IMPACT Wrestling - 16/06/11

We kick off IMPACT Wrestling first with a little promo package from Slammiversary and then Anderson comes out to celebrate his victory over Sting and just brings out the fact he only needs himself in wrestling and doesn't need friends. Gunner then came out during the segment to a small chorus of cheers. Gunner came out asking for a chance at Anderson due to him already helping out, Anderson threw beer in the face Gunner but then Gunner put Anderson through a table.

After a lot of talking from Mike Tenay who first promoted the Bound For Glory Series (what is the point in the Xplosion Championship chase thing or will it have ended). A Knockouts Tag Title match. The fact Mexican America are walking backstage. The fact Angle will have comments to air later on in the night and then the fact Sting is in the building, we reach our first match.

Mexican America's, Hernandez will be facing Devon in the first match of the night. Quite a short match which saw Devon come out with the victory via DQ when Mexican America attacked him. The Pope, D'Angelo Dinero came for the save again which seemingly was putting an Xplosion storyline and match that has already happened on IMPACT Wrestling. Great work TNA.

Mr. Anderson goes into the office of Eric Bischoff and Bischoff tells Anderson he is happy that Anderson is asking for some help from Eric. He then books Anderson against Gunner for tonights IMPACT Wrestling. Kurt Angle is shown walking backstage with his children before coming out to cut a promo. Angle says he is glad the Jarrett situation is over and then explains why he put the Olympic Gold Medal on the line which is basically because he is going to try and get into the 2012 Olympics in London. Jarrett comes out and claims the feud isn't over stating that he wants one more match against Angle. Angle accepts on the condition that Jarrett will move to Mexico without his kids. So the final battle at the PPV was more of a first final battle.

So the Bound for Glory Series is announced where there is a certain amount of guys that will be competing for 3 months until the Pay Per View to become the winner of the Series and go on to face the World Champion at Bound for Glory. The matches can take place anywhere (as long as it is TNA related shows), the victorys can come in any type of match. There is a point system in place. The series kicks off on this episode of IMPACT Wrestling with RVD vs Samoa Joe.

Eric Young has a backstage segment offering Matt Morgan a TV title shot as he is a TV star. Morgan tells young he knows someone from TV who would jump at the opportunity of a title shot, Eric getting a nice comment in saying "Was Vince Russo in Happy Days". As we come back the is the introduction of the Destination X 12 man tournament which features stars of the future and past of the X-Division all fighting for a contract.

Kid Kash is the first competitor who was a former X-Division star, Jimmy Rave is next and what a returning star that is due to leaving in 2009. Double A, Austin Aries is the final of the former stars to come out tonight and what a star he is, this match just sounds amazing already. Aries gets the victory in an epic battle. This is putting the X-Division back on the map right here. Aries and Kash certainly should be signed back up. Get rid of Rob Terry and Murphy for the two spots on the roster.

Before the next match the Knockouts Tag Title match gets started, the champs are already in the ring and the men of Mexican America get sent to the back. Velvet Sky and Miss. Tessmachaer then come out to face the champions. The match was ok, Rosita picked up the victory. Velvet Sky got distracted by ODB and then got attacked after the match by Jacqueline Moore/ Miss Jackie and ODB.

Jarrett is backstage just signing the contract for the match/brawl between him and Angle. Hogan is now in the office where Bischoff was earlier. Sting walks in after Jarrett has left is told that on IMPACT Wrestling, Sting is getting his rematch against Anderson. Sting has a pop at Hogan asking him why he is like he is right now. Hopefully down the line Hogan will be turning back face as heel Hulk Hogan doesn't work good. Sting seems very "Joker" like right now with his gimmick as he asked Hogan if he wants to wear a mask and puts the facepaint on Hogan and has a weird laugh.

Eric Young defend his TV Championship backstage against, Jason Hervey. Hervey currently works with TNA and is the pioneer of giving it the current backstage segments slightly. Jason Hervey is also a business partner of Eric Bischoff in Bischoff-Hervey Entertainment. We also had a little backstage segment before that where Jackie and ODB are claiming that they are cleaning up the Knockouts Division.

The next match is RVD Vs Samoa Joe in the BFG Series match. This was quite a good match and again a good way to open up this competition of the Bound for Glory Series. Hope it keeps up and Joe returns to his former glory in TNA, instead of RVD getting that push.

Gunner Vs Mr. Anderson was the final match before the Kurt Angle and Jeff Jarrett brawl in my opinion. Gunner picked up the victory in a good match. There is two things that are polar oppsite in this match. We have the fact, Gunner this new fresh face is getting a push into the main event scene surly as he has now pinned Sting (when he was champion) and current champion, Mr. Anderson; but then there is the point of your new champion in TNA looks weak due to him losing to Gunner.

