TNA Impact Taping
Orlando, Fla. at Universal Studio
Report by Dot Net reader Emmanuel Cruz

Dark Match

1. The Beautiful People (w/Cute Kip) beat Roxxi and Taylor Wilde. The beautiful people won after Cute Kip's interference.

Impact Taping

The official impact taping kicked off with the usual pyro and out came the main event mafia to a chorus of boos. Scott Steiner made it a point to flick off the fans when not in view of the camera, so if the viewers see a lot of his back then you know what he's up to. The Mafia cut a promo on Team 3D's babyface turn from Monday's taping and generally ragged on the Front Line. Team 3D came out on the stage and started doing a worked shoot promo on how each individual in the MEM was a financial burden on their previous companies and raided them dry. All of the Front Line then emerged within the audience where Rhino cut an intense promo putting the fans over and getting pops throughout.

1. Booker T defeated Samoa Joe. Good back and forth, fighting through the crowd and some absolutely brutal chops to the chest from Joe to Booker throughout. Beautiful People interfere with hairspray in Joe's eyes while the ref's back was turned and Joe was in the midst of choking Booker out.

2. AJ Styles and Christy Hemme beat Scott Steiner and Awesome Kong in a mixed tag match. I couldn't help nothing the staggering difference in attractiveness between the opposing teams. Just saying. Aside from the aesthetic, the match was good in general and Steiner continued his flicking off and cursing out of the crowd out of camera view. Good heel tactics.

3. Black Machismo Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed, Eric Young over Sheik Abdul Bashir, Sonjay Dutt, Jimmy Rave in a six man tag. Really fun fast paced deal with both team looking good. Young made a huge show of stealing the X Division belt after the match. Oh and Bashir wasn't even at ringside for a huge portion of the match seeing as he was jawing away at the announcer table with West and Tenay

After that match, Kurt Angle and Jeff Jarrett had another confrontation with Angle delivering a long rant making the same tired wife and daughter references.

4. Rhino defeated Sting in a non-title match. Rhino got busted open early and was rockin' a crimson mask for most of the match thereafter. Styles and Angle both interfered with Rhino getting a gore and a pin after a Styles diversion.

5. Beer Money beat LAX in a TNA Tag Title match. Great, great match with lots of collaborative efforts between the teams and back and forth. Beer Money milked the heel stuff for all it was worth and the finish was sort of disappointing given that Robert Roode rolled Homicide up for a three count, but lots of near finishes prior to that including Roode kicking out of a title belt shot to the head.

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