Wow, and to think Russo was doing well as booker for a while *TNA Spoilers*
 

Impact:

The show starts off with Kevin Nash coming to the ring and he lets everyone know that he is in control of tonight's show and he announces the following matches:

British Invasion versus Chris Sabin
Scott Steiner and a Mystery Partner versus Bobby Lashley and Kristal
Eric Young versus Hamada
Team 3D, Jesse Neal, and Rhino versus D'Angelo Dinero, Hernandez, Matt Morgan, and Suicide with the stipulation that the person who gets pinned starts the match at Final Resolution alone against their opponents for five minutes
Lacey Von Erich versus Velvet Sky in a mud wrestling match

Match Number One: Chris Sabin defeated the British Invasion after pinning Big Rob Terry.

Awesome Kong is Scott Steiner's mystery partner.

Match Number Two: Scott Steiner and Awesome Kong defeated Bobby and Kristal Lashley. Steiner pinned Kristal and then he did push ups over her after the match.

Match Number Three: Eric Young defeated Hamada. Hamada dominated the match but Young got the win after putting his feet on the ropes.

Match Number Four: ODB defeated Tara in a Drunken Street Fight. The women in the match had to drink a number of beers before the match. ODB pinned Tara after an X Factor onto the chair.

Match Number Five: Team 3D, Rhino, and Jesse Neal defeated Matt Morgan, Hernandez, Suicide, and D'Angelo Dinero. Dinero was attacked backstage by Jesse Neal and Neal comes to the ring wearing Dinero's jacket. Neal pinned Hernandez after a gore. This means that Hernandez will have to face Team 3D, Rhino, and Jesse Neal alone for the first five minutes of the match at Final Resolution. After the match, Dinero comes out to make the save with his cane.

Match Number Six: A.J. Styles defeated Desmond Wolfe with a rollup. Daniels distracted Wolfe during the match which assisted Styles during the match.

Match Number Seven: Velvet Sky defeated Lacey Von Erich in a mud wrestling match.


For Xplosion:

Match Number One: Amazing Red defeated Homicide with a standing shooting star press.
Match Number Two: Consequences Creed defeated Sheik Abdul Bashir with a double knee gutbuster.

Other notes:

--- Team 3D and Homicide paid tribute to Umaga with messages on their wrist tape.

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Um, wow.

Why did Young face Hamada?

lol Russo.

Oh Good Lord.

Maybe Nash really did book this.

I have to wait until Thursday to see this, but fuck. I guess they want to go on a downward slope now.

I guess this is just meant to be car-crash booking, and part of the "TNA is going to hell" storyline. But yuck. Eric Young being dominated by Hamada? Chris Sabin beating three men? A "Drunken Street Fight?"

Yeah, I can kind of see what TNA is trying to do. It gives the episode a bizarre sort of "wild" theme. But holy shit, come on.

"We have our most important show ever coming up in 3 weeks. Let's book the worst possible show."

Yeah, good idea.

<s>Can only go one way from here</s>

Actually I still think they can (and probably will) do worse.

All I can really say is WTF? Velvet v Lacey mud wrestling might be nice to watch, but that sounds like a WWE match instead of a TNA one.

And even WWE wouldn't put it in the main event.

Well, I'm thinking that the entire show will have Taz, and especially, Mike Tenay borderline complaining about what they are seeing. A sort of "tongue-in-cheek" effect to things. I mean, it'd have to...right?

Hopefully these results are fake.

PWInsider just posted a second set.

Pretty much the same except the mud wrestling match isn't the main event.

Here it is:

Impact for Thursday, December 10

Impact opened with Eric Young and Kevin Nash coming to the ring insuits. Nash says that he is in charge tonight due to setting up a meeting between Mick Foley and Hulk Hogan. He says he made a few matches for tonight:

*The British Invasion (Yes ALL 3 of them) vs. Motor City Machine "Gun" (yes, only 1) Chris Sabin in a 3 on 1 Handicap Match.
*Bobby and Krystal Lashley vs. Scott Steiner and a Knockout of Scott's Choosing.
*In a Mud Wrestling Match it will be Lacey Von Erich vs. Velvet Sky.
*Eric Young, for one night only will be defending his Global Championship on US soil against.......HAMADA??
*ODB and Tara will face off in a Trailer Park Brawl but before the match each of them must chug a 6 pack of beer.
*Suicide, Pope, Morgan, and Hernandez vs. Team 3D, Jesse Neal, and Rhyno and the person who gets pinned has to start the Elimination Match at Final Resolution by themselves for 5 minutes.
*Lastly AJ Styles will defend his title against to what Nash refers to as "the highest bidder"

Chris Sabin (ALONE) vs. The British Invasion (Doug Williams, Brutus Magnus, and Rob Terry)

Sabin looks GREAT during this match and actually gets the win after pinning Rob Terry. The finish came when the tag champs went to double clothesline Sabin but he ducked and they hit Terry instead. Sabin hit what looked like a tornado ddt into a roll up. After the match the champs argued with Big Rob while Shelley came out on the ramps to congratulate his tag partner and it looks like they might be getting a title shot.

