Flair Country
08-08-2008, 03:56 PM
Impact opens with hype for the eight-man no disqualification match and the eight-man dual weapons gauntlet. The two-hour blood bath begins now. The Impact intro hits with video game footage as we are welcomed to this week’s show with Mike Tenay standing in the middle of the ring.
Mike Tenay says that this Sunday will present its most hardcore pay-per-view of the year with Hard Justice and will be headlined by Samoa Joe against Booker T in a weapons filled Six Sides of Steel. Tenay sends it to Jeremy Borash who is standing in the crowd and runs down tonight’s card before sending it to Lauren and BG James. BG hypes the gauntlet match and predicts that violence will prevail.
Match 1: Jacqueline vs. Roxxi w/ Traci Brooks as the Guest Referee (Bimbo Brawl)
Roxxi comes to the ring wheeling down a shopping cart loaded with weapons, however, Jacqueline tosses everything she puts in the ring out to the floor. Jacqueline goes on the early offensive and picks up a quick two count after landing a neckbreaker. The fight heads out to the floor where Roxxi sends Jacqueline into the ring steps.
Roxxi brings it back into the ring but Jacqueline is able to send her head first into a chair with a drop toe hold. Jacqueline hits her a few times with some trays but it isn’t able to keep her down. Roxxi then comes back and kicks a chair back into Jacqueline’s face before nailing her with the Voodoo Drop to pick up the three count from Traci Brooks.
Lauren is backstage with Christian Cage & Rhino and asks them if they realize what type of match they have signed up for tonight. Cage says that Team 3D is the greatest tag team ever because he decided to become a singles wrestler. Cage says that he and Rhino could be the ones to pull their legacy out from under them. Rhino then says that he will tear them in half with a Gore through a glass table.
Jeremy Borash is backstage with SoCal Val as Super Eric comes into the picture and says that the Prince Justice Brotherhood has found her ring and that Sonjay Dutt stole her ring. Val doesn’t believe that he could steal it but Super Eric tells her that if she finds him she’ll find her ring.
Match 2: Sonjay Dutt vs. Curry Man
Curry Man dances around and starts this match out with a couple of arm drag take downs before Dutt sends him flying head first into the turnbuckle. SoCal Val comes out and is able to cause a distraction on Dutt, but Curry Man isn’t able to capitalize as Dutt lands a guillotine leg drop on Dutt and picks up the pin fall while using the ropes for leverage.
SoCal Val enters the ring as Dutt begins to walk back up the ramp, however, Shark Boy is there and cuts him off and rolls him back in the ring where Super Eric is waiting for him. Eric lands a high body slam on him and snatches the ring from Dutt. Val is upset about it as Dutt defends himself by saying the ring fell of her hand and onto his hospital bed while she was visiting. Dutt says that he didn’t give it back as it was wishful thinking on his part as SoCal Val tries to lift his spirits by giving him a big hug.
Lauren is backstage with Team 3D and Beer Money and wants to know what happened to the good old fashioned wrestling match. Brother Ray says that old wrestling matches are boring, which is why they are having a no-DQ match. Storm says that their opponents are stepping into the ring with the greatest tag team and the future tag team champs and are going to get hurt tonight.
A Sheik Abdul Bashir vignette airs and says that people hate Americans as they always walk around all cocky and arrogant with their chests stuck out. Bashir also says that American use all of the world’s natural resources and pollute the atmosphere and says that it we should change our slogan to one nation under the dollar.
Match 3: Motorcity Machine Guns vs. Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed
Alex Shelley and Jay Lethal go back and forth with some quick pin attempts on each other in the opening moments of the match, which gains a “TNA” chant from the crowd. Creed and Sabin are tagged into the match and they go back and forth until Creed levels Sabin with a rolling clothesline and tags in Lethal.
After a quick exchange, Sabin is able to tag in his partner do use some double team moves that sends Lethal out to the floor. Shelley launches himself on top of Lethal and rolls him back in to his partner, which gets a near fall for the Machine Guns. They continue to work over Lethal with their double team moves but they still are not able to keep him down.
