Tonight's episode of Impact Wrestling is coming up soon, and I'd like to talk about what we can expect, and what I hope will happen. Of course after Sting beat RVD at the PPV, we now know that it will be Sting vs Mr Anderson at Slammaversary. What an epic matchup that will be, one of the top stars of our day vs one of the top stars of all time! Definitely should be something special, and before that happens we've potentially got weeks worth of awesome promos from these two awesome Superstars! Its definitely Showtime folks!
On the Knockouts side, now that Mickie James has successfully defended her Title against Madison Rayne at the PPV, freeing Tara from her contract with Madison in the process, what's next for her? Will she possibly team up with Tara to go after the Knockouts Tag Team Gold? Or will someone step up to challenge her for her Knockouts Title? Inquiring minds want to know :) !
Of course when you talk about the Knockouts, you have to mention the #1 storyline in all of wrestling today, the fascinating and unpredictable storyline with Winter, Angelina Love, and Velvet Sky! When last we saw these powerful Superstars, we learned that Winter was, in fact, a time traveller, and that she had travelled through 'eons of time' to find her long lost love, and that person is of course Angelina. We also learned that the reason that Angelina has been in a zombie-like state recently, is because part of her mind is fighting against the part that contains her memories of her relationship with Winter, so Winter has been giving her pills to help with that. What will happen tonight, and going forward? Will Velvet steal the pills? Would that prevent Angelina from regaining her memories? Or is it truly just a matter of time until Angelina remembers everything, and fully embraces Winter once again? It's impossible to know where on earth this storyilne is headed next, we just have to watch and see!
In other interesting storyline action, I'm definitely interested to find out how Bully Ray has managed to get Tommy Dreamer to do as he commands, does he have some dirt on Tommy? And how will AJ Styles react to Bully Ray interfering in his match with Tommy Dreamer at the PPV, helping Tommy score the win? It's definitely interesting stuff, I look forward to finding out more!
Of course I would expect more Kurt Angle vs Jeff Jarrett stuff as well, gotta assume they're gonna build up to one final big match between the two at Slammaversary, presumably the last one of the feud. I don't know if we will see Chyna or Karen much anymore. After Chyna was so impressive at the PPV, you gotta figure she could stick around if she wants to, maybe have a match with Mickie even at some point. Now THAT would be an Epic match! The best womens wrestler from 10 years or so ago, vs the best womens wrestler of today and of all time! Make it happen TNA :) !
So all kinds of potential for awesomeness tonight, I'm really looking forward to tonight's episode of Impact Wrestling!
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Sunday, May 15, 2011
TNA Sacrifice Review
Tonight's TNA PPV was Fan-Tastic! It started off hot, spicy hot, with Sarita and Rosita! They weren't actually wrestling tonight, but they helped the team they were with score a victory. Then the action picked up with Jeff and Karen Jarrett coming to the ring claiming that Karen was injured and couldn't compete tonight! However Mick Foley, the Network Representative, said he had seen the 'X-Ray' that supposedly showed Karen was hurt, and that it was in fact the X-Ray of someone six and a half feet tall, and male! The gig was up, and Karen took off her ankle-brace and threw it at Mick in frustration. The match was still on!
Eventually we got to the first big match of the night, Mickie James vs Madison Rayne for the TNA Knockouts Championship, with Tara's Freedom on the line! Tara acted conflicted all night, on the one hand she had been with Madison a long time, but on the other hand she did want her freedom. At one point the ref got knocked down, and Madison went for her loaded glove, but after she put it on Tara grabbed her arm and took it off! That looked to be the end, but Madison managed to counter an attempted Mickie-D-T, so the match continued. Eventually the referee got knocked down a second time, this time when Mickie went for the Mickie-D-T, Tara came into the ring and stopped her! This led to both women trying to get Tara to attack the other. Madison at one point got on her knees and begged Tara. It seemed she had convinced her, Tara moved toward Mickie as if to attack her, but then suddenly turned and knocked Madison out, with her own loaded glove! Tara then went and revived the referee as a shocked Mickie covered for the 1 2 3 ! Your winner, and STILL Knockout Champion, the greatest womens wrestler of all time, Mickie James! She keeps her Title, and wins Tara's freedom in the process!
There were some other, less important matches, notable was Tommy Dreamer defeating AJ Styles thanks to interference from Bully Ray, and Abyss losing once again to Crimson. Abyss used to be a Main Eventer, now he's losing repeatedly to a total unknown, AND he lost a number of his teeth in a recent match with RVD, things just aren't going his way right now! Also, Beer Money retained their Tag Team Titles against Matt Hardy and Chris Harris. Finally things picked up bigtime with the penultimate match, featuring the Jarretts vs Kurt Angle and the Eighth Wonder of the World, Chyna!
