Impact Mike Rickard's TNA Impact Report
By "Memorex" Mike Rickard
Jul 16, 2009 - 9:00 PM
1.
Eric Young v. Johnny Gardano-Young gets the win as his heel turn continues to play
out.
WINNER:
Eric Young (by pin fall).
2.
ODB w/Cody Deener defeated Madison Rayne-ODB comes out with her new love interest, brawling
with Rayne and getting the win.
WINNER:
ODB (by pin fall).
3.
“The Outlaw” Jethro Holiday vs. "Black
Machismo" Jay Lethal-This match
doesn't even begin.
Before Lethal can
come out, Abyss lays out Holiday.
WINNER:
No contest.
He grabs the mic and calls out Dr. Stevie,
telling the psychotic shrink that he (Abyss) doesn't need him (Stevie).
Abyss vows revenge on Dr. Stevie until Dr.
Stevie interrupts him on the video screen, threatening Abyss' honey Lauren and
telling Abyss he's not done with him.
PROMO:Former TNA
Champion and "Hardcore Legend" Mick Foley cuts a promo on current TNA
champion Kurt Angle.
Foley calls out
Angle and Angle answers Foley's challenge.
Foley recounts the beat down he suffered last week at the hands of Angle
and the Main Event Mafia (MEM).
Foley
vows not to tap out at Victory Road (where he will challenge Angle for the
belt) and praises Angle for coming out tonight without his MEM cohorts.
Foley suggests that Angle do the same this
Sunday so they can find out who is the better man.
Angle talks to Foley about how he wants to
help Jarrett and Foley but he's interrupted by "The Icon" Sting.
The Stinger thinks Angle is full of baloney
and asks Mick for a match with Angle tonight.
Foley agrees and shakes things up by making the match a Six Sides of
Steel Match!
BACKSTAGE:Samoa Joe is
seen beating up The Amazing Red.
Joe
drags Red to the ring where the match officially begins.
4.
Samoa Joe vs. The Amazing Red-Not a good night for Red as Joe stomps the daylights
out of him.
When the referee tries to
gain control of the match, Joe throws him off and hits the Muscle Buster on
Red, beating him down further.
Finally
TNA security make their way out to break things up.
WINNER:
No contest.
5.
X
Division Champion Suicide vs. Chris Sabin w. Alex Shelley (Non-title match): Despite Shelley's presence at ringside,
Suicide gets the upper hand.
WINNER:
Suicide (by pin fall).
Suicide's victory turns ugly as the Motor
City Machine Guns (Sabin & Shelley) lay into him with a post-match beat
down.
However Homicide runs in with his
X Division Title briefcase and blasts the Guns with it, clearing the ring.
Homicide then cashes in his briefcase to earn
an X Division title match.
6.
X Division Title Match:
Homicide vs. Suicide (Champion)- Homicide goes for a quick win, covering Suicide but
the masked man kicks out.
However
Homicide hits the Gringo Killer on the champion, sealing his fate and covering
him to become new champion.
WINNER:
Homicide (New X Division Champion!)
PROMO:
The
Beautiful People enter the ring with Angelina Love attired in a bee-keeper's
outfit.
Velvet Sky has a can of bug
spray and the two are none too happy with new TNA Knockout Tara for using her
pet spider Poison to get a Knockouts title match last week and subsequent title
win.
Love protests Tara's victory and
claims that she is still champion as last week's match wasn't officially
sanctioned.
Instead, she'll face Tara
this Sunday at Victory Road for the title.
Tara walks out onto the entrance ramp and tells Love that her (Tara)
having the belt makes her victory official.
However she's happy to face Love this Sunday and prove her victory.
She then informs Love that she was backstage
earlier this evening and that her spider Poison is in Love's bee-keeper's
outfit.
Love flips out, pulling her
outfit off.
Tara then runs in and lays
out Love with the Widow's Peak.
7.
Sarita vs. Melissa Flash:Sarita's debut
starts off great with a win over Flash.
WINNER:
Sarita.
Unfortunately her debut tanks after an angry
Melissa hits a post-match power bomb on her, laying her out.
8.
Six Man Elimination Match:
The Main Event Mafia (Kevin Nash w. Jenna
Morasca, "Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner, & Booker T w. Sharmell)
vs. Beer Money Inc. (Robert Roode & "Tennessee Cowboy" James
Storm) & "The Phenomenal" A.J. Styles: It's six-man tag action with the eliminations as
follows:
Kevin Nash eliminates A.J.
Scott Steiner eliminates James Storm
Robert Roode eliminates Kevin Nash
Booker T eliminates Robert Roode
WINNERS:
The Main Event Mafia
After the match, Jenna and Sharmell brawl, no
doubt in anticipation of their match at
Victory
Road this Sunday.
9.
"Lethal Consequences ("Black
Machismo" Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed) vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir
& Kiyoshi:
It's X Division tag team
action as Lethal and Creed get the win.
11.
Six Sides of Steel Match: "The
Icon" Sting vs. TNA World Champion Kurt Angle (Non-title match): Before the match begins, Jeff Jarrett joins Mike Tenay
and "Shillmaster" Don West on commentary.
Although this match isn't for the title,
Sting takes it to Angle, putting him in the Scorpion Death lock and going for
the submission win.
Just then, Samoa Joe
runs out, fighting with Jeff Jarrett.
Joe then steals the key to the cage and enters the ring.
The lights go out and a "13 FTW" logo
appears on the video screen.
Joe then
places Sting in the Tazmission.
Meanwhile, Jeff Jarrett and Mick Foley try to run into the cage for the
save but Angle keeps them at bay with a nightstick.
Things get even worse for the faces as the
Main Event Mafia run out, taking out Foley and Jarrett.