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TNA iMPACT – 6/26/2008

– Taped from Orlando, Florida

– Your hosts are Mike Tenay & Don West
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Opening Match: AJ Styles v. Consequences Creed

Mat wrestling to start and Styles goes into control. He nails his dropkick and it continues to go back and fourth. Creed comes back with a rolling lariat and then he boxes him down in shuffle fashion. They do some nice counters and Styles nails the Pele Kick and capitalized with the Styles Clash for the pin. Post-match Borash comes out wanting Styles, and his message was that Kurt Angle is backstage waiting for Karen to arrive. Styles rushes to the back.

Winner: AJ Styles

– Karen has arrived and her, Kurt and AJ are in a heated argument. Karen looks confused and Styles demands that she comes with him to his locker room.

– Brother Ray Dudley is out and he mocks the stereotypical wrestling fans (you know, the fat ones and the ones who have ugly wives). He tells them that he’s about to end the career of Christian Cage.

Match 2: Christian Cage v. Brother Ray

Cage went in control to start and tried a flying crossbody, but Brother Ray catches him and sets him up top to attempt a superplex. Cage shoves him off and nails the Frog Splash for two. Johnny Devine hits the ring with a singapore cane, and Ray uses it to wack Cage for the DQ.

Winner: Christian Cage (DQ)

– Afterward Brother Devon and Tomko come out with a GLASS table. Brother Ray powerbombs him through it from the second rope! Brother Ray goes crazy with the glass and eventually Kaz and Young come out to check on Cage.

– Kevin Nash reveals that he’s been examining Booker T. Joe comes in and they have a talk where Joe puts over Nash’s experience over the years and wishes him look against Booker. Awesome Kong challenge is next.

Match 3: Awesome Kong v. Danielle

I THINK the fan’s name is Danielle, not sure. During the match, Kong shoves the girl from last week’s challenge who is in the crowd. Kong finishes off this chick easily with the Awesome Bomb but then the chick from last week runs in and attacks. Security and Jim Cornette come out to calm Kong down and says they’ll “work out a deal.”

Winner: Awesome Kong

– Cool video package of Gail Kim/Angelina showing Angelina breaking into the business.

– Trigg says it doesn’t bother him that AJ had mistaken him for Kurt but that he “hit it from behind”. He says in his world he looks a man in the eye before he KOs him, then calls out Styles. Split screen shows AJ/Karen/Borash watching the monitor. AJ throws over some stuff in the locker room and he tells Karen he’ll be back. Here comes Styles. Split screen shows Kurt arguing with Karen now. The Beautiful People come in now and end up attacking Karen. Styles is watching so it must be on the big screen. Styles runs to the back to try to make the save as we hit the commercial break.

Match 4: Team Japan (Masato Yoshino & Naruko Doi v. Team Mexico (Ultimo Guerrero & Rey Bucanero)

Team TNA and Team International are out to watch it. Japan goes in control to start and get drop toe hold/dropkick combo on Bucanero. Doi gets tagged in and gets a spinebuster, followed by a leg drop by Yoshino. Doi locks in a Boston Crab while Doi gets a baseball slide to the balls. Ouch. Guerrero gets the hot tag and slams them both down. Mexico gets hot with a double team hip toss and dropkick, then Japan bails and they get a nice pop in the ring.

Guerrero launches Yoshino into a rana from Bucanero. Team Mexico decides to bail but they get met with dueling suicide dives from the Japanese! Back inside Bucanero gets tied up in the ropes and Doi chops away then adds a dropkick. Guerrero tries to get involved but is met with a missile dropkick from Yoshino. Guerrero gets a superplex on Yoshino for two. Guerrero takes Doi up top and it’s a reverse superplex! Bucanero gets tagged in but gets chopped down. Bucanero nails a corkscrew senton and that gets the pin and the victory for Team Mexico!