The crowd was VERY hot for Chyna, chanting 'we want Chyna' the majority of the match. Of course she didn't really get involved until near the end, as the first time she tagged in Jeff Jarrett quickly escaped the ring, and didn't come back until he could wrestle Kurt instead. Finally near the end Chyna
again got tagged in, and laid into Jeff bigtime, first with a body slam and then a mighty suplex! This put Double J out of commission for a while, and allowed her to go after Karen! Karen ran for a while, but eventually Kurt was able to block her escape, allowing Chyna to have her way with her! First she gave her a splash in the corner, then hit her with a BIGTIME Pedigree! Then Chyna and Kurt put Karen and Jeff into simultaneous Ankle-Locks, with Karen tapping out and Chyna getting the win in her historic in-ring return!!
That left only the Main Event match, the World Championship match between the challenger RVD, and the Champion Sting! And what an awesome Main Event it was! Back and forth awesome in-ring action, eventually spilling outside the ring and into the crowd! At one point somebody yelled something like 'leave him alone Sting!' which I personally found quite hilarious. They battled back and forth, both men are still so awesome, this could easily have been a Wrestlemania Main Event match if these great Superstars were in the WWE, eventually they made their way back to the ring after an extended brawl outside it. Back in the ring, eventually RVD went for his 5-Star Frog Splash, but Sting managed to roll out of the way. Sting went for the Scorpion Death Drop, but it seemed that RVD Countered, however Sting went for it again and hit it cleanly, scoring the 1 2 3 and retaining his World Title!
The highlights of the night were exactly what you'd expect, Mickie's Title match with Tara's freedom on the line, the Jarrets vs Angle and Chyna (with Mick Foley showing up making things even more awesome), and the World Title match. Its hard to say which of those three matches were the best, I'm going to call it a 3 way tie, as each match could easily be called the Match of the Night! Each was so awesome in its own unique way, certainly from a pure-wrestling standpoint you'd probably give it to the World Title match, as there was so much awesomely entertaining drama involved in the other matches. From an entertainment standpoint, which is what really matters, all three were so awesome. So a bigtime night of TNA action, and super duper awesomeness! The only sad part was that, just like Thursday, no Winterlina. But there was a TON of awesomeness tonight, so I'm giving this PPV Two Thumbs Up!
Eventually we got to the first big match of the night, Mickie James vs Madison Rayne for the TNA Knockouts Championship, with Tara's Freedom on the line! Tara acted conflicted all night, on the one hand she had been with Madison a long time, but on the other hand she did want her freedom. At one point the ref got knocked down, and Madison went for her loaded glove, but after she put it on Tara grabbed her arm and took it off! That looked to be the end, but Madison managed to counter an attempted Mickie-D-T, so the match continued. Eventually the referee got knocked down a second time, this time when Mickie went for the Mickie-D-T, Tara came into the ring and stopped her! This led to both women trying to get Tara to attack the other. Madison at one point got on her knees and begged Tara. It seemed she had convinced her, Tara moved toward Mickie as if to attack her, but then suddenly turned and knocked Madison out, with her own loaded glove! Tara then went and revived the referee as a shocked Mickie covered for the 1 2 3 ! Your winner, and STILL Knockout Champion, the greatest womens wrestler of all time, Mickie James! She keeps her Title, and wins Tara's freedom in the process!
There were some other, less important matches, notable was Tommy Dreamer defeating AJ Styles thanks to interference from Bully Ray, and Abyss losing once again to Crimson. Abyss used to be a Main Eventer, now he's losing repeatedly to a total unknown, AND he lost a number of his teeth in a recent match with RVD, things just aren't going his way right now! Also, Beer Money retained their Tag Team Titles against Matt Hardy and Chris Harris. Finally things picked up bigtime with the penultimate match, featuring the Jarretts vs Kurt Angle and the Eighth Wonder of the World, Chyna!
The crowd was VERY hot for Chyna, chanting 'we want Chyna' the majority of the match. Of course she didn't really get involved until near the end, as the first time she tagged in Jeff Jarrett quickly escaped the ring, and didn't come back until he could wrestle Kurt instead. Finally near the end Chyna
again got tagged in, and laid into Jeff bigtime, first with a body slam and then a mighty suplex! This put Double J out of commission for a while, and allowed her to go after Karen! Karen ran for a while, but eventually Kurt was able to block her escape, allowing Chyna to have her way with her! First she gave her a splash in the corner, then hit her with a BIGTIME Pedigree! Then Chyna and Kurt put Karen and Jeff into simultaneous Ankle-Locks, with Karen tapping out and Chyna getting the win in her historic in-ring return!!
