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Welcome to this week’s review of Impact Wrestling, which this week opens with a Before the Impact match for the Knockouts World Tag Team Championship that saw Mk Ultra (Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly) defeat Death Dollz (Jessicka & Courtney Rush). Let’s get into the review…

Match #1: #1 Contenders Ultimate X Match – Alan Angels def. Ace Austin, Zachary Wentz, Rich Swann, Mike Bailey & Samuray Del Sol The following is courtesy of impactwrestling.com:

The winner of the high-risk, high-wire spectacle known as Ultimate X will become the #1 Contender for the X-Division Title! Wentz takes out Angels with a dive over the top. Del Sol hits a springboard senton to the outside, colliding with three of his opponents. Swann crashes into everyone with a step-up corkscrew. Austin is the next to fly with his signature Soar to Glory. Del Sol, Angels and Bailey hit triple Moonsaults off the steel truss to the floor.

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Just 13 days after Tna announced Bobby Roode would be leaving the company after 12 years of service, the two-time Tna World Heavyweight Champion and eight-time World Tag Team Champion was sighted at Nxt TakeOver: Dallas.

Highlighted by WWE’s camera crew and social media team during the live event, Roode looks destined to become the latest Tna stalwart to have found a new home in WWE over the past year.

That's @RealBobbyRoode at ringside at @Wwenxt #NXTTakeOver: Dallas!! pic.twitter.com/4KcHpe4V2O

— WWE Nxt (@Wwenxt) April 2, 2016

Along with Samoa Joe, Aj Styles and Austin Aries in the past year; Beer Money Inc. teammate James Storm also had a brief stint in Nxt before returning to Tna in early 2016. Even so, it’s more than likely that Roode will pursue a singles career in Nxt after Storm’s signing with the troubled Impact! brand.

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James Storm has returned to Tna Impact Wrestling, following his brief run with WWE on the Nxt brand.

He was never under contract with WWE, but will have known that he was burning a bridge when going back to Tna. However, his decision was probably based on the fact that WWE weren’t going to do any thing with him. Triple H brought him in to give Nxt a little rub, he was good for a pop on his October debut, but that was about it. At thirty eight years old, there was little in the hope for further progression.

In contrast, he’s a big fish in Tna, having featured for years as one of the key characters. Going back to Impact Wrestling was a decision that plays to his strengths. Right away, he reformed Beer Money with Bobby Roode. That should provide plenty of entertainment and is...

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Tna Wrestling is planning on running live events and potentially taped TV in India later this year, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

The deal isn’t finalized yet, but if it happens then the plan is to build the tapings around Mahabali Sheera, who is a 25 year old wrestler from India that signed with Tna in 2014.

Sheera used the name Khoya in Tna as part of James Storm’s Revolution stable, but when he turned face recently he went back to using the Sheera name.

A few years ago, Tna did some shows in India under the Ring Ka King name that was considered a success because there aren’t a lot of high quality wrestling shows in India. It’s obviously a market with a lot of potential since they have over 1 billion people in India.

There are still no updates on the company’s television...

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Tna Wrestling held their first pay-per-view event of 2015 on Sunday night in Orlando. While there wasn’t a Tna World Title match on the show, a new “King of the Mountain” Champion was crowned with Jeff Jarrett winning the title in the main event.

Here are the results from Slammiversary;

X-Division Title: Tigre Uno d. Manik & DJ Zema. Tigre Uno used a corkscew senton for the win.

Robbie E d. Jessie Godderz. They were a former heel tag team, Robbie turned face and got the win a reverse Ddt.

Street Fight: Bram d. Matt Morgan. Prior to the match, Morgan challenged Bram to a Street Fight. There was a point in the match where Bram tried to find an object, but didn’t seem to find anything. After getting some chairs in the ring, Bram was able to hit a Ddt on a chair for the win.