Next week Bully Ray is facing Scott Steiner in the BFG Series, we get comments from them which were recorded earlier on and then when Jarrett is walking out to the parking lot there is Bully Ray cheering him on and a heap of the roster just there with cars parked into a circle of sorts. There was one problem with this brawl, a few of the faces that were in the little crowd are guys that are being used in next weeks IMPACT Wrestling. So TNA stupidly shouldn't have had them in this segment. Angle kind of beats up Jarrett and then walks away.

Was a good show, better than I expected it to be from reading the spoilers before hand something I rarely do with TNA.

WWE Superstars

The first match of Superstars is what we didn't get from Raw, Zack Ryder. Zack Ryder has a little promo time and mentions that his father and friend is there as well as his girlfriend, Ryder also asks everyone "who wants to be Broski of the Week". Zack Ryder's opponent is his former tag partner, Primo. This match was just great; having been a tag team already, Ryder and Primo know how to work with each other in the ring and you could say that they worked well. Ryder was victorious in both winning the match after a Rough Ryder and turning face in the process.

Sadly the next match on Superstars is Drew McInytre against Vladimir Kozlov. Before Kozlov gets to come out McIntyre also get a little promo time where he now announces himself as "The American Nightmare". This match was pretty much dominated by Kozlov, but then all matches don't have to be open battles. McIntyre gained the victory from the Future Shock DDT.

Yoshi Tatsu is up next against Chavo Guerrero. This was a good match and certainly for a build up into the main event. Yoshi Tatsu and Chavo Guerrero look like they have a spark and can work well together in the future. Tatsu got the victory via a roundhouse kick.

In the main event JTG comes out first and is Tyson Kidd's new manager. Tyson Kidd is going against Kane. This was a great main event for the show and as you would have expected Kane was a pretty dominant force in the match but Tyson did get some chances. Kane won the match via the Chokeslam which again was expected.

Decent show with some strong matches. Would love to know already who Tyson Kidd's new manager is.

ICW Monday Night BRAW - Episode 4

ICW Monday Night BRAW (i'm a bit late but stuff it) kicks off with a nice little video package of what happened last week when Noam Dar defended his Zero-G Championship. We also see a little promo from Christopher Rampage's manager issuing the statement that he didn't tap and during the promo the last week logo disappears; which made me think is it for this episode or from after the previous episode.

Johnny Moss comes out to start the show and the crowd broke out into a "Mossy" chant which proves he is a face and he is going against James Scott of The Gold Label for the ICW Championship. The Gold Label are also at ringside for this match but it was expected but James Scott sends them to the back, claiming he can beat Johnny Moss on his own. This match was a great way to begin my weekend of wrestling. Perfect all the way through for a crowd of 18+ and started off with an epic brawl, especially the use of the chairs. However The Gold Label came out later on in the match to help James Scott retain the championship.

Pretty decent 4 episodes of ICW Monday Night BRAW and I hope it continues to grow even bigger.

Tomorrow I will be both in 6th form and then at Phoenix Pro Wrestling, so if there is a lack of a blog i'm apologizing right now. However if there isn't a blog posted by me expect to see 1/2 on Saturday as I run down TNA IMPACT Wrestling and Friday Night Smackdown. I will attempt to get thoughts on Superstars A.S.A.P. and post it tomorrow if anything. But for now I leave you with this review of ICW Monday Night BRAW.

UKW Mayhem - Episode #12

I don't know how far UKW are overall into their TV shows on TVMyChannel (I believe I've got the name right). and on the TVMyChannel website the archive is at Program 10 where as the Youtube is to episode 12.

We kick off with a Fatal Four Way in which we see Caden Vs Jack Flash Vs Steve Omega Vs Robbie X. Jack Flash looks like a babyface but i'm guessing is booked as a heel where as Caden looks like a heel and is yet a face. Steve Omega just looks like he wants to be the new Jeff Hardy I guess without the situation and he came out with a young girl who has a title on her shoulder, I believe her name is Kandy Leigh and she is the Womens Champion even though she looks 12 (not to sound mean). UKW do have a nice set up though especially having the roaming camera (the camera on the crane). The match was on but seemed more like a tag match throughout and Caden picked up the victory by pinning Robbie X.

I seemed to have missed out a promo which I believe was before the first match but it was a build up for the main event. The next match is "Bad News" Brett Bell Vs Johnathon Sedgwick. Brett Bell is the son of the referee, Mike Bell. The match overall had a look of a brawl and ended via count out. It looks also like these guys have a history of battles behind them.