That left only the Main Event match, the World Championship match between the challenger RVD, and the Champion Sting! And what an awesome Main Event it was! Back and forth awesome in-ring action, eventually spilling outside the ring and into the crowd! At one point somebody yelled something like 'leave him alone Sting!' which I personally found quite hilarious. They battled back and forth, both men are still so awesome, this could easily have been a Wrestlemania Main Event match if these great Superstars were in the WWE, eventually they made their way back to the ring after an extended brawl outside it. Back in the ring, eventually RVD went for his 5-Star Frog Splash, but Sting managed to roll out of the way. Sting went for the Scorpion Death Drop, but it seemed that RVD Countered, however Sting went for it again and hit it cleanly, scoring the 1 2 3 and retaining his World Title!
The highlights of the night were exactly what you'd expect, Mickie's Title match with Tara's freedom on the line, the Jarrets vs Angle and Chyna (with Mick Foley showing up making things even more awesome), and the World Title match. Its hard to say which of those three matches were the best, I'm going to call it a 3 way tie, as each match could easily be called the Match of the Night! Each was so awesome in its own unique way, certainly from a pure-wrestling standpoint you'd probably give it to the World Title match, as there was so much awesomely entertaining drama involved in the other matches. From an entertainment standpoint, which is what really matters, all three were so awesome. So a bigtime night of TNA action, and super duper awesomeness! The only sad part was that, just like Thursday, no Winterlina. But there was a TON of awesomeness tonight, so I'm giving this PPV Two Thumbs Up!
Friday, May 13, 2011
TNA Impact Wrestling Review
Last night's episode of TNA Impact, now 'Impact Wrestling', was really awesome! I hope everybody saw it, I wrote a Preview last night but couldn't post it here due to the technical problems the site had. So much awesomeness on last night's show, I don't know where to begin! Last night the 'Network Representative' was revealed, as well as Kurt Angle's mystery female partner for Sunday's Mixed Tag match, and boy oh boy were both revelations shocking and awesome!
Let's start with the Network Representative. After weeks of wondering, finally it was revealed that the person who had been making Hulk Hogan and Immortal's life miserable, giving Sting that Title match against Jeff Hardy that led to him becoming Champion, and so much more, was none other than...epic Superstar and hardcore legend Mick Foley! Yes wrestling fans, one of the greatest Superstars of all time is BACK, and he's in charge of TNA! Or should I say....he's in charge of Impact Wrestling, because his first act upon revealing himself as the Network Representative, was change the name of the show, from TNA Impact to Impact Wrestling! Because, as Mick said repeatedly last night, it's about Wrestling. This of course isn't just a smart move, putting the word wrestling in the Title so people who like wrestling know to tune in, but its of course a not so subtle shot at the WWE, who has recently gone so far as to literally ban the word wrestling from their TV shows. For some reason the WWE doesn't want to be associated with the word wrestling (much the same way that KFC doesn't want to be associated with the words 'fried chicken', even though that's what they're famous for), so the folks at TNA decided that now was a better time than ever to be associated with the word wrestling, and they're right.
But the return of the hardcore legend, as incredible and awesome as that was, wasn't the only awesome return we witnessed last night, as Mick introduced Kurt Angle's tag team partner for Sunday's Mixed Tag match against Jeff and Karen Jarrett. That tag team partner is none other than.....the Eighth Wonder of the World, Chyna!! Can you believe it? Chyna is back, and despite all the years she's been gone, she is seriously looking better than EVER! A truly historic moment in wrestling, as both the Hardcore Legend AND the Eighth Wonder of the World make their returns to wrestling TV, and it's on Impact Wrestling! So the match is now official, it's going to be Jeff Jarrett and his wife Karen vs Kurt Angle and Chyna! I dare say that Chyna could defeat them both all by herself :) . Having the Olympic Gold Medalist as her partner makes this a very one-sided, but super fun, matchup indeed!
Of course as amazing as all that was, there is more fun to report on from last night as well. The 7 Time Women's Champion, Mickie James, was in Tag Team action with Miss Tessmacher, the up and coming Knockout, against Madison and Tara (Victoria from the WWE). Mickie and Tara started it off, but they're friends now so Tara eventually tagged in Madison, who Mickie owned for a while. Eventually Mickie tagged in Miss Tessmacher, who scored the pin with her impressive looking 'Victory Roll', and the dissention between Madison and Tara continued. We'll find out at the PPV Sunday, during Mickie and Madison's Title match, whether that dissention is real and it leads to a breakup, or whether it's all an act designed to trick Mickie and cost Mickie her Title Sunday. That's going to be very interesting to find out.
