TNA iMPACT Report – November 12th, 2009
Report by Richard Trionfo, PWInsider
We start off with a look back at the announcement of the announcement that Hulk Hogan signed with TNA. Then we see the owner’s meeting with the wrestlers.
Mick Foley is with Super Dave Osborne in his office and Mick talks about Dave’s show. Dave mentions that Mick Foley will be on the show on December 1st. Dave says that he doesn’t want to over plug his show. Mick mentions he has a book coming out in 2010 so he needs to be equal on the plugging tasks. Foley says that Dave gets to book one match because Foley only got one sketch on Dave’s show. Mick says that it cannot be a title match and if Knockouts are involved, they have to be dressed appropriately. Mick wants to talk to Jeremy. Foley tells Jeremy to keep an eye on Dave.
Lethal enters and he looks for Hogan and he mentions his Legend’s challenge. Lethal talks about Dave’s role on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lethal says that he wants to know who his opponent is.
Jeremy asks Dave if he follows his tweets and Dave says that he prefers to talk to people.
We are live on tape from Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida and your announcers are Mike ‘When do we move the announce table to the Hulk Coaster’ Tenay and Taz.
Mick Foley comes out and he joins Mike and Taz at the announce table. Mike and Taz mention that Foley was not aware of the Hogan partnership with TNA. Foley says that he did not get the e-mail in a timely fashion.
Match Number One: Dr. Stevie with Daffney versus Abyss
Abyss with a boot to a charging Stevie for a near fall. Abyss misses a charge into the corner but Stevie misses a charge of his own and Abyss gets a near fall with a rollup. Abyss gets Stevie up for Shock Treatment but Stevie gets out of the hold and then he clips Abyss’ knee and connects with elbow drops and a leg drop for a near fall. Stevie with an elbow drop for a near fall. Stevie with a Steviekick for a near fall. Stevie yells at Abyss. Abyss grabs Stevie by the throat but Stevie with a kick. Abyss hits the Black Hole Slam but the lights go out.
The lights go back on and both men are down. Stevie rolls over and he gets the three count.
Winner: Dr. Stevie
After the match, Daffney gives a chair to Stevie. Foley leaves the announce table and he punches Stevie. Foley checks on Abyss and then he goes after Stevie. Foley gets the chair and the lights go out again. There is a flash in the ring and there is a fireball.
The lights go back on and Raven is in the ring and he hits the Evenflow DDT. Security checks on Foley after the fireball while Raven, Stevie, and Daffney pose in the ring.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Raven, Stevie, and Daffney are in the back with Jeremy Borash. Stevie asks Abyss what he didn’t understand. Stevie says that he is here to stay forever in TNA. It was Abyss who wanted to bring the pain. Raven says that the last time Foley got between him and one of his playmates, Terry Funk caught on fire. Now Foley had to burn. Raven says that it is good to be back with Abyss to reminisce about war stories. Raven says that they are going to have so much fun playing in the sandbox. Raven says that there are differences between him and Abyss.
Mike and Taz continue to talk about the Hogan signing and they wonder how the signing will affect Sting. Next week, Sting will be interviewed about Hulk Hogan.
We have a Sting and Hogan video package.
Match Number Two: Alissa Flash versus Traci Brooks
They lock up and Traci with a clean break but Flash chokes Traci in the corner and kicks her arm. Flash with forearms to Traci as she works on the arm. Flash with an elbow to the arm followed by a shoulder breaker for a near fall. Flash with a Flatline and then she slams Traci’s injured arm onto the mat. Alissa with a arm bar and Traci taps.
Winner: Alissa Flash
After the match, Traci attacks Alissa from behind and she takes her to the floor as we hear the bleeps fly. Traci tells Alissa that she is going to kill her.
We see boots walking into commercial.
Match Number Three: Jay Lethal versus Jim Neidhart in a Legend’s Challenge
They lock up and Neidhart with punches followed by a back body drop. Neidhart misses a charge into the corner and Lethal with a double sledge from the top turnbuckle. Lethal with jabs to Neidhart followed by a clothesline but Neidhart hits one as well. Lethal drops Neidhart on the top rope and gets a near fall. Lethal with a running elbow but he misses a second one. Lethal tries for a cross body and Neidhart catches him and hits a power slam for the three count.
