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Some of the major wackiness in bold

Awesome Kong and TNA settled their issues, at least enough that she was wrestling on tonight's show in an Xpolsion match as Kong & Hamada beat The Beautiful People to keep the tag titles

For Thursday's show:

Show opens with a Pope promo, talking about his match with A.J. Styles at Lockdown. Ric Flair and Styles came out with several women. Pope called him Dick Flair, which comes from the mid-90s and Shane Douglas. As Flair corrected him on the name, Pope said your name may be Ric, but you're still a Dick. He called Flair a well dressed piece of crap. As Pope and Flair went back-and-forth, Styles started insulting Pope and Pope went after both of them. They beat down Pope and Pillmanized his ankle with a chair. Styles then put on the figure four and security had to pull Styles off him.

Tara b Daffney via DQ in a non-title match for using a tool box as a foreign object. She ended up putting a bicycle railing on Tara and started smashing the railing with a chair until Dr. Stevie came out and took her to the back.

Orlando Jordan b Samoa Joe clean with the back stabber


Kaz (no more Suicide) & Amazing Red & Generation Me b Doug Williams & Alex Shelley & Chris Sabin & Brian Kendirck when Kaz pinned Doug

Eric Bischoff announced Jeff Jarrett vs. Abyss and if Jarrett doesn't hit Abyss with a barbed wire bat, then Jarrett has to leave TNA.

Abyss vs. Jarrett saw Jarrett think about using the bat but refusing to. Eric Bischoff stopped the match and ordered his new team of henchman, which are Homicide, Raven, Desmond Wolfe, Tomko and Rhino) to attack both men. They held Abyss and called for Hogan to unmask him, but Hogan refused to unmask him and called him to the back.

Beer Money b Brutus Magnus & Rob Terry by pinning Magnus. Rob Terry is now the Global champion. Magnus said Terry was a screw up and that he and not Terry should be Global champion. So Terry teases giving Magnus the belt, but then attacked him and laid him out so it looked like a face turn for Terry.

Hogan, Bischoff and Abyss are in the office. Hogan told Bischoff to leave. Hogan said that Abyss is a real life monster, and took off his WWE Hall of Fame ring and gave it to Abyss telling him it was a ring that would give him magical powers.

Kurt Angle b Daniels with the ankle lock

Angle did a promo saying the chain that he wore was given to him from soldiers he met at an army base in Texas and that Ken Anderson disrespected them by using it as an object. He vowed revenge on Anderson. Anderson was all sarcastic saying how touched he was and amazed at Angle's ability to kiss people's ass for attention. They ended up brawling with Anderson using a low blow and laying Angle out with a mic. Anderson claimed TNA stands for Total Nonstop Anderson.

There was a brawl with Eric Young & Kevin Nash vs. Scott Hall & Syxx-Pac. Hogan showed up. This may be the end of the show

They taped some stuff ahead for the 2/25 show

It opened with Flair and Styles doing an interview. Styles says, "To be the man, you've got to beat the man." Flair cut a promo on Hogan and Abyss. Abyss came out to Hogan's "American Made" music and wearing Hogan's ring. Flair said Abyss may be superhuman when it comes to strength but he's not a Hall of Fame wrestler and calls him a clown. Flair said Abyss couldn't even shine his shoes. Abyss said that's true because he's not a shoe shine boy. Styles called Abyss a joke and he and Flair demand Abyss take the Hall of Fame ring off and give it to Styles, a real Hall of Fame wrestler. Then Hogan came out and a four-way argument beings.

Team 3-D b Nasty Boys in a tables match. Jesse Neal is back as a babyface as he got the helmet from Jimmy Hart and threw it to Devon to set up the win, which was a 3-D on Sags through a table

Beer Money challenged for a tag title match. Hernandez agreed to give them a match.

Kaz b Brian Kendrick

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So Daffney and Kaz get a push, Abyss and Hogan do one of the more bizzare sounding promos ever, and Bischoff now has put together one of the most unusual factions in recent memory. That group of guys together does have a ton of potential though.
 

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Oh the wacky booking of Orlando Jordan.

In the last month he's pinned the challenger for the TNA title from both last night and for lockdown.

Clean.

...
 

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I really hope this makes sense on TV, because from the spoilers, it looks like the special kind of awful that only TNA can pull off.
 

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bps21 said:
Did you just miss Raw?

Oh, I saw it. And then I came in here and read about a show featuring jokes stolen from Shane Douglas, Orlando Jordan going over Samoa Joe, and Hulk Hogan giving Abyss a MAGICAL RING which I guess turns him into a giant retarded Green Lantern or something.
 

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*sigh*

I can buy the whole magical ring thing, because obviously Abyss in storyline is a mental midget that would believe that sort of shit.

I cannot, however, buy Orlando Jordan pinning Samoa Joe clean. At least when he beat the POPE~!, the kayfabe injury to the POPE~!'s knee was a factor.

What we need in 2010 is more Shane Douglas-esque insults in the PG era.
 

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I don't believe the "magical ring" thing since I didn't see it in another set of spoilers and typically backstage skits don't get shown at tapings. I could be wrong and maybe that isn't made up based on something in later spoilers. But it could be real, but even then I suspect "magical powers" is actually "this ring will inspire you to be great" and not "this will transform you into Bigfoot." But I guess its a wait and see thing.

Orlando Jordan... I don't know. He pins Pope clean and then isn't seen again for a month except to lose to Pope on route to his monster push. Now he pins Joe? Maybe Joe will be selling some kind of concussion or something and OJ's gimmick to is take advantage of dude's injuries to get wins? I have no idea. Its weird.

