-by David Tuthill

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TNA returned tonight for Week 6 of their two hour iMPACT show. Scott Hall was announced last night as being here tonight.

-Christian Cage and Kaz went to a No Contest in the finals of the #1 Contender tournament. Cage at first scored the pinfall after interference from Tomko and AJ Styles, but Matt Morgan came out and changed the decision and announced a rematch in a Ladder match at Genesis.

-Gail Kim d. Alexis ?. Name was very hard to hear but she looked very good. After the match, VKM comes out on the ramp and distracts Gail, who turns into an attack by Roxxi Lavaugh. Angel Williams comes out and lays out Roxxi, followed by ODB who lays out Williams. Finally, Gail comes off the top with a missile dropkick onto ODB.

-Team 3D d. Jay Lethal & Abyss. I'm not sure why Lethal and Abyss are teaming. Black Reign came out and brawled with Abyss to the back, enabling DVon to lowblow Lethal, who then got hit with a 3D for the pin. 3D lays Lethal on a table (which starts coming hilariously close to breaking) and whips him with their belts until he is saved by the Motor City Machine Guns.

-Kurt Angle comes out. He calls out Scott Hall. He doesn't come out, so Angle leaves. That was it. 30 seconds, tops.

-The ropes came down for a "Takedown Challenge" between AJ Styles and Scott Steiner. Styles came out wearing a "Gainesville Vocational" singlet, which was very funny. Steiner kept blocking AJ's attempts at takedowns to the point where AJ threw a fit. As he was doing so, he grabbed someone out of his headpiece and threw it at Steiner's eyes to blind him. He scored three quick takedowns. Steiner came back with four of his own and was about to win until Tomko ran out. They brawled until Rick Steiner made the save.

The ringcrew then put the ropes back up and had a hell of a time doing it. A Comedy of Errors.

-Sting, Eric Young, and Samoa Joe d. Kurt Angle, James Storm, and Bobby Roode. Good match. Traci and the Roode plant had a very long staredown. Standard six man match. Roode and Joe brawled to the back and Sting made Storm tapout clean with the Scorpion Deathlock.

-Kevin Nash came out and called out Scott Hall. He came out and the two bantered back and forth for a little while. Gray hair jokes, etc. Nash said he had to stop living life the way Hall did since he didn't want to lose his family. Hall says that he is not Sting's partner, and never will be, but will always be partners with Nash. The two hug and pose as Angle comes out. He demands to know who Sting's partner is. Sting comes out from the other ramp and tells Angle that he will "find out Sunday."

Xplosion match: LAX & Sonjay Dutt d. XXX. By far the best match of the night. Finish was Daniels on Hernandez's shoulders, Homicide coming off the top with an Ace Crusher, and Dutt landing a 450 Splash for the pin.

Quick Thoughts: It's a bummer the best match on the show will be the match nobody ever sees. Where does Xplosion even air nowadays? Very little in-ring action this taping. Hopefully the Angle comedy stuff backstage is good, because there's going to be a whole lot of it. {plug}