12/5 Impact Wrestling Report

-Kurt Angle kicks off Impact Wrestling and calls out Magnus, questioning his knee injury in last week's main event. Magnus says his knees kept buckling, so he had to leave the match. Angle tells him that real champions fight through injuries, and doesn't know if Magnus has what it takes to be TNA World Champion. Magnus says he has heart, but Bobby Roode's music hits, and Roode says it takes more than heart to become champ. He says you need a killer instinct, like hitting your best friend with a beer bottle to become champion. Jeff Hardy comes out and tells Roode he's going to put him through a table tonight, and become world heavyweight champion. 

TABLES MATCH
JEFF HARDY vs. BOBBY ROODE

The two brawl in the ring early on, until the action spills to the floor. Hardy goes for a table, but Roode attacks from behind and rolls both Hardy and a table into the ring. Hardy tries for a DDT, but Roode floats over and turns him inside-out with a clothesline. Roode into the corner but Hardy rolls out of the way; Whisper in the Wind attempt, but Jeff comes up empty, almost putting himself through the table. They slowly fight to the ring apron, but both of them go through a table on the floor at the same time. Referee Brian Hebner looks on in confusion as we go to a commercial break. 

Back from break, and senior referee Earl Hebner has made a decision that because they went through the table at the same time, a decision has not been made, and the match will continue. Hardy turns around into a huge spinebuster. Roode hoists his opponent up with a fireman's carry, but Hardy reverses and hits a Twist of Fate that puts Bobby on the table. Hardy goes up high, but Roode rolls off the table, and Jeff hits the Swanton Bomb over the table anyways. They fight up to the top turnbuckle, teasing going through tables on either side of the ring, but Roode settles for crotching Hardy on the ropes. Bobby Roode tries for a suplex to the outside, but Hardy breaks out of it and kicks Roode off the apron and through the table. 

Decision: Jeff Hardy wins and advances to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship tournament finals. 

-Dixie Carter is backstage in an #Impact365 video that we posted earlier this week, saying that she's getting her title back. 

-Ethan Carter III is out, and says that he's faced legends from all over the world. But there's one man that has been in the ring with the likes of Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, and Bret "The Hitman" Hart. That's why tonight his hand-picked opponent is… Earl Hebner! Hebner says he's not a wrestler. EC3 has Rockstar Spud bring out Brian Hebner to referee the match. Carter tells Hebner to lay down on the mat, or he will put him into the ground forever. 

ETHAN CARTER III vs. EARL HEBNER

EC3 puts a finger on Earl and tells Brian Hebner to count. He does so very slowly, and Carter picks up the easy win. 

Decision: EC3 wins via pinfall. 

Christy Hemme is out on a date with Sam Shaw, a former Gut Check contestant. She goes to the bathroom, and Shaw threatens to kill the waiter for looking at his girl. 

-Dixie Carter has a delivery backstage and gets excited, but it's just flowers from a fan. 

-Dixie Carter announces a Feast or Fired match for next week's Impact Wrestling, for people who were left out of the world title tournament. One person will get a World Championship match, one an X-Division title match, one a Tag Team Championship match, with one unlucky star getting fired. 

-Bad Influence comes out and says they have some proof they want to show Joseph Park. Park comes out and rips up their envelope, but Kazarian throws it the guys backstage. In a pre-recorded video, Bad Influence are at the law offices of Park, Park & Park. They go into his "office", but it's completely empty. A secretary says that law firm closed 13 years ago, and didn't leave any forwarding address. Back in the ring, Daniels is asking what Park has been doing for the past 13 years. They spit in his face and call him a liar, before beating him down in the middle of the ring. EY comes out to make the save, and chases off Bad Influence. Young challenges them to a tag team match. 

THE BROMANS vs. JAMES STORM & GUNNER

Jessie slaps a rest hold on Gunner and hammers away with elbows, before chocking him in the ropes. DJ Zema Ion is at ringside, doing his thing. Gunner comes back with a fall-away slam and makes the tag to James Storm, who runs through Jessie with a series of clotheslines. A flying forearm connects, followed by an Atomic Drop and a running neckbreaker. Robbie E gets tossed off the apron and Storm hits Jessie with the Last Call Superkick. Robbie sprays beer all over Gunner, and they brawl around the ring while Storm is trying to pin Jessie. The referee gets thrown aside, and this causes a disqualification. 

Decision: The BroMans win via disqualification. 

-Sting tries to get in to see Kurt Angle, but Rockstar Spud won't let him in. He asks who Sting who he is, and there's some jokes about the singer. Sting tells him to go find Dixie Carter and have her make him leave. 

-Gail Kim is kissing her husband, chef Robert Irvine in an #Impact365 video, and JB tries to get a word in. Robert tells them not to bother them until TNA can find somebody who can actually beat the Knockouts Champion. 

GAIL KIM OPEN INVITATIONAL
GAIL KIM vs. LAURA DENNIS

Laura Dennis is popular independent worker Cherry Bomb. Gail puts the boots to Laura as the crowd chants for "ODB" right off the bat. Gail with a splash in the corner. The picking apart of Laura continues for several minutes, until she gets in a few left hands, followed by a clothesline. She tries for a pinfall, but gets a count of two. Gail takes her down with a big boot out of the corner and hits Eat Defeat for the 1-2-3. 

Decision: Gail Kim wins via pinfall. 

Gail hits another Eat Defeat after the match as the crowd chants "you suck". Lei'd Tapa lifts up Laura for her finisher, but ODB hits the ring and brawls with the big woman. ODB takes her over the top rope with a huge clothesline, and Gail Kim backs her girl off. 

-Dixie Carter's package has arrived.

LAST MAN STANDING MATCH
MAGNUS vs. KURT ANGLE

Angle goes for the Ankle Lock early, but Magnus rolls out of the way. Magnus looks to be getting the better of an early exchange, as Kurt is wearing down quicker, likely due to recent matches with Bobby Roode. Angle ducks under a clothesline and both men are down after a big collision in the middle of the ring. They cut to a really terrible commercial break right as they get up and start exchanging right hands. 

After the break, there's a short segment with Dixie Carter getting a package that, we assume, has the world title in it. Back in the ring, Kurt nails his third straight German suplex. Magnus gets up at a count of seven, and they brawl to the floor. Angle teases a German suplex off the apron, but Magnus fights his way out and drops an elbow to the floor. After selling on the ground for what seems like forever, Angle tries for a moonsault but comes up empty. Magnus with a big suplex, and now he hits a flying elbow drop from the top turnbuckle. Angle gets up to his feet at a count of nine, and the referee takes a bump. Angle tries to revive the referee, but Bobby Roode attacks him from behind. Roode with a fireman's carry neckbreaker, and the ref comes to in time to count out Kurt Angle. 

Decision: Magnus wins and moves on to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship tournament finals. 

-Bobby Roode attacks Angle after the match, but Jeff Hardy makes the save. The two brawl around the ring until Hardy dumps Roode to the outside and he retreats. Magnus and Jeff Hardy stand face-to-face, and shake hands as the two will face off for the world title at Final Resolution. 

-Backstage Dixie Carter says "like" about a dozen times and Rockstar Spud opens up her package. It turns out there's just a cardboard cut-out of a championship with a TNA logo on it. Dixie Carter freaks out and says "game on" as Impact goes off the air. 

-AJ Styles appears in a "Friends of Dixie" video package, and says now she has a piece of paper to put on her paper champion. He holds up the real world championship, and tells Dixie Carter to come and take it from him.