Hey guys! Great, great show on Thursday, read below for all the details if you missed it.
Here are your full
TNA iMPACT! results, enjoy!
OFFICIAL TNA “iMPACT” RESULTS
Thursday, July 27, 2006 – Orlando, FL
By: Marcus Cygy
The James Gang opened the show with Jeremy Borash and Eric Young. BG James told Eric that has planned of avoiding a firing stunk, but he did admit Eric was an entertaining segment, so he invited him into his segment tonight. He wanted Eric Young to team with The James Gang tonight against America’s Most Wanted and their partner who was still unknown. Eric was hesitant but once BG ensured this was the safest route of securing his spot in TNA, he immediately accepted his spot in the match.
Carnage broke loose early on when Brother Runt and Abyss were seen brawling from the entrance tunnel all the way to the ring. James Mitchell clicked doomsday on Runt, and that was the end of the battle of unequally proportioned weight classes. Raven was seen looking on from the crowd.
We began competition in the ring with a Petey Williams vs. Johnny Devine vs. Shark Boy vs. Sonjay Dutt, in a Four-Way X-Division bout. During the match, Kevin Nash and Alex Shelley were on hand on top of a scaffold to scout and study the X-Division match for Nash’s upcoming #1 Contender’s Match for the X-Division Title at Hard Justice against Chris Sabin – a man he defeated at Slammiversary with outside interference. This match would go on to see Petey Williams come out victorious with the Canadian Destroyer on Shark Boy; however, Kevin Nash wasn’t done his X-Division studying.
Backstage, Brother Runt was livid and during the spur of the moment he challenged “The Monster” Abyss to a match, anytime, any place, anywhere, in any kind of match. Quite the lofty challenge, but will it come back to bite the Runt?
Jerry Lynn explained backstage to Chris Sabin that at Hard Justice, his match against Kevin Nash wouldn’t be completely surrounded around wrestling. He’s going to have to learn the psychological and political aspects of the business because Kevin Nash is a manipulator. A prime example would be this match dubbed as a #1 Contendership Match for the X-Division Title, at the request of Nash himself.
Christian Cage came out to speak live in front of the crowd. He said he finally realized something, and that is that Sting came back to TNA to make it the greatest promotion in wrestling history. For that, Cage apologized for his wrong accusations towards Sting in the past, and he did it while holding his rosary necklace to show his sincerity. Sting then showed up in classic fashion from the rafters. He agreed with Cage that Jeff Jarrett was a cancer, and that at Hard Justice the surgery will be completed once and for all – Jarrett disposed from TNA! But will Sting accept Christian Cage to be in his corner at Hard Justice? Find out next week!
AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels have been catered too, and were made the poster boys of TNA. That’s Konnan’s perception anyway, and he also said that LAX are going to make a statement at Hard Justice by winning the NWA World Tag Team Championships, and that’s a guarantee from Konnan.
Our next match was The James Gang and Eric Young against America’s Most Wanted and none other than former Team Canada member, A1. Eric didn’t feel to keen on participating in this match going into it, but once Kip had three words for the viewing audience, Eric was pumped and ready as the crowd repetitively chanted, “Don’t Fire Eric” after Kip. Throughout the match though, Eric was very weary about attacking A1, but on the other hand A1 had no problem having his way against Eric. In the end, after brawls from AMW and The James Gang, it was Eric rolling A1 up for the pin while the adrenaline was running through Eric’s body. Once he realized he pinned A1 to win the match, his smile quickly left his face and he was now helping A1 up to his feet. A1 didn’t want any part of it and shrugged it off as The James Gang celebrated with Eric Young and the crowd.
Continuing Kevin Nash’s training for the X-Division, we had Alex Shelley introducing two stars from Madagascar by the names of Samoalying Joe and Super Blue Cross #6. Alex Shelley demonstrated some moves and combos he learned in Mexico while Johnny Devine presented some of his moonsaults. Kevin responded to Shelley with a couple of smacks across the backs of Samoalying Joe and Super Blue Cross #6’s backs, while he would like to think he did a triple moonsault in response to Devine. Alex seemed puzzled and concerned as to why Kevin wasn’t learning from the best, but he’s not giving up. The X-Division Title will be in the hands of The Paparazzi Productions team sooner than later, as Alex would like to think, but will it be Kevin Nash claiming the gold?
Bobby Roode was featured in a video package this week as being one of the hottest rising stars in the heavyweights division. He’s going to headline shows and raise pay-per-view buy rates, as he said. But next week the interview process for a new manager begins.
It was main event time, which featured “The Samoan Submission Machine” Samoa Joe taking on “The War Machine” Rhino for the very first time! It was Rhino’s goal to put a stop to Samoa Joe’s 14 month undefeated streak in one-on-one competition – he has never been pinned or submitted. The two were let loose with hard knocking blows early on, but once Joe was knocked down he answered back, as did Rhino in turn.
“The Alpha Male” Monty Brown pulled up a chair to get an up close and personal look of this match. Rhino took the referee out of the equation when a clothesline decked him after Joe ducked. Rhino and The Alpha Male then went on to brawl on the outside, but Joe reminded them he was still here when he went air ball from inside to out of the ring and knocked both of them down. Later, Rhino setup a table standing vertical in front of the entrance tunnel. Monty Brown tried getting back into the action but he was decked by Joe with a high kick and then locked into the Rear Naked Choke. Rhino now took his turn in reminding them he was still here when he delivered the GORE through the table and entrance tunnel! The match was declared a no-contest; we’ll see you next week on Spike TV!
Quick Match Results:
• Four-Way Match: Petey Williams defeated Johnny Devine, Sonjay Dutt, and Shark Boy.
• Eric Young & The James Gang (BG James & Kip James) defeated America’s Most Wanted (Chris Harris & James Storm), & A1.
• Samoa Joe wrestled Rhino, to a no-contest.