4/24 TNA Impact Results

~Last week on Impact, Awesome Kong successfully defends her TNA Women's title against Roxxi Leveaux, The TNA Tag Team Titles are declared vacant by TNA Management Director, Jim Cornette, Petey Williams wins the TNA X-Division title over Jay Lethal and Kurt Angle challenges Samoa Joe to a rematch for the TNA World Title on this episode.


-The show starts with Matt Morgan jumping Kip James for no clear reason.


-Booker T comes out to the ring and calls out Sting and tells him that he had Sting all wrong and that he was sorry.


-James Storm and Robert Roode interrupt the lovefest and they challenge Booker and Sting to a match.


-Cornette comes out and says he makes the rules in TNA and announces the "Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament" to crown new TNA Tag Team Champions. It'll consist of 8 teams, 4 matches and the winners go to Sacrifice, the next TNA PPV event. At Sacrifice, he will take 4 regular tag teams and 8 singles wrestlers to make 4 more teams and it will be a surprise who tags together. The winners of the tournament at Sacrifice will be the new tag team champions.


-AJ Styles says he doesn't care what Jim Cornette says, he and Tomko are still the tag team champions. He then sneaks Karen Angle, his and Kurt Angle's wife, into the arena.


-Team 3D beats Black Reign & Rellik in a Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament Qualifying Match.


-The TNA Knockouts go crazy.


-Kurt Angle, rocking the towel on his head, says he's ready for Samoa Joe.


-Eric Young denies that he's SUPER Eric. Silly rabbit...


-Christian Cage & Rhino defeat Chris Sabin & Alex Shelley in a Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament Qualifying Match.


-Jim Cornette calls out all the TNA knockouts. Once the women are all out to the ring, he announces that they all (minus Awesome Kong) will compete in a match at Sacrifice that will start as an over-the-top-rope battle royal and when it gets down to the final two women, the match will change to a ladder match. The winner gets a shot at Awesome Kong for the TNA Women's Title and the loser of that match will get their head shaved. Wonderful.


-Booker T & Sting beat Robert Roode & James Storm.


-Kurt finds AJ Styles and "their" wife, Karen and tells them to get lost.


-TNA World Champion, Samoa Joe, defeats Kurt Angle and retains his title.


-Scott Steiner, the #1 contender for the TNA World Title, comes out and starts some stuff with Joe.


-Cornette comes out for the millionth time and announces Samoa Joe vs. Scott Steiner vs. Kurt Angle for the TNA World Title at Sacrifice.


I thought that this match on Impact would be Angle's last change at the belt, that's what they were saying all night. So, why is he getting another shot at the belt? I like Joe vs. Angle but my goodness, give me something new already.

I just can't help but think TNA is just having a tournament just to have a tournament. Weren't LAX the #1 contenders for the tag team titles after Destination X? When did they get their title shots? I'll tell you when, they never got them. There is really no reason to have the tournament because they could have just had AJ Styles and Tomko get beat by a team and have them keep the belts, that makes more sense to me.

The women's match where the loser gets their head shaved has got to be one of the dumbest gimmick matches I have heard in a while. Just. Completely. Stupid.



No Petey Williams or Canadian Destroyer on this episode.

No explaination is given as to why Matt Morgan killed Kip James, which makes no sense. However, I did find the beatdown at the beginning of the show to be pretty funny. Calling James "old man" while he beat on him was just icing on the cake.


TNA showed a SWEET video package focusing on Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe. I didn't like the announcer screaming the whole time but it was still good stuff.



Speaking of Kurt Angle, he sure knows how to speak to a woman.



Damnit!! The Motor City Machineguns never, EVER, win.

Latest ROH Videowire, 4/3 TNA Impact Results

4/2 ROH Videowire


~Ring of Honor released their latest edition of the videowire fresh off their two shows in Orlando during Wrestlemania weekend.


Here's what happens:

-Erick Stevens and Roderick Strong going back and forth elbowing each other in the face during their brawl on 3/29. You'll have to watch to see who wins.

-ROH advertises some new DVDs available.

-Roderick Strong, Davey Richards and Rocky Romero (The No Remorse Corps.) cut off Erick Stevens' mohawk.

-Kevin Steen talks about his Last Man Standing match with the Necro Butcher at the next ROH event on 4/11 in Boston and his upcoming ROH World Title shot against ROH champ, Nigel McGuinness the following night in 4/12. He says he'll be the most unlikely ROH champion ever. I'd have to agree.

-Footage is shown of Austin Aries joining the Age of the Fall and the Briscoes saving Tammy Sytch from an AOTF beatdown.

I'm really interested to see where ROH goes with this Austin Aries/AOTF thing. Aries is already such an established character/wrestler in ROH that he really doesn't need the Age of the Fall to stand out (which is why I was hoping he would side with Tammy Sytch). So there are three possible things that could happen here:

1) Aries' inclusion will help bolster the ranks of the AOTF and they become the strongest group in ROH.

2) A power struggle will begin between Austin Aries and Jimmy Jacobs, the AOTF's leader, will begin.

3) Well...I actually don't have a third senerio. But the point is, I want to see where ROH is taking this.

I don't know why but I laughed watching the No Remorse Corps. cut off Erick Stevens' mohawk.