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With Tna Wrestling’s biggest pay-per-view of the year less than two weeks away, the company has officially released the entire card for this year’s Bound for Glory. This year’s 10th annual edition of the PPV event will take place at the legendary Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan on October 12th. The show will be jointly produced along with Keiji Mutoh’s Wrestle-1 promotion.

Many fans had wondered when Tna would announce the match-ups for Bound for Glory as the event grew closer. Now, the company has officially announced the entire card for the PPV. Interestingly, only one championship will be on the line, and it’s not the Tna World title. Also, the card will unsurprisingly feature a handful of Tna versus Wrestle-1 contests.

The recently debuted Knockout, Havok, will compete against former Knockout Champion, Velvet Sky. The masked Manik will take on Wrestle-1’s Minoru Tanaka,...

A bunch of Dallas Cowboys players had to be restrained at a Tna Wrestling event Sunday night when one of the wrestlers spit beer at 'em ... and all hell broke loose ... in a scripted, wrestling sorta way. It all went down at Tna Wrestling Slammiversary Xii -- where bad guy "The Cowboy" James Storm went over to a bunch of Cowboys players in the stands (including starting defensive end George Selvie) and fired a mouthful of beer at the guys.

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Bobby Roode has been a part of Tna Wrestling for the past 10 years, initially coming in as a member of the Team Canada group that also gave us Eric Young, before forming arguably Tna’s most successful and beloved tag teams in its history, Beer Money, with James Storm. The two eventually split, with Roode turning heel on his old partner before embarking on the longest Tna World Heavyweight Championship reign of all time.

Roode has continued to be an integral part of the Tna roster, and I managed to catch up with him in the afternoon prior to an Impact Wrestling taping in Orlando to ask Bobby Roode ten questions.

1. You’re one of Tna’s longest serving stars. What’s your secret to staying fresh and relevant in the fans’ eyes?

Just keep improving, keep getting better and giving the fans new something to watch. I guess,...

October 27th 2009 was a day that I imagine very few people saw coming. This was the day that Tna Wrestling, a company that has long been a very distant number two wrestling promotion who are very much in the background compared to the monolith that is WWE – announced they had signed The biggest professional wrestler in the business, Hulk Hogan.

Now of course Hogan was way beyond actually wrestling anything aside from maybe a very rare match with very few bumps taken, but his presence clearly would attract a whole new audience to the Tna product wouldn’t it? See Tna had been trying to raise awareness for their product for many years. Usually they seemed to try and accomplish this by trying to attract former WWE wrestlers and hoping they would help them get over the 1.0 ratings hump that they’d been stuck with seemingly forever. They tried with Christian,...

Impact Wrestling was back in Indiana, Pennsylvania for the second time and saw the building blocks being laid to the road to Slammiversary. Did it give me a reason to party over Tna’s birthday plans or will this party just be a bust? Well, let me tell you what I think.

Let’s begin with the opening segment, which saw Hulk Hogan apologize after months of doubting Sting. Sting says that’s water under the bridge and he wants to take the full offensive on Aces and Eights beginning next week in a six man tag. Hogan tells sting to pick whoever he wants for that squad, he has to decide who get the number one contender spot for Bully Ray in Boston. Matt Morgan comes out and says the shot should be his, Hogan says he’s not going to make mistakes anymore and just give someone the shot.

On Valentine’s Day, there certainly is nothing better than inviting your best girl round, opening a nice bottle of champagne, and then watching a hard-hitting episode of Impact Wrestling. This week will see Aces & Eights’ response to their defeat at the hands of Bully Ray-Hogan and Sting in tag team tables action. How will they seek retribution, and could it have anything to do with the upcoming Lockdown PPV?

Furthermore, Hulk Hogan announced that there would be a tournament to determine the next challenger to Jeff Hardy for the World Championship, as eight of Impact Wrestling’s very best will go one-on-one to determine who will be the new No.1 Contender. With matches such as Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe and a match between the new Tna Tag Team Champions scheduled, it should be a wild night of fantastic wrestling back once again in jolly old England. So without further ado,...

