11/06/08: Mike Poulin's TNA Impact Recap


Date: 11/06 10:30 PM
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Written by Mike Poulin

11/6/08 TNA Impact Recap

This week on Impact we will hear from the Main Event Mafia. Also Booker T and Beer Money Inc. take on Christian Cage and Motor City Machine Guns. A 3 team involving Abyss and Matt Morgan taking on LAX and Volador Jr and Tanahashi. Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed take on Rhaka Khan and Taylor Wilde, and Scott Steiner faces Samoa Joe.

Long ass promo from the Main Event Mafia as they introduce Scott Steiner. Steiner proceeds to butcher the English language and say that all that the young wrestlers of TNA do after their matches are play video games and go on the Internet and read what the fans say. Samoa Joe and the rest of the young guys come out. Joe says that if they could understand what Steiner said they'd be offended. Joe then promises to kick Kevin Nash's ass at Turning Point and kick Scott Steiner's ass tonight. Joe then brings out the new member of Team TNA Christian Cage. Cage says he doesn't need to take a side and says that he busted his ass to get 2 world titles just like the rest of the young guys in TNA are doing and promises to beat Booker T at Turning Point. We go backstage to Jeremy Borash who is with Mick Foley who is going to make another huge announcement later tonight.

Match 1
Booker T and TNA Tag Team Champions Beer Money vs. Christian Cage and the Motor City Machine Guns

Not a bad opener here. Guns got some nice offensive in early but Beer Money cut the ring off on Sabin and double team him a bit. We get the typical clusterfuck brawl towards the end with Sabin landing a really nice dive taking out both of Beer Money. Christian lands the inverted DDT but Jacqueline distracts referee Glamour Boy Shane Seouls and Booker waffles Christian with the legends belt and scores the cheap pin. Winners: Booker T and TNA Tag Team Champions Beer Money Inc.

We go backstage to basically get the same promo from Jeff Jarrett where he says he steps in the ring when he says and not when Kurt Angle says. We go backstage to see Awesome Kong attacking Roxxi and beating her down.

We come back from commercial and Roxxi is laid out and is apparently bleeding from her neck and her back. Lauren tries her best to show concern by asking if she's going to be okay but if anyone's noticed Lauren totally sucks as a backstage announcer.

Match 2
Abyss and Matt Morgan won a 4 team ladder match to gain a future tag title shot over LAX, Team 3D, and Volador and Tanahashi
. Team International really didn't play a big part in this which is disappointing because I was looking forward to seeing these guys. Also Roode and Storm apparently attacked Team 3D and helped Abyss and Morgan win. Wait why the fuck would they fucking help the faces win this fucking god damn clusterfuck of a match.

Mick Foley and AJ Styles are in the ring and Mick basically puts AJ Styles over as the leader of the TNA young guys and says at Turning Point it will be his turn to prove his point against Sting. Sting then comes out and cuts the same promo about the young guys not respecting the veterans and brings up AJ's family says his dad was right to kick him out of the house when he was 15 and talks about AJ's son and that's how we end the build for this match going in to the PPV.

We go backstage to Lauren who is with Taylor Wilde. Wilde dedicates the match to Roxxi and Rhaka Khan comes in and says that she'll team up with Wilde.

Match 3
Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed beat Rhaka Khan and Taylor Wilde
. When Khan turned on Wilde and Kong landed the Implant Buster. God damn it after teasing Kong vs. Khan which is fucking money they have Khan Turn on Wilde. Why would they do that!

We go backstage to Jeremy Borash who is with Kevin Nash. Nash says that Joe ran down his best friend and says that he's in shape and says he's going to beat Joe at Turning Point.

Match 4
Kevin Nash, Kurt Angle and TNA Champion Sting beat Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed and Eric Young
. This match wasn't quite the squash I was fearing but still a big squash nonetheless.

Turning Point Rundown
Sting vs. AJ Styles TNA Title
Joe vs. Nash in the it's about fucking time match.
Booker vs. Christian
Angle vs. Abyss falls count anywhere
Beer Money vs. MCMG possibly the only good match on this card
Rhino vs. Sheik Bashir Non Title
X Division Rankings Match hopefully Tanahashi and Volador Jr are in this match because I want to see more of the International guys in TNA.
Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed vs. Roxxi and Taylor Wilde

We go backstage to Lauren who is quickly threatened to be Gored by Rhino. Rhino says that at Turning Point the's going to deport Bashir with the GORE GORE GORE. By the way i would have loved to see Lauren get Gored.

Main Event
Scott Steiner vs. Samoa Joe

Well we continue with the lackluster matches on this show. Early in the match Joe went for the Kokina Clutch but Steiner grabbed the referee and kicked Joe in the balls and we go to commercial 3 minutes in with Steiner controlling things. End comes about 90 seconds after we come back from commercial as Joe ends up taking out Kevin Nash with the Suicide Elbow but then gets clocked by brass knuckles and pinned by Steiner. Hooray that mean's this show is over. Winner: Scott Steiner.

After the match Kevin Nash beats up Joe until AJ Styles makes the save and Joe and AJ stare down the Main Event Mafia as Impact goes off the air. Very boring show and not the best way to interest people in to buying your PPV on Sunday. Also I'd like to note that I love how Roxxi got beat up supposedly so bad that she was bleeding from her neck but yet 3 days later she's going to be teaming up with Taylor Wilde in the match with Kong and Saeed. What the FUCK way to make that beat down unrealistic. Anyway thanks for reading and I'll talk to everyone and hopefully have a more upbeat attitude on next week's recap.



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