Tonight’s Impact! is going to feature a huge storyline development, so be sure to watch. Here’s the preview from TNAWrestling.com:

PREVIEW FOR THURSDAY’S HUGE “iMPACT!” BROADCAST ON SPIKE: THE AFTERMATH OF TURNING POINT

This Thursday night, TNA Wrestling returns to Spike for two hours of Total Nonstop Action featuring the aftermath of the Turning Point Pay-Per-View event!

The below is an early preview of the huge broadcast. The card is subject to change:

- The big story going into Thursday’s “iMPACT!” is how the TNA originals like Samoa Joe and AJ Styles will react to the Main Event Mafia’s total domination at Turning Point. The M.E.M. won all of their bouts, leaving the young lions of TNA at a huge disadvantage going into Thursday’s broadcast. Is the war already over? How will the TNA originals react?

- Immediately following Sunday’s Pay-Per-View, Executive Shareholder Mick Foley told TNAwrestling.com that he had met with TNA Founder Jeff Jarrett - and the two agreed that there will be THREE huge title matches on Thursday’s broadcast starting at 9ET on SpikeTV! Who will get the shots - and who will defend their gold? Will The Main Event Mafia be forced to put their championships on the line? Tune in and find out!

- Speaking of the Main Event Mafia, they will add yet another member to the group this Thursday as - stipulated by his loss to Booker T at the PPV - “The Instant Classic” Christian Cage must join them! What will happen on Thursday when Cage is forced to side with Sting, Nash, Angle, Booker and Steiner? Will all hell break loose - or will Cage accept his new role in TNA?

- Plus, the broadcast will feature The Main Event Mafia’s “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner vs. “The War Machine” Rhino! Two of the biggest bad-asses in TNA Wrestling collide this Thursday night! Will Rhino be pulled into the war between the Main Event Mafia and the TNA Originals?

All this and much more this Thursday on “iMPACT!” on SpikeTV, including news on TNA’s “Final Resolution” Pay-Per-View on Sunday, December 7

I’m just hoping for another sweet Scott Steiner promo!

Discuss Impact! here.

I think tonight’s TNA PPV has an outside chance at being a pretty good show. Here’s the card, courtesy TNAWrestling.com:

DOUBLE MAIN EVENT: TNA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
“The Phenomenal” AJ Styles vs. Champion “The Icon” Sting

DOUBLE MAIN EVENT: REVENGE MATCH
“The Samoan Submission Machine” Samoa Joe vs. “Big Sexy” Kevin Nash

TNA LEGENDS CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
“The Instant Classic” Christian Cage vs. Champion Booker T

TNA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH
The Motor City Machineguns vs. Champions Beer Money, Inc.

Abyss vs. Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle

Grudge Match: “The War Machine” Rhino vs. X Division Champion Sheik Abdul Bashir

Knockouts Tag Team Match: TNA Women’s Champion Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs. Taylor Wilde & Roxxi

Plus, an X Division championship seeding match to determine the top contenders with Sonjay Dutt, Eric Young, “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed, Petey Williams, Jimmy Rave, Homicide, Doug Williams, Tanahashi & Volador

I’ve decided not to order the show, but it was close. TNA has done a good job with their programming over the past several weeks, and they’ve also done a good job by not filling this card with a bunch of ridiculous gimmick matches. Turning Point could be really, really good.

But here’s my caveat. In the co-main event “revenge” match, you’ve got Samoa Joe wrestling Kevin Nash. KEVIN NASH. I’ve always liked Nash from a character-development standpoint, but if you’ve been watching Impact! lately, you know this guy is limited in the ring–he always has been. Combine that with his age (49 years) and his previous injuries, and you’ve got a recipe for a boring wrestling match. It’s going to take a Herculean effort from Joe to make this match look good, and I just don’t see it happening. I cannot in good faith spend $30 on a PPV with Nash in the co-main event, regardless of what the rest of the card looks like.

That being said, if you’re ordering this, I don’t blame you one bit. Styles v. Sting should be good, and Abyss v. Angle should also be interesting. Hopefully they’ll give the X guys time to work, too. With the number of guys in that match, I’d imagine they’ll have to.

Discuss Turning Point here.

Here’s what TNA has planned for Impact! tonight, courtesy of TNAWrestling.com:

- “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner is back in TNA, and this Thursday night The Main Event Mafia plan to officially induct him into their group! With the Mafia growing bigger (and badder!), how will the young lions like Samoa Joe and AJ Styles react? Tune in and find out!

- TNAwrestling.com has learned that Executive Shareholder Mick Foley has requested time to speak with “The Phenomenal” AJ Styles! After his face to face with Sting this past week, what does Foley want to address with The Phenomenal One?

