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On Saturday evening, I attended the TNA Impact tapings at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida as TNA taped their next few weeks of television.
Here are the results:
Taped for Xplosion:
Match Number One: Ryan Nemeth defeated Krampus
Nemeth was wearing the turkey suit as a result of losing the Turkey Bowl match from Thursday’s tapings.
Match Number Two: Sinner and Saint defeated Jake Painter and Javi
Match Number Three: Heather by Elegance and M by Elegance defeated Mila Moore and Jada Stone
Mila refused a tag (building on issues raised in a video of Mila that aired on last week’s Impact) Jada confronted Mila as Mila went to the back. Victoria Crawford and Tessa Blanchard attacked Jada. Myla Grace and Harley Hudson came out to help Stone.
Taped for Impact:
Mike Santana came out for a promo to address what has happened since Thursday.
He sat in the center of the ring and tells the crowd that he loves the fans. He says a month ago, he was on top of the world when he won the TNA World Championship. He was able to accomplish his goals and earned what he fought for. He mentions that he was able to celebrate with the person who saved his life, his baby girl. Santana mentions that last week he was able to celebrate 1,000 days clean and sober. Twenty-four hours later, it was all snatched from him. Santana says that he had to search for himself and he was not going to fall off and he went to a meeting. He was not going to go away and make sure that he got revenge because the people were with him. He says that having it all taken away makes him want it back even more. Santana tells Frankie Kazarian that Frankie has something that he wants and he is bringing the title back home.
Santana then addresses the NXT talents who appeared on Thursday. Santana tells them that he is coming after each and every one of them until nothing is left. He says he will make the NXT wrestlers regret setting foot in TNA.
Match Number One: Dani Luna defeated Myla Grace, Rosemary, and Indi Hartwell in a Match for a Future Knockouts Title Match.
Dani hit Indi with a chain when Rosemary tried to bring it into the ring.
Match Number Two: Mance Warner defeated Matt Cardona
Mance hit Cardona with a purse when Steph DeLander distracts the referee
Match Number Three: John Skyler defeated Myron Reed
Jason Hotch helped Skyler earn the victory
Match Number Four: Xia Brookside defeated Victoria Crawford, Jody Threat, and Killer Kelly in a Number One Contender Match
Xia gets the win after hitting Iconoclasm
Frankie Kazarian came to ringside to do commentary
Match Number Five: JDC defeated Eric Young
After the match, JDC and Frankie Kazarian stared each other down, teasing a potential title match before JDC’s retirement.
Match Number Six: Brooks Jensen defeated Home Town Man
The Iinspiration come out for a promo and talk about their win at Turning Point and they are looking forward to their next opponents and says they are ready to face anyone from any company. Victoria Crawford and Tessa Blanchard come out and want to face them at Final Resolution. Mila Moore attacks Lee and McKay from behind
Match Number Seven: Mike Santana defeated Robert Stone
After the match, Santana says that is one down and he tells Stone to tell his boys that Santana is on Demon Time.
AJ Francis segment with Rich Swann.
Francis insults Swann and Francis mentions he has an X Division title match at Final Resolution so his guest is Leon Slater. Slater tells Francis he cannot talk to Swann like that and that Swann is a former World Champion. Francis says that if he was in TNA when Swann was champion, Francis would have had the title. Francis and Slater fight in the ring and Slater avoids being choke slammed through a table. Francis held Slater for Swann to hit him with the title belt and Swann could not do it. Francis choke slams Slater.
Match Number Eight: Xia Brookside defeated Dani Luna (it is possible that the two four way matches were supposed to be matches to qualify for a number one contender spot against Kelani Jordan) to become the Number One Contender for the Knockouts title
Xia got the win with an inside cradle after Indi Hartwell came out to prevent Dani from using the chain on Xia.
Match Number Nine: Mustafa Ali defeated Trey Miguel in a Match where Order 4 and The Rascalz banned from ringside.
Ali won with a sharpshooter after Miguel missed Meteora
Match Number Ten: Lexis King, Channing Lorenzo, Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe defeated Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Cedric Alexander, and Steve Maclin
Stacks got the win after Lexis King hit Maclin with a cheap shot.
After the match, Santino was yelling at his son-in-law (Stacks)
Match Number Eleven: Leon Slater, Eddie Edwards, Moose, and Brian Myers defeated AJ Francis, Rich Swann, Ryan Nemeth, and Jake Something
Slater pinned Nemeth after a swanton 450 splash
After the main event, Slater and The System were in the ring for a promo. Myers put over Slater and then he brought up JDC’s announcement from Thursday about how he was going to retire at Final Resolution. Myers says that they are in the presence of a Full Sail Legend and he hopes that he has one more dance left in him. The Fandango music plays and he starts to dance. Tyler Breeze comes out with JDC to relive their Breezango days.
The tapings ended.
Overall Thoughts:
I enjoyed both nights of tapings. I was also at the live show on Thursday night and it was broadcast live since they recorded the Xplosion and internet only matches and segments prior to 8PM Eastern.
The two Mike Santana promos on Thursday and Saturday were both excellent. What made the promo on Saturday so enjoyable for me was that he was so calm in what he was saying. He could have been pissed off and did the ‘typical’ wrestler screams about everything, but this felt like a Jake Roberts promo where he just talks and the words did all of the over the top exposition.
The Concierge did a great job to get the crowd to react both nights and it felt like I was watching Dave Prazak at old FIP shows doing the heel manager telling the crowd not to do something and they obvious do what he doesn’t want them to do.
For this show, I was sitting by the entrance on the right side of the entrance aisle looking from the hard camera (I was behind the announcers on Thursday night). I enjoyed the different perspectives for the two nights.
This was not a ‘full house’ and there were times when you would not know that there were fans in the building with the reaction. However, there were a few times during the night (with Trey Miguel and Xia Brookside), there were four or five young girls who were chanting for both of those wrestlers.
With the way the building was set up, it made me think of attending FIP shows at the Crystal River National Guard Armory.
I will have more detailed thoughts of my experience at the tapings and what happened.
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