If this is that AWESOME cage match they had, then I'm willing to pick this up.

Impact X-Div Spoiler

hell yea!!!

Anyone know who Flip Cassanova was??

King kinda reminded me of a Shelton Benjamin but with better mic skill

Impact

It was OK. Not as good as previous weeks. Seemed like they are waiting to get the PPV out of the way to get down to business, because a few interview segments were rushed. Evident by the fact the longest interview segment was the one promoting next weeks Impact. It was alright, though.

-Bully Ray opened up the show and announced he had joined “twiddah!” He then told Joseph Park to come out. Park turned up and again got in Bully’s face. Joseph acted really brave in this segment, until Bully accepted his challenge by announcing he has a restraining order against Abyss and he isn’t allowed near him. Joseph shit himself. He’s in trouble next week.
-Crimson’s losing streak continued, with Devon making short work of him. But the real story here is that Madison Rayne then arrived. She went towards Devon and then shoved him out the way and was met in the awaiting arms of Earl Hebner, who she began necking on with. Good on Earl. He had a suspected stonker on as well. Madison and Earl has potential to be a far better than Punk, Bryan and AJ.
-Chris Sabin turned up. He was talking about the doctors telling him to find something else to do for a living. Bobby Roode then came out and told him that he was just another casualty in a long list of injured X wrestlers, and Austin Aries would join the list on Sunday. Roode then kicked his crushes away and started booting his knee. Aries made the save. Roode came across class.
-Flip Casanova and Demolition Smash’s son had a match which was about 5 minutes long, filled with the sloppiest flips imaginable, and ended when Casanova won with a 450 senton splash, where Flip’s left leg landed on Smash Jr’s stomach and his right leg landed on his nose, busting it open and probably breaking it. Flip Casanova advances, but this fucker is a little dangerous twat. The wrong man went over by process of elimination. Smash’s son wasn’t up to much, but he looked far safer. Taz was great on commentary here. He was like “this kid is reckless”.
-Women’s match between Gail Kim and Madison Rayne and Brooke and Tara. Typical woman’s match really. Brooke beat Rayne. Not up to much. Tara still looks like she smokes 40 regal a day and works in a pub.
-AJ Styles came out and was interrupted by Daniels and Kaz. Styles denied he’d got Claire up the stick. Styles then reminded us that he and Daniels have feuded for a full year now. Fucking hell. He told Daniels their match will be a Last Man Standing match. And there was no Claire this week, which was obviously a good thing. But its Styles and Daniels. Who wants to see this shite again?
-Jason Hervy from the Wonder Years was interviewing Hulk Hogan (who was in full red and yellow which was a pleasant surprise) and some short biker bloke with a bandana on (I imagine he’s the messenger, and not apart of the gang) turned up and gave Hogan a letter which read “we’re not cowards” on the envelope and “see you next week” on the actual letter with two aces and two eight playing cards on it (the Dead Man‘s Hand). Its at least interesting. I imagine Hogan’s getting a kicking next week. Although I wouldn’t mind seeing Hogan just give them all a slapping and ripping their masks off. This has to be setting up a Sting and Hogan vs. The Bikers. If we get the return of Road Wild and the Hulk Power helmet, it has to be considered a win for TNA.
-ROH World Tag Team Champion Kenny King wrestled a man known as Lars Only. I'm all for naming someone after two of your musical heroes, but I can only imagine he took the name Lars because Metallica's drummer is also short, and his second name from Jerry Only because he also had shit hair and pasty skin. He should have been called "Lars Only Bloke Who's Thought That Frankensteiner To The Floor Was A Good Idea". Kenny King is pretty great. Wrestles with far more maturity than anyone other than Sonjay Dutt in this X tournament. Seems a charismatic lad. I’d like to see more of King in TNA. Lars on the other hand was a skinny bloke with tattoos and an Axl Rose bandana. Taz was burying him throughout, which was the highlight. King was more or less having a match by himself. Lars Only was dog shit. Fucking up everything he tried. I never want to see that fucker again in my life. Kenny King cut a decent promo afterwards and had all the fans on his side. I like this King lad.
-Austin Aries and Kenny King BIG HUG backstage. Looked like a passing of the torch. So it looks like he’s the favourite.
-Storm had a really good match with Hardy, which Hardy won clean with the Twist of Fate. I’m glad Storm lost, because it opens the tournament up somewhat. Hardy is now in the Champions League position. What was telling was that Storm is the one they are booking at the big babyface and the next man in the promotion. Yet Hardy had 100% of the audience. When Hardy’s offense was cut off Storm was booed. Hardy chants throughout. And that’s in the Impact Zone, so fuck knows what it would be like if they did this match in a real building. I wonder if Storm will still be the golden boy by the time October comes?
-They announced TNA is going to Phoenix, Arizona for Bound for Glory. The Ultimate Warrior lives there, so maybe he's behind the biker gang? Karma collects and all that? Next weeks letter might read "you wear hair extensions lol".
-Lastly, the man you all came to see, Hulk Hogan came down the aisle to get the TNA X Division title off Austin Aries. Instead Hulk was interrupted by Bobby Roode, who kept getting in his face. The second time he’s done this in the last few weeks. Aries arrived on the scene and cut a great promo. Hogan was grinning like a Cheshire cat all the with through. He seems to genuinely like Aries. Usually he tries to get him tashed face in camera shot, but he didn’t here. He let Aries have the floor. It ended with Aries hitting Roode with the belt and standing with both the TNA World and X Division title.

