iMPACT
October
11, 2007
Recap by
Sassy
Comments by Sassy in
italics.
We see a recap of the feud
building between Sting family and the Angle family. Then we see Kurt Angle
walking in the back of the iMPACT Zone carrying his title and wearing the
football jersey of Sting’s son.
Welcome to the iMPACT Zone
being broadcast from Universal Studios, Orlando, FL on the Spike TV network.
Ring
announcers: Mike Tenay and Don West
Ring
announcer: Jeremy Borash
Backstage
interviews: Crystal Loutham
Ring Valet:
So Cal Val
Opening
Match – Non Title Match
Black
Machismo Jay Lethal, from Elizabeth, NJ
Current
X-Division Champion
Vs.
Havok
Winner:
Black Machismo Jay Lethal
As soon as the match
starts, Christopher Daniels is seen near the announcer’s table. Lethal’s
ribs are taped after last week’s beat down by Team 3D.
Havok is getting to strut his stuff in this match.
He can match Lethal high maneuver by high maneuver. Havok is a little
quicker on the punches than is Lethal, but Lethal executes the lethal
combination, gets the pin and gets the win.
After the match, Daniels
picks up the championship belt and stands on the ring apron.
Daniels tosses the belt to Lethal in the ring.
Lethal faces off with Daniels at Bound For Glory in an X-Division title
match.
We are backstage with JB
who meets Mrs. Angle as she comes into the building. When JB asks why she
arrived at a different time than Kurt, she says that sometimes married couples
have problems.
Commercial break.
Back from commercial break,
we see a Bound For Glory promo.
Kurt comes to the ring and
Tenay says that Kurt needs to explain what he did last Thursday on iMPACT after
he attacked Sting’s son in Sting’s home town. Kurt asks Sting how he likes
Kurt’s football jersey. Kurt says he did what he did to Sting’s son last
week because Sting laid his hands on Kurt’s wife and Kurt says he wants to
face the old Sting at Bound For Glory. Kurt
says he doesn’t want any excuses; he wants to face the very best Sting there
is. Kurt says he will stay in the ring and Sting can come out and give it his
best shot. Mrs. Angle then enters
the arena and the ring. She tells Kurt that he should never have gone after
Sting’s family and especially Sting’s children. She said that Kurt went too
far and crossed the line. Kurt says he determines when he crosses the line. She
said she should never have agreed to Kurt’s plan and said that Sting slapped
her. Kurt tells her to shut up.
Sting then appears on the monitor and says he holds both the Angles responsible
for what happened and that Kurt has made the mistake of a lifetime.
Sting says if Kurt wants the old Sting, he’s got him and Sting will
take everything from Kurt at Bound For Glory. Sting reminds us that it is three
more days until Bound For Glory and then tells Kurt to let the games begin now.
The lights go down and a Sting look alike dummy is dropped into the ring. Kurt
immediately attacks the dummy before realizing it is not Sting. Sting is still
on the monitor and Sting says that it will be on Sting’s time and not before.
I will note here that
the audience is not into having Kurt in the ring running his mouth and he is
interrupted and talked over by the fans several times.
The only applause he gets is when he mentions the “old Sting”.
I think the fans would like to see Sting enter the arena and shut Kurt up
once and for all. However, when Sting appears on the monitor, the audience
erupts in applause.
Tenay and West give us the line up
Bound For Glory
Ultimate
X for a Tag Team Title Shot
LAX
(Homicide & Hernandez)
Vs.
XXX (The
Warrior Senshi & Primetime Elix Skipper)
TNA X
Division Title Match
The
Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels
Vs.
Black
Machismo Jay Lethal
Gauntlet
Match – 10 Participants
TNA
Knockout Championship
Monster’s
Ball
The
Monster Abyss & The War Machine Rhino
Vs.
Black
Reign & Raven
There
Must Be A Winner
The
Instant Classic Christian Cage
Vs.
The
Samoan Submission Machine Samoa Joe
Special
Enforcer Matt Morgan
2 out of
3 Tables Match
The
Steiner Brothers
Vs.
Team 3D
TNA Tag
Team Title Match
The
Phenomenal AJ Styles & Tomko
Vs.
