So Impact opens with the TNA World Champion and X Division Champion respectably on opposing sides against the former World title holder and the X division number #1 contender.

Austin Aries/Kenny King vs Zema Ion/Bobby Roode:

This match was an awesome way to open the show and get the blood pumping. Back and forth pin attempts and Aries diving out of the ring over Ion to get to Roode was excellent of course King gets the pin when he drops Ion with the Coronation.

So Impact opens with the TNA World Champion and X Division Champion respectably on opposing sides against the former World title holder and the X division number #1 contender.

Austin Aries/Kenny King vs Zema Ion/Bobby Roode:

This match was an awesome way to open the show and get the blood pumping. Back and forth pin attempts and Aries diving out of the ring over Ion to get to Roode was excellent of course King gets the pin when he drops Ion with the Coronation.

We get the Aces and Eights video detailing the groups attacks. I find this group interesting and hope that it heralds a return for a certain Guitar swinging co-founder. This also prompts Sting to come out and want to talk to a certain person he believes is behind the group. Storm is the man he wants to talk to and in typical cowboy fashion James points out how 9 months ago he was jumped by Angle and didn’t whine about it and came out and whooped Kurt’s butt. He doesn’t need anyone to fight his battles. Angle comes out tells Storm that he will make Storm tap out.

The Phenomenal One tweets from Australia home of displaced British people who owed money to the king. Then from that we get a recap of one of the most ridiculous stories since Eddie Guerrero’s and Rey Mysterio’s who’s your daddy angle, Claire LynchGate. A new twist to the story is that Daniels and Kazarian are throwing her a baby shower. Yeah please take this plot from C list to B list Daniels you are a god send.

THANKS GEE!

Taz and Tenay announce the matches for the Hardcore Justice 2012 PPV. First we have a Ladder Match between AJ Styles vs Angle vs Daniels vs Samoa Joe. Then we have a Falls count Anywhere match where Anderson vs RVD vs The Pope vs Magnus and finally a Tables Match with Jeff Hardy vs Bully Ray vs Storm vs Robbie E. I’ll stream that.

Bully Ray comes out for his match where he announces that he never trusted Storm and will be at Ringside tonight. All this right before Robbie E and Ray have a squash match in most strict of definitions.

Bully Ray vs Robbie E:

Robbie T jumps Ray from behind and Robbie E takes advantage reminding me of the Joker during The Dark Knight always attacking when he’s down. Ray battles back and drops a neckbreaker to gain 7 points . Have to love the job squadder in this tournament.

Then we show the continuing hotness of Madison Rayne and her pull over Earl Hebner. (Yes I may not like her wrestling but well….You know.) Gail confronts the two and brings into question Hebner’s call last week. Then we get Tara and Mickie stretching in the locker room. Nuff said.

Knockouts Number#1 contenders match : Tara vs Mickie vs Madison vs Gail

And to cut it short..After another roll up pin this time Madison and Tara, Hebner grants the win to Rayne. This of course will be the Knockout Match for Hardcore Justice.

Well after a James Storm recap leads into Roode and Aries promising to bring drinks and themselves to the picnic which is the main event of Storm vs Angle.

Brooke Hogan is backstage with Sting. He wants to know about condition her father. After some “are you sure you can handle the knockouts” talk Brooke gets an envelope with Aces and Eights and promptly tears off her mic and leaves.

The Greatest Guerrero currently wrestling Chavo is shown warming up backstage for his first Impact match. Creative realizes that the KO Tag titles still exist and show ODB and EY talking about them and his new show.

Chavo/Hernandez vs Kid Kash/Gunner:

the unofficial reboot of Mexican America talking on those good ole Southern boys is sure to help reinvigorate and not irratate the tag division. After a decent match Chavo hits the three amigos (triple suplex’s) and a frog splash on Kash for the win. Now if only Daniels and Kazarian can get involved.