Kevin Steen will probably win the Last Man Standing match and then have a great showing but will ultimately lose to Nigel McGuinness the next night. I just don't see McGuinness losing the belt anytime soon, especially not to Kevin Steen.

4/3 TNA Impact Results


~TNA's next PPV, Lockdown, is next Sunday...anyway here's what went down:


-The show starts with TNA Management Director, Jim Cornette, yelling at his assistant or security guard or whatever his title is, Matt Morgan. Cornette reveals that he completely went off on Morgan because his "assistant" went behind his back and made the 4-on-4 lethal lockdown match between Team Cage (Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, Rhino & Sting) and Team Tomko (TNA Tag Team Champions, AJ Styles & Tomko and Team 3D), a 5-on-4 match by allowing James Storm, who last seen falling to his "doom" at Destination X, to join Team Tomko.


-Team Tomko comes down to the ring and gloat about having an extra team member. Then "Cowboy" James Storm comes down to the ring and joins his new team.


-Team Cage (rocking rather stupid "Team Cage" t-shirts) come out, say some stuff and call out Matt Morgan to explain himself. However, when Morgan comes out, he starts high-fiving the members of Team Tomko (which doesn't look to good for Team Cage). Christian Cage says he doesn't care about the odds and that he's got an "ace" up his sleeve.


-TNA World Champion, Kurt Angle is doing an interview but then Eric Young interrupts and says "Super" Eric is in the building. Angle says he's the only superhero around.


-Hernandez & Homicide (LAX) and Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin (The Motor City Machineguns) beat Jimmy Rave & Lance Hoyt (The Rock N' Rave Infection) and Rellik & Black Reign in an 8-man tag match.


-After the match, Rellik & Black Reign beat down everybody until...


- "Super" Eric comes out of nowhere and cleans house.


-James Storm reveals that he attacked Sting last week because he doesn't respect him.


-Tomko & AJ Styles beat Christian Cage & Rhino after Rhino attacks the referee during the match, which is a no-no.

-Matt Morgan says he'll be the guest referee in the Sting vs. James Storm match in the show's main event.


-Shark Boy beats Elix Skipper (where the hell has he been?) to qualifies for the Xscape Match for the TNA X-Division Title at Lockdown.


-Curry Man dances.


-Traci Brooks defeats Peyton Banks.


-After the match, most of the Women's roster comes out and everybody is fighting until...


-Sharmell comes out with The Strap and clears the ring.


-They show another Samoa Joe training video. Bad Ass.


-Kurt Angle (rocking a suit and dress shoes) comes down to the ring and announces that next week he wants Samoa Joe to sign a contract that states if he doesn't pin or submit Angle at Lockdown, that he'll quit wrestling forever.


-Scott Steiner comes out and interrupts Kurt Angle (it seems he's getting that a lot tonight) and says he's coming for a TNA World Title shot after Lockdown for the next TNA PPV in May, Sacrifice. Steiner says he'll be getting ready for Samoa Joe because he doesn't think Angle is gonna retain the TNA World Title at Lockdown.


-Matt Morgan is talking about money with Jim Cornette and says at Lockdown, they should have a "Queen of the Cage" match. The way the match would work is all the women on the TNA roster (except Awesome Kong, Gail Kim, ODB, Peyton Banks and Sharmell, who all have other matches to be in) on the outside of a cage and then they have to fight each other to get in. The first two to get in are in the match and then the winner is determined by pinfall or submission, so it's a reverse battle royal. Cornette says Morgan is crazy and Morgan leaves to get ready to ref the Sting/Storm match. After his assistant is gone, Cornette repeats the idea as if it was his thought. Wow.




-Sting and James Storm are in the middle of a match, right, so then in the middle of the match, Storm picks up Sting's baseball bat. Matt Morgan, the special guest referee, takes the bat away...and tosses it to Sting. He then looks away as Sting beats Storm with the bat and picks up the win. INJUSTICE!!!!


-Team Tomko is none too happy about what Morgan did and the group comes down to the ring and gets in the guest referee's face.


-He's not having it and lays them all out.


-Then Morgan reveals that he's wearing one of those goofy "Team Cage" t-shirts, meaning that he will be the fifth member of Team Cage at Lockdown.

I found that segment with Kurt Angle and Eric Young was funny. He's still denying that he and "Super" Eric are the same person.



Rhino taking out that referee was also funny stuff, he should do it every match.



An easy payday for Elix Skipper. Show up for the first time in a few months, move around a little bit, then lay down for three seconds. Sounds like a great career.

"Super" Eric RETURNS~!



Every week, a bigger and bigger fan of LAX and their matches. I really hope they get the tag belts soon. By the way, Hernandez is no longer refered to as the "Mexican Superman", he's now "Super-Mex". I know, "Mexican Superman" sounded WAAAYYY better.



Sharmell, I think it's time to but The Strap away.

No Canadian Destroyer again from Petey Williams. He actually wasn't even in a match this week, instead he was hanging off the hood of a speeding car. Why? Just because he can.



I'm hyped for that Samoa Joe/Kurt Angle match at Lockdown! That promo Samoa Joe gave near the end of his training video...awesome.



I'm also hyped about Matt Morgan's in-ring debut at Lockdown. I thought he looked very impressive tossing everyone around at the end of the show.