TNA 2005 iMPACT & PPV Reviews

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NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Jarrett
TNA X-Division Champion: AJ Styles
NWA World Tag Team Championships: America's Most Wanted

TNA Impact
November 26th, 2005
Orlando, Florida

Recap of Monty Brown hitting Christian Cage with the POUNCE airs.

Monty Brown vs. Helvis
SQUASH!

3LK along with Kip James comes out, BG says as much as he loves Truth and Konnan he loves KIP too. He calls them all his family. Konnan cuts him off and calls Kip a suckup and a leech. BG says all Konnan does is cuss him in Spanish and no one knows what he's saying. BG says he wants to take this to a group vote to make Kip part of the 3LK. Truth says all he wanted was the Truth and never doubted BG so he gets his vote. Konnan goes to rant, but BG cuts him off and says he's either with them or against them. He tells Konnan to trust him.........Konnan says it should never have got this far and says he's sorry to all of them he's family now. 4LK!

Tonight: Jarrett vs. Kip & Abyss vs. Hardy

Video Package airs of Daniels doctor saying Daniels has a grade 3 concussion and will be out of action for some time.

Chris Sabin vs. AJ Styles
FUCK YEAH! Battle of the 2 men in the race for WOTY! This is short but really fun, it's babyface vs. babyface so it's built on respect, and just two guys trying to outdo the other but keeping it clean. They keep talking about this "code of honor" bullshit. This has tons of counters, and reversals with neither guy really able to maintain control. Joe again comes out with a bloody towel to watch on. They do a great job at building Sabin as he's on the same level as AJ. Later in the match, AJ begins to get frustrated and he begins laying in the punches and forearms. Sabin shows great heart but in the end, AJ's manages to outlast Sabin and hit the cool counter into the Styles Clash for the win. **3/4

Video package of all the fuckery that has happen to Raven since losing the World Title.

Backstage: Larry Z go up to Raven who is in his car, he says he didn't book Raven tonight. But he did bring a form for him to sign. Raven refuses so Larry says next week Raven will compete in a House of fun match.

Backstage: Shane Douglas is with Christian, he welcomes him to TNA. Christian says last week Monty left him laying and he ain't mad at him. He says the story isn't over. He isn't putting his tail between his legs instead he went to Larry and got him a match at turning point against Monty Brown. Gail Kim comes over and says, he made a great decision coming to TNA like she did but he made the wrong choice to joining the wrong guys. AMW then comes over and says he made a bad decision and payback is a bitch. SORRY ABOUT YOUR DAMN LUCK!

Abyss (w/Father James Mitchell) vs. Jeff Hardy
This is trash just like all their previous matches and made only worse with it being a straight-up match. Sabu comes out with the barbed wire chair, that distracts Abyss and Jeff hits Abyss with a chair right in front of the fucking ref and THE FUCKING REF JUST ALLOWS IT. Jeff then follows up with a shitty twist of fate for the win *1/2

Video package on Rhino and his upbringing.

Jeff Jarrett (w/Gail Kim) vs. Kip James
During the commercial 4LK are sent to the back, this is the usual Jarrett match. Shitty brawling, using a weapon and making the ref look stupid. Kip bumps his fuckin ass off though, but his comeback is trash. Late in the match; Jackie Gayda and her wonderful cleavage comes out to yell at Jarrett and fights with Gail. UGH! They go a couple more minutes until Roode runs out and busts the hockey stick over the back of Kip allowing Jarrett to hit the stroke for the win. *1/2

After the match; 4LK and Team Canada to brawl to close the show. Okay then.

 

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NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Jarrett
TNA X-Division Champion: AJ Styles
NWA World Tag Team Championships: America's Most Wanted

TNA Impact
December 3rd, 2005
Orlando, Florida

Earlier Today: Don West is outside the building looking for Raven when Joe walks past him, he still the bloody towel but now he has AJ's name on his taped fist. BOBBY FUCKIN HEENAN IS HERE! HE SAYS THE WORLD CHAMP WHITE SOX'S ARE HERE SO WHY WOULDN'T HE BE HERE! AND LEAVES.

Petey Williams (w/Coach D'Amore) vs. Austin Aries vs. Alex Shelley (w/Video Camera) vs. Chris Sabin
Really fun spotfest, I didn't like that they did the having to tag to get in the match stuff, but over then that this was good. Alex/Austin is great along with Sabin/Aries, thankfully Petey, for the most part, stays out of the way and only comes in to do his little moves before leaving. Shelley debuts the Skullfuck which gets the "that was gay" chant. The match ends when Petey hits the Canadian destroyer on Aries but Sabin sneaks in and hits the cradle shock on Petey for the win. **3/4

Backstage: Terry Taylor is with AMW, AMW are rewatching the funeral. Harris said this was done out of respect but Team 3D are too stupid for coming back from the dead. Strom says they call their shots and 3D may have invented the tables match but they will perfect it. Sorry about your damn luck.

Abyss (w/Father James Mitchell) vs. Kenny King
ABYSS SQUASH!