The main event was for the UKW Championship between Rob Cage (who is the UKW Champion) and Lionheart who i've witnessed at Phoenix Pro Wrestling. In this match you can see the nice set up of a commentator table attempting to make a WWE table which worked for them. The match was main event quality and I could imagine seeing it on an American produced Wrestling event.

Overall they put up a good show in production quality, wrestling wise need more names that are familiar to the wrestling community but a good show at that. I believe tomorrow I will review episode #13 which has recently been posted on youtube.

Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/UKWwrestlingTV for more UKW TV episodes.

All Star Raw

Live Raw review...

Allstar night

We kick off with the miz who calls out Stone Cold asking for an apology. Stone Cold then comes out and owns The Miz sadly calling him stupid though. Austin brings back Piper's Pit for Alex Riley and The Miz. Del Rio then interrupted Stone Cold which is one of the worse decisions other than messing with The Big Show. Austin then books the first match which is Del Rio vs Kane.

The first match being Del Rio Vs Kane kicked off when we got back. Like the TNA pay per view this was a great opening contest and worked well minus the fact it was ended by a disqualification. Shockingly The Big Show made an appearance and he just destroyed Ricardo Rodriguez with Kane attempting to stop him having to choke The Big Show to make him relax. After the match Stone Cold came out and booked a match between, The Big Show and Del Rio at Capitol Punishment.

Cody Rhodes has came out to team with Ted DiBiase and Wade Barrett against Sin Cara, Daniel Bryan and Ezekiel Jackson. The match again was a lot shorter than expected but was decent. Big Zeke just dominated as always and Sin Cara picked up the victory after a diving crossbody.

R-Truth comes out claims he will become the new champion. He gets shot at by Hornswoggle with the t-shirt bazooka and goes to attack him but leaves him alone as he is a good R-Truth but actually attacks him as you could have guessed. Stone Cold appears on the titantron and books a match between John Morrision and R-Truth tonight.

Santio is against Sheamus as we come back. I noticed during this match we can literally here a chant of We Want Ryder. The internet speaks loudly as its Ryder or Riot. Santino was destroyed with a Brouge Kick and then had the Texas Cloverleaf locked in to make Santino tap out.

After another advert break we get Randy Orton come out to speak to the crowd and does a Del Rio reminding us that his name is Randy Orton. He then goes on to say he can cause Christian some pain at Capitol Punishment but he will not do that due to the fact Christian is at Raw so he calls him out and has an unanswered response to begin with. Christian appears on the titantron claiming that Orton is always angry and having a deal in the WWE from when he was born. Orton retaliates by saying Edge carried Christian all his career.

One thing that made no sense was the anonymous Raw GM saying that he will strip Randy of the World Title if he doesn't comply with what has been said, does that mean T-Lo is the Raw GM? Stone Cold then books a match between Christian and Mysterio.

As we get back Booker T joins commentary weirdly without reason. Christian is ready for Rey Mysterio as he awaits his opponent. Christian also like the first match got disqualifed for going over the 5 count. For what we witnessed it was a decent match but after the match Mysterio began to attack Christian only to have CM Punk come to the ring and then the New Nexus which Mason Ryan takes advantage of to destroy Rey Mysterio leaving him with Christian.

Vickie Guerrero backstage annoys Stone Cold and grants Dolph Ziggler a US Title match as long as Dolph drops Vickie Guerrero which he agrees to do.

As we come back R-Truth makes his way to the ring. John Morrison then doesn't come out when his music plays and as R-Truth would say this is a conspiracy. R-Truth then went chasing after Morrison who no showed 3 times which is because John Morrison was attacked backstage.

Dolph Ziggler comes out with Vickie Guerrero by his side. Ziggler is teaming with Jack Swagger to take on Kofi Kingston and Evan Bourne. Yet another decent but short match saw Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston win with the Air Bourne victory over Swagger.

We now get Piper's Pit with Alex Riley and The Miz. This helped book a match between Roddy Piper and The Miz with Alex Riley as the referee. Both men put $5,000's on the line.

As we return we are ready for The Miz Vs Roddy Piper with A-Ri as the referee.In another short match Roddy Piper beat The Miz and Alex Riley assaulted The Miz as was expected.

We have a 7 on 7 divas tag match with The Bellas, Rosa Mendes, Maryse, Alicia Fox, Tamina and Melina against Kaitlyn, AJ, Natalya, Gail Kim, Kelly Kelly, Beth Phoenix and Eve. This is the most i've seen in a match together and it begins with Kelly just kicking some ass before breaking into a brawl. Kelly Kelly then picks up the victory after K2. I can't be bothered to go back and write the names of who teh winners were but it overall was face team. Eve the divas do a tribute to broadway.

