iMPACT! Spoilers for Thursday w/ Xplosion

Machismo Fan

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I got to the Impact Zone a little late tonight. When I walked in, there was an in-ring segment with the Hardcore Originals (including Team 3D), Hulk Hogan and Abyss to set up Dreamer vs. Abyss in the main event. Hogan noted Tommy Dreamer was there as a guest of TNA.

*Sarita vs. Angelina Love. Love defeated Sarita.

*We are shown a video clip with Orlando Jordan and Eric Young setting up a tag match tonight. Young seems to be doing a deal where he's acting goofy because he was kicked in the head.

*Ink, Inc. defeated Orlando Jordan and Eric Young. Jordan kissed Socal Val while making his way to the ring. Young brought a male fake model in pink feathers down to the ring with him and put it in their corner.

*A Universal employee warned everyone not to hop the rail as a kid did last time. Dixie Carter and Hermie Sadler are in the house.

*Tommy Dreamer did a promo backstage saying that he might not have a TNA contract, but tonight he's going to show Abyss what Extreme is. The Abyss vs. Dreamer bout is a Hardcore match.

*Ric Flair came out and announced Beer Money were the final two members of Fortune. So, it's Beer Money, AJ Styles and Kazarian in the group. Flair announces he will return to the ring against Jay Lethal next week. Robert Roode says that when they defeat the Motor City Machineguns in a Steel Cage tonight, they will be the new Tag Team champions. Kazarian cut a promo about being in Fortune. Styles cut a promo about being the Global champion. Kurt Angle came out and told Styles he was next on Angle's list.

*As they set up the Steel Cage, Jeremy Borash pushed fans to order VIP packages for TNA Hardcore Justice as they are close to selling out at www.shoptna.com.

*Beer Money vs. Motor City Machineguns in a Steel Cage (Match 3 of 5 match series). They are doing traditional tag rules inside the Cage. Roode is busted open. The crowd is into this one big time. The roof came off the Impact Zone after Alex Shelley flew from the top of the cage to land on Beer Money. James Storm nailed Roode with the beer bottle accidentally and both members of BM were pinned. 2-1 now and the Guns are still alive. Awesome match.

*Matt Morgan comes to the ring to Mr. Anderson's music. He mocks calling for the mic but doesn't get it until his third try. Morgan mocks Anderson introducing himself and makes up a bunch of fake info about himself calling himself 8 foot tall and 484 pounds. Ken Anderson comes out on the ramp and has a mic lowered for him. Anderson comes down to the ring. Morgan makes fun of the attack on him last week. Morgan dares Ken to hit him which Anderson eventually does. Morgan gets the upper hand again and chokes Anderson with the mic chord. Jeff Hardy comes down to make the save and unloads. Security comes in to break them up. Morgan gets a couple cheap shots in until D'Lo Brown, Simon Diamond and Al Snow come in and yell at security to end the segment.

*They air a graphic listing an Eric Bischoff announcement as well as Jeff Hardy & Ken Anderson vs. Matt Morgan and...a TNA security guard.

*Rob Terry pinned Kazarian in 30 seconds.

*Anderson & Hardy vs. Morgan & Security Guard. Morgan walks off and leaves the Guards to fend for themselves. Hardy pins one with a Twist of Fate.

*Eric Bischoff announced that the 8/12 edition of Impact will be a special episode featuring former ECW stars. The main event of that episode will be TNA champion Rob Van Dam vs. Abyss with Janice hanging above the ring in a Hardcore Match. Abyss came out and tried to use Janice on Bischoff but Rob Van Dam made the save. Abyss got the upper hand but TNA management came out. Finally, Tommy Dreamer hit the scene and the main event kicked off....

*Dreamer vs. Abyss. Dreamer is in control but they go to ringside. Dreamer uses a beer can on Abyss, then throws the trash can full of weapons into the ring. The crowd is totally behind Dreamer. Dreamer does the whole ECW baseball slide into Abyss with the trash can in front of abyss' face. Dreamer brings out a barbed wire board. Dreamer picks up the trash can but Abyss punches it in his face, then chokeslams Dreamer to get the pinfall victory.

The Guns/Beer Money is quickly becoming the highlight of my week every week. I can't wait for this match.

