Total Non-Stop Action presents Impact
Date: 11/15/2007
From: Orlando, FL
Matches:
1.) Jimmy Rave & Lance Hoyt defeated LAX
2.) Robert Roode & Traci Brooks defeated Chris Harris & TNA Knockouts Champion Gail Kim
3.) Abyss defeated Black Reign and Rellik in a three way dance
4.Awesome Kong defeated Alexa Jade
5.) TNA World Champion Kurt Angle defeated Frankie Kazarian to retain the title
Angle Developments/Notes:
1.) Before the show started, Jim Cornette says that the announcers can’t mention two names that appeared in the main event at Genesis because they hadn’t signed contracts. Cornette hopes to have a contract signing tonight.
2.) TNA World Champion makes his way out to cut a promo. Kurt has Karen, AJ Styles and Tomko with him, as well. Kurt talks about Karen taking care of business like she said she would. Kurt never doubted Karen for a second and knew that he’d retain the title at Genesis. Karen takes a bow and taunts the crowd. Kurt says that Tomko and AJ made the right decision joining the Angle Alliance and considers them family.
Kevin Nash makes his way out to join the segment. Nash remains on the floor and says he thought they were family. Kurt insults Nash calling him a wussy and says that Nash held him down. Nash thought he had Sting beaten, but Angle screwed him. Angle tells Nash to bring it on. Nash gets in the ring and goes after Angle, but is double teamed by Styles and Tomko. Nash is triple teamed on the mat with stomps. The locker room runs down to make the save for Nash.
3.) Outside, Christian Cage arrives to the building.
4.) Backstage, Kevin Nash is on the phone and says he’ll see someone in twenty minutes. Nash says fun is about to begin now.
5.) Homicide goes after Rave and kicks Rave after taking a hip toss. Homicide tosses Rave with an overhead belly to belly suplex. Rave eye rakes Homicide, but Hernandez hits a slingshot shoulder block. Hernandez slingshots Rave into a clothesline by Homicide and Homicide hits a senton splash from the apron. Hernandez hits an over the shoulder backbreaker for a near fall. Homicide tags into the match and sends Rave into the corner, but runs into a boot. Hoyt enters the match and scoop slams Homicide. Hoyt hits a swinging slam driving Homicide to the mat gut first. Homicide fires back with strikes, but runs into a clothesline leading to a near fall. Hoyt leaps off the middle rope missing a leg drop. Rave tags into the match and Hernandez tags into the match. Hernandez cleans house with a splash and overhead toss on Rave. Hernandez plants Hoyt with a spinebuster. Hernandez drives Rave down with a sit down powerbomb. Hoyt is splashed in the corner twice and bails to the floor after a clothesline by Hernandez. Hernandez dives over the top to take Hoyt out with a dive! Rave gets out of the Gringo Killer by Homicide and gets a rollup on Homicide after Christy Hemme caused a distraction and wins the match! After the match, Homicide beats up Rave a little bit. A masked person comes into the ring and hits Hemme with a slapjack. (**1/2. I thought this was a solid tag match. It’s a big win for the Rave & Hoyt tag team. I like the team and think there’s potential to be something good in TNA. Hernandez did very well with his offense in this one, too.)
6.) Backstage, Team 3D cut a promo saying they are done with Crystal the usual interview lady. They have someone tied up and have a sheet over their head. They have stolen the TNA X-Division Championship. Team 3D has a list of demands that they better answer if they want to see their friend. Bubba doesn’t want the letter X in the alphabet anymore. They also don’t want the fans to chant “that was awesome” anymore. The X-Division wrestlers are no longer able to put themselves over on the internet with fake names. They also want 12 cases of Ding Dongs and 10 cases of Yoohoo. The X-Division will turn over all their rats. That was the last demand. Ray says they have less than one hour.
7.) Backstage, Crystal interviews Christian Cage. Cage tells Crystal to shut up and says he hasn’t talked to AJ or Tomko. Cage gave everything he had at Genesis to be the number one contender. Cage claims he’s undefeated, which Crystal questions. Cage says that AJ and Tomko can’t follow directions. Cage blames their distraction for his loss. Cage is also pissed that they would help Angle without asking him first. Cage says that they will perhaps have to answer to him later tonight.
8.) Kim and Traci kickoff the mixed tag match with Traci taking Kim down to the mat. Kim gets wrist control, but is taken down to the mat and they bridge up. Kim gets a backslide for a two count. They trade arm drags and have a standoff. Roode tells Traci to get out of the ring and sit on a chair at ringside. Roode wants Kim in the match and tells Kim to slap him. Kim stomps on Roode’s foot and Harris hits a top rope clothesline. Harris drops Roode with left hands and a bulldog out of the corner for a near fall. Roode sends Harris through the ropes to the floor as the show goes to commercial.