So not only have creative remembered the KO Tag titles but the Television title when Devon and (shudder) Garett come out to tell Angle they want a piece of the Ace’s and Eights. Angle tells them to watch his back. Oh and Wes Brisco of FCW asks Angle for a good word to get his foot in the door.

Daniels and Kazarian come to the ring to congratulate Claire with a baby shower bringing gifts and a baby doll dressed as AJ. Then the so to be chain smoking mother of one looks into the camera and tells AJ to do the right thing.

Kurt Angle vs James Storm:

A good match with many near falls, during the course of the match Garett and Devon, Bully Ray, Roode and Aries come down to the ring. After James Storm hits the Last Call for the win and 7 points, he takes the mic and calls out Aces and Eights only for Roode to counter that because he won they weren’t needed. Bully and Storm battle as Aries and Roode have at it (this is more than likely setting up a Ray vs Storm match after HJ) while Angle looks on.

I’m likely the unpredictablity of this program especially since its live so please TNA keep iMPACT LIVE!

Until next week, PNTnoir out.

So Impact opens with the TNA World Champion and X Division Champion respectably on opposing sides against the former World title holder and the X division number #1 contender.

Austin Aries/Kenny King vs Zema Ion/Bobby Roode:

This match was an awesome way to open the show and get the blood pumping. Back and forth pin attempts and Aries diving out of the ring over Ion to get to Roode was excellent of course King gets the pin when he drops Ion with the Coronation.

We get the Aces and Eights video detailing the groups attacks. I find this group interesting and hope that it heralds a return for a certain Guitar swinging co-founder. This also prompts Sting to come out and want to talk to a certain person he believes is behind the group. Storm is the man he wants to talk to and in typical cowboy fashion James points out how 9 months ago he was jumped by Angle and didn’t whine about it and came out and whooped Kurt’s butt. He doesn’t need anyone to fight his battles. Angle comes out tells Storm that he will make Storm tap out.

The Phenomenal One tweets from Australia home of displaced British people who owed money to the king. Then from that we get a recap of one of the most ridiculous stories since Eddie Guerrero’s and Rey Mysterio’s who’s your daddy angle, Claire LynchGate. A new twist to the story is that Daniels and Kazarian are throwing her a baby shower. Yeah please take this plot from C list to B list Daniels you are a god send.

THANKS GEE!

Taz and Tenay announce the matches for the Hardcore Justice 2012 PPV. First we have a Ladder Match between AJ Styles vs Angle vs Daniels vs Samoa Joe. Then we have a Falls count Anywhere match where Anderson vs RVD vs The Pope vs Magnus and finally a Tables Match with Jeff Hardy vs Bully Ray vs Storm vs Robbie E. I’ll stream that.

Bully Ray comes out for his match where he announces that he never trusted Storm and will be at Ringside tonight. All this right before Robbie E and Ray have a squash match in most strict of definitions.

Bully Ray vs Robbie E:

Robbie T jumps Ray from behind and Robbie E takes advantage reminding me of the Joker during The Dark Knight always attacking when he’s down. Ray battles back and drops a neckbreaker to gain 7 points . Have to love the job squadder in this tournament.

Then we show the continuing hotness of Madison Rayne and her pull over Earl Hebner. (Yes I may not like her wrestling but well….You know.) Gail confronts the two and brings into question Hebner’s call last week. Then we get Tara and Mickie stretching in the locker room. Nuff said.

Knockouts Number#1 contenders match : Tara vs Mickie vs Madison vs Gail

And to cut it short..After another roll up pin this time Madison and Tara, Hebner grants the win to Rayne. This of course will be the Knockout Match for Hardcore Justice.

Well after a James Storm recap leads into Roode and Aries promising to bring drinks and themselves to the picnic which is the main event of Storm vs Angle.

Brooke Hogan is backstage with Sting. He wants to know about condition her father. After some “are you sure you can handle the knockouts” talk Brooke gets an envelope with Aces and Eights and promptly tears off her mic and leaves.

The Greatest Guerrero currently wrestling Chavo is shown warming up backstage for his first Impact match. Creative realizes that the KO Tag titles still exist and show ODB and EY talking about them and his new show.

