7-7-11 Impact results & thoughts

 Coverage and thoughts on the July 7, 2011 episode of Impact

 The show starts with Bully Ray, Abyss, Gunner & Scott Steiner coming to the ring. Ray calls out Ken Anderson and he comes out and Ray says that Anderson can’t beat Sting without Immortal. Steiner tells him that he is either with Immortal, or against them. Gunner then mentions the 4 of them have a match against Kurt Angle and Sting. The lights go out in the arena and Sting’s music hits. Sting is in the rafters and when the lights come back on, Kurt Angle is in the ring and takes out the Immortal guys. Angle says that he and Sting also expect him to make a decision tonight.

Beer Money in the back getting Roode motivated for his match with Crimson and they mention that Storm will be teaming with Matt Morgan. They’re not sure why and I’m not either.

Bound For Glory Series – Crimson (who’s now in the lead) vs. Bobby Roode. Crimson gets the pin. This was a good back and forth match.

Abyss is walking around backstage with a towel over his head & they show Brian Kendrick meditating in his robe and also wearing Abyss’ mask.

Brian Kendrick then comes to the ring with Abyss’ mask and calls out Abyss. Abyss comes out and still has the towel over his head. Kendrick does a promo about why Abyss wears a mask and he then talks about their match at Destination X. Kendrick gives Abyss his mask back and Abyss puts it on. After he does he attacks Kendrick and gives him the shock treatment then the black hole slam.

Jack Evans vs. Tony Nese vs. Jessie Sorensen in a match to qualify for the Destination X PPV. Jack Evans wins when he pins Nese. This was a great match.

So the 4 Way Contract match at Destination X will be Austin Aries vs. Zima Ion vs. Low Ki vs. Jack Evans. That should be a good match.

The reunited British Invasion are in the back mentioning that they will take out Mexican America. Doug Williams talks about how he will issue an open challenge to anyone at Destination X.

Velvet promo backstage talking about how she’s no longer going to be the fall girl for whatever problems the other Knockouts might have.

Kurt Angle is shown walking around backstage and he sees Sting laughing and singing eye of the tiger using different words. Sting then talks about next week’s “mid summer nightmare.” Joker Sting really isn’t working for me.

Velvet Sky vs. ODB & Jackie Moore. ODB hits Jackie with a chair by mistake after Velvet gets out of the way. Velvet kicks the chair into ODB then hit a snap DDT on Jackie for the pin. This was a solid match.

Devon & The Pope are in the back and Devon tells Pope that he will be sorry he ever met him if he double crosses him.

RVD vs. Jerry Lynn vs. Christopher Daniels vs. AJ Styles. RVD wins when he pins Daniels. There was a lot of great action in this match. Lynn hit a Kryptonite Krunch on Daniels then RVD Frog Splashed him to get the pin. This was a great back and forth match.

Eric Young talks more nonsense outside his new trailer.

Bound For Glory Series – Devon & Pope Dinero vs. James Storm & Matt Morgan. Devon & Pope win when Devon pins Storm after Pope hits him with a TNA Tag Title and lets Devon pin him. Devon gets 7 more points. Before the match Devon tried to keep Pope away from his sons. Also during the match Morgan pulled Storm off Pope cause he was looking to get the points. Morgan also took a fall and looked injured and the ref went to check on him and the distraction allowed Pope to use the belt. After the match Devon looked confused about what had happened.

Ken Anderson is in the back saying that he will give his answer tonight.

The Jarretts in an arena in Mexico again saying that when they get back next week they will have a fiesta for Jeff’s birthday. Karen says that she has gifts for everyone in Immortal.

Hulk Hogan attacks Sting with a bat backstage.

Kurt Angle & Sting vs. Bully Ray, Abyss, Gunner & Scott Steiner. Sting doesn’t come due to Hogan’s backstage attack, so Angle was by himself. During the match Ken Anderson came out and took Sting’s spot as Angle’s partner. Angle tagged him in and Anderson looked like he was going to Mic Check Bully Ray but he turned around and hit Angle with it. Then he dragged Angle back to the corner so that he could “tag in” and Ray pins Angle for the win. After the match Anderson embraced Abyss and Hulk Hogan came out on the stage and applauded.

I thought overall that this was a good show. The “Joker Sting” bit is idiotic, but there were some good matches on the show. The best matches were the 3 way X-Division match and RVD-Lynn-Daniels-AJ matches.