Winner: Jim Neidhart
We go to footage from earlier today of Lauren’s interview with Bobby Lashley. Lashley says that Steiner did not have to bring Kristal into this and then he is interrupted by someone from production and he is told that he is needed in the truck. They show Lashley footage of Steiner saying that he is not at the Impact Zone. He says that Lashley is too aggressive. He says that the husband is the last to find out that his woman is in love with another man. Steiner says that he tried to check in but he did not have his wallet. Steiner says that he is nice enough to have Lashley’s room. Lashley heads to the hotel and we have a camera crew following Lashley as we go to commercial.
We see Velvet, Madison, and Lacey walking in the back and we return to commercial.
We are back and Super Dave is in the office and he is on the phone with Mick. They talk about Mick being at the hospital. Dave wants to go to the hospital but then Jeremy says that they are in charge. Dave says that he is in charge. Dave wants a match to be put together in honor of Mick. Jeremy says that the X Division is the way to go.
Match Number Four: Lacey Von Erich, Velvet Sky, Madison Rayne, and Awesome Kong versus Tara, Sarita, ODB, and Taylor Wilde
Madison and Tara start things off and Madison pushes Tara down but Tara pushes Madison down and then she takes Madison down and applies a front face lock and bridge. Taylor tags in and she works on the arm. Taylor with an arm drag and then she tags in Sarita. Taylor sends Sarita onto Madison. Lacey tags in and they lock up. Lacey backs Sarita into the corner and she kicks Sarita. Lacey with a kick and forearm to the back and she gets a near fall as we go to commercial.
We are back and Velvet with a snap mare to Sarita followed by a kick to the back. Velvet misses a drop kick and Sarita hits a drop kick of her own. We see footage from the break of Velvet and Madison working over Sarita. ODB tags in and she goes after everyone. ODB with an Irish whip to Madison and then she hits a splash into the corner on Velvet and then Madison. ODB with a bronco buster to Velvet. ODB with a fallaway slam to Madison and she kips up. Lacey with a clothesline to ODB. Tara with a punch to Lacey but Kong knocks Tara down. Taylor tries for a cross body on Kong but Taylor bounces off Kong. Wilde avoids the Awesome Bomb but she cannot avoid the Implant Buster and Kong gets the three count.
Winners: Velvet Sky, Awesome Kong, Madison Rayne, and Lacey Von Erich
After the match, we see Kong and Tara stare each other down.
The X Division are in the office and Dave asks them to bust their asses like they have never done so before. He wants them to donate this match to Mick Foley. He wants them to risk their lives, just like he does in his career.
We go to commercial with comments about Hulk Hogan working with Dixie Carter.
Kurt Angle is walking in the back as we return to commercial.
We are back and we have footage of the Lashley/Steiner hotel confrontation. We see Lashley running down the hall and he enters his room and sees Kristal in there. Kristal says that she is okay but Bobby turns around and Steiner attacks him. Steiner hits Lashley with a lamp and then he leaves while Kristal asks for security.
Kurt Angle comes to the ring via the Anglevator. Kurt mentions that Sunday’s match might be the most important match of his life. Over the last few months, Matt Morgan and A.J. Styles took him to the limit. Those men have reached their full potential and are almost at the level of Kurt Angle. Kurt says that he strives for competition to show who is the best. He has respect for those people. He does not have respect for a punk who comes off the street and tries to break his neck. Last week, he laid in traction for three days wondering if he had to go back to square one with his broken neck. Kurt says that Desmond went for Kurt’s weakness but two weeks later, he is back in his wrestling ring. Kurt says that Desmond has earned nothing and has proven nothing. He will end his career on Sunday.
Desmond appears on the BrotherTron and he says that he does not want to be around Angle tonight. Desmond says that he is not here to beat Angle, he is here to end Angle’s career. Desmond says that he isn’t in TNA to be better than Angle. He is here to take Wolfe’s place. Desmond tells Kurt to bring his mangled body into the ring. Wolfe tries to attack Angle from behind but Angle avoids it and hits a European uppercut and he punches Wolfe. Wolfe leaves the ring. They fight on the floor and Angle with a European uppercut and forearms to the back. Angle with another European uppercut and then Angle gets a chair but Wolfe moves out of the way and Wolfe hits a DDT on the floor. Wolfe hits Angle with the chair as the video starts for the third time. Meanwhile, Wolfe says the third time is the charm.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Super Dave Osborne has made his way to ringside to join Mike and Taz.
