[Byrntrigan]

This is the last week before we hit Sacrifice and I for one am stoked on this super-gimmick PPV as well as the fact I am SICK and TIRED of hearing the word sacrifice as every 5th word in Impact! each week....

Either way you HAVE to watch so you can particpate in the Pun's 12 Pack! Watch up Bitches!
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Taken from www.tnawrestling.com:

MATCHES ANNOUNCED FOR THE "SACRIFICE" PAY-PER-VIEW ON SUNDAY, MAY 11: WORLD TITLE MATCH, TERRORDOME TO DEBUT, KNOCKOUTS MAKEOVER MATCH AND DECUES WILD TOURNAMENT!
By Bill Banks

On Sunday night, May 11, TNA Wrestling presents "Sacrifice" live and exclusively on Pay-Per-View from Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida! Below are the matches that have been announced thus far for the epic event.

The PPV will be available on InDemand, DirecTV, Dish Network, TVN, Viewer's Choice Canada and more! Call your local cable or satellite provider for details!

TNA WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH:
Champion Samoa Joe vs. "Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner vs. Kurt Angle

TNA KNOCKOUTS MAKEOVER BATTLE ROYAL:
One Knockout gets a shot at the Women's Championship - while the runner-up gets her head shaved!
Gail Kim vs. ODB vs. Traci Brooks vs. Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love vs. Jacqueline vs. Christy Hemme vs. Roxxi Laveaux vs. Rhaka Khan vs. Salinas

DEUCES WILD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT:
Featuring your favorite superstars battling to become the new TNA World Tag Team Champions!
With Team 3D, The Latin American Xchange, AJ Styles & Super Eric, Christian Cage & Rhino
Egotistical Eight: Sting, Robert Roode, Matt Morgan, BG James, Booker T, Awesome Kong, James Storm, Kip James

THE TNA WRESTLING DEBUT OF THE TERRORDOME MATCH:
TNA Wrestling's newest innovative match - 30 feet high and made of steel!

Tune into "iMPACT!" this Thursday night to find out more matches that will be added to the epic event on Sunday, May 11!

[Byrntrigan]

Placeholder for recap as I'm gonna do it this week, and I BETTER since I just wrote that ;D

[Mr. Dashbee]

May 8, 2008 21:14:14 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

TNA KNOCKOUTS MAKEOVER BATTLE ROYAL:
One Knockout gets a shot at the Women's Championship - while the runner-up gets her head shaved!
Gail Kim vs. ODB vs. Traci Brooks vs. Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love vs. Jacqueline vs. Christy Hemme vs. Roxxi Laveaux vs. Rhaka Khan vs. Salinas

What happens if Gail Kim comes in second? No Knockout is shaved? (...their head, anyway...)

[Byrntrigan]

May 8, 2008 22:53:59 GMT -5 Mr. Dashbee said:

May 8, 2008 21:14:14 GMT -5 Byrntrigan said:

TNA KNOCKOUTS MAKEOVER BATTLE ROYAL:
One Knockout gets a shot at the Women's Championship - while the runner-up gets her head shaved!
Gail Kim vs. ODB vs. Traci Brooks vs. Velvet Sky vs. Angelina Love vs. Jacqueline vs. Christy Hemme vs. Roxxi Laveaux vs. Rhaka Khan vs. Salinas

What happens if Gail Kim comes in second? No Knockout is shaved? (...their head, anyway...)

Exalt Greg. Unfortunately all we have photographic evidence-wise doesn't show us if Gail has anything to shave per se...

[Lucky]

Cornette said that if the lady with immunity comes in 2nd than 3rd place gets shaved. So presuming Gail is one of the final two it will actually be in the best interests of the last woman to be eliminated to make sure she wins the match.

[Batman]

Bullets!

• Man, how dumb is the Impact Zone crowd? When Cornette was pulling names from the fishbowl, they were chanting for Joe. Did Cornette use too many big words for them to understand that Joe's name was not in the fucking fishbowl?
• So, of the remaining four egotistical ones, who would you rather see teamed up? Booker and Road Dogg could make a fun babyface team (althought they've been hinting at a turn for Booker.) And that would mean one less "OMG isn't it ironic" enemies-as-partners team. Then again, Road Dogg's little promo about how he'd welcome Kong as his partner made me think that the two of them could make for a fun pairing as well.
• Sabin's little promo on the TerrorDome was funny: "recess was my favorite subject."
• Joe was fucking badass, as usual.
• Completely didn't notice Petey's injury....
• The no-DQ match wasn't bad at all, I thought.
• The LAX beatdown was bad-ass as hell. I hope they win, and I really think they've got a good shot at it.
• I really hope that LAX and Kong's team are thrown at each other by the brackets. I really want to see Hernandez and Kong beat the snot out of each other. And see Kong toss Homicide across the ring. I guess that would be another point in favor of Road Dog as Kong's partner--it would give Hernandez somebody to throw around....

[DevSop]

Personally I want to see Kong and Roode together just to see Roode try to do his pushing women around routine just to walk into an Awesome Bomb, and if I'm very lucky a Raesha curbstomp. But that won't happen, and it'll be Booker/Roode even though the feud pretty much sucked at the end. Booker/BG would work though for me, because BG can take the loss and Booker could get mad at him pushing him more towards the heel side. Storm/Sting should be good and able to get at least 1 win, Morgan/Kip is just whatever...Kip's just an absolute hole and listening to him last made me weep. I would quite possibly give up a year's salary if you could get HHH, HBK, BG, Waltman, Nash, and Hall all together and just have them kill Kip numerous times and in more unique ways.

