TNA Impact 5th July 2012
Bully Ray / Joseph Park
TV Title: Devon Vs Crimson
Chris Sabin / Bobby Roode
Flip Cassanova Vs Dakota Darsaw
Tara & Tessmacher Vs Gail Kim & Madison
AJ Styles / Chris Daniels & Kaz
Kenny King Vs Lars Only
James Storm Vs Jeff Hardy
Hulk Hogan / Robert Roode / Austin Aries




Bully Ray comes to the ring and announces that he has joined Twitter! Realbully5150. He calls out Joseph Parks.
Joseph comes to the ring and reminds Bully that he beat him last time and he’s going to beat him again next week in their No DQ match.
Bully Ray says he has a restraining order against Abyss.
If Abyss gets near Bully Ray, he will be sent to jail “For the rest of his life”.

Hogan is backstage with Aries and tells him that he has to “Take TNA to the promised land” by beating Roode

TV Title: Devon Vs Crimson
This was a short match, which Devon won with the Spinebuster.
Madison Rayne comes to the ring, pushes Devon aside and reveals her crush by kissing Earl Hebner…
“There’s not enough blue pills that can help this guy” says Taz  lol

Chris Sabin walks to the ring wearing a knee brace and using a crutch for support. He is wearing shades and looking very emotional.
He says that he always wanted to be a pro wrestler and his doctor recently told him that maybe he should consider a different career now he has torn his 2nd ACL…
Roode comes to the ring and says that the X Division wrestlers are all the same, they take risks with no reward - Just like Aries is going to risk it all when he surrenders his X Division Title for a chance to win the TNA World Championship at Destination X. He then kicks Sabin’s crutch, knocking him down and he puts the boots to him before Austin Aries runs to the ring to make the save.

Flip Cassanova Vs Dakota Darsaw
Fast-paced little match, both guys look pretty good in the ring.
Cassanova wins with a Shooting Star double leg drop from the top rope.

Tara & Tessmacher vs. Gail Kim & Madison
Tessmacher picks up the win for her team after Tara shows why she’s one of the best female wrestlers in the business.

AJ Styles walks to the ring and says that first he is accused of having an affair with Dixie and now he is being accused of having an affair with Claire Lynch and being the father of her baby.
Daniels and Kazarian confront Styles from the ramp and insist that they are telling the truth.
Styles says that he wants a Last Man Standing match with Chris Daniels at Destination X.

Hogan is handed an envelope backstage and the unnamed delivery guy tells him “We are not cowards”. Hogan opens the envelop and finds a note with Aces and Eights (The devil’s hand) printed on it….

Kenny King Vs Lars Only
A few blown spots in this. I think Lars needs a little more experience in the ring.
Kenny King looked good and he won the match, moving on to Destination X.

Austin Aries promo / training segment
This was great.

Austin Aries and Kenny King meet up backstage and Aries congratulates him on his win.
Aries says the he will hand over the X Division Title to Hulk Hogan later tonight.

James Storm Vs Jeff Hardy
Hardy picks up the win with the Twist Of Fate after avoiding the Last Call Superkick.
Good match.
Storm and Hardy shake hands after the match which “could have gone either way” .

Bound For Glory Leader board

Storm  36 Points
Joe 27 points
Magnus 14 points
Hardy 14
Kurt 10
Anderson 9
Pope 7
RVD 7
Chris Daniels 5
Bully Ray 0
Robbie E 0
AJ Styles  0


Bound For Glory will be held in Phoenix, Arizona this year.

Kurt Angle and Ken Anderson talk about their Bound For Glory series match next week and put over the importance of winning the match and taking a step towards being TNA World Champion.

Hulk Hogan comes to the ring and calls out the current X Division Champion, Austin Aries….
Robert Roode heads to the ring instead and tells Hogan to shut up. He says it’s Hogan’s fault that he has to  face Aries at Destination X and the blood will be on Hogan’s hands.
Austin joins them in the ring and challenges Roode to fight, but Roode says that Aries isn’t worth it and starts to leave the ring. When Aries turns his back, Roode tries to jump him from behind but Aries avoids the belt shot and hits one of his own to clear Roode out of the ring.
Austin Aries hands over his X Division Title to Hulk Hogan and Impact goes off air with Aries holding the World Title in the air….

Overall, this was a pretty good show which featured good promos and some good wrestling too.

I’m looking forward to TNA’s Destination X PPV