Lethal is able to land a desperation move to kill their momentum and is able to make the tag into Creed, who nearly picks up a pin fall on Shelley. The Machine Guns, though, are able to pick away at him with the double team moves and nearly pick a pin fall of their own. The match then breaks down and Creed nearly pins both Sabin and Shelley at the same time, but they are able to kick out. Creed then sends Shelley face first into the turnbuckle before rolling him up from behind for the win.
After the match the two teams shake hands but Alex Shelley refuses to shake Creed’s hand and pushes him away.
Our next installment of Karen’s Angle is aired and this week she is sitting with Frank Trigg, who gives his take on breaking into MMA by saying that he had a supportive wife. Trigg continues to push the situation between Karen, Kurt and AJ Styles until Karen says that nothing happened between her and AJ and tells the camera crew to stop filming. Trigg continues to push the issue until Karen finally slaps him and security come in to intervene, but Trigg levels him. Trigg calls her pathetic and leaves the set.
A video package highlighting the feud between Kurt Angle and AJ Styles is aired. These two will try to finish their feud in a last man standing match at Hard Justice. Mike Tenay and Don West then run down the rest of the card for this Sunday.
Jeremy Borash is standing by with Kurt Angle and asks what to expect this Sunday. Angle says that he won’t be responsible for what happens this Sunday since AJ Styles slept with his wife. Angle says that it is personal and he will hurt him at Hard Justice.
Lauren is backstage with the Beautiful People, Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed. Angelina Love and Velvet Sky push Lauren out of the picture to take over the segment and says that there is going to be carnage at Hard Justice when beauty teams up with the beast against Gail Kim, Taylor Wilde and ODB.
Match 4: Beer Money, Inc. & Team 3D vs. the LAX/Christian Cage & Rhino (8-Man No-DQ)
The bell rings and all eight begin to brawl in the ring. Rhino is quick to hit the Gore on all four of his opponents as bodies begin to fly out of the ring. Hernandez nails both members of Beer Money and plays up to the camera as we head into a commercial break.
We return to see action on the outside of the ring, on the ring entrance and in the crowd. In the ring, Brother Ray lands a superplex on Hernandez and takes Cage out with a high back body drop. Homicide, however, evens the odds with a low blow on Ray.
The action goes back and forth with everyone going in and out of the ring until Cage finally spits beer into Storm’s face, which allows Homicide to land the Gringo Killer for the pin fall.
After the match, Johnny Devine comes out and hands Brother Ray and kendo stick which he uses against his four opponents and takes them all out. Team 3D and Beer Money continue on the attack as a glass table is brought into the ring and they send Homicide smashing though it. Trainers and Hector Guerrero come out to help out Homicide as Mike Tenay begs the truck to go to commercial.
Taylor Wilde’s story continues on Rough Cut as the rest of the locker room says that she has a target on her back and needs to prove herself. Bill DeMott thinks that she is going to be a mainstay on the roster as Taylor says that she is trying to enjoy the moment and that she doesn’t think she will be going anywhere anytime soon.
Match 5: Awesome Kong vs. Salinas
The Beautiful People and Raisha Saeed are in Kong’s corner for this match and Mike Tenay announces that Homicide has been brought to a local hospital in Orlando due to being put through a glass table. As for the match, Kong tosses Salinas around the ring for a brief moment before landing the Awesome Bomb for the win.
The Beautiful People come into the ring and say that this is just a preview of what’s to come at Hard Justice as Kong picks Salinas back up and delivers an Implant Buster before Sky goes out and grabs a chair. Kong is about to give Salinas an Awesome Bomb onto the chair until Gail Kim, ODB and Taylor Wilde come out to help.
Kong levels Wilde with a clothesline and is about to give her an Awesome Bomb onto the chair but Abyss comes out to the ring and stops her. The two stare off as Saeed has to come in a break them up before she slaps Abyss across the face. Abyss grabs the chair and chases her out of the ring a security guard comes in and takes the chair away from him. In turn, Abyss delivers a Black Hole Slam on the security guard for his troubles.