[Mr. Dashbee]

May 9, 2008 0:24:06 GMT -5 Lucky said:

Cornette said that if the lady with immunity comes in 2nd than 3rd place gets shaved. So presuming Gail is one of the final two it will actually be in the best interests of the last woman to be eliminated to make sure she wins the match.

I missed that, thanks for the reminder.

I really hope that comes into play, too. Especially if, say, Velvet Sky is in 3rd place, and the last 2 are Gail Kim & Angelina Love...HUMAN DRAMA!

[jetskid48]

I'll try not to make anyone blow their gaskets this week, but no promises...btw, I missed the first 31 minutes of the show...so if anything matters there...thats why I messed it up...

At first I figured that the knockouts match was going to be another thing that just mucked up people's understandings of the match at the ppv, seeing now that its the runner up...no...the 3rd place person...no the 2nd...etc during the match if Gail Kim is involved. But I saw what Lucky wrote and that seems like a great idea if it winds up causing drama between the tag team. Also, it really does no damage to intregue as to who's getting shaved because it sure as hell wasn't going to be Gail Kim, and at worst it prob gets newer women involved at the end since normally when convoluted stuff like this happens, the person that wins the stip doesn't make it to the point where it would make things confusing.

Loved the LAX beatdown. Border Toss on concrete...ouch.

Joe's promo was a little repetative at the beginning and didn't think it was that great, but it sure helps to have Nash around to put a nice bow on things.

Isn't it a bit weird that they're debuting a potentially huge new gimmick, but using it the first time on the lower end of their card? I know the X guys are nothing to sneeze at, but your bringing in something that is a giant ppv gimmick in Mexico, and something that Cornette pimped up by saying the word Sacrifice 300X more than usual, and then not using it for at least the X title? I can see that it is better suited for the X guys, but we've seen that a lot of the main eventers can pull off some of the high risk stuff, so I'd think if you'd want it to be a big thing in the future, you'd try to make it at least one of the most important gimmicks of the night, instead of what seems the 3rd or 4th. I'm not saying it won't be a great match, I'm just saying I think they're wasting some of the importance that this gimmick match could have.

I like the aspect of Kong being a "Wild Card" type partner as no one really knows what they're getting. You could see it during BG's promo that he doesn't know what to really make of it.

I enjoyed Sting/Storm a lot and it's always cool to see Sting go flying off the top for a splash. They'll probably be the team that can have the best chemistry out of any of the made up teams.

I'm glad to see Kip James knows how to recite names of people much more talented than him.

Steiner/Angle are always fun to listen to.

I guess I missed some of the Petey stuff and if AJ was involved with anything...maybe I'll check up on it before the ppv.


I'm looking forward to this ppv. Main event should be good and the tag tourney and women's stuff are really interesting to see what happens. And of course the TerrorDome should be full of awesome bumps and moves.

[bdbdbd]

I don't know who's putting iMPACT's together (RUSSO!) but last nights was a disaster as far as formatting. The top hour had more intros than wrestling and a really unnecessary video package for LAX. Though the match they did stick in there was worth wading through the flotsam to find.

They're really propping LAX, which by the laws of rasslin, means either they are actually getting the titles and going on a massive run with them, or going out in the first PPV round. Let's all pray for the former, and that they don't immediately stick them in another feud with 3D. Speaking of, is Devine still hanging out with them?

The second hour of the show seemed like the 60 minute adrenaline rush of old, 31/2 matches with promos in-between at breakneck speed. Even a glimpse of old ECW as Corny just decided to start a match while the guys were out there.

[Batman]

I laughed over the incredible number of intros myself, but I wasn't actually bothered by them at all.

That's what the FF button is for.

[Lucky]

I believe I had counted 23 entrances to 2 matches in the 1st hour. In the first hour TNA managed to feature 9 Knockouts, 6 X stars, the Egotistical 8, LAX, Christian/Rhino, Team 3D, Steiner/Petey/Khan, and Angle. That's 38 performers featured in an hour not counting Cornette, JB, and Crystal.

I can't deny that that was probably really BADLY formatted but it had me cracking up during the entrances for the women's match when I started counting in chat. And for some reason it didn't bug me. I don't think I get as bothered by pacing stuff as some people and TNA's short entrances means that 8 entrances take about as long as one HHH entrance. Mostly if the show is entertaining me I'm still there and I really don't mind sports entertainment at all. But I can't deny that if I wasn't into TNA I might have had a little less patience with that first hour.

Skids, AJ was absent from the show from what I saw besides a quick promo with Super Eric at the end in the Sacrifice hype package.

[iamdoug]

Both when Don West said it on Thursday, and When Skids posted the comment here, I had to laugh to myself. I mean I know DVon is a Stiff worker, But I wouldn't describe him as concrete. You know since that's where Christian got border tossed and all.

But all kidding aside, I loved the LAX beat down, I am really pumped for the deuces wild tournament. There is so many possibilities for the outcomes. I also love that every single match on the ppv is somehow directly related to one of the titles. I really enjoy when the belts become the focus and not forgotten props.