Finally, if you thought the night couldn't get any more awesome, you'd be wrong, how about a 25 Man Battle Royal awesome! How about the Battle Royal is for the #1 Contenders spot at Slammaversary, which is I think, the PPV after Sunday's PPV! That means that the winner of Sunday's PPV Main Event for the World Title, between Sting and RVD, will face the winner of the Battle Royal at the Slammaversary PPV, which I assume is the next one. It was a long and awesome Battle Royal, ultimately coming down to Bully Ray (better known as Bubba Ray, one half of the Dudley Boys Tag Team) and Mr Anderson (previously Mr Kennedy in the WWE). After some really good back and forth action, Mr Anderson eventually got the win, and FINALLY won the right to have the one on one Championship Match that he's wanted for so long!
So an epicly awesome Impact last night, sadly no Winterlina (Winter and Angelina) after last week's revelation that Winter has actually travelled through time to find Angelina, her long lost love, but that was pretty much the only thing missing from this otherwise SUPER loaded show, just amazingly awesome. The Hardcore Legend is back! The Eighth Wonder of the World is back! And they're only on Impact Wrestling, so don't miss it Sunday, and don't miss it next week! Impact Wrestling, it's Fan-Tastic!
Let's start with the Network Representative. After weeks of wondering, finally it was revealed that the person who had been making Hulk Hogan and Immortal's life miserable, giving Sting that Title match against Jeff Hardy that led to him becoming Champion, and so much more, was none other than...epic Superstar and hardcore legend Mick Foley! Yes wrestling fans, one of the greatest Superstars of all time is BACK, and he's in charge of TNA! Or should I say....he's in charge of Impact Wrestling, because his first act upon revealing himself as the Network Representative, was change the name of the show, from TNA Impact to Impact Wrestling! Because, as Mick said repeatedly last night, it's about Wrestling. This of course isn't just a smart move, putting the word wrestling in the Title so people who like wrestling know to tune in, but its of course a not so subtle shot at the WWE, who has recently gone so far as to literally ban the word wrestling from their TV shows. For some reason the WWE doesn't want to be associated with the word wrestling (much the same way that KFC doesn't want to be associated with the words 'fried chicken', even though that's what they're famous for), so the folks at TNA decided that now was a better time than ever to be associated with the word wrestling, and they're right.
But the return of the hardcore legend, as incredible and awesome as that was, wasn't the only awesome return we witnessed last night, as Mick introduced Kurt Angle's tag team partner for Sunday's Mixed Tag match against Jeff and Karen Jarrett. That tag team partner is none other than.....the Eighth Wonder of the World, Chyna!! Can you believe it? Chyna is back, and despite all the years she's been gone, she is seriously looking better than EVER! A truly historic moment in wrestling, as both the Hardcore Legend AND the Eighth Wonder of the World make their returns to wrestling TV, and it's on Impact Wrestling! So the match is now official, it's going to be Jeff Jarrett and his wife Karen vs Kurt Angle and Chyna! I dare say that Chyna could defeat them both all by herself :) . Having the Olympic Gold Medalist as her partner makes this a very one-sided, but super fun, matchup indeed!
Of course as amazing as all that was, there is more fun to report on from last night as well. The 7 Time Women's Champion, Mickie James, was in Tag Team action with Miss Tessmacher, the up and coming Knockout, against Madison and Tara (Victoria from the WWE). Mickie and Tara started it off, but they're friends now so Tara eventually tagged in Madison, who Mickie owned for a while. Eventually Mickie tagged in Miss Tessmacher, who scored the pin with her impressive looking 'Victory Roll', and the dissention between Madison and Tara continued. We'll find out at the PPV Sunday, during Mickie and Madison's Title match, whether that dissention is real and it leads to a breakup, or whether it's all an act designed to trick Mickie and cost Mickie her Title Sunday. That's going to be very interesting to find out.
Finally, if you thought the night couldn't get any more awesome, you'd be wrong, how about a 25 Man Battle Royal awesome! How about the Battle Royal is for the #1 Contenders spot at Slammaversary, which is I think, the PPV after Sunday's PPV! That means that the winner of Sunday's PPV Main Event for the World Title, between Sting and RVD, will face the winner of the Battle Royal at the Slammaversary PPV, which I assume is the next one. It was a long and awesome Battle Royal, ultimately coming down to Bully Ray (better known as Bubba Ray, one half of the Dudley Boys Tag Team) and Mr Anderson (previously Mr Kennedy in the WWE). After some really good back and forth action, Mr Anderson eventually got the win, and FINALLY won the right to have the one on one Championship Match that he's wanted for so long!
So an epicly awesome Impact last night, sadly no Winterlina (Winter and Angelina) after last week's revelation that Winter has actually travelled through time to find Angelina, her long lost love, but that was pretty much the only thing missing from this otherwise SUPER loaded show, just amazingly awesome. The Hardcore Legend is back! The Eighth Wonder of the World is back! And they're only on Impact Wrestling, so don't miss it Sunday, and don't miss it next week! Impact Wrestling, it's Fan-Tastic!
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