iMPACT Wrestling Results – September 29, 2011

We open with a recap of all kinds of dissension between the members of Fortune, then Sting comes out to enthrall us with this week’s opening promo. He thinks Hulk Hogan has brainwashed Kurt Angle, and now Angle is trying to break Fortune up but his plan is going to backfire, and Sting calls Bobby Roode out to explain why. Sting says he’s proud of Roode for getting to this point, and he believes he’s going to win the title at Bound For Glory, but he has to be on top of his game and he needs to prove to the people that he’s focused. Yes, because it’s not like the fans have gotten behind him or anything. Roode says Sting is the man, and he’s worked 13 years to get here and is going to become the World Heavyweight Champion, but he wants Sting to promise that he’ll take care of Hulk Hogan, because if they take care of Hogan and Angle, they can get this company back to where it belongs.

AJ Styles comes out to join them in the ring, and tells Roode to take his opportunity, beat Kurt Angle, and win the title because he hasn’t had a title shot in a long time. Unless you’re friends with the right person, BROTHER, who knows when he’ll get another one. Now Kurt Angle comes out and says this is why he booked the match with him and Roode, and if AJ gets a win tonight, he gets a title shot after Bound For Glory. Angle says Dixie will never come back, and that AJ will get his title shot if he beats Roode tonight.

Hulk Hogan is backstage, and he’s…ADJUSTING HIS BANDANA AND WALKING!!

Austin Aries joins Mike and Taz in the broadcast booth for our next match…

X Division #1 Contender’s Ladder Match: Alex Shelley vs Zima Ion vs Kid Kash vs Jesse Sorensen vs Brian Kendrick

Kendrick charges Ion right away and gets dumped to the floor, and the other four guys go at it. Sorensen and Kash go at it hard and Kash gets dumped to the floor as Ion whips Kendrick into the guardrail on the outside. Shelley tries to slide the ladder into the ring and Sorensen baseball slides it into his ribs. Sorensen goes to pull the ladder in, but Kash stiff kicks him in the ribs, pulls the ladder into the ring, and DDTs Sorensen onto it. Kash sets up the ladder and starts climbing, but Kendrick dropkicks Kash off the ladder and starts climbing himself until Ion grabs his ankle and just yanks him down and dumps him back out to the floor. Shelley gives Ion a Flatliner onto the ladder, and Ion rolls to the apron and hits a moonsault onto Kendrick on the floor. Shelley starts racing up the ladder, but Ion missile dropkicks Shelley off the ladder and then Kash starts brutalizing him with hard chops. Kash takes a charge at Ion and gets hiptossed onto the ladder, but Sorensen comes from behind and gives Ion the Hero’s Welcome onto the ladder. Kash kills Sorensen with a chairshot and powerbombs him hard, but Kendrick nails him off the top rope and then he and Shelley both climb the ladder, Kendrick fights Shelley off, and grabs the contract for the win.

Winner: Brian Kendrick

Kendrick signs the contract as Aries yells at him from ringside and stomps on the contract.

Frankie Kazarian is backstage and is torn about all the strife in Fortune, and then the Jarretts come in and Jeff says he wants Kazarian in the ring right now.

Hulk Hogan is backstage, and he’s…STILL WALKING!

Ric Flair is backstage on his cell phone and is irate with someone who made some decision he doesn’t like, and he’s on his way to their house now. These jokes in my head write themselves, but we have to get back out to the ring now…

…as the Jarretts come out looking much happier than they were a second ago. Continuity, folks, continuity. Jarrett says to cut his music and tells Kazarian to come out and bring his “skanky old lady” with him. Jarrett says he handpicked Kazarian out of the independents and took him out of the gymnasiums, then took him back when he went to the other company because he thought the grass was greener there and then it turned out not to be. He then calls Traci a skank and says he’s the only one in the industry who ever gave her an opportunity, and she should be honored that Karen chose her for the job. He calls them a couple of ungrateful bastards, Kazarian shoves him, and then D-Lo Brown, Pat Kenney, and a bunch of referees run in to break it up. Jarrett says he’s going to make their lives miserable and then calls Traci a ten cent whore, and that’s when all hell breaks loose and all four of them have to be physically restrained. Gunner runs in and lays Kazarian out with an F5 and security pulls them all apart again.

