TNA Impact! – 1/14/10

TNA Impact is back to it’s normal Thursday night time slot, and it started off with a bang!  Here’s what happened:

Video Package: A look back at last week’s LIVE Impact from Monday night.

Generation Me vs. Motor City Machine Guns
WINNERS: Generation Me via pin fall after hitting a 450 Splash/Moonsault combo upsetting the Guns in their debut TNA match!

Backstage: The Nasty Boys are back in Team 3D‘s locker room and it’s thrashed.  Team 3D tries to get in and the door is locked.  They’re pissed off.

Video Package: Hulk Hogan talks about how AJ Styles & Kurt Angle have raised the bar.  2010 will be Kurt’s last shot at the TNA World Title because there are tons of contenders out there that deserve an opportunity.”  Hogan also says that there will be a huge surprise at Genesis because they’ve signed one of the biggest names and it’s someone who could take the title away from AJ.”

Kurt Angle walks to the ring and gives AJ Styles credit for beating him last week and proving that he’s not a fluke champion.  Then Kurt says, “but when two great athletes get in the ring, you win some, you lose some…”

• AJ’s music hits and he comes to the ring to say, “I appreciate what you said, you had no excuses.  However, if this was a series of matches, after the war was over, I’d STILL be the TNA World Champion.
• The two guys agree to settle their score, one last time at Genesis on Sunday.
• AJ starts walking to the back and is attacked by the Masked Man again who reveals himself… Turns out to be Tomko.

Christy Hemme is with The Band (NWO), Kevin Nash, Scott Hall & Sean Waltman.  She goes to ask them a question and Bubba the Love Sponge takes over the interview asking them about Mick Foley.  They reply with only rants about having the Band back together.

Non-Title Match
The Beautiful People (Velvet Sky & Madison Rayne with Lacey Von Erich) vs. Awesome Kong & Hamada
WINNERS: Kong & Hamada via pin fall after Kong hit Madison with an Awesome Bomb.

• Before the match, The Beautiful People see Angelina Love, their former leader, sitting ringside to watch the match.
• After the match, Angelina jumps the rail to check on Madison, but decides to jump Lacey and then turns her focus on Velvet.

Backstage: AJ Styles is pissed and looking for Hulk Hogan.  Enters the office to find Eric Bischoff.  He demands retribution against Tomko in a match tonight!

• Bischoff says, “If you want a match, I need a main event.  Are you willing to put the title on the line?”
• AJ replies, “BOOK IT!”

Backstage: Beer Money Inc. are roaming the hallways looking for Bischoff.

Backstage: Jeremy Borash approaches Hogan’s office looking for Bischoff.  Asks him about Mick Foley.

• Bischoff replies, “It’s on you!  He threatened me.  Put his hands on me.  He got what was coming to him!  If you ever make a mistake like that again, it’ll be your last!”
• JB leaves and Beer Money enters.  They say, “We’ve got no problems with you, but we got a problem with your ‘boys’… We want Hall and Nash at Genesis.”
• Bischoff says he’ll get back to them.

Lethal Consequences comes to the ring for their match with Team 3D, but gets jumped by Bobby Lashley who dominates them.  Krystal Lashley grabs a mic and talks directly to Eric Bischoff, “Have we gotten your attention yet Eric?”

• Team 3D’s music plays and we have a 10 second squash match.
• Brother Ray grabs a mic and says, “We go to the Tokyo Dome in Japan, wrestle in front of 50,000 fans, and it’s the Japanese press that told us the Nasty Boys showed up and destroyed our locker room.  Where the hell have the Nasty Boys been the last 20 years?!?  Hogan comes in and they ride right in on his coattails!  We’re coming for you.”
• Team 3D heads to the back with an axe in hand and break into their own locker room.  However, they get jumped by the Nasty Boys once they get inside.

Video Pacakge: After the attack, Tomko speaks directly to the camera about his past friendship with AJ and thinks AJ forgot about what Tomko brought to the table when they were a tag team.

Sean Morley come to the ring, “I’m used to a different kind of TNA, and now I’ve decided to make my mark behind the lens as a director.  Last week, I took a look around and saw TNA was ready to explode, but something was missing… a film division, and my films for TNA won’t go straight to video!”

• Daniels comes out to the ring to welcome Morley. “I want to pitch a screen play to you… 2 guys so through a struggle with some twists and turns.  Then at the end, the sleezebag ends up in the gutter where he belongs!”  Daniels then attacks Morley!  “Take your brand of crap and get out of my company!  I don’t take a backseat to anyone…”
• Morley fights back and Daniels gets out of dodge.

