The go home IMPACT for Sacrifice 2009 opens with Jeff Jarrett. Cause it's his world.
Jarrett claims the final spot in Foley's upcoming world title defense at Sacrifice. Yes, Mick Foley was the World Champion of a televised wrestling promotion in 2009.
Foley eventually hobbles down the ramp, heels it up for a bit, and goads Double J into putting his shares of TNA on the line at Sacrifice. Jarrett agrees and then Foley starts making matches for everyone involved in the Sacrifice four way:
Eric Young vs. Sting
Matt Morgan vs. Kurt Angle
Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Jarrett
and a mystery former world heavyweight champ vs. Foley.
Cut to the back and Kurt Angle is looking for fellow Main Event Mafia member Sting. Scott Steiner of all people, is trying to calm him down. No words were exchanged about Angle's chances of winning at Sacrifice now that Jeff Jarrett was added to the mix.
The Main Event Mafia were a heel group consisting of former world champions, former WWF and WCW world champions that is.
Next segment is Chris Daniels and Suicide being interviewed by The Golf Channel's Lauren Thompson. The rest of the X Division have been trying to unmask the video game character come to life, claiming that it's actually Daniels under the mask.
Who is Suicide?
The star of TNA's ill-fated video game was first portrayed by Kazarian, but he got a boo-boo and Daniels got thrown into the monkey suit. Kaz would heal up and go under the mask again and the moniker would continued to be passed down like the Doink the Clown gimmick. Caleb Konley is the current man in the mask for Impact Wrestling.
First match of the night is a three team X-Division tag match.
Lethal Consequences, the team of "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal and Consequences Creed(now known as Xavier Woods in WWE) are the first team out.
The Motor City Machine Guns are out next. Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin were able to wear their IWGP Junior Heavyweight tag titles to the ring as TNA and New Japan had a working relationship at the time.
DanielSide are the final team in this match and Daniels starts things off. He continually gets cut off from Suicide by the other two teams. The rules were never established, but only two men are in the ring at once, so both members of one team are always on the apron.
The heels finally break down over who gets the win, giving Daniels a chance to get back in this. Desperation tag made to Suicide, who hits some goofy looking Skoryukens and ends with a Finn Balor dropkick.
Match breaks down into a spot fest and everyone gets their shit in.
The finish sees Suicide blocking a sliced bread attempt by Shelley, who eats a middle rope codebreaker for his troubles. Suicide gets the win for his team and then disappears when the lights go off.
Second match of the night is Eric Young vs. Sting.
This was during one of Young's "take me serious" phase. Even though he's in a heel group, Sting still works like a face, shaking Young's hand before the bell rings.
Two lockups lead to nothing and then both men miss Stinger Splashes. Young gets whipped into a corner and they do the Flair spot, getting a whooo from the crowd.
Commentary team of Mike Tenay and Don West bring up Foley's mystery opponent.
Young gets in some offense before dropping to the mat to let Sting submit him with the Scorpion Deathlock. It was suppose to be a missed dropkick, but the timing was off.
Jeremy Borash plugs the TNA textline and tries to get some info out of Mick Foley, but it's all double talk for a nothing cheap plug.
Match three is wizard-caped Matt Morgan vs. Kurt Angle.
Angle comes out with a single red rose, possibly ready to express his love to Morgan.
Morgan muscles Angle around, hitting all the big man moves and sends Angle to the outside with a super Kevin Nash leapfrog body guillotine.
Commentary brings up Foley's former world champion opponent again, one who never wrestled for TNA before.
Angle takes Morgan to Suplex City, but couldn't get the Angle Slam and ends up taking a big boot for a two count.
Angle picks up the win after small packaging out of the hellevator.
I've been skipping through most of the backstage segments as they're all hype pieces for Sacrifice.
One I couldn't pass up is Jenna Morasca trash talking Sharmell. Morasca is a former winner of Survivor, she won in 2003 and somehow, someone in TNA thought she would still be relevant six years later.
In storyline, she was the financial backer of the Main Event Mafia and started to clash with Sharmell, Booker T's wife. This would culminate in one of the worst wrestling matches ever, going 5:49 against Sharmell at Victory Road 2009.
Penis-faced Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Jarrett is match four.
Jarrett's left leg is wrapped up thanks to an injury from an empty arena brawl with Foley.
The match never starts as they brawl into the crowd and eventually back to ringside. Joe tries to kick Jarrett's leg out of his leg and then starts whacking him with a chair, getting the match thrown out.
Now for the big mystery reveal and the main event match. Mick Foley vs. a former world champion.
Foley does his crowd pandering and then introduces his opponent.
A cardboard cut out of Rocky Balboa.
I was actually watching this episode back in 2009 and against any same and rational judgment, I continued to follow TNA for another year.
"Rocky" gets in a couple of punches and then Foley starts to wrestle a piece of cardboard.
Jarrett, Angle, and Sting come out for a brawl and Foley hobbles away after being the last man standing.
