TNA Impact Wrap Up 5-29-08
May 31st 2008 12:07
The Beautiful People Angelina Love & Velvet Sky
TNA Impact from The Impact Zone 5-29-08
The show started off with news that A.J. Styles has news for us later in the night.
Now, we pick up where we left off last week, Team 3D and Booker T coming out to the ring. Brother Ray did all the talking. Explaining how they are the bad guys, and since Tomko is getting ready for his match later in the night and Kurt Angle is in Hollywood "filming his next project", that he, Devon and Booker will be the bad guys for now. Then he ponders "Are we really the bad guys or is it this man?" Down comes a big picture of the Phenomenal One A.J. Styles, it is a copy of the card that will be part of a series of trading card coming out soon. He then went on to call Styles among other things, a wife stealer, and a home wrecker. Then Booker spoke up about how he is royalty, and went on to whine about things he was promised when he came to TNA, and what he got instead. He went on to say how at King of the Mountain he would make everyone bow down and kiss his royal feet. Luckily as soon as Devon got the mic and started talking about Hector Guerrerro and LAX, their music started and they headed down the aisle. Hector did all the talking for them and explained how they now have a match at Slammiversary against Team 3D. then they headed to the ring, but before they got anywhere Christian Cage's new tweaked entrance music started. Out came the Instant Classic and Rhino. Christian told Booker that his past doesn't matter, and he doesn't care if he is a five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time WCW Champion, and that nothing will matter till he becomes the TNA World Champion. Out next comes Samoa Joe in the crowd with a mic, his comments were directed mainly toward Booker T. In the end he invited Christian, Rhino, and LAX to join him in the ring to and put their differences aside and "stomp these clowns worse than they did to A.J. last week". This sent Team 3D and Booker running up the ramp, but A.J. came up behind them with a steel chair. He hit Devon across the back with it, then jabbed it into Ray's ribs, and finally swung it at Booker's head, but missed. He then charged at Brother Ray throwing punches and knocking him down.
Then back to JB with Karen Angle who was invited to the show by A.J., but she has no idea why.
Back from the break...and now almost 25 minutes into the show,
And to the back with Lauren for an interview. With her are Black Machismo Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, So Cal Val, and American Idol finalist Ace Young. Ace is there to announce he will be performing at their wedding at the Slammiversary pay-per-view. As they walked off to the ring for their match Lauren began to follow, but was stopped by Awesome Kong reaching out and grabbing her by the hair. Kong wanted to point out she was going to beat up another American in the crowd tonight.
First match of the night,
Black Machismo Jay Lethal & Sonjay Dutt vs. The Rock N Rave Infection (The bell finally rings on the first match at 29 minutes into the show.)
Not only is Ace Young at ringside, Hermie Sadler is there as guest commentator. Lance Hoyt takes control briefly, then tags in Jimmy Rave, this is when Jay Lethal takes over. This didn't last long either as Dutt and Lethal have a discussion in the ring, Hoyt came up with a big boot to the back of Dutt's head. The infectious disea..I mean Infection was now solidly in control. Lethal tried to takeover but was tripped from the outside by Christy Hemme while bouncing off the ropes, right after that Hoyt hit the ropes and Ace Young tripped him. Lethal would then get the pin on Rave.
Winner: Black Machismo Jay Lethal & Sonjay Dutt
As Dutt went to leave the ring Lethal told him to get back in the ring because he has something to ask him. It starts off sounding like he was gonna ask him if he is jealous of the relationship, but instead he just wanted a yes to his question he asked last week about Sonjay being his best man. Sonjay said yes. Then it was time for Ace's surprise. His surprise was a music video starring Jay and Val.
Back to Lauren with Angelina Love and Velvet Sky. They put a paper bag over Lauren's head and said they will do that to all the TNA Knockouts. After that it got a bit annoying.
Angelina Love vs. Roxxi (Apparently they shortened her name now.)
Roxxi took control right away and just kept pounding on her. She then chased after Velvet, but was hit with a clothesline from Love. Love would hit a big boot, then get a two count, then throw a tantrum on the ring mat. As Love charged her Roxxi hit her with a fall away slam, then a series of clothesline and a discuss forearm. Velvet Sky distracted her again, but was knocked to the floor this time. Roxxi would try for the Voo-Doo Drop but Love raised a knee to her face to put a stop to that. Love would distract the ref while Sky sprayed something in Roxxi's eyes. Love then hit her with a face buster and the pin.
Winner: Angelina Love
They ended it by putting a paper bag over her head and through in a few kicks for good measure. At this point ODB and an injured Gail Kim on crutches headed to the ring. Halfway down the ramp ODB grabbed one crutch out from under Kim and charged the ring.
Jim Cornette in the back with JB to scream at him about Kong wrestling the fan last week. JB then took out a piece of paper to show him the ratings had soared during the Kong match. Cornette then OK'd another Kong vs. fan match as long as "the clueless putzes sign a release form". In came Booker T and 3D to do more complaining about his dressing room. Cornette headed off to the ring.