Chavo/Hernandez vs Kid Kash/Gunner:

the unofficial reboot of Mexican America talking on those good ole Southern boys is sure to help reinvigorate and not irratate the tag division. After a decent match Chavo hits the three amigos (triple suplex’s) and a frog splash on Kash for the win. Now if only Daniels and Kazarian can get involved.

So not only have creative remembered the KO Tag titles but the Television title when Devon and (shudder) Garett come out to tell Angle they want a piece of the Ace’s and Eights. Angle tells them to watch his back. Oh and Wes Brisco of FCW asks Angle for a good word to get his foot in the door.

Daniels and Kazarian come to the ring to congratulate Claire with a baby shower bringing gifts and a baby doll dressed as AJ. Then the so to be chain smoking mother of one looks into the camera and tells AJ to do the right thing.

Kurt Angle vs James Storm:

A good match with many near falls, during the course of the match Garett and Devon, Bully Ray, Roode and Aries come down to the ring. After James Storm hits the Last Call for the win and 7 points, he takes the mic and calls out Aces and Eights only for Roode to counter that because he won they weren’t needed. Bully and Storm battle as Aries and Roode have at it (this is more than likely setting up a Ray vs Storm match after HJ) while Angle looks on.

I’m likely the unpredictablity of this program especially since its live so please TNA keep iMPACT LIVE!

Until next week, PNTnoir out.

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After Ace’s and 8’s dominated the show last week, this week will be the reckoning. Sting comes out and announces that he is the interim GM until Hogan gets out of his mesh, various metals and hip injury caused by Ace’s and 8’s and not a preconditioned wrestling lifestyle. Reality meets wrestling people. Sting calls out Aces and tells them that he’s alone, but then Austin Aries music hits and he comes out to back up the Icon. He has his own grieviousness with the group and whats a piece. But before that can happen Kurt Angle comes out and he recaps the recap explaining his reasons for wanting the Group got. This dovetails with Roode who comes and gives his conspiracy theory about James Storm being the Leader.

After Ace’s and 8’s dominated the show last week, this week will be the reckoning. Sting comes out and announces that he is the interim GM until Hogan gets out of his mesh, various metals and hip injury caused by Ace’s and 8’s and not a preconditioned wrestling lifestyle. Reality meets wrestling people. Sting calls out Aces and tells them that he’s alone, but then Austin Aries music hits and he comes out to back up the Icon. He has his own grieviousness with the group and whats a piece. But before that can happen Kurt Angle comes out and he recaps the recap explaining his reasons for wanting the Group got. This dovetails with Roode who comes and gives his conspiracy theory about James Storm being the Leader.

The Faces are unimpressed. More than likely caused by his crappy mic and not his theory. After Kurt offers his, Roode continues until James Storm runs out and attacks them from behind. Taking it into the ring Sting holds back Angle from pulling them apart kind of like a guy watching a cat fight, he knows just to sit back and watch. Finally cooler heads prevail and Kurt separates them allowing Roode to leave shouting his accusations.

Then after commercial break we have a CHAVO Guerrero appreciation promo from the rightful cougar Tara, Kash? and Angle who mentions Eddie first then moves his love for Chavo second. Good Call Kurt.

Jason Hervey interviews Roode about his theory as Bobby babbles on about being Partners for four years and why no one believes him. Bobby packs his bags and leaves the building.Tara and Mickie vs Gail and Madison starts up with Earl Hebner in the ring as referee. LET THE SHENANIGAN’S BEGIN!!!!!’s Four minutes in the Shenanigans end with Madison winining after a rollup pin by Mickie. Oh yes, Earl is going to be Madison’s sugar daddy now.

We get some more CHAVO Guerrero backstage reactions where basically they all but announce his opppnents for his run. Bully Ray and his twitter facisation be damned.

