"iMPACT!" RESULTS FROM THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2007
By Mike Kerrigan
The show opens up with Sting walking to the ring, only to be suprised by Kurt Angle holding a steel chair. After the two exchange some punches,Christian Cage comes out and gives the two a proposition - team up against Cage and AJ Styles and if one of them gets the pin, they get the title shot at Sacrifice. But if someone on Team Cage gets the pin, no one gets a title shot. Sting and Angle agree.
Backstage, Leticia is with Team 3D. Brother Ray says that they finally fulfilled their destiny. They are the only team in history to win every major tag team title in the wrestling world. Ray goes on to say that they will be defending champs and at Sacrifice they will defend against LAX and the team of Tomko and Scott Steiner. Tonight though, they look forward to getting in the ring with Rhino and Samoa Joe, and find out just how tough Joe is.
Joe and Brother give each other some stiff hard hitting shots, but the two keep going at it. Rhino eventually makes it into the ring, where Rhino hits a Gore on Ray, and gets set to hit Devon, but the Fallen Angel Christopher Daniels gets into the ring and hits everyone in sight with a baseball bat. Yet, Daniels didn't realize Joe was on the outside, and was met with a Coquina Clutch as he went up the ramp. Joe threw Daniels back into the ring, where he was hit with a headbutt to the groin by Team 3D and a Gore into a table from Rhino.
Jeremy Borash in the locker-room with Team Cage. AJ doesn't want to be "volunteered" for matches anymore. But Cage has a different perspective. He tells AJ that tonight, there's a phenomenal opportunity for AJ to become the number one contender for the NWA World Title. AJ quickly changes his mind set, gives Cage a hug, and walks out.
After the commercial break, we come back to a very angry Robert Roode who is demanding Eric Young come to the ring. Jim Cornette intervenes, and tells Roode that Eric was in breach of contract when he "signed" with Roode Inc. Therefore, Roode was tampering with contracted TNA talent and was in breach on contract himself. Roode did not take this kindly and shoved Cornette to the floor. Eric Young hit the ring and took it to Roode for a moment until Roode hit a DDT on Young. He then handcuffed Eric to a turnbuckle and smashed a guitar over his head. Yet, it was Cornette who had the last laugh when he told Robert Roode he would be facing the King of the Mountain Jeff Jarrett at Sacrifice.
A very strange video from James Mitchell is then shown where he had some cryptic messages for wrestling world. "It's time to move on to bigger and better things. Abyss is finished and Abyss has been replaced."
The No DQ TNA Knockout Match is next. with Jackie Moore squaring off against Gail Kim. The match was all out brutal as the fight went all over the arena, eventually ending up back into the ring where Gail Kim placed a garbage can over Jackie Moore and proceeded to hit the can with a huge stick; knocking out two of Jackie's teeth in the process. Jackie looked as if she grabbed the upper hand at the end of the match, but it was all for not when she went for a steel chair and got it dropkicked into her face and lost the match to Kim. James Storm came to the ring to help Moore beat down Kim, but Wildcat Chris Harris came down to make the save. But that wasn't all, Harris took off his eye patch and threw it at Storm as he ran away. Does this mean that Harris' vision is back to 100%?
In the continuation of last week's Paparazzi Production, we see what is entitled "Baffoonery: The Battle". The video sees Bob Backlund schooling Chris Sabin in some amateur wrestling, but Alex Shelley making the save. The two X-Division stars seemed to accomplished their goal in the video, as it looks like they stole what seemed to be Mr. Backlund's "Rule Book".
The main event is up as AJ Styles and Christian Cage take on Kurt Angle and Sting. Sting is in control early on in the match, but AJ is able to put a stop to it as he grabs Stings legs and with a little help from Cage, smashes Sting's groin into the turnbuckle. Somehow Sting recovers and hits a Scorpion Death Drop on Cage, but Angle breaks it up so he doesn't lose his shot for the title. After Angle and Sting hit AJ with a double slam, Sting tells Angle to go for the pin, but Cage is able to break up the count. Cage is then thrown over the top rope by Kurt. In the meantime, AJ goes for an enziguiri on Sting, but misses. As AJ lands on the mat, both Sting and Angle go for a Ankle Lock, and AJ taps out. Referee Rudy Charles says that AJ tapped to both men, and therefore Jim Cornette says "Both men win the title shot at Sacrifice and it will be a Triple Threat Match between Christian Cage, Kurt Angle, and Sting at Sacrifice." Sting and Kurt Angle stare down each other as Cage holds his title closely as iMPACT! ends.
STING en ANGLE vs Christian en AJ Styles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsqRkscxmLs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etnawrestling%2Ecom%2Fvideos%2F2007%2F503a%2F1%2Ehtml
Mitchell talks about Abyss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CRtAElWXBA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etnawrestling%2Ecom%2Fvideos%2F2007%2F503a%2F2%2Ehtml
TEAM 3D vs Rhino en Samoa Joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNc1v2HTbJ4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etnawrestling%2Ecom%2Fvideos%2F2007%2F503a%2F3%2Ehtml
ROODE uses the guitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjqmEeWBhgQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etnawrestling%2Ecom%2Fvideos%2F2007%2F503a%2F4%2Ehtml
KIM VS Moore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UABztDcFpCU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etnawrestling%2Ecom%2Fvideos%2F2007%2F503a%2F5%2Ehtml
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