Andy has a little backstage segment with Stone Cold. Strange enough that even though he had this straight edge persona on Tough Enough he is beer with Stone Cold. Stone Cold then offers a beer to CM Punk who is a straight edge leader who came to than Stone Cold for booking Cena vs Punk.

Stone Cold returns to the ring to make an announcement and that is that next weeks raw is an interactive raw where everyone is going to make the matches and the stipulations of the matches.

Main event time and it is Cena Vs John Cena. Quite a decent match with a finish that Cena got distracted by R-Truth and the little Jimmy's. R-Truth then attacked Cena after the match.

This raw could have been a lot better if there was longer matches and less backstage segments. But it was decent for what it was worth.

TNA Slammiversary IX

We kicked off Slammiversary with the Tag Team Titles on the line, Gun Money as they are being called, Alex Shelley and James Storm were looking to defend against, The British Invasion, Magnus and Douglas Williams. In what was an awesome opening match, i'm safe to say Beer Money keep their titles. I thought TNA would have ended it there and had Roode go single but it looks like they will be keeping that for a while. I do somehow expect Shelley could be saying on the next IMPACT Wrestling that he deserves to keep the title or something like that. But my previous prediction was wrong.

Scott Steiner has a few words about the fans before his match and explains he is going to beat Matt Morgan. Just a quick thought before I talk about this match, I've realize that TNA didn't change the apron of the ring and it is still the IMPACT Wrestling ring at the Slammiversary ppv. At least the prediction of Matt Morgan winning was right and it was perfect because this match in my full honest opinion bored me. Yes it slowed the pace down after the first match but it seemed too slow. Morgan won via the carbon footprint, it wasn't like he would have won any other way anyway.

Backstage Jeff Jarrett is with Jeremy Borash. JB just asks if Jarrett ever thought he would be facing Angle when he started the company and fighting for the Olympic Gold Medal (forgetting about the number one contendership). Jarrett just claims he is going to win as most people do when they are being interviewed backstage.

Abyss is up against Kazarian and Kendrick next. Now what I don't seem to understand with this match is, triple threat matches usually have no disqualification in place. Earl Hebner is the senior official of TNA and should know by now not to count, or is this a new rule in TNA? Quite a decent match minus the downside of it not being a no dq rules match. Abyss retained after stealing a pinfall victory. Kendrick and Kazarian from the start had a mission to take out Abyss and that was faltered as soon as Kazarian was sent into Kendrick. Hope something good happens for the X-Division title come Destination X... how about Joe goes for it.

Speaking of which Samoa Joe Vs Crimson is next. The match was quite a decent match but the outcome was unexpected. I didn't expect Joe to win as they are building up Crimson as the unbeatable guy in TNA right now. Yet I didn't expect Crimson to win as it was against Samoa Joe. Quite nice to see Crimson did win however and he put up a good struggle against Joe, I say struggle because he didn't get to do much.

Jeremy Borash is with Angelina Love backstage and Winter is also there. Winter tells JB to move back and just explains to Angelina what she has to do and says she knows she is ready. Angelina talks again for the first time and explains how she knows she is on the same page as Winter which wasn't the case before.

Knockouts title match what can I say except, poor. This match was, well mind my language but shit from start to finish. The use of Winter wasn't needed at ringside if all she did was try and interfere when pinfalls were happening. There was some good moments but a botch finish and a 3 count just totally destroyed the whole match along with the recent run of good womens matches in the past week. Mickie James retained the title after her DDT finisher botched. After the match however Winter attacked Mickie James. This meaning that the feud is going to carry on for another match.

JB is now backstage with Bully Ray. Bully Ray just rants on claiming that AJ Styles is a boy in a man's game and that the key word in the next match is Man not Standing. That being a last man standing match. In what was an epic encounter Bully Ray got the victory. AJ Styles simply was, pun intended, phenomenal. He took it to the limit and I give it to him saved the pay per view after the poor knockouts match. Bully Ray also put on a great show in this match and I witnessed a bit of ECW revived when Bully Ray was chopping AJ and then AJ requested for another.

JB is then backstage with Mr Anderson after the match as the next match is the World Heavyweight Title match. He just cut a little promo saying that playtime is over, no more mocking Sting and time to go win the title.