Team
Pacman - Ron The Truth Killings and Adam Pacman Jones
TNA World
Heavyweight Title Match
The Icon
Sting
Vs.
Olympic
Gold Medalist Kurt Angle
JB is backstage with Kevin
Nash. JB tells Nash it isn’t a
good idea to go up in the rafters and talk to Sting. Nash says it probably isn’t a good idea but someone has to
do it. Nash says he will go up alone so JB won’t get hurt. Nash calls out
Sting and asks if he can come up. Nash asks Sting if he is sure he wants to go
down this path again. Nash says
that this is the way Sting wants to go out. Nash says Sting shouldn’t want to
go out and win the championship like some thug. Sting asks Nash what he would do
if Kurt went after his son and Nash says that he would kill Kurt. Sting says
that is exactly his point and it’s exactly the way Sting wants to go out.
Commercial break.
Back from commercial break,
Crystal is backstage with Team Pacman. The Truth says that he isn’t worried
about the competition of XXX tonight then he breaks into “Georgia On My
Mind”. He reminds everyone that Bound For Glory is in three days and will be
in Atlanta, GA, Jones old stomping ground. Pacman does his usual marvelous
job of speaking (I couldn’t think of anything else to say about his oratory
skills) and says that XXX are porn stars. At least The Truth didn’t try to
rap the song he was singing.
Non Title
Match
XXX
Primetime
Elix Skipper & Senshi
Vs.
Team
Pacman
Ron The
Truth Killings, from Charlotte, NC & Pacman Jones, from Atlanta, GA
Current
TNA Tag Team Champions
Winners: Team Pacman
Don West tells us how well
the team of The Truth and Jones have been working together and I almost dropped
my laptop. WHAT? West
needs a reality check.
Jones might make a great
statue if he could stand up straight. Jones has a football in his hands.
Oh good, he came to play football. Could
we get some wrestling here? Pacman then slams the football into Senshi.
Okay, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, that is a foreign
object. I didn’t hear this being
called a no disqualification match and the referee, Rudy Charles, should have
tossed Team Pacman out then and there. I know the writers must be having trouble
coming up with ways to use Jones besides just leaning on the ropes, but really,
that’s the best they can come up with? Not
only do we have to see it once, the ring announcers call for replay! Just before
Jones attempts – whatever – to make a dive on Senshi, the ref sends him out
of the ring because he is not the legal man. He’s been standing in the ring
since The Truth got tagged in ref. Make up your mind!
Skipper got a chance to work a little in the ring here and he did a good
job for the short time he was allowed in. Senshi hasn’t been able to shine
either. It’s a terrible injustice
to take time away from these two men in order to give time to Jones who is not a
wrestler. When it appears that Skipper is going to take The Truth out, Jones
throws money at Skipper and Skipper stops to throw the money back.
Want to guess what happens? The Truth hits a super kick, the pin and the
three count.
THE THROWING OF MONEY WAS
A PRELUDE TO WHAT GOT JONES BOOTED OFF THE TENNESSEE TITANS.
IT WAS ALSO A PRELUDE TO THE SHOOTING THAT LEFT A MAN PARTIALLY
PARALYZED. THIS ISN’T JUST BAD
TASTE – IT’S SICKENING.
The Steiner Brothers enter
the arena while Team Pacman are still in the ring – because they have refused
to leave, they have been throwing money at the audience.
Don’t get too excited. They
are just dollar bills. The Steiner Brothers give Team Pacman hugs and I am
very disappointed in The Steiners.
Rick and Scott Steiner call
out Team 3D because they don’t want to wait until Bound For Glory. Team 3D
doesn’t come out to the ring.
JB is in the back with Team
3D, Brother Devon and Brother Ray. The
try to keep up with the name calling The Steiner Brothers started. Somehow they
manage to compare the Steiners to Brittany Spears. I don’t see it. Sorry
3D. During the trash talking, the Steiners show up surrounded by Security to
try to get to Team 3D.
Commercial break.
Back from commercial break.
