8-8-13 Impact results and thoughts

Coverage and thoughts on the August 8, 2013 episode of Impact Before the show starts Taz & Aces & 8s have a hold of Mike Tenay backstage. Taz says this is his show & will be doing commentary with JB tonight. I’m not sure why they had this before the show began. The actual show starts with Bully Ray, Taz & Ken Anderson coming to the ring. Anderson & Taz join JB on commentary. Taz tells JB this is his show. Ray tells Taz to abuse JB. Taz says JB is in his chair. This is his desk. Ray says he’s not in a very good mood. Last week we all saw the August 1 warning. The big surprise, Tito Ortiz. No one does surprises like Ray. He’s not impressed. He tells Ortiz to stay out of his way or Ray will smack him in his face. Ray says that he & Devon found out they’re in a tag match tonight against Sabin & a mystery guy from MEM. Ray & Devon are the greatest team ever. How dare Sabin not tell them who they’re facing? It doesn’t matter because next week Sabin will be locked in a cage with Ray & Ray will be a 2 time world champion. Ray tells Sabin to come on out with his belt or whatever contract their supposed to sign & get this over with. Out comes Sabin. Ray says his belt looks horrible on Sabin & by looking at Sabin he can tell that he’s scared of him. Sabin says looks can be deceiving. A few months ago Ray was pretending to be Mr. Good guy. Ray’s so full of crap his eyes are brown. A month ago no one would’ve said Sabin could beat Ray except for Sabin himself & he did beat him. Aces & 8s brought the hammer into the ring & Sabin gave Ray a taste of his own medicine. At Hardcore Justice there will be no weapons & he will beat Ray again. Ray tells Sabin to stop running his mouth & tells Hulk to bring the contract out. Out comes Brooke Hogan. Ray asks what she’s doing out there. She tells “Mark” that she’s there because Hulk’s out of town. Hulk’s been reviewing Ray’s contract. Brooke has an e-mail from Hulk. It says that because of Ray’s threatening to take legal actions Hulk will now be following all contracts involving Ray to the letter of the law & if Ray loses next week he will never get a world title match again. Ray says this is crap. He won’t be bullied by Brooke or Hulk. It will be a cold day in hell before Bully Ray gets bullied by a messily Hogan. Brooke asks if “Mark” is really going to let the whole world find out what she found in their marriage. That Ray’s all talk & very little action. Ray signs the contract & then Sabin does too. This was a terrible way to start the show. I’m so tired of Hulk (even though he wasn’t this segment) & Brooke. This whole Aces & 8s storyline is lame & saying that Ray will never get a world title match if he loses next week is THE EXACT SAME storyline they used when Ray defended the title against Sting!? Ray is definitely winning back the title next Thursday. Jeff Hardy vs. Samoa Joe in a Bound for Glory series match. Jeff gets the pin for 7 more points. Anderson distracted Joe & that allowed Jeff to get the win. This was a really good match. They show a Christopher Daniels promo from earlier in the day. Daniels doesn’t get why Frankie has to be so selfish right now. No matter how close any team is there’s always a leader & there’s always a follower. Daniels says he has always been more experienced than Kazarian is. He is undefeated in the BFG Series & Kazarian is 0-3. Now isn’t Kazarian’s time, this is Daniel’s time & he will make sure Kazarian realizes that tonight. This was a good promo. Magnus vs. Ken Anderson in a Bound for Glory series match. Anderson wins by DQ when Bobby Roode comes in & hits Anderson with a chair. This was a solid match. I’m not sure how many points Anderson gets for winning by DQ but Magnus has now lost 10. I’m not into the losing points if you’re DQ’d stip. Backstage Roode says what happened was a continuation of last week. The games are changing because of him. He is selfish & will be world champion again. He just took 10 points from the leader of the series. Roode’s a genius & that’s just the beginning. Then camera guy asks Brian Hebner about the match that just happened. Then Magnus comes in & says Hebner made the call that he had to make. Magnus says he will get his 10 points back. Backstage we see Robbie E & Jessie. They say they got rid of Tara to focus on their “Bromance.” Then Mickie James comes in. She tells them to take care of Gunner & Storm & she will take care of ODB. They can thank her later when she shares her spotlight with both guys. This was lame. Backstage Sting & Angle wanna talk with Sabin. Sabin says he wouldn’t be champion if it weren’t for them. Sabin says tonight he will face Ray & Devon, but he needs a partner. Sabin has a plan & asks if they trust him. They of course do. This was ok. JB is in the ring & introduces Tito Ortiz. JB asks Tito what he’s doing at Impact Wrestling. Tito knows everyone has a lot of questions, but he doesn’t have any answers. Cue