by David Tuthill from wrestlingobserver.com


Two hour iMPACT Week Five Spoilers

TNA returned to Orlando to tape Week Five and Six of their two hour show. The line outside of soundstage was pretty packed. They had TV's on above us that had the Genesis logo with "This Sunday" underneath it.

-Kurt Angle w/ Karen came out for a promo. He talked and hyped the PPV and said by the end of the night he will find out who Sting's partner is. Sting comes out and says his partner is a former WWE and WCW champion. Kevin Nash came out and said that Angle should worry about him too. Angle tells him to bring it and bails when Nash hits the ring, however Sting throws him back in and him and Nash play pingpong with Angle until he bails.

Kaz d. James Storm w/ Jackie Moore in about 3 minutes to advance to the finals of the #1 Contender tournament. The finish was a very unique looking rollup that looked very cool. Eric Young came out after the match and he and Storm shared a six-pack of beer together.

-Team 3D came out. They cut a promo on internet marks and the like and say they will destroy the X Division. Motor City Machine Guns come out and made fun of Team 3D for being fat. D'Von goes looking for tables and can't find them. XXX and Havoc come out holding the tables. While they're distracted, Shark Boy, Petey Williams and Sonjay Dutt come from behind and attack 3D. The rest of the X Division guys beat down 3D and go to put them through the tables, but Team 3D escapes. Shelley came across like a big star in doing most of the talking during the promo.

-Awesome Kong d. Christy Hemme w/ Jimmy Rave & Lance Hoyt. Quick squash. Kong wins with a sitout powerbomb.

-Dave Penzer announces that Junior Fatu could not make the tapings and Christian will wrestle a replacement.

-Samoa Joe & Gail Kim d. Bobby Roode & Traci. Good match. Kim pins Traci with a rollup. Roode starts yelling at Traci for losing and Kim grabs the mic and tells him she's tired of him treating Traci poorly and slaps him. Roode grabs her and Joe makes the save. The guys brawl up through the stands. Joe gains the upperhand until the plant from the last two week's of tapings (Rain from SHIMMER) starts going crazy screaming at him. Security takes her away. Roode throws Joe into the ringsteps and Joe starts bleeding HEAVILY. A lot of heat for this.

-Christian Cage d. Chris Harris to advance to the finals of the #1 Contender tournament. Cage came out with a ladder. Short but good match. Cage wins with a rollup and grabs the ropes. After the match, Harris is arguing with the ref and Cage nails him with the ladder. He then comes off one of the top rungs with a frog splash. The second he hit the frog splash, his music began to play.

-Black Reign is shown backstage challenging Abyss to some type of match.

-Kurt shown backstage with Borash smoking a cigar while Kurt interrogates Karen about who Sting's partner is. Nash shows up and says the partner is Scott Hall, and that he'll be there next week.

-AJ Styles & Tomko d. LAX to retain the TNA World Tag Team Titles. Match went about 8 minutes and was very good. Styles got the pin with a springboard 450 Splash. The Steiners attacked LAX after the match and the two teams brawled to the back.


Xplosion Match: Motor City Machine Guns d. Voodoo Kin Mafia. The voodoo manager went to blow mist in the eyes of Sabin, missed and hit B.G., who got rolled up for the pin.

Quick Thoughts: Fairly solid tapings. Too many rollups. Who would've ever thought that in 2007, one of the best tag teams in wrestling would be AJ Styles and Tyson Tomko? If anyone who keeps track of the lineage of the WWE and WCW world titles can email me some info about Scott Hall's world title reigns, I would greatly appreciate it and will be sure to forward it to Kevin Nash.