My Impact Wrestling, 19th July 2012 Recap

After their attacks last week we were told that Sting and Hulk Hogan would not be appearing on the show this week, so a good start. 

James Storm then came out and challenged Kurt Angle as part of the Open Fight Night episode of Impact, where when challenged a wrestler must accept the match. After Angle's music played a few times, we were shown him being attacked by the same group of masked assailants (who we learned were called the 'Aces & Eights') from last week. Of course even though they caught them on camera live no group of wrestlers from the back bothered to stop them or call the police. Really? 

Samoa Joe sent out a challenge to 'The Pope' D'Angelo Dinero as part of the Bound For Glory Series. 

Samoa Joe defeated D'Angelo Dinero in an average bout, with nothing particularly special about it. In usual ridiculous TNA fashion, we were told by Don West to stop watching the match taking place right there and then and check Dixie Carter's Twitter profile to see who the companies new signing was. Do they have no common sense there? 

Jeff Hardy was about to issue an Open Fight Night challenge but was then interrupted by Robbie E who instead challenged Hardy.

Robbie E won via count out versus Jeff Hardy in a mediocre and forgettable match up where Robbie's bodyguard Robbie T distracted Hardy long enough for him to be counted out.

As Gut Check contestant Sam Shaw was about to talk on the mic he fell victim to another attack from the Aces & Eights. The TNA writers seem to be following the same lines as the WWE NXT Invasion storyline from Summer 2010 with this group. 

Mr. Anderson beat AJ Styles after challenging him to a BFG Series match. it was a pretty fair contest, nothing major. Unfortunately a few slip ups hindered it a bit.

Afterwards Claire Lynch (you know, the character portrayed by the awful actress who's claiming AJ is the father of her unborn baby?) decided to talk to Styles in public since he wasn't returning her calls and revealed a series of photographs of them in bed as supposed proof. I can't believe this joke of a storyline is still carrying on. Actually, considering it's TNA I probably can. Someone of AJ's talents deserves far better than to be dragged into this. It's not doing him any favours.

Christopher Daniels defeated Rob Van Dam after he challenged him to a BFG Series bout. It was quite average unfortunately, which is disappointing considering the talent. But as usual with most of RVD's matches in TNA you can't help but get the impression that he's just there for his paycheck and phoning it in a bit. 

Bully Ray beat Magnus in an enjoyable BFG Series match up. Magnus has really come a long way over the last couple of years for me in the ring, here's hoping he keeps on improving.

Bobby Roode versus Austin Aries ended in a disqualification after Aces & Eights attacked both men during it. Up until then the match had been a solid one, with both men putting in a good effort. It wasn't as good as their title match at Destination X, but that wasn't expected.