TNA Lies To Their Fans, Final Resolution Injuries?, iMPACT! Matches
TNA Wrestling issued a text message to mobile subscribers on Thursday night to hype a mystery guest who would appear in Kurt Angle's corner at last night's Final Resolution PPV. The mobile alert read, "Angle's mystery guest is a former world champion who was a former tag team champion with Mick Foley." The mystery man turned out to be Al Snow, who was a WWE Tag champion with Foley's Mankind character, but never held a world title. TNA officials recognized their mistake and removed the "world champion" teaser from their website, however there was no correction sent out to the thousands of mobile subscribers who may have ordered the show based on false information.
There were no major injuries coming out of the PPV last night.
TNA has announced a tournament will take place to fill the vacancy in the held-up TNA X-Division championship. The entire first round will be taped this week with the first two matches airing on this week's iMPACT! and the next 2 matches taking place on the December 18th edition. The tournament finals will take place at the Genesis PPV next month in Charlotte, NC. The first round matches will feature:
- Eric Young vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir
- Alex Shelley vs. "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal
- Chris Sabin vs. "The Guru" Sonjay Dutt
- Consequences Creed vs. Akira Raijin (former AJPW star)
ALSO THIS THURSDAY NIGHT ON "IMPACT!":
- The Beautiful People want to remind all of their fans that (allegedly!) former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin will once again be with them this Thursday night.
- The war between The Main Event Mafia and TNA Frontline continues! How will "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles and Samoa Joe react to The Main Event Mafia getting the win at Final Resolution? Will we find out more about why Kurt Angle brought Al Snow to the Pay-Per-View to play mind games with Mick Foley?
- As a result of the "Feast Or Fired" match, three TNA superstars will get title shots – while one will be fired! This Thursday night, all of the briefcases will be opened, revealing the fate for Hernandez and Homicide of The Latin American Xchange as well as Curry Man! (Jay Lethal's case was opened on Sunday to reveal a Tag Team Title shot). When "iMPACT!" ends this Thursday, one superstar will be fired and gone from TNA!
- Will we learn more about TNA Wrestling newcomer Suicide this Thursday night on SpikeTV? Suicide made his surprise debut at Sunday's Final Resolution, attacking the Motor City Machineguns. What's next for Suicide? Tune in and find out!
All this and much more this Thursday night on "iMPACT!" on SpikeTV, including news on the upcoming "Genesis" Pay-Per-View epic event on Sunday, January 11!