Father James grabs a mic and says, he calls Sabu a monkey................THE LIGHTS GO OUT AND SABU IS IN THE RING! He has a barbed wire chair but Abyss kicks it away. Abyss begins beating him up in the ring, on the floor, and through the crowd to the parking lot area. Father James hands Abyss the barbed wire chair and ABYSS finally uses it. He nails Sabu in the head with it before he gets some steel rails. Abyss chokeslams him onto the rails and leaves. So, I guess Abyss is over his fear now, good for him.

Rhino video package on how his life fell apart when he was in the E.

Jeff Jarrett comes out and forces Tenay into the ring, Jeff makes fun of that Rhino video before trying to turn it and say they are trying to make Rhino the biggest babyface in the company to they can get rid of him lmao Jeff begins bringing up how Rhino wife took their kid and ran to Germany to get far away from him Jeff begins to go into his weekly "Management, out to get me, I built this place" rant. The crowd begins shitting all over it. He blames them too for Gail Kim being mad at him and for Jackie Gayda coming in. Tenay asks why she slapped him and he says not to go there. He says he's gonna send Rhino back to the trailer park where he belongs. Christian comes out, he says he was sitting in the back listening to him put this crowd to sleep when he heard his name. He says he's only been in TNA for a month and he's already sick of him. He's sick of his boring weekly rants and then asks what has he ever done for TNA apart from some broken guitars and bad haircuts? Christain says once he beats Monty Brown he's coming for the NWA World championship. Jarrett challenges him to fight right NOW! They brawl for a bit, and Christian gets the upper hand so Jeff bails..............BUT FROM BEHIND Roode runs out and nails Christian from behind. Jackie Gayda then comes out and slaps Jeff again. Security breaks all of this up.

Backstage: Terry Taylor is with Bullet Bob and 4LK. He talks up all the 4LK members, and how proud of them he is. United they stand divided they fall.

Raven comes out to the ring for the match. Larry comes out and again offers him a release, but he refuses, so Larry says he'll be fighting all three Diamonds in the Rough tonight.

House of Fun Match: Raven vs. Diamonds in the Rough
Raven's body is falling apart and he looks a mess, pretty basic hardcore match trash weapons match. Raven tries to fight the odds but the numbers keep catching up to him. Awesome spot, where DY uses the pizza cutter on Raven and when he turns around he walks right into the staple gunshot from Skipper. At one point Cassidy Riley tries to save but that's a fail. The match ends when they throw Raven through a table to the floor and all 3 members cover for the win. **

Backstage: Joe is beating the shit out of AJ, he keeps kneeing him in the head and says "I DON'T RESPECT YOUR CODE"

 

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NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Jarrett
TNA X-Division Champion: AJ Styles
NWA World Tag Team Championships: America's Most Wanted

TNA Impact
December 8th, 2005
Orlando, Florida

America's Most Wanted & Jeff Jarrett (w/Gail Kim) vs. The Naturals & Jeff Hardy
This is The Naturals first TV match since being murked back on the BFG go home show. Jarrett jumps Hardy on his entrance is great, as AMW and the Naturals do their thing. Harris and Douglas have this really great brawl on top of the ramp with both men teasing falling off. Which Douglas kicking Harris off but he lands on top of Storm. He then hits a flip dive and all 4 along with the Jeff's brawl back to the ring. They go right into a chase's hot tag like that whole brawl was the heel heat. I don't think I've ever seen that in a match before. The match breaks down with everyone hitting their stuff. They to hit natural disaster on Jarrett but Strom superkicks Douglas and Jarrett hit the stroke on Chase for the win. After the match; Harris handcuffs Hardy to the rails. They set up a table in the ring and AMW hits the 3D on Chase through the table. **1/2 - **3/4

Another Rhino video package, he says he's gonna kick the living shit out of Jarrett and will get his belt back.

Alex Shelley comes out with his video camera to tape the match.

Samoa Joe vs. Amazing Red
AWESOME Joe showcase, really brutal stuff, Red dies and dies well. Muscle buster and the choke ends it for Joe.

Tonight: Roode vs. Christian, White Sox's celebration.

Terrible segment with AJ, Sabin, Sonjay, Diamonds in the rough, MBL geeks and Bobby FUCKIN' Heenan. Heenan deserves so much better.

Konnan & KIP James (w/4LK) vs. Jobbers
SQUASH!

Backstage: Bobby Roode is with Coach D'Amore, Roode says Christan chose to not be with them. THAT WAS STUPID! Christian turned his back on Canada. And tonight he will prove to everyone he is the greatest.

Bobby Roode (w/Coach D'Amore) vs. Christian Cage
This is good, but Christian is adjusting to working with new talent and not working face in what 5 years. But he's still good enough to carry a not so great yet Roode. Christan takes some real great bumps one going chest first into the steel rails then when Roode front suplex's him on the ramp. Roode works the chest, kidneys, ribs, belly. The whole front part. It's good. And so is Christian's selling but he totally forgets during the comeback he even slaps his chest to taunt which WHAT THE FUCK! The ref gets bumped as Coach keeps trying to get involved. Monty runs down and attacks Christian, he goes to hit the POUNCE but Christian ducks and Coach D'Amore gets killed. Christan then grabs the stick and nails Roode in the dick. He then hits the unpreittier for the win.

After the match; Monty attacks Christian, he beats him down again and hits the POUNCE.