The eighth annual Tna Impact Wrestling No Surrender PPV rolls in to the Impact Zone tonight with a card stacked to prepare for Bound For Glory. A PPV with no world title match and a champion who isn’t in the main event shows just how important it is(n’t) to the guys in Florida. So why exactly should we care? Well there’s actually a few matches on the card with great potential – let’s just hope they manage to deliver after a relatively consistent run of great events in 2012.

So let’s have a look into our magic 8 ball and see how this one’s going to pan out.

Zema Ion Vs Sonjay Dutt – X Division Title Match

Sonjay Dutt was a Tna regular for years but never really made much of an impact until he started stalking So Cal Val. Shortly after that he disappeared only...

As a writer who tends to specialise in wrestling I am often criticised by fellow fans for my often derogatory remarks about Tna Impact Wrestling. But you see, I don’t hate Tna – quite the contrary. I want Tna to succede. I want Tna to be a legitimate threat to the WWE. I want wrestlers to consider who’s better to work for when there WWE contract ends rather than just staying with Vince and co just for the money or heading to Tampa for a lighter working schedule. There should be more to it than that. Wrestlers should have more choices. It’s just a shame that I can remember when Tna was part of the Nwa and made some really unmissabel television – especially with its X Division.

So I’ve decided to have a look at the Tna roster and to decide upon a workable structure that can...

The X Division was once the best thing on television. These days it’s a watered down shell of it’s former self. Things were on the up with Austin Aries as champion which has ultimately led to him fighting for the World Heavyweight title in a PPV main event. Can you believe it? We can’t! Not from the company that pushed an enfeebled Jeff Hardy over Aj Styles.

So without further ado we look once more into our crystal ball and give you our thoughts on Tna Destination X 2012.

Dakota Darsow Vs Rubix Vs Lars Only Vs Mason Andrews – Last Chance 4 Way

Kudos to Tna for bringing in some exciting talents for this tournament and not just throwing Robbie E into the mix because they don’t have a decent X Division roster anymore, but surely there could have been a few better choices than the ones they...

Since the WWE began to focus toward a different demographic and went to a PG rating for its programming in 2008, older wrestling fans have been looking for an alternative, more matured product for their sports entertainment needs. Many fans turned to Ufc, which has a lot of the qualities a more seasoned viewer of the WWE product may look for – violence, adrenaline, excitement, feuds and characters. However, with Ufc fighters only fighting 2/3 events a year (particularly for the big names) these characters are hard for a viewer to invest in when compared to a wrestling show which gets the chance to establish their characters on a weekly basis.

This is where an alternative wrestling product is needed. One which can give the fans all of the above that Ufc offers with the addition of characters that can be seen on regular occasion. This is where Impact Wrestling should be aiming its product.

Imagine if there was no WWE. Imagine if business had taken a nosedive after Vince McMahon bought out Ecw and WCW and he’d had to sell up. Seems unlikely doesn’t it, but just imagine. No John Cena. No Monday Night Raw. No Wrestlemania. That’s right – with no Wrestlemania to look forward to the biggest event on the wrestling calendar would be presented by Tna Impact Wrestling. The biggest PPV of the year would be Slammiversary. Just imagine.

So with that in mind, let’s take a look at what Tna has to offer for this Sunday’s live event.

Hernandez Vs Kid Kash

I haven’t been watching a lot of Tna’s programming recently so I have to say I’m oblivious to why this match is taking place. I would assume it’s because Kid Kash is a) awesome and b) a ‘veteran’ from Tna’s past.

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 she’d 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,...