Winners: Team Mexico

– So Cal Val and Jay Lethal discuss their (ruined) wedding backstage. Lethal says the attack from Sonjay Dutt came out of nowhere and they used to be best friends. Val wants to postpone the wedding to Lethal’s dismay as we head to commercials.

– Dutt hits the ring now with a bunch of kids. He calls it the “Save Val Foundation” and talks about how soon she will declare her love for him, not Lethal. The kids start a “Set Val Free” chant now. Upset Val comes down yelling that he ruined her wedding, and then Lethal runs in and attacks. They brawl and Lethal goes up to the top rope forcing Dutt to bail while Val shakes her head. Proof of why professional wrestling weddings ALWAYS SUCK.

– Booker T shows Borash his new locker room. It’s complete with nice furniture, a sushi bar, and a picture of Booker and Muhammad Ali hanging up on the wall. He says that he is the reason “TNA is global” and that ratings are up, and says Nash is just jealous that he is beneath him now. Shades of King BOOKAH. Oh, and he’s gonna beat Nash’s punk ass tonight too.

– We get the Rough Cut with Matt Morgan now, who talks about playing high school basketball. Yada yada yada, he says he saw Tough Enough on MTV (wow didn’t think they would mention that) and his wife says he should wrestle. And so it began. TO BE CONTINUED. We’re all on the edge of our seat.

– Yet more antics with the Karen Angle angle, as now Kurt tells Borash and Tomko that Karen cheated on him with Styles and it haunts his dreams, though Borash reminds him that there’s no proof. Anyway, Team 3D enter the picture and Brother Ray tells Kurt he can do better, and that he has a blackbook at home full of the “hottest chicks ever” including Playmates and movie stars. Angle agrees and there’s some blind dating to be done next week! Kurt wonders what’s in it for them, but they say his well-being is all they need. “Now that’s a good man”, replied Kurt.

Match 5: ODB v. Moose – Bimbo Brawl

Moose has new theme music beginning with her yelling “I hate bimbos!” Fair enough. She wheels out a cart full of weapons and a sign about the bimbos taped on it, for good measure. ODB spits the flask in her face to start and chops away. Outside they go for some rail and cart shots. ODB retrieves a … broom and hockey stick. ODB puts Moose in the cart and rams it into the railing. Meanwhile Tenay has received word that Christian Cage has been taken to the hospital. Anyway, all of that gets two for ODB back inside. Moose gets her first offense in via a hockey stick shot that gets two. Moose then tries choking her out with a chain. Moose climbs up the turnbuckle while dragging her in the chain, but ODB is able to get free and shove her off, then adds a couple of lariats. ODB “waffles her” (thanks West) with a shovel for two. Moose fights back and nails a double-arm DDT onto a chair for the pin!

Winner: Moose

– Main event next.

Main Event: Booker T v. Kevin Nash – No DQ Match

Samoa Joe comes out to join us at ringside to begin. Brawling to start and Nash powers him to the corner, then clotheslines him to the floor. Outside, Nash sends him to the apron and the post. Joe applauds his efforts. More shoves to the apron and such, but back inside Booker goes in control via corner offense and we hit the MAIN EVENT COMMERCIAL BREAK.

We come back and Nash is in control on the outside, and slams Booker’s face into the steps a few times. That gets two inside. And another cover for two. And another for two. Booker fights back with the jumping heel kick and then boots him to the floor and back outside we go, where Booker tells Joe to hand him his chair, and they face off. Hebner tries to separate them, but Booker shoves Joe away and grabs his chair and wacks him with it! A couple of jabs with the chair to Nash only gets two. Chair shot to the head of Nash and now Joe is in for the fun. Joe goes to superkick Booker but he ducks and nails Nash, Booker dumps Joe and covers Nash for the pin!

Winner: Booker T

– Post match Booker slides to safety while Nash is pissed about Joe’s fluke attack. Security comes in to keep them separated while Booker looks on smiling and that will close the show.

End of show.