TNAFansite.com - Home of TNA fans
follow us on facebook follow us on twitter
News
29/08/2010 15:23
August 26th 2010 TNA Impact Review
One of the best Impacts in a long time!...  Read More
19/03/2010 14:04
TNA Impact Review
TNA Impact Review – Hogan Gets Revenge March 15th 2010...  Read More
TNA Reviews
17/07/2010 13:58
Excerpts from Controversy Creates Cash
The best quotes from the controversial best selling book by Eric Bischoff...  Read More
13/06/2010 14:20
TNA Tag Team Division
Where is it Headed?...  Read More
11/07/2009 14:20
TNA Tag Team Division – Currently at Its Peak or Room for Growth?
With the tag team division being cited as being at one of its worst periods only six months ago specifically in the WWE, TNA has stepped up its game they managed to fill a void and take things to a new level with their excellent competitive tag team division that`s been on fire as of late....  Read More
24/01/2009 12:37
TNAFANSITE MOVIE REVIEW: THE WRESTLER
A TNAFANSITE.COM reveiw of the Golden Globe winning "Wrestler". ...  Read More
Advertisement
Shop at the Official NBC Olympic Store
...  
Banner Ad

News Page top banner
August 26th 2010 TNA Impact Review  29/08/2010 15:23
 

TNA Impact Review – August 26th 2010

One of the Best of the Year


In what was one of the most action-packed and consistent shows in months, TNA put on an amazing show this past Thursday opening up right off the bat with an extremely entertaining and solid opening where Dixie Carter set the tone right off the bat to define what wrestling is and should be.


The show starts with Carter being introduced and immediately calls out Flair making mention to his comment about women and she clearly takes offense to that. Flair comes out and initially acts calm and tries to hit on Carter calling her drop dead gorgeous as a way of flattering her and calming her down.


She immediately sees right through him and tells him he failed at what he was supposed to do which is mentor the young guys in TNA. Flair calls out his boys, Fourtune, who immediately show up and stand behind Ric Flair who Dixie says is suspended without pay for his actions for 90 days. He says Flair and Fourtune are one in the same and asks if they`re suspended as well and Dixie answers that they`re not. Dixie also tells Flair his actions since Hardcore Justice have been despicable, cowardly and pathetic.


Flair finally gets upset and starts going off on Dixie, saying that before she makes a career decision on suspending him she should know that he and Fourtune are one in the same. As he brings out Fourtune he says “this is TNA”.


Dixie reminds Flair that each one of the guys in Fourtune were there before Flair came into TNA. She then asks if this is what he`s turning them into. She then really hits a nerve and says that while Flair is sitting on the sidelines, the members of Fourtune will continue to wrestle in TNA and do great things for the company.


Flair is upset and removes his blazer, and says he`s going to show Dixie what Naitch is all about and this causes Serge, Dixie`s husband to come in. While he`s getting beat up – Flair tells Fourtune to bring him to the middle and as they`re about to beat down on him Hogan comes out with his own group of guys, the finalists for the TNA Championship, that include Pope, Angle, Anderson and Hardy.


Hogan goes into the ring despite several warnings by Flair. He says the smartest thing for him to do is to listen. He says he made a deal that they are going to run the company 50/50 and now that Carter is up to her neck in crap, he is going to override her decision saying it would be too easy to put Flair on the shelf and says he`s not suspended. It would be too easy after what he did to him and Jarrett and that he did a real good job of pissing him off.


Hogan then says his guys are the real TNA pointing to his four guys and in a pretty weird moment Flair confesses the `they` that Abyss was talking about is Fourtune. For a storyline that`s been going on for a few months now it was very random and without much attention brought to it putting a lot of work to build it up to shame.


Flair then says they`re taking over on his terms and when he`s ready. Hogan asks him why not tonight and Flair says that he`s not ready tonight. Since Hogan is running the company, it will be Hogan`s four against Flair`s four.


Flair is irate and starts to leave with Fourtune as Hogan`s music hits and as they`re getting ready to leave, EV 2.0 start attacking Fourtune and get the upper hand and some payback for the previous weeks.

 
 
Following the break, we get an interview with Angle who says the TNA championship is the most important thing to them and that he has been chasing the title but that tonight it`s going to be about something bigger, and that is the company TNA. The opportunities Dixie and Hogan gave to them is something they are indebted to and they are going to be taking back the keys to the company and kick Fourtune`s asses.
 
