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New TNA Tag Team Champions

by Louis Tully on April 12, 2013 in Articles with 1 Comment

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I find it odd when relatively new teams are booked in matches where they will “never team again.” Such was the case on last night’s Impact Wrestling when Chavo Guerrero & Hernandez put their team on the line against Bobby Roode and Austin Aries’ TNA Tag Team Champions in a 2 out of 3 Falls Match.

In what can only be described as a miscarriage of justice (sorry big Aries mark here), Guerrero & Hernandez prevailed 2 falls to 1 to regain the TNA Tag Team Championship from Austin & Roode aka the Dirty Heels. While the tag team action was quite enjoyable, oddly, the first two falls occurred VERY early into the match essentially negating the multi-fall stipulation.

First and foremost, congrats to the Texans natives, Guerrero & Hernandez on their victory. Your boy Louis isn’t doing backflips over the victory however. TNA has thrown away, at least for the gold, a TNA tag team dream match of sorts that had been teased previously on Impact: Bad Influence (Daniels & Kazarian) versus Dirty Heels (Roode & Aries).

Between WWE, TNA, and ROH, there’s a lot of gold changing hands in the wrestling world this week.

The Day After: Impact 1/17/13

by Louis Tully on January 18, 2013 in Articles with Comments Off

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Quite the Impact Wrestling show last night: Christopher Daniels moves up the card, Velvet Sky looked amazing, Aries & Roode form an uneasy alliance, a wrestling wedding, Taz joined Aces and Eights, and Brooke Hogan’s top slipped off.

I had the rare occasion with my schedule to check out a story filled TNA Impact Wrestling on the day of the show I thought I’d review the newsworthy events emerging from a packed Impact.

Taz joins Aces and Eights.

While the shock value and ensuing attack by Aces and Eights made for great pro-wrestling television, the turn of Taz to Aces and Eights is a little confusing on the surface. The brawl and beatdown by the biker faction: top notch chaos. However, Taz can’t wrestle anymore and if he’s not the leader of the gang, does it have any more impact than when Taz also joined the Main Event Mafia?  I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and see where this goes and I hope TNA actually has a plan with this heel turn. For instance, Taz could really help get the faction over with his mic work and his role in Gut Check could lead to some interesting developments. Are there moles in TNA because of Taz/Gut Check?

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Impact Wrestling Preview: 1/10/2013

by Richard Martel on January 10, 2013 in Articles, Show Preview with Comments Off

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Three days out from Genesis, with a tag team main event tonight.  Let’s do this.

Main Event

GM Hogan had previously set this match as Austin Aries and Bobby Roode, Co-Number-One Contenders, against Jeff Hardy and a partner of his choosing.  It was announced earlier this week on Twitter that Hardy had selected James Storm.  The three-way feud between Hardy, Aries, and Roode continues into their World Title bout on Sunday.

Two potential (and fairly obvious) stories to watch for in this match…

  • How will Austin and Roode be able to co-exist tonight, and/or which one bails on the match?
  • Will Christopher Daniels, Cowboy’s opponent for Genesis, get involved?

More on tonight’s Impact after the jump.

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Impact Wrestling Preview: 01-13-2013

by Richard Martel on January 3, 2013 in Articles, Show Preview with Comments Off

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1/3/13.  TNA has been advertising this day as the return of Sting to Impact Wrestling.  The Stinger is coming back with the goal of eradicating Impact Wrestling of the Aces & 8s once and for all.  Is there any among you who won’t mark the f-out when Sting inevitably takes on the entire gang, aided only by a black baseball bat?  If he’s in a trench coat with black-and-white face paint, I’m turning over furniture.

Also on the agenda tonight: Hulk Hogan calls out Brooke and Bully Ray.  Again.  I really try to view angles like this with a positive spin.  After all, they must be going somewhere with this… right?

Full show preview after the jump.

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Impact Wrestling Preview: 12/27/2012

by Richard Martel on December 27, 2012 in Articles, Show Preview with Comments Off

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Open Fight Night returns for the final 2012 edition of Impact Wrestling.  We’re coming off a huge Championship Thursday, which saw Jeff Hardy, S-A-A Devon and Tara all retain their respective titles.  According to TNA.com, tonight is the last change . . . ”to settle any and all grudges before the New Year!”  We can expect to see a number of challenges tonight.

Open Fight Night Challengers

The only challenger we know of so far is Gail Kim, who’ll be calling out an unknown Knockout to settle a score.  Gail was left out of the Championship Thursday Hogan’s Choice to determine the #1 Contender to Tara’s Knockout title.  Perhaps we’ll see a reboot of her feud with Velvet Sky.  After all, Sky has been around for a cup-of-coffee since her return, and is already in the mix for the title.

Austin Aries will be a likely challenger, calling out Bobby Roode (or vice versa).  Both men have interfered in the other’s recent World Title match, so it’s likely that the two will have a match at Genesis.

Rob Van Dam can’t be happy with Kenny King after what happened in their tag team match last week.  RVD should challenge King tonight, but will he be willing to lay his X-Division title on the line to do so?

Finally, it isn’t far-fetched to think that Hulk Hogan will call out Bully Ray (and maybe even Brooke) after the make-out session we were treated to at the conclusion of last week’s show.  Eventually we’ll have to arrive at a conclusion where Hogan either accepts their consenting adult relationship, or we see the second-coming of the McMahon-Helmsley era.

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