Nash is backstage with JB
and the Angles. Nash is telling
Kurt that they need a different strategy because Nash has known Sting for so
long that Kurt has gone over the line. Nash says that he will not be a part of
Kurt and Sting and Kurt says he is going to be the hunter, not the hunted. Kurt
tells JB to come with him but JB says that Sting is mad and JB should stay with
Nash, but Kurt makes him go with him anyway.
The following girls come to
the ring to watch the match:
Christy Hemme from Los
Angeles, CA, The Pride of Tennessee, Miss Jackie Moore from Williamsport, TN,
ODB from Minneapolis, MN, Talia Madison from The Big Apple, Angel Williams, from
Ontario, Canada, Roxxi Laveaux, from Tonga Square in New Orleans, LA
Women’s
Match
Gail Kim
from Tampa, FL
Vs.
Amazing Kong, standing 6’1” tall and weighing 272 3/8 lbs.
residing
in Tokyo, Japan
Winner:
Amazing Kong
All I can say is RUN,
GAIL, RUN! Gail didn’t run. Power bomb and a three count for Amazing Kong.
Out of the girls at ringside, ODB looks like she might have a chance against
Kong. I’m not sure anyone else
can handle her. I’ve been looking for more information on Kong and her
matches. I hear she is very good.
Don West takes us to an
earlier interview he had with The Guru Sonjay Dutt. West wants to ask Sonjay
about the noticeable change in Sonjay’s life and he says that the change is
about his work is about the eboli virus and he is seeking donations for the Guru
Humanitarian Fund and West gives Sonjay a couple of bucks and then Sonjay asks
West to join him in meditation. I’m
not sure what the point of this interview was about but I have to say it was
different.
Commercial break.
Back from commercial break,
we see the video from the Orient where Tomko and his partner in Japan, Giant
Bernard, defend the IWGP tag team titles and win.
Christian Cage and his
co-host, AJ Styles, debut with Christian’s new talk show “Chatting With the
Champ” in a luau setting in the ring. Christian says the theme of the ring is
a special theme for a very special guest. Christian says his guest will probably
want to kill him and Samoa Joe enters the arena, mic in hand. Christian welcomes
Joe to “the islands” and then he asks Joe about their match at Bound For
Glory, There Must Be A Winner. The
audience chants “Joe”. Christian
wants to know what Joe’s strategy will be this Sunday and Joe says
Christian’s show has been on for two minutes and Christian is already boring
Joe. Joe calls Christian a name that is bleeped out and Christian says that it
is Christian’s show and he doesn’t appreciate being disrespected. Joe tells Christian to do something about it. When AJ tries
to interfere, Joe threatens AJ. Joe tells Christian that at Bound For Glory,
Christian’s winning streak will end and Joe will put him in the hospital. The
crowd eggs Joe on. Christian tells Joe that he respects him. Christian proposes
a toast to their match at Bound For Glory and that they will steal the show. Joe
throws his drink in Christian’s face and then goes after Christian and then AJ.
AJ hits Joe over the head with a ukulele and I almost couldn’t finish typing.
I’m still laughing at the uke and AJ’s face. Matt Morgan
wanders down the ramp and takes AJ out of the ring and sends him to the floor
with a head butt as Joe and Christian fight their way up the ramp and then back
into the ring. Matt carries AJ out of the arena on his shoulders. Christian
nails Joe in the head with a coconut. Talk about your foreign objects!
Crystal is in the back with
LAX and they have the Latino Nation with them. Homicide tells everyone,
including XXX, that LAX is the toughest tag team in Lucha Libre. I won't
argue with LAX.
Commercial break.
Back from commercial break.
Petey
Williams from Ontario, Canada
Vs.
Robert
Roode from Wall Street in New York
accompanied
by Miss Brooks
Roode uses all of his non
wrestling maneuvers. Petey’s
quick and I think he could out wrestle Roode, but isn’t going to let Petey
wrestle. Roode hits the payoff and gets the three count. Roode then decides to
kick Petey around while he is down. Roode wants Miss Brooks to slap Pete across
the face but she refuses. Kaz comes to the rescue and runs Roode out of the
ring. Roode tries to get Miss Brooks out of the ring, but Miss Brooks doesn’t
want to leave Kaz. Roode pulls her
out of the ring and takes her with him anyway.