Back form the break...
Time to check in with Eric Young in Memphis searching for Elvis at Sun Studios... To Be Continued at Graceland next week.
Cornette in the ring with "updated information" for the King of the Mountain PPV. Newly signed matches, A.J. Styles vs. Kurt Angle, and Team 3D vs. LAX. Before he left the ring out came Kevin Nash. Big Sexy ends up making a deal with Cornette that he will go remove Booker and Team 3D from his office in exchange for being the special guest enforcer in the King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary.
Now another video from Abyss. The doctors are releasing him in ten days. Which just happens to be June 8th, the day of the Slammiversary PPV.
One hour and five minutes into the show, two matches. Next Kong vs. fan.
Awesome Kong vs. Leeva Bates
Awesome Kong dominated and won, what a shock.
Winner: Awesome Kong
Note: Last weeks's fan was actually a student at Team 3D's wrestling school. I am sure Leeva Bates is in a similar situation.
Now to Cornette's office where 3D and Booker are talking to JB. In walks Nash to evict them. He gets the job done with his "buddy Louis", a baseball bat he pulls from his shirt.
King of the Mountain Qualifier Match - Rhino vs. James Storm
As they are showing a video history of Rhino vs. James Storm a fight between them breaks out in the back. Rhino is hitting him with everything in sight. Storm turned it around after Jackie hit Rhino with a shovel from behind. Security comes to try and break it up, it didn't work. After the break they are fighting their way down the ramp toward the ring. Rhino would hit a suplex on the metal ramp. Finally they got to the ring and heard the starting bell. Things went back and forth a bit. After another break Rhino had taken control. As he went for the Gore, Storm sidestepped it and hit him with the Last Call (superkick). Rhino went to the floor, Storm and Jackie had to lift him back into the ring for a pin and a two count. Storm then tried for another Last Call but missed, and Rhino hit the Gore this time and then got the three count.
Winner: Rhino
To JB interviewing Tomko, about A.J. and his match with Christian coming up next. Tomko wrapped up his comments by saying, "how does he say it? If you don't know... you know what, screw it! Christian, you're just dead!"
King of the Mountain Qualifier Match - Tomko vs. Christian Cage
Tomko would jump Christian from behind while he was in the middle of his ring entrance. Tomko took control with his power and blocked every bit of offense Cage tried to mount. Back from the break, Tomko hit Christian with a powerslam and got a two count. Tomko continued to overpower Christian at every turn. He hit him with a delayed suplex and went for the pin, another two count. Then he put him up on the ropes in the corner and went for a kick. Cage blocked it and hit a Tornado DDT to turn the tide. He then hit an inverted DDT, and went to top for the finisher, but Tomko moved out of the way. Tomko then hit a clothesline and got another two count. Christian went for the Unprettier but Tomko reversed it, then Christian reversed it, then Tomko hit him with a big chokeslam. Christian kicked out again. Tomko would put him in the corner and start pounding on him, but Cage power bombed him out of the corner and went for the pin, just a two count again. Tomko would get him up into a back breaker, and then tossed him from his shoulders into a neck breaker. A few more reversals followed, then Cage hit the Unprettier, followed by the three count.
Winner: Christian Cage
Now to the back with JB, A.J. and Karen to hear A.J.'s news. He wants to do it in the ring. Before the commercial we see Kurt Angle is actually in the building and not in Hollywood. Karen comes out to ring, then A.J.'s music starts, but we see no A.J.. To the back where Kurt is beating on him. After he lays A.J. out Angle heads to the ring to confront Karen. He was telling her to tell the world how she ruined their marriage, how she cheated on him with A.J. like a prostitute. He got slapped across the face as he was about to call her a whore. This angered Kurt who then took off his suit jacket. That was just enough time for A.J. to get to ringside. Styles landed punch after punch followed by stomping on Angle. Then Team 3D, Tomko, and Booker T all rushed to the ring. Angle would then put the ankle lock on him. Just when it looked like it would be a replay of last week, down came Christian Cage to help. He was overpowered quickly with the numbers being 5-2. For a second week in a row the five of them were left standing victorious in the ring at the end of the show.
This week they got in the same as last week, four matches plus the Kong vs. fan thing. Total match time equaled less than 18-20 minutes of the two hour program. Not to mention that we have seen all four of these matches at least once before. The biggest drama in the show just might have been whether or not Eric Young was actually going to find Elvis this week. They are going to have to make some changes for the better if they expect their two hour weekly commercial for their next PPV to keep getting ratings.
Also, while I was looking for the proper spelling of Leeva Bates I found something strange. WWE.com actually had a post with the Impact match results, and it didn't look like in the past when one company or the other would give away results from the other show before it aired.
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