 
 

Up next is a strange match with Orlando Jordan going up against Samoa Joe. He has a Samoa Joe action figure around his neck and as he`s coming down the ring he gropes So Cal Val which is finally stopped when Joe`s music hits.


They go back and forth once the match sets off and at one point Jordan puts the entire action figure in his mouth and pays for it as Joe goes postal on Jordan and finally hits him with the muscle buster and gets the pin.


Immediately following his win, Joe is still in the ring and out comes Jarrett who asks Joe to be in his corner against Nash since he knows Sting is probably going to get involved. He talks about Joe being with TNA for five years and how he knew from the first day in the indies that he wanted Joe to be part of the company. Will Joe take care of Sting if he shows his ugly here tonight? Deal or no Deal.


Joe takes some time to answer but says that he does not need to take sides because he doesn`t have to. Joe only knows how to play for one team, and that is his own. Taz agrees and says he`s not surprised with that answer.


Up next is Jarrett vs Nash. They go back and forth in what is a pretty slow paced match. As the match progresses, the referee gets knocked out and as Jarrett gets the upper hand he hits Nash against the exposed turnbuckle and hits him with the stroke and has him pinned but the referee is not conscious and cannot make the count. Sting appears and whacks Jarrett with the baseball bat setting up Nash for the cover and gets the win.


Nash is announced the winner, and Sting gets into the ring and is about to beat down on Jarrett when Hogan`s music hits but it is Eric Bischoff who comes out. Bischoff questions Sting`s actions and asks if he`s going to show everyone what kind of pond scum really is. Sting says he wants Hogan and at first Bischoff plays around and asks if that`s what he really wants but was just setting him up for an attack by Hogan who comes from behind Sting and knocks out Sting with the chair.


Following the commercial – we see a backstage segment of Hogan talking with Dreamer saying that like it or not they are on the same team. He makes mention of his new stable, which he has named Fatal Four , and says they are going to take care of Fourtune tonight and therefore needs Dreamer to back off for just one night. Dreamer agrees.


Hogan then says that Abyss needs his legs cut off and to put him on the table and hack him up. Dreamer says no problem and to consider it done.


Up next is Beer Money vs FBI , Little Guido and Tony Marmaluke in a beat down by Beer Money that ends quickly.


Up next is the reunion of Angelina Love and Velvet Sky, the original Beautiful People. But first, we get Doug Williams take on the X-division and why he doesn`t think of him beating them all down as arrogance but more as competence as he pushes forward the artform of wrestling and giving it the respect it truly deserves and says EV 2.0 just brings it back down again.


On the other side is Dreamer talking to EV 2.0 and asks who can deliver Abyss`s head on a stick and Stevie Richards steps up and says if he wants it he`s got it obviously volunteering himself.


The Beautiful People then come out and get rave reviews from Taz who says it`s a thing of beauty and Tenay officially announces that the original Beautiful People are back.


Angelina Love starts off talks about how something was missing with the Beautiful People, and that the fans felt the same way. Love says she does value the friendship they had and that they should forgive and forget. Velvet agrees with her and says to let bygones be bygones and do what they together can do best which is dominate the knockouts division.


As they embrace – the same music comes back on and Madison Rayne comes in her usual form on a motorcycle with giant helmet motorcycle chick.


Rayne goes off right away saying if she wasn`t such a lady she would barf in the ring. She threatens that first thing the next day she will hit both Velvet and Love with a lawsuit for copyright infringement saying they will never come out to her music again and never refer to themselves as the Beautiful People.


She says she is the only Beautiful person in the ring and that she`s all natural unlike those two silicone whores. Rayne asks if the botox has infected her brain, but that it was her that brought Rayne to TNA because she needed beauty and class. She says Love was at the end of her road when she brought her in and that Rayne made her a main event again.


As for Velvet Sky, Rayne says she has always been one thing, and one thing only and that is her (Rayne`s) little bitch. This immediately sets of Velvet who goes on the attack and takes down Madison Rayne.


Motorcycle Helmet chick right away helps Velvet but Love then gets involved and goes on the attack as well we have a full on cat fight which is quickly interrupted and stopped by security as the crowd chants “let them fight”.


Next up is a great segment of Motor City Machine Guns talking about getting perks and having Guitar Hero Green Day released early to them because of them being champions. They talk about the Young Bucks, aka Generation Me and how they are up against them and that there is only room for one high flying tag team as they paved the way for smaller guys to make it to the top.
 
