IMPACT

November 23, 2006
Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida
thanks to: pwtorch.com

We start with an opera ballad recapping the Genesis PPV.

- The in-ring portion of the show started with no pyros as Abyss walked out with James Mitchell. Mike Tenay said Sting fell prey to Mitchell's mind games, and it cost him the NWA Title. Don West tried to make up for the horrid booking of the title match by explaining how Abyss won the title. Mitchell took the mic and said it's better to laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. He said Sting is no different than Abyss in terms of having an unrighteous side. He said that Sting needs to be honest for once and admit that he got back in the wrestling business to indulge in all the forbidden fruit of wrestling. After the fans chanted for Sting, his music hit. A man dressed as Sting ran to the ring and cleared Abyss. He took off the mask revealing himself to be Christian. Christian asked if he has to embarrass himself by dressing like a complete moron to get attention. He said he doesn't want to wait until after Sting gets his re-match with Abyss to get his title shot. After the fans chanted for Sting again, he repelled from the rafters to ringside. Sting said he's going to get his re-match tonight. He said he would go through Christian to get it. Sting said he's not in a good mood. He then cleared Christian from the ring. Christian said he doesn't care about Sting's mood swings, and the only thing he cares about is himself. He told Sting to put the #1 Contender slot on the line tonight in their first ever match-up. They jump cut to the usual Impact intro. Very clipped opening segment making sure everyone in the world knows it's a taped show. I don't think that makes for good TV.

- The usual Impact intro aired. A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels walked out for the opening match. West said Styles and Daniels would be teaming together for the last time in TNA. It would have been nice to get a promo from the two men before the match to explain why.

- Kurt Angle arrived in the parking lot with a backpack slung over his shoulder. Does he have to study for a test or something?

[Commercial Break]

- They aired a video package on Raven's new flock. They showed dead bodies, human skulls, Kazarian kissing a cross, a stomach covered in boils, and more.

1 -- A.J. STYLES & CHRISTOPHER DANIELS vs. THE NATURALS (CHASE STEVENS & ANDY DOUGLAS w/Shane Douglas)

They joined the match in progress with The Naturals working on Daniels in the corner. Styles came off the top with a double clothesline on The Naturals. He didn't make a tag, but Earl Hebner let him wrestle as if he were the legal man. So much for those TNA rules. Daniels slammed Douglas, then Styles hit a frog splash and Daniels hit the BME for the win. After the match, Rhino walked into the ring and confronted Daniels and Styles. Styles bailed and screamed at Rhino as random wrestlers watched from the entrance ramp.

WINNERS: Styles & Daniels in 3:00. I'm missing the point of squashing The Naturals when they're supposedly being pushed. This match seemed to happen inside a vacuum with no pre-match back-story on the conflict between the two teams.

- Eric Young walked over to the announce table in a turkey suit. Tenay said it just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without Eric Young in a turkey outfit.

- They aired footage of B.G. and Kip in Stamford in some dingy building to discuss their operational tactics against WWE HQ. B.G. named Shawn Michaels, Triple H, and Vince McMahon by their real names, again. He didn't get specific on anything. They cut to footage of B.G. and Kip running toward a building and throwing things like a couple of kids egging houses on Halloween. The absurdity must continue!

[Commercial Break]

- They're advertising Kurt Angle challenging for the NWA Title at the Turning Point PPV in December.

- Jim Cornette was in the ring to take the NWA Tag Titles from LAX. Cornette introduced Petey Williams. Tenay called him a real hero for standing up against LAX. Petey brought an American flag with him to the ring. The fans chanted, "U-S-A" before Petey could talk. He said he's a Canadian citizen and he's had his problems with the fans in the past, but he knew what LAX was going to do wasn't right. Cornette said people in management and viewers weren't happy with LAX's comments the last few weeks. Cornette asked for a bar to be lowered so they could hang the flag and sign the National Anthem. Gunshots from LAX's entrance interrupted and the crowd cheered. Yes, the crowd cheered. LAX walked out with a man in a suit and got in Cornette's face. Konnan said they came here to serve Cornette with some papers. He introduced their attorney and said TNA violated their First Amendment rights. He said Cornette better have money because they're going to serve him. Petey then tried to jump Konnan, but LAX jumped him and beat him down. Hernandez "buried" Petey with a Mexican flag. Konnan then grabbed Cornette and choked him in the corner. AMW ran to the ring and Gail Kim splashed Homicide. Hernandez then decked Gail and LAX beat down AMW. Konnan was noticeably hobbling. Kurt Angle then ran to the ring to make the save. He gave Homicide, then Hernandez consecutive German Suplexes. He dropped the straps, then Samoa Joe's music hit. He stood on the entrance ramp in a long sleeve shirt and his wrestling trunks. Samoa Joe began walking to the ring and Angle shooed everyone away. They cut to a break.

[Commercial Break]

- Samoa Joe was talking out of the break. He said he did something no one else has ever done in TNA by not being pinned and not submitting in eighteen months. Joe said that eventually, a better man would have his hand raised and he's not scared to admit it. He said his consolation is that he lost to a man who is a decorated champion. Joe said that was one night, though, and he wants to know if Angle would give him a re-match. Angle stared down Joe, then took the mic. He said he would give Joe a re-match under one condition that each man makes sure nothing happens to the other before Turning Point. Angle said he would get his re-match if they watch each other. Joe nodded, then Angle left.

