The second Open Fight Night (OFN) opened with a recap of the stories which we have seen recently including AJ’s secret and the extra dirt which was dished on his inappropriate relationship with Dixie Carter, Joseph Park’s mission to find Abyss and Bully Ray’s threat to the lawyer.
The show opened with clips of what had happened previously on Impact Wrestling. Highlights being: Abyss going missing, AJ’s secret, the question of ‘who is up as leader of the Selfish Generation?’ and the road to Slammiversary X.
The show opened with Ref, Earl Hebner knocking on a door to collect the World Heavyweight Championship title belt from Bobby Roode so that it could be hung up in the air ready for tonight’s main event. Still annoyed at Hulk Hogan for allowing RVD to pick the stipulation for his title shot, Roode rambled on at Earl and asked why Hogan himself didn’t go to collect his belt for the match which he didn’t want. He handed the belt over to Hebner and told him to go hang it up before stating that he’ll have it back real soon.
Fans reacted to the news earlier on today as Dixie Carter tweeted that, the daughter of Impact Wrestling’s General Manager, recording artist and TV personality Brooke Hogan is joining Impact Wrestling as the Executive in Charge of the Knockouts. If you read my piece on Hogan and Bischoff vs. Steiner you will have already seen that Steiner revealed that Brooke had been brought in to the company but he didn’t say in what capacity.
The long running fight between Hogan, Bischoff and Steiner is about to become more serious as the General Manager of Impact Wrestling, took to Twitter this morning to talk about getting his personal lawyers involved in the situation.
This feud has been going on for quite some time now and if you look back through each of the men’s Twitter accounts at a glance it would appear that they are all as bad as each other. We of course don’t know how deep the rivalry goes and can only see what each of them wants us to see.
SoCal Val and Mr Anderson made the big announcement which fans from the UK and Ireland have been waiting for on Sunday March 13th 2012’s episode of Impact Wrestling. TNA’s Lockdown cage is set to go on a vacation in January 2013 as it will leave America for the first time ever.
The ‘go home’ show before we see Sacrifice on May 16th 2012 opened with a recap of Rob Van Dam and Bobby Roode picking each other’s opponents last week. We saw highlights from both of their matches including Roode hitting Hardy with his belt during the Hardy vs. RVD match.
It’s Pay per View time again so here are my predictions for this Sunday’s TNA Sacrifice which we will see here in the UK on Wednesday 16th May 2012.
The show opened with the story of Eric Bischoff and how he was defeated and therefore made to leave Impact Wrestling. We saw clips from his farewell party and his induction in to the ‘Shed of Shame.’ You can see more details of this here.
Ric Flair told us he feels that Hulk Hogan thinks that he is his pawn and has him under his thumb. He’s “Ric G O D Flair” so he doesn’t buy it. He’s smarter than Hogan thinks. In our world he says that he’s “just plain God”.
The show opened with the Open Fight Night (OFN) promo being played as the rules of the new monthly show were explained. See my explanation here if you are not familiar with the rules already.
Hulk Hogan spoke to some of the current champions backstage and welcomed them to OFN. With the exception of Magnus and Samoa Joe, who don’t seem too fussed, the champions don’t seem very pleased that they may have to fight tonight.