Father James and Abyss are in the ring, Father James now calls Sabu cockroach that will not die. He says Abyss is over his fears and Sabu of all people knows how dangerous barbed wire matches are. He says Abyss will take pleasure ripping him skin for skin.....................LIGHTS OUT! WHEN WE RETURN THE ROPES ARE GONE AND THE BARBED WIRE HAS REPLACED THEM. that was pretty cool

Turning Point, video package HYPE!

 

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Use Bobby Heenan for a vignette with zero payoff?

Must've been there for the Bobby Roode vignettes for his shitty 1st solo run with all the managers and he picks the chick who bounces her tits.

 

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NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Jarrett
TNA X-Division Champion: AJ Styles
NWA World Tag Team Championships: America's Most Wanted

TNA Turning Point
December 11th, 2005
Orlando Florida

Barbed Wire Massacre Match: Abyss (w/Father James Mitchell) vs. Sabu
Abyss is cured of his fear of barbed wire after a simple whisper from James Mitchell in some pointless backstage brawl against Sabu on the go home show. I always think in wrestling for fear angles and someone concurring them in some type of training montage or something like that. E.G for this I think they should have kept Abyss off TV and have a video of Father James locking Abyss in a room full of barbed wire until he's over, then when he comes out of the room covered in blood holding the barbed wire. But oh well. Abyss attacks Sabu before he can even get in the ring, which pisses him off so he grabs a baseball bat with barbed wire and swings for Abyss but misses and that get tangled up with the wires for ropes. Both men battle trying to push one another to the wire, but it doesn’t work. So Sabu throws a chair twice into his head he then follows up with a triple jump, and Sabu ends with a Thez press for 2 and gets tossed into the wire Abyss begins to choke and beat him down but Sabu fights out. Abyss picks him up and tosses Sabu neck first onto the WIRE! Sabu grabs the spike and goes to work on Abyss! He stabs his arm repeatedly and Abyss is bleeding. JESUS! Sabu grabs the chair, sets it up the triple jump but misses and Sabu crotches himself on the wire. Abyss charges and Sabu gets the drop toehold and goes into the wire, Sabu follows up by hitting him in the back with a chair for two. Abyss battles back and hits Chokeslam on the chair for two. Father James slides in the wire covered chair. He lays it on Sabu and tries the Avalanche but gets the chair in the nuts that allow Sabu to kill Abyss with a chair shot to the head. He heads to the floor and hits the NO HANDS PLANCHA ON ABYSS! Sabu picks up one of the boards covered with wire and tosses it in the ring. Abyss suplexes Sabu onto the wire gut first! FUCK! Abyss sets the board up but Sabu fights back, Abyss has him powerbomb position but Sabu counters by bites his hand. ABYSS FUCKIN’ PRESS SLAMS HIM GUT FIRST INTO THE WIRE-BOARD. Abyss grabs another board of wire. He sets it up in the corner and goes after Sabu but he fights back and almost gets the wire. Abyss charges and hits the wire himself. He is stuck. Sabu kicks him and he falls onto the other one. He is sandwiched and Sabu splashes onto the boards and pins Abyss. This was pretty great as a pure spectacle. Only 11 minutes, so they didn't go too long. Increasingly brutal spots that would get more violent as the match went on. Sabu took nasty bumps, but Abyss took some good ones at the end too. ***

Earlier Today: Planet Jarett arrive Storm downs a beer and already looks drunks.

Backstage: Shane Douglas interviews 4LK. BLAH!

Clearly Stalling so they can take down the barbed wire and add the ropes. YAY! 10 Minutes of the show gone.

Alex Shelley & Roderick Strong vs. Austin Aries & Matt Bently (w/Traci)
Fun, fun, fun. this goes about 8 minutes so they cut all the indy nonsense this usually would have happened if done on an ROH show. Roddy/Aries and Aries/Alex are all good. Shawn Shane, I mean Matt holds his own for the most part despite being the weak link. Roddy and Alex iso Matt and Aries in separate parts but it doesn't last long and isn't really effective at all. Matt does his best 2003 Shawn hot tag impersonation. As the match breaks down everyone starts hitting their stuff, Matt hits Alex with a superkick and covers for the win. **3/4

Backstage: Monty Brown is holding a Bob the builder toy and keeps calling it Christian, he says he will not leapfrog him or take his spot. Monty says he doesn't look, dress and talk like the Alpha male. But in about a house he will feel something from the Alpha male......AND THAT IS THE POUNCCCCCCCCEEEEE! Jarrett comes over and tries to convince Monty again to join him, he says if it was up to him Monty would have gotten his title a long time ago. Jarrett asks him about who TNA management has coming in, in 2006 and Monty says he's the face of TNA for 2006.

Raven comes down to the ring, Larry Z is already in the ring. Larry again tries to get him to sign the papers but Raven belittles him and makes fun of him before laughing at him..........................CHRIS K COMES OUT!! AKA WHO BETTA THAN KANYON!

Raven vs. Chris K
6 minutes of nothing, Raven is breathing hard after one bump. Kanyon looks all types of flabsticks too. Raven hits the Evanflow for the win. After the match; Larry Z says he's had enough and begs him to sign the form. Raven yells NO! and slaps him they begin brawling until security breaks it up.