Jeremy Borash is backstage with Booker T and asks him if he will be sitting there as next week as the TNA World Champion. Booker says that Samoa Joe can’t beat him and tonight he will hurt Joe tonight in the gauntlet match. Both Borash and Booker are calling it a ten-man gauntlet match, I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Booker also says that Sting will be there this Sunday and will also be here tonight.
Mike Tenay and Don West hype the Hard Justice pay-per-view once again before we head to the locker room where Lauren is standing by with Samoa Joe. Joe says that Sting is a coward for not facing him face to face and that he will get his belt back from Booker at Hard Justice.
A video package highlighting Sting’s involvement in the feud between Samoa Joe and Booker T is aired. Mike Tenay wonders if any questions will be answered tonight with all of this.
Jeremy Borash is backstage with AJ Styles and asks if he is prepared for Angle this Sunday. Styles says that he didn’t sleep with his wife and at Hard Justice he guarantees that he will be the last man standing.
We then see Samoa Joe, Matt Morgan and BG James heading to the ring with weapons as the main event is up next. After a commercial break, Borash is in the ring and states that it is in fact eight-man gauntlet match. He also says that every two minutes another two wrestlers will be entered into the match and that eliminations will occur when someone is tossed over the top rope. Once there are only two remaining, those two will battle out in a pin fall or submission match and everyone is entitled to carry a weapon into the ring.
Match 6: 8-Man Weapons Gauntlet
The first two in the match are Kurt Angle, who is carrying a trash can, and AJ Styles, who is carrying a ladder into the ring. Styles begins to beat Angle down in the corner but Angle answers back with a trash can over the head. They both go for cross body blocks in the ring and knock each other down as the time expires.
The next two up are Matt Morgan with a steel chair and Tomko with a 2x4. Morgan knocks the 2x4 out of Tomko’s hands as they run to the back, but they are both in the match. Meanwhile, Styles nails Angle with a flying forearm shot but Angle comes back by sending Styles flying head first into a chair as time expires.
BG James with a chair and Kip James with a street sign come into the ring and attack each other on the outside. BG nails Kip with the sign as Styles sends the ladder into Angle’s head, which busts him open pretty badly and Angle lays in a pool of his own blood. It doesn’t seem to affect him to much as he is still able to land an overhead suplex on Angle, but Styles answers back with a Pele kick as time expires.
Samoa Joe and Booker T are the final two competitors in the ring as Booker comes out with a bat and Joe comes armed with a police baton. The bodies start to come into the ring as we head into a commercial break.
We return to the match to see that Matt Morgan eliminated Kip James and Styles eliminated Kurt Angle. Styles is soon eliminated by Booker T as Angle meets him on the outside and slaps on the ankle lock. The referees have to break it up between the two as a bloody Angle finally heads to the back.
We are down to the last four as I guess BG James was also eliminated at some point during this match. Samoa Joe is on the outside as Morgan holds his own against Booker and Tomko but they are both able to eliminate him before focusing on Joe, who is back in the ring. Booker nails Joe with a superkick but Joe is able to knock Tomko into Booker and send Booker over the rope and onto the floor.
Tomko and Joe are the final two and this is now a pin fall or submission match. Tomko looks to use a trash can off the top rope but Joe kicks it into his face before landing the muscle buster for the win.
After the match, Joe warns Booker that he will be coming for his belt at Hard Justice and then Sting will be next. Sting’s music hits as Sting is seen up in the rafters. The two stare at each other as we are then treated to a send-off music video for Hard Justice.
Quick Results
- Roxxi defeated Jacqueline by pin fall in a Bimbo Brawl.
- Sonjay Dutt defeated Curry Man by pin fall.
- Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed defeated the Motorcity Machine Guns by pin fall.
- The LAX/Christian Cage & Rhino defeated Beer Money, Inc. & Team 3D.