Tna have gone off the Twitter deep end. Last night’s Victory Road event was a near 3-hour advert for Social Networking. The usual trending topics flashed up on screen, but it didn’t end there. We had a Victory Road hash tag banner, Tweets displayed on the screen backstage that Jeremy Borash asked questions from, a tweet during a competitive match (by Austin Aries) and to top it all off, the commentators did Not Stop talking about it all night. They completely ignored the flow of the match and the calling of moves to instead read out generic tweets from @Velvetskysknockers or whomever they could find that had something positive to say about their show. I shouldn’t be mentioning Twitter first Ever in a wrestling review, but it really was That overpowering. It was enough to make me want to mute my TV, and I haven’t done...

Yes folks, it’s Tna PPV time again and we’ve had a look into our crystal ball to see who will be upsetting who and who has all the gold when the dust has settled.

Over the last few months we’ve seen the slow build of Robert Roode as a legit heel World Champion despite knowing in our heart of hearts that he’s only carrying the title while Tna build James Storm into the new Super-Face of the company. In the meantime he’s been feuding with on-air authority figure Sting, which leads us into yet another PPV main event starring a wrestler way beyond his prime despite a full roster of young talent that could put on a show stealing performance.

Robbie E and his TV Title Open Challenge.

I can’t believe Robbie E still has a job, or at least this horrendous gimmick. He...

Impact Wrestling – Feb 24th 2012

The “Insane Icon,” is “Done.”

The most hyped story this week was Sting saying On Twitter that he was “Done.” Not via Tna TV or anything, Via Twitter. Because that’s how professionals deal with major announcements these days. Robert Roode announced early in the show that Sting was going to appear. Thing is that since they announced Roode’s title match against Storm was going to be at the PPV in April rather than the next one in March, they made it a bit obvious that something was going to go down at Victory Road in March. Otherwise why wouldn’t the title match just happen at Victory Road?

In the closing segment Sting came out as promised to address the Tweet that shook the world. Roode made his second appearance of the night to interrupt. Sting immediately converted over to Whacky Insane Icon Sting...

Tna Against All Odds Recap

12th February 2012

Live From The Impact! Zone

Backstage the annoying cameraman tries to talk to Jeff Hardy but he just smirks and walks on. Rude. Following that, the opening video packages focuses on the World Title match and how important Hogan thinks the company is. It is a Vegas themed logo but that’s about as far as the theme gets. No Tazz tonight as he is dealing with a family death, so we have Tenay and Borash on the headsets.

#1 Contender’s Match to the X Division Title

Zema Ion vs. Jesse Sorensen

All that hairspray is bad for the environment Zema. Matt Morgan is not the only one with a “Carbon Footprint.” Jesse carries his football as always in this battle of the entrance props. He give his to a kid at ringside cause he’s that kind of guy. Zema gets in...

Tna legend Sting has reportedly suffered a legit injury at Saturday night’s Tna Wrestling tapings from the UK, to screen February 6th as the go-home Impact.

LordsofPain.net have a report from the event;

“In a match for the Feb 9th go-home Impact, it was Sting & Storm over Roode & Ray. Sting blew out his heel in an innocuous looking spot. Sting made Roode submit in the scorpion for the finish, then ref Brian Hebner did the X sign with his arms and sprinted down the aisle to the back to get help. Sting did a brief promo praising the fans, then said he’d heard something pop in his heel. Sting then brawled very gingerly with Bully Ray to the back, scuppering what appeared to be a Hogan & Sting & Storm vs Roode & Ray & Angle dark match. Instead, Hogan & Storm did a 2 on 3 cleaning house, before the Hogan pose down.

Tna Impact Wrestling! 22nd January 2012

Last week, Bully Ray helped Bobby Roode retain again against Jeffrey Hardy. And this week, out first is James Storm with his Mickie James like entrance music/video. He’s number one contender now. He tells Kurt hes the greatest wrestler but he was better then threatens to whoop Roode’s ass. “Sorry about your damn…” He’s cut off by Jeff Hardy’s music and the Rainbow Emo himself comes to the ring. “I got screwed at the PPV, I got screwed last week.” He tells Storm nobody gets a shot until he gets his final encounter. Storm says a few months ago He got screwed. “You’d think with all this screwing he’d have a lot of child support to pay.” Before we can digest that thought, Roode comes out with a mic. He’s flattered at the attention but reminds Storm...

