Well this was an ok segment, but I think it could have been trimmed down and done backstage.  

Tenay and West run down the card for the evening. 

Match 1 – Jay Lethal vs Chris Sabin – non title

Nash is in the ring and he says there will only be one Black Machismo.  My question is how long can this gimmick actually last it was funny once and that was it, but Macho Lethal comes out to face Chris Sabin in a non title match which you know what that usually means.  

Lethal has the macho impression and mannerisms down no doubt, they just need to bring back Macho Man for this angle.  I’ll dig that ooh yeah!  Anyway back to the match, it starts with a good x-division pace until Lethal starts whipping out the macho man moves.  The back elbow, the double ax handle. Sabin takes control of the match and hits a nice tornado DDT on Lethal.  Sabin tries his spinning back kick but Lethal hits him with the lethal combination and then the savage elbow.  

Winner: Black Machismo Jay Lethal

Decent match and it was nice to see Lethal get the win over Sabin.  However Lethal doesn’t need this gimmick to get over.  

Another pointless bitch in TNA is backstage with Team Cage.  Cage rants on about Sting coming back again, and Cornette setting the stipulation of whoever scores the pinfall in the match gets a title shot at the next PPV. Well hopefully Christian is the good heel that he is and gets the pinfall for himself. AJ becomes captain obvious and points they have an advantage over Team Angle right now. Then Cage and AJ argue back and forth.  Steiner said something about his title shot, please god no!  Then abyss comes up behind Christian and starts breathing and Christian asks if he washes that thing.  

That was a good segment; AJ and Cage are the best things about Impact right now.  

Commercial break time 

We’re backstage with dumbass JB with Big Sexy, Black Machismo, and Vinnie Dutt. Next thing you know Dutt is going Sonjay Diesel next week. These guys don’t need fucking gimmicks they need time to wrestle. Anyway Eric Young is in the corner for some reason and Roode barges in and berates JB for talking to Eric Young.  Storm and Jackie interrupt and Storm sounds like his drunk self.  Roode tells Young to stay in the corner. 

Pointless segment.  

Match 2 – Mix tag – Petey and Gail Kim vs Roode and Jackie

 The match starts off with a brawl between the four combatants, Roode goes outside and Petey hits the over the top rope huracanrana he does.   Do we really need the head pound thing every time a woman wrestles?  Roode comes in and nails Gail Kim with a nice back suplex.  Too bad he didn’t break her so we wouldn’t have to see Gail vs Jackie in a cage. Roode then hits Petey with a clothesline turning him inside out. Petey charges Roode and gets a spine buster for his troubles as we head to commercial. 

And we’re back from commercial Jackie is beating up on Petey then Roode gets a blind tag in.  Gail Kim is heading up the ramp with a ref selling that back suplex then hulks up and comes down to the ring to save Petey. Then we get our classic WWE match distraction by James Storm, and Roode wins with a roll up on Petey. 

Winner: Roode and Jackie

The match could have been worse but this had WWE written all over it pointless women, a run-in, and a roll up. After the match the pirate Chris Harris runs down to clear the ring only to get chop blocked by Storm for his troubles. Then EY runs out with a chair and clears out the ring himself, till Roode tells him to put down the chair or he’ll never wrestle again.  You know the problem I have with this Roode/EY angle it’s not very believable because you know damn well they are not going to fire Eric. Just hurry up and end this damn angle already.   

In the back JB is backstage with a guy who didn’t need a gimmick make over The Fallen Angel who is now pretending he is sting with the baseball bat and not speaking.  Daniels walks off as LAX appears in the picture with them holding Brother Runt hostage and told JB they couldn’t find 3D but they found family instead.  Konnan lifts up his shirt and shows a gun in his pants, great lets reinforce stereotypes.  We now head to commercial. 

Back from commercial LAX is in the ring with Brother Runt. Konnan says better work their ass off and get into shape. Well the gun was a taser as I suspected.  Team 3D runs down asking Konnan not to shoot brother runt, but Konnan does it anyway.  Hopefully brother runt was wearing some kind of vest, they say it was 5000 volts, well a police issued one they use these days tend to be 250,000 volts  

Another damn commercial break, can we get some wrestling please instead of pointless segments? 

Yay we’re back and it’s going to be AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe. 

Match 3 – AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe the winner gets the advantage for his team at Lethal Lockdown. 

Joe dominates the cocky AJ until Styles his flying forearm off the rope as we head to commercial.  

Back from commercial and no chinlock instead they are on their feet for once. Styles, picks Joe up for a slam and says oh my god. Well props to AJ being able to lift Joe.  AJ rakes the hell out of Joe’s back, must have been payback for something because Styles really raked him to where you could see the fingernail lines and he drew blood.  Styles dominates until Joe hits his quick powerslam. AJ with a jawbreaker on joe, then he hits flipping DDT and attempts to pin Joe only a two count.  Joe heads up top and AJ being the dick he is throws the ref towards Joe and gets clocked.  Great another damn main event ref bump which you know what that leads into the locker rooms emptying and them brawling.  Then you hear some music and Jarrett’s back.  Jarrett runs down and cracks AJ with the guitar.  Jarrett gives Joe a high five and Joe gets the pin. 

Winner – Samoa Joe and Team Angle, as they now have the numbers advantage for lethal lockdown.

Sting looks confused because you know he has a hard time trusting Jeff Jarrett and we head off the air with a promo package for Lockdown. 

Well that was probably one of the better Impacts in the last couple weeks since last weeks pissed me off so much I didn’t bother to review it. TNA needs to work on improving their one-hour program before they head to two hours.  TNA needs to stop trying being the WWE.  TNA has a better talent roster than the WWE, but has the worst booking staff. TNA is heading down the road that the NWA and WCW went down.  It was nice to see Jarrett back never thought I’d say that.

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