- Back to B.G. and Kip's Operation Cease and Desist. B.G. complained about the skits they do. Who's they? B.G. screamed at the GPS system for talking to him. Kip Kip wasn't much help, as they found themselves at a Target department store rather than "the target". B.G. called Kip an idiot for leading them two hours in the wrong direction.

- Eric Young was back in the crowd in a turkey suit.

- In the TNA spotlight segment, Jeremy Borash talked about the house show in Monterrey and TNA DVDs.

- Robert Roode was in the ring with Ms. Brooks. He called Young an idiot for running around in a turkey suit. He called him an embarrassment to the sport. Roode said he wants a re-match with Young. He said Young had to cheat to beat him on Sunday. Tenay pointed out that it was on the pre-show. Way to go. Young, looking like a contestant on Let's Make a Deal, polled the audience as if he were on Price is Right.

[Commercial Break]

2 -- ROBERT ROODE (w/Ms. Brooks) vs. ERIC YOUNG

Young slowly walked from the stands to ringside. Roode met him and slammed him into the guardrail. Back in the ring, Roode worked on Young's back. He landed a hard clothesline in the corner. Young shoved Roode off the top, but missed a turkeymoonsault. Roode then went for a piledriver, but Young slipped out and rolled up Roode for the win. After the match, Roode took the mic. He screamed at Brooks. Roode said he didn't hire Brooks for her body. Oh my. Let's go back to the first time Roode and Brooks were on TV when Roode stared at Brooks's breasts and said he made a good decision. Roode said fans love Eric Young and he wants that. He then said Young would probably beat Brooks in a bikini contest. He stormed off, leaving Brooks speechless in the ring.

WINNER: Young in 2:00.

- Time for the mandatory X Division meeting in a Paparazzi Productions segment. Kevin Nash, Alex Shelley, and Austin Starr hosted the meeting with Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal, and Senshi present. Senshi just sat in the corner. Nash announced the Paparazzi Production Series (PCS) tournament to crown the best X Division wrestler ever. Dutt and Lethal weren't sure what was going on. Nash then said they're going to test everyone and he doesn't want to find anabolic steroids. Nash then looked at Dutt and said you don't want to be driving around that mid-size car for the rest of his life, as if to suggest he needs to get on the juice. Nash said it was time for group unity. He wanted everyone to hold hands. Shelley was more than willing to join hands. Nash said there's nothing wrong with two guys holding hands as he swung his hand back-and-forth with Shelley. Starr then joined hands with Shelley, but Shelley weirded him out by smelling his hand. There's a Kelly Ripa-Clay Aiken joke in her somewhere. They cut to a shot of Senshi still sitting in the corner expressionless. That was great. Dutt and Lethal left in indignation.

- Christian walked out for the main event. He didn't realize that Sting was right behind him following him to the ring. Cornette, on commentary, said Sting is going to get a head-start on their first match-up. Sting jumped Christian in the entrance ramp and threw him into the front row. They cut to a break with Sting, in a t-shirt, brawling with Christian up the bleacher steps.

[Commercial Break]

3 -- STING vs. CHRISTIAN CAGE

Sting was still wearing his t-shirt in the ring as they returned from break. Christian pounded on Sting's forehead on the mat. Tenay said Sting was still wearing the t-shirt because he went directly into the thumbtacks on Sunday. In that case, he should be selling that by being in a hospital room and vowing revenge on Abyss to get his title back with doctors monitoring his health after he was subjected to a vicious beating that he was unprepared for and hadn't experienced before. Sting wrestling a match as if nothing happened three days after taking a thumbtack bump doesn't exactly reinforce the gimmick or give Abyss credibility as a threat. Cornette said he feels a title should change hands by pin or submission, but the match had to stop because Sting was out of control. Um, in that case, why wasn't the match stopped ten minutes earlier, or even five minutes earlier when Abyss introduced thumbtacks into the match? TNA is just tying themselves up in knots trying to explain a stupid and lazy booking decision. The referee took a bump following an errant Stinger Splash attempt. Sting hit the Scorpion Death drop, then applied the Scorpion Deathlock. Tyson Tomko then ran into the ring from the crowd. He jumped Sting, then took off his hoodie. Cornette said Tomko's not even a contracted wrestler and he just jumped in the ring from the crowd. Then why didn't police surround him and take him out of the ring? Why doesn't everyone jump in the ring if random men can hop the guardrail as they please? Tomko gave Sting an overhead slam. He hugged Christian and Cornette said he has to decide what to do about the #1 Contender situation.

WINNER: Who knows in no official time. A complete joke of a main event. No decision. No logical explanation for why Tomko was allowed in the ring if he's not a contracted wrestler. TNA keeps tying themselves in knots trying to explain these storylines that make no sense.

- They cut to another clip of B.G. and Kip walking around in the wee hours of the night. Kip stopped B.G. short and pointed to the sky. The camera slowly panned to the left revealing a WWE logo on a building way off in the distance. B.G. laughed and smiled. "We're back," he said as they closed.