Team Canada (w/Coach Scott D/Amore) vs. 4LK
This basically revolves around the Konnan and Kip, so they are mostly in. It's pretty bad and goes way too long. At one point Team Canada iso BG which gives Roode and EY time to shine, as usual, A-1 goes his one or two power moves before tagging out so useless and Petey does nonsense as usual. Kips has a pretty meh hot tag, Konnan has a chair and ties to go hit EY BUT HE TURNS AND HITS KIP INSTEAD. EY COVERS FOR THE WIN! After the match; BG gets in his face so Konnan nails him with a chair and yells at him. Konnan says he won't hit him and hugs him, he asks Truth to leave with him but Truth is still stunned.

Bobby Heenan joins Commentary

Diamonds In The Rough vs. Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt & Dale Torborg (w/AJ Pierzynski)
I didn't watch, I was just listening to Heenan trolling the whole time. His voice isn't 90's clearly but it's clear enough. Skipper almost breaks his neck on a flying snapmare spot he then tries to break Snojay's neck by throwing him neck first onto the bottom rope. The match ends when Heenan distracts the ref and some baseball geek gives AJ a home plate to use as a weapon and he hits Simon with it for the win.

Backstage: Shane Douglas is with Christian Cage, Christian says in a matter of minutes he will become #1 contender because the time for talking is over. You see it's like this, I do things on my own terms. I will walk on the Serengeti and I will return with a dead Alpha Male. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL!

#1 Contendership for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Monty Brown vs. Christian Cage
Christian wearing his pink and black attire Christian smartly leads the match, they have a good feeling out process early with Monty overpowering him as Christian tries to outsmart him and out quick him. Christian is still adjusting to working with the new talent as well as working babyface. Plus he hasn't yet added his amazing uppercut punches yet. Christian makes the mistake of going for one too many high-risk moves and Monty catches him and press slams him to the floor. Great sounding thud, that i bet felt worse for Christian. Monty doesn't work the chest instead he slows the match down with strikes and power moves. Christian's bumping is great. He has a pretty cool comeback too, they go into exchanging some cool counters and reversals for both men's stuff. At one point one of the corner turnbuckles comes off and both men tease not only sending the other into it but the other men forgetting and almost hitting themselves into the exposed steel. Monty locks on a full nelson and tries to ram Christian's head into it but he slips out and Monty's KO's himself. Christian then hits the unprittier for the win. **3/4

Backstage: Team 3D are with Shane Douglas, Shane asks where have they been. Brother Ray says AMW did not run them off. Instead, they were busy in Japan representing TNA. LOLTNA! He says they want the NWA tag titles but tonight it's about revenge. TESTIFY!

None Titles - Tag Team Tables Match: Team 3D vs. America's Most Wanted
Tradition rules apply, both members of the team must be put through a table to win. This is basically a 3D showcase, AMW gets a few minutes of shine and heat but for the most part, it's 3D on the offensive. So that sucks. AMW bump like crazy for them though. This is kept at 9 minutes. 3D hit the Death Sentence to Storm through a table in the ring eliminating him. It seems like Storm really fucks up his back because for the remainder of the match he doesn't move. 3D then end up hitting Harris with a 3D through a table on the stage for the win. After the match; Harris, and EMT come out and place Strom on a stretcher with an neckbrace. **1/4

TNA X-Division Championship: Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles
So this is still fuckin amazing and still underappreciated. It's most likely the 2nd best TNA match of all time you can argue 1 above the 3-way. I don't but I won't be mad if you do. So much awesome shit in this. Like, Since Joe's debut, wrestlers are usually tentative against Joe and try to wear him down before going at him. But AJ IS LIKE FUCK THAT! He bull rushes Joe and goes right to stiffing him with punches along with power moves. IDK if AJ begins feeling himself but he backs up and that gives Joe the opportunity to kick the ever living shit out of AJ with some sick kicks. Joe does the swinging into the rails spot and AJ fuckin dies, he has this nasty hole on his face. Joe then spends the next 5 or 6 minutes destroying AJ it's fuckin' tremendous, everything looks brutal and violent. AJ puts on a clinic in bumping and selling, he sells the exhaustion along with getting the shit beaten out of him. Everytime AJ tries to make a comeback Joe has it scouted, so AJ has to bust out new moves or moves we haven't seen in years. E.G. The FUCKIN' Fosbury Flop. Now he can start hitting his signature moves the springboard reverse DDT, Flying Forearm. Amazing FIGHTING SPIRIT stuff from AJ as Joe kills him with a nasty lariat but AJ kicks out at 1. Powerbomb and AJ again kicks out at 1. They build up that if AJ can overcome the size and if he can nail the clash that should be it. So when he does. It's gets an amazing pop. BUT THE POP for Joe kicking it was even better and AJ's facial reaction being in complete shock AJ makes the mistake you can argue AJ's got psyched out as he gave Joe everything and Joe kicked out. so, AJ goes for the O'Connor Roll, but Joe pulls the tights and locks in the choke. AJ fights it for as long as he can but ends up passing out. AMAZING! ****1/2 My only little small, tiny complaint was again the loud spot calling, but i had headphones on I bet if I just used the TV it's a little less noticeable.

After the Match; Joe picks AJ but hits him with the title belt. FUCK YEAH! He grabs a chair and goes to muscle buster AJ onto the chair but...........................DANIELS RUNS OUT AND SAVES AJ. SWERVE! He does a good enough fighting off Joe but Joe begins targeting the head and that's when security steps in to save Daniels and AJ. AWESOME.

NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Rhino vs. Jeff Jarrett
Typical Jarrett formula match, I swear he's had the exact same match for 3 years now. God awful chain wrestling before brawling around the arena for 10 minutes extending the match way longer than it should be. I mean shouldn't the ref have counted both men out 9 minutes and 50 seconds ago? TNA refs are the worse. During the brawl, they climb up some scaffolding which basically has no purpose being here apart. Jarrett nails Rhino in the back with a chair and Rhino falls 10 feet through a table. Then like a minute later Rhino is fine, so he walks down the ramp to get a table he sets it up like at last months Genisis PPV. Rhino then gores him, the table doesn't break and both men tumble through the tunnel. THEN FUCKIN' JB GETS ON THE MIC AND SAYS THE REF RUDDY CHARLES HAS SAID BOTH MEN HAVE THE COUNT OF 10 TO GET BACK TO THE RING OR THEY WILL BE DQ'ED! WHAT THE FUCKIN' FUCK?!?!?! Team Canada run out and throw Rhino all the way down the tunnel as they help JARRETT back into the ring. The count gets to 8 and Rhino runs down like this is his fuckin entrance. Petey and EY remain at ringside and constantly get involved like right in front of the fuckin ref who does nothing apart from telling them to knock it off The ref gets knocked down even though he wasn't doing his job anyway. Now Roode and A1 run down. And attack Rhino, Jarrett then nails him with a guitar but he kicks outs. Jacki comes out and slaps Jarrett into the Gore and now Jarrett kicks out at two. Rhino sets up two chairs and goes for the Rhino driver off the top but Coach D'Amore runs out and nails Rhino in the leg with the hockey stick allowing Jarrett to nail the stroke onto the chair for the win. UGH! **1/4

THE LIGHTS GO OUT......................................................A SCORPION APPEARS ON THE TRON! IN THE RING A CHAIR WITH BLACK BOOTS, BLACK COAT, AND BASEBALL BAT ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING! Jarrett and Coach are freaked out.

 

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You see the Blue fan who gave himself stigmata with the barb wire on the barricade?

I loved Christian during this time, but taking Monty Browns spot was downright criminal....TNA had a bona-fide heavyweight they could've made their first homegrown star...but they never pulled the trigger.

 

[Crippler]

Yeah. I felt a type of way too. They were finally building Monty up again. Just to have him close clean the rejoin Jeff. Smh

 

[Crippler]

NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Jarrett
TNA X-Division Champion: Samoa Joe
NWA World Tag Team Championships: America's Most Wanted

TNA Impact
December 17th, 2005
Orlando, Florida

Jeff Jarrett comes out and goes right over to Tenay and West, he demands details on Sting. Jaff says if TNA wants a war they got one. He goes to leave. BUT JOE COMES OUT! HE AND JEFF HAVE THIS AWESOME! Staredown, AMAZING tease that TNA fucks up because loltna.

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Samoa Joe vs. Joe Lethal
Awesome 5-minute match, Joe is Joe so he's super brutal. And Jay gets a shit ton of offense in, especially for someone in their debut match. he looks really good. But in the end, the muscle buster and the choke wins it for Joe. **1/2

Backstage: Shane Douglas is with Konnan and Ron Killings, Shane asks why and Konnan says he never trusted Kip so he stroke first. And he knew when he did it BG was gonna attack so he DID IT FIRST! Ron asks why? the Kru is done. He says he's tired of being lost or being in the middle. He says' he's done with all of this and leaves.

Alex Shelley vs. Matt Bentley (w/Traci)
Good little Alex showcase, he gets all his shit in and adds some more stuff. Nice of Matt to allow him to be a test dummy. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! SHANNON MOORE IS ON TOP OF ONE OF THE IMPACT TRON THINGS WITH A SIGN that says "The X-Division Needs to get PUNKED" Shelley uses a fancy roll-up for the win.

Backstage: Shane Douglas is with AMW and Jarrett when Gail Kim comes over she demands answers. Jeff tries to calm her down but she doesn't listen so the males leave to fine Monty Brown.

Finals Resolution - Sunday, January 15th, 2005.

Backstage: Shane Douglas is with Abyss and Father James, Abyss has some nasty fuckin cuts on his arms from the barbed wire match. Father James says no one should be above Abyss in the rankings for title matches. Rhino doesn't deserve the sympathy, Abyss does and it's time for Abyss to get what is rightfully his. Coach D'Amore comes over and says he has a little business proposal he wants to talk to him about and they leave.

Joe Doering vs. Rhino
SQUASH!

Rhino gets on the mic and calls the jobber a bitch, he says it took Jarrett not only him but all his bitches to beat him. He says they will cross paths one day soon. He says he will go through all of Team Canda to get to that FAT BASTARD D'More.

Backstage: Jeff asks the Diamond if they're with him. They are. He then goes to look for Monty when Gail again comes over wanting answers but Jeff blows her off.

Backstage: Larry Z says at Final Resolution Raven will be in a match, and if Raven wins he gets his world title match but if he loses Raven will be fired.

Elix Skipper & David Young (w/Simon Diamond) vs. Team 3D
NO!