Oh look its Gut check. Sam Shaw is back, yeah?! That is until Douglas Williams comes out as his opponent and the two put on a good short match. I miss Doug why isn’t he on my television instead of LynchGate. Douglas wins with the Chaos Theory this of course was made possible by the distraction by Joey Ryan who socked Al Snow before taking off. Sign him already(Joey Ryan) and put Shaw in the X-Division where he can possibley grow.

Oh and Give me Douglas Williams!

A Double is having a Hoganesque meeting with four challengers for a shot at Zema Ion later tonight. Rashon Cameron (formerly BLK Jeez and Sabian), Sonjay Dutt, Kenny King (formerly Kenny King?) and Dakota Darsow because his daddy was in Demolition, even though he lost to Zema already in Ion’s first title defense. Clean by the way. Aries decides that Rashon needs to come his hair and tells him to take his movement out the door.

CHAVO Guerrero comes out to a bunch of over inflation about being a Guerrero basically. It felt like I was watching Paris Hilton being praised for being a Hilton because her Grandfather was this person and her Uncle was this person and so on. Chavo was given the same treatment where they made mention of his Grandfather Gory and then running down his Uncles. Was it me or did they not mention his FATHER CHAVO CLASSIC? That did seem like a glaring omission. But Chavo is sent out hyped by all about accomplishing it all as Taz stated. But didn’t he leave up North because he never won any major titles and felt underappreciated? oh well.

No wait they did mention Chavo SR. when Kash and Gunner came out to rundown our Guerrero going as far as to call Chavo SR a drunk. Now that was a highlight of the mic work as Kash basically just babbled on throwing out mexicanisms and asking where the rest of his family is. sidenote: isn’t one of Chavo Jr. uncles a spanish announcer for TNA? well after the drunk mexican attack, Chavo unleashes his Guerrero fury attacking both men only to be outnumbered until Super Mex (Hernandez) makes the save clearing the ring.

The Return of Mexican America? and Gunner and Cash as a tag team in an already depleted tag divison?……..

Okay I can get behind the authentic Chavo over Anarquia’s helium induced Chavo.

Oh god not LynchGate. Where can a man go when he “allegedly” impregnated his crackhead charge. He goes out to the ring to wrestle James Storm for seven points and Coke Baby Mama stares on all cokey “I need a fix” your my meal ticket AJ Styles.

AJ and Storm hit the ring and put on a show. The announcers make the usual reiterations that Storm is leader of Ace’s and Eights pretty much spelling out the ending. No clean finish here.

And yep just as Storm went to lay out AJ with the Last Call the phenomenal one countered with a pelle. Thats when Ace’s and 8’s hit and the ring and beat on AJ for the DQ. Afterwards our very own Geraldo Rivera comes out and accuses Storm of being the leader. Storm almost chokes the man before he leaves.

Then we have the results of GutCheck. Sam Shaw talks his heart off and gets a 2-1 win to be apart of the TNA Familia, now he can disappear down that rabbit hole that Alex Silva and Taeler Hendrix fell into. Joey Ryan being the exception to the rule. Good Luck not seeing you for the foreseeable future.

Backstage Aries eliminates Dakota Darsow after making some cracks about his father being Russian and having an excellent Repo business.

Zema Ion comes out ready to face his opponent. Behind the curtain Aries makes his decision as he says that Sonjay has had six years to win the belt so Kenny King gets the shot. (sidenote: I love the live show because anything can happen, like when Bruce Pritchard walks into frame during the Aries decision then promptly bails realizing his mistake.)

Kenny King vs Zema Ion for the X Division title: This match was da bomb! ( So good it dated my catchphrases to the 90’s) Kenny King shows off early getting the crowd behind him and solidifying why they signed him to TNA. Zema is no slouch as he takes to King pulling off some sick moves that cause the crowd to groan when he hits a knee to the chin. Kenny King who looks like he has Zema on the ropes gets jumped from behind by Bobby Roode who behind the ref’s back throws him back into the ring to get pin by the champ.

Aries comes out and fights off Roode. Later its announced next week will be a tag match between Aries and King vs Roode and Ion.