Machismo Fan

Second set of spoilers:

Dark Match:

* Xavier vs. Douglas Williams in a TNA tryout bout for Xavier. Winner via Chaos Theory, Douglas Williams.

Xplosion:

* Hernandez & Rob Terry vs. Desmond Wolfe w/Chelsea & Brutus Magnus. Winner via backslide from Desmond to Hernandez with Magnus holding his feet from the outside, Desmond Wolfe & Magnus.

* Generation Me vs. Ink Inc. Winner via neckbreaker/Samoan drop combo, Ink Inc.

* It was announced for parents to watch their kids and for no one to jump the rails. This was because of the incident earlier this month.

TNA Impact (Airing Thursday on Spike TV):

* The ECW crew comes out with a video showing their name as E V 2.0. Tommy Dreamer says he's been here eight weeks and this is the loudest he's heard the Impact Zone. He says due to some legal complications with the alphabet, they came up with E V 2.0. He chants it a few times and it seems catchy. He thanks Devon for joining them and asks what's going on. Devon says he doesn't know and Ray is letting dumb family stuff get in the way of this. He calls Ray down to discuss it. Devon tells him to put all their problems aside because these guys are our family. This is who we started out with and had or backs since day one. He asks if he's in or out. Dreamer says tells him to put it aside and join up. This is like his favorite band KISS putting the band back together. Mick Foley says no matter what they're going to put on a hell of a show. At the end of Ray's career if he doesn't do this he'll always regret it. The crowd chants "one more time". Taz gets on the mic and tells Ray to just do it. Ray gets in the ring and takes the mic. He asks Devon to answer one question: are we going to light somebody on fire? The crowd chants E V 2.0. Ray says why not, sounds like a lot of fun. Hulk Hogan's music hits. Hogan comes to the ring. He says he feels safe now that Team 3D made up. He thanks them for doing this and for doing it in TNA. He just wishes he knew in advance and would have some surprises of his own. He says these guys bring hardcore to a whole new level. Dixie told him these guys were to the 90's what he was to the 80's. He said he has a surprise for them. Abyss' music hits and he says he hates to interrupt but they are not happy. They are down right pissed off. This was never supposed to happen and they hold one person responsible for this and it's Dixie Carter. Hogan tells Abyss he doesn't care what he says. Dreamer is a guest of theirs here. Abyss says they have given him strict orders to take out Dreamer tonight and stop Hardcore Justice. Hogan says Abyss doesn't call the shots and Dreamer doesn't have to do anything. Dreamer says he'd actually love to fight Abyss and he'd love to fight him tonight. Abyss says tonight he's going to kick Dreamer's a--.

* Sarita vs. Angelina Love. Winner via Botox Injection, Angelina Love.

* Backstage Eric Young is talking to himself and joking around. Orlando Jordan starts yelling at him to be serious because they have a match tonight. Young acts crazy, Jordan yells at him again, Young says he has a plan and has backup coming tonight.

* Ink Inc. vs. Orlando Jordan & Eric Young. It looks like Eric Young's backup is one of Orlando Jordan's mannequins. He's tied it to the tag rope. Eric Young threw the mannequin in the ring but hit no one. This lead to Ink Inc hitting their finisher on Jordan and getting the pin.

* Backstage Christy Hemme is interviewing Dreamer. She says he must not have expected this tonight. Dreamer says he doesn't have a contract with TNA and wrestling is what he does. So tonight, he's going to show his passion and innovate some violence on Abyss. Dreamer vs. Abyss in a hardcore match is announced for later tonight.

* Ric Flair comes out with AJ Styles, Kaz and Beer Money. He asks if you smell that? It's called excitement in the air. Lethal, wherever you are, we already know Flair is a wrestling god but he's also a wrestling genius. He had a rematch clause and next week it's Flair vs. Lethal in a street fight. Now let's discuss Fortune and its newest members, Beer Money. They're the real enforcers of TNA. Storm says he knew they would join Fortune and soon enough become four time world tag team champions. Tonight they have the Motor City Machine Guns in a steel cage match and will show their dominance. Now onto the new Global champion. Kaz interrupts to say they're not a group of rookies, they're a group of highly trained elite athletes looking to take over. AJ says he couldn't have said it any any better. AJ says it doesn't matter what country he would go to with the title, Fortune is what is making people watch the show so this is not a Global title, it is a TV title and he'll honor it as much every week. He'll do so first by defending this TV title against Rob Terry. Flair says it's time to go celebrate with some women. Before they can leave, Kurt Angle comes out and says just like AJ has to honor the belt, he has to honor his commitment to climb the rankings and AJ is next. It's real, d--- real.

