Matches announced for the show include Hernandez vs. James Storm, Taylor Wilde vs. Christy Hemme, and Samoa Joe & Kevin Nash taking on Team 3D. Plus, will we hear from Sting about why he attacked AJ Styles at Hard Justice? Where did Joe get the guitar from? All this and more!
Results and analysis, after the jump! (more…)
I haven’t yet obtained a copy of last night’s PPV. I’ll attempt to do so later on, but for now, here are your TNA Hard Justice 2008 Quick Results!
1.) Petey Williams def. Consequences Creed to retain the X Division Championship
– Creed was attacked by Shiek Abdul Bashir, costing him the match.
2.) Taylor Wilde, Gail Kim, & ODB def. The Beautiful People & Awesome Kong
3.) Beer Money def. LAX to win the TNA Tag Team Championship
4.) Jay Lethal def. Sonjay Dutt in a Black Tie Brawl and Chain match
5.) Christian Cage & Rhino def. Team 3D in a New Jersey Street Fight
6.) AJ Styles def. Kurt Angle in a Last Man Standing match
7.) Samoa Joe def. Booker T in a Weapons Cage match to retain the TNA Championship
– Joe used a guitar that wasn’t originally in the cage to win the match
I’m not ordering the PPV tonight, but I will be around to post results in the morning. I recommend WorldWrestlingInsanity.com for real-time coverage.
My predictions for tonight’s card, after the jump! (more…)
Well, another not so bad edition of iMPACT, with lots of guys getting face time this week. Improving upon last week, the main focus of the show was actually Samoa Joe and Booker T instead of a mid-card tag team (no offense, Beer Money, you guys are my favorite team in TNA right now.) There was even time for some enhancement talent on this week’s show. Congratulations on your vast improvement over the last couple of weeks, TNA!
Results and my thoughts, after the jump!
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I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it – I’m a huge fan of Robert Roode and James Storm as a tag team. Which is why I actually enjoyed last night’s episode of iMPACT. Despite all the crap that happened in the main event at Victory Road, iMPACT focused more on Beer Money than any other performers. They went around whipping virtually everybody, including wrestlers, security guards, and fans. Meanwhile, Samoa Joe is letting Booker T keep the TNA Championship belt, while Team 3D and Kurt Angle swear that Sting is on their side.
Results and what will probably be some not-so-in-depth analysis after the jump!
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I’ll be honest, iMPACT wasn’t overly horrible this week – but I was barely able to pay attention because I had other stuff going on while the show was on. That said, I’ll try my best to give the show a pretty fair review; after all, we don’t want Disco Inferno whining on his blog about how internet wrestling writers are unfair to the TNA product again, now do we? Of course, it’s not hard to rip on TNA’s booking decisions – there’s a pay-per-view coming up this Sunday, and last night’s show took most of the focus off of the main event and shifted it elsewhere. Hell, the World Champion was overshadowed by a returning Sting in his only segment on the show, not to mention that four of the six guys in one of the other huge matches for this Sunday weren’t even on the show. Yes, Disco – us internet writers are unfair to the TNA product.
Results and not-so-in-depth analysis after the jump.
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Well, at least this week, the announcers weren’t surprised when the episode title came true. In fact, after seeing “Karen’s Return” on the screen, Mike Tenay actually said that tonight, we’ll be seeing the return to the iMPACT Zone of Karen Angle. There was really nothing interesting to talk about with that story though, other than the fact that next week on the show, Brother Ray is going to look to his chicktionary to set Kurt up on a couple of blind dates. In Kurt’s words, “no fat chicks.”
While there were a few other things of note, I think they’ll be pretty well covered in the review, so let’s get right to it, after the jump!
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I love it when we get decent world title matches on free TV (though, technically, since I’m paying $105 a month for cable, is it really free?). To be honest, Kaz vs. Samoa Joe was a pretty solid match. Unfortunately for them, they took a back seat to the continuing saga of Kurt and Karen Angle. It used to be funny when I’d type “Hey look, it’s Kurt Angle” on the message boards at World Wrestling Insanity every time he’d be on screen. Hell, at least he was champion back then. Now that Samoa Joe is champion, after beating Kurt Angle for the title, mind you, Joe should be the centerpiece of the program, not curtain jerking while defending his TNA World Title. Hell, the TNA title match took a backseat to LAX vs. James Storm and Robert Roode for the TNA Tag Titles last night. It’s a sad state of affairs to think that the lasting impression from last night’s program isn’t going to be Joe holding up his championship after a hard fought title defense, but instead, the image of Karen Angle, lying in pain on the mat after an attack by Awesome Kong.
Ranting and raving about the rest of the show, after the jump.
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