Tna Impact Wrestling!

12/1/11

Bobby Roode is still your Tna Champion after Genesis, and he’s gracing us with his presence. As the fans chant “Hardy,” Roode tells us he’s the most dominant champion in the history of Impact! Roode says he’s not going to embarrass him anymore, and brings him out to “humbly accept his defeat” and shake Roode’s hand. Instead it’s Sting’s music that plays and out comes the Icon. Sting and Roode share some weird caveman insults which somehow garners a “Spank his butt” chant from the crowd. Sting calls Roode out for getting intentionally disqualified and tells him tonight he defends again against Jeff Hardy! Sting is out, and Roode throws a tantrum.

Earlier today, Matt Morgan met Crimson coming out of Direct Insurance and they gave him a Great Deal. Morgan says they’ve been amazing with his family for years.

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5/1/11

This weeks Impact begins with Sting coming to the ring. I love how no matter what other clothes hes wearing he never forgets his skeleton gloves. I once knew a Goth like that. Sting calls out another man reliving his teenage years, Jeff Hardy. If he ever left them that is. Sting tells him hes been impressed lately. Jeff Hardys face is half painted, half not. Sting says he once took his second chance and made something of it, just like Jeff Hardy is now. “There’s creatures out there that adore you and look up to you.” Some of his fans are definitely creatures. Hardy chant amongst them now as Sting gives Jeff his full 100% Endorsement. This brings out Roode, Angle and Bully Ray. They get in the ring and call him out on endorsing Jeff Hardy and that not being fair and square. He accuses...

Tna Impact Wrestling. 10th November 2011

First we recap Roode smashing a bottle over Storm to take his world title from him, with further emphasis on the spit and some epic music just to emphasise the heel turn. Then we are in Georgia for Impact Wrestling. And Robert Roode is first out with his new World Title and music that proclaims him to be off the chain. He says that each and every one of us would have done what he did. He tells us this is a generation of selfishness and he is the leader. Doing things the right way in society today gets you nowhere. In a picture in picture shot we see James Storm at the Gorilla position watching, then getting stopped by security when he tries to come out. That’S interesting, I like that. Finally wrestling addresses the question “Why do they only interrupt after letting them speak for ten minutes.

Impact Wrestling. October 27th 2011

Opening video this week is a recap of James Storm winning the world title. And in the arena we kick off with the new champion himself coming to the ring with brand new music and entrance video. Storm shouts out his dad because he did this for him. And he remembers them watching Wrestlemania 3 together. Can he say that? Guess so. He also says he couldn’t have done it without the fans. I don’t wanna go back and watch, but a face says that every week on Tna right? Storm brings out Fortune, because he has something to say to them. Aj, Kaz and Roode join him in the ring. Storm says the song says Fortune Four but they’re about to change things, like they’ve changed wrestling. Storm says he knows Roode got screwed at Bfg. And so he’s drunkenly come...

Impact Wrestling

October 20th 2011

Hot off the heels of disappointing/predictable/weird Bound For Glory, we are back in Florida for Impact Wrestling this week. First we get a video to remind us that Hogan turned face and joined Sting, then in the arena Sting himself is on the way to the ring. Sting is happy that he got the company back to Dixie, and that he got the real Hulk Hogan back. The explanation for turning face should be a good one, right? Sting brings out Hogan and he’s all smiles and in classic red and yellow. Hogan says for the last year he’s been wrong. That was a very sudden realisation. Hogan explains that he had a few bad years, lost a bit of confidence and became a follower of Bischoff rather than a leader. There’s only one person to thank he says. And its Sting.