* They're building the cage now.

* Steel Cage Match: Beer Money, Inc. vs. The Motor City Machine Guns. Match 3 in the best of 5 series. Robert Roode got bloody early on. Sabin did a dive off the top of the cage onto Beer Money. Winner via neckbreaker/frog splash combo onto James Storm, The Motor City Machine Guns.

* Mr. Anderson's music hits but Matt Morgan comes out instead. He does the pose for the mic but it doesn't drop and he gets angry and yells to the sky. He does it again and it slowly drops. He does the normal Anderson intro but does it with his own info and ends it with Matt Morgan.....Morgan. The music hits again and Mr. Anderson comes out this time. He gets the mic dropped at the top of the ramp and shows Morgan how easy it is. He does it a couple of times and doesn't know what Morgan's problem is. He goes to the ring and gets in Morgan's face. Morgan asks him if he finds it odd that this very mic is what left him bloody? Morgan is shocked the resident loudmouth of TNA is silent. He sees what's going on. Anderson wants to hit. Morgan says he'll let him do it. He'll bend over and give him a free shot right now. Instead, Anderson gives a nut shot. As Anderson gloats over him, Morgan applies the claw and takes Anderson down. He chokes him with the mic cord until Jeff Hardy makes the save. Hardy and Anderson beat on Morgan until the two security wrestler guys run in and start tossing Hardy and Anderson around. Al Snow, D-Lo Brown and Simon Diamond run out to stop them and yell at them. The two guys were the ones who got the dark match at the last tapings, Phil Shatter and Johnny Clawmarks.

* Backstage Hemme asks Anderson and Hardy what happened. Anderson says he knows who they are. They've been training for ten years and had to settle for security. Now they decided to try and get some attention. Well congrats boys, you got their attention and now it's Hardy and Anderson versus the security guys.

* Kazarian w/AJ Styles vs. Rob Terry. Terry wins in under a minute with a one handed spinebuster.

* Murphy Gunner, Phil Shatter & Matt Morgan vs. Jeff Hardy & Mr. Anderson. Winner after a Mic Check and Swanton Bomb on Gunner, Jeff Hardy & Mr. Anderson. Terrible match, I'm told Gunner has no business working on TV.

* Eric Bischoff is out with a major announcement. EB is accompanied by Miss Tessmacher. August 12th, 9 PM you'll see something special. He said they wanted to give PPV quality matches on TV. Abyss interrupts and said he just got done talking to them and was told to make the main event for that night. It involves him, a fifteen foot ladder, RVD and his girl Janice. He'll have Janice hung over the ring and he'll tear the flesh off RVD's a--. Abyss tells EB he can make this happen so MAKE IT HAPPEN! Bischoff agrees to it. Abyss says EB is OK by him but Janice doesn't didn't forget what he did last week. Before Abyss can attack him, RVD runs out and beats up Abyss. Abyss takes back over but before he can use Janice on RVD, Al Snow, Simon Diamond and D-Lo Brown come out with chairs to back him off. Tommy Dreamer comes out and this leads to...

* Hardcore match: Tommy Dreamer vs. Abyss. Winner after a chokeslam onto a barbwire board, Abyss. After the match, Abyss grabs Janice to attack Dreamer but Raven runs down with a chair. It ends up bring a swerve and Raven DDTs Dreamer. The rest of the EV2.0 guys run down and attack Abyss and yell at Raven to end the show.

waltersobchak

Sounds like another good iMPACT. Have to say i've really enjoyed the shows the last couple of weeks.

JP Liz V1

Looks like Kaz and Styles feud isnt happening

Guns win this week

paddyismaddy

i hoped wolfe might get a title push

Machismo Fan

paddyismaddy wrote: »

i hoped wolfe might get a title push

That's the second time he's teamed with Magnus so it looks like they're going in that direction for a while. I think a stint in the tag division will do Wolfe some good, it'll get him out of that jobber to the stars role and a Guns vs. Magnus/Wolfe feud would be pretty fun. Looks like Raven vs. Dreamer for HardCORE Justice.

