Official TNA Wrestling Thread

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I refuse to let this thread die, and now is a good time to bring it back, as tonight's show is bound to be HUGE!

- "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair will be announcing the final member(s) of the "Fortune" alliance. In the team already is the TNA Global Champion A.J. Styles and Kazarian.

- More ECW Originals will be joining TNA and there will be a major announcement concerning the upcoming "HardCORE Justice" ppv. Although no matches have been announced as of yet, Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Mick Foley, Stevie Richards, Rhino, Brother Ray, Brother Devon, and the TNA World Heavyweight Champion Rob Van Dam are all confirmed to be in action at the ppv.

- Motor City Machine Guns will face Beer Money, Inc. in the third match of their best of five series. Beer Money currently leads the series, 2-0. Tonight's match will be in a steel cage.

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'Twas a HUGE show indeed. Anyone else see it? Or am I the only MBer that watches regularly?

Results will be posted at midnight btw.

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Here is the results for this weeks iMPACT!:

- The ECW crew comes out with a video showing their name as E V 2.0. Tommy Dreamer says he's been here eight weeks and this is the loudest he's heard the Impact Zone. He says due to some legal complications with the alphabet, they came up with E V 2.0. He chants it a few times and it seems catchy. He thanks Devon for joining them and asks what's going on. Devon says he doesn't know and Ray is letting dumb family stuff get in the way of this. He calls Ray down to discuss it. Devon tells him to put all their problems aside because these guys are our family. This is who we started out with and had or backs since day one. He asks if he's in or out. Dreamer says tells him to put it aside and join up. This is like his favorite band KISS putting the band back together. Mick Foley says no matter what they're going to put on a hell of a show. At the end of Ray's career if he doesn't do this he'll always regret it. The crowd chants "one more time". Taz gets on the mic and tells Ray to just do it. Ray gets in the ring and takes the mic. He asks Devon to answer one question: are we going to light somebody on fire? The crowd chants E V 2.0. Ray says why not, sounds like a lot of fun. Hulk Hogan's music hits. Hogan comes to the ring. He says he feels safe now that Team 3D made up. He thanks them for doing this and for doing it in TNA. He just wishes he knew in advance and would have some surprises of his own. He says these guys bring hardcore to a whole new level. Dixie told him these guys were to the 90's what he was to the 80's. He said he has a surprise for them. Abyss' music hits and he says he hates to interrupt but "they" are not happy. They are down right pissed off. This was never supposed to happen and they hold one person responsible for this and it's Dixie Carter. Hogan tells Abyss he doesn't care what he says. Dreamer is a guest of theirs here. Abyss says they have given him strict orders to take out Dreamer tonight and stop Hardcore Justice. Hogan says Abyss doesn't call the shots and Dreamer doesn't have to do anything. Dreamer says he'd actually love to fight Abyss and he'd love to fight him tonight. Abyss says tonight he's going to kick Dreamer's ass.
Segment Rating: 5/5

1. Sarita vs. Angelina Love. Winner via Botox Injection, Angelina Love.
Match Rating: 3/5

- Backstage Eric Young is talking to himself and joking around. Orlando Jordan starts yelling at him to be serious because they have a match tonight. Young acts crazy, Jordan yells at him again, Young says he has a plan and has backup coming tonight.
Segment Rating: 2/5

2. Ink Inc. (Shannon Moore and Jesse Neal) vs. Orlando Jordan & Eric Young. It looks like Eric Young's backup is one of Orlando Jordan's mannequins. He's tied it to the tag rope. Eric Young threw the mannequin in the ring but hit no one. This lead to Ink Inc hitting their finisher on Jordan and getting the pin.
2/5

- Backstage Christy Hemme is interviewing Dreamer. She says he must not have expected this tonight. Dreamer says he doesn't have a contract with TNA and wrestling is what he does. So tonight, he's going to show his passion and innovate some violence on Abyss. Dreamer vs. Abyss in a hardcore match is announced for later tonight.
Segment Rating: 3/5

- Ric Flair comes out with AJ Styles, Kaz and Beer Money. He asks if you smell that? It's called excitement in the air. Lethal, wherever you are, we already know Flair is a wrestling god but he's also a wrestling genius. He had a rematch clause and next week it's Flair vs. Lethal in a street fight. Now let's discuss Fortune and its newest members, Beer Money. They're the real enforcers of TNA. Storm says he knew they would join Fortune and soon enough become four time world tag team champions. Tonight they have the Motor City Machine Guns in a steel cage match and will show their dominance. Now onto the new Global champion. Kaz interrupts to say they're not a group of rookies, they're a group of highly trained elite athletes looking to take over. AJ says he couldn't have said it any any better. AJ says it doesn't matter what country he would go to with the title, Fortune is what is making people watch the show so this is not a Global title, it is a TV title and he'll honor it as much every week. He'll do so first by defending this TV title against Rob Terry. Flair says it's time to go celebrate with some women. Before they can leave, Kurt Angle comes out and says just like AJ has to honor the belt, he has to honor his commitment to climb the rankings and AJ is next. It's real, damn real.
Segment Rating: 4/5

3. Steel Cage Match: Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) vs. The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin). Match 3 in the best of 5 series. Robert Roode got bloody early on. Sabin did a dive off the top of the cage onto Beer Money. Winner via neckbreaker/frog splash combo onto James Storm, The Motor City Machine Guns. Series is now 2-1, Beer Money leading.
Match Rating: 5/5