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October 13th 2011

It’s the go home show before Bound For Glory which means its their last time to sell the show! And in an interview this week Hulk Hogan completely buried Robert Roode as a credible main eventer by saying he doesn’t think hes the guy, and that Angle should “Carry” him to a good match nonetheless. Way to bury your own main event Hulk.

Speaking of the main event, Kurt Angle, the defending champion is first out tonight and calls out his challenger Robert Roode right away. “Next World Champ” chant. Kurt says he booked the matches the past few weeks to try and break him down. Angle congratulates him for winning them, but reminds him he’s the greatest wrestler ever and he’ll prove it at Bfg. Then he extends a hand. Roode decides not to shake though and takes a mic. Roode...

Impact Wrestling (6th October 2011)

We kick off with a Hulk Hogan video package because he claims that his run is finally over and tonight we allegedly have his retirement ceremony coming up. Imagine ending a long term career like that in Tna. He’s got to be depressed. Not that I’ll ever believe he’s finished for good. Hogan and Bischoff arrive in the parking lot.

Beer Money are on their way out together, despite having to face each other tonight. Storm says its about damn time Hulk Hogan took a back seat and gave the young guys a chance to entertain the fans. Agreed. Storm tells Hogan to have fun trying to follow their match tonight because they plan on tearing this son of a bitch down in Knoxville Tennessee. Roode takes the mic and plugs James as the Tennessee cowboy and welcomes him home. Roode says Fortune...

Impact Wrestling September 22nd

Recap Sting and Ric Flair having the worst match ever, then Hogan beating down Sting unconvincingly. This is what you would call a “hype” video. But no amount of hype can save where this storyline is going. In the arena here comes the “Insane Icon” Sting in a Hogan t-shirt carrying a clipboard. Which in wrestling either means contract or petition. This time it seems to be a contract as he wants Hogan to the ring. Hogan obliges. Hogan/Flair/Sting. Its like watching WCW in the mid 90s. Hogan says hes not clear to wrestle. Sting shows footage of Hogan beating him down which contradicts that statement. Sting wants to get it on right now but Hogan doesn’t. Instead bring out another mid 90s staple in Eric Bischoff. Sting ignores him completely then decks him.

Backstage, Karen Jarrett is telling a selection of Knockouts about their match tonight.

As expected, No Surrender kicked off with the entire roster taking part in a 9/11 tribute. Tna Knockout Rosita, whose father died in the attacks, was shown. Jesse Neal was shown in full sailor attire. We get a rendition of America the Beautiful and a big USA chant. Now finally its time for the show to begin proper. Mike Tenay and Tazz are the announcers and first it’s…

#1 Contenders Match for the X Division Title

Jesse Sorensen vs. Kid Kash

Anyone else think it’s about time he dropped the Kid in his name? I know Man Kash doesn’t have the same ring to it, but he’s definitely not a kid anymore. In saying that as long as he never brings back the Pit-bull gimmick, I’m happy. Match starts off with an exchange of quick pin falls and reversals that the fans are well behind from the bell.

Pittsburgh filmmaker Bruce Koelher has been carving a niche for himself with a pair of horror movies starring Olympic gold medalist/ amateur wrestler turned professional wrestler Kurt Angle. The duo behind last year's End Game and next week's River of Darkness are back for thirds with Death From Above.

This time FX master Tom Savini, the Maniac Cop himself, and more pro wrestlers are getting in on the terror.

Kurt Angle finds himself cast as a Druid demon, automatically guaranteeing that even if the movie turns out to be a dud, it'll be an entertaining dud. Tom Savini is the sheriff standing in his way. Maniac Cop Robert Z'Dar factors into it all somehow. But Angle's greatest nemesis to this force of evil will be a fellow pro wrestler: Psycho Sid Vicious, who can be seen playing a waterlogged zombie terrorizing Angle in River of Darkness. More pro wrestlers from...