last week by facing the bigger half of the Latin American Exchange. I already knew who was going to win in this match, but it had few good moments. Samoa Joe looks like he’s getting tired faster these days. Samoa Joe was dominating the match with lots of kicks and moves, but it was Hernandez that got the upper hand with some great offense, surprising the big man, with a splash and getting the quick win. I guess I was wrong again, Joe loses, despite Taz being there with him. I kid you not, Samoa Joe is getting tired faster.

***NOTE****

Alright folks at this point my eyes kept blurring in and out. My optometrist was checking for glaucoma and gave me some stinging eye drops, 6 sets of 3 different eye drops and my pupils were gone....so I couldn't finish this review. I'm sorry.

Here's the rest of the results, and I'll have a Smackdown review for sure.

Matt Morgan defeated Aj Styles in the first of their 2 out of 3 match series

I like how they are trying to be like WCW when Booker T and Chris Benoit had that best of 5 series. Those matches were amazing, these matches? Probably not.

Awesome Kong, Tara, and ODB with Cody Deaner and Raisha Saeed defeated Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, and Madison Rayne

British Invasion defeated Team 3D for the IWGP Tag Titles in a Tables Match

Bobby Lashley & Mick Foley defeated Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash

As a result Mick Foley is the new Legends champion

Friday, May 1, 2009

Tna Impact 4/30/09 Results and Review The Godfathers Revenge

Tna Impact 4/30/09 Results

Amazing Red & Suicide defeated The Motor City Machine Guns
Doug Williams & Brutus Magnus defeated Homicide
Awesome Kong defeated Madison Rayne in a stretcher match
Abyss defeated Cody Deaner
Booker T & Kevin Nash defeated Aj Styles & Samoa Joe

Tna Impact 4/30/09 Review

The show opened u with Foley in the back talking to JB about random stuff. Jarrett refused comment, and the show began. A lame intro, that’s for sure.

Kurt Angle came out and talked about a global takeover, then we moved to Jarrett in the back telling Foley that he has to stay away from Jarrett.

Lame.

Amazing Red & Suicide defeated The Motor City Machine Guns

First thing that I noticed was that Amazing Red was in this match! He is fast and he is dead on accurate, I’m surprised to see him back. Suicide was his partner, but I didn’t care about that. Suicide wasn’t in this match a whole lot, as The Amazing Red was in there putting on a showcase. Sabin and Shelley had a few spots where they were beating up Red, but Red just kept going, eventually getting the hot tag. This match was cool, I liked Amazing Red before, but now that he’s a little older, he’s still on point and I hope I can see more of the guy in the x-division. Suicide sucks, I never liked him. Suicide Solution was hit and The Amazing Red and Suicide move forward in the tag team tournament, and wow, Amazing Red! He looks like a teenager, he’s insane, check that kid out.

Doug Williams & Brutus Magnus defeated Homicide

Homicide had to fight the British Invasion by himself, as Hernandez was taken out in the backstage area. Homicide started fighting this match with high spots, and a flurry of offense, trying to get the upper hand, he was going move for move, no resting in between, but that couldn’t and didn’t last too long. The British Invasion had a nasty tag team finisher, it was a spinning European uppercut off the top rope while someone was on their shoulders, it was like the Doomsday device reborn! I admit, I marked out huge for that. Homicide couldn’t beat two guys, and that was the end.

Awesome Kong defeated Madison Rayne in a stretcher match

Awesome Kong basically annihilated Madison Rayne. She put Madison on the stretcher several times but kept picking up Rayne again and slamming her to the mat. The fans kept yelling “One More Time” and she obliged! Awesome Kong has officially become a fan favorite! Madison was dead, this was a huge squash match, Awesome won.
The Motor City Machine Guns called out Christopher Daniels and told him that they knew that he was Suicide! That’s right, they claimed Daniels was Suicide! About time someone addressed this situation. Daniels fought off The Machine Guns, but that’s about it.

Abyss defeated Cody Deaner

This was your basic throwback to ECW, as this plunder match was just a hardcore match up. Deaner put up a good fight after spraying Alcohol into Abyss’s face. It wasn’t lasting long as Abyss hit the Black Hole Slam and it was all over. This match was short and it wasn’t very fun to watch. I like hardcore matches, but this was just a lot of dancing and random misfires.

Booker T & Kevin Nash defeated Aj Styles & Samoa Joe

I’m assuming Samoa Joe was suppose to be in this match, but Aj Styles started this match solo against the two former heavyweight champions. Mid Match Samoa Joe came down, and it was to no avail. Booker T and Kevin Nash won after Sharmell helped Booker T win this one. A championship belt shot to the head of Aj Styles and a three count later, the match was done.

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