Match Number Five: Amazing Red, Chris Sabin, and Alex Shelley versus Kiyoshi, Sheik Abdul Bashir, and Homicide
The World Elite go after their opponents as the bell rings. Homicide and Shelley are the official first men in and Homicide with a back elbow. Bashir tags in and he punches Shelley and sends him into the turnbuckles. Bashir chokes Shelley and hits a neck breaker for a near fall. Kiyoshi tags in and he connects with a forearm to the back. Shelley with a chop but Kiyoshi with chops to Shelley. Shelley with chops of his own. Kiyoshi with a snap mare and a low clothesline for a near fall. Kiyoshi runs into a boot and Shelley tries to make the tag. Kiyoshi with a jawbreaker and Homicide brings the barbed wire bat to the ring but security takes him away.
Kiyoshi tags Bashir back in and they double team Shelley. Shelley sends Kiyoshi to the apron and then the floor. Bashir is sent into the turnbuckles. Red tags in and hits a double drop kick and a spin kick to Kiyoshi and Bashir. Red with an elbow to Bashir and a kick to Kiyoshi. Red with a spin kick off Kiyoshi’s back. Red with a satellite DDT to Kiyoshi. Red with a corkscrew plancha onto Kiyoshi. Shelley with a cross body while Sabin hits a neck breaker on Bashir for the three count.
Winners: Amazing Red, Alex Shelley, and Chris Sabin
Lauren is with Desmond Wolfe and she says that she has never seen anyone have Kurt Angle’s number. Desmond says that his goal is to be Kurt Angle. He has followed Kurt’s path. He says that he is here to replace Kurt Angle. He is a younger, better looking, more determined, and healthier version. He came close to ending Kurt’s career but enough to be able to finish off the job on Sunday. He says that everyone will bow to his howl. We go to commercial.
We are back and do you remember last week when Dixie Carter gave her Win One for the Dixster speech? We have highlights.
Team 3D come to the ring and they are joined by Rhino. Ray says that life is about a couple of things. It is about change and about choice. Dixie Carter said that there would be a lot of changes in TNA and the locker room would have to make the choice whether they are on board or not on board. Ray says that they are on board. Last week, he had a choice and he chose to wrap a steel chair around Matt Morgan and Hernandez’s head. He had some time to think about that choice and after thinking about it, he was glad to make that choice. For a while Rhino has been telling them that the younger talent has been trying to take out the veterans of the company. Ray tells Rhino that he is sorry that he did not believe him. He says that Rhino has had their back for the last 15 years while everyone else tries to stab them in the back. Ray tells the younger talent that is going to try to take them out, he says that will not happen. He says that they will hold the younger talent down so this does not happen. Ray wants Hernandez and Matt Morgan to come out right now.
Hernandez and Matt Morgan come out. Matt says that isn’t the way things work any more. If he has something to say to them, they come up to talk to them. Ray insults Morgan and Hernandez. Hernandez tells them that everything that they got in TNA, they took. They took it because they can.
Ray says that he cannot understand what Hernandez is saying. He brings up their challenge for Turning Point and wonders if they have a partner or if they are waiting for a partner to be given to them by TNA management. Matt says that they can take care of them by themselves. Devon tells them that they better hope that someone answers their call because they will be taken out.
D’Angelo Dinero’s music plays and he comes out. He says that they have to look no further for the third man. Matt Morgan is the future. Hernandez is the future.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Matt Morgan does a public service announcement about ADHD.
Lauren is with part of the World Elite. Lauren mentions that the British Invasion’s suspension has been lifted. If they lose or are disqualified, James Storm and Robert Roode are in the tag title match on Sunday. Magnus says that they have been discriminated against. Doug Williams says that they are a proud team and they will make sure that James Storm and Robert Roode will no longer darken a ring with the ring again. Eric Young complains about how TNA management did not live up to their suspension and he says that this is a sign of poor management. Eric Young says that he was a huge fan of Hulk Hogan’s when he was three years old.
It is time to run through the card for Turning Point.
We go to commercial.
James Storm and Robert Roode make their way through the back as we return to commercial.
