TNA Impact! – 12/10/09

Here’s what you missed on TNA Impact last night:

Video Package: Hulk Hogan, Sting, & Jeff Jarrett, where do they stand when it comes to TNA?  What will Desmond Wolfe do next to Kurt Angle?

Earlier: Mick Foley & Jeremy Borash walk into Foley’s office to find Kevin Nash sitting in Foley’s chair and has the office redecorated.  Nash hands Foley an airplane ticket to go meet with Hogan, but in return Nash wants to run the show.  JB decides to tag along with Mick, they leave.  Nash makes a phone call to get the security tapes from Mick’s office for the last thirty days.

Kevin Nash & Eric Young come out to the ring to let the Impact crowd know what went down and that he’s in control.  He also runs down the card for the evening, and it sounds like every match is a total joke!

Video Package: (From earlier in the week) Mick Foley traveled to Nashville, TN to find Jeff Jarrett, and he starts at the TNA offices to see if anyone there can give him a clue.

Taz & Mike Tenay talk about the big announcement Hogan made about Impact Monday Night, January 4, 2010.

British Invasion (Brutus Magnus, Doug Williams & Big Rob) vs. Chris Sabin – Handicap Match
WINNER: Chris Sabin via pin fall on Big Rob after hitting a tornado into a roll-up.

• After the match, the tag champs had some heated words with Big Rob.  That’s now two matches he’s cost them.

Backstage: Christy Hemme (filling in for JB) is with Scott Steiner who says that if he has to find a freak for his mixed tag match against Bobby & Krystal Lashley he will, but she’s going to stand by and watch.  He then threatens the Lashley’s son.  We come to find out the kid is only 1.5 years old.  WTF?!?

Video Package: Mick Foley is still hunting for Jeff Jarrett.  He goes to a local restaurant where he talks to the owner who has NOT seen Jeff in awhile.

Bobby & Krystal Lashley vs. Scott Steiner & Awesome Kong
WINNERS: Steiner & Kong via pin fall on Krystal after she accidentally tagged herself in and Kong slammed her.

Backstage: Lauren is with Samoa Joe.  They talk about Final Resolution and how Joe is going to use the Feast or Fired match to get his World Title shot.

• Beer Money Inc. interrupts saying that their situation with the British Invasion is just as dire.  This is their ONLY chance of getting a tag team title match with them.

Backstage: The Beautiful People are pissed off because one of the matches announced earlier was a mud wrestling match with them as the participants.

• Nash walks in to try to calm them down saying that millions of eyes will be watching them and this could be huge for ratings.

Video Package: The Icon, Sting – Where does he stand when it comes to Hulk Hogan? Is he coming back to TNA?

Video Package: Announcement from UFC Ultimate Finale where Hulk Hogan said that TNA Impact will be going opposite of Monday Night RAW on January 4th.

Backstage: Lauren is with Tara who’s “preparing” for her Trailer Park Throwdown with ODB by downing a 6-pack of Corona as mandated by Kevin Nash.  She’s a little pissed about having to drink before a match, but she’s willing to do anything to get her hands on ODB.

Backstage: Christy Hemme with Eric Young who has to defend the TNA Global Title against Hamada in an intergender match.  He says that he’s treating it like an initiation match for her to join World Elite.

TNA Global Title Match
Eric Young (Champion) vs. Hamada
WINNER: Eric Young via pin fall with some help from the middle rope.

Backstage: The Beautiful People are preparing for their mud wrestling match and pondering what could they do to help boost ratings.  A wardrobe malfunction? A triple kiss…?

Video Package: Mick Foley is still looking for Jeff Jarrett and accidentally finds him at a bar when he stopped to ask for directions.

Backstage: Christy Hemme is with ODB who says that this Trailer Park Throwdown should be call a Business As Usual match because drinking beer is a normal Thursday night for her.

Trailer Park Throwdown – Hardcore Street Fight
ODB vs. Tara
WINNER: ODB via pin fall.  Tara slipped and fell off middle rope and ODB took advantage and hit an X-Factor on her.

