Sunday, May 12, 2013

September 10, 2004 on iMPACT!

By Garrett Kidney
September 10th, 2004
Orlando, FL
Quick Results
1. AJ Styles and Jeff Hardy defeated The Naturals (Chase Stevens and Andy Douglas)
2. Monty Brown defeated Vordell Walker
3. Kazarian and Shane (w/ Traci) defeated Jerrelle Clark and Mikey Batts
4. Abyss defeated Brian O
5. Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Johnny Devine w/ Scott D'Amore) defeated Chris Harris and Elix Skipper

Notes: Chris Harris and Elix Skipper beat The Naturals for the tag titles on the last Weekly PPV

- Show opened with the more familiar opening video. It took a long time to get to the opening match between videos and stuff. The Naturals were beaten far too easily considering they were just tag champs. Styles and Hardy ran through them like they were nothing. 

- Monty, Abyss and Kaz and Shane all won their squash matches convincingly. There's not too much to say about them.

- Jarrett cut a promo gloating about beating Hardy saying he'll take on all comers including any 'outsiders' Russo wanted to bring in. This was to foreshadow the eventual debut of Scott Hall and Kevin Nash which came not too long after (and led to TNA's latest attempt at the time to recreate the nWo). 

- Skipper and Harris won the tag titles on the last show (it was supposed to be two different tag title matches but Storm was hurt and The Naturals took out Daniels so Zbyszko paired up Skipper and Harris). Decent match, though nothing really remarkable. The rest of Team Canada, The Naturals, Storm and Daniels and 3LK all ran out for the standard show closing brawl.

Closing Thoughts
First show after the Weekly PPV's was no different from the others. Nothing of consequence happening at all.