Harris kicks Roode, but runs into a spinebuster and Roode gets a two count. Roode delivers a rolling neck snap for a near fall. Roode keeps Harris on the mat with a neck vice. Harris elbows free and hits a leaping clothesline. Harris backdrops Roode coming off the ropes. Harris hooks Roode for a suplex and drives Roode down to the mat for a near fall. Harris tries for a slam, but Roode counters with a DDT for a near fall. Traci refuses to give Roode a chair. Roode gets the chair and whacks Harris over the head. Roode covers Harris as the referee was distracted by Kim and wins the match. After the match, Roode returns to the ring with a chair and chases Kim off. Roode whacks Harris with a chair shot over the back several times. Roode puts Harris’s arm between the chair and goes to the top rope, but Traci gets in the way. Roode gets in Traci’s face, but Traci shoves Roode. Traci leaves the ring. Traci attacks “the fan” with the Hire Me Robert sign in the front row. Roode seems to like this. (*. I think it’s safe to say that Harris is on the way out of TNA by this point. He just doesn’t seem like the same guy from just earlier in the year.)
9.) Outside, Scott Hall has arrived and says that if Kurt Angle and his crew want to play then Hall and Nash will play, too.
10.) Backstage, Jim Cornette is talking with Matt Morgan. Cornette talks with Crystal and tells Morgan he’s straightening things out tonight. Cornette asks how Morgan went about making matches. Cornette says that Morgan is bailed out because the two people who didn’t sign contracts have agreed to sign deals. Morgan thinks he booked a great match. Cornette doesn’t want to get in trouble and puts Morgan on probation. Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave enters the scene and Hoyt is pissed that Hemme got attacked by LAX.
11.) Team 3D come down to the ring with the man with a cover over his head and is tied up. Ray tells the fans to shut their mouth. Ray asks if Sabin and Shelley have met their list of demands. Shelley and Sabin make their way out with Jay Lethal since Team 3D have the TNA X-Division Championship. Sabin says they were listening to their demands and paid extra attention to one demand. That demand is the Ding Dong request. Sabin notes the other things they could have asked for and they settled on Ding Dongs. They could give them Ho-Hos because they have their mothers backstage. Devon whips the masked guy with a belt. It’s revealed as being Havok. Lethal chimes in and wants the X-Division Championship back. Ray says there’s a traitor within the X-Division. Shark Boy, Dutt and Petey Williams attack from behind. Lethal breaks Havok free. Havok grabs a kendo stick on the floor and attacks the X-Division proving to be the traitor. Team 3D and Havok stand tall to end the segment.
12.) Backstage, Jeremy Borash is with TNA Tag Team Champions AJ Styles and Tomko. Styles thinks this is a misunderstanding with Christian Cage. Styles says he’s under a lot of pressure. Styles made a deal with Karen thinking it would be a good deal for all three of them. Styles thought it would make their team stronger. Styles says that he loves Cage and asks Tomko if Cage will understand. Tomko says Cage will not and walks off. Styles asks Borash is he will get demoted from captain. Borash says that it would be co-captain and Styles can work with that.
13.) Kevin Nash and Scott Hall make their way down to the ring. Hall does his usualy “Hey, Yo” and says it still works. Nash says they are going to make this short and sweet. Nash says that at Turning Point it will be Angle, Styles, and Tomko versus Hall, Nash and a partner that they will find out by the end of the program.
14.) This is Rellik’s Impact debut. Rellik is being played by Johnny The Bull of WCW and WWE fame.
15.) Reign and Rellik double team Abyss to start the match. Reign chokes Abyss over the middle rope while Rellik delivers strikes. Abyss sends Reign into the corner and big boots Rellik. Abyss tries for a double chokeslam, but sends Reign over the top to the floor. Rellik hits a spinebuster as we see Kazarian preparing for the main event. Reign sends Abyss into the railing and Rellik does the same as the show goes to commercial.
Rellik pummels Abyss on the mat with right hands. Reign misses a middle rope clothesline and decks Rellik on accident. Abyss hits a double clothesline. Abyss splashes both men in opposite corners. Abyss back splashes Reign and chokeslams Rellik to the mat for a near fall as Reign breaks the cover. Reign ducks a clothesline, but is backdropped by Abyss. Abyss plants Rellik with the Black Hole Slam for the win. (1/2*. That wasn’t very good, at all.) After the match, Reign decks Abyss with a hammer. Rellik whacks Abyss over the head with a chair shot. Reign drives Abyss down to the mat face first onto the chair. Rhino runs down to the ring and cleans house to save Abyss. Rhino hits a spinebuster on Reign onto the chair. Rhino smashes Reign with a chair shot. Abyss clotheslines Rellik over the top to the floor. Abyss and Rhino have a standoff.
16.) Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviews TNA World Champion Kurt Angle. Kurt tells Borash that there is no we and it’s just about him. Kurt doesn’t sweat Hall or Nash and says they are over the hill. Angle wonders who could be their partner and asks if Waltman has the brain cells to even get there. Angle says that Kazarian is not going to make a name for himself at his expense tonight.