We look back at last week when Ink Inc artistically assaulted Anarquia, then we go to what’s supposed to be a singles match between Hernandez and Jesse Neal, but Mexican America comes out and attacks them from behind, then roll them into the ring where they lay both members of Ink Inc out cold in the middle of the ring so Sarita and Rosita can spraypaint “MA” on their backs with green and red spraypaint.

Bully Ray is backstage saying he’s the first one Hogan called when he decided to make his announcement, and kicks the Mystery Cameraman out of his locker room.

James Storm is backstage saying how happy he is that Bobby Roode won because they went into it saying they had to win to prove that they’re the best around right now, and part of him will be in there when Roode wins the World Title.

We then go to Hulk Hogan’s office where Ric Flair is yelling at him and saying it’ll change the business if Hogan goes ahead with his plan. Hogan is adamant that he’s doing this, and Flair says this is just unacceptable because he’s Hulk Hogan, the biggest star in the history of the business.

We see a video package detailing the history between Tara and Madison Rayne, and they’ll face off yet again in the Queen’s Challenge…NEXT!

Crimson arrives backstage, and then we’re off to the ring for…

Queen’s Challenge First Round Match: Madison Rayne vs Tara

Tara works Madison over at the beginning of the match, but Madison gets all grindy on referee Earl Hebner to try and curry favor. It doesn’t work. Tara controls Madison with a side headlock, but Madison knees the referee from behind and Hebner thinks it was Tara and yells at her while Madison yells “SHE’S HURTING ME!” from behind. Tara goes to take a swing and Hebner catches her arm, allowing Madison to waylay her before going back to fondling Hebner. Tara has finally had enough and hauls Madison into the air by the throat, Madison tries her “hit Hebner and pretend it was Tara” trick again, but Hebner catches on, tells Tara to get her, then turns her back while Tara starts working Madison over. Tara with a double handed chokeslam and then goes for the Widow’s Peak, but Madison scoops her legs and puts her feet on the ropes to get the win.

Winner: Madison Rayne

The Mystery Cameraman is following around Christopher Daniels, who says he’s leaving since there’s nothing to do here. The MC says he might have to face AJ Styles again at Bound For Glory, and Daniels asks if AJ has heat with the office since he’ll just beat him again. He says it would be a kick in the nuts if he beat AJ at the biggest show of the year, and that AJ knows a thing or two about a kick in the nuts.

Crimson comes out to the ring and says that Joe fractured his ankle and took him out of the Bound For Glory Series, and calls Joe out to finish this now. Joe comes out to the top of the entranceway and says that Crimson’s lucky he let him walk out of there last time and continue his farce of an undefeated streak, then calls Crimson a bitch. Crimson comes zipping out of the ring and proceeds to absolutely beat the shit out of Joe until Joe catches his foot and slams it into the guardrail, then kicks his leg out from under him. Joe yells at him that he wanted this, then he tosses Crimson into the ring and continues pummeling Crimson and stomping on his ankle, flips off the crowd, and locks Crimson in a heel hook. Matt Morgan comes running out to make the save and goes for the Carbon Footprint, but Joe dodges out of the ring and hightails it to the back as the crowd chants for Morgan. Morgan helps Crimson to his feet, pats him on the chest, and heads to the back.

AJ Styles is backstage saying he’s going to get Bobby Roode ready for Bound For Glory, and won’t be going easy on him.

The Pope vs Ken Anderson

They tie up and trade wristlocks, Pope catches Anderson with a couple of kneelifts but Anderson with a spinning enziguiri for 2. Anderson with kneestrikes to Pope, but Pope lays into him with a hard palmstrike and Anderson rolls out to the floor. Pope tries to ram Anderson into the ring apron, but Anderson blocks and rams Pope instead and then lays him out with a clothesline on the floor. Anderson gets into a shoving match with Devon’s sons at ringside, and the referee tries to back an incredulous Anderson into the ring. Devon comes running down to ringside and asks his sons what the hell they’re doing, Pope tries to get between them, but while everyone’s outside the ring paying attention to that, Bully Ray runs out of the crowd and cracks Anderson in the back of the head with a kendo stick. Pope turns around and sees Anderson down in the ring and quickly runs in to cradle him and get the win.

Winner: The Pope

Pope doesn’t seem to know what happened, but doesn’t seem to care either.

Bobby Roode says he knows AJ is going to bring his A game tonight and that AJ has beaten Angle in the past, so if he beats AJ tonight, he knows he can beat Angle at Bound For Glory.

