TNA Impact! – 12/17/09

If you missed TNA Impact last night, what is wrong with you?!?!?  You missed Jeff Jarrett‘s return.  Here’s what happened:

Video Package: All of the issues going on in TNA.  Mick Foley meeting with Jeff Jarrett. Hulk Hogan‘s deal with Dixie Carter. AJ Styles & Daniels’ rivalry. Kevin Nash running Impact last week.

Earlier In The Day: Mick Foley enters Impact Zone pissed off and attacks Kevin Nash.  Shortly after, he’s held back by World Elite.

Video Package: Last week, Foley & Jarrett meet to discuss the situation with TNA.

Backstage: Lauren with a returning Roxxi.  She says that she’s been wrestling in Mexico and is excited to get back in the ring tonight!

Backstage: Jeremy Borash is with Kurt Angle who says, “I want TNA to throw everything at me… I want to prove that I deserve to be on top!”

Video Package: ODB & Tara rivalry.

Roxxi vs. ODB (Non-title match)
WINNER: Roxxi via roll up pin fall.  ODB was stopped by the referee from using her flask as a weapon.

• After match, she beat down Roxxi with the flask anyways.  Tara came out to save the day.

Earlier In The Week: Foley and JB head to Los Angeles to meet with “The Hulk.”  Told by Kevin Nash to meet him at a gym.

• Foley is in the gym when Lou Ferrigno aka The Incredible Hulk walks in.  Foley’s pissed.  That’s what led to the attack earlier.

Backstage: Kevin Nash steals the microphone from JB and says directly to Foley, “Earlier you put your hands on me, you signed your death warrant!  On January 4th, you’ll be unemployed!”

Backstage: JB catches up with Foley in his office.  Foley says, “Maybe Jarrett and I have been enemies in the past, but I need all the allies I can get right now!”

• In walks Abyss who asks, “Did you forget about Sunday!  You and me versus Raven & Dr. Stevie!  They lit me on fire!”
• Foley replies, “I WILL be by your side… The only thing I’m guilty of is not being in two places at once!”

Backstage: Lauren with D’Angelo Dinero, Suicide, Hernandez, & Matt Morgan. They talk about the elimination tag team match they will be involved in at Final Resolution.

Lumberjack Match
Brother Ray vs. Matt Morgan
WINNER: Brother Ray via pin fall after Jessie Neal came in and hit a low blow on Matt Morgan when the ref’s back was turned.

Video Package: The war is about to begin!  January 4th on Spike TV at 8pm Eastern Time/5pm Pacific Time.

Video Package: History of Jeff Jarrett throughout TNA’s existence.

Jeff Jarrett arrives at the Impact Zone!

Backstage: Lauren with Beer Money. Talk about Feast or Fired Match this weekend where everything will be on the line for them and it’s a must win situation.

• Interrupted by Samoa Joe who says you’re not the only one putting everything on the line in that match up.
• Interrupted by Eric Young & World Elite who tell them that the odds are stacked against them because World Elite is now in the Feast or Fired Match!

3-corner Tag Team Match (Non-title)
The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne & Velvet Sky with Lacey Von Erich) vs. Awesome Kong & Hamada vs. Sarita & Taylor Wilde
WINNERS: Hamada & Awesome Kong via pin fall; Kong went for an Awesome Bomb, countered by Rayne with a Sunset Flip, but Kong sat on her!

• After match, Lauren is asked to interview The Beautiful People, and Lacey calls her a skank so Lauren slaps her and walks away!

ANNOUNCEMENT: No TNA Impact on Christmas Eve, but there will be a 4-hour special Impact on New Year’s Eve.

Backstage:  Foley and Jarrett in the office talking.  Jarrett is having doubts.  Foley tells him, “You need to be here now!  People here depend on you.  You NEED to talk to Dixie.  Put your pride away for one minute, it’s the right thing to do!”

Backstage: Christy Hemme is with Jay Lethal talking about tonight’s match.  Lethal says, “I’m not happy. I’m fired up.  Everyone’s going to feel the madness of machismo!”

Black Machismo Invitational Match
Jay Lethal vs. Tatanka
WINNER: Tatanka via pin fall after hitting an “Indian” Drop (aka Samoan Drop).

Backstage: Christy Hemme is with Motor City Machine Guns who say, “We aren’t going to change for anyone.  We’re the best tag team in the world and we’re going to prove it at Final Resolution!”

Backstage:  Jeff Jarret tells Mick Foley, “If I’m going to do this the right way, it’s going to be one on one, just me and Dixie!”

Taz & Mike Tenay run down the card for THIS SUNDAY’S Final Resolution PPV.

Backstage: Jeff Jarrett goes to see Dixie Carter.

• Jarrett says, “Mick thought, and me too, that it would be a good idea if I talked to you about coming back to TNA.”
• Carter says, “You didn’t really leave me many options.  Putting you on the sideline was the best option for us.”
• Jeff apologizes, and Dixie tells him that he must go talk to Kurt Angle (They eluded to the “real life” situation between Jeff Jarrett and Karen Angle, Kurt’s now ex-wife).

Video Package: Rivalry between Desmond Wolfe & Kurt Angle.  Rivalry between Daniels & AJ Styles.  The crossover that happened last week.

Daniels vs. Desmond Wolfe
WINNER: Time Limit Draw

Backstage: Foley and Jarrett are outside of Kurt Angle’s locker room.  Foley won’t let Jarrett go in there alone because he doesn’t trust Kurt!

• Jarrett apologizes to Kurt for any disrespect and Angle simply says, “I heard you… I have a match” and walks to the ring.

Main Event – 10 Man Tag Team Match
Scott Steiner, British Invasion (Brutus Magnus & Doug Williams), Raven & Dr. Stevie vs. AJ Styles, Kurt Angle, Abyss, Tomko & Bobby Lashley
WINNERS: Faces via pin fall after AJ hit a small package on Brutus Magnus.

• Before the match officially started chaos ensued.  Steiner and Lashley squared off and started fighting all over.  Same went for Abyss, Dr. Stevie and Raven.
• After match, Angle and Styles have a spat, but Daniels and Wolfe come out and beat them down.

QUICK THOUGHTS:

This episode of Impact had a TON of story line to process.  Way too many backstage segments in my opinion, but everything was very vital with the PPV coming up.  That’s the one thing TNA does is make good use of their time.  This episode was a lot better than last week’s garbage run by Kevin Nash.  I’m glad Jarrett is back though.  Maybe I’m one of the only people who can say this, but Jeff Jarrett wasn’t that bad in WWF and WCW.  He was never a top draw, but you have to give him some credit.  He was a work horse, mid card guy who did what needed to be done… that and he was the TNA Founder!

Lou Ferrigno… really…?  I didn’t see that one coming.  That was just very random, but it very much works with the antics of the Kevin Nash character as of late.  I’d be pissed like Foley too if I wasted my time to travel across the country only to be punk’d.

Good to see Roxxi back in TNA!  I’m excited to find out if they’re going to allow her and Daffney to go crazy in some hardcore matches!  It’s just a sight to behold when women go extreme!

Looking forward to Final Resolution this weekend on PPV.  Can’t wait to see Three Degrees of Pain between Angle and Wolfe!  Two of the best in the business go at it in a best of 3-falls match!  Preview coming on Sunday morning/afternoon.