Video Package: A look at the Tara vs. ODB feud and at Genesis their match is going to be best 2 out of 3 falls.

Matt Morgan & Hernandez vs. Beer Money Inc.
WINNERS: No contest; Big Rob comes out and assaults Hernandez.  Morgan grabs Big Rob and they fight all the way to the back.

• After the match, The Band comes to the ring and beats down Beer Money with the numbers advantage.
• Eric Bischoff comes out and announces that there’s going to be a match between Beer Money and Hall & Nash at Genesis.
• Cameras catch a glimpse of Sting up in the rafters looking on.

Video Package: Tomko talks more on AJ’s rise.  “When I was injured his star shined.  He got so big headed he never returned my call!”

Desmond Wolfe vs. Samoa Joe – (“The Pope” D’Angelo Dinero, Wolfe’s opponent at Genesis on commentary)
WINNER: Wolfe via pin fall after hitting the Tower of London while being stuck in Joe’s Rear Naked Choke on the top rope

• After the match, Wolfe looks at the announce table and has words for Pope.

Backstage: A limo pulls up and out walks Ric Flair.

Video Package: Tomko reveals his twisted plan as AJ’s masked assailant.

Backstage: Jeff Jarrett storms into Hogan’s office and this time Hogan’s there talking to Bischoff.  Jarrett is pissed and has his lawyer with him.  “I want to talk about MY COMPANY, the one I founded and ran for seven years.  You think you can grandstand in my company… I’m not going to tolerate it!”

• Bischoff cuts Jarrett off and says, “without Dixie Carter and her money, you wouldn’t have lasted three weeks!  You conned her!  Either hit the road or lace up your boots!”
• Jarrett cuts him off talking about suing for defamation of character, but Hogan gets up out of his seat and threatens to “kick (Jarrett’s) hillbilly ass!”  Jarrett backs out of the room using his lawyer as a human shield.
• Bischoff turns to Hogan and says “Jarrett needs an attitude adjustment!”

Taz and Mike Tenay run down the card for the Genesis PPV this Sunday (preview coming this weekend).

Ric Flair comes out to cheers of the crowd and joins the boys on commentary for the main event.

TNA World Title Match
AJ Styles (Champion) vs. Tomko
WINNER: Styles via pin fall after hitting a Pele kick to Tomko’s head.

• Mid match, Kurt Angle came out to get a better look.
• After match, Tomko attacks AJ and Angle saves the day.  He then extends his hand to AJ, but Styles just walks to the back.

Video Package: Angle vs. Styles this Sunday at Genesis

QUICK THOUGHTS:

The opening contest was awesome!  The Guns and the new arrival, Generation Me, tore the house down.  Generation Me are better known on the indy circuit as the Young Bucks and one thing I’ve said to my friends, they remind me of the Hardy Boyz when they broke into the business.  I think this is a good pick up for TNA.

Glad to see Angelina Love back in TNA and also I’m glad to see that they’re not going to let a good angle go to waste.  If they ever decided to bring her back, they had a built in story line with her and the Beautiful People and it’s nice to see that they’re going to run with the bitter ex-member taking it to her former friends.

This Lashley angle baffles me.  He’s NOT a heel.  He doesn’t look like it, and he can’t even talk like it so much that they have to have his wife on the mic for him.  Now, granted, back in the 1980s and early 90s there were guys who couldn’t talk that had managers, but this is different.  Lashley has always been a baby face and the persona we’ve come to know wouldn’t just go from being good one day to being heel the next.  He’s NEVER appeared jaded on TV about the wrestling business so it’s very unbelievable, at least to me.

Well, I guess since you can’t call the group the NWO, TNA creative had to name them something, but actually referring to them as “The Band” just sounds silly!  Almost as silly as “Front Line.”

I’m anxious to see what’s going to happen between Jarrett and Hogan.  Will they come to blows eventually?  We’ll see!

Glad that Team 3D made the comments they did about the Nasty Boys.  Hopefully that was a hybrid shoot/work speech mid ring.  The Nasty Boys have done NOTHING to earn that spot but latch on to Hogan nuts!

Main event wasn’t that great… I mean, c’mon AJ won with the Pele!  Can’t wait to see Styles vs. Angle on Sunday at Genesis.  Preview and predictions coming  soon!