Impact
Wrestling
Date:
February 6, 2014
Location:
Hydro Arena, Glasgow, Scotland
Commentators:
Mike Tenay, Tazz
Reviewed by Tommy Hall
We're
still in Scotland as we're setting the stage for Lockdown. The big
story of course is the reveal of MVP as the new investor, starting
the big feud for the year. MVP is a decent enough choice but they
just need to do something else around here. The power struggle stuff
is so played out in TNA but at least there's a new face involved in
things. Let's get to it.
We
open with a fight in progress.
Eric
Young vs. Abyss
This
is Monster's Ball, meaning anything goes. They're fighting in the
back with Young actually in control and bringing Abyss through the
entrance. Abyss comes back with a big right hand and some forearms
to the back and the opening bell rings. Young crawls over to a
trashcan full of weapons and blasts Abyss in the back with a pipe to
get the advantage, only to have Abyss backdrop him on the floor.
It's table time but Young hits a quick dropkick to get a breather.
Young
goes for the mast but Abyss slams him into the apron to get a
breather. They head inside for the first time with Eric coming off
the top, only to jump right into Abyss' hands. A hard clothesline
drops Young again and Abyss goes outside to get a chair. The chair
is placed on Eric's ribs but he manages to turn it on its side to
crotch a charging Abyss. Eric is sent into the corner and out to the
apron where he comes back with a missile dropkick for two.
Just
as Eric gets some momentum he gets sent face first into the chair in
the corner and a chokeslam gets two. Abyss goes outside and gets his
bag of tacks before loading up a superplex, only to have Young
counter with a sunset powerbomb into the tacks for two. Eric goes up
top but Abyss punches him off the top rope and out through the table
in a huge crash. Back in and Young somehow gets his foot on the
ropes to break the pin so Abyss pulls out the big weapon: Janice, the
baseball bat full of nails. Young rips the mask off to save himself
and reveal Joseph Park, earning himself the Black Hole Slam for the
pin at 9:41.
Rating:
B-. That might be a bit high
but I was digging this
match. It wasn't the best hardcore match I've ever seen or anywhere
close to it but Young was working well out there. I can tolerate him
much more easily when he's not being over the top and stupid which is
what we got here. Abyss is a fun character too as there's something
awesome about a guy who just breaks stuff.
Park
picks up a broken piece of a mirror and sees himself, turning him
back into Joseph.
Roode
brings Dixie a contract for a title match against Magnus at Lockdown
but Dixie is disgusted. She says things have changed around here and
she can't just give out title shots. Roode says this isn't his
problem so Dixie makes him face Joe tonight for the title shot at
Lockdown. Bobby is still annoyed but Dixie implies a lot of help.
Here's
MVP for his first speech as the new investor. He's been around the
world for the last few years just living life. In his younger days
he got in trouble for not realizing the consequences of his actions.
It's become clear to him that there are people here in TNA making the
same mistakes and he's tired of seeing that every week. Over his
career he's made a nice income and then used that money to make more
money.
He's
found some people that think like he does and it's time for a change.
TNA has so much potential but the bad leadership is killing it.
That will not happen under his watch but here's Spud for an
interruption. Spud thinks MVP should come meet Dixie in person
because Dixie loves making new stars. MVP: “Yeah, herself.”
Spud says that if MVP were to come to Dixie, he would be greeted with
open arms. MVP threatens Spud with violence and then announces
Magnus vs. Kurt Angle in a non-title match.
Bully
Ray says he'll bury Anderson next week but he'll put the next person
he sees in a coffin as a preview.
Chris
Sabin is in a purple room and says he doesn't accept that Velvet Sky
has broken his heart. She's a woman worth fighting for and he's
invited her here to this special room for later tonight.
Curry
Man vs. Bully Ray
Ray
comes out with the coffin and says that Curry Man is in the wrong
place at the wrong time. He kicks Curry Man's head off and slowly
takes off the jacket. This isn't even a match with no bell or
referee. Curry Man is laid out with a piledriver and a shout of
ANDERSON before Ray throws him in the coffin.
Magnus
complains to Dixie but she reminds him that it's a non-title match
before checking her makeup. Spud insists she looks beautiful as
Ethan comes in. Dixie cuts him off before Ethan can say anything and
Ethan isn't pleased, saying Dixie doesn't have time for her own
blood. She'll talk to him in a week.
Here's
Austin Aries with something to say. As X-Division Champion, he
reminds us that it's not the title that makes the man but the man
that makes the title. He's held every title in this company and is
the man who invented Option C. His intention is to hold the X Title
until he can cash it in again but here are the Bro Mans for an
interruption. They're just a distraction for Zema Ion to blast Aries
in the back with his Feast or Fired briefcase. Zema wants a referee
out here right now and the match is on.