Furious-Red

I think Wolfe seems to have a bit of an ego in TNA so maybe they are demoting him for the time being

D2D

EV 2.0.... Catchy name

I really can't wait to watch Beer Money vs MCMG in the cage. I'm loving this best of 5 series. The previous 2 matches have just been awesome to watch

Super-Rush

Anyone watching?

Super-Rush

Beer Monery v MCMG was brilliant. Just skip to this match, everything else is irrelevant.

Machismo Fan

super-rush wrote: »

Beer Monery v MCMG was brilliant. Just skip to this match, everything else is irrelevant.

I could watch those two teams go every day of the week - awesome!

Super-Rush

Same here man. That dvd looks good.

Machismo Fan

Folks, go out of your way to see that Guns/Beer Money cage match - it's quite possibly one of the best 8 minute matches in the history of wrestling.

Vince135792003

Machismo Fan wrote: »

Folks, go out of your way to see that Guns/Beer Money cage match - it's quite possibly one of the best 8 minute matches in the history of wrestling.

Not according to Lane Strom.

I'll watch it and see what I think.

Machismo Fan

Vince135792003 wrote: »

Not according to Lane Strom.

What did Storm say about it?

Vince135792003

Machismo Fan wrote: »

What did Storm say about it?

In short: no psychology. They did lots of great moves but the lack of attempted pin falls hurt his enjoyment of it.

JohnMc1

Vince135792003 wrote: »

In short: no psychology. They did lots of great moves but the lack of attempted pin falls hurt his enjoyment of it.

isn't that modern wrestling today in general? Spotfests?

What channel are you guys watching the lastet TNA episodes on btw? Everytime I flip on Bravo its one from last year.

Shaneomac

I reckon Lance Storm has far too much time on his hands. Hardly the greatest wrestler or in ring psychologist of all time himself. On a weirder note, anyone see Raven licking Dreamers face at the end?

Vince135792003

Shaneomac wrote: »

I reckon Lance Storm has far too much time on his hands. Hardly the greatest wrestler or in ring psychologist of all time himself.

I always thought he was very good.

On the match, I liked it. I generally enjoy watching both teams and it was all action.

I do see Storms point though about the use of blood and the lack of near falls off big manouvres though. Also it should be noted that he did say he was a big fan of all 4 of them and that was why the match annoyed him more.

EdK

That blood was too bad and too early in the match to be blade surely? just a thought

Vince135792003

EdK wrote: »

That blood was too bad and too early in the match to be blade surely? just a thought

I don't know. I wasn't paying attention. Storm on the audio show said that he saw it coming before it happened so I'll go with the veteran!

flahavaj

I haven't seen any of the Beer Money/MCMG matches but I imagine they're unreal. Might wait till the series is over and watch em all at once. Seems a bit mad though to have a steel cage match thrown in there as a kinda throwaway match as the third in the series? I miss the days when steel cage matches meant something and weren't giveaway eight minute TV matches (no matter how good they may be).

waltersobchak

The blood was definitely unnecessarily early into the match for sure(unless it was an accident of course) Unreal match so far though

CMpunked

That match was pretty good, not sure if id agree that the blood was too early in the match, i was surprised, but in a good way.

MCMG and Beer Money remind me a lot of the hardys and the dudleys back in 2000.

Ah, memories

michael.etc...

flahavaj wrote: »

I haven't seen any of the Beer Money/MCMG matches but I imagine they're unreal. Might wait till the series is over and watch em all at once. Seems a bit mad though to have a steel cage match thrown in there as a kinda throwaway match as the third in the series? I miss the days when steel cage matches meant something and weren't giveaway eight minute TV matches (no matter how good they may be).

I agree with this. Plus, i imagine the dynamic between beer money and MCMG would make for a really awesome, old-school tag match in the cage. A blow-off in that fashion could really have been a MOTY.

Still- it was a very entertaining match. Storm's criticisms are very much valid though- if they had been given 15-17 minutes even, they could have ironed out those flaws which were all based on not having enough time to properly sell. They did a perfect job with what they were given I thought.

JP Liz V1

The cage match was great I just wish it lasted longer and closed the show instead of the ECW guys

Raven reminds me of Jeff Hardy now I'm confusing them alot

Fortune is looking like Evolution Part II