Pope is back in the garage yelling at his kids and asking him what the hell they’re doing, and he blames Pope for this. Pope says this is just the boys trying to be men, and Devon says to let him call the shots and tells his sons not to open their damn mouths. Devon says that he and Pope are getting along, but to please not let this happen again, and then tells his kids to get out of here now.

We go to a training video of Robert Roode working out back home in Canada, as well as shots of his wife and kids. This was actually a really good video, and it looked at the emotion and importance Bobby Roode is placing on this and what it means for him to get into the ring with Kurt Angle, who he wants to remind of what it felt like for him when he won his first World Title.

It’s main event time!

Bobby Roode vs AJ Styles

Feeling out process to start as they exchange headlocks, but Roode rams AJ hard into the corner and then hits a snapmare and goes for the Perfect Necksnap, but AJ dodges out of the way and goes back to the side headlock. Back and forth sequence off the ropes and Roode holds a dropkick to dodge a dropkick, but AJ caught him on a second attempt and goes to a chinlock. Roode tries to hiptoss AJ to the floor, but AJ lands on the apron and tries to springboard back into the ring and Roode catches him in a fireman’s carry and hits a gutbuster that seems to have injured Roode’s knee as well. Roode rolls out to the floor to catch a breather, then rolls back in and catches a baseball slide to the knee from AJ. AJ with a Muta Lock, but Roode makes the ropes, so AJ breaks and goes back to the knee with more kicks. They trade forearms in the middle of the ring until AJ cold cocks Roode with a leaping enziguiri. Roode ducks a wild swing and hits a uranage for 2, then sits AJ on the top rope and just drills him in the face to send him tumbling to the floor. AJ comes back in with the springboard forearm and then a Bret Hart backbreaker, but Roode dodges the springboard 450, goes for the spinebuster, AJ blocks and goes for the Clash, Roode rolls through, AJ rolls through that and tries the Clash again, Roode rolls through into a sunset flip for 2, AJ tries the Pelle Kick, Roode dodges and locks AJ in the Crippler Crossface and AJ taps.

Winner: Bobby Roode

EXCELLENT MATCH!! Roode is hitting on all cylinders and I can’t wait to see him at Bound For Glory. Roode goes to check on AJ and helps him back to his feet. They shake hands and share a hug, and AJ tells him he’s ready and he’s the next World Champion.

Hulk Hogan is backstage, and he’s STILL WALKING AROUND. Doesn’t this guy have any actual work to do? We’ll get his big announcement NEXT!

The Mystery Cameraman tries to ask AJ Styles for comments, but Bobby Roode comes in to check on him, and AJ says that he had his doubts, but Roode just got rid of all those doubts. The MC asked AJ if he brought his best, and AJ says he absolutely did and that he’s never missed the Pelle Kick before. AJ says Roode’s got it, and makes Roode promise that when he wins the title, he’ll give AJ a shot.

Okay, it’s time for Hogan’s big announcement. He feels like a million pounds have been lifted off his shoulders, and all the soul searching he’s done the last few months have brought him to the conclusion that the Hulk Hogan run has been the best of all time for over three decades. He thought about his first day in the business when Hiro Matsuda broke his leg and taught him respect, and from there he got lucky and got the big break and got to face Andre in front of 93,000 people, sold out Madison Square Garden over and over. At the end of the day, Hulkamania could go on forever, and after everyone that helped him get to where he is today, he had the chance to come to TNA and make a set of difference. He’s been here almost two years and when he sees guys like Fortune, RVD, Jeff Hardy, and everyone else stepping up, he realizes that every second he’s been here has been worth it. He gave them everything he knew backstage and he did all he could to help the company. We go backstage to Sting who says he’s going to win an Oscar for this acting job. Hogan says he’s made the decision and this is the end of the road for him, and he wanted to tell the fans first before anyone else, even his wife. When he bottomed out, he lost his money, his family, and his health, the only thing he didn’t lose were the fans, and the only thing that’s been with him since day one has been the fans. After he lost everything, the guys in the back were there for him and nobody else knew that, but he’s decided this is it and he’s done. Roode, AJ, and everyone else are up and running and they’re the stars of the future, so next week, he’s inviting everyone to come to Knoxville next week as he holds a celebration and that’s the last we’ll see Hogan in this business.

Sting is backstage and says that Hogan’s talking about friends, andwe can bet that Sting will be there next week celebrating with the Hulkster.

Credit: PWInsider.com