X-Division
Title: Austin Aries vs. Zema Ion
Ion
gets two early near falls before a baseball slide to the back puts
Aries down again. Austin comes back with a chop but is sent into the
barricade to put him down again. A slingshot DDT gets two on Aries
but Ion misses a corkscrew moonsault, allowing Aries to hit a discus
forearm and a release belly to back suplex. There's the running
corner dropkick and a brainbuster retains Aries' title at 2:11.
Dixie
gets Spud ready to meet MVP.
We
recap Samuel Shaw revealing his shrine to Christy Hemme last week.
This week, Christy asks him what's going on before cutting off their
personal relationship.
Roode
is tired of appeasing Dixie Carter. Magnus comes up and says Dixie's
orders are Roode's job, not favors. Roode needs to stop worrying
about favors and start worrying about Joe. The loss last week is
brought up and Magnus says he'll tap out anytime in a non-title
match. Roode is annoyed and wishes Magnus luck against Angle.
MVP
comes in to see Dixie (in her fourth appearance in an hour), who
brags about building this company from the ground up. She talks down
to him a bit and tries to speak the wrestling language to him,
dropping terms like giving a rub and curtain jerking. MVP thinks we
should start in the ring in front of the fans and they bicker a bit
before MVP leaves. Spud thinks he's a bloody nice bloke.
Kurt
Angle vs. Magnus
Non-title.
Magnus tries to wrestle with Angle to start and it goes as well as
you would expect it to. Kurt throws him down before hitting some
Rolling Germans and posing a bit. The Angle Slam is blocked with a
thumb to the eye but he takes Magnus down again for the ankle lock,
drawing in EC3 for the DQ at 2:30.
Ethan
goes after Angle's bad knee and blasts it with a chair. He puts Kurt
in a leg lock, likely writing off Kurt for knee surgery.
Joe
tells Dixie that she started a war with the wrong man. He'll fight a
war of attrition or a blitzkrieg and win every time.
Eric
Young had to expose Joseph Park for who he was because you have to
treat crazy with crazy. He doesn't know what's coming next.
We
recap Velvet Sky breaking up with Chris Sabin over the last few
weeks.
We're
in that purple room whith Chris Sabin. This is where he and Velvet
had their first kiss and tonight it's going to be special again.
Marriage is implied before a confused Velvet comes in. Back from a
break and Sabin apologizes to Velvet, calling this a big mistake. He
pulls out the ring box and Velvet is very nervous. There's nothing
in the box though because Sabin is asking her to get out of his life.
He's tired of hearing about Velvet all the time, even when he was
World Heavyweight Champion. Therefore next week, it's Sabin vs.
Velvet in a match.
We
recap the MVP vs. Dixie stuff tonight.
Clip
of Joe making Magnus tap last week to become #1 contender.
Samoa
Joe vs. Bobby Roode
Physical
start with Joe running over Roode and dropping a knee, only to have
Bobby dropkick him off the apron. Back in and a neckbreaker gets two
on Joe and we hit the chinlock as the match slows down. Joe fights
up but misses his backsplash, only to catch Roode in a powerslam to
get a breather. There's a HUGE handprint on Joe's chest from a chop.
Roode fights off the MuscleBuster and blocks the Koquina Clutch
before getting caught by both moves for the pin by Joe at 6:54.
Rating:
C. This was fine and did its
job of making Joe look even more like a killer. Clean falls over
former world champions are never going to make someone look bad and
Joe is on a roll heading into Lockdown. Also, how nice was it to
have a match end without any interference? Such a concept.
Here
are Spud and Dixie to introduce MVP for the summit. Dixie brings up
Magnus to start and talks about how far he's gone in such a short
time. Carter complains about the fans not shutting up and tells them
to give her the support she needs. This brings MVP to talking about
changes that he wants to make. He's tired of Dixie making TNA a
place for all her friends to run roughshod over and refuses to be “a
butler at a Paula Dean party.” Dixie's party is over and MVP
smiles at her to end the show.
Overall
Rating: C-. This
show brings up TNA's long running problem of putting so much emphasis
on one idea: if you don't like that story, you might as well not
watch the show. It's not as bad as it was in the Aces and 8's days,
but this show had five Dixie appearances and several other segments
that were about her story. Yeah she's getting better in the role,
but that's what people said about Aces and 8's and look where that
went. There's other good stuff on the show now, but it's still
dominated by a power struggle story which isn't what people want to
see right now.
Results
Abyss
b. Eric Young – Black Hole Slam
Austin
Aries b. Zema Ion – Brainbuster
Kurt
Angle b. Magnus via DQ when Ethan Carter III interfered
Samoa
Joe b. Bobby Roode – Koquina Clutch
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