A video package that highlights RVD’s return and his feud with Abyss kicks off Impact. We then see Kurt Angle talking on his cell phone to Hulk Hogan and says he will win the TNA World Championship and will annihilate Abyss in a cage match later tonight. Angle tells Hogan that he has everything under control as he steps into his personal entrance ramp.
Angle’s music then hits as he is lifted up through the ramp and comes down to the ring. Angle gets on the microphone and gives a shout out to Hogan and tells him to get well soon. Angle then thanks Hogan for believing in him and says that he will shine at Bound for Glory. Angle then warns Abyss about 9-30-10 and says he will cut the cancer that is Abyss out of TNA.
Abyss’ music then hits and Angle runs out and attacks him in the crowd. The two trade blows back and forth and into the backstage area where a chair and a ladder are brought into play. Angle relentlessly beats down Abyss until Abyss turns the tables with a low blow. Security and agents finally step in and separate the two as we head into a commercial break.
We return to see Al Snow, D’Lo Brown and Pat Kenney holding back Kurt Angle but Abyss comes in and starts attacking him once again. Security runs in and separates the two as Angle yells at Abyss and says that he has his number tonight.
Match 1: Beer Money vs. Tommy Dreamer & Rhino (Tag Team Lumberjack Match)
Fortune and EV2 are the lumberjacks for this match. The match starts with a quick little brawl before Rhino and Roode begin to go at it in this match. Rhino has a quick burst of offense before Roode and Storm take control of the match. Beer Money work over Rhino with a quick tags and double team moves until Rhino is sent out to the floor where Fortune lays some boots into him. Rhino is rolled back into the ring where he finally counters Roode with a belly-to-belly suplex to turn the tide of the match.
Dreamer and Storm are both tagged into the match and is able to lock Storm in a crossface as this match begins to break down. Roode and Rhino fall out to the floor where the lumberjacks go after both of them as Dreamer and Storm continue to battle in the ring. Storm finally tries to nail Dreamer with a beer bottle but Dreamer ducks out of the way and hits a Death Valley Driver on Storm to pick up the pin fall victory.
After the match, Sabu sets up a chair in the ring and dives out onto Fortune. Mick Foley then gets on a microphone and says that he doesn’t want to see any more fighting and only wants to see he and Ric Flair in the ring. Foley says it is time to clear to air between them and invites Flair to come into the ring as we head into a commercial break.
Foley says everyone is talking about 10-10-10, but he wants to talk about 10-7-10. Foley asks Flair to meet him in the ring in one week to go one-on-one for the very last time. Flair goes out and grabs a copy of Foley’s newest book, places it in the middle of the ring and hits a couple of signature Flair moves onto it before agreeing to the match. Flair and Foley then busts themselves open to show their intensity and their insanity. The both show each other some mutual respect before Foley requests that the match will be a last man standing match. The Nature Boy agrees to it and Flair promises to kiss Foley’s ass if he wins.
Mr. Anderson is seen talking to Eric Bischoff and wonders why Hulk Hogan is calling Kurt Angle but he isn’t calling his cell phone. Bischoff tries to calm Anderson down by saying he shouldn’t read anything into it and says that Angle and Hogan have a lot in common. Bischoff goes on to say that he has confidence in Anderson and thinks that he is the future of TNA.
The Motorcity Machine Guns are seen walking in the back with scowls on their faces as we head into a commercial break.
Match 2: Ink Inc. vs. Generation Me
GenMe comes out to the ring with one half of the TNA Tag Team Championship in their possession as they stole Chris Sabin’s title last week. The match starts as both sides go back and forth with Ink Inc. picking up a couple of near falls over GenMe. Max Buck then tries for a moonsault and appears to have tweeked his knee but it was just a ploy to gain control of the match.
GenMe then work over Jesse Neal and pick up a few near falls until Neal is able to duck out of a double team move and the Bucks end up hitting each other. Moore is tagged into the match and holds his own against GenMe and even hits a double hurricanrana but Max Buck is able to turn the tide with a well placed kick between the legs of Moore and picks up the pin fall to win the match.
After the match, GenMe continues to beat down on Ink Inc. and sets up Neal for their trademark DDT but they are stopped by the Motorcity Machine Guns who run out to the ring and stop it. GenMe run up the ramp, which leaves Chris Sabin to get his title belt back as the champs stare down the contenders.
Samoa Joe is walking in the back and is talking to the docu-cam and thanks Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff for the opportunity to face Mr. Anderson tonight. Joe says since Anderson is a contender, Joe will be in the title picture after he beats Anderson later tonight. Joe also affirms that Anderson is in fact an asshole.
The Motorcity Machine Guns are with the docu-cam where Alex Shelley says they waited four years to get the TNA Tag Team Championship and they aren’t going to let go of them so easily. Shelley says they will meet at Bound for Glory but they will begin extracting their revenge on next week’s Impact during the battle royal. Chris Sabin chimes in and says revenge will be sweet.
Match 3: Mr. Anderson vs. Samoa Joe
Prior to the match, D’Angelo Dinero’s music hits as the Pope comes out and heads towards the announce table and is soon followed by Kevin Nash and Sting. The match starts as Anderson and Joe go at it with a flurry of punches and kicks with neither gaining the advantage very long.
At the announce table, the Pope promises that the veil will be lifted at Bound for Glory as Joe picks up a near fall on Anderson in the middle of the ring. Anderson begins to fire back and picks up a near fall of his own before Joe puts Anderson in a rear naked choke. Anderson counters it with a jawbreaker and comes back with a Mic Check for the pin fall.
After the match, Kevin Nash says he wants to go down and try to talk sense into Joe one last time as he walks towards the ring with a baseball bat in his hands. Nash says he is giving Joe one last chance to join them as we head into a commercial break.
