TNA Impact- Starting at 8pm again this week in a smart move to compete with WWE but not directly go head to head with RAW, Jeff Jarret came out and called out Sting claiming he was going to get answers tonight. Then preceded to search for him back stage and up in the rafters. He ultimately found him and knocked him down the stairs and the two continued to battle all the way to the ring, where he begged the question why. The lights went out in the Impact zone and when they came back on Sting had his signature baseball bat and beat Double J down until Jeff Hardy and RVD came out to aid their teammate and Sting retreated.
After this Ric Flair and the rest of team Flair cut a promo about the rest of the night and teaching team Hogan a lesson with Lockdown on the horizon for both teams.
The match ups be begin with Team 3d aka The Dudley Boys and Jessie Neal vs The Band aka The Wolf Pack in a six man street fight tag match. Team 3D seemed to be dominating at first with a var-age of weapons in the ring being used as only the Dudleys could and being sold as only the Bad Guy, Big Sexy and Syxxx Pac could. I have to say this was an exciting treat for me as a long time wrestling fan with to of the most prolific teams of all time going head to head, also seeing Scott Hall taking shots from a Singapore cane for the first time in my life was pretty awesome. Needless to say the match was entertaining but contained almost no technical wrestling as the crowd cheered for tables team 3D was glad to oblige them and put a period on this domination of a competition until Bubba TNA loves to waste money love sponge came out and caused the fatal error that cost Team 3D the match. After which Eric Young Came out and challenged Kevin Nash to a match at Lockdown.
When Impact returned from commercial break after this match Hulk Hogan was caught by Christy Hemi and made a few comments on Team Hogan when he caught Eric Bishoff with the enemy Ric Flair.
The second match up of the night would be an X division showcase featuring Kazarian and Shannon Moore, in a match that did what every X division match up does clearly define the difference between the talent in the WWE and TNA. As the two battled it out in a high impact fast paced match up, the two displayed great ring chemistry and tremendous skill. The only negative thing about this match happened before the match even started and that is that Shannon Moore is the Prince of Posers, there is no room for a Mohawk in the wrestling ring. Doug Williams came out and joined Taz and The Professor at commentary completely downgrading the high fly styles of Kaz and Moore. The match went the distance ending in a time limit draw. After which Williams stated he would put an end to their nonsense once and for all.
In Knockouts action tonight we see Knockouts Champion Angelina Love and Velvet Skye in a match in which Love was handcuffed. This was a pretty lame match compared to past knockouts matches. In the middle of the match it was declared an I Quit match, Skye commenced to pummeling Love being joined by her partners in the beautiful people when Tara came out and saved her from further beating. The match ending with no winner.
After the match they find Abyss who was apparently run down by a car, cliche.
Matt Morgan, who insist on referring to himself as two people, took on the Motor City Machine Guns in a defense of the TNA Tag Team titles with Amazing Red. It was a true David and Goliath match, with Morgan towering over everyone else in the match including his "partner" Amazing Red. At first Morgan was dominating, but the Guns turned the tables with their quickness which was in turn canceled out by red in a successful defense of the tag titles after which Morgan took out Red and said "my belts" like a spoiled 4 year old.
Next Jeff Hardy and Robert Roode went at it in singles competition. Aside from my wishes that hardy overdoses when he goes on his next heroine binge him getting the shit beat out of him is always sweet. Hardy won the match but after the fall James Storm came out and fucked his ass up with a fireball, ha it was awesome. RVD came out to help his team mate but was shut down by the DWI.
Because Abyss was injured by the car Black Machismo volunteered his service as the Pope's tag team partner in the main event, but however he was stopped by Beer Money on his way to the ring forcing The Pope to go into the match by himself against AJ Styles and Desmond Wolfe. But Wolfe was laid out by Hulk Hogan and his steel chair and the match took place as a singles match in a preview of Lockdown. AJ and Pope went at it in a match that appeared at first like it would be a good real match but was ended by disqualification when Ric Flair hit The Pope with the TNA World Title. Team Flair preceded to beat down on the Pope as the show came to an end.
WWE Monday Night Raw- Tonight's guest host for RAW was David Hasselhoff, he made a grand entrance dawning grand apparel and adding hoff to the beginning and the end of everything he could, however he is one of the most charismatic host Raw has had in a while. Announcing at the top of the show that Randy Orton would face the All American Speech Impediment at Extreme Rules.
In the first match of the night the diva's title was on the line in a match between Maryse and Eve Toures. Surprise surprise, this match sucked even with TNA having such a lame knockouts match it was still better than this, with Eve obtaining the Diva's championship.
Show Miz came out and had a bro-tastic moment in which The Miz proclaims that Show Miz is the best tag team in WWE history. Then Bret Hart came out and was talking about all the tag teams in his family. It was a bunch of boring bullshit and I honestly think Bret needs to crawl back into the pit he came out of and let the Hart Dynasty establish themselves as wrestlers. which leads to a match between the Miz and D.H. Smith in which if Smith wins the Hart Dynasty gets a shot at the Unified Tag Titles.
The Miz and D.H. had a good physical match up, in which the miz won by pinfall.
With the usual more talk than I care to listen to I spent most of the night fast forwarding between matches.
Evan Bourne and Carlito went head to head in a match up which was intesely atheletic but the usual quick match for the easily amused Raw audience. Bourne coming out the victor.
The WWE champion John Cena got his revenge against David Otunga in a match in which Cena showed off his entire impressive move set(jk) but seriously WWE has got to step it up. The match ended when Otunga tapped out to the STF, then batista turned on his spot light and the crowd chanted you tapped out.
I'm going to be honest I lost interest in raw before the end and decided rather than watch the rest I would fast forward and skip the rest of the review.
This week's raw was a severe disappointment TNA has the overall better product the war has been won in my eyes and I hope in the eyes of any true wrestling fan.
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thanks for reading
Ryan Rampage
"Just when you think you know the answer... I change the question"
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