411’s NWA: TNA Impact! Report 07.23.04

Welcome to The Best Damn TNA Recap: Ver. 2 for 411wrestling.com. Time for TNA’s 2nd show of the week, IMPACT! I say IMPACT like that because, well, it’s my job! I am your party host Larry Csonka, and it has been a bad week! My wife was in a car accident, some 16 yr old kid hit her last Friday night while she was driving. Thankfully she was ok, but the Family Truckster may be totaled. Word of advice, Insurance Companies SUCK!!!!!

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We are coming off of Wednesday’s PPV, which was another good show, and had the hot cage match Main Event.

Recap of Wednesday’s events and what is to come today.

Tenay and West welcome us to Orlando and TNA Impact!

Match #1 A.J. Styles © vs. Jerrelle Clark

I believe Clark is the NWA Jr. Heavyweight Champ in Fl, and Jeff Hammond is on commentary.

Lock up to start, and AJ gets a headlock. Takes Clark down, but Clark kips up and reverses the hold. AJ off the ropes, and takes down Clark with a shoulder block. Clark off the ropes again and eats a nice drop kick by AJ. Clark off the ropes, goes up and gets a RANA on AJ, then locks in an arm breaker. AJ fights to his feet holding Clark and rams him into the corner! That was nice. AJ is down and holding onto the 2nd rope, and Clark gets like a 619, but locks in a crucifix submission in the ropes on AJ. Back in the ring now, AJ gets the springboard moonsault into the inverted DDT. Clark back up and kicks away at the bad knee of AJ. AJ off the ropes, Clark ducks and AJ gets a double under hook, goes for the Tiger Driver, but instead turns it into the Styles Clash for the pin @ 3:00.

Kazarian, Shane and Traci come down and talk smack from the entrance ramp.

Nice tight little match. You can’t do much in 3-minutes, but it was enjoyable for what it was.

Commercial time.

We are back.

An odd “coming soon” video runs. You can’t really tell anything about who it may be. So I will speculate and say um…Kanyon. Why? Because I can.

Match #2 Abismo Negro & Mr. Agulia vs. Alex “Baby Bear” Shelley & Abyss w/Goldi

Shelley and Agulia to start with a lock up, and Shelley gets an arm bar. Reversals, and Shelley gets an ankle lock, but Negro rills him up for 2. Drop toehold by Negro, but Shelley escapes and kicks Negro in the head. Shelley gets a sun set flip, but Negro rolls through and gets a basement drop kick to Shelley and tags Agulia. Double hip toss, and then a double elbow drop to Shelley, and Agulia is in control. Agulia takes down Shelley again, then tags Negro. Flap jack to Shelley and a tag to Abyss. Abyss in with all power and just beats down Negro. Negro comes up short on a cross body, so Abyss picks him back up and slams him down. Tag to Shelley, and he knees away at Negro. Snap suplex to Negro gets Shelley 2. Shelley misses a corner charge, and Negro tags Agulia. Abyss in now and Agulia is throwing kicks at anything that moves. Abyss tries a double choke slam, but they escape and get a double face jam for 2 on Abyss. Abyss to the floor, Shelley goes up top and Negro drop kicks him to the floor. Agulia tries a handspring elbow but Abyss gets the Shock Treatment. Negro comes in, and gets the Black Hole Slam for his trouble, but Shelley gets a knee to Agulia and he gets the pin @ 5:26.

The plot thickens as Abyss is totally being ignored by Goldi now.

Good match. Negro was off again today, but it was a good effort by all. The plot keeps getting thicker as Abyss is totally being ignored by Goldi in favor of the “baby bear.”

Commercial time.

We are back with Highlights of Jeff Hardy signing his contract and the mayhem that ensued.

Match #3 Antonio Banks vs. “The Alpha Male” Monty Brown

Brown attacks right away and tosses Banks to the floor. He just kicks the crap out of banks, then press slams him on the steel railing. Banks is rolled back in to the ring and Brown drops him with a punch. Banks tries to fight back, misses a kick and is leveled by a clothesline. Banks off the ropes…POOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUNCE finishes it @ 1:45.

Another squash for Monty. Are you not…ENTERTAINED?

Commercial time.

And we’re baaaaaaaaaaack! We get stills form Wednesdays PPV, showing The Naturals beating AMW.