- A Ladder Match is also scheduled for the broadcast, with the winners earning a shot at the TNA World Tag Team Championship: Team 3D vs. The Latin American Xchange vs. Abyss & Matt Morgan vs. Tanahashi & Volador

- Also, a Knockouts Tag Team bout is set to take place with TNA Women’s Champion Awesome Kong & Raisha Saeed vs. Taylor Wilde and Roxxi

- Plus, in a Six Man War main event it will be TNA World Heavyweight Champion Sting, Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash taking on “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal, Eric Young and Consequences Creed!

All this and much more this Thursday night on Spike at 9pm ET - plus more news on the November 9 “Turning Point” Pay-Per-View epic event!

I actually avoided the spoilers for once, so I’m kind of anxious to see if I’ll be pleasantly surprised by the show. I won’t get my hopes up, but the four-way tag team ladder match definitely has potential.

Discuss TNA Impact! here.

Tonight’s episode of TNA Impact! is live from Las Vegas, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Mick Foley is going to make an announcement that will “change the face of wrestling forever.” Seriously, the publicity for this is everywhere. If you didn’t know about the announcement from the Google AdSense ads on this blog, you’ve probably heard about it on a radio ad or seen it on a billboard somewhere. This announcement better be good!

In addition to Foley’s announcement, Booker T will reveal what’s in his briefcase. Several matches have also been announced for the show:

• Main Event: Sting and Kevin Nash v. Samoa Joe and AJ Styles
• X Division Championship: Jay Lethal v. Sheik Abdul Bashir(c)
• Knockouts Women’s Championship: Awesome Kong v. Taylor Wilde(c)
• Christy Hemme v. One of the Beautiful People

There’s one more match so confusing I can’t even manage to figure out how to put it on that list. Therefore, I’ll just use TNA’s description from their Impact! preview:

It will be TNA World Tag Team Champions Beer Money vs. Team 3D vs. Matt Morgan & Abyss vs. LAX in a “Hard Rock Hardcore Tag Team Text-off Gauntlet”

Fans decide the order that the eight TNA wrestlers will enter the ring for the “Hard Rock Hardcore Text Off Gauntlet”. From now until Thursday October 23rd at 9pmET fans can pick the order of the wrestlers that will under the Gauntlet. The order will be determined with the wrestler with the fewest votes entering first, with the wrestler with the most text votes being the last to enter the ring. Fans can cast their vote by texting the keyword (listed below for each wrestler) to the number 81676. Vote now and vote often. Standard Text Messaging rates apply.

Text Keyword to 81676

Wrestler Keyword
Hernandez HERNANDEZ
Homicide HOMICIDE
James Storm STORM
Robert Roode ROODE
Brother Devon DEVON
Brother Ray RAY
Matt Morgan MORGAN
Abyss ABYSS

Discuss tonight’s LIVE episode of TNA Impact! here.

TNA Impact’s on tonight. Hopefully Christian and Styles can put on a show that helps us to forget about, well, about the rest of the show. I’ll be watching.

TNA has announced the lineup for Impact this week with only a few days to do until Hard Justice

8 Man Tables Match

Christian Cage, Rhino & LAX Vs. Beer Money Inc & Team 3D

10 Man Weapons Gauntlet Match

Featuring Samoa Joe, Booker T, AJ Styles, Kurt Angle, Matt Morgan and more

Awesome Kong Vs. Salinas

Jacqueline Vs. Roxxi

Sonjay Dutt Vs. Curry Man

Jay Lethal & Consequences Creed Vs. The Murder City Machine Guns (I still refuse to call them the PG Version)

Also, TNA are building up to see if Sting will show up

I am looking forward to see how they build up these matches for Hard Justice. They are building up the Main Event and the Last Man Standing Match by having this Gauntlet. Oh course this is going to be a normal TNA gauntlet with 10 men in the ring and last two have a one on one match. But why is it Hardcore, do they come out with weapons or will there be weapons out in the ring already.

Also, TNA is now obsessed with Tables Matches. They have had two in the past three weeks. How many more can they do? Anyway, I like that they are attempting to build up the two tag team matches.

REMEMBER HARD JUSTICE IS ON SUNDAY

On tonight’s eppisode of TNA, Taylor is going to take on Awesome Kong for the knockout’s title and 25 grand… there will also be more World X Cup Tournement matches as well as appearences by Angle, Joe, Styles, Team 3D, Cage, Rhino, Sting, and Nash.  TNA will also be announcing more matches for the July 13 ppv Victory Road.  please post.

Shortz & A T