Video Package: Foley and Jarret talking.

• Jarrett, “I’ve been living in hell!”
• Foley, “I know Good Ol’ Double J can’t stay away from professional wrestling…c’mon.”
• Jarrett, “Double J might not, but after what she’s done? Are you kidding me?”

ANNOUNCEMENT: TNA has shocking footage of The Monster Abyss that Spike won’t allow them to air.  Go to TNAwrestling.com to see the footage.

Team 3D, Rhino & Jessie Neal vs. Hernandez, Matt Morgan, Suicide & D’Angelo Dinero (who was jumped off camera before the match).
WINNERS: 3D, Rhino & Jessie Neal via pin fall on Hernandez.

• Stipulations of the match handed down by Kevin Nash were, whoever got pinned would start the tag team elimination match at Final Resolution in a 4-on-1 handicap situation.
• After match, D’Angelo Dinero came running/hobbling down to the ring with a cane to stop a post match beat down.

Video Package: Tomko is back!

Mud Wrestling Match
Velvet Sky vs. Lacey Von Erich – Madison Rayne guest referee
WINNER: Velvet Sky via pin fall

Backstage: Lauren is with “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal and they announce that next week is the return of The Black Machismo Open Invitational.

Video Package: Foley and Jarrett still talking.

• Foley, “Where does the deal with Hogan leave me?”
• Jarrett, “Is this about you? Who FOUNDED TNA with his own money! (pissed!)”
• Foley brings up Jarrett’s daughters and Jeff decides to really sit down and talk.

TNA World Title Match (against the highest bidder)
AJ Styles (Champion) vs. Desmond Wolfe
WINNER: AJ Styles via pin fall roll up with a bridge.

• Kurt Angle came down just as match started to be on commentary, but it was Daniels who caused the distraction and Wolfe took his eye off AJ for one second and the champ took advantage.

Video Package: Foley and Jarrett still talking.

• Jarrett, “If Dixie (Carter) won’t talk to you, why would she talk to me?”
• Foley, “Come to the Impact Zone and tell her in the middle of the ring.”
• Handshake, and the deal is done!

QUICK THOUGHTS:

I hope that this episode of Impact was one big joke!  Seriously, I see this stuff and all I think about is WWE/WCW stupid programming, and worse off, Kevin Nash was at the helm of it back during the WCW days, so this may either be foreshadowing for TNA’s future or they know what they’re doing and trying to pull the wool over our eyes into thinking that they have no clue and they’re playing us.

Scott Steiner came out to the ring with Krystal Lashley’s face air brushed on his tights, a la “Ravishing” Rick Rude.  This whole angle with Steiner and the Lashley’s is just dumb to me.  If this was the real world, a restraining order would’ve been filed already!

EY versus Hamada was a brilliant showing from both.  Hamada did her thing in the ring and EY put himself over as a slimey heel!  I really thought for a second there that Hamada might pull that one out.

The mud wrestling match was hot!  I’m not going to lie.  However, this is beneath TNA.  I really hope that they’re not going to continue the path on exploiting the women like that.  They’re phenomenal wrestlers and should be in the ring showcasing those talents along with their beauty.

Trailer Park Throwdown was sort of dumb.  I’m all for a hardcore match once in awhile, but did they really have to be drunk going into it?  Bad example for underage viewers.

The footage with Abyss was a 15-second video of him getting into a fight with Raven & Dr. Stevie.  They set him on fire!  Really, they couldn’t show that on TV?

The whole sequence of videos with Foley & Jarrett really get a point across that they’re NOT in control anymore.  Jarrett looked haggard with like a 2-week beard, and was at a bar in what looked like the middle of the afternoon by himself.  I’m wondering where this is going to go, but I think it’s almost going to be like WCW/NWO with Foley and Jarret on one side and Hogan and Nash on the other.  Don’t know if that’s a good idea.