2/28 TNA Impact Results:
-The show starts with Kurt Angle warming up for his match with Kevin Nash for later that night. His wife, Karen, interrupts and warns Kurt to cherish her while she’s with him (and AJ Styles) before she leaves him (but not AJ Styles). Kurt tells her to go away.
-Booker T calls out Robert Roode but his assistant, Payton Banks, comes out instead. Banks says Roode isn’t coming to the show and she then slaps Booker T. Traci Brooks, Roode’s former assistant, comes out of nowhere and attacks Banks before security breaks them up.
-Scott Steiner & Petey Williams defeat Sonjay Dutt & Jay Lethal.
-Team 3D, who can only wrestle if they weigh under 275 lbs, come out to face Shark Boy & Curry Man in a tag match. Neither member of Team 3D makes weight, so the match never happens.
-Left without opponents, Shark Boy lays down an open challenge for any team to face himself and Curry Man. Rellik & Black Reign answer the call.
-Shark Boy & Curry Man beat Rellik & Black Reign
-Robert Roode appears and calls out Booker T. Booker comes out and he brawls with Roode. Payton Banks gets involved and Booker T ends up handcuffed to the ropes. Traci Brooks comes back out and tries to make the save but also gets beat down and handcuffed to the ropes.
-James Storm beats Eric Young in a ladder match to win the Drinking Championship belt. After the match Rhino appears, attacks Storm and walks away with the belt.
-TNA Women's Champion Awesome Kong mauls Angelina Love in a non title match. ODB and Gail Kim come out and take down Kong after the match. Kim and ODB almost come to blows again.
-In the main event, Kurt Angle (still rocking the tube socks) beats Kevin Nash in a non title match. During the match, Karen Angle comes down to see if Kurt is alright and he shoves her down. AJ Styles comes out and carries her out of harm's way.
The segments throughout the show featuring Team 3D trying to make weight were great. This has got to be one of the few times TNA tries to do a comedy angle and it works.
I never, ever get tired of seeing Petey Williams hitting the Canadian Destroyer
Although I see no reason for a TNA Drinking Championship Title (one of the failed examples of TNA being funny) if there has to be a drinking title, shouldn't the winner be decided in a "drinking" contest instead of a "wrestling" match.
I think Awesome Kong is just...awesome. Her look is different from the other women on the TNA roster (since she dwarfs them all) and watching her just destroy her opponents in the ring is disturbingly fun to watch.
The Angle/Nash match was as boring as I thought it would be.
2/28 ROH Video Wire:
~ROH released the latest edition of their video wire. It focused on events surrounding the 2/23 show in Manhattan.
Here's what happens:
-After successfully defending their ROH tag team titles against Jigsaw & Ruckus, tag champs Davey Richards and Rocky Romero, are challenged by Kevin Steen & El Generico. Just as Steen and Generico approach the ring, Richards and Romero run away.
-Julius Smokes, Jigsaw & Ruckus' manager, is very upset that they lost their match for the ROH Tag Team Titles and puts all the blame on Jigsaw not being motivated. Smokes tells Jigsaw to get rid of his mask so everyone can see if he's passionate in the ring or not. Jigsaw says he has to think about it.
-The Age of the Fall continue to try and recruit Austin Aries for their group. Before he can answer, Tammy Sytch comes out and tells Aries to join her instead. Aries says he has to think about it.
-Nigel McGuinness says he doesn't care what anyone says, he'll be ROH World Champion forever...that's not exactly what he says but it was pretty similar.
-Jigsaw finally caves in to peer pressure and takes off his mask.
I'm not really too sure where ROH is going with the whole maskless Jigsaw angle but I'm very interested in finding out. I don't think he and Ruckus will be tag champions anytime soon but. it would be pretty hard to imagine them getting squashed by all the other tag teams after so much effort was put into establishing a fresh start for them.
I'm also interested in finding out how this Aries/AOTF angle is going to end. I think Aries will end up siding with Tammy Sytch and try to take down the AOTF.
I thought Nigel McGuinness delivered a short but sweet promo continuing his heel turn that started during his ROH World Title defence against Bryan Danielson. ROH recently had an article up on their website furthering the angle by saying McGuinness has turned his back on the fans. I think McGuinness as a bad guy is a great thing. In the past, he proved to be a pretty good heel and, like Jigsaw, the turn provides him with a fresh start as ROH World Champion.
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