8 JAN IMPACTO TOTAL REPORT - OPORTO, PORTUGAL: ANGLE VS. JOE, TEAM 3D VS. VKM & MORE

We attended the second day "TNA - Impacto Total" House Show in Porto, Portugal. It was a good crowd but not a full house, maybe because TNA doesn't air in Portugal, only PPV's in cable, so there were only 25% or less TNA fans. After attending both of WWE Smackdown show´s last December, in all honesty, we must say TNA´s house show was a LOT better than WWE´s house show. What a great show. All the wrestlers were really committed. Great cutting edge matches, with a lot of high flying maneuvers. No one has holding back. Some of the wrestlers were giving some good solid promos, too bad that more than half of the audience (mostly kids with less than 12 years and their parents ) had no idea what the wrestlers were saying. But in my opinion, at the end of the night everyone that attended the show was very happy with what they´ve just seen. The show lasted about 3 hours or so.

Here are the results:

Team 3D w/ Brother Runt and Christy Hemme def. VKM w/ Jerry Lynn and Gail Kim - Crowd was nuts for Team 3D after Bubba called Kip James an homosexual several times in Portuguese.

4 Way X - Division Title No. 1 Contenders match - Johnny Storm def. Jodie Fleisch, Spud and Pac. -Very good match, lot´s of high flying maneuvers. Almost nobody in the crowd knew who they were thou, still they cheered anyway.

APW - Portuguese Tag Team match - Ultra Psicho & Paulinho def. Prophet & Viper Kid - Not a very good match. They need a lot of practice.

AJ. Styles def Rhino - Very good match. Rhino was the heel, still half of the crowd was cheering for him, chanting "Gore" a lot near the end of the match.

NWA World Title Street Fight - Abyss def. Christian. Great match. Christian did well playing heel for the crowd. Christian climbed a steel structure on the outside of the ring and jumped on Abyss. Crowd was really into that. Some Holy s*it and This is awesome chants.

APW Portuguese Title on the line - ArteGore def Mad Dog (who won the title the night before in Lisbon in a Special 10 Man Gauntlet). This was a Lumberjack match. ArteGore regains the title in a fairly good match, with a good crowd heat.

X - Division Title match. Christopher Daniels def Johnny Storm. Great Match. Crowd was crazy for C. Daniels who delivered a great match. They were chanting "Fallen Angel" for the entire bout.

Kurt Angle def. Samoa Joe via Submission. Angle came out with the Portuguese national flag for the biggest pop of the night. Really great match. The crowd was crazy for both of them, lot´s of "Angle" and "Joe" chants. Lot's of submissions. Joe was really good. At the end of the match Kurt should have stayed a couple minutes longer. He was out of there 60 seconds after the match was over.
Anyway,

Very good show, great matches. Money well spent

Source: PWInsider