TNA Impact 2 Hour Debut! 10/4/07
Submitted by Patrick Pena on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 10:58 PM EST





Hello and welcome to a TNA milestone. This is the first ever 2 hour Impact!

Opens with a video package voiced by the classic TNA voice-over guy. This is a really big deal to them. Things can really start to change soon for TNA. It’s the beginning of a new era.

Updated opening titles.

And Mike Tenay welcomes us to the two-hour debut of TNA impact. Team Pacman vs Team 3D face off tonight. Gail Kim vs Jackie Moore. And a big 8 man tag team war.

Opening Contest: Black Reign vs Rhino

Rhino runs straight to the ring and Black Reign runs out. They circle each other and lock up. Rhino takes him down with a shoulder tackle, clothesline. Nearfall. Punches in the corner. Reign rolls out. Rhino slams him into the guardrail. Slams him into the apron. Rhino rolls Reign into the ring. Snapmare. Legdrop. 2 count. Rhino hits a belly to belly suplex. Rhino sets up for the Gore. Reign avoids it and hits some right hands. A legdrop on the apron, with Rhino’s head on the rope. Reign sets up the Shattered Dreams. Instead hits an Ace Crusher. 2 count. Sends Rhino hard into the corner. Another nearfall. Rearnaked choke. Raven sits watching the match, with cane and tophat.

Commercial.

Rhino blocks a vertical suplex and hits one of his own. Both men are down. Ref starts the count. Both men up at 7. They exchange rights. Rhino hits a big clothesline shoulder block in the corner. Another belly to belly. Rhino is ready for the Gore. Raven waits at the side of the ring he trips Black Reign to help him avoid the Gore. Rhino throws Reign into Raven and gets the roll up. Winner: Rhino Rhino beats down Raven but Reign attacks him from behind. Raven stomps Rhino. Reign goes to the top but Abyss’ music hits. He waits for his pyro before hitting the ring. He takes them both down with some rights. Back body drop to Reign. Rhino kicks Raven out of the ring. Chokeslam for Reign. Mitchell comes in but runs from Abyss. Abyss breaks his cane in half. Havoc comes in with a Singapore cane. But Abyss takes him down. Reign hits Abyss in the back of the head with the spike. The lights go out. Sting’s music hits. Sting is in the ring and he attacks Black Reign. Abyss takes him to the crowd. Sting lets out a resounding “whoo.”

Angle is on the big screen. He’s at a football field. He asks Sting if he likes football. He says he’ll let Spike make their money and he’ll be back after the break.

Commercial.

We’re back and so is the World Champion Kurt Angle. He’s at Sting’s son’s football field. He says, if he had a son, he would never miss his football games. Sting is pissed.

JB is in the back with Black Machismo and The Guru. Christopher Daniels vs Jay Lethal at Bound for Glory. Team 3D attacks them. JB runs out of there. 3D drags them out to the ringside area. 3D tosses them into the ring. Big clothesline to Lethal. Elbow to Dutt. Chop in the corner. Shark Boy comes down, neckbrace and all. Devon hits him from behind. 3D on Shark Boy. Powerbomb from the top on Sonjay Dutt. 3D set up a table. Brother Ray says tonight they wrestle Team Pacman and it better be for the tag titles. If it’s not they will continue to eliminate every tag team and every wrestler in TNA. 3D to Lethal through the table.

Crystal in the back with Sting. Sting grabs the director by the shirt. He wants a headset and he wants to talk to Kurt.

Commercial.

Sting says if one hair is hurt on his son’s head, he will destroy Angle. Angle is happy to see that old Sting fire. Angle says he is just there to watch the game.

Earlier today Crystal interviewed Robert Roode.Roode says he hired a marketing firm. A PR firm. He says he got his money from his grandfather. He’s sick of seeing the same old guys in TNA. Roode and Brooks get angry at each other. He says if she wants to keep her job then she needs to shut up and do her job. Roode is so pissed, and the interview is over. Leticia comes in and gets pissed and Crystal for taking her job. Crystal acts like a bitch.

