Coverage and thoughts on the November 22, 2012 taped Thanksgiving episode of Impact
The show starts with Jeremy Borash is in the ring with gut check contestant, Wes Briscoe. Time for Wes to have his gut check match. Out comes Garrett.
Wes Briscoe vs. Garrett Bischoff. Wes gets the pin. Kurt Angle came to ringside to watch the match. Afterwards Angle & Wes celebrate. Then Garrett shakes Wes’s hand. This was ok but both guys are green.
Al Snow is backstage with the other the gut check winners telling them tonight is open fight night for them. Tonight’s their (second) opportunity. This was ok but I’m not sure why Al said this was their opportunity when they had 1 when they were in gut check!
Angle, Garrett & Wes are backstage celebrating Wes’s win. Angle tells Wes he’s proud of him and says Wes will be part of the roster. This was kind of weak.
Joey Ryan comes to the ring. He mentions tonight being open fight night for the gut check winners. He didn’t need gut check to be a big star. Then he says that Hogan is trying to separate him & Matt Morgan. He says that Hernandez & Chavo are the tag champs and Hulk can’t separate whoever the tag champs are. Ryan says he & Morgan will win the belts. Then he calls out Chavo Guerrero.
Chavo Guerrero, Jr. vs. Joey Ryan. Chavo wins by DQ when Matt Morgan comes in & choke slams Chavo as Chavo was on the top rope. Then out comes Hernandez for the save & Morgan bails. This wasn’t much.
Backstage Austin Aries says that he can call out anyone he wants. The person he is calling out tonight is in the gut check. This was a solid promo.
Sam Shaw comes to the ring. He says it’s an honor & privilege to be a gut check winner. And being that it’s open fight night, he’s calling out the first gut check winner Alex Silva.
Sam Shaw vs. Alex Silva. Shaw gets the pin. This was decent. Shaw does have potential.
Eric Young & ODB go into Hulk’s office with the turkey costume. They want to issue the Turkey Suit challenge since that’s the TNA Thanksgiving tradition. Hulk says EY is the turkey and asks if ODB is the drum stick. Then he tells them to watch out for Aces & 8s. Then Hulk says wants to EY when he grows up. Whatever that meant. Thankfully this was short so it wasn’t too hokey. Hulk saying he wants to be EY when he grows made so sense though, but when does Hogan ever make sense?
Eric Young & ODB are backstage. They run into the Robbies. E says that Rob Terry’s life has been miserable since having to wear the turkey costume last year. Robbie E then says that he wants to be Young to call him out. Then in come Jessie & Tara. EY then says that he should issue the challenge to face both Robbie E & Jessie. This was lame.
Time for a video package recapping the Aces & 8s storyline.
Devon & Aces & 8s are in the clubhouse. Devon says they have a lot to be thankful for. DOC is now a full time guy. Then the VP throws the dart at the board. Devon says that this will truly be a Thanksgiving. This was ok for what it was.
Christian York comes to the ring. He says for 16 years he has travel roads just to get here and today he feels luckiest SOB in the world. Maybe he’s crazy but with luck on his side he’s calling out someone that he respects and admires. He calls out Jeff Hardy.
Christian York vs. TNA World Champion Jeff Hardy. Jeff gets the pin. This was a good match. Afterwards Jeff & York shake hands and hug. Jeff raises York York
Tayler Hendrix is backstage & Brooke Hogan comes by and gives her a motivation speech. This was ok.
Tayler Hendrix comes to the ring. She says she’s been working hard and wants to see how she measures up to the gold standard (Not Shelton Benjamin). Then she calls out Tara .
Tayler Hendrix vs. Knockouts Champion Tara . Tara gets the pin. This was decent too.
Eric Young vs. Robbie E vs. Jessie in the Turkey Devon his EY with a bat. Then they also handcuff ODB to the ring post and then DOC hits Young in the ankle with the hammer. Then Al Snow and security hit the ring and Aces & 8s bail. Then Young gets stretchered out.
Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian come to the ring. Daniels says last week he challenged AJ Styles to 1 last match at Final Resolution and a lot of people, mostly the idiot fans have been asking why would he call out AJ Styles? He says what kind of friend would he be if he wasn’t there for AJ? Then Kazarian rags on AJ and calls him out.
AJ Styles vs. Frankie Kazarian. AJ gets the pin. This was a solid match.
Austin Aries is backstage saying it’s time to stir things up a bit.
Austin Aries comes to the ring. He says that he’s been telling everybody all night that he has some big things that he wants to do right now. He feels like the playing field hasn’t been leveled for him. He knows the deck is stacked against him. He says there is 1 name that is holding him down. That name of course is Hogan. Then he calls out Brooke Hogan. He says that she is the princess Hogan and he is sick of the name Hogan. For 25 years it’s been Hogan. It’s the fans chanting Hogan and he’s sick of it. He then says that being a Hogan makes it hard to have a private life. Then he says that Brooke probably hoped that her name would be Brooke Trump or Brooke McMahon. Not Mrs. Brooke Bully Ray. He rags on Brooke some more about the Hogan name. Then Aries has film of Ray & Brooke shown from a few weeks ago of Ray & Brooke talking. Then he has the clip from last week when Ray was in Brooke’s office. Then Aries says that Brooke didn’t have to settle for the turkey when he would have given her the stuffing. Then out come Hulk & Ray and Aries bails. Rey gets in the ring. Hogan tells Aries he’s a dead man. Brooke tells her dad this isn’t what he thinks. Then she runs up the ramp as the fans chant Hogan to end the show. This was a mixed bag segment. Aries was good on the mic as usual but anything that involves Hulk or Brooke makes no sense. I have no idea what they’re doing with this Ray-Brooke story.
I was ok with this week’s show overall. The Wes Briscoe-Garrett Bischoff match was ok but both guys are green. The Aries promo at the end was good but I don’t know what they’re doing with Brooke Hogan & Ray. If this leads to a Ray-Aries match I’m good with that. AJ-Kazarian was solid. The Daniels-Kazarian promo before that was decent too. Christian York-Jeff Hardy was really good. That was the best part of the show. Hendrix-Tara was decent and so was Shaw-Silva. Shaw does have potential. EY-Robbie E-Jessie was ok for what it was. EY getting attacked by Aces & 8s was alright too. This might be Eric Young’s storyline exit from the company. Aces & 8s in the clubhouse was ok for what it was too. Chavo-Joey Ryan wasn’t much. It looks they’ll be having Morgan & Ryan challenge Hernandez & Chavo for the tag titles. On the whole I this was a decent show this week.
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