We come back to the Impact Zone to see Nash, Sting and Dinero in the ring together with no sign of Joe anywhere. Nash talks about how the locker room has been duped by Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff, but the three of them know exactly what is going on. The Pope steps in and calls Bischoff a con-man and promises that he and Hogan will come out on the losing end. Sting steps in says this is a classic case of good vs. evil and questions who is on each side. He continues by saying he wants to have a six-man tag match at Bound for Glory and tells Hogan to lace up the boots one more time.
Eric Bischoff’s music hits as he comes out with Miss Tessmacher and says that he sees two guys who are at the end of their careers and a green wrestler that still has a lot to learn. Bischoff says the Pope has disappointed him by how he has handled his opportunities before calling them all cowards for trying to get Hogan in a match at Bound for Glory. Bischoff then says he promises that Hogan will be at the Impact Zone and will give his own answer next week.
AJ Styles is with Ric Flair where he calls out Brian Kendrick for what he did during the lumberjack match. Styles says he wants to rip his head off and is willing to put up the Television Title to get him in the ring. Styles then Ices Flair one more time and Flair says he needed a drink anyway before getting down on one knee and chugging the Smirnoff Ice.
Video footage of a TNA house show from this weekend is aired where Amazing Red won the X Division Title from Jay Lethal in a match in New York. Lethal, however, regained the title two nights later in New Jersey.
Miss Tessmacher is with Velvet Sky and Tara who is calling a meeting between them and the Beautiful People. Tessmacher says she has the power to fire any one of them and warns them to act civil. Tessmacher says there is no such thing as trust in this business and tells them that Eric Bischoff has demanded that the four of them face off in a four-way match for the TNA Knockouts Championship at Bound for Glory. Both sides begin to argue and act all catty as they are ordered out of her office. Tessmacher then gets a phone call and tells the person on the other line that she will meet them in 20 minutes.
Prior to the next match, Ric Flair comes out to the announce table and says that he will take out Mick Foley next week and pick his bones as he will be facing a wrestling god before heading towards the ringside area with Matt Morgan.
Match 4: Brian Kendrick vs. AJ Styles (TNA Television Championship)
Styles goes on the early advantage and wears down Kendrick while getting a little help from Morgan on the outside. Kendrick fights back into the match and takes Styles down with a series of dropkicks and a tornado DDT and then sets his sights on Morgan and takes him out with a dive out to the floor. Kendrick then heads to the top rope as Morgan gets up and crotches him as Flair distracts the referee. Styles then hits the Styles Clash to pick up the pin fall to retain the Television Title.
Abyss is backstage with Janice and he says that he has been instructed to take out Kurt Angle so he won’t even make it to Bound for Glory. He then says that he wants to make his match against RVD at Bound for Glory a Monsters Ball match and hopes to shred RVD up with Janice next week in the battle royal.
Footage of RVD is aired where he says it probably wasn’t the best idea for him to come back last week, but says that he had to do it and plans on making a full recovery in time to take on Abyss on 10-10-10.
A video package that hypes next week’s live Impact is aired as it runs down the scheduled card that will feature a Bound for Glory Battle Royal Invitational, a tag team match between Madison Rayne & Tara against Angelina Love & Velvet Sky with the winner getting the rights to the Beautiful People name. Also Ric Flair will take on Mick Foley in a last man standing match and the Shore will make their “long awaited” debut.
Match 5: Abyss vs. Kurt Angle (Steel Cage Match)
The steel cage door is locked and Angle goes right on the attack and beats Abyss down in one of the corners before throwing him head first into the steel cage. Abyss, though, comes back with a shoulder block and begins to wear Angle down for a moment. Angle is able to turn the tide into his favor, though, and tosses Abyss into the cage wall a couple of times before grabbing Janice and tossing it over the wall and onto the entrance ramp. Abyss then begins to cry out for his weapon as we head into a commercial break.
We return to the match to see Abyss take out Angle with a big boot to the face. Abyss then tosses Angle into the cage wall a couple of times, which busts him open. Abyss then focuses on the cut on Angle’s forehead as the blood begins to pour out of the wound. Angle manages to take Abyss down with a chop block, though, and begins to pound on Abyss before hitting a frog splash on Abyss for a near fall.
Angle is nearly wearing the proverbial crimson mask when Abyss is able to grab him by the throat and take him down with a chokeslam, but Angle is able to kick out of a pin attempt. Abyss then nails Angle with the Shock Treatment but Angle is able to kick out once again. Abyss then tries for a splash off the middle rope but Angle rolls out of the way and hits an Angle Slam and picks up a near fall.
Angle then begins to climb up the side of the cage as Abyss gets up and pushes the referee into the cage wall, which nearly sends Angle crashing down to the mat. Instead, Angle is able to catch himself and dives at Abyss but Abyss counters and hits Angle with a Black Hole Slam. With the referee out, Abyss continues beating Angle down and hits him with a chokeslam as Mr. Anderson’s music hits and he comes running down towards the ring.
Anderson scales the side of the cage and enters the ring before laying some rights on Abyss. Abyss is able to handle Anderson, though, after tossing him into the cage wall a few times and then hitting a Black Hole Slam. Abyss then rips the cage door off the side of the cage and heads out to grab Janice and brings the weapon back into the ring. Angle meets him and is able to take Janice away as Impact comes to a close and we head into ReAction.
Quick Results
- Rhino & Tommy Dreamer defeated Beer Money by pin fall in a tag team lumberjack match.
- Generation Me defeated Ink Inc. by pin fall.
- Mr. Anderson defeated Samoa Joe by pin fall.
- AJ Styles defeated Brian Kendrick by pin fall to retain the TNA Television Championship.
- Kurt Angle and Abyss fought to a no contest in a cage match.