Fuckin' Dave Hebner is taking notes.

Jeff Jarrett, America's Most Wanted, Gail Kim, Abyss, Father James Mitchell, Team Canada and Coach Scott D'Amore all come down to the ring. Jeff does his usual weekly rant. He says if TNA wants a war they got one. He goes around the ring and asks if everyone is with him. They are. He then calls out Monty Brown. Monty says he heard what Jeff has had to say, Jeff is a liar and a cheat but what he said has made sense. Monty says he lives by 3 rules, Kill or be killed, hunt or be hunted and survival of the fittest. He says if the lines have been drawn......................THE ALPHA MALE IS ALL IN they hug.......................THE LIGHTS GO OUT AND THE SCORPION LOGO IS BACK! Christian, Rhino, and Team 3D all come out on the stage and the show just ends.

 

[Crippler]

NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Jarrett
TNA X-Division Champion: Samoa Joe
NWA World Tag Team Championships: America's Most Wanted

TNA Impact
December 24th, 2005
Orlando, Florida

Matt Bentley comes out dressed as Santa and he has Traci in a Mrs. Cluase outfit. 60% slutty, Christian Cage comes out. He says he has a huge match tonight against Chris Harris. But first, he has something he's gotta say. He says maybe he's missing something that makes him championship worthy. Santa pulls out present #1, White pants. followed by a "DON'T PISS ME OFF SLAPNUTS" t-shirt. A Wig, sunglasses. He says now that he looks like a champion and can't win matches on his own what else does he need. Santa pulls out a tiny guitar. Christian says he looks like a complete jackass and does the Jarrett strut. Jeff and Monty run down but Christian bails. Lights go out and the Sting music hits.

Backstage: Shane Douglas is with Chris Daniels, Shane asks if he's coming back too early. Daniels says maybe, but they both know he doesn't take the easy road. For all the things he's done he probably got hell to come. He says he will take back his X-Division championship back at Final Resolution.

Eric Young (w/Coach D'Amore) vs. Christopher Daniels
EY is still shook of his pyro <3 Alex also comes out to film. fuckin Shannon Moore is back too NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Nice babyface Daniels showcase, EY barely gets any offense in outside some punches. Daniels hits the Angels Wings for the win.

Backstage: Shane Douglas is with Bullet Bob, BG and Kip. Bullet says we can forgive and forget and claims 4LK can be the 2006 tag team of the year lmao Kip says hitting him is one thing but hitting BG is another. Bullet Bob tells them to sit tight he's gonna go talk to Truth alone.

Abyss (w/Father James Mitchell) vs. Chris Sabin
Bum ass Dave Hebner is back taking notes, as for the match it's pretty much also the same match they had May. They repeat a lot of the spots like Abyss swinging him from guard rail to steel steps. The only thing they really change is Sabin using his kicks and strikes to the cuts Abyss has all over his arms. Sabin's comeback rules, he goes for the cradle shock but hurts his back on the lift and stumbles into the Black Hole Slam and Abyss covers for the win. **3/4

Ron Killings vs. Kenny King
Good Truth showcase, Kenny also looks good in this. Truth hits the ax-kick for the win. After the match; Bob Armstrong comes out to talk as Killings leaves, but he says he has nothing to say and he's done. Bob leaves like he just watches his child leave home.

LarryZ/Raven video package.

Chris Harris (w/James Storm & Gail Kim) vs. Christian Cage
Storm gets ejected before the bell rings for tripping up Christian. Good match, Harris dominates the majority, Christian has a nice little comeback, i can see why Harris thought he could make it as singles cause he looks really good. Christian goes for the inverted DDT but Gail distracts the ref as Strom runs back down and hits Christian with the title belt then hides under the ring. But Christian kicks out. Christian sends Harris into Strom's nuts and hits the unpreittier for the win. After the match; Jarrett runs down and Planer Jarrett beat down Christian. What is this 4 times Christian has been beaten down? no wonder he failed as the top babyface. ALSO WHERE THE FUCK IS RHINO AND TEAM 3D? **3/4

But I guess when you got old ass Sting that's all you need.

 

[Crippler]

LAST SHOW OF THE YEAR! I WIN! YAY! @KeepItFresh how does it feel knowing I finished an entire year before you did 1 month?

NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Jeff Jarrett
TNA X-Division Champion: Samoa Joe
NWA World Tag Team Championships: America's Most Wanted

TNA Impact
December 31st, 2005
Orlando, Florida

This is only 30 minutes as TNA has another impact at midnight to bring in the new year.

Earlier Today: Bullet Bob says he's going to go talk to Konnan as he's the key behind all of this.

Monty Brown & Jeff Jarrett (w/Gail Kim) vs. Shark Boy & Kenny King
Before the match, Jackie comes out and gets in Jeff's face again. Security pull her away. Don says after the match, he's gonna try and catch up with her to see what all of this is about. As for the match; Heels Squash.

Backstage: Don West asks Jackie what is going on, she says this is about business and Jeff keeping his word. She says Jeff offered her a job, she left her old job and waited for a phone call but that never came. She claims Gail took her spot. She then says she knows something about Jeff that TNA management doesn't know and she wants money or she talks. GOD DAMN WOMAN.

