TNA Impact! Wrestling - March 22nd Review
This week, we had to get the fallout from Bobby Roode threatening the health of Dixie Carter after beating Sting at Victory Road.
This week, we had to get the fallout from Bobby Roode threatening the health of Dixie Carter after beating Sting at Victory Road. If only shed used the ample time she had to get out of the ring to her advantage. And so Dixie joined us to open the show. Dixie made out like she was going to fire the champ, but Sting came out and claimed firing him was letting him off easy. Sting then said that his position as leader was just not working. So he said hes coming back as a wrestler to fight for Dixie and step down as General Manager. He did however promise that he had someone to take the company right to the top. Sting asked Dixie to let him give him the power to the REAL Hulk Hogan. Dixie did her best to act conflicted. Later on in the show, in the main event slot, Hulk Hogan had decided to show up. Again, this all could have been settled in one segment. And to make things more annoying, Sting and Dixie both got full entrances again. Sting did his best to sell that Hogan has changed, and asked Dixie to trust him. Conflicted Carter decided to trust the Insane Icon, who then brought out the REAL Hulk Hogan. Sting and the fans played suck up to Hogan and the show just.ended. He was standing in the ring having his name chanted, and the show just stopped. I guess the idea was to just have it as a cliff hanger as whether Hogan would say yes Was a strange ending but I get what they're trying to do, just ended a bit flat. In an X Division 4 way title match, Austin Aries defended against Zema Ion, Kid Kash and Anthony Nese. Kash and Nese didnt get an entrance so we knew to write them off right away. Nese looks like Chris Masters before the explosion at the fake tan and steroid factory. Nese actually got in some very good offence too. Towards the end we got one of those stacked up corner suplexes that always pleases the crowd, but before anything else could happen, Bully Ray came out and destroyed everyone in the match. The X Division title was getting some serious momentum, not sure if I'm a fan of Bully Ray taking three of them single handedly. Mexican America was about to get their car towed, but someone from some American TV Show called Repo Games gave them a QUIZ to save their car? All the questions were Mexico based and when they couldnt spell Guadalajara, they agreed with whoever the guy was that theyd be able to pay him when they won the tag titles later on. During that match, Magnus and Joe had the titles won, but Sarita and Rosita jumped on the apron. The guy from earlier came out and repossessed the two ladies from the apron, which allowed the tag champs to get their snap mare, elbow finish to retain the titles and presumably doom Mexican America to lose their car. After the break, he had carried them all the way to the parking lot where the Mexican team made one last ditch attempt to get the car back. Anarquia swung and the Repo man who ducked and made him look like a chump. Then to add insult to injury, Rosita and Sarita left with him. Speaking of Rosita and Sarita, Knockout Tag Champions ODB and Eric Young defended against them. Along with this we all got our invite to their wedding, which is on April 12th on Impact. Can I have that week off? Eric Young removed his shorts and the ladies acted completely smitten with him, which made ODB angry and led to her taking them both out. Then she acted annoyed at Eric, planted a kiss on him, and threw him on Rosita for the pin. Crimson was watching Matt Morgans ad for Direct Auto Insurance and used it as an example of Matt being in it for himself. Not to give Direct Auto Insurance more publicity. No, of course not. Crimson challenged him for the next week, but Morgan ran in and attacked him instead. Abyss brother came upon Jeff Hardy during a promo Jeff was doing for his match at Lockdown and gave him his card. Later on, Kurt Angle got pissed off at Garrett for claiming he technically beat him the other week. Then he told him, he hated his guts and challenged him to last three minutes. They wasted a whole minute shoving and getting in each others face at the beginning. Garrett then unloaded on Angle with clotheslines and a cutter. Then Garrett outsmarted the 12 year veteran by running down the clock on the outside. Gunner ran out and threw Garrett into the ring, and the two beat him down. Jeff Hardy came out to separate things, presumably to save everyone from Garrett. TNA did a really good video package that followed by James Storm and Bobby Roodes career in TNA to date. The video covered Roode in Team Canada and Storms early tag team days. In an interesting part, Storm said that he and AJ Styles are the only two remaining people from the start, as images of Booker T, Foley and other people are now in WWE flashed on screen. Storm then came to the ring and started listing things he didnt like. Like the length of the football season and the price of gasoline. Then he defended the honour of Dixie Carter and promised to right all the wrongs inside a cage at Lockdown. He called out Bobby Roode, but an unknown man came out instead to Roodes music. He introduced himself as William Kelly, Robert Roodes legal advisor. IN other words, hes David Otunga only white and with an English accent. And in his role as David Otunga, he said Roode would be staying at home due to an unsafe working environment. William then gave Storm a choice between Kazarian and Daniels to fight tonight, to which Storm replied hed take them both. Then he sent a message to Roode but knocking out his David Otunga with a Last Call Super kick. That match happened as last match of the evening and in it, Kaz and Daniels BOTH lost to Storm relatively easily after they had an argument with each other in the ring.