17.) Kong works over Jade in the corner with a chop and hits a running splash. Kong has a Torture Rack on Jade and casually slams Jade to the mat. Kong nails Jade with a spinning back fist. Kong hits a sit down powerbomb for the win. After the match, Gail Kim comes out and confronts Kong. Kim runs into the ring and jumps on Kong’s back to deliver strikes to the head. Kong stops Kim with a clothesline and hits a sit down powerbomb to leave the champ laying.
18.) Jim Cornette is in the ring for the contract signing segment. Cornette introduces Sharmell and Booker T. Booker and Sharmell are greeted with cheers as they make their way down to the ring. The fans chant Booker’s name. Booker thanks the fans from the bottom of his heart. Cornette wants to get the contract signed. Cornette asks Sharmell to sign first and she does. Booker also signs the contract. Cornette asks what Booker’s plans and goals are.
Christian Cage cuts into the segment. Cage makes his way down to the ring. Cornette is livid, but Cage just wants to say hello to an old friend. Cage has had some personal issues as of late, but couldn’t find Tomko and Styles. Cage wants to take care of it right now and knows that Booker is there to be the World Champion. Cage says this is a different world than Booker is use to. Cage tells Booker there is one king and it’s him. Cage tells Booker he’s the champ and the number one contender. Cage tells Booker to go to the back of the line before Cage sends him there. Booker attacks Cage after he insults Sharmell. Booker rams Cage onto the table face first and Cage bails to the floor. Booker gets on the microphone and says that he just took Cage’s number one contender spot.
19.) Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviews Frankie Kazarian. Kaz says he earned the right to be in there with the best wrestler in the world and he’s going to leave everything in the ring. Kaz tells Borash that whatever happens in there happens. Kaz walks off to the ring for the main event.
20.) Kazarian backs Angle against the ropes, but backs off cleanly. Angle keeps wrist control on Kazarian, but Kazarian counters with one of his own. Kazarian leg drops Angle on the arm and keeps arm control. Angle has a head scissors on Kazarian, but Kazarian powers out and arm drags Angle. Angle backs Kazarian into the corner and forearms Kazarian followed by shoulder rams. Angle misses a spear and hits the post. Kazarian arm drags Angle to the mat again and keeps arm control. Angle keeps Kazarian on the mat with a headlock. Angle shoulder blocks Kazarian and runs into a dropkick. Kazarian manages a two count and arm drags Angle to maintain control. Angle knee lifts Kazarian and delivers an elbow strike. Kazarian kicks Angle and hits a spin kick for a two count. Kazarian arm drags Angle again to keep the advantage. Angle dumps Kazarian over the top to the floor with an Olympic Slam as the show goes to commercial.
Kazarian elbows Angle, but runs into an overhead belly to belly suplex. Angle uppercuts Kazarian in the corner several times followed by right hands and stomps. Angle hooks Kazarian and hits a snap suplex for a two count. Angle keeps Kazarian on the mat with a body scissors. Kazarian struggles to his feet and punches free out of a sleeper. Kazarian clotheslines Angle to the mat. Kaz ducks a clothesline and punches Angle followed by a forearm strike. Angle misses a splash in the corner and Kaz hits a springboard dropkick for a near fall. Angle takes Kazarian down and goes for the ankle lock, but Kaz breaks free and almost wins with an inside cradle. Angle hits a German suplex to stop Kaz. Kazarian arm drags Angle and hits a running dropkick for a near fall. Kaz hits the Wave of the Future for a near fall. Karen Angle gets on the apron and Kurt low blows Kaz followed by the Olympic Slam for a two count. Angle slams Kazarian to the mat and goes to the top rope. Kazarian kicks Angle on the top rope. Kazarian hits the Flux Capacitor off the top, but Angle kicks out at two! Angle knee lifts Kazarian and rolls Kazarian up with his head trapped and wins the match. (***1/2. That was a good match with maybe a lackluster finish, but Kurt winning clean was the right call. Kaz showcased himself well and hopefully this leads to him getting more of a push.)
21.) Kevin Nash and Scott Hall come down to the ring after Kurt Angle returned to the ring to get in Kaz’s face. Kurt isn’t aware of it and Nash pats him on the pat, which Kurt knows isn’t good news. Hall and Nash deck Angle with right hands. Tomko and Styles come down to the ring to make the save for Angle. Samoa Joe runs down to the ring and makes the save. Joe is the mystery partner for Nash and Hall. Joe sends Tomko to the floor. The crowd did not erupt for Joe.
Final Thoughts:
There’s quite a bit going on here. Devine turning on the X-Division wasn’t that big of a deal as I never considered him an X-Division guy. Samoa Joe shockingly got a lackluster reaction, which makes me wonder if the Orlando crowd is tired of Joe/Angle. Booker debuting on Impact was fine, but Christian Cage being the guy to confront him felt like we’re just keeping WWE guys with WWE guys. I would have put a TNA guy in that spot to give him a bigger push. I still thought it was a solid episode overall with a strong main event.
Thanks for reading.