Kurt Angle’s music & he comes out. Angle & Ortiz have a stare down. Angle knows who he is & respects his accomplishments but Tito’s entering Angle’s world. Angle’s an Olympic gold medalist. He will respect Tito’s space but Tito had better respect his too. (What was the point of that)? Then out comes Bully Ray. He says Tito & Angle respect each other but he doesn’t respect either of them. He can double leg Tito & make him tap & he’s been beating Angle’s ass for 10 years. Then Ray tells Tito who he is. Then he tells Tito that he will smack him in his face if Tito gets in his way. This was pointless. Tito & Angle were both terrible here. I don’t get the whole “I respect you & I’ll give you you’re space but you better do the same” bit. Ray was the only good part of this promo. TNA World Tag Team Champions Gunner & James Storm and ODB vs. Robbie E, Jessie Godderz & Knockouts Champion Mickie James. Gunner, Storm & ODB win when Gunner pins Robbie E. This match was solid. Then Gail Kim comes in & goes after ODB. Gail is held back by referees, ODB is distracted with Gail 7 Mickie trips ODB from behind. Backstage Kazarian says Daniels called him “Poor Frankie.” Daniels has forgotten that Kazarian has beaten him before. Tonight is about Kazarian winning the series & then the world title. “Poor Chris” & everybody will find out why they fell in love with Kazarian in the first place. This was a solid promo. Backstage Ray tells Devon that he doesn’t believe the nerve of Sabin, making them wait to find out who his partner will be. Then they bicker for a bit over whether they’ve been tag champions 23 or 24 times. Ray says that doesn’t matter. What matters is that he’s getting his title back next week. Devon will rally up the troops or something like that. Ray says testify. Devon says that’s his line. This was a decent backstage bit. Frankie Kazarian vs. Christopher Daniels in a Bound for Glory series match. The match ends in a double count out when they both leave the ring. They were going at it & then left the ring, stood on the apron & let Earl Hebner count them both out. Then they raise each other’s arms. The match was solid but the finish was predictable. Then out comes Bobby Roode. He’s got the chair but he throws it down on the ramp. Then Roode gets in the ring & he Daniels & Kazarian do too. Roode says for months everyone has been paying attention to Aces & 8s and the reforming of MEM. They’ve been talking about Rampage & the surprise Tito Ortiz. Then he says that everyone has forgotten about himself, Daniels & Kazarian. They’re the 3 guys who comprise 25% of the BFG Series landscape. Roode says they’re a new force. One of them will walk into BFG the winner of the series. He said the game would change & it has. They own the BFG Series & 1 of them will be the next world champion. This was a good promo from Roode. Backstage Tito Ortiz knows there’re a lot of questions that he hasn’t got the answers to. Then he says that next week at Hardcore Justice these hands might be all over it. So his fists will do the talking. Whatever. This was pointless. Time for an MEM-Aces & 8s video package hyping the multi man tag match for next week. Bully Ray & Devon come to the ring. Then out comes Chris Sabin. Then out comes Sting. Ray & Devon are distracted by Sting & Sabin & then Angle attacks Ray & Devon from behind. This was kinda pointless too. TNA World Champion Chris Sabin & Kurt Angle vs. Bully Ray & Devon. Sabin & Angle win when Sabin pins Ray. Devon brings a table in the ring & he & Ray set it up in the corner. Of course Ray wound up going through it. Then Sabin goes up top & hits a high cross body for the pin. This was a good match. Sabin & Angle celebrate in the ring to end the show. This week’s show was just like last week’s. There were solid to good matches but there was also a lot of idiotic booking. That pretty much says it all. The opening segment was terrible. I’m sick of Brooke Hogan & having the same stip that they used 2 months ago is repetitive. The main event tag match was good but I wasn’t into Sting coming out & making like he would team with Sabin only to have Angle attack Ray & Devon from behind. The Daniels-Kazarian match was decent but the finish was predictable. I did like Bobby Roode’s promo afterwards though. Jeff Hardy & Samoa Joe had a really good match too. The 6 person tag was solid also. The Kurt Angle-Tito Ortiz face off made no sense! Why is Angle getting in his face? Ray was the only good part of this segment. Magnus-Anderson was solid but I wasn’t into the DQ finish when I saw it happen. I liked Roode’s backstage promo about why he got Magnus DQ’d however. I was also ok with Magnus telling Brian Hebner that he wasn’t upset with him for calling for the DQ & having him say that he will find a way to get the 10 points back was a decent line. Overall I though I wasn’t really into this week’s show. The booking can be idiotic & that really hurts the product!