- Awesome Kong squashed Salinas by pin fall.
- Samoa Joe was victorious in an 8-Man Weapons Gauntlet.
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Mike Tenay says that this Sunday will present its most hardcore pay-per-view of the year with Hard Justice and will be headlined by Samoa Joe against Booker T in a weapons filled Six Sides of Steel. Tenay sends it to Jeremy Borash who is standing in the crowd and runs down tonight’s card before sending it to Lauren and BG James. BG hypes the gauntlet match and predicts that violence will prevail.
Match 1: Jacqueline vs. Roxxi w/ Traci Brooks as the Guest Referee (Bimbo Brawl)
Roxxi comes to the ring wheeling down a shopping cart loaded with weapons, however, Jacqueline tosses everything she puts in the ring out to the floor. Jacqueline goes on the early offensive and picks up a quick two count after landing a neckbreaker. The fight heads out to the floor where Roxxi sends Jacqueline into the ring steps.
Roxxi brings it back into the ring but Jacqueline is able to send her head first into a chair with a drop toe hold. Jacqueline hits her a few times with some trays but it isn’t able to keep her down. Roxxi then comes back and kicks a chair back into Jacqueline’s face before nailing her with the Voodoo Drop to pick up the three count from Traci Brooks.
Lauren is backstage with Christian Cage & Rhino and asks them if they realize what type of match they have signed up for tonight. Cage says that Team 3D is the greatest tag team ever because he decided to become a singles wrestler. Cage says that he and Rhino could be the ones to pull their legacy out from under them. Rhino then says that he will tear them in half with a Gore through a glass table.
Jeremy Borash is backstage with SoCal Val as Super Eric comes into the picture and says that the Prince Justice Brotherhood has found her ring and that Sonjay Dutt stole her ring. Val doesn’t believe that he could steal it but Super Eric tells her that if she finds him she’ll find her ring.
Match 2: Sonjay Dutt vs. Curry Man
Curry Man dances around and starts this match out with a couple of arm drag take downs before Dutt sends him flying head first into the turnbuckle. SoCal Val comes out and is able to cause a distraction on Dutt, but Curry Man isn’t able to capitalize as Dutt lands a guillotine leg drop on Dutt and picks up the pin fall while using the ropes for leverage.
SoCal Val enters the ring as Dutt begins to walk back up the ramp, however, Shark Boy is there and cuts him off and rolls him back in the ring where Super Eric is waiting for him. Eric lands a high body slam on him and snatches the ring from Dutt. Val is upset about it as Dutt defends himself by saying the ring fell of her hand and onto his hospital bed while she was visiting. Dutt says that he didn’t give it back as it was wishful thinking on his part as SoCal Val tries to lift his spirits by giving him a big hug.
Lauren is backstage with Team 3D and Beer Money and wants to know what happened to the good old fashioned wrestling match. Brother Ray says that old wrestling matches are boring, which is why they are having a no-DQ match. Storm says that their opponents are stepping into the ring with the greatest tag team and the future tag team champs and are going to get hurt tonight.
A Sheik Abdul Bashir vignette airs and says that people hate Americans as they always walk around all cocky and arrogant with their chests stuck out. Bashir also says that American use all of the world’s natural resources and pollute the atmosphere and says that it we should change our slogan to one nation under the dollar.
Match 3: Motorcity Machine Guns vs. Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed
Alex Shelley and Jay Lethal go back and forth with some quick pin attempts on each other in the opening moments of the match, which gains a “TNA” chant from the crowd. Creed and Sabin are tagged into the match and they go back and forth until Creed levels Sabin with a rolling clothesline and tags in Lethal.
After a quick exchange, Sabin is able to tag in his partner do use some double team moves that sends Lethal out to the floor. Shelley launches himself on top of Lethal and rolls him back in to his partner, which gets a near fall for the Machine Guns. They continue to work over Lethal with their double team moves but they still are not able to keep him down.