In quite a decent first main event as I see it we crown a new champion in Mr. Anderson. What a cheating way to steal a victory though with a blatant low blow before hitting the Mic Check. Bischoff played mind games with Sting during the match and made him believe the 3 count happened. But one thing i've noticed is his son was the referee of the match, Garrett Bischoff who is also known as Jackson James. This storyline is going to develop well in my opinion.

Our second main event is the number one contendership match which i'm glad they have mentioned now instead of just the gold medal. Just before the match we get a video via satellite of Karen Jarrett who is at home apparently but I believe is in the IMPACT Wrestling Zone. This match was the perfect fit to end the pay per view. Had me from start to finish just wanting Angle to win the match and i'm glad he did. A near chance of seeing him tap out to the Ankle Lock to then reverse the move into his own Ankle Lock and a tap out by Jeff Jarrett. Angle retained his gold medal and is now the number one contender to face Mr. Anderson which I expected if Anderson was going to be champion due to their previous encounters being amazing.

Overall this pay per view was quality all throughout if you take out the Knockouts Championship match. TNA pulled the cat out the bag and hopefully Destination X keeps it up with the pay per views.

Pre-Slammiversary Thoughts!

Tonight in America is Slammiversary and in the UK it will air on Wednesday. I have huge thoughts of the pay per view and who will win, plus why they are going to win.

Match One which has been announced is the Tag Team Championship Match between Gun Money, Alex Shelley and James Storm against The British Invasion, Douglas Williams and Magnus. Now with this match I see one thing happening; The British Invasion winning the titles. This is due to the fact Alex Shelley and James Storm have had one match as a team together and they previously lost that match. The big thing with this is two things. Beer Money are great heels and work well as champions; and Robert Roode can turn heel and become part of the TNA main event.

The next match that I will be talking about is the TNA Knockout Championship. Mickie James who is the current champion will be facing Angelina Love. Angelina Love is a 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time Knockouts Champion. That is going to be in her favour in the match as Taz would probably say and with her being under Winter's hypnosis or whatever it is will become the champion. Mickie James won the title 2 pay per views back and in TNA's timing that means she is likely to lose at this pay per view.

Matt Morgan is finally going up against Scott Steiner at the pay per view which should have happened at the previous pay per view but didn't due to Steiner getting a better payday elsewhere. With this match hopefully TNA see what fans want and will give Morgan the victory. The victory will also be able to help build Morgan into another one of the next members of the main event of TNA.

AJ Styles is going up against Bully Ray which storyline wise was changed at the previous pay per view due to Tommy Dreamer attacking AJ for no reason. But yeah back to the storyline Bully Ray will face AJ and this will be a quality match. I'm expecting AJ to get the victory but swerve wise, Bully Ray could come out of this the winner. This being he previously lost to RVD on the IMPACT Wrestling before the pay per view, but also because he is being built up as a heel. Also due to the stipulation of Last Man Standing the chain he uses will get involved.

Samoa Joe is going against Crimson in a TNA version of Streak Vs Nothing. Crimson currently has a winning streak going on in TNA and they are building it up as the only other guy who had a streak was Samoa Joe (who now turned heel). Due to this I see the match ending out as a draw. This is because both guys are built as being unbeatable (even though Joe has been beat a lot now). Plus Crimson in my opinion shouldn't be beating Joe in a match.

TNA X-Division/Xtreme Title match which is Abyss Vs Kazarian Vs Brian Kendrick. Currently Abyss is the champion and previously changed the title to the Xtreme championship. Kaz and Kendrick will be fighting for the title to claim it back as the X-Division championship. But due to the whole X-Division show for Destination X and the 6 sided ring (if it doesn't get removed by the time). So i see Kaz or Kendrick geting the win, hopefully.

The Final Battle is being announced by TNA between Kurt Angle and Jeff Jarrett. What is on the line is Kurt Angle's Gold Medal and there is also the number one contendership for the World Heavyweight Championship. Due to Angle's Gold Medal being on the line I see him winning and then losing at his chance for the title. This due to the fact he should be training for the Olympics. But some how Jarrett is going to try and screw Angle out the match and someone will interfere.

Final match of the night. TNA World Heavyweight Championship match between Sting and Mr. Anderson. Sting overall is winning this match and remaining is champion. One helps with advertising the TNA shows over here in the UK right now and two due to Anderson is not going to beat Sting. Even though Gunner got the pinfall on Thursday, Sting is not going to drop to Anderson unless it is in a shock swerve for the fans. After all the mockery/homage, Sting is going to win in TNA's eyes.

So yes that is is guys. If you are in America tune in tonight it sounds a decent pay per view and if you are in the UK then tune in Wednesday on Challenge.