Team 3D & Johnny Devine are out to start the show proper. Ray barely gets started cutting another damaging promo before Alex Shelley & Jay Lethal (as Ray & Devon) and Chris Sabin (looking more like old school Spike Dudley, nee Brother Runt, than Devine) appear via video, mocking the former tag champs by doing an old school Dudley promo. That prompts Team 3D & Devine to go to the interview area and assail the X division team, bring them to the ring, and beat them down. The Motor City Machineguns are put through tables. Lethal juices a gusher. Ray cuts an autobiographical promo detailing the team's history in ECW, WWE, and now TNA. Oh, these guys are SO going to get it at Against All Odds.

Crystal is with Scott Steiner & Petey Williams. They will tag up for the first time ever tonight, but the question centers on the fate of the X division, since Steiner still has a shot coming. Petey is busy working out as Scott talks. Steiner now seems to be warming up to an X title shot. Stress seems.

Match 1: Rock & Rave Infection (w/Christy Hemme) vs. Scott Steiner & Petey Williams Jimmy Rave & Lance Hoyt are carrying "Guitar Hero" guitars. I guess we know what these guys do in their spare time. I'm waiting for Mike Tenay & Don West to give Christy's band a plug, much less a booking on Impact. Williams, trying to impress Steiner, uses some of "Big Poppa Pump"'s moves, including a Frankensteiner off the top and applying the Recliner to Rave before Hoyt can make a save. Hoyt plays to the crowd after virtually every move he makes by playing air guitar. Not too bad, but the skunk highlights in the hair have to go. Late in the match, Williams sets up Rave for the Canadian Destroyer after booting Hoyt out of the ring. However, he sees Steiner leaving with both of their briefcases. Scott cracks him the head with one, leaving him vulnerable, and Rave capitalizes with a neckbreaker. Winners: Rock & Rave Infection.

Better mark the date down. This may be the last time the Infection wins a match for about, oh, 6 months.

"Bullet" Bob Armstrong, pushing 70, and son BG James are training for a tag title match vs. AJ Styles & Tomko at Against All Odds. James, the ex-Marine, shouldn't have much trouble readjusting, but it seems like he wants to put his military past behind him. Oh, the showman just won't go away.

Match 2: Kip James (w/Roxxi Laveaux) vs. Hernandez (w/Salinas & Homicide) It's clear now that the battle lines are being drawn within the Voodoo Kin Mafia. Kip's festering frustration over BG picking his dad over him for the tag title match gives him some adrenaline as this match starts, but with LAX holding the numbers advantage on the floor, not to mention the youth advantage, that frustration is about to boil over. Hernandez misses a splash off the top after the girls tussled briefly on the apron. Roxxi goes back up to the apron as Kip sets up Hernandez. However, Roxxi misfires with some powder. Kip is blinded, then grounded with a lariat. Winner: Hernandez.

Post-match, Kip reams out Roxxi, ripping her for her makeup and 80's style attire, likening her to singer Stevie Nicks, then fires her from VKM. I wonder what BG thinks of that.

Styles & Tomko are backstage, and AJ is trying to smooth things over with his tag team partner. This team is not long for this world, and Tomko still isn't interested in what the "Prince" has to say.

Another preview of Saturday's UFC bout between Frank Mir & Brock Lesnar. I will not be the least bit surprised if Lesnar takes advantage of the promotional union of UFC & TNA & Spike TV, and shows up in the Impact Zone.

Match 3: Judas Mesias (w/James Mitchell) vs. Corey Chiavous Squashola! I'm not certain if Chiavous is the same guy who played in the NFL as a defensive back. I would've read about it somewhere if he is. Not that it matters, as he's just another sacrificial lamb sent Straight to Hell. Winner: Judas Mesias.

Post-match, Mitchell cuts a promo on his "son", Chris (aka Abyss) for the Barbed Wire Massacre "at Against All Odds" (already taped).

Shark Boy comes out and cuts a promo. I'm telling you guys right now, the expiration date on this gimmick can't come soon enough. They've already got Sharky moving to 2001-era Stone Cold, since they already got the "What?" chants last week. Ref Mark Johnson and some security people were hit with stunners.