Match Two: Jackie Moore vs Gail Kim

Moore hits a quick kick to the gut and throws Gail into the corner. Some rights. Irish whip, armdrag from Kim, dropkick. Armdrag again. Storm grabs Kim’s leg and Moore takes down Kim. Some stomps. Moore chokes Kim on the ropes. VKM come down the ramp with Roxxie. Moore stomps Kim in the corner. Forearms from Kim. Tilt a whirl backbreaker from Moore. Hemme comes down with her boys. Moore slams Kim’s face to the mat. Gutwrench suplex. Nearfall. Kim hits an elbow and a boot followed by some clotheslines. Drops the knee, nearfall. Jackie misses the splash in the corner. Kim hits the Happy Ending and gets the 1,2,3. Winner: Gail Kim/b> Roxie and Hemme come into the ring and beat down Kim with Moore. Gail Kim ducks the boot from the creepy and pale Roxxie Laveux. She escapes up the ramp. The three ladies in the ring start to brawl.

JB in the back with Cornette. Cornette is giving 3D their title match. But what goes around comes around. He says we’ll see what he means. Sting threatens him. Apparently Angle is now back on the monitor.

Commercial.

Kurt Angle is in the stands pretending to be Howard Kossel into his singlasses.

Cornette is trying to convince Sting that Angle is just messing with his mind. Sting throws Cornette’s desk.

Tag Team Title Match: Team Pacman vs Team 3D

Devon starts off the match with Pacman…not. Obviously Killings starts things off. They lock up and Devon hits a knee to the gut. Clubs to the back of Killings. Sl;ams him head in thew corner. Iriush whip. Classic Killings spot. Killings headbutts Devon in the balls. Flying forearm with the corkscrews. Nearfall. Pacman is tagged in. He takes his shirt off. Devon tags in Brother Ray. He has a football. He slams the football into the gut of Pacman. Brother Ray runs at him but Pacman leapfrogs. Ray grabs the football back. Throws the football at his chest. Pacman grabs the ball. He throws it at Ray’s back. Ducks the clothesline and Killings hits Ray. Devon runs at Pacman but Pacman gives him the low bridge and tags in Killings. Pacman holds the legs for the “wasssaaaappppp” Legdrop by Killings. Ray hits a bitg clothesline on Killings. Ray gets a chair. Killings kicks the chair into the face of Ray. Killings tags in Pacman. Pacman grabs the chair. VKm grabs Killings out of the ring and stomp him down. Hebner calls for the bell. Winners by DQ: Team Pacman Pacman chases VKM to the back. The Steiners hit the ring and chase off 3D.

Commercial.

JB in the back with Raven. He says people say he’s washed up. But he says people said the same thing about Funk the first time he retired. In 1982. Raven says when he’s back in shape, he wants to wrestle Rhino and Abyss. He thinks all three should have a match. Abyss comes out and says let’s make it Monster’s Ball. And bring Black Reign.

Match Four: Gauntlet: James Storm vs Kaz

A nice back and forth ends with a Backcracker by Storm. Storm skins the cat to avoid a baseball side. Over the top DDT by Kaz. Another competitor comes. It’s Robert Roode. Kaz sweeps him down with a kick. Springboard legdrop. Dropkick, kip up. Roode slams down Kaz and hits some rights. Petey Williamns comes down. Been awhile. Petey hits some knees on Storm. Petey goes to work on Storm and Roode. Big Rock Bottom from Roode. ,b>Eric young is entrant five in the ten man gauntlet. Young nearly throws Roode out. Jimmy Rave is next. I don’t think a lot of the crowd knows him. Titlt a whirl armbar. That’s awesome. SabinShelley is next. The Machineguns are both in there. The guns work on Rave. Petey is out. Rave is out. The machineguns are going wild on these guys. Lance Hoyt is number 9. The big man takes down several guys before getting doubleteamed by the guns. Het low bridges Sabin. Sabin is out. Chris harris is the last man in. Harris hits Hoyt with a clothesline. Spinebuster to Shelley. Fill-nelson slam to Roode. Kaz hits a missile dropkick on Hoyt. Big knee to the back of Kaz and he is knocked THROUGH the ropes. He’s not eliminated. Brooks checks on Kaz. Roode gets pissed and beats Kaz down more. Throws him into the steel steps.

Commercial.