Bully Ray talks up Angle and dismisses Aces and Eights.

Bully Ray versus Angle: This is a good match between two guys who made the most of their time with near fall to near fall to playing up Kurts injured neck and Bully Ray escaping twice out of the ankle lock. Kurt finally pulls the win when Bully misses a splash in the corner and meets an Angle Slam. 7pts for kurt.

Aces and Eights hit the ring beating on Kurt as Ray dips out. But the cavalry arrives and fights off the gang as James Storm comes out music and all to scare off the group who reluctantly bow out when James is present. Angle gets in Storms face about that weird encounter only for Mike Tenay to announce that Storm vs Angle is scheduled next week as the main event.

We fade to Black.

This week was better seeing as how there was an actual reaction to Aces and Eights instead of them running riot with no one to fight against ala NWO, Immortal. So here’s to next week when we find out what develops next.

P.S. Let the pigeons loose will no longer be uttered in TNA seeing as how Velvet is now released and with Chris Sabin injured expect to hear about that in the coming weeks and or months.

After Ace’s and 8’s dominated the show last week, this week will be the reckoning. Sting comes out and announces that he is the interim GM until Hogan gets out of his mesh, various metals and hip injury caused by Ace’s and 8’s and not a preconditioned wrestling lifestyle. Reality meets wrestling people. Sting calls out Aces and tells them that he’s alone, but then Austin Aries music hits and he comes out to back up the Icon. He has his own grieviousness with the group and whats a piece. But before that can happen Kurt Angle comes out and he recaps the recap explaining his reasons for wanting the Group got. This dovetails with Roode who comes and gives his conspiracy theory about James Storm being the Leader.

The Faces are unimpressed. More than likely caused by his crappy mic and not his theory. After Kurt offers his, Roode continues until James Storm runs out and attacks them from behind. Taking it into the ring Sting holds back Angle from pulling them apart kind of like a guy watching a cat fight, he knows just to sit back and watch. Finally cooler heads prevail and Kurt separates them allowing Roode to leave shouting his accusations.

Then after commercial break we have a CHAVO Guerrero appreciation promo from the rightful cougar Tara, Kash? and Angle who mentions Eddie first then moves his love for Chavo second. Good Call Kurt.

Jason Hervey interviews Roode about his theory as Bobby babbles on about being Partners for four years and why no one believes him. Bobby packs his bags and leaves the building.Tara and Mickie vs Gail and Madison starts up with Earl Hebner in the ring as referee. LET THE SHENANIGAN’S BEGIN!!!!!’s Four minutes in the Shenanigans end with Madison winining after a rollup pin by Mickie. Oh yes, Earl is going to be Madison’s sugar daddy now.

We get some more CHAVO Guerrero backstage reactions where basically they all but announce his opppnents for his run. Bully Ray and his twitter facisation be damned.

Oh look its Gut check. Sam Shaw is back, yeah?! That is until Douglas Williams comes out as his opponent and the two put on a good short match. I miss Doug why isn’t he on my television instead of LynchGate. Douglas wins with the Chaos Theory this of course was made possible by the distraction by Joey Ryan who socked Al Snow before taking off. Sign him already(Joey Ryan) and put Shaw in the X-Division where he can possibley grow.

Oh and Give me Douglas Williams!

A Double is having a Hoganesque meeting with four challengers for a shot at Zema Ion later tonight. Rashon Cameron (formerly BLK Jeez and Sabian), Sonjay Dutt, Kenny King (formerly Kenny King?) and Dakota Darsow because his daddy was in Demolition, even though he lost to Zema already in Ion’s first title defense. Clean by the way. Aries decides that Rashon needs to come his hair and tells him to take his movement out the door.

CHAVO Guerrero comes out to a bunch of over inflation about being a Guerrero basically. It felt like I was watching Paris Hilton being praised for being a Hilton because her Grandfather was this person and her Uncle was this person and so on. Chavo was given the same treatment where they made mention of his Grandfather Gory and then running down his Uncles. Was it me or did they not mention his FATHER CHAVO CLASSIC? That did seem like a glaring omission. But Chavo is sent out hyped by all about accomplishing it all as Taz stated. But didn’t he leave up North because he never won any major titles and felt underappreciated? oh well.