- Mr. Anderson's music hits but Matt Morgan comes out instead. He does the pose for the mic but it doesn't drop and he gets angry and yells to the sky. He does it again and it slowly drops. He does the normal Anderson intro but does it with his own info and ends it with Matt Morgan.....Morgan. The music hits again and Mr. Anderson comes out this time. He gets the mic dropped at the top of the ramp and shows Morgan how easy it is. He does it a couple of times and doesn't know what Morgan's problem is. He goes to the ring and gets in Morgan's face. Morgan asks him if he finds it odd that this very mic is what left him bloody? Morgan is shocked the resident loudmouth of TNA is silent. He sees what's going on. Anderson wants to hit. Morgan says he'll let him do it. He'll bend over and give him a free shot right now. Instead, Anderson gives a nut shot. As Anderson gloats over him, Morgan applies the claw and takes Anderson down. He chokes him with the mic cord until Jeff Hardy makes the save. Hardy and Anderson beat on Morgan until the two security guards run in and start tossing Hardy and Anderson around. Al Snow, D-Lo Brown and Simon Diamond run out to stop them and yell at them. The two guys were the ones who got the dark match at the last tapings, Phil Shatter and Murphy Gunner.
Segment Rating: 4/5

- Backstage Hemme asks Anderson and Hardy what happened. Anderson says he knows who they are. They've been training for ten years and had to settle for security. Now they decided to try and get some attention. Well congrats boys, you got their attention and now it's Hardy and Anderson versus the security guys.
Segment Rating: 3/5

4. Kazarian w/AJ Styles vs. Rob Terry. Terry wins in under a minute with a one handed spinebuster.
Match Rating: 3/5

5. Murphy Gunner, Phil Shatter & Matt Morgan vs. Jeff Hardy & Mr. Anderson. Winner after a Mic Check and Swanton Bomb on Gunner, Jeff Hardy & Mr. Anderson. Terrible match.
Match Rating: 2/5

- Eric Bischoff is out with a major announcement. EB is accompanied by Miss Tessmacher. August 12th, 9 PM you'll see something special. He said they wanted to give PPV quality matches on TV. interrupts and said he just got done talking to them and was told to make the main event for that night. It involves him, a fifteen foot ladder, RVD and his girl Janice. He'll have Janice hung over the ring and he'll tear the flesh off RVD's a--. Abyss tells EB he can make this happen so MAKE IT HAPPEN! Bischoff agrees to it. Abyss says EB is OK by him but Janice doesn't didn't forget what he did last week. Before Abyss can attack him, RVD runs out and beats up Abyss. Abyss takes back over but before he can use Janice on RVD, Al Snow, Simon Diamond and D-Lo Brown come out with chairs to back him off. Tommy Dreamer comes out and this leads to...
Segment Rating: 4/5

6. Hardcore match: Tommy Dreamer vs. Abyss. Winner after a chokeslam onto a barbwire board, Abyss. After the match, Abyss grabs Janice to attack Dreamer but Raven runs down with a chair. It ends up bring a swerve and Raven DDTs Dreamer. The rest of the EV2.0 guys run down and attack Abyss and yell at Raven to end the show.
Match Rating: 4/5

Rating: 4/5, but very, very close to 5/5.

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If you're gonna watch any part at all, watch part 5: an amazing cage match.

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Preview for Thursday's iMPACT!:

TNA is advertising four matches for tonight's episode of Impact: an "extreme" tag match, a street fight, an Ultimate X match, and a TV Title defense.

The "extreme" tag match will feature TNA World Hvt. champion Rob Van Dam & Tommy Dreamer vs. Abyss & Raven. TNA is setting up Dreamer vs. Raven for the Hardcore Justice PPV and RVD vs. Abyss for the "Whole F'n Show" Impact special on August 12.

The street fight will be Ric Flair vs. Jay Lethal in a re-match from the Victory Road PPV.

The Ultimate X match will be Match 4 in the Best-of-Five series between TNA tag champions Motor City Machineguns and Beer Money. The tag titles will be on the line tonight, as Beer Money leads the series 2-1. TNA has already announced that a fifth match would take place on the Aug. 12 Impact special.

The TV Title defense will be new TNA Television champion A.J. Styles defending against Rob Terry. Terry previously held the title in the form of the Global Title before Styles was, in the context of the storyline, apparently granted special privileges to re-name the title.

Overall, TNA will be completing the build-up to the Hardcore Justice PPV on Sunday. TNA has not made any matches official yet for the PPV, but they have set up Dreamer vs. Raven and will be announcing RVD vs. Jerry Lynn.

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Two of the greatest men ever to step in the ring:

A fantastic type of match that, unfortunately, we will probably never see again (****in' four-sided ring. UGH!):

Sabu was argueably the most dedicated man in the business. Come back to TNA, Sabu!!:

Enjoy.

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TNA has announced all the "Hardcore Originals" that will competing at the HardCORE Justuce PPV and they are as follollows:
- Tommy Dreamer
- Mick Foley
- Rob Van Dam
- Team 3D
- Raven
- Rhino
- Stevie Richards
- Simon Diamond
- Al Snow
- Axl Rotten
- Johnny Swinger
- Sabu
- 2 Cold Scorpio
- Brother Runt
- CW Anderson
- The FBI
- The Sandman
- Jerry Lynn
- and there'll probably be alot of surprise appearances as well.

TNA hasn't booked any matches besides Dreamer v Raven w/ Foley as a special referee, but I'm sure we'll also get to see RVD v Jeery Lynn, and Team 3D and Brother Runt against somebody (The FBI?). And Sabu will most likely steal the show, no matter who he is facing (Sandman?, Rhino?).
How ever they're booking it, it's bound to be great. And although it's supposed to be EV 2.0 / ECW-only PPV, I hope Abyss makes an appearance.

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There's one person missing who TNA should be begging to work with....

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How long has Ric Flair been on TNA? Isn't he like 200 years old now or something?