TNA Impact 08 May 2008

[Head Booker]

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Impact for May 8th

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- Jim Cornette comes to the ring and calls out the eight participants in the Deuces Wild tournament and says he will announce two of the teams today. Sting and Cowboy James Storm are the first team picked. Storm says he doesn't want to be Sting's partner and he and Sting go to blows. They announce Sting vs. James Storm in a No DQ match later in the show.

- Jimmy Rave defeated Petey Williams, Curry Man, Johnny Devine, Shark Boy and Consequences Creed in a six-way non-title X Division match.

- Backstage, Jim Cornette announces to the Knockouts that there will be an "Immunity Pole Match" where the winner will be immune from getting her head shaved at the PPV.

- Gail Kim won the Knockouts Immunity Pole match featuring all the participants from the Sacrifice Hair match.

- Sting defeated Cowboy James Storm in a No DQ match.

- Cornette comes out to draw the next two names for the Deuces Wild tournament and picks Matt Morgan and Kip James. They start brawling with each other, so Cornette starts a match between the two.

- Matt Morgan defeated Kip James.

- Scott Steiner & Kurt Angle defeated Kevin Nash & Samoa Joe. Angle attacked Steiner after the match.

Xplosion Match: Motor City Machine Guns & Kaz defeated Black Reign, Rellik & Lance Hoyt.

[Icon Sincere]

And TNA continues to be persona non-grata as far as I'm concerned. It's just illogical. I mean, fair game, we needed one team of enemies in this tournament, and Sting/Storm fits the bill fine. But why on earth did Morgan and Kip start brawling, and why on earth would Cornette then go out of his way to ruin his own tournament by making them wrestle? Why is Jimmy Rave wrestling in the X-Division, when he's in a perfectly fine tag team with Hoyt? What on earth is an "Immunity Pole" match? If it's another pole match, then sweet mother of christ, it's horrendously overdone. Where is Team 3D, Jay Lethal, Super Eric, Booker T, Robert Roode, AJ Styles, Christian, LAX, Rhino? I know these are the bare bones of Impact, and most of them guys will be on the show in some capacity, but surely it'd make sense to put some of your 'draws' in matches on Impact?

And I have to say, they're eighteen months late on the Joe title reign, and it seems they're eighteen months past caring for him too.

Elijah