We return from the break and learn that Harris was eliminated by Robert Roode. Shelley gets eliminated by Hoyt. Hoyt goes for a double chokeslam but gets eliminated by Eric young and Robert Roode. They exchange rights. Kaz hits Roode. Kaz slides out and kisses Brooks’ hand. He comes in and elimintas Roode. Storm eliminated Kaz. It’s down to Storm and Young. It is now pinfall or submission. Storm locks on a sleeper. Young fights out but Storm locks it on again. He is tenacious with the sleeper. Young kicks off the ropes and they fall down. Young pins Storm with the sleeper still applied. Winner: Eric Young (This was a good match. A nice gauntlet that was well done. Best match of the night so far by far.)

Earlier today, Styles and Tomko are talking. They are about to go to Tokyo. Christian approaches them. Tomko says he has a title to defend. Christian says he can go and defend his title, but Styles is staying.

Commercial.

We see a video package that features highlights and wrestlers speaking about the Ultimate X Match.

Kurt Angl is back at the football. He tells a girl in the stands that Garratt’s dad slapped his wife. He says he’s going to slap Garratt’s ass after the game.

A video package airs for the Christian Cage/Samoa Joe match at Bound For Glory.

Featured Contest: Senshi and Christopher Daniels of Triple X/AJ Styles/Christian Cage vs LAX/Samoa Joe/Junior Fatu

Hernandez and Daniels start it off. Senshi attacks Hernandez from behind. He takes them both down with some shoulders. Big back body drop to Senshi. Homicde is tagged in. Double team from LAX and a nearfall on Daniels. Fatu tagged in. Some rights to Denials. AJ is tagged in. Thumb to the eye of Fatu. AJ goes for a sunset flip. Fatu knocks Triple X off the apron. Homicide with the Tope con Hilo. A thing of beauty. Best in the business. Homicide and Cage in the ring. Rights in the corner from Homicide. Skipper takes Homicide down.

Commercial.

Senshi and Homicide in the ring. Senshi has a headscissors choke on Homicide. Daniels comes in while the ref was distracted. Leg Lariat by Daneils. Tag to Senshi. Double team legdrop. Nearfall. Tag to Cage. Back elbow to Homicide. Nearfall. Homicide slams Cage down and inches toward his corner. Cage pulls him away. Aj is tagged in and AH hits a beautiful dropkick on homicide. 2 count. Cage is tagged in. Homicide hits the double DDT on AJ and Cage. Joe is tagged in. He takes down all four men. HUGE Powerslam on Cage. All 8 men get involved. Joe hits a big suicide dive/ Fatu hits the stink face on Daniels. Goes for the Kishi drvier on Senshi. Aj hits a big flying forearm on Fatu. AJ goes for the Styles Clash but Homicde counters. Hernandez sets up the Border Toss on Senshi. Cage pokes Joe in the eye. Joe blocks the unprettier and locks on the choke. Daniels hits the axehandle and breaks it up. Rake of the eyes. Stomps to Joe. Homicide comes in. Hernandez gets Daniels on his corner. Homicide hits the Ace Crusher on Daneils. PLANCHA BY HERNANDEZ onto AJ styles. The crowd is going wild. Joe goes for the muscle buster on Cage. Cage hits a reverse DDT. Senshi misses the ibg stomp and he and Cage gets a double clothesline. Fatu hits the Kishi Driver. Joe sets Cage up again for the Muscle Buster. Senshi goes for his tidal wave kick but Joe moves and he hits Cage instead. Joe hits the Muscle Buster on Senshi for the 1, 2 ,3. Winners: Joe/Fatu/LAX (Another really good match. Even better than the gauntlet. Much better.)

Angle is back in Cali at the football field. The game is over. Angle taunts Sting some more. He says he’s doing this because he wants to wrestle the old Sting at BFG. He wants to bring out the passion and fire. Garrat tries to avoid Angle. He hits Angle with his cardoor. Angle pulls him out of the car and tells Sting he’ll leave the rest up to his imagination and he pushes the camera away. That’s the end of impact.

This was a much better impact than usual. Still a couple mediocre matches, but the good matches were much longer than usual, and that makes for a better product. I don’t think anyone can argue against the fact that this 2 hour move is a big step up for impact and I hope they put on some great shows in the future. This episode was definitely a good start. If you didn’t watch, catch the replay.









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