                               
 


Next up is a segment with Desmond Wolfe and Brutus Magnus, with Chelsea. The segment was funny as Chelsea asks if they think they can get something to eat and Wolfe tells her she just ate yesterday. She is also teased when Wolfe asks if she wants a dress as well which she answers yes to, but he then says that when she makes her own money that it will be possible


Magnus brings out the black credit card – saying it is unlimited which they hand over to Chelsea who ponders how much damage she can do as they continue to move on.


Next up Generation Me versus Motor City Machine Guns. The match is really fast paced and goes back and forth in a serious array of high flying moves you have to see to believe because they any description here would not do them justice.


The Bucks get a few great moves as they seem to have a lot that involve them simultaneously back flip and kick down their opponent. Generation Me then do an initially confusing airplane like move near the ropes as Jeremy gets Max up on the rope who then backflips onto the outside onto Motor City Machine Guns.

 
                                           
  
 

The match finally concludes when Alex Shelley hits a cross body as Chris Sabin holds their opponent in a neck breaker position to end the match at a high point.


At the conclusion of the match – they all shake hands and raise their hands together to acknowledge the great match they just had.


Following the match – we take a look at this week`s Impact Player of the week, Generation Me. They give Generation Me a chance to talk as they give credit to their faith for their success. They seem to have a very similar upbringing to that of the Hardy Boyz who grew up on wrestling and they talk about how rare it is for a tag team to be brothers as they are. They say wrestlers have bad reps for certain things, but they are drug free and don`t drink. They go to work, get a bite to eat and go to sleep.


This seems to be an acknowledgment to so many wrestlers in the past who depended on steroids and other pain killers to get by but they say they`re not hurt, they`re fine and they don`t rely on drugs to get by.


The segment ends with them answering the question of what they would be doing if they weren`t wrestlers. They say they never had a plan B and never thought about it. They told their parents from an early age that they`re going to be pro wrestlers and everyone thought they were crazy but here they are and that they are there doing the interview proving that they made it.


The tag team art form was a lost art two years ago but TNA brought it back, and while there are other places to wrestle, TNA gives them a chance to shine and show their art form and that TNA is the number one place to do it and that it is appreciated putting out examples like Motor City Machine Guns and said no one else can touch them all over the world expect them.


They talk about rarity of being brothers and that they have this chemistry. They are working hard, they`re eating right, and that they want to carry that on for years to come


Flair is being interviewed next – he says he is pissed off and that he said he would be the man in TNA and that is exactly what he is. He`s done taking orders, he`s got five or six guys who are the heart and sole of TNA and tonight Anderson, Pope, Hardy and Angle are going to find out first hand. Just as about he`s about to finish his sentence Sting chokes Flair with his bat saying him and Nash have a receipt coming courtesy of him and Nash , and once they eliminate the big problem they`re coming for him.
 


Tenay and Taz discuss No Surrender saying everywhere you turn there is a fight for power. World Television Champion, AJ Styles will be going up against Tommy Dreamer in an I Quit Match. They make note of how both of these guys are extremely tough so this should be an interesting match to say the least. Two of the most resilient men are going to be tested to see who will say “I Quit”.

Motor City Machine Guns will be going up against the number one contenders, Magnus and Wolfe calling their team London Brawling


In the semi-final match it will be Mr Anderson against the Pope for the TNA championship while the other match will be Kurt Angle against Jeff Hardy.


In the back is Steven Richards beating on Abyss as he throws him around and ends up getting thrown into the garbage cans for his efforts. Abyss asks Richards if he wants to join his buddy RVD. They try to make the segment look badass but it seems to go too long and drags on to the point of irrelevance.


Abyss says his little buddy (Steven Richards` buddy) squealed like a pig when Janice got involved. Stevie finally hits a superkick and knocks down Abyss. Richards then comes at Abyss with Janice, the two by four with nails, as Abyss looks on in horror. Abyss reverses the attack though and choke slams Richards onto a stack of wood and tells Richards to deliver the message to the rest of EV 2.0 which is that the same thing that happened to RVD is going to happen to them.


In the ring is Rhino who calls out Abyss right then and there. Abyss comes out through the crowd as Rhino goes right after him with full intensity. Rhino is about to hit the gore on the outside but gets knocked out. Rhino continues to try and hit full offense on Abyss but Abyss continually gets the upper hand.


As they brawl back and forth they make their way to the back of the impact zone near the crowd but on an elevated platform as Abyss is hurt, Rhino once again sets him up for the gore and finally hits it as the crowd cheers but Rhino seems to be limping and looks like he hurt his knee.