Match #4 Chris Sabin & Sonjay Dutt & Mikey Batts & Amazing Red vs. Team Canada (Petey Williams, Bobby Rude, Eric Young and Johnny Devine) w/Scott D’Amore

Team Canada jumps the faces to start, but Dutt and Red gain some control. Dutt and Young are legal, and Devine gets a power slam for 2. Tag to Devine, and he comes up short on a moonsault to Dutt and tags Rude. He kicks away at Dutt, then chokes away at him. Double under hook suplex for 2. Rear neck vice now, and Dutt is definitely the “Ricky Morton” if you will. Dutt misses an Enziguri, but gets a mule kick and a tag to Sabin. Sabin gets a tornado DDT on Rude, and gets kicks on all of team Canada as well. All 8 in now…Team Canada is on the top rope…QUADRUPLE RANA BY THE FACES! Sabin and Red fly to the floor and Batts gets a 2 count on Williams. Most guys are on the floor now, Dutt goes up top, DRAGON RANA caught by Rude, and he tosses him to the guys on the floor. Batts is going after Williams when he is leveled by Rude, and Williams gets the CANADIAN DESTROYER for the pin @ 4:16

Fun spot-fest. Not the match you want all the time, but just fun to watch.

Commercial time.

We are back with Highlights of raven’s return.

Match #5 Kid Romeo vs. Raven

Raven sits in the corner and stares at Romeo. Up and just kicks the crap out of Romeo. Romeo to the floor, and Raven with the side Russian leg sweep to the guardrail, then again! A third time, and Raven is just destroying Romeo. Back in the ring and a running clothesline by Raven, followed by a high knee shot. RAVEN EFFECT DDT finishes it @ 1:52.

Sabu comes to the ringside area, and Raven slaps Sabu. Sabu jumps the rail and he and Raven brawl! The crowd starts to chant for Sabu and security breaks it up.

Squash for Raven. He looked like he was killing Romeo, so it is all good.

Commercial time.

We are back with Jeff Hammond and his 6-sides of Impact segment, with Dusty Rhodes as his guest.

Dusty loves Impact, and the Fox Tracker. He wants to help Russo, and they are ok now with each other. He says Hardy arriving was electrifying. Dusty says that Monty Brown is a prime time player, and he and Hardy will tear it up. He says JJ was bred to be a champ, as well as a punk. Dusty says the NWA title is prestigious, and TNA has the opportunity to tear things up.

Mike Tenay announces Joe Williams and Daniel Torvia. They are 2 members of the US Olympic Wrestling team.

This week on PPV: AMW vs. Team Canada, David Young vs. Mike Posey, XXX vs. The Naturals, Abyss and Alex Shelley vs. Sharky and D Ray, their contracts vs. Goldi’s money, Monty Brown vs. Jeff Hardy for a shot at the NWA Title and Ultimate X IV: AJ © vs. Kazarian vs. Shane.

Commercial time.

We are back and the Elite Guard has come to the ring, no doubt to protect the champ. JJ got rid of the lame tight shirt, and has an open robe now. Looks better.

Match #6 Jeff Jarrett © vs. Shark Boy

Ok, lost power for most of this match. JJ basically drug Sharky through the crowd for the first 3 minutes and kicked his ass, threw him off the wall, and killed him with a chair. They went to the 2nd deck, and JJ left him there for dead. Sharky did a dive on JJ then from the 2nd level, and fought back to the ringside area. Back in the ring, Missile drop kick to JJ by Sharky, and again! He gets a 3rd and covers for 2! Sharky tries a neck breaker, but JJ reverses it and gets the Stroke for the win @ 4:13.

JJ on the mic, says he is the King of the Mountain, and calls out Jeff Hardy. He wants to run him out before the ink on his contract is dry. Sharky tries to jump JJ, but gets the EL KABONG! Hardy runs down and takes JJ down. Gets the nizzie drop kick. Here comes Monty Brown! He LEVELS Hardy with the POOOOUNCE as we go to a promo for Wednesday.

Fun match, and JJ gave Sharky a nice come back. The main thing was to set up for after the match, which they did well.

Mostly short, squash type matches, but a fun show. They did a lot of work to hype Wednesday, which is important.

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