TNA Impact Review - 28/2/13

The Main Event - Lockdown's Main Event Vs. Bad Influence

http://youtu.be/WiumGblUbIA The main event once again draws to us as Christopher Daniels and Kazarian will compete in tag team action against the World Champion Jeff Hardy and his own Number One Contender Bully Ray. The pair of Hardy and Bully show a sign of unity before the match, as Bully begins with Daniels in an interesting combination. A quick jab to Ray in the corner gets Daniels up on his high-horse, before he immediately crashes back down to earth with a clothesline. Bully then connects with one of the loudest chops to the chest I have ever heard, before Kazarian is lifted over the top of Bully and onto the mat when he tries to interfere. But this gives Daniels an opportunity to take a shot at Ray, before the combination of Bad Influence are able to connect with a double suplex. This is followed by a Gangnam Style celebration dance, and after Ray sends them both to the mat with a double clothesline, he shows a few dance moves of his own. Following a double flip-flop-and-fly bionic elbows, Hardy and Bully connect with a Team 3D-esque double team. Returning from the break the same pattern is in progress, as Ray and Hardy show good teamwork by isolating Kazarian for their abuse. However, an attempt of a Poetry in Motion on Daniels allows Kazarian to grab the hair of Hardy, and this allows Bad Influence to employ their own brand of tag team combinations on the World Champion, including an impressive side-walk slam/springboard leg-drop combo. But following a signature Whisper in the Wind on Daniels, Hardy is able to make the tag to Ray, who begins to take the offense to the opponents, and gets a near fall on Daniels with a delayed sidewalk slam until it is interrupted by Kazarian. Kazarian is ousted from the ring, and the tag is made to Hardy whose Swanton Bomb is stopped before it can begin by Kazarian on the outside. An enziguri on Bully followed by the STO on Hardy gets a near fall. Bad Influence then start punching their opponents in the corner, before Bully chucks Kazarian off and takes him out with a big boot. Then, following an electric chair on Daniels by Bully, Hardy climbs the turnbuckle and connects with the Swanton Bomb for a victory in a entertaining tag team encounter. WINNERS: Jeff Hardy and Bully Ray Before the show ends though, Kurt Angle, absent for most of the show, is able to infiltrate the Aces & Eights' Clubhouse in the Impact Zone, and proceeds to take out Anderson and Devon with a steel pipe, before getting into an aggressive fist fight with the final masked member of the gang. Angle beats him down and takes his mask, but before Angle or the camera is able to reveal who he is, the rest of the members of the group beat Angle down, and we are all left guessing as to who this final member may be.

Conclusion

http://youtu.be/b07da3Uwu_A So that brings about the end of the TNA for this week, and whilst it was fun to see the brand infiltrate the UK, it is always good to return to one's roots. But what will we have in store in the lead-in show to Lockdown? Expect to see more revolving around the World Championship Match between Jeff Hardy and Bully Ray, the Lethal Lockdown Match with Aces & Eights and Team TNA, the revelation of the final masked member of the gang by Kurt Angle, and the possible return of the General Manager to Hulk Hogan to the Impact Zone. Also, most excitably, probably a match between Robbie E and Robbie T. At least it won't be at Lockdown, right?