Bischoff's stable of refugees is weird but interesting. Its nice to know Homicide has a job. And to a lesser extent Raven and Rhino. All in all with folks like Daffney, Stevie, Daniels, Beer Money, and others its one giant show of "I STILL WORK HERE!"

No problem with Kaz showing back up, Suicide going away, and Kaz getting some pins.

Nastys LOST. So I will once again keep myself sane by hoping that's the last time we ever see them.

I don't know. Its got some wacky stuff but doesn't look half as full of pitfalls as last month's disastrous set of tapings. Or half as terrible as the wrestling show I just watched. There's definite red flags but I think TNA won enough good will last night to let me wait and see. Especially after RAW.
 

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BurningPirateShipSex said:
bps21 said:
My position remains unchanged.

I forgot to add, the continued push of the Nasty Boys. In 2010. When their last decent match was 17 years ago.

Oh come on now, let's not exaggerate here...




















...it was 16 years ago.
 

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Kendrick is 1-2 after disappearing for two or three weeks, cool.
 

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I read on a different set of spoilers that Jordan came out with a woman and man as valets, which seems to hint that they're doing a bi-sexual angle with him. Orlando Jordan as Goldust 2010 should be something.
 

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The Truth said:
I read on a different set of spoilers that Jordan came out with a woman and man as valets, which seems to hint that they're doing a bi-sexual angle with him. Orlando Jordan as Goldust 2010 should be something.

This is why Scott Steiner is needed.

"Hey, Joe... you fat halfbreed... YOU JUST LOST TO A COCKSUCKER!"
 

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Please KOAB.

Like there's only one reason.
 

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LuckyLopez said:
I don't believe the "magical ring" thing since I didn't see it in another set of spoilers and typically backstage skits don't get shown at tapings. I could be wrong and maybe that isn't made up based on something in later spoilers. But it could be real, but even then I suspect "magical powers" is actually "this ring will inspire you to be great" and not "this will transform you into Bigfoot." But I guess its a wait and see thing.

I believe it because it's a rehash of Hogan's interactions with Evad Sullivan with a different piece of his wardrobe. Plus,
luke-o said:
AMERICAN MADE MAGIC POWERS~!
 

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I agree with Dames about the Abyss and the magic ring storyline. Abyss really isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to things and he only seems a tad smarter than Eugene so Hogan telling Abyss that his WWE Hall of Fame ring will give Abyss super natural wrestling powers and Abyss believing it kinda works out. Plus I don't know about you guys but I want to see Abyss come out to American Made and do his best Hogan imitation.

Abyss also accepting the ring also works with the Foley storyline they have going right now as well as Foley might get jealous over Abyss accepting Hogan's ring.....that sounded kinda gay didn't it?.....since Abyss is already wearing Foley's old flannel.

The Orlando Jordan win: As long as Jordan stays on TV and keeps picking up wins, I'm cool with it. I'm sure there's more than just OJ just beating Joe clean. I wouldn't be surprised if we're all shocked now but after actually seeing the match we all just say "Well okay that makes sense" like we did when OJ beat Pope.

I do like that Daffney is getting actually getting a push. It'll be nice to see her actually do something again, plus her promos are pretty much fucking awesome.

I wouldn't call the bolded stuff wacky, it's just really making us question what actually happen and is making us (for the most part) to tune in and see what actually happen and hope TNA isn't just doing something random without an explanation, but since Bischoff and Hogan took over the booking/storylines are making more and more sense now as we're getting explanations to our spoiler questions.
 

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I think you're jumping the gun on the faction thing with these guys. It just sounds like a bunch of random heels that Bischoff got to attack Abyss for him.
 

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This is the ring wording from another site (which says it's from PWI):

On the screen, they show Abyss in Hogan’s office. Hogan tells Bischoff to get out of the office. Hogan calls Abyss a monster and then he shows Abyss his Hall of Fame ring and calls the ring ‘his life’. Hogan puts the ring in Abyss’ hand and says that Abyss will be a God. Abyss screams with joy at what Hogan just told him.
 

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DrVenkman PhD said:
This is the ring wording from another site (which says it's from PWI):

On the screen, they show Abyss in Hogan’s office. Hogan tells Bischoff to get out of the office. Hogan calls Abyss a monster and then he shows Abyss his Hall of Fame ring and calls the ring ‘his life’. Hogan puts the ring in Abyss’ hand and says that Abyss will be a God. Abyss screams with joy at what Hogan just told him.

BUT DID YOU SEE RAW LAST NIGHT?!?!?

(It's just a little dirty, it's still good, it's still good. It's just a little slimy, it's still good, it's still good. It's just a little airborne..)
 

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What I got out of that was, similar to LL's interpretation, the ring being is symbolic of attaining a 'wrestling god' status.

Or it's magic and will let Abyss Hulk-Up.
 

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From a January Bubba show:
-Bubba also put over Abyss. Hogan said Abyss is his favorite. "He's my next John Cena," Hogan said. Bischoff praised Abyss for having a great attitude and having a larger than life character. "He's magic," Bischoff said.
 

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I hope this somehow leads to the return of this magical outfit...

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This is why they brought Jimmy Hart to TNA: so he could pen a theme song for Abyss that's very, very similar to that song that plays in Ghostbusters when the containment unit blows up.
 

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That is the creepiest fucking song. I watched Ghostbusters a couple of months ago and man...that song fucking rules.
 
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