No wait they did mention Chavo SR. when Kash and Gunner came out to rundown our Guerrero going as far as to call Chavo SR a drunk. Now that was a highlight of the mic work as Kash basically just babbled on throwing out mexicanisms and asking where the rest of his family is. sidenote: isn’t one of Chavo Jr. uncles a spanish announcer for TNA? well after the drunk mexican attack, Chavo unleashes his Guerrero fury attacking both men only to be outnumbered until Super Mex (Hernandez) makes the save clearing the ring.

The Return of Mexican America? and Gunner and Cash as a tag team in an already depleted tag divison?……..

Okay I can get behind the authentic Chavo over Anarquia’s helium induced Chavo.

Oh god not LynchGate. Where can a man go when he “allegedly” impregnated his crackhead charge. He goes out to the ring to wrestle James Storm for seven points and Coke Baby Mama stares on all cokey “I need a fix” your my meal ticket AJ Styles.

AJ and Storm hit the ring and put on a show. The announcers make the usual reiterations that Storm is leader of Ace’s and Eights pretty much spelling out the ending. No clean finish here.

And yep just as Storm went to lay out AJ with the Last Call the phenomenal one countered with a pelle. Thats when Ace’s and 8’s hit and the ring and beat on AJ for the DQ. Afterwards our very own Geraldo Rivera comes out and accuses Storm of being the leader. Storm almost chokes the man before he leaves.

Then we have the results of GutCheck. Sam Shaw talks his heart off and gets a 2-1 win to be apart of the TNA Familia, now he can disappear down that rabbit hole that Alex Silva and Taeler Hendrix fell into. Joey Ryan being the exception to the rule. Good Luck not seeing you for the foreseeable future.

Backstage Aries eliminates Dakota Darsow after making some cracks about his father being Russian and having an excellent Repo business.

Zema Ion comes out ready to face his opponent. Behind the curtain Aries makes his decision as he says that Sonjay has had six years to win the belt so Kenny King gets the shot. (sidenote: I love the live show because anything can happen, like when Bruce Pritchard walks into frame during the Aries decision then promptly bails realizing his mistake.)

Kenny King vs Zema Ion for the X Division title: This match was da bomb! ( So good it dated my catchphrases to the 90’s) Kenny King shows off early getting the crowd behind him and solidifying why they signed him to TNA. Zema is no slouch as he takes to King pulling off some sick moves that cause the crowd to groan when he hits a knee to the chin. Kenny King who looks like he has Zema on the ropes gets jumped from behind by Bobby Roode who behind the ref’s back throws him back into the ring to get pin by the champ.

Aries comes out and fights off Roode. Later its announced next week will be a tag match between Aries and King vs Roode and Ion.

Bully Ray talks up Angle and dismisses Aces and Eights.

Bully Ray versus Angle: This is a good match between two guys who made the most of their time with near fall to near fall to playing up Kurts injured neck and Bully Ray escaping twice out of the ankle lock. Kurt finally pulls the win when Bully misses a splash in the corner and meets an Angle Slam. 7pts for kurt.

Aces and Eights hit the ring beating on Kurt as Ray dips out. But the cavalry arrives and fights off the gang as James Storm comes out music and all to scare off the group who reluctantly bow out when James is present. Angle gets in Storms face about that weird encounter only for Mike Tenay to announce that Storm vs Angle is scheduled next week as the main event.

We fade to Black.

This week was better seeing as how there was an actual reaction to Aces and Eights instead of them running riot with no one to fight against ala NWO, Immortal. So here’s to next week when we find out what develops next.

P.S. Let the pigeons loose will no longer be uttered in TNA seeing as how Velvet is now released and with Chris Sabin injured expect to hear about that in the coming weeks and or months.

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