TNA Impact Thoughts

Sting / Kurt Angle, Roode, Bully Ray, James Storm, Abyss, Jeff Hardy

Good opening segment to start the show. Sting makes a 6 man tag for later tonight featuring these guys.

The knockouts featured in the next match are shown having some kind of swimming pool bikini brawl earlier in the day...

Madison Rayne & Gail Kim Vs Traci Brookes & Mickie James

They have a good KO tag match. Gail Kim scored the pinfall.

Ric Flair and Gunner are talking backstage and Sting tells them that he doesn't want Flair going out to the ring with Gunner due to their actions in previous weeks...

Eric Young is looking for ODB backstage...

Great Jeff Hardy video package airs, hyping this being Jeff Hardy's last chance and pushing his match with Robert Roode at Genesis...

Garett Bischoff is backstage, wearing his referee shirt and tells Sting that he isn't going to allow anyone to push him around anymore. Sting tells him to take his referee shirt off and tells him he isn't a referee, he's a wrestler and hands him a pair of wrestling boots... "Welcome to the roster"...

Eric Young goes into Madison & Gail Kim's locker room looking for ODB, he tries to lock up with them both and shuts Madison in a locker before leaving....

Gunner Vs Rob Van Dam

Rob Van Dam is awesome... Good action in this match, which ends in a double count out. Gunner tries to piledrive RVD outside the ring, but RVD reverses it into a backdrop. RVD misses his spinning kick from the ring apron into the guardrail that looked brutal, but hey, it's RVD, the whole F'n show...
Simon Diamond, Al Snow and D'Low Brown come to the ring to stop Gunner from hitting the Piledriver on the cement to an injured RVD.....

Both main event teams give good, short backstage promos before their match later tonight...

Austin Aries & Kid Kash Vs Jesse Sorensen & Zema Ion
Great action in this tag match by all involved.
Jesse Sorensen gets the win for his team by scoring the pinfal on X Division Champion, Austin Aries.

Eric Young catches up with ODB backstage and tries to lock-up with her, they end up rolling around on the floor and ODB kisses Eric before leaving... Eric says he is in love....

Wild Card Tag Team Tournament Finals
Samoa Joe & Magnus Vs AJ Styles & Kazarian

Great action by everyone in this match. Leading to the finish, Chris Daniels makes his way to the ramp and Kazarian drops down from the apron before Styles can make the tag.... Joe and Magnus double team Styles and pick up the win....
Kazarian looks upset and unsure about turning his back on Styles as he leaves with Daniels...

Backstage, Crimson and Morgan come face to face with the new No.1 contenders, Samoa Joe & Brutus Magnus and they are kept apart by officials before it breaks into a brawl....

Bobby Roode, Kurt Angle and Bully Ray Vs Jeff Hardy, James Storm & Abyss

This was a really exciting faced-paced tag match which fairly quickly turns into a brawl, with all guys in the ring at the same time....
The referee throws the match out at this stage and the heels beat down on Abyss, Hardy & Storm as Impact Wrestling goes off the air...

Overall, I thought this was a really strong edition of Impact Wrestling. Lots of good wrestling and less than usual promo / storyline segments.
If every show was like this one, no one could ever roll their eyes to the tagline "We are wrestling"....