This week on Impact we were treated to a slight change of pace. Instead of more Tara/Daffney build-up we got a video package, backstage fight, and in-ring segment all featuring the Beautiful People and Miss Angelina Love. Ever since Angelina made her return to TNA, the Beautiful People have gone after full force and this week was no different. The backstage beatdown was pretty intense but what happened in the ring was even better. Lets get down to business.
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The video package starts to play and it highlights everything that has happened between Angelina and TBP so far. We’ve already seen the highlights of all these incidents so they’re not really worth reviewing. Once the highlight reel is over, we’re told that earlier in the evening, Angelina Love was in a photoshoot that was interrupted by the Beautiful People. The Canadian Knockout starts swinging as soon as Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich arrive on the scene. Madison gets knocked back thanks to a stiff looking shot to her face and Lacey suffers the same fate. An official tries to hold Madison back but she shoves him to the ground and goes after Angelina. The two-on-one situation eventually overtakes Angelina and she’s forced into submission. Madison and Lacey beat the hell out of Angelina and throw her into a random steel barricade that is sitting backstage. Lacey grabs Angelina’s arm and pulls her through the railing, trapping her and leaving her as an easy piece of prey for Velvet Sky who finally gets in on this.
When Velvet shows up she has a hot pink belt in her hands. She starts screaming at Angelina like some kind of psycho and then begins whipping her. It’s pretty intense segment. Lacey tries to calm Velvet down and tells her “that’s enough” but Vel Vel’s not having that. She marches behind the barricade, gets right in Lacey’s face, and screams at her that “it’s only enough when I say it’s enough.” A meek Lacey can do nothing but agree with Velvet and Velvet gets in one last good, hard lick. She slams the belt down and declares “now it’s enough” and she stalks off in a fit of rage. Madison and Lacey gulp and stare at each other quickly before leaving the beaten Angelina down on the ground and hurrying off after their teammate.
Impact goes to commercial but when it returns Angelina is storming to the ring and she’s clearly pissed off. She demands that someone hand her a microphone and when they oblige her she orders Velvet to come to the ring. Angelina makes it known that she’s not going anywhere until Velvet gets her butt to the ring and the Beautiful People’s music starts to play. Velvet saunters out with a cocky little smirk etched across her lovely face and she’s proudly swinging the same belt she used to damage Angelina with. Angelina is not amused and finally leaves ring and goes right for Velvet. Velvet spazzes out and tries to run, but Angelina catches her and starts beating the tar out of her.
Velvet gets slammed into the ramp, kicked in the ribs, tossed into the barricades, and slammed into the ramp again. She ends up tweaking her knee which leaves her even more vulnerable to Angelina’s revenge beatdown. Before tossing Velvet into the ring, Angelina slams her into the steel once more just for good measure. Angelina helps Velvet to her feet and whips her across into the ropes. Velvet can do little to defend herself as she bounces off and gets hit in the face with a vicious kick. Velvet is sprawled out on the mat and in a considerable amount of pain. The camera cuts to some dramatic shots of the black and blue welts on Angelina’s back and rib area then we see the former Knockouts Champion grab the belt. It’s time for a little payback or is it?
Madison and Lacey finally come running out and Lacey has the ugly stick with her. Angelina whirls around and whips the belt across Madison, causing the young blonde to screech with pain. Lucky for Madison, Lacey saves her further hurt and humiliation and knocks Angelina in the back with the ugly stick. She begins stomping away on Angelina while Madison and Velvet get their bearings, then the other two join in on the fray. The three-on-one beatdown is pretty bad for Angelina because TBP are relentless. Things get worse for Angelina when Madison and Lacey stretch her out and pin her to the ground. Velvet starts beating her ex-best friend again and she shows no mercy this time. It’s difficult to watch and the crowd lets the Beautiful People have it once they’re done and start posing. The feud between Angelina and the Beautiful People has definitely been taken to the next level.
Well I would say that TNA did a nice job for their Knockouts on this week’s episode. I would have loved more Tara/Daffney shenanigans but notching this BP/Angelina feud to the next level right as we go to live shows was the right thing to do. I noticed a few things tonight. The first thing is that everyone involved in this segment was on their A game. Each lady was in full blown character mode tonight and no one looked lost. Velvet amped up her character’s level and for the first time I truly felt the hatred between all of these people. I really felt like Velvet was getting out all her frustrations with the way things went down between her and Angelina. Angelina was always the star of the Beautiful People and I think tonight is the first time we’ve really see how annoyed Velvet is with all of that. She’s always been pushed aside in favor of Angelina and jealously is a very powerful thing. Madison and Lacey were great back-up for Velvet tonight. They did their job perfectly and I actually liked it when Lacey got hesitant and tried to talk Velvet out of hurting Angelina further. I hope it’s foreshadowing something to come. I wouldn’t mind seeing both Lacey and Madison try and distance themselves from this Angelina/Velvet fiasco because they’re the ones taking the brunt of Angelina’s fury it seems.
As the last Thursday night Impact, I have to say I’m pleased. These girls really brought it tonight and they delivered in a big way. As sad as I was about the lack of Zombie Hot, I was more than pleased with we got tonight. I can’t wait to see what Monday brings us in the form of Knockouts and it’s even better that Monday is just a few days away.
