TNA Impact highlights


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We'll have the full report later tonight, but we'll update as the show goes on with major news.

They will be doing a match for the vacant Knockouts tag titles during the show with Awesome Kong being gone from the promotion.

Hogan & Abyss vs. Ric Flair & A.J. Styles is being put in the opening match slot.  It ended in a no contest. Sting showed up and turned on Hogan & Abyss with bat shots.  Flair hit Hogan with a chair to the head (he pulled it enough to where it wasn't dangerous) and Hogan juiced.  Security hit the ring.  Hogan demanded a rematch before the end of the night in a no DQ match.  

Doug Williams kept the X title in a three-way over Christopher Daniels and Kazarian when he pinned Daniels with a Chaos Theory suplex.  Shannon Moore cleaned house on Williams after the match and Eric Bischoff announced Williams vs. Moore for the title on the PPV.

Dixie Carter announced Sting would face a mystery opponent later in the show.

3-team for vacant Knockouts tag title is next

Velvet Sky & Madison Rayne won the titles over Tara & Angelina Love and Taylor Wilde & Sarita.  Daffney hit Tara with her title belt and Sky got the pin.

Desmond Wolfe attacked Pope's ankle with a chain.  They are supposed to wrestle later.

Sting vs. RVD

RVD won in 9 seconds but Sting laid him out after with a series of baseball bat shots, mostly to the ankle.

They put Sting over as a major heel, destroying RVD with a ton of bat shots, then he destroyed 2 referees with bat shots.  Hogan came out but Bubba the Love Sponge and security held him back.  Sting tried to get Hogan to come in and Sting hit Hogan with a bat shot to the gut, and then laid him out again with a bat shot.

They had an encounter with Young & Nash vs. Hall & Waltman.  It set up a match at the Designation X PPV (well, that's what Nash said) where if Hall & Waltman win, they get a TNA contract, but if they lose, they have to leave.  Hall & Nash shook hands.  Young went to shake hands with Waltman, who slapped him.  Bischoff ordered a Waltman vs. Young match

With both in their clothes, Young pinned Waltman in 1:00 with a piledriver

A ton of Army troops came out introducing Kurt Angle.  Angle was doing a promo when Mr. Anderson did one backstage.  Angle went after Anderson and threw him into the ring.  Anderson got the edge hitting Angle with the medals, but as he went to leave, the troops stopped him.  Angle came back, laid out Anderson with the Olympic slam, and threw him out of the ring over and over while the troops acted like lumberjacks pounding him and throwing him back in. 

A.J. Styles vs. Abyss for the title is the main event on the PPV.

Beer Money beat down Jeff Jarrett to set up a match later.  Mick Foley made an appearance in a suit.

Beer Money beat Jarrett in a handicap match.   Foley was the ref, but Slick  Johnson took the barbed wire bat away from Jarrett and the two refs argued.  Beer Money won with a low blow by Roode and a DWI.

Brooke was crying and didn't want Hulk to wrestle.  Hulk promised Brooke this would be his last match ever. 

Hogan & Abyss vs. Flair & Styles - Jeff Hardy has to be involved in the finish

Abyss pinned Styles with the black hole slam.  Hogan & Flair bled heavily.  Match had a lot of heat but wasn't pretty to watch.  Wolfe came out for a post-match beatdown.  Pope tried to save but got beaten down and Jeff Hardy was in at the end giving Styles a twist of fate and probably a swanton, although they went off the air just as he went to the top.

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