JB is backstage with Kurt who is still looking for Sting. They
stop at the men’s room but don’t find Sting. Kurt kick in the stall and find
Junior Fatu instead.
No DQ Tag
Team Contest
Raven
from The Bowery
&
Black
Reign from the Deepest Darkest Corner of His Mind
Vs.
The War
Machine Rhino from Detroit, MI
&
The Monster Abyss from The Black Hole
Winners:
Black Reign and Raven
LEAVE THE POOR RAT
BACKSTAGE! I write to TNA every week about poor Misty and they have yet to
respond.
Interesting note: Raven
tossed his hat and his sunglasses to the crowd. Black
Reign is working a lot faster than he was before.
COMMERCIAL
BREAK DURING THE MATCH!
Back from commercial break.
Raven looks the best I
have seen him in a long time. He just has that look that he could take this
latest character interaction anywhere. He’s
always been one of the toughest wrestlers out there and I consider him a true
hardcore type, but he had been out for awhile.
His out time seems to have done him a lot of good. Rhino and Abyss could
make one heck of a team if they work together. James Mitchell manages to get
himself in the ring but is saved by Raven who DDT’s Abyss into thumb tacks on
the mat. Raven and Black Reign seem to be having an issue about who is fighting
who. Rhino does a fantastic job of goring Raven into a table. Abyss is confused
and delivers a black hole slam on Rhino. Black
Reign covers Rhino and gets the pin and the three count.
Crystal is in the back with
Junior Fatu and says she wants to be the first to welcome Fatu to TNA. Crystal
asks Fatu about the Fight for the Right match at Bound For Glory and Fatu says
the next time Crystal interview him, they will be talking about his title shot.
Commercial break.
Back from commercial break,
Crystal is backstage with Matt Morgan and he asks if he is ready at Bound For
Glory. Matt says he can’t wait for Bound For Glory and he cant wait to see if
Christian or Joe mess with him in that ring. Matt further tells us that Jim
Cornette has appointed him the special enforcer in tonight’s match of Team 3D
and Kurt Angle vs. LAX and Junior Fatu. Matt says that Cornette put him there so
that when Sting comes into the ring to go after Angle, Matt won’t be there to
keep Sting out of the ring, he will be there to keep Angle from getting out of
the ring.
Homicide & Hernandez, Latin American Exchange,
representing
Latino Nation
&
Junior Fatu, from the Isle of Samoa
Vs.
Team 3D,
Brother Ray and Brother Devon, from New York City
&
Kurt Angle, from Pittsburgh, PA
Plus -
The Guest Enforcer, Matt Morgan
Winners: Team 3D and
Kurt Angle
It’s nice to see LAX
getting some quality time in the ring. Homicide and Hernandez work other venues
and appear to be very good in the ring. Homicide is smaller than the other guys
in this ring but he doesn’t seem to have a problem taking the big guys down to
the mat. Fatu doesn’t seem to
have a problem dealing with anyone and neither does Hernandez. Hernandez is
agile and quick on his feet in spite of his size.
Homicide and Hernandez work well as a tag team. You can’t argue that
Homicide knows his wrestling maneuvers.
Commercial break AGAIN
during the match.
Back from commercial break,
we see that during the commercial break, Matt Morgan removes the Latino Nation
from interfering in the match. Kurt Angle gets a stink face delivered by Fatu.
Brother Devon gets taken down outside the ring when Hernandez delivers a flying
over the top rope suicide dive. Kurt
delivers an Olympic slam and pins Homicide to get the three count.
Kurt again has a mic as
members of the Latino Nation come into the ring to help out Homicide and
Hernandez.
Sting is again on the
monitor as Kurt calls Sting out again. Sting says he thinks it would be better
if they waited until Bound For Glory but then again, maybe not.
As a member of Latino Nation taps Kurt on the back and then removes his
bandana and glasses to reveal that it is Sting. Sting takes out Kurt as the
camera cuts out and we see a promo of all the wrestlers discussing Bound For
Glory.
I’ll
be ordering Bound For Glory. And
I’ll see the rest of the TNA fans there.
TNA iMPACT / THURSDAY OCTOBER 4 / PLAY-BY-PLAY ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY BY SASSY
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