Jeremy Borash is with A.J. Styles and he asks about the title match. Jeremy suggests that A.J. and Daniels are not on the same page. A.J. apologizes to Daniels because he was not the one who jumped him. A.J. says that he will not apologize for being the best. They are not on the same page because of what Joe did. A.J. mentions that he has been jumped three weeks in a row. He gave the match to Daniels because he wanted to give him a match. A.J. says that maybe Daniels wants what A.J. has worked so hard for. He says that Joe has been stirring the pot. The games will not work any more because A.J. is the best at what he does.
Match Number Six: Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams versus James Storm and Robert Roode in a Non Title Match
Williams and Roode start off and Roode with a shoulder tackle and clothesline. Roode with a back body drop to Magnus. Roode clotheslines Williams over the top rope while Storm clotheslines Magnus over the top rope to the floor. Williams wants to go to the back but Magnus reminds them about the stipulation. Roode with a drop toe hold to Williams and then Storm is tagged in and he works on the arm. Magnus yells at Rob to leave and get rid of the chair. Magnus trips Roode and Williams with a back elbow. Magnus is tagged in and he kicks and chokes Roode. Magnus sends Roode into the turnbuckles and tags in Williams. They do the cross arm clothesline and then they pose instead of getting the victory. Williams with a near fall and then he applies a rear chin lock. Williams pulls Roode down by the hair. Magnus tags in and Williams charges into a boot and then Roode with a double blockbuster and everyone except Storm is down. Storm tags in and he punches Magnus and Williams. Storm with a face buster and a neck breaker. Storm brings Williams in and hits a bulldog. Storm sends Magnus to the apron but Magnus with a punch. Storm with a punch and an IEDDT. Storm and Roode with a double suplex on Williams and it is time to announce their team name instead of trying to win. Roode with a clothesline while Storm hits a lungblower on Magnus but they can only get a two count. A chair is brought into the ring and Magnus wants to use it but Williams stops him. Williams and Magnus collide and Williams is sent outside the ring. Roode and Storm hit DWI for the three count.
Winners: James Storm and Robert Roode
Lauren stops Roode and Storm outside the ring for their comments. Roode says that on Sunday they will prove why they are the greatest TNA tag team of all time. Storm tells them sorry about their damn luck. We go to commercial.
We are back and Matt Morgan, Hernandez, and D’Angelo Dinero are with Jeremy Borash. Hernandez says that he does not trust a man who wears sunglasses all the time. Matt says that he has been around the block and he wonders how he can trust a street pimp. Dinero says that there is a code of honor and a code of respect. When he gives his word, it is golden. If Team 3D and Rhino want a fight, he is going to team with Matt and Hernandez. At Turning Point, they are going to be pimping.
Lauren is with Daniels and she asks Daniels about how it might be more than a wrestling match. Daniels wants to know if that is a way to talk about A.J. accusing him of attacking A.J. or having a match against A.J. after being dropped on his neck. Daniels says that they are still friends, but when the bell rings, there are no friends in the ring. If TNA supported him the way that the company supported A.J., he could have been champion. Daniels wants to know why the match is a three way on Sunday instead of a one-on-one match.
We see footage of Joe choking out A.J. Styles after A.J.’s match last week.
Match Number Seven: Samoa Joe versus A.J. Styles in a Non Title Match
Styles chases after Joe on the floor and then Joe goes back to the floor. Styles continues to follow. Back in the ring, Styles with the phenomenal drop kick but Joe sends Styles into the turnbuckles. Joe with punches in the corner and then he face washes Styles. Joe with the power bomb into an STF and then he turns it into a Crippler Crossface. Styles gets to the ropes. Joe with more jabs to Styles and then he connects with more punches. Styles with punches of his own followed by a chop. Joe runs into a boot. Joe with a clothesline to A.J. for a near fall. Joe tries for another power bomb but Styles escapes and hits a spin kick. Joe avoids a Styles Clash with a back body drop. Styles avoids a clothesline and hits a pele kick. Styles goes up top but Daniels hits the ropes and Styles goes to the mat. Styles and Daniels argue and Joe smiles. Styles slaps Daniels and Joe with the choke to Styles and Styles passes out.
Winner: Samoa Joe
After the match, Joe holds the title belt as he stands over Styles.
We go to credits.
