Impact LD: 3/5/09

[Steamboat Ricky]

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I'm actually excited about this tonight.

Confirmed:

LAX v. Beer Money, Inc.: Off the Wagon Challenge

Kiyoshi v. Alex Shelley: X Division Championship



Also will Don West be with Tenay at the announcer's table?

[klunderbunker]

Why not for the third week in a row?

[Harthan]

Advertised for tonight:

*The further adventures of the Main Event Mafia
- I'm expecting another promo, more build to the Destination X match, so on, so forth. Standard fare from the mafia. Probably Booker vs AJ and Steiner vs Joe promos as well.
*Jarrett to take action against Mafia?
-Seems like the attack is going to warrant some punishment from Jarrett onto Angle. Probably building to a Lockdown match.
*TNA World Tag Team Championships: Beer Money, Inc. vs LAX, Off The Wagon Challenge
-There's no way that Hernandez or Homicide is getting booted from TNA. They both have title shots waiting and both are great talents. I'm anticipating either a title change, or a DQ/countout finish.
*X Division Championship - Alex Shelley vs Kiyoshi
-Should be your standard X-Division fare. I like Kiyoshi and I really like Shelley, and this should turn out well. Shelley to retain of course.
*A four-corner Knockouts tag team match is scheduled with The Beautiful People vs. Rhaka Khan and Sojo Bolt vs. Taylor Wilide & Roxxi vs. TNA Women's Champion Awesome Kong & Raisha
-Drawing lines in the women's division I guess. These are all tag teams we've seen recently. Molds your two women's feuds into one match.
*Matt Morgan vs Shane Sewell
-Probably Matt Morgan to squash.

[Steamboat Ricky]

The official thread.

[Steamboat Ricky]

Is it bad, that I totally marked out to a degree when Don West said he didn't apologize? GREAT promo by Don West.

[Gelgarin]

I MISSED a Don West promo?

Fucking broken clock.

[Harthan]

Good promo, if the form was slightly cliche. It's in the delivery.

I'd bet my hat that the Off the Wagon Challenge ends in a DQ tonight. No way they'll drop LAX.

[Gelgarin]

Anyone remember the last time someone was bared from the building and didn't show up?

[Steamboat Ricky]

Yeah, no way LAX is canned. I don't see Beer Money losing the belts on free TV either.

[Steamboat Ricky]

Flair impersonation was bad.

Savage was decent.

[Harthan]

Wow, they've brought No Limit in?

AND they're doing another Global Impact?

I'm really liking this. I hope Kiyoshi sticks around as a regular guy afterwards.

[Gelgarin]

They gave him his rough cut sequence a few weeks ago, so here's hoping.

[Steamboat Ricky]

I can't believe this. I think I'm actually becoming a TNA fan? Someone pinch me.

[Thriller City Machine Guns]

Is it just me, or does the MCMG's music sound like the theme to a sitcom?

[Harthan]

I'm really hoping they get Mutoh on the Global Impact card. I'd love to see Angle vs Mutoh. Or even Sting vs Mutoh again. Could definitely do with Tanahashi against someone higher in TNA (perhaps whoever Mutoh faces between Angle and Sting, get Tanahashi to face the other).

They should definitely get Tiger Mask vs Shelley in a title vs title match as well. But since he'll probably be busy defending the Jr. Heavyweight tag titles against No Limit...maybe Tiger Mask vs Styles.

3D should defend as well. They could do a rematch of vs Togi Makabe & Toru Yano.

Or, they could just cop out of putting together an original card and show matches from the Dome Show again. That would only make 3 matches that TNA actually participated in though, so maybe they'll show more.

[Gelgarin]

God I love Beer Money.

[klunderbunker]

I missed the first half hour, but has Don West commentated any differently at all?

[klunderbunker]

About what I expected. The idea of West being a heel is laughable to me.

[Gelgarin]

Err... it's more or less the same, but every now and again he'll laugh at an odd momant, or say something snide towards Tenay.

[klunderbunker]

This commentary is somehow more annoying than it was last week.

[Gelgarin]

Oh dear.

It was going so well. :(

[Steamboat Ricky]

This commentary is somehow more annoying than it was last week.

How? It's WAY better. Far better than the two-face system currently on WWE.

Did anyone see the "police officer" almost lose his mask before it was time to unveil?? :lmao:

[Steamboat Ricky]

Tenay is the weak link. NO Don WEST COME BACK!!!!

[Steamboat Ricky]

lolz...jarrett v. angle

[Steamboat Ricky]

Dare I say...I'm ENJOYING Don West. Don West? :twak: What's wrong with me?

[Gelgarin]

I allways enjoy Don West.

[klunderbunker]

The commentary still seems forced to me.

These segments get dumber and dumber to me every week as well too.

[Sasha Fierce]

I liked the knockouts match even though it was messy. And I like Morgan's tights :)
I just feel bad for Lethal having to be made to look like a weak ass pussy all the time.

[Gelgarin]

Oh good. Abyss.

[klunderbunker]

Anyone else ever thought Morgan's tights looked ridiculous?

[klunderbunker]

I liked the knockouts match even though it was messy. And I like Morgan's tights :)
I just feel bad for Lethal having to be made to look like a weak ass pussy all the time.

I like them for other reasons, but he looks like an idiot in them for some reason.

[Sasha Fierce]

Morgan is actually pretty decent on the mic. I am not sold on Shane Sewell, he just seems lacking something.

[Sasha Fierce]

I think it's just TNA trying to get the gay market.

[Gelgarin]

Can't remember the last time we actually saw Morgan his his finisher.
Decent match.

[klunderbunker]

Yeah not bad. Not in the best of moods tonight which is why this show is getting on my nerves so much.

[klunderbunker]

That right there is the kind of things that get on my nerves with the commentary: you don't have to yell every time anything happens.

[klunderbunker]

Jarrett: "I have been a world champion everywhere I've been."

Anyone else crack up over that?

[klunderbunker]

As bad as brother ray's promo has been, him literally saying mother f'ing cracked me up. He censored himself and it still got beeped.

[Steamboat Ricky]

Decently entertaining show. I'm thinking about going to see TNA Live in Cincinnati.