Lethal is able to land a desperation move to kill their momentum and is able to make the tag into Creed, who nearly picks up a pin fall on Shelley. The Machine Guns, though, are able to pick away at him with the double team moves and nearly pick a pin fall of their own. The match then breaks down and Creed nearly pins both Sabin and Shelley at the same time, but they are able to kick out. Creed then sends Shelley face first into the turnbuckle before rolling him up from behind for the win.
After the match the two teams shake hands but Alex Shelley refuses to shake Creed’s hand and pushes him away.
Our next installment of Karen’s Angle is aired and this week she is sitting with Frank Trigg, who gives his take on breaking into MMA by saying that he had a supportive wife. Trigg continues to push the situation between Karen, Kurt and AJ Styles until Karen says that nothing happened between her and AJ and tells the camera crew to stop filming. Trigg continues to push the issue until Karen finally slaps him and security come in to intervene, but Trigg levels him. Trigg calls her pathetic and leaves the set.
A video package highlighting the feud between Kurt Angle and AJ Styles is aired. These two will try to finish their feud in a last man standing match at Hard Justice. Mike Tenay and Don West then run down the rest of the card for this Sunday.
Jeremy Borash is standing by with Kurt Angle and asks what to expect this Sunday. Angle says that he won’t be responsible for what happens this Sunday since AJ Styles slept with his wife. Angle says that it is personal and he will hurt him at Hard Justice.
Lauren is backstage with the Beautiful People, Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed. Angelina Love and Velvet Sky push Lauren out of the picture to take over the segment and says that there is going to be carnage at Hard Justice when beauty teams up with the beast against Gail Kim, Taylor Wilde and ODB.
Match 4: Beer Money, Inc. & Team 3D vs. the LAX/Christian Cage & Rhino (8-Man No-DQ)
The bell rings and all eight begin to brawl in the ring. Rhino is quick to hit the Gore on all four of his opponents as bodies begin to fly out of the ring. Hernandez nails both members of Beer Money and plays up to the camera as we head into a commercial break.
We return to see action on the outside of the ring, on the ring entrance and in the crowd. In the ring, Brother Ray lands a superplex on Hernandez and takes Cage out with a high back body drop. Homicide, however, evens the odds with a low blow on Ray.
The action goes back and forth with everyone going in and out of the ring until Cage finally spits beer into Storm’s face, which allows Homicide to land the Gringo Killer for the pin fall.
After the match, Johnny Devine comes out and hands Brother Ray and kendo stick which he uses against his four opponents and takes them all out. Team 3D and Beer Money continue on the attack as a glass table is brought into the ring and they send Homicide smashing though it. Trainers and Hector Guerrero come out to help out Homicide as Mike Tenay begs the truck to go to commercial.
Taylor Wilde’s story continues on Rough Cut as the rest of the locker room says that she has a target on her back and needs to prove herself. Bill DeMott thinks that she is going to be a mainstay on the roster as Taylor says that she is trying to enjoy the moment and that she doesn’t think she will be going anywhere anytime soon.
Match 5: Awesome Kong vs. Salinas
The Beautiful People and Raisha Saeed are in Kong’s corner for this match and Mike Tenay announces that Homicide has been brought to a local hospital in Orlando due to being put through a glass table. As for the match, Kong tosses Salinas around the ring for a brief moment before landing the Awesome Bomb for the win.
The Beautiful People come into the ring and say that this is just a preview of what’s to come at Hard Justice as Kong picks Salinas back up and delivers an Implant Buster before Sky goes out and grabs a chair. Kong is about to give Salinas an Awesome Bomb onto the chair until Gail Kim, ODB and Taylor Wilde come out to help.
Kong levels Wilde with a clothesline and is about to give her an Awesome Bomb onto the chair but Abyss comes out to the ring and stops her. The two stare off as Saeed has to come in a break them up before she slaps Abyss across the face. Abyss grabs the chair and chases her out of the ring a security guard comes in and takes the chair away from him. In turn, Abyss delivers a Black Hole Slam on the security guard for his troubles.