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23 Comments
I am honestly getting tired with this storyline. Put on Angelina vs. Velvet vs. Tara for the title on Lockdown and let Angelina win again! YAHOO.x3
Angelina vs. Tara vs. Velvet? Because that’s not random and inconsistant at all. What they have going with Tara and Daffney is good and hasn’t been focused on at all, I mean yeah there was a 2 second interview with Tara last week. Yet since the feud started it seems to have played second fiddle to this tired old feud, featuring the same old attack ending. Change of pace? Give me a change of record, I feel TNA’s been skipping ever since Angelina’s return. It’s a real shame, because I really wanted her back, but it seems they’re overselling TBP’s strength by making them triple team Angelina, only to fail later whenever this thing finally comes to an end.
I really liked the segment but I don’t know what else they can do with the storyline besides Angel vs. Velvet, which we all know velvet has so chance of winning. Whatever the conclusion is to this storyline, where will Angelina and the beautiful people go after
Melanie Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Great segment. I’d really like to see Angelina vs Velvet on the PPV along with Tara vs Daffney. I wonder if TNA would do two Knockouts per PPV again.
This is how segments can be better than a lot of Divas matches.
I like the segment, but it’s always the same with the Beautiful people, three on one with the one always losing until the final showdown.
The segments were good yet am I the only one who knows why they hate each other only because of internet boards and commentary? Like, the girls as far as I’m aware haven’t even said why they hate each other, why Angelina attacked TBP when she came back and why Velvet is more angry Angelina than the other 2.
^ They already mentioned it, that Angie is pissed that Velvet replaced her with Lacey in TBP.
And Angelina will will the match, thats for sure, as long as it isnt a squash, it will fine, the way TNA is using Angelina is to elevate TBP, especially Velvet to serious threat.
Dayumm!!!This Impact was kick ass!I should’ve been on the lookout for it Thursday….oh well!This was absolutely amazing!Same old same old,but with a HUUUGE twist!I loved it!
Yay I was having TBP withdrawls. People complain they’re used way too much but I think they make the show :x it doesn’t feel right without them..
strap match at lockdown!
VELVET VS ANGELINA
Tonight was good stuff. I see Lacey turning on Velvet, Angelina rejecting Lacey’s help and TBP as we know them breaking up as a result. Having Madison distance herself from Velvet in the weeks following the culmination of this feud could help turn Velvet Sky into (an even bigger, better, solo) heel instead of having her shenanigans always associated with TBP.
Im hoping Angelina goes heel again, and when she does id be fine with a Velvet/Angelina TBP reunion, its Lacey and Madison that need to go.
Loved it. I’m excited to see Velvet and Angelina settle their differences once and for all, hopefully at Lockdown (where Lacey and Madison can’t interfere) with more heated buildup along the way. I hate getting ahead of myself, but it seems like they’re planting the seeds for a Beautiful People break up. Should that happen and after this is all said and done, while I think Angelina, Velvet and Lacey will do fine on their own, I don’t see things looking too bright for Madison.
James1987- how dare you say Madison should be fired, she’s the future of TNA. Madison has everything to be knockouts champion one day
What I want is velvet and angelina to reunite as a heel tag team and madison to become a singles babyface star. I don’t know what will happen to lacey, maybe become a manager
By “need to go” I meant out of TBP not TNA. I love Madison, think she is a great talent and standing up against Velvet after all of the variables (Lacey, Angelina) have removed themselves would be a great way for her to turn face. Sorry for the brevity of my statement before :)
it was a good segment and we finally got to see a taste of Velvet vs Angelina,
but ouch poor Angelina
it still makes me feel a bit sad seeing Angelina vs velvet, but i still really like them feuding
I like how Madison Rayne just knocked over a 300 pound guy. Funny! But it was a good segment though.
This T ‘n A segment felt really cheap on the part of TNA to me. Yes, I KNOW they do that kind of thing all the time and whatever but I still don’t care. I am NOT against a random beatdown in and outside the ring to progress a story but I really couldn’t care less about this. DON’T CARE about if other people don’t agree, but I won’t bandwagon personally if I wasn’t feeling it. Not a TBP fan but do recognize their function and they can entertain, but I didn’t like this.
Personally, I would’ve rather seen Sarita, Hamada or the other knockouts that haven’t been used for weeks now. But then again, I understand the rationale behind this since it seems that they wanted to go somewhere solid with this. Maybe this is their way of creating another tag team… having Angelina cause a rift between the TBP and banding with the odd girl out. I don’t know. Either way, I miss the other Knockouts. They are dragging this thing way too long at the expense of more talented women.
@ The Crying Light – I agree about wanting to see other Knockouts. I don’t like that they seem to be “getting people used to” (not the real fans, I mean casual/new fans) there not being the type of presence that the Knockouts used to have. It’s what’s happened with WWE and SOME (not all) newer and/or casual fans to the brand that were not fans during the so-called “Golden Age” of women’s wrestling in WW(F) think that it’s “normal”. Some people have no idea because they don’t go back and look at old matches, in WWE(/F) and probably won’t for TNA. I hope this won’t continue (though I “understand” why it’s happening), with Knockouts leaving/being released left and right. :( It’s easy to say “Just go back and watch old matches” or “Just watch another brand” but the problem is that I watch several brands (big and indys) and it’s still important regardless of the brand.
Wow this was a pretty cool segment. Well done TNA. Loved this.
I loved the segment very much but i’m just wondering why no one came out to help Angelina. On a side note Lady Sheamus I love your avatar. I just love that guy.
This is stupid. TNA is losing their best Knockouts, their TV time is getting much shorter and the matches are getting worse. Pretty soon, Wrestlicious will be the only place to see women’s wrestling on TV…