In Jim Cornette's office, Matt Morgan is trying to sell the idea that he'll go over Cornette's head with upper management to resolve his issue with Samoa Joe and Kevin Nash. Cornette isn't buying. This team's about to implode, folks. Cornette says that once Joe is "signed", he'll be "under their thumb". Now, if there was anyone who'd actually be the Austin of this promotion, it's Joe, not a comedy act. Enter Nash, who says that if the deal goes sour, he's washing his hands of it and won't save Cornette and Morgan. Nash leaves, and AJ Styles enters with Karen Angle and Jeremy Borash. He wants Cornette to cancel the Tomko-Kurt Angle match for later, but it isn't happening. Cornette makes this announcement in the ring after summoning Styles. Instead, Styles will be the guest referee!

Crystal is with Awesome Kong and her advisor, Aiesha Saed. Saed claims the women's champion is a woman of peace, until agitated, and ODB has agitated Kong. Enough said there.

Match 4: Roxxi Laveaux vs. ODB vs. Angelina Love Sometimes, things are not always as they seem. A very even matchup, straight down the line, finally decided by a little feminine wiles, exhibited by Love on ref Rudy Charles as ODB has Roxxi beaten. ODB turns the arbiter around while Love dives between ODB's legs and collects the fall. How lame is that? Winner: Angelina Love.

Angelina, however, doesn't feel like a winner, as ODB nails her with the running powerslam after the match.

Jeremy Borash is with AJ Styles, now dressed for duty. He has to count the fall, or he's gone. The Angles arrive, and of course Kurt is trying to convince Styles to see things his way. When Styles reminds that Tomko is his partner, Angle grabs him by the collar and that brings Tomko and a pull-apart.

Booker T appears via video "from Houston" after footage is shown of wife Sharmell's injury at Final Resolution. It's short and to the point.

Match 5: Robert Roode, Peyton Banks, & James Storm (w/Jackie Moore) vs. Eric Young, Sonjay Dutt, & Traci Brooks Pre-match, Roode cuts a counter-promo on Booker. Personally, the angle shouldn't have happened, especially involving someone like Roode, who has no redeeming value whatsover. Actually, he does, but they don't sell green stamps around my area anymore. I digress. The women never tagged in, although Banks tried scratching the eyes of Dutt as he had control of Roode early on. Traci came charging, and ref Mark Johnson, showing no ill effects from a Deep Sea Stunner earlier, has to hold her back. It breaks down late, and Traci chases Peyton out of the arena. However, Young falls prey to the same Last Call (superkick)/Payoff (Perfectplex) combo that Dutt did last week. Winners: Robert Roode, Peyton Banks, & James Storm.

After the match, Booker T shows up, as he was at the arena after all (naturally), and chases Roode out of the arena!

Crystal is with Kaz, or, as he calls himself tonight, "White Sunshine", parodying Dustin Rhodes' alter ego, Black Reign. Next week, Reign & Kaz will hook it up with 4 poles in the ring. At the top of each pole is a box. 3 of them have mousetraps, 1 has Misty/Marlena, the rat caught in the middle. Note that Kaz has a white rat instead of the black one. Who are they trying to fool?

Jim Cornette & Matt Morgan are in the ring, and bring out Samoa Joe & Kevin Nash. Joe's about to sign his new deal, but Cornette doesn't have a pen. Morgan does, and he throws it at Joe. Morgan takes his first bump since coming in, getting suplexed through the table. Joe tears up the contract, and Cornette now has to draw it up again for next week!

Match 6: Kurt Angle (w/Karen) vs. Tomko (non-title) AJ Styles is your referee, and under the gun big time. He has to toll the 3-count or face termination, which wouldn't exactly leave Tomko without a partner, as they could always bring in Giant Bernard from Japan to fill the void.

I am not sure if Angle & Tomko ever fought each other in WWE. If not, then this is the first ever meeting between these two. It is the referee's job to be as fair and impartial as possible, to keep the counts consistent throughout. Styles takes this to a new extreme, with the slowest counts recorded in history. Karen is pleading with him constantly, but the man is more stressed than Cornette, if that's even possible. Tomko hits a clothesline, and gets only a 2. Angle with the Olympic Slam. Same thing, a 2 count. Tomko with a boot to the head. Yep, another 2. Turning point comes when Angle applies the anklelock. Tomko rolls out and sends the champ sprawling into Styles, knocking the temporary arbiter to the floor. Christian Cage takes advantage of this and comes down to crack Angle in the head with the title belt. Tomko hits an inverted F5 as Cage is already halfway down the tunnel, and Styles makes the longest three count known to man. Winner: Tomko.

Karen berates Styles after and slaps him. She tries to explain to Tomko what happened, stooging off Cage. Meanwhile, Cage tells Crystal that "Tomko wants to do what's best for Tomko. So do I." Hmmmmm.