Jeremy Borash is backstage with Booker T and asks him if he will be sitting there as next week as the TNA World Champion. Booker says that Samoa Joe can’t beat him and tonight he will hurt Joe tonight in the gauntlet match. Both Borash and Booker are calling it a ten-man gauntlet match, I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Booker also says that Sting will be there this Sunday and will also be here tonight.
Mike Tenay and Don West hype the Hard Justice pay-per-view once again before we head to the locker room where Lauren is standing by with Samoa Joe. Joe says that Sting is a coward for not facing him face to face and that he will get his belt back from Booker at Hard Justice.
A video package highlighting Sting’s involvement in the feud between Samoa Joe and Booker T is aired. Mike Tenay wonders if any questions will be answered tonight with all of this.
Jeremy Borash is backstage with AJ Styles and asks if he is prepared for Angle this Sunday. Styles says that he didn’t sleep with his wife and at Hard Justice he guarantees that he will be the last man standing.
We then see Samoa Joe, Matt Morgan and BG James heading to the ring with weapons as the main event is up next. After a commercial break, Borash is in the ring and states that it is in fact eight-man gauntlet match. He also says that every two minutes another two wrestlers will be entered into the match and that eliminations will occur when someone is tossed over the top rope. Once there are only two remaining, those two will battle out in a pin fall or submission match and everyone is entitled to carry a weapon into the ring.
Match 6: 8-Man Weapons Gauntlet
The first two in the match are Kurt Angle, who is carrying a trash can, and AJ Styles, who is carrying a ladder into the ring. Styles begins to beat Angle down in the corner but Angle answers back with a trash can over the head. They both go for cross body blocks in the ring and knock each other down as the time expires.
The next two up are Matt Morgan with a steel chair and Tomko with a 2x4. Morgan knocks the 2x4 out of Tomko’s hands as they run to the back, but they are both in the match. Meanwhile, Styles nails Angle with a flying forearm shot but Angle comes back by sending Styles flying head first into a chair as time expires.
BG James with a chair and Kip James with a street sign come into the ring and attack each other on the outside. BG nails Kip with the sign as Styles sends the ladder into Angle’s head, which busts him open pretty badly and Angle lays in a pool of his own blood. It doesn’t seem to affect him to much as he is still able to land an overhead suplex on Angle, but Styles answers back with a Pele kick as time expires.
Samoa Joe and Booker T are the final two competitors in the ring as Booker comes out with a bat and Joe comes armed with a police baton. The bodies start to come into the ring as we head into a commercial break.
We return to the match to see that Matt Morgan eliminated Kip James and Styles eliminated Kurt Angle. Styles is soon eliminated by Booker T as Angle meets him on the outside and slaps on the ankle lock. The referees have to break it up between the two as a bloody Angle finally heads to the back.
We are down to the last four as I guess BG James was also eliminated at some point during this match. Samoa Joe is on the outside as Morgan holds his own against Booker and Tomko but they are both able to eliminate him before focusing on Joe, who is back in the ring. Booker nails Joe with a superkick but Joe is able to knock Tomko into Booker and send Booker over the rope and onto the floor.
Tomko and Joe are the final two and this is now a pin fall or submission match. Tomko looks to use a trash can off the top rope but Joe kicks it into his face before landing the muscle buster for the win.
After the match, Joe warns Booker that he will be coming for his belt at Hard Justice and then Sting will be next. Sting’s music hits as Sting is seen up in the rafters. The two stare at each other as we are then treated to a send-off music video for Hard Justice.
Quick Results
- Roxxi defeated Jacqueline by pin fall in a Bimbo Brawl.
- Sonjay Dutt defeated Curry Man by pin fall.
- Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed defeated the Motorcity Machine Guns by pin fall.
- The LAX/Christian Cage & Rhino defeated Beer Money, Inc. & Team 3D.
- Awesome Kong squashed Salinas by pin fall.
- Samoa Joe was victorious in an 8-Man Weapons Gauntlet.
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