TNA Broadcaster Mike Tenay is known for saying, "Your 60-min adrenaline rush is next" and yesterday it was a 120-minute adrenaline rush! An incredible primetime debut of fore TNA Impact that saw spectacular matches and some surprising face/heel (aka good guy/bad guy) turns.
Everyone remembers the classic matches between America's Most Wanted (AMW) and The Naturals. The Naturals got the best of them when they were the heels (bad guys) 12 months ago while AMW got the better of them 6 months ago when they were heels. Ironically yesterday's Impact, both teams officially switched rolls again but in different scenarios. AMW had been in a grudge w/the LAX after a sick attack by the LAX and to AMW's valet Gail Kim. When LAX tried to burn the US flag, none other did America's Most Wanted return (from the face ramp. TNA has 2 entrances. The one with the red floor is the face ramp and the one with the clear ground is the heel ramp) to save the burning of the flag. In another surprising twist of fate, when LAX left the building to burn the flag along w/heel but fan favorite Candian Petey Williams, he saved the burning of the flag and sacrificed himself for it.
2 weeks ago, The Naturals were still entering from the face ramp but last week on Impact when they attacked Team 3D, it looked like another heel turn. It was official as they entered from the heel ramp to take on Team 3D in a tables match: a match Team 3D has never lost... until now.
Chris Sabin had obviously been foreshadowed to turn heel and when he ran up the face ramp but ignored to save his bud Sonjay Dutt from Samoa Joe, the turn was official. In what I thought was the match of the night, featuring Sabin, Styles and Daniels, Daniels would pin Sabin to become the new X-Division Champion! Lots of crazy shit in this match including Daniel's combo move of a Rock Bottom and STO Takedown to Sabin in Styles w/1 move!! and Style's Moonsault into a inverted DDT and (normal) DDT to Sabin and Daniels!!
Barbwire cage match didn't disappoint. I thought Christian was gonna die with the amount of blood he lost and when Rhino put the barb wire in Christian's face to make the blood guzzle worst, damn! Highlight of the match had to be the gore on Christian through the cage!!
The long await to see Kurt Angle's first match in TNA wasn't Kurt's best but damn, the fans went crazy!! Those hundreds of fans in the TNA audience were just as loud, if not louder than a WWE arena!! Kurt is getting killed and gets hit with Abyss' deadly (2nd finisher) Shock Treatment and (main) finisher Blackhole slam and kicks out of both!! Kurt counters and hits the 3 clean German suplexes on the 350-pd monster!! Kurt counters into a victory roll into an Ankle Lock and makes Abyss submit for the 1st time ever!! Kurt then gets hammered after the match by Samoa Joe and Abyss... Sting comes and makes save and brawls back at Abyss to the back... In the back Sting is hung like a pinata and is slugged by his own bat by Abyss. Joe is alone w/Kurt and now Kurt is busted open and is getting choked out... Joe vs Angle at Genesis should be off the hook!!
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