Final thoughts on it were that Aries was outstanding and I can't wait for Sunday. It also summed up my taste as a fan. They can slow the show down, they can push the young guys, they can make the X Division the focus of the show, but at the end of the day, my main thought at the end of this was "I wonder who the bikers sending playing cards to Hogan are?" And old crippled bloke feuding with a group of pretend bikers still gets me interested.

But yeah, decent episode though. Picked up in the second hour.

The appearance of ROH wrestler Kenny King on another television wrestling program tonight has raised speculation on his future as well as how this appearance could occur.

The contract Kenny King signed in June 2011 expired 11 days ago. Before that expiration, an agreement was reached between Kenny and ROH management for an extension of that contract, with a provision to allow him to negotiate with any other promotions so that he could evaluate his options and any potential interest in him elsewhere. When that short extension concluded he would then be free to accept an offer elsewhere, or sign another long term contract with ROH. Under this agreement, Kenny was free to negotiate but not to wrestle for another organization without ROH's permission.

When Kenny was presented with the written extension reflecting this verbal and handshake agreement, he informed ROH he was unsure if other promotions would accept the negotiation clause. He was told he could take the document to be examined by his attorney or other interested parties before executing it to be reassured any other offers would not be viewed as contract tampering. He also informed ROH that he would keep us apprised of any developments.

He contacted ROH on Tuesday July 3 to inform us that he had a meeting in Orlando on Thursday, July 5, which was within the scope of the agreement he had made. Then, early morning on July 5, he contacted an ROH official to say he would be wrestling on the Orlando event that night. He was told he did not have permission to appear live on television as it violated the agreement that had been made. His response was that the deal he had shaken hands on and agreed to in principle "seemed fair at the time", but "others" had told him it was not, so he did not intend to honor it.

Ring of Honor is disappointed that Kenny has chosen to make this decision, after the company had agreed to and followed through on everything he had asked for at the time of our negotiation. However, we consider this breach of his verbal agreement unacceptable, and regardless of his future employment status with any other wrestling company, ROH will not be doing business with Kenny King going forward.

A statement from ROH will be forthcoming regarding the future of the ROH World Tag Team Championship. Co-holder Rhett Titus remains on the active ROH roster.

3:30 mark

Best thing Bryan has done.

who is the dame willing to take both those border tosses? that's a fucked up bump to be layin on a girl.