By Garrett Kidney
August 27th, 2004
Orlando, FL
Quick Results
1. Chris Harris vs. Christopher Daniels went to a time limit draw
2. Amazing Red, Sonjay Dutt and Chris Sabin defeated Eddie Villa, Cassidy O' Reilly and John McChesney
3.
Team Canada (Petey Williams, Eric Young, Bobby Roode and Johnny Devine
w/ Scott D'Amore) defeated Rod Steele, Bruce Steel, Mikey Batts and
Jerrelle Clark
4. Abyss (w/ Alex Shelley and Goldylocks) defeated Sonny Siaki
5. Jeff Jarrett defeated Frankie Capone
6. Jeff Hardy defeated Kazarian (w/ Michael Shane and Traci)
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Good match between Harris and Daniels and the first time in a long
while that there's a match of consequence on iMPACT!. Storm is injured
and The Naturals interfered in the final of the best of three series on
the last PPV so this is to determine the number one contender. The match
goes to a draw leading to Zbyszko deciding that a title match should be
a three way (even though he is specifically there to decide a winner in
the event of a draw). Good match.
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Fun little showcase for Red, Sabin and specifically Dutt (who was
getting a title shot). They spent too long getting the heat on Red
though, the comeback was only around thirty seconds long. Dives by Red
and Sabin and a Hindu Press by Dutt earned them the win.
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The Steeles, Clark and Batts is like the jobber dream team. True to form
they lost (with Petey winning with a Canadian Destroyer). The D'Amore
stipulation lasted a whole two weeks of iMPACT! as he was back at
ringside for this match. D'Amore and Dusty fought for a while (Dusty was
sitting in the crowd because Russo suspended him for getting too
involved with Team Canada).
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Abyss beat Siaki after a distraction by Shelley and Goldy. Again it's a
shame TNA never did anything with Siaki as he had a huge upside. It's
also a shame that TNA wasted Abyss for so long because he's a damn
talented big man.
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Might as well combine these two. Both Jarrett and Hardy had enhancement
wins to set them up for their title match on the September 8th PPV (the
last Weekly PPV as it happens). A gaggle of folks ran out and a big
brawl closed the show.
Closing Thoughts
The
show started well with a very good Harris/Daniels match but fell back
to form after that. Thankfully we're approaching the end of the Weekly
PPV days so hopefully there's much less filler after that.