The Lashleys vs. Scott Steiner and........Awesome Kong

The whole match was basically Bobby and Scott. Finish came when Bobby and Scott took it to the outside and Steiner threw him into the ring steps. Steiner turned his attention to Krystal and she backed into the ring and right into Kong. She body slams Krystal and then goes to the top rope and looks like she is going to do a splash and then (parents put your kids to bed) before she can come off the top rope Steiner straddles her for the 3 count. After the pin in a very obscene manner, Steiner does push ups...ON TOP OF KRYSTAL. Lashley chases them out of the ring and carries his wife to the back.

TNA Global Championship
Eric Young vs. Hamada

Hamada came off AMAZING in this match and actually put on a great offense against EY. She hit a few big spots including a top rope hurancanrana. Eric Young gets the win after a missed moonsault and putting his feet on the ropes.

Mud Wrestling (gee thanks Vince Russo....)
Lacey vs. Velvet
Madison as Special Ref

I have NOTHING to say about this match because it was just these 3 rolling around in the mud but if u wane call her the winner, Velvet gets the pin. After they all hug in the mud.

Drunken Trailer Park Brawl
ODB vs. Tara

Lots of weapons used in this match including a tiki torch, caution tape, trash can lids (which was two however one went flying into the crowd Frisbee style like it was going to take someone's head off)...anyways, ODB gets the win after a facebuster onto a chair.

8 Man Tag Match
The heels come out first and Jesse Neal is wearing the Pope's ring jacket and has his black swine flu mask. Only 3 of the faces come out so we assume Pope was jumped in the back. Anyways the match was back and forth and then they took turns between face and heel hitting their finishers. Finish came after Hernandez Border Tossed Devon then after Jesse Neal "Gored" Hernandez for the 3 count. Hernandez must now face 3D, Neal, and Rhyno alone for the first 5 minutes of the 8 Man Elimination Match. After the match the heels have the upper hand on the faces until Pope runs down with a cane and chases the heels off.

TNA World Heavyweight Championship
AJ Styles vs. "The Highest Bidder" Desmond Wolfe (Angle on Commentary)
Wolfe spent most of the match working over the arm of AJ. And they both hit their usual spots. Finish came when it looked like Desmond was going to hit his clothesline finisher and Christopher Daniels distracted Wolfe long enough for AJ to hit a bridge for the 3 count. After the match Daniels and Wolfe brawled as AJ made his way up the ramp.

XPLOSION
Match #1 for the X Division Championship
Amazing Red vs Homicide

Back and forth match between the two. Red reverses the Gringo Killer and goes for the Code Red, but that is reversed and Homicide hit the Gringo Cutter. He covers and then pulls Red up at 2. Red ends up hitting a standing Shooting Star Press for the 3 count.

Match #2
Consequences Creed vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir
CREED looked great in his first match in the Impact Zone in months. Crowd is chanting USA at Bashir while he has Creed in a headlock. Finish came when Creed pressed Sheik over his head for a good 45 second and then dropped him into a double leg gut buster.

what what (in the mud...)

why do you guys automatically blame russo? ...i see why he thought an on air heel was the right call...

Hogan has already begun enforcing a particularly shitty style of booking with hopes that the ratings go down so that when he returns, and fixes the booking, he can say he brought the ratings back up.

The politics begin!

:wtf:

:wtf:

Hold on. Why did Daniels help AJ?

Does this mean we will get to see Abyss vs. Raven, Dr. Stevie, and Daffney in a flaming tacks on a table, ladder, cage match next week?

That sounds about right... :nono:

with Foley as guest ref

Pardon my ignorance but what's the 'most important show' they have coming up in three weeks?

The 3 hour Impact on a Monday night. 1/4/2010 I believe.

Nope, just a flaming christian cage on a pole in a cage match. (spoiler warning, heh)

Because he's the only writer left and everybody else that surrounded the Russo apologists with some line of defense that "IT'S NOT RUSSO~!" got canned and it's been the same level of awful or worse ever since.

Let me put it this way - If this isn't Russo, someone else has the same type of bad booking he does.

That's even worse.