Tonight: Storm vs. AJ

A-1 (w/Coach D'Amore) vs. Rhino
Terrible, A-1 still looks lost and green and Rhino isn't the carrying type. GORE wins it for Rhino. After the match; Coach nails Rhino with the hockey stick, Rhino shakes it off and grabs him. But Abyss runs out and beats Rhino down.

Backstage: Bullet Bob finds Konnan, he says he lives by the code of the streets. He says he never trusted Kip and he knew BG would hit him. Bob keeps saying 2006 would be 4LK's year. Konnan says if Bob comes with him he will apologize. It should never have come to this.

Roderick Strong vs. Samoa Joe
It's hilarious that the bloody towel is now turning orange and the stains are getting larger and larger. Also, Joe now has blonde patches on his hair. So is the towel still a trophy? WAY TOO FUCKIN SHORT! hard hitting by both, awesome selling by Roddy which was made by his mistake. When he hits a backbreaker on Joe's massive body. Muscle buster and Choke gives Joe the win. **1/2

Backstage: Konnan, Apolo, and MY smurf HOMICIDE ARE BEATING UP BULLET BOB!!!!!!! Konnan tells Bob to go send that message to his kid.

James Storm (w/Chris Harris & Gail Kim) vs. AJ Styles
really fun, AJ's bumping and selling is great and Strom also puts on a great singles showing of his own. AJ has a pretty nice comeback, as Harris and Gail keep interfering. Gail goes for a 'rana but AJ catches her and goes for a styles clash but Strom smashes the beer bottle over AJ's head and hits the superkick for the win. **1/2

Daniels runs down and tells the ref that Strom used the bottle. Larry Z comes out and makes the match of AMW vs. Daniels and AJ for the tag team titles at MIDNIGHT!!!!!!!! AJ and Daniels shake hands but AMW jump them from behind and put the boots to them. SOMETHING SPECIAL JUST HAPPEN! Just a shame I won't be watching. I might make a comp pack and keep it in the tuck tho.

AWARDZ AND SHIT UP NEXT!

 

[Crippler]

Top 50 Matches Of The Year

50. Turning Point - Alex Shelley & Roderick Strong vs. Austin Aries & Matt Bently **3/4
49. Impact July 15th, 2005 - Eric Young & Petey Williams vs. Samoa Joe & Christopher Daniels **3/4
48. Impact August 5th, 2005 - The Naturals vs. Team Canada **3/4
47. Sacrifice - Abyss vs Lace Hoyt **3/4
46. Unbreakable - Sabu vs. Abyss **3/4
45. Impact July 22nd, 2005 - Matt Bentley vs. AJ Styles **3/4
44. Impact March 4th, 2005 - Kid Kash vs. AJ Styles **3/4
43. Impact June 24th, 2005 - Elix Skipper vs. Christopher Daniels **3/4
42. Impact January 14th, 2005 - Christopher Daniels vs. Chris Sabin **3/4
41. Impact May 20th, 2005 - Abyss vs. Chris Sabin **3/4
40. Impact November 12th, 2005 - Samoa Joe vs. Austin Aries **3/4
39. Slammiversary - Sonjay Dutt vs. Samoa Joe **3/4
38. Impact November 26th, 2005 - Chris Sabin vs. AJ Styles **3/4
37. Impact April 22nd, 2005 - America’s Most Wanted vs. The Naturals **3/4
36. Impact October 22nd, 2005 - America’s Most Wanted vs. The Naturals **3/4
35. Bound For Glory - Monsters Ball II ***
34. Impact November 3rd, 2005 - Petey Williams vs. Chris Sabin vs. Matt Bentley ***
33. No Surrender - Michael Shane & Alex Shelley vs. America’s Most Wanted ***
32. Sacrifice - Rhino & Jeff Jarrett vs. Sabu & Raven ***
31. Turning Point - Barbed Wire Massacre Match ***
30. Lockdown – Elix Skipper vs. Christopher Daniels ***
29. Impact October 29th, 2005 - Alex Shelley & Roderick Strong vs. Sonjay Dutt & AJ Styles ***
28. Sacrifice - Jerry Lynn vs. Sean Waltman ***
27. No Surrender - Sean Waltman vs. AJ Styles ***
26. Impact August 5th, 2005 - Samoa Joe vs. Alex Shelley ***
25. Sacrifice - Austin Aries vs. Christopher Daniels ***
24. Final Resolution – Kid Kash vs. Dustin Rhoades ***
23. Impact July 1st, 2005 - Alex Shelley vs. AJ Styles ***
22. Impact April 29th, 2005 - The Naturals vs. America’s Most Wanted ***
21. Bound For Glory - The Naturals vs. America’s Most Wanted ***
20. Impact January 21st, 2005 - Christopher Daniels vs. AJ Styles ***
19. Against All Odds – Kid Kash & Lance Hoyt vs. America’s Most Wanted *** - ***1/4
18. Slammiversary - King of the Mountain Match *** - ***1/4
17. Hard Justice - The Naturals vs. America's Most Wanted *** - ***1/4
16. Impact November 3rd, 2005 - Christopher Daniels, Alex Shelley & Samoa Joe vs. Austin Aries, Sonjay Dutt & AJ Styles ***1/4
15. Destination X - Elix Skipper vs. Ron Killings vs. Christopher Daniels vs. AJ Styles ***1/4
14. Slammiversary - Michael Shane vs. Chris Sabin vs. Christopher Daniels ***1/4
13. Bound For Glory - Christopher Daniels vs. AJ Styles ***1/4
12. Unbreakable - Austin Aries vs. Roderick Strong ***1/4
11. Genisis - Elimination X ***1/4 - ***1/2

