My iMPACT Wrestling, October 20th 2011 Recap

Sting kicked off iMPACT by expressing his delight at the events of Bound For Glory and the return of the 'real' Hulk Hogan after he turned on Immortal. Hogan joined him, with a huge ovation, and thanked the Stinger for helping him to realise the error of his ways. Dixie Carter and Kurt Angle also joined in. The man who got screwed for the World title in a ridiculous ending at Bound For Glory (mind you, Russo was behind it so no surprise) Bobby Roode came out to confront Kurt in the only entertaining part of the segment. He called what happened at BFG "absolute bullshit," which it was, especially after the great job they'd done in building Bobby up. Sting was about to set up a rematch between the two but Angle revealed that a clause in their contract at BFG halted that completely.
Storm also hit the ring and concurred that Roode had been screwed and challenged Angle for a match instead.  Sting, in his new position appointed to him by Carter as the manager of iMPACT or whatever (they didn't actually say), then much to Angle's displeasure made the match official between Storm and Kurt for the World title that night. This segment of them all just jabbering on went on for about fifteen-minutes, 'Wrestling matters' huh?
Finally we had the first actual bit of wrestling on the show with Tara and Tessmacher (c) versus Winter and Angelina Love for the Knockout Tag Team titles (remember that title?). The match was dull until Tara was tagged in and got the crowd interested. Tessmacher cross bodied Winter form the top rope for the pinfall victory, which was well executed and a nice finish in a pretty forgettable bout.
Jeff Jarrett, accompanied by wife Karen, once again called out Jeff Hardy. Jarrett gave him the ultimatum of either leaving the company or to face the wrath of the company founder. Hardy claimed that Jarret was jealous of the connection he had with the fans and they began to brawl in a replay from Bound For Glory.
Next there was even more talking (halfway through the show and there'd only been one match) as Gunner gave a promo on Abyss that sounded like a throwback to the early nineties, he even said "take out the trash," come on now...
Abyss versus Gunner followed. Abyss looked as clumsy as ever as Gunner decided to bail the match and scarper. Let's hope this doesn't mean another Abyss push.
The new Knockout champion Velvet Sky cut a promo on how proud she was to have gone through all she had and finally won the title. VP of the Knockouts Karen Jarrett interrupted her and had security escort Traci Brooks out of the building after the events of BFG. Karen (who is definitely suited to her role here) admitted she had been tempted to strip Velvet of the title but instead decided to put her through physical pain first. Just as Madison Rayne began to make her way out Gail Kim returned and took out Sky from behind. I for one am extremely happy to see Gail back in TNA, as I wrote last week I felt they should bring back Gail Kim to the company as a needed asset of real in ring talent for the Knockouts division.
Next we had, you guessed it! Even more talking in the ring! How exciting. Bischoff, with the ring surrounded by Immortal members called out Hogan. He expressed how disgusted he was that Hogan had turned his back on Immortal and especially himself, who, as he put it, is "the man solely responsible for making you the man that you are today." To quote the Miz, really Bischoff? Really? I know he was obviously exaggerating but still. Eric eventually slapped Hulk in the face, but before he could retaliate Immortal crept into the ring only to back off when Sting arrived and handed Hogan a bat. As Bischoff backed up down the ramp his son Garrett Bischoff halted him and punched his father right in the face. So after Immortal have lost control and Dixie Carter is supposed to eb back in charge we still have all these spots given to guys like Sting and Hogan rather then younger wrestlers with a future? What was the point?
Then came the main event pitting Kurt Angle (c) versus James Storm for the TNA World Heavyweight title. Storm in a shocking result got the one-two-three and the World title after less then a minute after hitting Angle with a super kick.
Kurt's had a lot of injury woes lately, hence him dropping the title like that. But obviously the thing that has seemed to frustrated most fans is why Storm and why didn't the man they've been building up for ages, who won the BFG tournament and was week after week made to look like the next main eventer Bobby Roode win the championship at the biggest PPV of the year for them rather then that crap finish? Again TNA continues to baffle it's fans who are giving up on the product more and more each month for reasons like this.
As fans once chanted at Angle during his entrances in WWE, Vince Russo "You suck!"