4-28-11 Impact Results and Thoughts

Coverage and thoughts on the April 28, 2011 episode of Impact

The show begins with the TNA Knockouts and other women in the company in the ring and out come the Jarretts and Karen has an umbrella. Karen tries to find out if any of them are Kurt Angle’s Mistress and rags on all the women and accused them all of having their eyes on Kurt. She started with the woman in catering, then the seamstress. This is dumb. Next she goes after Miss Tessmacher, then Rosita & Sarita. Madison Rayne and Tara were next; Madison says she wouldn’t put it past Tara to lay down for Kurt and maybe Jeff too. Finally she gets to Velvet, mentioning that she lost her best friend and that being with Kurt would bring her back to the top. Velvet goes to slap Karen, but Jeff stops her, then Velvet slaps Jeff. Velvet-Karen cat fight with Jeff getting sandwiched trying to break it up. Angelina comes out and throws Velvet to the mat. Winter tells So Cal Val to ring the bell and Velvet-Angelina is the first match. That was some of the worst stuff I’ve ever seen.

Angelina pretty much dominated here; she no sells a few chops from Velvet and pounds on her some more for the most part. Velvet makes a come back with a face plant, then she has words with Winter and Winter attacks and gives Angelina the signal to finish Velvet. Angelina gets the win by submission after Velvet passes out. Not much of a match. This storyline is ridiculously bad!

Ken Anderson in the back talking about his truck, saying life isn’t too bad except that he wants his Title match. He already got it at Lockdown. Yeah it was a 3 Way but it still counts in my book.

Matt Morgan is backstage looking for Scott Steiner and says that he wants to be TNA Champion.

Christie Hemme is doing the ring announcing.

 Mexican America promo with the Mexican flag hanging above the ring and Anarquia says they will celebrate Cino De Mayo next week and everyone will salute their flag saying that States now belong to Mexican America. More idiocy!

Anarquia beats Chris Sabin in a decent but real short match. Sabin’s knee gave out during a spring board attempt and Anarquia got the pin with an inside cradle. Mexican America goes for a double team and Alex Shelly returns and runs the heels off. Glad to see Alex Shelly back.

Scott Steiner promo in the back saying he attacked Matt Morgan cause he wanted to, saying he’s not a hard man to find if Matt Morgan wants to find him. Good promo from Steiner.

Matt Morgan and Scott Steiner argue in the back a bit and Morgan goes after him and Steiner attacks him again saying Morgan was never like him. Morgan fights back and throws Steiner on a table then strangles him and chokes him with a chair. Steiner says he’s sorry, but Morgan continues beating him down saying he will be World Champion. This is one of TNA’s better feuds.

Sting destroys Ken Anderson’s truck with his bat, breaking the windshield, the windows and a head light and leaves his bat in the broken piece of the windshield. Not too bad of a segment. At least there was no ridiculous back and forth arguing.

Up next is Daniels vs. TV Champion Gunner for the belt. Gunner gets the pin in a really good back and forth match. Daniels is really awesome and Gunner has gotten better too.

Sting promo in the ring saying that he’s trying to get rid of Hogan and Bischoff, but Anderson gets in the way. Sting calls him out and Anderson comes to the ring with a bat. They go back and forth about Sting wrecking Anderson’s truck, what ever. Anderson says he can get it replaced and says he will one up Sting every time and challenges Sting to a match. RVD comes out and says that Sting gave him a fair shot the World Title and calls Sting a stand up guy. He says he fine with Sting doing what ever he has to do to shut Anderson up. More banter and Sting want to face Anderson, but Hulk Hogan comes out and says that he “loves” the way Sting has been handing out Title matches, then says if he wants a fight, he will get one and Hogan makes the match a 3 Way with Bully Ray who he said would walk out the new Champion. Bully Ray comes out and Hogan says it’s “show time.” Hulk Hogan is getting really stale. I have no idea why Dixie brought him in.

Samoa Joe promo backstage mentioning that Crimson is a courageous guy to attack Abyss. He talks about Crimson being undefeated and he mentions his long undefeated streak and says that the Impact he made in TNA will never be repeated and that when you face Samoa Joe you always lose.   

Crimson vs. Samoa Joe. This was a pretty good match too, then Abyss came out and attacked Crimson. Crimson wins by DQ Joe  looks at Abyss then walks up the ramp. Abyss continues to attack Crimson throwing him face first into the steel steps then throwing him in the ring and Black Hole Slams Crimson. Decent segment.

Ken Anderson in the back saying that winning is only thing and instead of getting a singles re match he gets stuck in another 3 way and says he will make the best of it.

Kurt Angle talks about how dumb it was to rag on the TNA Knockouts and that he will reveal his “mistress” next week.

Mickie James promo in the ring saying that she wanted to go down in history as the greatest women’s wrestler of all time and to dedicate the Knockouts Title to the fans. She says it is because of the fans that she’s where she is and it is the fans who make her dream a reality.

Bully Ray in the back saying how him being World Champion would set everyone off. He says he would trade all his Tag Title wins for a World Title shot mentioning that he had to carry Devon for 15 years then says that tonight he gets his moment.

Ken Anderson vs. Bully Ray vs. Sting for the TNA World Title. Anderson does his usual lowering of the mic and self intro. JB does the big World Title match ring introduction. Bully Ray hits Sting a pipe after a ref bump, then AJ Styles comes out and attacks Ray then Sting uses the pipe on Ray and gets the pin. This was a good match too and I like that they had AJ come out and go after Bully Ray.

Bully Ray promo in the back saying he should be TNA World Champion and says that he will take his frustrations out on AJ for costing him the match. He talks about what a warrior he is and he’s been through it all.

AJ says that his family and the fortune guys mean the world to him.

Steiner says Morgan is half the man he is and calls Morgan a basketball player and says they will go at it again next week.

Jeff and Karen complain about who Kurt is bringing in.

Velvet saying it was dumb of Karen to call her Angle's “mistress” then complains more about Angelina being a zombie.

More of the Jarretts complaining and worrying about who Kurt will bring in next week.

The backstage reactions this week were hit and miss.

That’s this week’s Impact. Not the greatest show I’ve seen but not the worst either.