10. No Surrender - Abyss vs. Raven ***1/2
09. Genisis - America's Most Wanted & Jeff Jarrett vs. Rhino & Team 3D ***1/2
08. Against All Odds – Christopher Daniels vs. AJ Styles ***3/4
07. Final Resolution – Chris Sabin vs. Petey Williams vs. AJ Styles ***3/4
06. No Surrender - Samoa Joe vs. Chris Sabin ***3/4
05. Sacrifice - AJ Styles vs. Samoa Joe ***3/4
04. Final Resolution – Team Canada vs. America’s Most Wanted ****
03. Lockdown - AJ Styles vs. Abyss ****1/2
02. Turning Point - Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles ****1/2

01. Unbreakable - Samoa Joe vs. AJ Styles vs. Christopher Daniels *****

 

[Crippler]

Awards, Awards, AWARDZ

Feud Of The Year: Toss up between AJ/Daniels or AMW/Natural
AJ/Daniels is great as it's built as Daniels being jealous of AJ's success as he felt he made AJ. So now he wants nothing more to beat AJ and show the world he's the better man. When he did he kept taking shots and jabs at AJ even when they went separate ways. Also, the use of Joe didn't hurt either as it games us the greatest TNA match of all time and a phenomenal double turn in November. Just a shame they didn't make AJ/Daniels handshake/respect a bigger deal on that new year's Impact.

AMW/Natural, this was great. it's a tale of two sides. First-half The Naturals would keep finding ways to cheat to win and it looked like the Naturals had their number. But once Candido died and TNA had no choice to turn them face. I liked that they always wanted to fight each other but Team Canada kept getting away. They tried to team up to take out the Canadians but they just couldn't co-exist. Then the 2nd half with heel AMW just destroying the Naturals and getting their revenge out on them from all those wrongdoings this year and from 2004 past.

PPV Of The Year: Sacrifice
Sacrifice has 4 matches that are rated 3* or above, and it's got a shockingly good Hoyt/Abyss match. 5/9 matches ain't bad. Turning Point is also really good, it not far behind. and No Surrender comes in 3rd.

Tag Team Of The Year: America's Most Wanted
This wasn't close, might be the biggest landslide I've ever seen. Way more than WGTT in 2003 or the Dudleyz in 1999. They pretty much carried the tag division for 10 of the 12 months. made the Naturals look good as heels and faces, gave Team Canada their best match all year. whatever you wanted them to do they did. Involved in a top 5 all-time TNA segment.

Wrestler Of The Year: "The PHENOMENAL ONE" AJ Styles
Yep, he's so fuckin good man. Now, this was super close. Like really close between he and Sabin. AJ for the first 6 months or so rarely wrestled on TV but when he did he always delivered. I'm guessing if I had some sort of points system Sabin might win. But AJ more times than not would be in the MOTN on TV or Weekly and I hold that more valuable to who wrested more for the whole year. Joe and Daniels also had a great year too.

Overall
Relatively easy watch, I like 40 minute weekly's cause I can get through them in about 3 to 4 days so it's basically 1 month a week or 2 if I don't have to go to work. TNA has it ups, like AJ, Daniels, AMW, Sabin being the mid-card workhorses. Raven finally reaching is destiny. Then having the indy guys come in, in the 2nd half of the year and pumping out **3/4 matches every week. But it wouldn't be TNA without some loltna. Like Jarrett who contributes absolutely nothing, he gave us the exact same promo and exact same match from the first match till the very last show. The perks of owning your own wrestling company. SMH! They also tried their best to ruin Monty he was finally getting over and looked to be in position to be the number 2 clear cut biggest babyface in the company but you turn him heel and align him with Jarrett. Fine, but that's not even the worse thing you team him up with WASHED ASS KIP for 7 fuckin' months and he feuds with 3LK UGH! Then as soon as that ends you finally start building him back up and he's almost at the babyface homegrown star, now you bring in the WWE talent cool and once again you leapfrog them over him again just like you did earlier in the year with the WCW guys. AND YOU FUCKIN ALIGN HIM WITH JEFF AGAIN?!?!?!?! They ruined the Raven angle at the end. IDK why. I always thought money could be drawn with then having the blowoff match at BFG with getting hurt or whatever the fuck happen to him. Back to the positive, 3LK angle, the slow build was done amazing from the teases.......to the 4LK.......the break up.............THEN KONNAN Going all the way heel. Good shit. Just a shame they all SUCK minus Ron. I wish Spike would have kept the time limit showing like Fox did. BRING ON THE EX-WWE GUYS TAKING SPOTZ.

Last few notes

1. SCOTT HALL STILL HAS THE GREATEST TNA SONG OF ALL TIME
2. Candido' first 4 months <3
3. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL TRYTAN

 

[Crippler]

Until next time, which will be 2018

SUCCCCK IIIIIITTTTTT!