AJ Styles is backstage and talks again about how TNA is the house AJ Styles built and not Anderson, not Pope and definitely not Hardy since he hasn`t been around long enough to build anything. If anyone read anybody wrong, it was Styles reading her wrong. It wasn`t her who gave him the opportunity, it was him who gave her the opportunity. He made this company and he made her. And what he made, if he has to, he will tear down.


Final match and Main Event. FourtuneAj Styles, Kazarian, Matt Morgan, and Doug Williams accompanied by Flair. What`s funny about this is that each member has a different hand signal for what they believe Fourtune to be, one person is putting up all fingers except for their middle finger, while others are not including their ring finger. As AJ is also coming out – he removes his hood and in a funny moment shows a feather on his head that stays on there for a while which Taz notices and laughs about for a while.


Next up is Anderson who gets on the mic and introduces himself from Green Bay Wisconsin. Next up is Pope at 100% as he makes it rain money with his face on it. Hardy is out next, full face paint and all as the crowd is extremely excited. Last out is Kurt Angle, introduced as professional wrestling`s only Olympic Gold Medalist.


The match starts off with Anderson against Kaz. They go back and forth with an arm bar on Anderson by Kaz which Anderson reverses only to get slapped by Kaz. Anderson gets the upper hand and then slaps Kaz which Taz makes mention is due to Anderson not being in a good mood due to him having traveling problems but he`s a professional and he`s there.


Pope is tagged in and comes in as Kaz tags in AJ Styles. They go back and forth and AJ Styles then tags into Doug Williams. Aj Styles comes back in and kicks Pope in the back of his head.


Meanwhile there`s a discussion on how Fourtune is oozing confidence thanks to Flair and putting together this group. Tenay questions Taz telling him to think of the violence, the attack on EV 2.0 and on Hogan and that things went too far with Dixie and her husband Serge. But in this match, he doesn`t think things are going too far.


Morgan and Hardy lock up and Morgan hits Hardy with an elbow and practically knocks him out an then laughs about it as Flair laughs along outside the ring.


Morgan continues to dominate as he stands over Hardy showing the sheer size difference and the confidence level Morgan has gained until finally tagging in AJ Styles. Doug Williams is then in the ring and picks up Hardy and throws him neck first into the ropes.


Hardy finally tags in Angle who clears the ring and knocks out the rest of Fourtune as he goes for Kaz who is now the legal man in the ring and chaos ensues as everyone jumps in the ring with Kaz hitting a few moves, which finally ends with Pope stealing the win after Angle hits the Angle Slam and without noticing it Pope tags in and steals the pin that Angle felt he should have gotten. Angle is upset and slaps Pope as they go at it. Fourtune takes over and knock everybody out as they get into a six on four situation against Fourtune with Beer Money coming in to help their teammates.


Tommy Dreamer then runs in and is followed by Sabu who throw the likes of Doug Williams into the rail as Mick Foley gets involved as well. Sabu sets up Doug Williams onto the table with his head flat on the table as he hits the Arabian Face Buster and breaks the table. The brawl continues showing Tommy Dreamer and AJ Styles fighting one another as Impact goes off the air.



share this article on facebook share this article on twitter
Newsletter
Enter your name and email address to become a TNAFansite member, offering great benefits like site updates and opportunities to win great prizes and bonuses!

Featured Fighters
TNA Impact ReviewTNA Impact Review - full match play by play... Read More
TNA RosterTNA offers a better product than WWE, here are reasons why... Read More
Featured Clips
24/07/2010 17:30
TNA FAN SITE:TNA iMPACT
TNA FAN SITE:TNA Impact...  Watch Clip
19/03/2008 16:22
Top Stars of TNA
Samoa Joe – Having not yet won the TNA Championship Title, Samoa Joe is set to win the title at the 2008 Bound for Glory Pay Per View which is set to take place in October of 2008....  Watch Clip
28/01/2008 14:24
An Article by TNAFANSITE.COM`S head writer
Whats the future of wrestling looking like? A prediction of 2008! Before I start this article, I want to introduce myself as I am the owner and head writer for TNAFANSITE.COM....  Watch Clip
Advertisement
RVD TNA World Champion
The Whole F`n Show...  Rob Van Dam TNA Champion

Copyright © 2008, TNAFANSITE.COM

Useful Links  |  Articles Archive  |  RSS Feeds Powered by SoftXML